Disclaimers
>I actually am kind of a پرستار of AkuRoku, so I'm not saying this off of anti-ship hate یا anything.
>I'm not saying "STOP SHIPPING tHIS NOW آپ GUYS ARE TERRIBLE", either. That would be hypocritical because I ship it myself
>I'm not trying to start anything either, I don't like arguing.
>This wasn't intended to be anti-gay either, because I'm pansexual and that would literally be like bashing on myself.
>This is all opinion. If آپ REALLY don't want to agree, that's okay.

So originally, I had written this in the تبصرے of a poll, but realised it was getting way too big for just a comment, LOL. For a long time, people always have spread a rumor that Sora, Riku, Roxas and Axel were intended to be gay, but was hidden/toned down سے طرف کی Square Enix because Disney wouldn't approve. But while Disney not approving would be true, their relationship was probably never meant to be "gay". And now, here's my explantion why.

It seems that many شائقین aren't aware that there are cultural ideas different from their own.

In Japanese cultures, it's been مقبول to explore super close relationships between males for centuries. There is evidence of this in paintings and کتابیں from many centuries back, even. Whiles they sometimes are, these relationships generally aren't actually gay, and occasionally in these stories both men end up getting married to women, etc. anyways (not against their will, I might add). The Japanese like the teasing of a close relationship that isn't explicitly romantic/sexual. آپ probably might notice this relationship in other animes and Japanese games.

The best example in مقبول عملی حکمت would be Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachin, the twins in "Ouran High School Host Club". They are NOT gay for each other, and one (or both?) has a crush on the main girl character, as well. And yet they still have a really close relationship that appears to be gay; they DO love each other, because they are brothers and they're always together since they're twins, but it's not a homosexual relationship. And they are both fully aware that people are attracted to the idea. which is why they do it in front of the girls, and the girls love it. Because that's what the Japanese like. They are actually the manga artist's parody on the idea.

But that idea doesn't exist in Western culture/tropes (aka anywhere that's not Asia). Either he's your friend/family, یا you're gay for him; there isn't leeway and there isn't an in between, that's the way it exists in the West. Because of that, when western شائقین saw the relationships between Sora and Riku, and Roxas and Axel, it appeared to be gay -- because we never explore the concept of an in between.

There isn't really a word for it in the English language either, which makes it all the مزید difficult. People naturally have to stick labels on things. That's how they know what's what, and how to feel about this یا that. When something doesn't have a clear name, they will stick it to the closest thing they know. For some fans, the closest thing they knew was "close friends". For others, it was "gay". And that's how the shipping war starts.

And that's what puts these characters in jeopardy in Disney's eyes. Not because they're gay, but because Disney knows that people in the West will THINK they are gay, for lack of a better word. And they don't want that trouble. Which, yes, is still homophobic, and sucks, obviously.

Now, that isn't to say آپ can't ship it anyways, because shipping is fun. But arguing that it's canon, I think, is pretty ridiculous. I also encourage people to make their own مضامین about their opinion on these things, too! Whether آپ agree یا disagree with me.

If آپ want me to elaborate, let me know! And please, don't be immature??