spoiler Have Lyra and Bonbon become a couple?

[manic 121]

You'd think so! They really made it look like they are but unfortunately word of Jim and Larson says otherwise. So, yeah ship sank. (Have more to say on that below)

 

 

No, not really. They can get away with it via Word of Gay in which the creators state they're gay but they don't state it in the show.

 

Hasbro shows aren't immune to it. During Transformers Prime's run the creators stated the Decepticon, Knock-Out, was gay. Unfortunately they handled in an unintentionally offensive and tasteless fashion!

 

There was even a webcomic that tackled it.

 

Now they could have easily confirmed the LyraBonbon ship as Canon, there would have been no consequences if they had done so. Unfortunately for shippers, both Big Jim and Larson sank that ship and confirmed that they're best friends and no more than that.

 

So really what we got in Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks and Slice of Life was a really unnecessarily cruel ship tease! I was no supporter of the ship myself but damn! Teasing the fans by REALLY making it look as if the ship is canon to the point where anyone can look at that scene and say "Yeah, they're an obvious couple" only to go and say "HA! Ya fell for it! They're not a couple, they're just best friends! Anyone who says otherwise is wrong!", that was overkill!

I disagree that they could have done it with "No consequences". Hell no. I'm maintaining that, whatever LGBT stuff goes on, the show's writers will ALWAYS deny it. However we've been getting HUGE winks from them.

 

Or do you do this with all your "best friends"

 

 

Ps. For comparison, I'm getting Zero of the same vibe from Octavia and Vinyl or Derpy and the Dr.

Edited July 9, 2015 by manic

[Perfect Stanza 73]

I would like to think they'd be together maybe in the future. Perhaps they haven't fully figured out their feelings?? "Best friends" is comfortable for them.

[Frostgage 7,982]

I actually think they're still just best friends now but have romantic feelings for each other. Unfortunately it'll never happen in canon but we all know the truth :comeatus:

[Envy 6,490]

Nope, the show completely 'gal pal'ed them, even though it was so clear that they were hinting otherwise with their portrayal that even someone like me who is usually completely oblivious to such things could tell.

Edited July 9, 2015 by Envy

[Daring_Do 553]

I disagree that they could have done it with "No consequences". Hell no. I'm maintaining that, whatever LGBT stuff goes on, the show's writers will ALWAYS deny it. However we've been getting HUGE winks from them.

 

Or do you do this with all your "best friends"

 

 

Ps. For comparison, I'm getting Zero of the same vibe from Octavia and Vinyl or Derpy and the Dr.

Mike Vogel during the episode (wish I'd known about this sooner) :

 

https://twitter.com/mktoon/status/609748856327155712

 

https://twitter.com/mktoon/status/609747745264418816

 

He openly referred to Steven Magnet as gay, but referred to Lyra and Bon Bon as "besties".

[SolidTwilight 383]

There the same kind of "best friends" that J. Edgar Hoover (The director of the FBI in the US from 1924-1972) and Clyde Tolson were. for you kids that have no idea what I am talking about. google it! "Hoover and Tolson worked together more than 40 years. They traveled on vacation and official business, rode to work together, shared lunch nearly every day at Washington’s Mayflower hotel and sometimes even wore matching suits. Hoover, at his death, left Tolson most of his estate" but by all official accounts they were just "best friends".

just because they say its not true does not mean they did not wright it to look like there more then friends.

Edited July 14, 2015 by SolidTwilight

[manic 121]

Well, with the latest episode, they became (in dreamland) LITERALLY coupled XD

 

[Little Red 1,529]

I think all this was a way of Hasbro to encourage Lyra/Bon shipping.

[SolidTwilight 383]

I think all this was a way of Hasbro to encourage Lyra/Bon shipping.

I don't know how much of a hand hasbro has in these kinds of thing. I get the vibe that the show staff do these kind of things and hasbro just steps in and tells them to tone it down when it starts getting to be to much. but that is just a guess on my part. I believe that the hole Lyra and Bonbon started when some of the animations started pairing the two tougher in the background with out any input for any of the rest of the staff or hasbro.

Edited July 14, 2015 by SolidTwilight

[Sky Knight 1,172]

Being Gay shouldn't something that's shunned on, it should be expressed openly to young and old.

[The Coffee Pony 1,390]

Well, with the latest episode, they became (in dreamland) LITERALLY coupled XD

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen

There's being best friends

There's being a couple

And then there's whatever the hell that is!

 

 

 

 

 

...Why would you want to be CatDog?

Edited July 14, 2015 by The Coffee Pony

[Christmasy Britty 2,553]

i would say yes, because if they are best friends they are taking it to a creepy level, i mean i have a bff and we have never acted that way and were at the point where we can talk to each other about anything

[ManaMinori 4,149]

Well, looks like I'm wrong about how you could interpret it either way then! Looks like that ship is sunk.

no ship? Isn't friendship a ship?

Anyway, THANK YOU, Jim!

[Red Cedar 1,408]

Officially, I believe the show's staff when they say Lyra and Bon Bon are just friends.

 

However, I also believe they loooooooooooooove teasing us.

[Jangocoolguy 433]

It's just that it FELLS like they're a couple....

 

In my eyes, it's not like how other characters are close and then romantic/perverted fans take things too far. They're scenes together really feel like there is something under the surface when I watch them.

 

So Big Jim and Larson themselves sunk the ship. Fine. But that's gonna stop the shippers, nor will it stop my spider sense from tingling when I see certain scenes...

[Singe 2,111]

They can either be a lesbian couple that love each other or two best friends that love each other like sisters.

[Nyan Neon 50]

They're lovers. I'm sure that the show made them "best friends" because gay couples is still taboo.

[Justin_Case001 4,940]

I'm sure they're just friends, but in my headcanon, they're a couple.  If any two characters were to ever come out as a gay couple, it would be them.  They definitely feel more like a couple than anyone else.  They're so adorable, too.

[The Coffee Pony 1,390]

It's just that it FELLS like they're a couple....

 

In my eyes, it's not like how other characters are close and then romantic/perverted fans take things too far. They're scenes together really feel like there is something under the surface when I watch them.

 

So Big Jim and Larson themselves sunk the ship. Fine. But that's gonna stop the shippers, nor will it stop my spider sense from tingling when I see certain scenes...

It's like I said, at this point it's REALLY cruel ship-teasing. When I saw SoL, even though I'm no supporter of the ship I thought the ship was near confirmed at this point or at least open to interpretation but then M.A. Larson and Big Jim just flat out said "They're best friends. That's it, we have no interest in making them a couple." to which I can't help but think that they're going overboard with their ship teasing. For me it's a little issue but when they say they never will be a couple and continue to ship-tease like that, I can't help but find it in poor taste.

 

 

They're lovers. I'm sure that the show made them "best friends" because gay couples is still taboo.

 

Unfortunately, I have a hard time believing that since Steven Magnet is now confirmed to be canonically gay.

 

We can say otherwise all we like but if the creators say they're not then it's not canon and probably never will be.

[Nyan Neon 50]

It's like I said, at this point it's REALLY cruel ship-teasing. When I saw SoL, even though I'm no supporter of the ship I thought the ship was near confirmed at this point or at least open to interpretation but then M.A. Larson and Big Jim just flat out said "They're best friends. That's it, we have no interest in making them a couple." to which I can't help but think that they're going overboard with their ship teasing. For me it's a little issue but when they say they never will be a couple and continue to ship-tease like that, I can't help but find it in poor taste.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, I have a hard time believing that since Steven Magnet is now confirmed to be canonically gay.

 

We can say otherwise all we like but if the creators say they're not then it's not canon and probably never will be.

Oh, so he is gay? I'm actually... not fine with that, since he's a very obvious gay stereotype...

[manic 121]

It's like I said, at this point it's REALLY cruel ship-teasing. When I saw SoL, even though I'm no supporter of the ship I thought the ship was near confirmed at this point or at least open to

 

interpretation but then M.A. Larson and Big Jim just flat out said "They're best friends. That's it, we have no interest in making them a couple." to which I can't help but think that they're going overboard with their ship teasing. For me it's a little issue but when they say they never will be a couple and continue to ship-tease like that, I can't help but find it in poor taste.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, I have a hard time believing that since Steven Magnet is now confirmed to be canonically gay.

 

We can say otherwise all we like but if the creators say they're not then it's not canon and probably never will be.

It's one thing to show a character by himself, it's another entirely to show an actual relationship. That's where they won't dare go.

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 3,221]

In my opinion, their relationship with one another is presented in such a way that both interpretations of them being best friends or actually being in couple relationship work; I think is ridiculous to say episode debunks one or the other.

[Sidral Mundet 1,666]

You can't say they aren't together 

(Now that's how you do a fucking shipping nod!)

Edited July 15, 2015 by Sidral Mundet

[Mr. Mustang 647]

You can't say they aren't together 

(Now that's how you do a fucking shipping nod!)

 

Or, yanno, a CatDog reference.

 

As per the question, yeah, quite literally, in fact, in this episode.

[SteveMorison 408]

You can't say they aren't together

(Now that's how you do a fucking shipping nod!)

When you're at the stage of wanting to be attached to another pony, you are in love with said pony, end of.