If the story had made Noa as an adult ape, with a established mate, and with children, the story would be more or less the same. His relationship with Mae would have been more like father and daughter where she reminded him of his children and give him a reason to protect her. It would probably be less shippy if you know what I mean (because people still ship what they wanna ship).
But no. It is clearly emphasized that he is very young and naive and he had no reason to be worrying for this similarly young girl who has given him enough reasons not to trust her but still helps her anyway because she left a quite impression on him. It doesn't help that Noa's actor is young and good-looking and their scenes together are full of chemistry 馃槶
It would have been zero shippy to be honest. Yes, I thought so too. They both must be, if not the same age, at least at a similar stage in life, with the difference that Noa has never left his village and doesn't know the horrors of the world, while Mae literally comes from hell, so her attitude is very different. But they are two young protagonists discovering what's happening around them, while being on opposite sides. Expecting people not to ship them seems very naive to me.
Through Mae, an entire unknown world opens up to Noa, and for the first time, he becomes aware that he has lived his entire life completely isolated from the problems occurring outside his environment. And through Noa, Mae starts to see the apes as more than just monsters whose sole objective is to destroy humans, and she realizes they have much more in common than she was probably taught. And that's a bond that unites them, no matter how much it might bother some people.
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The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3脳 but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.
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Male Gaze: Female Gaze:
And we all agree on that right?
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armand walking in serving cunt with the bitchy blade runner sunglases on and a little smirk like "hehe, haha, huhu even" without knowing his (ex??) boyfriends traumabonded and unionized in the single hour it took him to hunt a crypto bro for sport is the funiest scene in iwtv so far
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hey idk which anxious pre-t babe needs to hear this but i didn't get to when i was younger so. testosterone will not make you ugly. it won't make you a horrible person. it won't 'mutilate' or ruin your body. if you want to go on testosterone then literally all that happens is it makes you really fucking hot and REALLY fucking happy.
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