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Ngl kind of sick of writers and shippers alike using obliviousness as an excuse for piss-poor relationship writing.

Not being knowing a fact doesn’t stop it from being true and having an effect on your life. Paraphrased:

A character who isn’t aware of their own feelings towards someone should not act the exact same way they would if those feelings didn’t exist.

Even if a person is oblivious to being in love they still show signs of, you know, being in love. That usually includes: thinking about their crush more than they think about other people, seeking physical contact with them, feeling warm and fuzzy around that person, deriving strength and inspiration from them, etc etc etc.

Obviously not all of these signs indicate romantic interest and not all romantic interest looks like this, but there should be something between the characters that regular people who don’t wear shipping goggles could pick up on.

Writing a relationship that is painfully, embarassingly one-sided and then going “Oh, they were in love all along! The Clearly Disinterested Character is just a tsundere/incredibly confused!” is a lazy cop-out.

(Especially if the show suddenly becomes all about romance, throwing its previous themes out of the window.)