It's not baiting lol
bro never heard of bromance
thats bullshit<3
Indeed
how is this even baiting, yall r literally just misusing terms. the characters literally just care for mc, none of them have done anything openly romantic
They're borderline obsessed with the mc bruh
ORRR u'r not seeing it
This is not a BL, and nor a romance. The story is not providing you with anything because it is not within that genre. I can see why people ship Cedric and Jesse, I'm a shipper myself
But soo many times in media when a man shows affection for a fellow man its portrayed as romantic. Talk about double standards, women can hold hands, say I love you to their best friends and still be seen as straight. But when men does it, oh no! Gay alert!
In the latest chapter the reason why Cedric is quiet about while being questioned about his relationship with Jesse is because one, he doesn't owe any explanation to her— Cedric's personality is just like that. He cares a lot for Jesse, and it's not a crime that people take it in a romantic light!
But it's crazy work to call it baiting, when in reality you have a biased opinion as you have already predetermined them or Cedric's feelings actually to be romantic, making you unable to see past the filter you put on. This applies to a lot of other works like ORV as well.
Perceived as romantic*, not portrayed, I used the wrong word accidentally
so what dawg . it doesn’t have to be a romantic obsession. u can take it that way maybe, but jesse has no clear indication of liking either characters in a romantic sense. there’s no harm in shipping them, but im just saying it would’ve been baiting if there was any romantic actions taken and the characters don’t do anything abt it.
i would also say it would be baiting if jesse was explicitly straight yet placed in gay ambiguous situations. thats because it makes the readers think “oh they’re doing gay things but there’s never gonna be explicit bc we know they’re straight”. but he isn’t stated to be straight, he just says he’s never been in any romantic relationships. yall are making this story out to be problematic when it’s just three friends doing random things. we can definitely ship these characters together, but the characters don’t do anything that can be called romantic. the closest thing is the prince saying jesse’s qualities as his ideal type, and that’s it. he’s not blushing or doing anything when he says it.
agreed completely^
If it had been a girl one would totally think that they're into her. That's what I'm saying. It can be taken in a romantic sense. And canonically Jesse is pretty oblivious. He doesn't even see that Cedric and Christelle are– let alone romantically, they're barely friendly towards each other. They're more like rivals than anything. Anyway, if you have feelings for someone you'd obviously give them preference even if you aren't actively pursuing them. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
(Even in real life, sometimes there's a friend who has feelings for the other but the other doesn't feel that way.)
A story can be interpreted in many ways. Take for example, the anime 'Erased'. I never saw Satoru and Kayo being more than friends but fans saw them as such. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Though I too agree with that comment.
You're right that people can have different interpretations! That's completely okay. But I seen so many people talk shit about non BL non romance media just because the most popular gay fan ship didn't get canon.
You can ship characters, have your interpretations, but leave the actual work and author alone. Stop defining a non romance story as a shitty story just because a ship didn't get together. That's not the plot! Stop sending threats to authors! (I'm not saying you do, just that is very prominent whether it's directly or indirectly.) Grow up!
Yes, I understand. I don't think anyone has ever defamed this story or threatened the authors but it might be true for other stories. That's worse than being childish.
But I also understand when someone sees something with so much potential that they can't help but cry in disappointment. But that's on them. You don't need to stress. (〜￣△￣)〜
is just baiting readers istg, fuck u<3