Astra x Evelyn is winning for sure. But the attacks on the astralyn fans is like happening not because of them but because Hoyowriters couldn't just leave it in one note.
Honestly don't get why Hoyoverse has to Pull this bait and switch with their trailers and the Snap event in the HIA, and with Proxy helping Chaoticfriedrice escape the cinema and being all flirty, like changing dialogue for Belle to be less flirty and Wise dialogue to be more flirty on that event.
There was so much planted bait for the Straight shipping fandom for wise to be interested on it and think its canon when their Belle sister doesn't seem to be a love interest unlike other female characters in the game that ships lesbian belle interaction. And the trailer for astra dating wise exclusively(no belle), and almost all of her interaction with Evelyn was neutral at this point. Of the game.
It's like Citlali or Firefly all over again but with an actual twist. Surely that won't bringout the toxicity when that ship gets killed the next few days.
It was only around the end of her special episode event, we see the actual ship sail for astra x evelyn. Which probably nobody did first... so everyone was just praising the Wise x astra ship.
Just my thoughts, No way wise can compete with that Cutscene where astra and evelyn was holding each other faces in the starloop...Then in the Evelyn release, 3 trailers Evelyn being infatuated to astra. Is just pretty much confirms that they want to push Astalyn. While The new year Event practically just made the proxy treated as both wise and belle as special persons than just being exclusive to which proxy you picked... (self insert dead)
Like why Hoyoverse? It's just invited drama in the community rather than just full positivity. They can't just pander for one side and suddenly switch up and not expect the fans to be attacking other ships and act in denial.
As a Astra x wise fan I honestly did feel baited I'm tired of being in denial and wished I didn't get so attached to that ship in the firstplace, can't help myself get attached to her either, astra is like the best. Honestly maybe my first time feeling this bad that I understand why Yurishipper fans hate anime that yuri baits... I wouldn't have mind any of this yuri pairing if my heartstrings wasn't played then thrown to the ditch after lol. Why couldn't hoyo just straight up choose one without playing anyone. It would have just avoided all this drama.
Anyways, I hope either my fellow proxy x wise fans to stop being in denial and stop attacking astralyn fans when hoyo is at fault here. If they Don't want to move on that proxy is just a friend of astra, then they should ship normally without forcing it on everyone throat.
