I try to avoid saying this again, but now I feel compelled: Please remember characters and ships often won't be interchangeable with the big screen or alternate versions. 616 Shuri and Riri shouldn't be classified as a romantic ship or 616 Riri embedded in mature posts.
"Shuriri" (Princess Shuri and Riri Williams) in the main comics (Earth-616) is platonic. The original version of Ironheart is 15-year-old Riri Williams. This has been said in even Wakanda Forever material and on Marvel's page.
616 Shuri is an adult well in her 20s and meant to read at least in her early 20s.
Since 2022-2023, shippers tried to circulate it has been "canon" or more "food" in 616, citing their moniker in Ironheart Volume 1.
When, goodness no. Ironically, Shuri and Riri disliked the name "shuriri." 😂
When using comic Riri images in your ship boards and smut headers... You can imagine the juxtaposition comicbook readers or Riri fans feel seeing it in the tags.
Note: Riri is a child protégé. Her comic ages are 12 to 15.
Her peers are Miles Morales, Ms Marvel, Viv Vision... All of which are clearly young teens in school.
Shuri, on the other hand, was always a young adult. She even mentors younger generation heroes, like Ironheart and Moon Girl.
Shuri's youngest ages were 18 MCU-wise (now in her 20s) or 20 comics-wise (later resting in her 20s with a mind much older since Black Panther volume 6).
Letitia Wright's BP1 interview and Black Panther 1 and 2 scripts confirming Shuri's MCU age:
616 Shuri is an adult figure. Even when she was called a "child" back then in much older volumes (where she was younger compared to now), she was in the same sentence confirmed 20:
Another aspect I find uncomfortable is how shippers (or fans in general) disregard the part where 616 Riri deals with trauma to the point of therapy and is on a healing journey. She only just recently feeling able to have friendships (and only friendships).
This is a big plot point in Ironheart volume 1, but overlooked for shipping or aesthetics...
Look, I get it. Some fans saw Riri and Shuri on the big screen, fell in love with the characters, and read their interactions with romantic lens. Although that wasn't Ryan Coogler's intention, alright.
People ship relating, chemistry-having characters with or without the canon's checkmark. It happens all the time. It's whatever. Atleast unlike the comics, MCU Riri is 19 (taking away half of the sting).
The comics are not the MCU.
Characters have a story and life prior to the films or shipping based on the films.
Please respect and be conscious of that. Especially when sharing fan spaces with comic readers.