Yeah, unfortunately

exactly! why even set up the whole sun thing if the writers are only going to spend the next two volumes pretending he (and by extension his relationship with blake) never existed

Bumbleby is a poorly-written and unhealthy relationship that reads more as a trauma bond than anything else, there’s no way it was planned from the beginning when there was so much build-up for a romantic relationship between Blake and Sun, and the writers at this point are just stringing the fans along and dodging confirming them as queer even though other characters were allowed to be attracted to the opposite sex with much less buildup

The ship in recent volumes is very watered-down and boring and mostly consists of Blake looking sad whilst Yang gets angry on her behalf, which has also stripped away Blake’s whole thing of fighting against faunus oppression in the early volumes and threw that whole subplot under the bus for shipping fuel in the fight against Adam. It overshadows their important relationships with other characters, like Yang and Ruby, or tbh either of them with any other member of team RWBY - many of their interactions with other characters (on the rare occasion that they’re not glued together) are centered around the other one

Most people who dislike bb are not homophobic, many of us are LGBT+ ourselves, and not liking a fictional ship (especially a badly-written and queerbait-y one) is not automatically homophobia

Ozpin:

Maria:

Winter:

Jacques:

Willow:

The Happy Huntresses:

Ghira:

Ironwood:

Qrow:

Sun:

Neptune:

Coco:

Penny, the entirety of V8:

The Ace Ops:

Marrow after Ironwood threatens to bomb Mantle:

Robyn:

Salem:

Cinder:

Emerald:

Mercury:

Watts:

Tyrian:

Hazel when he sees Oscar:

Neo, on a deserted island surrounded by people who hate her:

Ruby:

Weiss, vol. 7:

Blake:

Yang:

Jaune:

Nora:

Ren, vol. 8:

Pyrrha:

Emerald: Morning, Tyrian!

Tyrian, cheerfully: The world will be reduced to ash!