#‘they said they’re like brothers!’ okay but omnics are also grafting their dead friends onto themselves

[nitewrighter]

Ok I'm a bit lost, so read an article that Ram and Zen were as close as brothers, not seeing each other as brothers. PLUS, its confirmed that Ram was the one that brought Zen into Shambali and their kinship began from there so is that grounds for the ship to be approved? If not, and Max is the safe alternative, does Ram go Nemesis mode to try and be the top or Max that unfazed and now owns a power bottom? These are Questions

Like—look, my first major fandom here on Tumblr was asoiaf circa 2011-2013–back then if a ship was incest, it was generally understood that that was just… another layer to the shipping onion and not really a reflection of the shipper’s morality and practices. Like, it was clear that Hannigram was an abusive, unhealthy, codependent ship, but there was a general understanding that everyone shipping knew that and shipped it because it’s an interesting dynamic. So like, even if Zen/Ram was incest—which I’m not saying it is because again, they’re brothers in a monastic sense and also it’s likely Omnics have concepts of kinship that are unfamiliar to humans (like how we saw them grafting parts of their dead friends onto themselves as part of a mourning ritual in London Calling)—like… I just think it’s reductive to think in terms of “Is this ship approved??!??!” Like literally just interpret the characters as honestly and enjoyably as you can. You don’t need to (and you shouldn’t) let fandom word of god dictate how you enjoy a character. Like they’re clearly narrative foils and they’re being heavily compared to Professor X and Magneto—are people really so shocked to see shippers take it in that direction??