Discord wrote:Except there's many other reasons why people might not like the latter, and are well within reason to just not like shipping/romance in ponies.
Actually it was more the idea that Flash hasn't "earned" his characterization, yet tens of thousands of fics involving Lyra and Bon Bon as a couple, with tremendous uniformity in their personalities and histories between fics, isn't enough "characterization" for the Powers That Be to allow it here.
Discord wrote:It's not to say that the show can never tackle romance sincerely. I think it did a pretty good job in "Simple Ways". But if they're going to ever put one of these characters in a sincere permanent romance, they need to do it with more care than this. They'd need to actually develop the male character, and make them more substantive. They'd need to make the falling in love process more believable than a couple of chance bumps.
The thing is, his character is so
minor even in the first movie that I can't understand the distaste for him. Yes, he's filling a quota, but that's essentially
all he does, and he does it so unobtrusively to boot. Not to mention that as unrealistic as
you might find the speed of Flash and Twilight going on their first "date," the only difference between it and my high school girlfriend was that for me it took about a week rather than the, what, three days that the first Equestria Girls takes place over? And
my first date at least ended with a kiss, and transformed into a three-year relationship. So nothing felt "unreal" to me, at least. I dunno, we all have different high school experiences.
shotgunbadger wrote:Though I will say goddamn that piano moment was pretty...close...
Considering that they're sitting together on the same seat playing piano together while looking lovingly into each others' eyes while their cheeks touching, it would be outright
denial to try and claim that human Lyra and human Bon Bon aren't a couple (but, as Pony!Twi and Pony!Flash show, this doesn't necessarily conform to their pony counterparts).
Also, the human Lyra and human Bon Bon are, for all intents and purposes, confirmed:


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