pteropus717: Don’t get me wrong; if you enjoy shipping them, then have at it. Everyone has different preferences. It just seems like everybody pairs them, and I was wondering if anyone besides me sees Breakdown as being unquestionably straight.
Plus, weird sexual tension is pretty standard among Decepticons. I find it more interesting that two of them would just genuinely be friends instead.
fannishcodex:I do ship them, but part of it is that I do see them as genuine friends first, and it just developed from there. I like the thought of an actual ‘Con ship that started as friends and then turned into something more.
I agree that I see KOBD as friends first. And even if they’re only in the midst of the best bromance in children’s television, I’d still “ship” it. The closeness and companionship, how they treat each other as friends and people : that’s what I love about their relationship in the first place. If they’re not boyfriends, this changes nothing about how much I love their relationship. Then they’ll just be a shining example of how awesome friends can be.
I do personally see BD as bi, and he definitely has a straight vibe to him that I can roll with. That said, I do a lot of projecting onto them as a potential gay couple, because I want it to be true, because of … reasons. Were he and KO revealed to be a canon couple (more than botcon), I think that would really go well for the representation of gays in the media. Super straight-seeming BD is gay? Gays aren’t all foppish like KO? Miracles. And were they canon, non cis-sexual cis-gendered people like me would have two really cool robots to latch onto in this television landscape.
Though I also like to toy with the thought that maybe they were really antagonistic before, then became friends, then became more. Instead of immediately from antagonistic to more, they did become most importantly friends after getting past annoying each other. Just because I found the contrast of them being really close to driving each others nuts when first meeting to be hilarious. Or even if they were really just tense before. nellasaur’s prequel fic is playing with this contrast of their first meeting very well so far. :)