because I wanted to bring this here anyways on some level...

[fencer_x]

So over on tumblr, I asked for thoughts on why anime!Shion was couched while everywhereelse!Shion is bed-with-Nezumied, and I thought I'd extend the conversation here :3

Was it just to avoid seeming 'too gay'? Can you think of a legit excuse for why Shion was on the couch and Nezumi in the bed? Conversely, was there any reason beyond warmth that they shared a bed in novel/manga canon?

Your thoughts, let me has them.

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[stanza]

Can you think of a legit excuse for why Shion was on the couch and Nezumi in the bed?

Because the couch existed in the anime, I guess. Why the couch existed I imagine plays into either, yeah, 'too gay' fears, or a desire to avoid making the really strong visual statement that seeing two character in bed together makes. It's one thing for Shion to bring up their bed-sharing in a novel, where it's text and there's never a scene describing their bed-sharing explicitly; it's another to show it, you know? The anime could always have just mentioned bed-sharing and never shown the sleeping arrangements one way or another, but... IDK, I have a feeling the medium differences were a factor in the birth of the couch.

Conversely, was there any reason beyond warmth that they shared a bed in novel/manga canon?

:3 :3 Because of tender budding feels??

(Also the bed is legit the only clear spot in the mousynest until Shion starts makin' a dent in the hoard o' books. Probably sleeping on hardcovers is super shitty and neither of them wanted to be THAT gracious about it haha.)

But seriously I mean -- if Nezumi were THAT 'rargh no human closeness' and Shion THAT 'I want to be your equal' and zero sort of maybe kind of romantic attraction going on, alternate sleeping arrangements would have been arranged. Period. It says a lot that they weren't.

[spiralmaiden]

Because the government of Tokyo thinks media is turning all their boys gay. NOTHING BETTER AROUSE ANY THOUGHTS OF SEXUAL DESIRE IN THE YOUNG. OH NO.

What? Me bitter? Noooo.

[analineblue]

I have wondered this many a time myself. ;) As for Shion's motivation, I think the conclusion I came to is that in the anime, he sleeps on the couch simply because he can, because it's there, and its an alternative to encroaching on Nezumi's lifestyle/living arrangements any more than he has to. And in the novels, in addition to warmth and closeness and all of that, I think mostly he's there because there's nowhere else. (At least if I'm remembering correctly, there's no mention of the couch there, right? @_@)

But yeah, I definitely like the sleeping together idea MUCH better, and I do wonder why the couch crept into the anime in the first place. *_* If it was an attempt to blur the lines a little more as to their relationship? Or to highlight their independence from each other? Or simply a random design/visual decision? I WONDER. *_*