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⌈ Secret Post #3097 ⌋

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When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

You know, when there's a popular pairing, and everyone loves it and so do you, but everyone else favors character A and therefore writes tons of fic focusing on A's angst while B sits around and holds his hand; or where B mistreats A terribly so that A can show how noble and self-sacrificial he is for loving B even though B is being a dickwad.

And this becomes especially irritating when you, unlike the majority of shippers, favor B rather than A.

Tell us your stories, and specify the pairing!

(this also works with friendships and other relationships you don't ship romantically, of course.)

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[ketita]

Stony, and Tony the Woobie Eternal :| I just want more focus on Cap and less ooc

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[kaijinscendre]

Yes!!!!!

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

That's one of the things that turned me off Steve/Tony, to be honest.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

Kirk/Spock. I'm tired of hearing about tough alpha dominant Spock protecting Kirk animalistically and how great Kirk is.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is mostly only a thing in nu!Trek. TOS fic (especially when it's not written by nu!Trek fans) tends to in fact skew just a little bit towards the inverse of this.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

LOL McShep. Everyone is stuck on Poor Wonderful Rodney and John as his adoring handsome fucking machine. I love Rodney but John is my fave, so this makes me eyeroll all over.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[solticisekf]

hmm, I thought it's 50/50. Maybe because of the quantity of the fic you can find anything, J and R centric.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

This actually bugs me more when A is my favorite. Because it makes me annoyed at A when reading it, which isn't a pleasant experience for me. It also tends to wind up feeling like B is the trustworthy wonderful stable strong one, and A is a whiny basketcase millstone around B's neck, even if the author is obviously trying to make A the more sympathetic one.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

Where my fellow F!S Steve/Bucky OTP-ers at? I know y'all are here and this is us all over hahahaha. Ugh.

I like both characters a lot, actually. It's just that fandom really, really loves Bucky Barnes, and I always take it so personally when Steve is slighted in fic. It's a trying time.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[kaijinscendre]

Yes as well!!!

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[nightscale]

I really love the both of them a lot, but yeah, fic really is very heavily skewed to Bucky which I do understand because jesus he's had some horrific things happen to him. But Steve hasn't had it easy either and it doesn't get the spotlight anywhere near as much, which is a shame. (Though tbh I think because his pain is far more understated and less in your face that's why it gets ignored a lot, I think people are just missing it without realising).

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[philstar22]

So much yes about Steve. Bucky's awesome and all, but I'm much more interested in Steve.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

It always seems that in almost any incarnation of Holmes/Watson, the majority of the love is for Holmes himself. And I love him too, don't get me wrong! But I think Watson gets hella shortchanged, and that makes me incredibly sad, because he's definitely my favorite.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[elaminator]

Yup, I feel you on this one.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[elaminator]

The obvious answer would be Thorki because Loki is the fandoms darling. I love the dynamics in canon, but have experienced little of the fandom because of this.

(I just mentioned this the other day...I'm starting to feel like a broken record. It works, though!)

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

Well hi there, nice commiserating with you the other day :D I'll be happy to broken record up about this old flame in the here too, though I reserved my reply for the current, also frustrating OTP.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[nightscale]

I have commiserated about Thor/Loki and it's lack of Thor centric fic before with you but it's always something I agree with you on, I love the both of them so it's just more saddening for me that they don't get equal love in fandom.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

I don't ship Thor with anyone, and Thorki is def not my thing, but I am just sad because there's so little Thor in fanfic to begin with. And half the time when he shows up in a fic, it's so he can do some villainous villainy stuff to Loki the woob. Tiresome.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[kaijinscendre]

Both Steve z Rogers and Bones (Star Trek) suffer from always being the less focused on character.

Also, Kirk always seems to overwhelm any other character he is paired with.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

Which Kirk? NuTrek or TOS?

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[solticisekf]

Professionals, my fave is Bodie.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[philstar22]

In Legolas/Gimli, my favorite is Gimli rather than Legolas.

In Clint/Natasha, Natasha is my favorite and not Clint.

In Steve/Bucky, Steve is my favorite rather than Bucky.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[otakugal15]

Outside of the actual KakaSaku fandom, the majority of the fandom HATES Sakura and LOVES Kakashi. Sometimes you even see it in the KakaSaku fandom, but not often.

Re: When your favorite character in your OTP isn't the other shippers' favorite in the OTP

[(Anonymous)]

Sterek, always Sterek. Stiles is the fandom favorite, the beautiful precious cinnamon roll, and I'm pretty much exclusively interested in Derek, his backstory and feelings and needs. It actually inspired me to write fic, because I was so sick of him being the hot guy assigned to worship Stiles.