[ SECRET POST #6071 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6071 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]



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[The Beach]
























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I'm gonna disagree with you. Yes, there are people who ship a pairing because the two have a great chemistry. But a large part of the fandom picks their ships based on the tropes they enjoy. Be it "friends to lovers", "opposites attract", "hero/villain" or just "two hot guys fucking", they'll find two characters that fit the best and proceed to ship with vigor, regardless of whether they have anything going on for them or if they even interact meaningfully at all.

The OP is absolutely correct, but they've missed a crucial component. The "chemistry" in this case doesn't actually mean chemistry between the characters, but how well the characters mesh with the trope. People find pairings hot because they find the trope hot. So when two characters embody a trope that doesn't appeal to them, they'll see it as the characters having no chemistry since it's not going the way they're interested in.

Which is why shipping characters who have canon prolonged, dry, boring interactions with no romantic potential at all is incredibly common and you'll see it in pretty much every fandom. Hell, my own current main otp is one such pairing and I ship them with burning because the idea of them together is scratching an itch for me.