kinda related, but when i was a kid i had a hard time knowing the difference between just really loving a character and having a crush on them cuz i didnt experience crushes (i still dont ig) and i guess it was easier to interpret my attachment to a fictional character as a crush as compensation for what i was missing out on
so a good portion of my faves from my childhood overlapped with my fictional crushes. its weird in retrospect cuz i remember uh, reading bleach and just assigning myself characters to crush on cuz i just felt outcast for not having those types of feelings. i guess i owe it to some of those characters for uh carrying me to where i am today, i think a couple of them shielded me from actual creeps on the internet but its still very embarrassing to look back at
EITHER WAY
linebeck is absolutely a 10/10, fite me