#but specifically kris and lang being reduced to being phoenix's and miles's 'type' and/or temporary displacement by the nm shippers | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

notmoreflippingelves · 2 months

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Thinking about how aggravating it is that fandom boils down a lot of really fascinating Ace Attorney ships to "oh, so we're copying narumitsu's homework again, are we?" --as though the only reason that someone might find plausibly these ships (romantic and/or platonic) interesting is surface-level similarities to the fandom juggernaut pairing and not like the compelling characters and their established bonds in and of themselves.

#aa salt #ace attorney #imagine acting like your ship 'invented' devotion to an old and once-dear friend and wanting to save them from the world and themselves #and being completely unironic about it #and assuming that other ships that involve this very very common and established trope are just 'copying' your fave #n@rumitsus do this all the time and have the audacity to act all *shocked pikachu face*#if someone dares to suggest shipping cykesquill or nahyupollo romantically #asoryuu gets a pass but then some people turn around and dunk on baroryuu and asobaro on their behalf #which also sucks b/c honestly i prefer both of those ships #but i like asoryuu well enough and they deserve better than being reduced to 'what if narumitsu in period drama setting?'#sorry not sorry but #cykesquill; nahyupollo; asoryuu are all arguably more interesting takes on the dynamic than the basic blueprint set by n@rumitsu #krisnix and langworth also fall into this albeit not in a paralleling n@rumitsu's arc way #but specifically kris and lang being reduced to being phoenix's and miles's 'type' and/or temporary displacement by the nm shippers #kris may be rich; smart; quiet; and glasses but he is so much more than 'miles but evil'#meanwhile literally all that phoenix and lang have in common are spiky hair; heroic; and sassy #and yet it's just assumed by much of the fandom that this is the case and its just phoenix or miles only being attracted to kris and lang #b/c of surface level similarities to their true beloved #i just...i'm tired #why do so many of y'all have to filter everything about every aspect of this fandom through a n@rumitsu lens #do not even get me started on 'that man' nonsense #fandom makes aai 1 entirely about one (1) line and totally ignores all of the more interesting dynamics for miles w/ gumshoe; lang; + kay #phoenix isn't even in the damn game and yet people are fixated on a single vague allusion to him instead of all the other great stuff #happening w/ miles' character in the game that have little to nothing to do with phoenix #not tagging n@rumitsu b/c omg can you even imagine?#but i guess i can tag the others #cykesquill #nahyupollo #asoryuu

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