Die for Our Ship/Inuyasha

If only you knew, Inuyasha... If only you knew!

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• In the Inuyasha fandom, there are rabid Kikyou/Inu-Yasha fans accusing Kagome of being a Tsundere Sue or a Clingy Jealous Girl, and Kagome/Inu-Yasha fans react by calling Kikyou an evil whore who still wants to drag Inu-Yasha into Hell with her. Add the Kouga/Kagome shippers who bash Ayame and the Sango/Miroku fans who bash Kuranosuke Takeda too.
• Don't forget the Sango/Inu-Yasha shippers who regularly declare war on Miroku and Kagome for the purpose of facilitating a pairing teased once by a line meant to demonstrate solidarity, not lust!
• Speaking of Kouga/Kagome, that pairing gets a lot of heat from Inu-Yasha/Kagome shippers. Poor Kouga is an EBUL misogynist who will never appreciate Kagome the way Inu-Yasha does, despite the fact that he brings her flowers and gives up his whole human-eating lifestyle to please her... and keeps with it, even after he realizes he'll never get the girl.
• Many shippers who pair Kagome up with someone other than Inuyasha (most commonly Sesshomaru or Kouga, but this extends to Crossover pairings with Kagome too) go out of their way to make Inuyasha a Jerkass who thinks of Kagome as only a Replacement Goldfish for Kikyo (despite him explicitly stating in canon that this is not the case) or as a mere Shard Detector. Or even an all-out wife-beater, so that Kagome can be rescued from him by her Actual True Love, conveniently forgetting that she could make Inuyasha stop his supposed wife-beating with a single word.
• Sesshomaru/Rin and Sesshomaru/Kagome shippers regularly bash Kagura for being Sesshomaru's Implied Love Interest, to the point where some of them have said that they are glad that she died. Sesshomaru/Kagura shippers don't bash Rin and Kagome as often because Rin is a daughter figure and Kagome isn't really much of a threat.
  • Also the fact that Sesshomaru has been shown to more or less care about her (to the point Tenseiga confirmed an empty hole in his heart had been filled for the first time), and the fact that Rin herself supports a romance between the two tends to really grate their cheese because it adds to their feeling of being threatened. Sessh/Kagura writers might sometimes bash Kagome if they dislike her, but never Rin. They do, however, tend to bash Sara, an anime-only filler character.
• About half of all Sesshomaru/Inuyasha fic either turn everyone else into psycho homophobes who just want to get into the way of the brothers' true love or make the female characters evil (particularly Kagome) and the rest of the males gay because Het Is Ew. The saddest part of all this is that the character bashing actually occurs less frequently among fans of this pairing than for many others in the Inuyasha fandom.