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Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

If you are looking for a fic for a certain pairing (A/B), do you want it to concentrate only on that pairing or will you read fics that also include another pairing (A/C) for those characters?

I've noticed that I'm not interested in fics (or other stories for that matter) where A/B is the endgame, but not the pairing during the story.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[type_wild]

I'm a slut for happy endings and I'm there for whatever is going to be endgame. If that involves another pairing along the way, then I don't mind it.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

It's acceptable for A/C to have some focus when A/B is endgame, but only if the story is long/robust enough to support two pairings without collapsing into a tepid bowl of boring mush. And even then I prefer it if A/C is just a vehicle for angst or something so that B can comfort A.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I pretty much wouldn't read those fics. Not that there's anything wrong with it but I'm just not into those particular relationship dynamics in my shippy fic.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[kaijinscendre]

I want the fic to focus on the main pairing I am into. I also only read happy endings.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

This. Although, I won't mind if C/D is thrown in there, if it's a ship I kind of like.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. It depends. For the most part, if I'm I'm looking for A/B, then I search A/B, I read A/B, etc. However, if a story that includes A/C along with A/B slips in, I tend not to mind it, if C is a character I can see with A or find attractive, etc. If I don't like C, I generally bypass the fic, or I'll skip the scenes where A/C is the central theme. So yeah, if I'm looking for A/B I want pure concentrated A/B. If it's well written and C is okay, I'll tolerate some A/C.

I think your interest is reasonable. Why would you want chocolate chip cookies if you asked for brownies? Even if they both contain chocolate, it's not what you asked for. Even if brownies are given to you after the consumption of the cookies.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[nightscale]

If I'm after A/B fic I want it to be about A/B. There's nothing wrong with people writing what they want and they can include other pairings if they want to and have A/B be a background ship, but I just won't be interested in reading it is all.

I'm also not here for unhappy endings, angst during the fic? Sure, but an ending where the pair break up or one dies? No thank you.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

I will look for mainly A/B but don't care if other pairings are included.

Especially if A/C or B/C or B/D or whatever, are canon ships that play huge roles in A & B's character development and lives, then I feel it's ridiculous to complain if C & D exist as present plot, backstory plot, or are mentioned in passing. I'd expect those character-defining relationships to exist, even if they're turned into exes or not-a-ship-but-shared-an-attraction-in-the-past type stuff.

I probably wouldn't read a fanfic that recons and erases huge parts of the canon character I like, especially if the point of the erasure is purely to turn the character gay and repulsed by the opposite sex so as to not have to deal with unbearable complexity and impurity of being bi.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more to deal with the complexity of breaking up a canon couple without making one or both halves awful people, or trying to convince the readers that A and C parted amicably for reasons they'd never part ways over in canon.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. Also, depending on where in the storyline you set it, the canon couple could not even have happened yet.

But I'd find it contrived if the third character magically didn't exist if they played a significant role in canon. "Spike and Buffy meet in a cafe and fall in love and Angel/Angelus and Drusilla never existed" is a Spike/Buffy ship fic, but it's a Spike/Buffy ship fic would make me cringe and misses a whole lot of beats that makes the ship what it is.

Regarding the gay point, I'm not saying it's all about the gay. But I'm saying a whole lot are, and I'd avoid those.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

I basically want the fic to focus mainly on my ship, but I honestly don't care if they're endgame. I like angst and misery, so a messy breakup is fine. I just want the bulk to focus on the ship.

Depends.

[(Anonymous)]

On whether I like C and how they are utilized in the story.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[soldatsasha]

I'm really leery about reading anything with an A/B + A/C situation. I'm not a fan of love triangles, or messy break-up+rebound plotlines, or cheating, or anything like that. I'm here for A/B and that's what I want to see.

Buuuut, if A/C is the canon pairing then I generally don't mind some amount of background "former A/C" type stuff. Like I'm not going to back-button out of a Stucky fic because Steve spends a scene reminiscing about Peggy, you know?

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

I'm mainly going to be into A/B and want most of the focus to be there, but some A/C along the way is not out of the question, although it depends.

If A/C is a canon pairing, then it may be necessary to the story to end that relationship somehow before moving on to A/B. I don't mind it if the writer just ignores A/C entirely, but depending on the story, it might make more sense to just deal with it. I don't like it when this means trashing C, though, even if I don't particularly like C. It depends on the canon context and how the author handles it. Relationship breakdowns are fine, as long as it isn't portrayed as being entirely C's fault.

If A/C is not canon, including if C is an OC, but I don't ship A/C, it's still fine, but I don't want a story that's 99% A/C only for A and B to suddenly get together at the end. If I go looking for an A/B story, then want to read about the build-up to A/B and the interactions between A/B, not about A/C. Besides, stories that are mostly pairing A/C but with A/B as endgame tend to be about why A/C is so wrong for A and A/B is what's supposed to happen (but without putting in the work with A/B). If I only want A/B, then I want to read about why that pairing *should* happen, not why other non-canon (and sometimes canon) pairings *shouldn't* happen.

If I ship A/C in addition to A/B, then it's all good.

For the purposes of tagging, both pairings should be tagged in all cases.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[otakugal15]

It HAS to be pairing A/B by the end. I don't mind (much) if there's A/C going on in the beginning, but so long as the author makes A/B make sense by the end, then I'm good. I've read both happy transitions from A/C to A/B and rough transitions, so long as said transitions make sense.

If it's touted as an A/B story but goes A/C by the end, I'll be upset. I've ran across one or two of those over the years and it always sours me to those authors, no matter how goo they are.