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I figured you guys would be able to give me some pointers on this. :T

I'm writing an original fictional work and there are two characters that are popular with the shippers. The thing is, I don't like this pairing and would like to discourage it. As I said, this isn't based on another work, so it's not a matter of me just hating the pairing in general. These are two original characters and as the author/creator, I just don't feel comfortable with this pairing and would prefer seeing the attention given to something more plausible (the characters in question hardly even interact with each other and hate each other's guts, for one).

I know people are going to ship whatever they feel like, but is there any way I can discourage this even in the slightest? Has something ever happened in a fandom you're in that caused you to "abandon ship?" ~~I'm so sorry for the puns~~

Discouraging will only encourage. Just ignore it. You have very little control over what people ship, and that's really as it should be.

Just write the scenario you want to happen. I wouldn't try too hard to discourage it because it might come off as ship bashing, which turns me off to a story even if I agree with the sentiment. Maybe you could put your pairings or gen in the tags if you can.

Only thing that turned me off a ship was, well. The fans of said ship being shitty.

That said, I'd just ignore it as best I could if I was you, since people will ship what they ship.

*shrug* I get the frustration but I don't think you can discourage shippers. JKR once made a statement that she didn't think certain characters were suited to one another. I'm fairly certain people still bash her and ship them to this day.

As a creator of original works I getcha. I have a few ships that I'd hate if people shipped too. One because it's twincest, two because it's adult / child and a big point attempted to be made in the story is that it's actually creepy as fuck. Third is more conditional, I wouldn't mind people shipping it AU before or disregarding a certain event...but if people shipped it after an event involving love potion and said the guy should get back with the girl, I would have no problems saying why I think that's wrong, twisted and fucked up.

So eh...I guess that sorta makes me a hypocrite in a way.

I don't think there is a single solitary thing you can do. Just do what you would have done anyway and pretend you don't know about the shippers.

Oh, you can sink ships. There just aren't many ways to do that without sacrificing the story I'm assuming you want to actually tell.

Oh, I hate when writers do that because it seems like authorial intrusion to me. I'd say forget it and focus on where you want to go. Pandering or ship crashing don't typically make for good writing anyway.

Once you put those characters out there, your readers are going to ship them however they want to and there isn't a whole lot you can do to stop it.

Thank you all for the advice. I figured ignoring the shippers was the only thing I could do without causing any harm, so I'll continue doing that. One of the characters in question is a minor one who isn't important to the plot in the first place, but I won't do anything bad with her just to spite the readers. I'll just leave her alone and only mention her if she's relevant to the original plot. I'm not sure why this pairing is so popular, but I'm assuming it's because the two of them are so antagonistic to each other and the shippers assume they're tsundere or something of the sort. To each his own, I suppose.

Pretty much. A lot of people just like that dynamic. -shrugs-

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