anon · 7d
i hope it’s not ridiculous for me to say that the way a lot of this fandom views & talks about harua and how they treat makrung come from an intrinsic fetishization of gay relationships and the need some people have to see every queer relationships through a straight lense.
i’ve been feeling this ESPECIALLY ever since harua started this “transition” into a more “traditionally masculine” (heavy quotations on both of those) visual, because people intrinsically saw him as the woman in the relationship and now that is getting harder and harder to visualize. sometimes i read some older fics of these two and i have to look back at content from around the time those fics were made to see if it’s me or the author that’s hallucinating the way that harua acts. AND ITS HAPPENING AGAIN NOW. it’s only that before people used to soften him to an extent it was almost comical and now they’re doing anything and everything to make him this alpha hypermasculine tough type of dude, which also then bleeds into what position/dynamic they tended to put him as (omega/submissive/bottom vs alpha/dominant/top). it’s like people can only see these two categories and they need to try to fit him into one or the other, when personally i think he lies somewhere in the middle/in a mix of both.
i wish people could be more normal about harua honestly… (as normal as one can be in a rps context, obv)
no i don’t think you’re crazy for feeling that way. i, unfortunately, think that this is not exclusively a makrung problem but probably happens with any popular gay ship, i.e. heteronormative roles start permeating into the depictions of the ship. so i wont blame makrungers exclusively but more the societal framing as whole…as we can see how often the performance of male and female roles happens both fictionally and to people existing in real life.
speaking specifically to harua and maki though - i agree that i really don’t think either of them fit into a certain “role”. both of them have more “feminine” and “masculine” defined traits that they both embrace. for harua in particular, i think he’s much more attuned to the performance of gender in a sense, which i think is why people react to his differences in appearance so strongly. it is interesting bc i don’t think his sudden interest in working out, etc has changed my view of him at all, he’s still the same harua i’ve come to know and that is - a person who goes into what he wants whole heartedly without regrets.
as for preferences for things like t/b or alpha/omega i think that’s really what it comes down to being…a preference. like i personally have a preference for t/b dynamics for makrung and it is purely because it’s what i prefer and no other reason (perverted 😭) but i always try to live by the rule that even if i switched their t/b role it wouldnt really change anything about their personality or characterization in a story besides who takes it up the butt. like personally i don’t think those kinds of things should have much bearing on how they act in a story because really if you deep into it what is a “bottom personality trait” vs “top personality trait” (doesn’t exist). so if their personality are changing that much because of t/b role then i think something is inherently flawed with the story.
anyways i generally agree with you and now im ranting too much and i hope this all made sense
