Sword Art Online

[MFauli]

Well, surprisingly, DarthEnderX is right, though.

Friend zoned = Acting like a friend.

If you like a girl, just express it properly without pretending to be a friend to get close. It is basically being nice without expressing your intentions.

Ah, so that´s why I don´have a gf (and because I´m fat ...). But seriously, I think there should be a difference between friendzoning and what happened here. A typical friendzone, to me, starts with only one goal in the guy´s mind: "I want to get her, but I´m not sure how." Now, from what we saw so far, Sinon´s friend isn´t like that. He cared about her for an extended time, always being there for her, knowing about her dilemma and all. ALSO, judging from her reaction, she knows about her friend´s desires. She wasn´t acting as if this was the first time he approached her romantically, saying "I´m not ready yet" with a little blush on her cheeks.

Mostly, though, I hate another girl falling for Kirito. Shit´s annoying. Being friend´s with Kirito means that, as a guy, you´re out of pussy forever, lol. Wonder if Klein has any chances at one of the girls that is not Asuna. I guess not :/

[Kraco]

I think there should be a difference between friendzoning and what happened here. A typical friendzone, to me, starts with only one goal in the guy´s mind: "I want to get her, but I´m not sure how." Now, from what we saw so far, Sinon´s friend isn´t like that. He cared about her for an extended time, always being there for her, knowing about her dilemma and all. ALSO, judging from her reaction, she knows about her friend´s desires. She wasn´t acting as if this was the first time he approached her romantically, saying "I´m not ready yet" with a little blush on her cheeks.

There should be a difference because she didn't have the courage to turn him down firmly, even though that's what she really wanted to do. Maybe she even feels like she owes something to him but doesn't realise that leaving him hanging is more cruel, and naturally even more cruel would be to date him for a while and then leave him. Judging by her reaction, this indeed was the first time he confessed. I reckon she has never had a boyfriend and thus simply any guy confessing to her made her blush, even if it was this sycophant. It doesn't really mean anything here. At least she wasn't dense enough not to have guessed what the dude had wanted all along, yet had been too beta to do anything about it, like exglitch said.

In the end it's the dude that friendzoned himself a long time ago. Sinon didn't need to do anything.