Yaoi seems (Heh, that’s an understatement, I suppose…) to be a relatively hot topic in the lair of the internet devoted to Gundam Wing fandom.

    Since I usually drag my mom unwittingly into my excitement over one thing or another, the other day I mentioned the whole yaoi “discussion” to her. She stared at me and went,

    “What???”

    so I tried to explain it a few times and she stared at me a little more and said, “

    People argue over that kind of stuff?!?!”

    Now, I have my own opinions on the subject (I would assume you’re not allowed *not* to have an opinion on it anyway…) and I’m only swayed when I care to be. So when I’m told about various “proof” sites, I just have to take a person’s word for how “good” they are…

    Nine times out of ten, somebody will bring up the subject of some “proof” site (Whether it be proof that there isn’t yaoi thickly laced throughout the plot or that it’s proof that there aren’t straight characters crawling out of the screen…) and label it as “gay”. (Uh… Alrighty… Since I’m on the topic, I’m referring to the use of “gay” as in: “stupid”… Not anything derogatory. I mean, it’s like saying “Schweet.” You ever wonder if the word “Sweet” gets pissed off for being spelled wrong?) Then a whole argument breaks out…

    So, throwing my own opinions out the window (Hey! I do it when I write papers in school occasionally…) I’d like to tackle the topic! (Hee-hee! This is what happens when you stay up waaaaay too late at night, sleep in all day, and then watch anime while eating Ramen noodles.)

    In episode 36, Duo runs behind stage and grabs Trowa and begins shaking him haphazardly and busts out into a festive round of Twenty Questions. The second or third question (Because I was too lazy to hit the rewind button and count to find out exactly which order the question came in.) he spits out at Trowa is: “How’s Heero???” followed by: “Is he with you?!?!”

    Now, I’m assuming that a pro-yaoi site would take this and go, “See??? He wants to know about Heero right off the bat!” But since I’m here to rip apart such things (Buwhahaha!!! I love being me!) I’d like to point out that if you were to root through the mess on the floor of the editing room, you’d stumble across this clip, later cut out:

    “Trowa!!! How’re ya doin’??? How’s Heero??? Is he with you?!?!”

    Trowa blinks, not really sure what’s going on. “’Cause that baka owes me fifty bucks!”

    See? There’s *always* more to the scene, if you’re crazy enough to make it up!

    In one of the last episodes, Heero grabs Relena by the helmet and pulls her in close before taking off on his “suicide mission”. (She says that like this is a new thing for him…)

    If you’re like… Well, you probably are, so I won’t bother… You know that this scene is all, “Holy camolie! He’s actually *touching* her without a gun in his hand!!! How kewl is that?!?!”

    Anti-yaoi sites would probably say, “See? Heero’s got a thing for Relena!” So… It’s my job to dispel this! (*evil laugh returns*)

    Heero leans out of the Wing Zero and grabs the back of Relena’s helmet and pulls her close. If the guy with the mike wouldn’t have been napping, you’d be able to hear the following dialogue:

    “Hey Relena… What’s this???”

    “For god sakes anyway Heero! Would you quit pulling dimes out from behind my ear??? That joke is sooooo lame!!!”

    Perhaps the real meaning behind this look is, “I like those pants. I think I’ll borrow them later on tonight.”

    Wufei seems to hold Treize rather highly.

    Perhaps Wufei is just jealous that Treize is drawn with more hair in his eyebrows than Wufei has on his head… This could also be applied to any suggestion that Wufei has a thing for Zechs. I mean, that dude has some *hair*!!!!!!

    Relena and Heero do a lot of dancing and grunting of each other’s names.

    Perhaps Heero grew up on a lot of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies and just figures that that’s the thing to do around chicks. (Of course, that can’t be proved really. He doesn’t spend much time around any other chicks except for Noin, and she looks like she’d kick anybody’s butt –besides Zechs—for wanting to dance with her…) And as far as the grunting, well, I know that *I* grunt a lot… But then again, if you were a guy and you wore that much spandex… Wouldn’t you grunt too?

    Anyway! There’s lots I haven’t covered here… But I think you get the point.

    (If you do, could you tell me what it is?)