I don’t disagree with criticisms that a lot of the goopy eroticism-of-the-machine stuff the Tumblr Armored Core VI fandom likes to represent as universal giant robot tropes is actually pretty specific to the Armored Core franchise (and is often heavily extrapolated from what’s actually present in the text of the games, at that), but when I think about it, that’s actually weird to me. Why isn’t giant robot media where the giant robot and its pilot are clearly fucking more well established in the genre? It feels like a tolerably obvious direction to take it, and it’s not like giant robot media has ever shied away from sex in general.