[ SECRET POST #2693 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2693 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For me, part of it is a reality vs. wishful thinking thing. Like, if I ship X/Y strongly and X/Z happened instead, I feel less satisfied because I know that in order to keep shipping them, I have to rewrite canon in my mind and in a sense not wake up and smell the roses. Of course, you can still write fix it fic or insert an encounter where they do get together or whatnot, but you mostly have to ignore reality. Similarly, it's like if a character gets killed off -- it doesn't stop you from writing fic for the time when they're still alive or writing an AU where they didn't die, but at the end of the day, you have to accept they're dead and that's kind of a downer.

The other thing (maybe similar) is that a romantic storyline is like other kinds of storylines -- it's part of a character development arc. If early on you think X/Y is happening and that makes you more interested in the canon, and then X/Y peters out into nothing or X/Z happens instead, it gives me this feeling of unresolvedness or a missed opportunity for a strong finish to that character arc.

I agree with others that part of it is the ability to get more moments for the pairing in canon, as well as the whole "validation that I'm right" thing (but more in a "So I'm not crazy for thinking there was something going on between those two! Yes!" kind of way). You have a point, though, that when the fandom as a whole is cool with disregarding canon and ships the non-canon pairing, then your OTP being canon won't magically make you happy. Juggernaut pairing vs. unpopular pairing issues, heh.