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Reasons why I HATE Bickel + a lil bit of me defending Nickloon but mainly my reasons why I hate Bickel:

1. Baseball and Nickel are shown to be best friends since the beginning of season 1, of course; that makes them a good candidate to be shipped together. HOWEVER, it has been 3 years since their last interaction and even so, majority of their interactions are genuine casual friendly interactions. I don’t like how people interpret the time Nickel reassured Baseball that he is a good leader as something “romantic” or “lover-coded” like NO. That’s normal saying to your friends they’re doing their best.

2. Baseball is over Nickel’s elimination and is completely aware Nickel was wrong for what he did and forgave Suitcase for voting off Nickel and genuinely cares more for Suitcase in the whole Grand Slams drama. Meanwhile Nickel still has a long way to go of apologizing.

3. Baseball quite literally feels he wasn’t a good leader to his team and acknowledges his pervious hypocrisy of when he voted off Testtube and went on to say, “Nothing personal”. With episode 15, it shows me Baseball would rather focus on bettering HIMSELF more than anything, even more than wanting to see his best friend. Because Nickel wasn’t his only friend or someone he cared about. It was the Grand Slams he cared about. And also EVERYONE KNOWS: Never get into a relationship before loving or bettering yourself first. Baseball still needs to fully apologize to Suitcase, and ask/question Nickel about his past actions.

4. I’m fully aware Cakebrunch did do fanart for Bickel and so people say they’re canon for that, BUT REMEMBER: They were in charge of the storyboards and I like to mention how I’m pretty sure Nickel canonically winked at Balloon offscreen based on III17 storyboard. That’s my counterattack, because I think it’s hilarious how people think Bickel is good, for me it’s obviously not good.

5. Any ship with Baseball is automatically bad for me. The dude prioritizes his friends and team yet couldn’t do that correctly. The last thing on his mind would be a relationship.

6. Baseball obviously doesn’t agree/like with Nickel’s actions from his elimination and throughout the armless alliance.

7. Nickel hasn’t really opened up to Baseball much like he has with Balloon. Nickel is also basically stereotyped by the Inanimate Insanity team to be “Balloon’s right hand coin”. Also, when referring to seeing Baseball and Suitcase again, he says he does miss Baseball (which is normal for any of the overly obsessive and toxic Bickel shippers..) AND wants to apologize to Suitcase, that also shows his priority of wanting to move past the drama + makes a light joke about how it’d be funny if he and Balloon walk into a room with those nerdy best friends shirts. Indirect way to show how much Balloon and Nickel have gotten close.

8. Most of the Bickel shippers in general. I’ve seen so many toxic Bickel shippers constantly saying, “Bickel is better than Nickloon”, my friend made a pretty epic Nickloon post and she had to take it down from the absurd amount of Bickel shippers saying they’re toxic. SORRY YOU CAN’T HANDLE A CLASSIC ENEMIES TO FRIENDS TO LOVERS TROPE!!! (Nickloon isn’t that bad compared to maybe a ship from MHA like BKDK, they were terrible until I think season 6 and thats when they were considered good. I don’t know much but I have a friend with the initial C, who loves that ship and knows not all enemies to lovers are bad, if people like BKDK, then how would they not like Nickloon. I’d say BKDK was far more longer of being toxic than good due to the earlier seasons.

Overall, I don’t discourage you to not ship Bickel, this is my opinion. I don’t like it and that’s okay guys if you do, I just REALLY needed to let this out because of how much it’s considered good in a way. It’s giving me the vibe of: Obvious Best Friends. Not, 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭.