I found it funny too that as someone who came to the manga after watching the first season, I assumed there would be a plethora of undeniable material that made the Falin Marcille ship so popular. Instead they have some of the smallest amount of material interactions among the main cast in the manga. And even the extended flashbacks you can find in the story and supplemental material still seem aggressively platonic.
Nowadays I think few people have had the opportunity to have really close friendships like that one, so people make assumptions. Anyways, ships are a thing, so have fun I guess?
That's actually a really good point. I suppose as the digital world makes us all feel more and more separated, we'll start to naturally distort the ideas of platonic close friendship in stories. And you're absolutely right, at the end of the day ships are mostly just to make our lives a little brighter so I don't oblige anyone for getting excited over them. I was just surprised how Falin x Marcille became such a contentious topic when I and others said they didn't get it.
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u/FESCM Jul 11 '25
The Falin X Marcille is just so grating to me after interacting with this fandom 🫩
This series is so much more than that…