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tbh my favorite flavor of sylvix is not "we& #39;ve been in love forever" or "we realized we love each other and now it& #39;s a perfect relationship", it& #39;s navigating the messiness of falling for your best friend while having a truly broken idea of relationships and love
like.... sylvain& #39;s relationship with romantic love is so fundamentally twisted that, despite his actual love for felix, i can& #39;t imagine it would be anything but difficult for him to accept those feelings (nevermind express them), ESPECIALLY when he believes that
him loving someone legitimately is a recipe for inevitable heartbreak and pain AND felix is one of the few relationships he has that he really, really needs to be unbreakable.
I don& #39;t think there& #39;s homophobia as we know it in fodland (im going to ignore jp dub ingrid& #39;s comment k) but at the same time sylvain& #39;s entire life has been built around inevitably marrying a woman and being a ladies& #39; man/player/A Man Who Pursues Women, so it& #39;s also
probably going to cause some level of identity and social role questioning were he to earnestly fall for a man, especially his best friend, when both of them are extremely socially pressured to marry women and produce heirs and a relationship between the two of them would not be
socially advantageous in faerghus, so sylvain especially would most likely initially try to dismiss it as a dead end or at the very least definitely not worth ruining one of his few true friendships over.
Speaking of that, were they to get together, sylvain& #39;s.... reputation and all the pain he& #39;s caused wouldn& #39;t just go away. i really don& #39;t see sylvain& #39;s broader social reputation really addressed in sylvix works beyond lending angst to his background and yet i think it would REALLY
impact the relationship, especially in the beginning, for as much as you trust your best friend, can you really trust him in a relationship when every single other one he& #39;s had has ended in pain because of his own self-sabotage?
