celeste 🍏

This conversation is growing very tiring lol but fuck it, I've got the time. The first flaw in your logic is thinking they would be "making" Caleb mc's bother. Since it bears repeating: they would not be "adding" anything to en loc to make him her brother; it is simply that he already is, and it's merely the language used that is being censored in en loc. Again: he is already her brother, they just refuse to actually say it. You know. Censorship. The reason we continue to complain about it is because we're getting a watered down, half-baked version of the original story. Did ppg censor them from the beginning because they worried a *mainstream* western audience would not be receptive to the trope? Probably. I wouldn't be surprised. But the issue is that calebmc's entire narrative, textual and subtextual, is undivorceably rooted in their familial dynamic and therefore, when en loc REMOVES that language while maintaining its context, we're left with a skeleton of a narrative which is so obviously trying to communicate a familial bond but using nonsense euphemisms to skirt around cultural taboo, failing spectacularly, and diminishing the emotional impact and cultural significance of so many events throughout their story as a result. Anyone with basic media literacy can see what their dynamic is supposed to be, that it's not just who they are to each other but what their entire narrative is built upon, and will therefore understand why censoring it is bad.