Yeah, I agree, especially how shipping can get kinda messy, so I'm trying to sort of avoid it, or keep it to myself at the moment. I've never paid attention to shipping in the Splatoon community, as I saw it mostly as self insert (not really my thing at all) or between OCs (I can handle it/enjoy it). When it comes to Earthbound, though, that's different. I don't agree with many romantic ships unless they are extremely implied to be canon (Ninten x Ana, Ness x Paula sort of, Jeff x Tony). But for the most part, I see the relationships between most characters as largely platonic (70% of the characters are minors anyway), and they're all good friends. Then I fill the rest of the space with friend headcannons (Lucas looks up to Ness, Paula and Ana are church friends and Ana is the last person in the world who is keeping Paula's sanity intact, Kumatora gives off big sister vibes, Lil Miss Marshmallow gives off annoying little sister vibes, Poo is the one eho refuses to help the gang get out of trouble, etc) instead of aggressively screaming at some poor random soul why their ship sucks and they deserve to burn in the depest depths of hell.
But I guess I'm lucky: I haven't seen much shipping between main characters in Splatoon except some VERY cursed Squid Sisters stuff I found by accident when I was younger (even if people don't know they're cousins, sisters is more than enough of a warning

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