i just feel, to sum everything up, is that you aren’t seeing eye to eye with what people have been telling you. the critique has never been about rare pairs, or multi ships, or anything like that. everyone is free to ship any character with another, that’s fine! no one cares if you ship beidou and kazuha (even if it’s just one AU, instance, “platonic” or not, etc), or alhaitham with layla. if you like those pairings, then keep enjoying them.

the issue was always saying you believe beidou is a lesbian and alhaitham as gay; you even say those are their canon (implied) sexualities. in any instance, don’t you think it’s strange to say: yes beidou is a lesbian EXCEPT in this one au where she’s with kazuha. yes! alhaitham is gay EXCEPT when i hc him eaiting layla out.

these characters are clearly not lesbian or gay if they’re paired that way? you keep saying that if you were to deny that they’re implied lesbian/gay by just hc-ing them as bi, then you’d be erasing rep. but frankly, what you’re doing is ultimately erasing rep either way. if you just call them by, then people have nothing to disagree or critique on, feel free to ship them with whichever other character ever.

and lastly, the equivalencies you’ve made about changing characters’ eye color, for example, is just not valid. no one is who they are because of eye or hair color, but sexuality plays a huge part of someone’s character.

instead of doubling down and insisting that you’re going about this the right way, perhaps change your perspective. saying “well i hurt people i guess” but continuing with your rhetoric/unchanging pov achieves nothing.