This post was originally posted on DeviantArt on September 26, 2014.
Hello to all.
10 months ago, Chris Bushee (a.k.a. Nightlingbolt) replied to one
of my posts on DeviantArt claiming that I denounce GrayLu and other
such pairings as illegitimate because it "threatens NaLu". Yeah... about
that... there's a reason me and a few other guys invalidate those pairings. It's not because they
threaten NaLu (though, I'm not the first to admit that we're kind of
biased), but because they aren't supported by the manga, the omakes, or any of the OVAs.
What
I'm trying to explain here is that while I do respect other people's
ships and that everyone is free to ship who they want, but if there's
one thing that I fucking hate, it's deluded pissants who claim that their pairing is legit based on nonfactual evidence.
This is the reason why we treat ZN like a colossal joke, because the
"evidence" he presents to us are screencaps of Gray and Lucy standing
next to each other with no interaction (him speaking in all caps, crying
"NALU IS SHIT!!!! GRAYLU RULEZ!!!!!" like a retard doesn't help his case
any, to say the least.) Basically, what Nightling is trying to sell us
is that any pairing between two characters is "valid" so long as the
characters' interactions are positive and meaningful. Don't make me
laugh. Two characters merely having positive, meaningful interactions
does not a legitimate pairing make. You have to take the context of the
interactions and the number of moments into account too. Like, is this
guy telling me that GrayLu is just as valid as NaLu despite the latter
having hundreds of moments throughout the manga (and a lot of these
aren't even subtle. Do you really think that friends would whisper each
others names in their sleep?) while the former has only a few subtle
moments at best? Cut me a fucking break.
And
besides... do you really think that Hiro is going to give NaLu over 440
chapters of development only to pair Lucy and Natsu with other people?
Let's think about that for a second. If Hiro were to make GrayLu and
NaLi canon, for example, he would end up taking a sharp drop in
sales because he alienated and pissed off 70% of his shipping fanbase
and made all the development he put into Natsu and Lucy's relationship
(as well as Gray and Juvia's) for naught. Also, consider that in
Hiro's previous series, Rave Master, Elie and Haru do indeed get
married in the end. Therefore, it's safe to assume that Natsu and Lucy,
being FT's version of Haru and Elie, will also get married at the end of
FT.
And let's not forget that he's a hypocrite and a liar. This clown was calling me, Timmy, and the rest of the gang a zombie horde for using hard evidence to validate NaLu while invalidating everything else, but he himself claims that a relationship between Gerard and Erza wouldn't work out. What a joke.
So
yeah. I just wanted to get that out of my system. If you want to ship a
crack pairing and just like how it looks or whatever, that's fine. Just
don't go around trying to validate your illegitimate pairing on
nonfactual evidence.
FYI, this entire rant was written in retaliation to a comment Nightling wrote in reply to one of my posts that basically amounts to him
questioning my intelligence, then saying that any ship is valid if the
characters have positive, meaningful interactions. Chris, if you ever come across this blog, I think it's high time you face the music and admit that NaLu and Gerza are going to happen and that NaZa has been dead since the Nirvana arc.
Have a nice day.
P.S.: If you are a NaZa shipper, I suggest you check out Chris's fan fics. Here's a link to his Fanfiction.net account: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/721662/Nightlingbolt
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