The latest thing I’m crying about is how Yang was the one who told Blake “You’re not one to back down from a challenge, Blake” in that warm, loving voice, and now Blake’s not backing down from the challenge of repairing her relationship with Yang.
And Yang probably never expected herself to be the target of Blake’s drive.
Yang: You’re not one to back down from a challenge, Blake.
Blake: *stands up to her abuser twice; tries her hardest to convince Ilia to rethink her decisions and redeem herself; takes the White Fang right out from under Adam, effectively destroying everything Adam built for himself and making it her own*
Yang saw it in her from the very beginning. :)))))
A few of my favorite “they really did that” Bumbleby moments:
“If you feel like coming out tomorrow (which doubles as a great pun ‘cause you know, coming out)…I’ll save you a dance” *wink* because come on y’all, that’s gay
“I will make it my mission to destroy everything you love” *Yang appears* “starting with her” because he seriously just cast the narrative equivalent of summon love interest and Yang showed up
“There’s nothing that I won’t do for her” in Armed and Ready, because like y’all…it’s from her perspective after everything went down and she would still do anything for Blake
BMBLB’s entire existence, because holy crap that’s so much gay in one song y’all
“What if I needed her here for me?” because oh my gooooood y’all, like that was soooo high up on the list of things I wanted Yang to say as a biased ass bee shipper. Really though this entire episode is one big “holy crap this is a real thing” because we seriously have an entire subplot of an episode dedicated to Yang’s complicated feelings about Blake
The reunion
No seriously
They had Blake walk into a room filled with her closest friends and complete strangers
And she immediately zooms in on Yang and says her name so softly
And then we get like a 5 second shot of just Yang’s reaction complete with Wings softly playing in the background
Like how the hell did we not just make that up?
Also All That Matters’s existence
I mean it’s an entire song about Yang’s complicated feelings
That’s sooooooo easy to interpret as romantic
Like when people don’t even ship bumbleby are like “oh I relate to this after I broke up with my ex” that tells you how easy it is to interpret as romantic
just throwing this out there but if blake tries to talk to yang and yang tries to shrug it off and walk away and blake stops her by grabbing her hand, you will never hear another word from me again because i’ll be no longer alive
“But now you’re standing here with that look in your eyes The look that makes me hope I’ll just believe your lies”
“I’ll risk it once again to have you near my side Another chance to let you just destroy my pride”
“The way I feel To you is no big deal It’s sad but it’s true That the one thing I can count on Is that I can’t count on you”
The Japanese Amazon page gives us a 30 second preview for all the songs and these are the lyrics for All That Matters:
Never asked you to commit your life But I can tell you in my heart I never Thought you’d up and leave me Without a trace to lead me And now you’re standing here with that look in your eyes
Guys this is a song about Blake from Yang’s perspective and I’m dying right now.
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