Can someone tell me where the “Beth flirts with Ralph in his heart events” take came from? I’ve seen this claim by a small but vocal handful of people on Tumblr and Reddit. Even some Japanese fans on Twitter have griped about it. There was also a Youtuber who made a tier list video of the Olive Town characters and he put Beth in D tier for, in his words, “trying to steal his man Ralph.” I watched Ralph’s events and there is absolutely no flirting between them whatsoever. The only thing Beth does in his events is have him help her guide her through the woods so she could do her research. Guiding people through the woods is Ralph’s job. That’s literally it.
I’ve also seen a couple of people, mostly the same ones who make the flirting claims, pointing out Beth being next to Ralph in the town square before the Spirit Festival as proof and implying that she is ditching Lars for him. Except Beth literally participates in the actual festival cutscene itself with Lars. Also neither Beth or Ralph have any dialogue about each other while they are standing next to each other before the festival. There are no romantic implications at all. It’s possible they’re just chatting about work related events before the festival. In one of Beth’s friendship events she even tells Lars that Ralph is simply just her co worker.
Also I meticulously combed through all the dialogue of Ralph and Beth on Ranch Story’s Wiki to check to see if there are any hints of flirting outside of his events. I saw nothing. Beth never mentions Ralph at all in her daily dialogue and Ralph only has two lines about her, neither which are in any way romantic at all.
Is this just a case of people making things up to get mad over because they’re angry Beth is the reason they can’t marry Lars?
Tl;dr There is a wild claim made by a small handful of people in the fandom that Beth flirts with Ralph in his heart events despite absolutely no evidence being present whatsoever.
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