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People have different interpretation based on different experience on both real life and writing trope they've seen in various medias
It's neither shipping nor a joke, that's just how art interpretation work
I don't like that a curiosity/question/analysis is being undermined by simply labeling it a ship
At one time... best bud friends like Fred Flinstone/Barney were accepted, no questions asked.
But somewhere along the way an alpha-male defense kicked in when men became embarrassed by showing any kind of feelings, platonic or otherwise, towards another man.
To the point where now if two guys are 'bros', people suspect there's something more.
I always saw Beetle and Booster as the perfect buddy team. Platonic, but unguarded from each other.
Same with Fire & Ice, which embodied a Laverne & Shirley type of buddy, but more towards a Betty & Veronica type where one is more extroverted and the other more introverted.
No, they weren't dating each other. But people like to project the idea onto them.
Kinda like 'Did the Duke boys date?' is usually a form sexual fantasy, not unlike that of imagining two hot girls making out that normally wouldn't.
Booster did try to date Catherine Cobert, though, before she hooked up with Captain Atom.
Ice dated Guy and Fire had a thing for Oberon
Last edited by Lee Stone; 09-25-2020 at 09:31 AM.
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As well, it could just be a lame attempt by the author to queerbait.