Fandoms will insist that these two characters are obviously in love with each other and then you check out the work they’re talking about and they just aren’t. And it’ll be the whole fandom, too, like the entire community will treat this coupling like it’s text, somehow blissfully unaware that they completely made it up! It’s like a mass hallucination of invented subtext.
for clarification: no quarrel with you if you wanna draw your two fave guys kissing. that’s based and virtuous. but telling me that it’s all right there in the text? cmon mate. you’re reading tea leaves here.