[ SECRET POST #2428 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2428 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 056 secrets from Secret Submission Post #347.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As a proposed solution to ship wars, OT3s are only a small step up from "There wouldn't be any ship wars if y'all just stopped shipping the wrong ship."

Otoh, OT3s are a fantastic solution to the following problems:

1) You love canonical couple A/B but one or both of them has excellent tension with character C that you want to explore without breaking up A/B. (Examples that fit this pattern for me: Elizabeth/Peter/Neal, Hardison/Parker/Eliot, Pepper/Rhodey/Tony, Bruce/Pepper/Tony, Pepper/Natasha/Tony)

2) You ship the A/B/C dynamic more than you ship any individual pairing within that threesome. (Examples: Allison/Isaac/Scott, Duke/Audrey/Nathan, Jack/Elizabeth/Will, Jess/Jules/Joe [Bend It Like Beckham])

3) You don't particularly like canonical couple A/B, but you think it's more plausible for them to enter into a threesome with C than for them to break up and for A/C to get together instead. (Examples: Marcus/Cottia/Esca [The Eagle of the Ninth], Kirk/Spock/Uhura)

4) You ship both A/B and B/C, but choosing just one of those pairings would make you feel too bad for the character who's left out. (Example: Bucky/Natasha + Natasha/Steve)

5) Not a problem per se, but: The OT3 in question is canonical. (Examples: Various rare book fandoms that I won't list because they're embarrassingly small.)

[(Anonymous)]

I basically ship Tony/Pepper as the hub of a polyamorous MCU relationship network. Because Tony has chemistry with basically everyone ever and Pepper has onscreen chemistry with Phil, Rhodey and Natasha, and potential chemistry with also everyone ever, so I will cheerfully ship them in linked circles with more or less the entire MCU. I also like Tony/Rhodey/Pepper as an central trio where Pepper also has friendships/friends-with-benefits with Phil and Natasha, Tony has a thing with Bruce (Bruce/Betty as the base, with Tony/Bruce and Betty & Pepper being friends), and Rhodey and Maria Hill have fantastic friends-with-benefits sex whenever they happen to be stationed remotely near each other. If you want to throw in Nick/Phil, Nick/Maria and Natasha/Steve or Natasha/Steve/Bucky in on the edges there, I won't say no to that either.

But then, I tend to think superhero canons are basically incestuously interlinked bundles of people in highly stressful situations who need all the sex and friendship they can get. So, you know. There's that. [See also: my shipping habits in X-men comicsverse, DCU comicsverse and DCAU cartoon universe]