Fannish Friday: Do I even have OTPs??????????

[lirazel]

I was reading ruuger's thoughts about OTPs over on Mastodon, and I had a sudden, shocking thought: I don't know that I have any OTPs in the truest sense of the word?

For every single ship that I absolutely adore (faves: Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, Gen/Irene, Kamet/Costis, Youngshin/Junghoo, Buffy/Spike, Winter/Alex, Lord Peter/Harriet, Julie/Maddie, Evie/Rick, etc.), I don't think I really have OTP feelings? Because even with the ones I would have been DEVASTATED if they weren't together in canon (see: all of the listed above except Spuffy), I'll still happily ship at least one of them with other people in fanfiction.

Now, I won't always ship both halves of the pairing with others even in fanfiction. I love Wei Wuxian/Jiang Cheng and I can even get into Wei Wuxian/Wen Qing under the right circumstances. But I just cannot accept Lan Wangji/anyone else. I just don't believe he'd ever love anyone else. My brain totally rejects it. In modern AUs, I'm fine with him having dated other people, but even there, I don't believe he's really loved any of them. Like, sorry! But that's entirely about who LWJ is as a person, not about the ship itself.

I have wracked my brain and literally the only pairing I can think of where I'm like, "No. Not even in fanfic. If I even think of them with anyone else, I will start frothing at the mouth with anger" is...

Nick and Nora Charles.

Make of that what you will.



How about y'all? Do you have any pairings you will only accept together?

Comments

[sunshine304]

I think mine is indeed Wangxian. XD I have fic where one or both of them have dated other people but WangXian is always endgame and has to be for me to read the fic. XD I also have read very few where usually WWX starts out being in a relationship with another canon character or starts something with one (often MXY, I think there also was some NHs or WQ, oh and that one fic with Qin Su), but I'm not shippy about it and it's basically only one step on the road to getting to WangXian. XD

Pretty much with anyone else in CQL/MDZS, I'm fine with multi ships, like I can read 3zun/NieLan/XiYao, Jiang Cheng in severel ships, or even JYL with someone else if it's written well, or f/f pairings... IDC. But WangXian must be endgame. I can't accept anything else. XD

I'm not defensive about it, though. And I can see why people enjoy shippijng WWX with other characters; it works for his personality. I find it funny though that almost no-one can seriously see LWJ with anyone else, though. XD It really is very much down to LWJ's character and the person that he is.

I wasn't so super OTP about my other ships in my old fandoms. There were some I definitely preferred, but usually I didn't mind exceptions if the story was interesting.

[lirazel]

I find it funny though that almost no-one can seriously see LWJ with anyone else, though. XD It really is very much down to LWJ's character and the person that he is.

Right??? We all agree: WWX is the only one for him!


I wasn't so super OTP about my other ships in my old fandoms. There were some I definitely preferred, but usually I didn't mind exceptions if the story was interesting.

I get this. Wangxian is such a good ship. Such a good ship!!! One of my all-time favorites for sure.