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⌈ Secret Post #748 ⌋

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[Teen Titans. Blue Beetle. Red Devil.]

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[Professor Layton, Persona 4]

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["Goddamn 00"]

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Boy does this make me nostalgic. :")

If I recall correctly (and I'm no inside authority on the subject, but I happened to acquire a fondness for that pairing around when it first popped up, so I think I have a good idea of how it got started) it kind of cropped up accidentally in spring '05 when

blue_phlox posted a couple of pieces of art that they'd randomly drawn of that pairing to

lower_tadfield, and

air_and_angels wrote a mid-length fic partially inspired by said artwork. Around the same time a pair of roleplayers who'd just started playing Famine and Pollution in a general fandom rp stumbled across the same art and ended up being inspired by it to incorporate the pairing into their roleplay. They posted a fair bit of F/P fic to lower_tadfield and it just kind of snowballed from there.

I think back in the day people generally read that first fic and the rp, started to like the pairing, and wrote their own fanfic? So it's probably mostly a matter of people happening to like the way the characters and their (yes, absolutely) canonically nonexistent relationship were developed in fic and fandom in general and getting into the pairing from that. (Although I'm sure some people are just in it for the nubile men.)

/tl-dr
Yup, it's a totally fanonical pairing that kind of accidentally snowballed into existence. No doubt certain fanfics happen to push the buttons of some people (me of four-years-ago, for instance) and made them acquire a fondness for the pairing, and for others it just doesn't turn their crank. Different strokes for different folks and all that. I hope no one's jumped on you for wondering about the relative popularity of this pairing though. (I love the pairing, but it *is* totally random.)
<:

Incidentally I haven't been in GO fandom for years so maybe the F/P fans are totally different now and this is of no interest to you? All I have to offer is how the pairing pretty much got started. :)

That was actually a really interesting story. Thanks.

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