He made the ship dumbass. He wrote Ochako's feelings in the story.
characters are not caricatures they can have feelings without those feelings being entirely engineered to be pivotal plot point.
It's not a reward for shippers making head canon, its the conclusion of a plot thread left hanging. A plot thread written by Horikoshi. He is in complete obligation to finish what he started. It's called writing.
Ochako getting together with Deku isnt a plot thread, you should learn what a plot thread is. because it requires having an actual plot not expressing your feelings once or twice and then concluding in an epilogue. Ochako's feelings for Deku is a character trait that informs how she thinks and how she acts in certain situations. those feeling being setup doesnt mean they need to resolve in a way that works out for the characters.
10 years as in not 10 years worth of content, but 10 years worth of wait.
thats not what build up is.
build up is the accumulation of something over a period of time, the key word being accumulation, the point is that I dont think there isn't enough actual content that was accumulated to justify " buildup for 10 years". if you wanna say you waited 10 years for Ochako and Deku to be together be my guest.
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If you think a ship is all about ending it on a time skip marriage with kids, then your standard of romance is the gutter. You show a childs grasp of romance and what it means.
No im asking you what you want out of the final chapter that does the bare minimum for its romance. and no my standard isnt in the gutter because i dont come to action series aimed at young boys for its romance.
All it takes is 4 panels of the timeskip board to show them hugging each other, moving in a few years later and a few photos with each other and that's it, that's the closure to the plot threat.
and thats my point, I believe that would be a waste of time to not only Ochako's character but to the story itself, because unlike you I dont buy into the whole 10 years worth of romantic build up for me to think that this would be good writing.
It doesn't have to be a romance story to have good romance writing.
It doesnt have to have good romance because its not attempting to tell a romantic story versus having a lot of romantic writing but being bad at it
The Spectacular Spiderman series (although that ended mid way so we never got to see where it goes),
that has awful romance what are you talking about
Romance is pivotal plot point to these stories thats a false equivalence
These are all Superhero stories, yet tell a compelling romance story in a few moments.
Superhero isnt a demographic or a genre, you can have superhero stories that are entirely romance focused
Best Example ? Up. It only takes a 5 minute intro of a adventure movie to make use live out Carl and Ellie's life and love.
If your take away from the 5 min intro of Up is that its a well written romance story then your entirely missing the point of that scene, its to establish Carl's relationship with his wife, to inform us of the type of character he is at the start of the movie,his motivation going forward and to put the audience in his shoes, because most of us can empathize with the feeling of losing a loved one. if Carl and Ellie's scene was a dedicated romantic subplot then it wouldn't be good or organic.
