Cucan to me I think weâll itâs cute you know like I can see the appeal to it but a lot of early fandom and well even some now focus a lot on like that one joke about how he confuses him for America and well makes it abusive , really victimizing either Canada or America in that case , this is something more present in early fandoms , it still happens .. and like even when it isnât..it either focuses mostly on Canada or if it does ever focus on Cuba as a character itâs in a weird fetishy way (especially if itâs nyo Cuba oh my god itâs so fetishy itâs đ€ą )... And like a I get it a lot of Cubaâs content is dependent on this ship fandom wise in terms of creation and well even in canon like while yes we do see him interact with other nations ..I can name like 3 or more appearances that he has with Canada .. heâs a minor character that I donât think most fans are familiar with mostly because a good chunk of the fan base comes from the anime ... and he shows up there like once so a lot of people donât exactly have a good idea what his character is like or even a idea of what the culture is like .. like I can understand that but like still sort of doesnât excuse when people write stuff that well comes off as insensitive in regards to the ship (sometimes a little racist... okay .. mostly a racist ) so that in case makes me go âeh haha no â sometimes despite the fact that I do ship it like I think , romantically itâs very cute like from the positive stuff Iâve seen like I think thereâs definitely some content creators who really know how to make it all fluffy and soft but lately tbh like for me atleast platonic cucan is where itâs at like ,them being absolutely good friends that everyone thinks their dating but their not they are just broâs gives me some life?? I just wish that this ship wasnât like .. the âCuba ship â like face of the ships involving him .. because there is content creators for .. like other ships involving stuff with him So uh short answer is yeah I like it , when itâs done right (though I would like for some of the same overly used tropes to be changed up a little but I wonât ask for that much with the way this fandom works .. just asking for it to be not racist or fetishy is a lot ), but also wish other ships involving him such as vietcu, amecu, ruscu , Belcu as in like Belarus.. and or with Belgium! Which the latter Iâve seen some cute art for ! or even ships involving him with other Latin Americans like Ecuador or Venezuela got some love , because even though itâs sort of niche because of the nature of his character, content is still content .. like not to sound like a first generation Latino writing my entrance essay for college pero give me some divertsity ya know ? ! If you are gonna have to give me the same ship .. give me something like more to work with ! I wanna see some reversed dynamics , I wanna see some characterization that is more complex then âmacho man and uwu baby date â so cause thatâs sort of a disgrace to both their characters... and it actually makes like canon counterparts way more and you know shit is wack if Iâm agreeing with whatever the fuck hima said cause , canon is my sandbox and while others rule over their castles of sand with poise and grace I am but a child hurling sand at everyone else , getting sand into himas eyes
