Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24.23.3.218-20130811062647/@comment-70.26.188.146-20180715161407

Hey. Why’s everyone fighting? We all know best ship is Nagisa and Rei! I kid, i kid ... kind of. But I’m one of those people who could never decide whether to ship makoto and Haru or rin and haru. Because I see both sides. And they are both really cute. But I saw some people here using time spent together and closeness as the reason makoto and haru are better. And while I admit there closeness is certainly an appeal. It’s also just as much of a disadvantage. Let me explain. So starting off with an anecdote, I happen to be into women myself as a woman, and i can tell you that I’ve been best friends with this girl for 10 years now and we are pretty close and certainly not shy about physical contact. However she’s the last person I’d date. Why? Well because since we’ve been friends since childhood I’ve never been able to see her in a sexual light. Because of our closeness it makes her closer to family than anything else. Where as with someone I’ve just met or know little about are much more likely to warrant a crush than my best friend of ten years. Then again if we were to say not see each other for a couple of years and meet up again, this might change as due to us both having changed and evolved separately, I’d probably see her differently. Not saying I’d be into her but that seems like a greater possibility if we had a couple of years apart. But then again I am a female, thus closeness in friendships and physical contact are common. Which may not be for a male friendship. Also the fact that it’s entierly possible that since males and females are so different, my comparison could be unfair. Due to the fact they are just as close as female friends is a little suspicious because it’s rare to see male bonding like that and not have it be something more. There’s also the fact that I never had a crush on my friend to begin with and it’s entierly possible that one has a crush on the other from the beginning and has retained it since. Or that something happens, like puberty, that leads them to see each other in a new light. Perhaps they became close to a point where the line between friendship and lovers began to blur. Who knows. Closeness is always a good thing for ships, but I think I’d be unfair to say that it’s more valid than tension and strong emotions. As just as I demonstrated, it can be a two sided coin. Much like the tendion and strong emotions can be a good and bad thing. See why I have a hard time deciding, the main factor in both of these ships could both be reasons to ship them and not to ship them, either way. I’ll just ship them both and keep reigisa as my OTP. Because they’re fucking adorable together.