Giving in to the memeage

[owlmoose]

Ganked from probably half my friends list by now.

Comment with a fandom and I'll tell you my:

One True Pairing Ship:

Canon Ship:

"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:

"You are one sick bastard" Ship:

"I dabble a little" Ship:

"It's like a car crash" Ship:

"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:

"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:

"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:

"When all is said and done" Ship:

Comments

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Well, I would put X, but I'm afraid that's too obvious, so I choose FFXII.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

One True Pairing Ship: Balthier/Ashe. I know, totally predictable. But their dynamic just slays me.

Canon Ship: Does FFXII even *have* any canon ships? Plenty of subtext, all over the place, but the only canon ship I can think of is Ashe/Rasler.

"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Larsa/Vayne, ugh. Drastic age difference, prepubescent kid, *and* incest. Way to hit all my squicks at the same time, fandom.

"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Larsa/Penelo, in game. He's still too young, but they are so completely adorable together.

"I dabble a little" Ship: Larsa/Penelo, aged up. See, this I can get behind.

"It's like a car crash" Ship: Ashe/Vaan. I was terrified the game was going to go this way, I was relieved when they didn't. And yet, there might be some car-crash-watching appeal in the idea of seeing them try (and probably fail) to make it work.

"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Ashe/Vossler. Their relationship seems mostly to be professional, princess and bodyguard, but there's something about it...

"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Balthier/Vaan. Although I'm not so sure I'd say that it makes no canon sense. They can go buckle swashes together! It'd be a riot!

"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Fran/Balthier. They are very much a friends-partners dynamic to me, not lovers at all. Although I suspect Balthier has at least thought about it... I actually feel somewhat the same way about Balthier/Basch.

"When all is said and done" Ship: They have a lot of things pulling them apart -- her duties, his need to not have duties, all kinds of other problems, but my heart really roots for Balthier and Ashe to make things work, and I'm not even sure why.

[lassarina]

I love you for everything you just said here. ♥ I'm amused at how your pairings line almost perfectly with mine.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Hee, cool. I've noticed that our 'shipping preferences often tend to line up, actually; maybe it's because we like the same sorts of female characters and gravitate toward het pairings?

[lassarina]

Probably very true! XD

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I agree in regards to Ashe/Vaan. I was afraid the game was going to take that farther than it did (in my defense, I pull up every game from VII - X), and I was pretty relieved when it didn't happen. I think a lot of it came from my severe dislike of Vaan. I'm not going to hate on him like so much of fandom does, but his character didn't do much for me (maybe because he's surrounded by other, more dynamic characters) and the thought of him winning the princess was a little stomach-turning.

Besides, then what would Penelo do? besides go marry larsa

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Penelo clearly has plenty of options. :) my personal fanon is that she is a little sweet on both of them

I don't think Ashe and Vaan have particularly compatible personalities, but I mostly didn't want the game to put them together because it would be so very predictable (see: your comment re. every game from VII-X), and it was nice to see them break that particular pattern.