[ SECRET POST #5610 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5610 ⌋

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Comments

[pantswarrior]

There have been exactly two instances where an OT3 works for me, where it was suggested and I thought about the canon and went "...Huh, yeah, actually that seems like it could work."

Every other time I've seen an OT3, it seems like I'm not even sure why any TWO of the three characters would get together with each other, let alone all three. So I kinda get you there. (Obviously with a good writer who has a good plot, I'm not going to say that they could never ever make any given throuple work, and sometimes even if it doesn't make sense it can be kind of amusing, but that's... often not the case.)

[(Anonymous)]

Same! I don't like 'OT3!' as a catch-all fix for 'A/B or A/C?' ship questions... a lot of times it just does not work for me-- sometimes because the B/C feels forced or out of character, other times because I just don't see that set of characters going for it. But, there are a couple of throuples that I do honestly love and feel like they WORK.

(love your use of appropriate icon, btw)

[pantswarrior]

Hahah yeah, I figured I had to use one of the two. (Cecil/Rosa/Kain from FFIV is the other one...)

See that's the thing, I don't even see it so often as "this is my solution to ship wars", more like "I'm going to take three random characters who are never even all in the same scene in canon and ship them" which strikes me as ... random. But okay, do whatever, I just am not likely to read it unless someone I know has good taste does and tells me "Actually there is a plot with which they made it make sense!"

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of couple-shipping has exactly that Bash Two Semi-Random Characters Together vibe. OT3's aren't unique that way.

[pantswarrior]

Yep, I don't tend to read those either. It's just a strange phenomenon I've noticed with OT3 fic, possibly just in my fandoms - people who write couples, the most-written couples are ones that have some kind of basis for them, though there definitely are occasional random things. But then the most-written threesomes are like a hyper-exaggerated version of "pair the spares".

[(Anonymous)]

My big OT3 is Alan/Ellie/Ian from Jurassic Park, but Cecil/Rosa/Kain... yeah, I get that. They would work.