Straight ship when being headcannoned as siblings: “cool/it should be canon,etc”
Queer ship when being headcannon as siblings: “ew/what!?,etc” *mad*
(I also ship cerysilens)
My problem is that most time the girl "is better" out of the fact men can be loved through all his flaws but women, held to different standards, gotta still be prettier and nicer somehow.
And you end on "both are flawed" ships where he's a war criminal and she a nag at worst.
ER1 is still so brutal due to what it represents
It's like the ultimate confirmation for Phainon that he'll never be free
From his POV, whichever of his bodies he dies in, he's fated to come back to life as his surviving self anyway since they're the same continuous existence