[my unsolicited (😂) case against EM in/cest drama]
my take on this whole drama (which appears to surface every now and then) is that the intention matters.
a household where an adopted child is raised to be a sibling is ofc considered family. no one’s contesting that. in fact, adopted children are legally considered as if they were born into the family.
but EM’s case is unique. they clearly don’t see each other as ‘family’ in the strictest terms, as we see in their interaction, and that should matter. admittedly, lines were blurred between sibling and friend when they were kids, but this owes to the peculiar circumstances that led mikasa coming to live with the jaegers. we haven’t seen a lot of EM interaction in the jaeger household, but it seems that in the year they lived together, they weren’t raised to treat each other as ‘siblings’, evidenced by eren never letting mikasa forget that “i’m not your brother nor kid”. it even appears that mikasa was not bothered by this. she’s only bothered with eren pushing her away constantly when they were kids.
but because they grew up together and have gone through so much along with armin, ‘family’ seemed to be the closest word that encapsulated their relationship. they trust each other, they know each other to the bone. it’s a complex but meaningful relationship brought about by the challenges they faced together.
another point, is that yams definitely knows what adoption means in our society. but if he intended to make EM as siblings, i don’t think he would put all the romantically-framed panels and EM gazing and blushing at each other. it’s like you saying he supports incest, since he’s framing EM relationship in a positive light. and that would be absurd.
idk how to end this lmao i think i have rambled too much but yeah let’s enjoy EM and respect each other 😂
While You Were Sleeping ( 당신이 잠든 사이에 )
A woman (Suzy) can see accidents that take place in the future through her dreams. A prosecutor (Jongsuk) struggles to stop those dreams from becoming real.