[ SECRET POST #4155 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4155 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same - although then I feel bad for always writing the villain reforming to some extent, because it feels cooler and more complex to do it the other way. But I don't think it is really :/

I guess it depends what you think they both see in each other. Your secret describes pretty well what I think could happen in such ships (it's also basically my crack). If neither of them change their ideologies, then it's pretty difficult for the hero to go on being a hero, which is going to be difficult if the hero was the kind of person who was very into the idea of doing something right - T'Challa, for example, is into protecting his people so he could not possibly stand by and let them suffer. So he'd have to put that above any feelings he had - so you're going to write a lot of unrequited fics. If you can even justify a relationship that goes against such a fundamental character trait.

Either that - or it is a physical attraction only, which is dull.

Or the hero gives up his herodom... and therefore what does the villain see in him? I'd think in a lot of cases the attraction is in the passion for doing what's right.

Anyway. Basically - THIS.

Including T'Challa being pretty :)

[(Anonymous)]

Yesssss, but that inherent potential for tragedy makes these ships so sweet, wouldn't you say? ;)

As stated in the secret, I stan heroes and so am extremely resistant to the idea that such a character would lose their heroic core (it might get a little tarnished now and again, but should always remain). So I agree, in these stories it seems more reasonable for the villain who to bend -- in a realistic way, if possible. It works out in more optimistic settings, like say the MCU.