JayVik not being canon
Now that it's been a while and I feel like the heated feelings around this have cooled off- I think it's worth talking about
To preface, EYE do not ship these two in the way that most the fandom does, I never had. I personally have always liked this Shakespearean brotherhood tragedy their story gave off. When Christian Linke said what he was going for with the relationship I was like "yeah that's what I got from it."
WITH THAT SAID: That doesn't make JayVik not not canon. We can talk about how society values romantic relationship over platonic ones and how that conversation fits into the conversation of queer representation until the cows come home. But I think no matter what when depicting deep emotional connection that is not explicitly stated as one or the other, it can and will be interpreted in different ways, and JayVik has plenty of canon moments and subtext that support the idea of a romantic relationship.
I say this in hopes this will make a better fandom experience for you all: It does not matter what the creator says outside of the text. If it is said outside of the text it is NOT canon. I get that some of the ambiguity at the end of the show was frustrating, and I'm sure many of you came across homophobic arguments in attempts to shut you down- and all that sucks. But begging for creators to come out and confirm or deny ANYTHING in a story is counter productive and rarely aids in any media analyis.
Their relationship is not canonically romantic, but its also not canonically platonic. And we will have much more interesting conversations about media when we aren't looking for ammunition to say "well the creator said-"
Ship away little baby birds <3