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>Isn't Peach portrayed as in love with Haru?
No? Haru hasn't even been mentioned in canon since the OVA, let alone had any relevance to it... and Peach hasn't shown any romantic interest with anyone except ***maybe*** Mario.
>She rejected Mario in games like Odyssey.
Context, man. Context.
She rejected both Mario AND Bowser for being stupid over her; no woman in her right mind would have made a choice in that situation.
(I was just going to make the rhetorical question of why most people miss such an obvious detail, but it suddenly clicked with me that it's a matter of gender-based psychology).