Hardly the good ship Lollipop

[gogmagog]

Because I am a sheep (and because I imagine those of you who are interested know which shows/games/comics I am interested in), a fandom meme.

Tell me a canon and I shall respond with my...

1. One True Pairing Ship:
2. Canon Ship:
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
4. "You are one sick bastard" Ship:
5. "I dabble a little" Ship:
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship:
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:

Comments

[braaaiiins.livejournal.com]

Buffy, X-Men, Persona 3.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Okay! I'll do this in three comments to keep them straight. First off, Buffy!

1. One True Pairing Ship: Oh god, I have to admit it: Spike/Buffy. I SWEAR I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE SPUFFY SHIPPERS, HONEST
2. Canon Ship: Willow/Tara, SO CUTE. (Also Kennedy can die in a fire, plzkthx.)
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Dawn/any of the Scoobies. NO, JUST...NO.
4. "You are one sick bastard" Ship: .....um, Angelus/Buffy. >_>
5. "I dabble a little" Ship: Xander/Anya (I can't get into it wholly because of the way Xander frequently treats Anya kinda crappily).
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship: Spuffy...er, guess I can't use that twice. Then Buffy/Faith, who totally had a lesbitastic thing going on circa "Bad Girls"/"Consequences" but it really never went anywhere once Faith went not evil anymore. D:
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Xander/Andrew, who would totally be the geekiest gay couple ever. Can't you imagine them arguing in bed over Spider-Man's true motives for do-gooding like Xander and Anya used to do, only more passionately heatedly?
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Giles/Anya; I basically ship them because of "Tabula Rasa" where they thought they were married, and there was never anything more between them, but GODDAMN THEY WERE SO CUTE, WHY DID THEY NEVER END UP TOGETHER. T_T
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Buffy/Angel, mostly because she's still ridiculously young and immature for the entirety of the time they're dating, and also because Angel was totally sucky and boring with his brooding on Buffy, and didn't get interesting until he moved over to Angel and had a chance to be made fun of (mostly by Cordelia, hence my total backing of any and all Angel/Cordelia pairings).

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

X-Men!

1. One True Pairing Ship: Cyclops/Phoenix/Wolverine OT3. With occasional reversion to an OTP every time one of the threesome appears to be evil and/or dead and/or replaced by their evil clone and/or is brainwashed and/or...
2. Canon Ship: Multiple Man/himself/himself/himself/himself... (Hey, they actually had a line in a comic a few years ago where Siryn talked about how she was sure he created dupes so he could sex himself up! Also there WAS that one gay Madrox dupe...) Or, more seriously, M/Synch before he died. D:
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Is it possible for this to be a ship that's already occurred? Because Cyclops/White Queen MAKES me want to stab my eyes out with a spork. She deserves so much better. D:
4. "You are one sick bastard" Ship: Xavier/Magneto. I mean, it's practically canon. Also Colossus/Illyana (Rasputincest?), given that in the Age of Apocalypse Peter TRAMPLED THE WIFE HE LOVED, KILLING HER, in an effort just to get to Illyana.
5. "I dabble a little" Ship: Rogue/Magneto. It happened in the Age of Apocalypse! ...and for that matter, it happened again after Rogue fled Australia through the Siege Perilous and they both ended up in the Savage Land.
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship: Iceman/Human Torch. For that matter, Northstar/Iceman. (Northstar's one-sided crush on Iceman was actually the one part of Northstar's story that seemed actually interesting and not just more "HAY I'M A GAY SUPERHERO, BY THE WAY DID I MENTION I'M GAY," and I'm STILL not convinced Iceman isn't gay, since they keep dropping hints and insinuations towards it.)
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Xavier/Lilandra, because I like the idea of Professor X dating the Shi'ar Empress, but it seems like that little spark of something that would make it interesting to me has just never happened. Ditto with Colossus/Shadowcat, which seems cute but has never quite caught me.
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Iceman/Rogue, mostly because Gambit leaves me cold (unlike Iceman, lololol), and Rogue and Bobby were totally cute together on that one roadtrip they took way back.
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Banshee/White Queen, which while I liked their interaction, thought it needed to stay UST rather than getting resolved. (Still, at least it was better than Scott/Emma.)

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

And finally, Persona 3!

1. One True Pairing Ship: Mitsuru/her strapon Akihiko/Shinjiro, lololol.
2. Canon Ship: Errr, there really isn't too much in the way of canon ships, so I'll have to go with Minato/"Maya" (hee hee hee). Also Minato/headphones!
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Mitsuru/Yukari, which I see fic for sometimes and NONONONONONO...also anything involving Ken or Koromaru.
4. "You are one sick bastard" Ship: ...I kind of like Minato/Aigis, even though it seems highly problematic on many levels (especially since for much of the game she would be like a 250-lb. animated RealDoll).
5. "I dabble a little" Ship: Minato/Kenji and Minato/Kaz, just because you get to have the most adorable bromances with them. XD
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship: Mitsuru/Junpei, which I kind of like but mostly because it would never happen and if it did it would involve lots and lots of horror on the part of just about anyone on discovering the attraction (Mitsuru and Junpei themselves not excepted).
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Yukari/Minato...they like each other and they are cute together, but they fit the same archetypes as Lisa/Tatsuya from P2 and I just cannot buy them together. (Also since P3 had no one fitting the Jun archetype, P4 had better as hell have one. T_T)
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Akihiko/Junpei, which made no sense to me but then I started reading fic and now I can't not think about how much sense it makes. ;_;
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Uhhh, Fuuka/anyone? I think Junpei/Fuuka and Minato/Fuuka seem to be popular, and I don't dislike Fuuka, but I don't really see her hooking up with any of the guys in SEES. (However, Fuuka/Bebe OTP y/y)

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Persona 2: Tsumi. :V

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Okay then! Although my answers to this will probably come as no surprise to anyone who's ever heard me talk about this game.

1. One True Pairing Ship: ZOMG TATSUYA/JUN OTP4EVA!!!1! Seriously, who doesn't love a sweet love story between an outwardly cool but inwardly dorky loner boy and a formerly-villainous occasionally psychotic and homicidal prettyboy who loves flower language and inventing orthopedic shoes? Also Eikichi/Lisa is a lesser OTP.
2. Canon Ship: Tatsuya/Jun is at least possible canon, but if I had to go with an undisputably canon ship then Eikichi/Miyabi; while I prefer Eikichi with Lisa, he and Miyabi clearly have mutual feelings for each other and manage to look past appearances to do so (even if this does lead her to be stupid and do things she shouldn't, argh).
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Ginji/Lisa. AUGH STEP AWAY FROM THE LOLI...also Nyarlathotep/Jun. NOOOOOOO NOT MY JUN-KUN
4. "You are one sick bastard" Ship: Tatsuya/Shadow Tatsuya/Philemon/Tatsuya!Nyarlathotep from EP. I REGRET NOTHING, FOUR TIMES THE SUOU IS FOUR TIMES THE SEXY
5. "I dabble a little" Ship: Tatsuya/Katsuya...this is actually probably more in the light of EP, but even in this game there's some stuff to work with. XD
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship: Really, doesn't this pretty much describe every relationship in that game? XD If I have to pick one, then Anna/Yukki if you don't bring Yukki with you into Caracol. So much more overt than the "good" Anna/Yukki route, but also a much more tragic ending. (I suppose one could invoke the "evil/dead lesbian" cliche, even though every time I hear that said I imagine a remake of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead with every character played by women.)
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Joker/King Leo. It intrigues me, and Leo seems canonically to have the hots for him if nothing else, but I'm not sure how far it would have gone (though to be fair, Sudou as a mirror of Tatsuya, down to the zodiac sign and the name, makes it more likely, and actually kind of tragic on Sudou's side, being used as a substitute for Tacchan).
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: Tatsuya/Eikichi...hey, you ARE given the option to say you're in love with him, even if Lisa doesn't buy it! Also weirder things have happened, especially in the Personaverse. (On the other hand Eikichi/Jun, while more probable logically, just seems so WRONG and much less likely to happen.)
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Tatsuya/Maya...shipping any of the Tsumi gang with her just seems wrong, she's like their mother! But especially Tatsuya/Maya, given how so much that comes out in the sequel between them could be read both ways but which if you've played this game just seems WRONG to read as romantic. It would be like incest, and not in the fun if slightly angsty Tatsuya/Katsuya way! (More like, um, Jun/Junko, which I know exists and which breaks me a little, deep inside.)

[eslington.livejournal.com]

Phoenix Wright!

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Haha, actually, despite owning the first game, I've only played the first case and half of the second. (Which is something that I DESPERATELY need to remedy in the near future.) So I don't really know it well enough to have enough ships for this meme yet. D:

Although from what I do remember, I wholeheartedly approve of Mia/Phoenix (even though that of course has that one big insurmountable problem of Mia's status) and Phoenix/Edgeworth (of course, in a much less friendly way). Also Gumshoe seemed to have a bit of a crush on Edgeworth, lol. Oh, also Phoenix and his childhood friend, what was his name, Larry Butz? They seemed kind of adorable together, despite Larry being a big loser. XD

[eslington.livejournal.com]

DROP EVERYTHING AND PLAY IT NOW. YES INCLUDING THAT MING DYNASTY NITROGLYCERYN BABY.

Seriously though.

I played Case 1 again recently, and yeah, I can kind of see Phoenix/Mia, even if I'm more for Nick/Edgey.
Then again Mia could probably interest anyone short of a 5.99999999 kinsey male.

Gumshoe gets a romantic interest later in the game, but I suppose there's some potential there. There's also the Edgeworth/Gumshoe game that's supposed to be coming out soon. :D

Don't see Butz at all myself. ^_^; Not even the suggestion that he's hilariously in denial and overcompensating or anything.

Well, let's go with the one I asked Dottie for.
Final Fantasies, I-X. (Even allowing for bizzare intra-universal crossoverships.)

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Haha, the PW pairings I mention are not necessarily pairings I saw canon support for, just ones I liked; Butz/Phoenix, for example, is more "awww, cute childhood friends who grew up together" and going by the general trend for osananajimi (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=104) to win in Japanese media, not necessarily implying that Butz seemed to be hiding a deep passion for Phoenix. XD

But okay then, FFI-IX it is!

1. One True Pairing Ship: Celes/Locke. It's kind of sad, I thought their relationship was the most romantic thing ever when I was like 11. (I still kind of do, in a Han Solo/Princess Leia kind of way, if Leia was even more badass.)
2. Canon Ship: Uhhh, Celes/Locke again? But I'll go with Cloud/Tifa, just because I always liked Tifa better than Aeris (who was too candy-sweet for me to like her much, though she did occasionally give Cloud grief, as is only right for EVERYONE to do). Also Cloud/Barret is kinda canon, lololol
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Relm/Interceptor or Relm/Shadow, which I keep seeing fic and fanart for and I'm like AUGH NO PEDO-INCEST OR PEDO-BESTIALITY FOR ME PLZKTHX
4. "You are one sick bastard" Ship: Kefka/Terra. I can't help it, the Empire pretty much raised her, and Kefka clearly must have had some kind of relationship with her, even if not romantic, and it just...I have no excuse, I'm sorry. (If Terra were the type to wear makeup, I'd say they could at least share makeup, but, er, she's not.)
5. "I dabble a little" Ship: Kain/Rosa...because of the unrequitedness of it and Kain's occasional evilness, I find this much more interesting than Cecil/Rosa, even though I like all three characters individually. Also Cloud/Zack goes under here.
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship: Quistis/Squall, which I like SO MUCH BETTER than Squall/Rinoa (which I hate with a fiery passion), but even I admit would not be particularly healthy, at least at the beginning. (Though you KNOW Squall's totally hot for teacher, hahaha.)
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship: Bartz/Lenna, mostly because while I love them both and think they're adorable together, I can't picture Bartz ending up with anyone but Boko (oh my God, is Squaresoft turning me into a fluffy?). Also Seifer/Squall, which has far too much gay subtext for there to be nothing there but which I can't seem to make work.
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship: My one crazy canon-crossover ship, Celes/Quistis. They're both brilliant tacticians who have had to grow up far too fast, and they're also both MADE OF AWESOME. And then Locke and Squall could cry over them in a bar, and emo over all their respective woes. ("You think you've got it bad, my last girlfriend DIED...and then she got better, but then a few minutes later she DIED AGAIN." "Oh yeah? Well, my entire family as a kid forgot me, and our foster mom tried to KILL us all, AND I apparently got brainwashed into a relationship with a selfish bint who hasn't got the brainpower of a mud wasp!" )
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Cloud/Sephiroth. WHAT...BUT...okay, I see the opportunities for a sort of love-hate relationship, but I just think Sephiroth is too much of a crazy genocidal mofo to have time for this. Also, Irvine/Selphie, because while I like them both individually and think they're cute together I can't see Selphie having time for his nonsense. (Ditto for Edge/Rydia.) XD