5 OTPs from 5 different fandoms

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I was tagged by nilhmai but am totally ignoring the tag ten people bit myself because it's too hard. I have decided to define "OTP" as a pairing I not only like but am so invested in I find it hard to see the characters with other people. I'm generally a multishipper so these are rare!

Anne/Diana from Anne of Green Gables: I haven't consumed the canon in literal decades but it was deeply formative and I still feel a DEEP SENSE OF RESENTMENT any time I am reminded that Anne/Gilbert is canon.

Chell/GlaDOS from Portal: Have I mentioned how much I like robot/human femslash enemy ships?

Dave/Terezi from Homestuck: I don't ship it as hard any more due to canon shenanigans but ohhh did I love it in the day. I can ship them both with other people, but there will always be a small part of me going "But where is Terezi/Dave?" (LIKE SAY AT THE END OF CANON)

Leliana/Morrigan from Dragon Age: the ship I have the most works for at the AO3, even though they never liked each other much in canon and there's more supported f/f I could be shipping instead. And they got EVEN MORE PERFECT for each other in DAI, the subtle similarities I saw in Origins were teased out in really interesting ways. Shout-out to (Isabela/)Fenris/Mef!Hawke as the Dragon Age ship that consumed me the most emotionally.

Darcy/Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice: such a great example of an initially combatitive pairing that ends up genuinely perfect for each other. I have enjoyed so many versions of them getting together and am still enthusiastic at the prospect of more.

Honourable mentions: Root/Shaw from Person of Interest, Utena/Anthy from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Sam/EDI from Mass Effect, Ahiru/Rue from Princess Tutu, Mary/Anne from Pride and Prejudice, Zuko/Mai from Avatar the Last Airbender, Zen/Obi/Shirayuki from Akagami no Shirayukihime (mainly because I'm into it right now I don't know how I'll feel later), Magneto/Xavier from Xmen (probably my first m/m ship), and f!Shepard/Tali from Mass Effect

Comments

[cheshirenoir]

But but but GlaDOS is promised (PROMISED I say!) to S.H.O.D.A.N! :-)
(See http://egypturnash.deviantart.com/art/Code-Sharing-70773186 and http://egypturnash.deviantart.com/art/A-Healthy-Relationship-70747042 for why I might just think this. Safe For Work)

[tree]

I still feel a DEEP SENSE OF RESENTMENT any time I am reminded that Anne/Gilbert is canon.

WHAT

how did i not know this about you?? how will i recover from this terrible betrayal??

[tamsin]

Anne/Diana

Yes! Those two are so great together.

[rachelmanija]

Anne/Diana is a delicious pairing. It may not be canon, but it has a LOT of textual support and is written in a very romantic way. I read it as "Anne's crush is visible from space, Diana is clueless (but might get a clue if Anne kissed her.)" It's in the tradition of female "romantic friendships" which were a big thing at the time, and sometimes were romantic but platonic, and sometimes not platonic at all.

Have you read Montgomery's Emily books? Emily/Ilse have a somewhat similar dynamic in terms of "romantic friendships" (they literally sleep together) only Ilse is much more knowing. (I have written Emily/Ilse, but not Anne/Diana.)

[kiezh]

Do you have any f!Shepard/Tali recs? I adore Tali, and it was clear that she was very into Shepard regardless of gender. I'm sad they refused us canon f!Shepard/Tali, though maybe the writers would have mucked it up. :/ (I watched some of the m!Shepard/Tali romance on YouTube and was massively squicked by the fetishizing of her virginity and the attitude of "only unprotected penetrative sex counts as a Real Consummation of Love, despite the serious risks to Tali's health that involves!" Tali deserved so much better.)

EDI/Sam is awesome. Canon voice kink...!

[maramcreates]

Leliana/Morrigan

That's a great pair, I agree :) (I'm partial to Leliana/f!Cousland(/f!Warden) myself, but I can dig just about any Leliana/f pair short of Marjolaine)

The not liking each other in DAO never made any sense to me. I mean, I understand Morrigan having issues with Leliana (but that's because Morrigan had a hard time getting people and expressing herself in general), but not Leliana having issues with Morrigan (Leliana would have certainly have had no problem with Morrigan's opinions on the Maker). That element (the mutual 'dislike') was put there for the benefit of m!Wardens romancing either of them, in my opinion (and thus was lazy and sexist characterization on BioWare's part, to be honest).

In my headcanon, Leliana and Morrigan respected each other (at least eventually) and got along for the most part (with key issues regarding specific approaches to problems), which is how I tend to write them. They certainly have much more in common than most people realize, and I'm glad that DAI made a point of making some of those connections.