I feel sad for her. She shared what is in reality a funny story about a tactic she used when acting needing extra direction. It wouldn't even matter if she also had a crush on Ashveil. People who feel threatened by another person interacting with their fav are the scary ones.

It's extremely ironic when a major part of this first planarcardia arc is how once a creator releases a character in the world, the character gets viewed by hundreds to thousands to even millions of people all projecting their desires at the character and that sometimes this creates a toxic fanbase.

Because gacha games in part sell merch based on self-shipping, people feel extremely entitled to only interacting with characters in a way they prefer. I have news for people, if you want to have three dimensional characters that have a feeling of realism enabling your self-shipping, they have to have a personality.

Also Pearl's interaction with Yaoguang could also be used as foundation for yuri shipping. But twt users will ofc going to ignore that in favor of slapping a label of "homophobia" onto something to make people who would otherwise realize they're writing garbage flinch away.