Tir McDohl
rune bearer
- AKA
- Yula
And I come back to, would romantic intent be obvious to you if Fang, as a man, said "I'd tear down the sky to save her", turn on the team (twice) to "save" Vanille, sleep in the same bed as her, and be content to spend the rest of eternity with her and her alone? Is it the presentation or the fact that Fang is a woman?
I played the game once, and when I did I wasn't focused on Fang n' Vanille romance: truth or fiction? *strokes goatee* I just played the game and thought what I thought, forming opinions the way everyone else does. I wouldn't mind playing it again to look at different angles. But it seems like if it's not 100% obvious to you then you're either clueless or you're discriminating or something. :/
The question "but what if Fang was a man?" just seems to try to back you into a corner, where you have to go totally one way or the other leaving no middle ground. When that no-room-for-interpreting-things-differently stuff happens in the LT thread it's not well-received.
Well anyway, if you took any pair of close friend guys and turned one of them into a woman, they'd probably seem more romantic than they normally would, too. Like Cloud and Zack, Flynn and Yuri(Tales of Vesperia), Sasuke and Naruto(yesIreadit). But when you switch them back it doesn't change anything either way.
I'm not claiming that MY way of seeing it is THE way, I just think there's room for doubt and I don't think it means I live under a rock. It's not overt, which was probably intentional.