The question I thought most illuminating for ME was the one about "in CANON, these two characters have...," which showed just how much I like my pairings to hate each other -- to start out. Of course, that's just traditional romance fun, isn't it? Every Harlequin romance ever written begins that way. I guess I haven't changed much from my preteen days. How sad.
I think most pairings I enjoy reading are "one character good/one character bad/reformed/on-the-way-to-being-reformed." I still like the bad boys (in fantasyland). Again, I haven't changed. Damn, I am so immature.
Yeah, I was interested in seeing how many people's ships were antagonistic to each other at one point. I, for one, most often fall for ships in which the characters are friends, or drawn to each other in some way, rather than the old romance trope of being antagonistic, on opposite sides, and whatnot. But having recently fallen for shipping two dudes who hate each other, I began to wonder how much that factors into who we ship. I still don't quite understand what draws me to the ships I'm into, but hey, who does.
And anyway that's not immature. For instance, lots of girls feel that way in a fantasy sense, but not in real life. Or! Like Anne, "like it if he could be wicked, and wasn't." Which I think is only being fair to our deep dark incomprehensible desires!
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I think most pairings I enjoy reading are "one character good/one character bad/reformed/on-the-way-to-being-reformed." I still like the bad boys (in fantasyland). Again, I haven't changed. Damn, I am so immature.
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And anyway that's not immature. For instance, lots of girls feel that way in a fantasy sense, but not in real life. Or! Like Anne, "like it if he could be wicked, and wasn't." Which I think is only being fair to our deep dark incomprehensible desires!