Ships That Pass in the Night: Difference between revisions

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* Thanks to it's origins as a [[Shmup]], the vast majority of ''[[Touhou]]'' characters have never interacted or shown evidence of being aware of each other. Thus, almost all ''possible'' ships are like this. On the plus side, the fandom is fairly sane and prefers to ship people who at least have reason to know each other... though sometimes this takes the form of having adjacent stages in gameplay that may be miles apart in canon. Most exceptions tend to be bad jokes (eg. shipping the bug girl with the plant lady) or instances of a [[Little Black Dress]].

* The ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' fanfiction page has quite a few popular yaoi fics, a majority of them being about Kalas and Lyude, even though Kalas gives no indication of liking the latter, and vice-versa.

* The website ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' fansite ''[http://www.freewebs.com/srg-teamvirus/vampiricromance.htm Bleeding Beauty]'', devoted to the character Umah from ''Blood Omen 2'', makes a case for Umah/Magnus, two characters that never meet in the game (after considering pairing her with ''every other character in the game'').

* The website ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' fansite ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080613142938/http://www.freewebs.com/srg-teamvirus/vampiricromance.htm Bleeding Beauty]'', devoted to the character Umah from ''Blood Omen 2'', makes a case for Umah/Magnus, two characters that never meet in the game (after considering pairing her with ''every other character in the game'').

* [[Guilty Gear|Ky/Dizzy]], of all pairings, managed [[Official Couple]] status. Since the latter is incapacitated, they don't even interact much in the game that reveals this!

** That's fixed later, in some endings that have quite a bit of [[Ship Tease]]. I.e., one of them has Dizzy seeking for someone able to help her train and control her powers, and the one who gave her a hand on that was Ky.

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** Azula and Toph are starting to gain a small fanbase. The two only talk once, in the Day of the Black Sun, when Azula proves she can get past Toph's [[Living Lie Detector]] ability. This is due in part to [[Alternative Character Interpretation|popular fan theories painting them both as lesbians]].

** Some Zutarians like to ship off [[Deadpan Snarker|Mai]] with Jet, {{spoiler|Despite the fact that Jet's dead and they've never met.}} Though I won't limit it to just Zutarians or just Mai. Jet's really into complete strangers, some say...

** [http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2008/002/0/d/Crack_ship_JunSpark_by_AlisaChristopher.png June/Combustion Man] anyone?

** [http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2008/002/0/d/Crack_ship_JunSpark_by_AlisaChristopher.png June/Combustion Man]{{Dead link}} anyone?

** The Zutara ship started out this way. Yes, they ran into each other half a dozen times in the first season, but with the exception of one scene where Zuko trying to barter Katara's necklace for Aang, he never even spoke to her. The second season was even worse. It wasn't until the cave that Zuko and Katara had any real interaction with each other, but the Zutara ship was already running strong.

** June/Piandao is another one that's been appearing recently.

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*** Applejack's cousing Braeburn has appeared in one episode, and lives very far from everyone else, but since had lines, a discernable personality and is male, he appears in a lot of ships - though not only straight ones, but also to fill out the low yaoi quota in Ponyville and to be the one a main character tries to have a straight relationship with before they realise the prefer mares. Presumably he does a lot of travelling.

** Speaking of which Big Macintosh hasn't [[The Quiet One|spoken]] to many ponies apart from his sister, however since he is (other than Spike) the only recurring male character he gets shipped around a lot.

*** Twilight's misfired spell in "Lesson Zero" [http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:What_A_Lucky_Smarty_Pants.png gives Mac plenty of shipping fodder], but he still hasn't actually interacted with all that many.

*** Twilight's misfired spell in "Lesson Zero" [http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:What_A_Lucky_Smarty_Pants.png gives Mac plenty of shipping fodder]{{Dead link}}, but he still hasn't actually interacted with all that many.

*** A particularly popular Big Mac ship is Big Mac/Fluttershy. This is probably due to the fact that both are fairly quiet and seem to like nature, but they've never really interacted at all.

** Another popular ship is [[Foe Yay|Discord/Celestia]], due to the dialogue they ''do'' share, and the fact that Discord is the only other major character outside of Luna and Celestia that seems to be able to live several thousands of years. It has three groups dedicated to it on [[Deviant ART]].

** [[All There in the Script|Lyra Heartstrings]] and [{{[[[All There in the Script]] Bon Bon}} are seen together often enough that [http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-because-absolutley-all-of-the-fanbase-loves-shipping.jpg it gives the fans ideas].

** [[All There in the Script|Lyra Heartstrings]] and [{{[[[All There in the Script]] Bon Bon}} are seen together often enough that [http://chzbronies.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-brony-because-absolutley-all-of-the-fanbase-loves-shipping.jpg it gives the fans ideas]{{Dead link}}.

** An especially odd example (if only because of how popular it is) is the shipping between [[All There in the Script|DJ Pon-3]]/[[All There in the Script|Vinyl Scratch]] and [[All There in the Script|Octavia]]. It started with fans juxtiposing the two for humorous effect since they represent conflicting musical aesthetics, however the sheer amount of such fan art was enough to [[Shipping Goggles|get the gears turning]] for the community's shippers, to the point that a large chunk of fan art involving the two is now shipping art (as well as several fan fictions). DJ Pon-3 also has a growing Shipdom with [[Fan Nickname|Neon Lights]]/[[Fan Nickname|EmCee W1SH]], who in popular fanon is seen as another musician who has a friendly rivalry with DJ Pon-3. It should be noted that DJ Pon-3 has yet to appear in the same scene as either of her two most popular shipmates, only appearing in the same episode as Neon Lights in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E26 A Canterlot Wedding Part 2|the Season 2 finale]] and only appearing with Octavia in [[The Merch]].)

*** The writers have apparently decided to Throw It In -- season 5 reveals that Octavia and Vinyl are roommates, and at least occasionally work together to compose music and hold jam sessions. Whether they're siblings, platonic life partners, or actually in a relationship is still up in the air.