[ SECRET POST #2608 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2608 ⌋

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[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/C79hTq3.png

[thecrazyalaskan]

This is what you do, OP-- make a game of it. Get some of your mutual fandom friends together, write down the names of all the characters in your fandoms and throw them in a hat and start drawing two slips at a time and seeing what weird ships you can spawn. Bonus points if someone starts to legit ship it. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

I did that with a friend once. We also threw in a seperate hat for tropes, picking two characters and a trope, so they become kind of like prompts. I still have the lists, and couple of unfinished fics from those.

Even if most of them will never be written, it was a ton of fun, I recommend it.

[(Anonymous)]

I do this, but instead of fic or art I just write essays describing how each pairing would work. Never to see the light of day (nor even the Internet).

[(Anonymous)]

Hero/Villain! Loves me some Hero/Villain. Oh yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

This may seem like an odd place to ask, but I've never personally got into hero/villain -pairings, so I was wondering what you specifically like about them?

/curious anon

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Depends on the specific pair. Sometimes I want something twisted and unhealthy and intense from the pair, to live through those darker but still compelling emotions vicariously (most of my MCU Loki pairs). Sometimes I want a redemption story where the hero side gradually draws the villain out of the hole they're in (most of my OUAT Rumplestiltskin pairs). Sometimes I want an exploration of two people who love each other on a personal level but are ideologically opposed to the point of being mutually exclusive (Charles/Erik, Harry/Marcone, several of my enemy/enemy pairs from crime or war fandoms). Sometimes I want something that's a hell of a ride but ends in tears, sometimes I want something I think might actually go somewhere healthy eventually, sometimes I want something tragic and star-crossed, and sometimes I just want something gloriously fucked up like no tomorrow.

Depends on the pair, depends on the mood. There's a lot of variation in hero/villain pairs, depending on the characters and the canon circumstances.

[(Anonymous)]

(original anon here)

Yeah, I like all of those things, too. I just couldn't think of them, ha! Probably says a lot about my preferences that I went straight to "POWER GAMES" in my answer. :)

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Thanks for replying, and with such details! :) Most of those reasons you listed don't really appeal to me, but I think I could maybe get behind the ideological differences one? And I kinda could get behind if the fics would explore other being really angry for falling for the other (I don't know if that's a thing that happens??).

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Hmm. I've never thought about it in too much depth before, so bear with me!

I think it has something to do with the fact that, in fiction, I'm into relationships that feature power games and a lot of aggression. Hero/Villain pairings lend themselves really well to that sort of dynamic. I also really, really like the idea that two people who should hate each other, who have every reason to hate each other, are also so deeply attracted to one another that they reach a point where they can no longer fight it.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yay, thanks for replying! :) I'm personally more into balanced relationships, so that might be it.

I also really, really like the idea that two people who should hate each other, who have every reason to hate each other, are also so deeply attracted to one another that they reach a point where they can no longer fight it.
Though, I have to admit, holy smokes that sounds hot, if properly explored.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS. All of everything posted on this subject actually. Hero/Villain is so good.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, I like the dual lives kind. Where they like each other/fall in love in their "normal" life and then find out that they are enemies in the other, and how/if they get passed that!

[(Anonymous)]

Past* Oh my God.

[(Anonymous)]

I live and breathe odd pairings. Idk, to me it's always been more about picking some characters and going "How would these two meet? (if they haven't in canon) How would they get to talking? Why would they decide to keep seeing each other (or would they just always randomly end up in same places)? How would they fall in love? What would they love about each other? How would the people around them view their relationship? What would their relationship change?" And some characters together just really click with me, and some don't.
This is how I ship things. Sometimes it's popular pairings, more often it's not.

But yeah, keep on doing what you do best, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Did I write this secret in my sleep? Because this is totally what I do too. I practically always start off shipping one of the big pairs in a fandom, then once I get my fill of it, so to speak, I start thinking more and more about rarer and rarer pairs...

[(Anonymous)]

I need some examples there OP

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I get it.

I've been in the Teen Wolf fandom so long I incited a Derek/Deputy Parrish ship. One's a very minor character from the new season and the two have never even spoken. But by god I will make it work because it will be hilarious.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me? I've been in the same fandom for more than five years. I went from the big popular hero/villain pairing to literally all of those options and now I'm happily settled in my villain/villain pairing niche. :')