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seventheI'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT WORK, OTHER TO SAY THAT IT IS A SHIT SHOW!!!!!
So my brain is in that (bad) place right now where my only "comfort" (pronounced ironically) is knitting to Criminal Minds. I get this way occasionally; I've acknowledged it as a sign that my depression is [about to hit / hitting] hard, and I have ways to deal with that (namely, sleep until I forgot my own name), but in the interim: Criminal Minds and knitting it is.
In my own idle-brained way as watching the show I started thinking about how I want all these beautiful people to touch each other more - this is a core fundamental part of watching Criminal Minds, you know - and it got me thinking about fandoms in which I omni-ship the "team".
I'm not really in Criminal Minds fandom, but I read fanfic occasionally, and I don't have a pet pairing - sometimes I'm in the mood for one thing over another, but my favorite concept is the team together as one big omni-ship: an understanding between them all, where they can turn to one another for whatever it is that they need -- or whoever it is that they need. There's something about that kind of emotional setup that really, really appeals to me; and whenever I'm binge-watching the show and idly thinking about all the porn I should write, it's within that kind of context.
And that got me idly thinking about other fandoms in which I ship this way: FFVIII is one; Gundam Wing is another. Even FFIV I see as a chain of oddly-linked open pairings and threesomes: Rosa/Cecil, Cecil/Kain, Rosa/Cecil/Kain, Rosa/Rydia, Rydia/Edge, Kain/Edge, Rydia/Kain/Edge, all happily existing in the same place and on the same plane. STOP YOUR LAUGHING. STOP IT RIGHT NOW
Gundam Wing is pretty self-explanatory: G-Team of boys who end up paired off in all kinds of combinations at different parts of the story, with unique interactions to build on, that eventually learn to fight together: right up my gay, gay, alley. (DON'T TALK ABOUT MY GAY ALLEY LIKE THAT)
FFVIII is really just an omniship. Give me any pairing or threesome in FFVIII and I will make it work with canon justification: plain. as. that. Bam. Anyone, everyone. Anything, everything. It's a bag of marbles and I can just pick two or three and instantly see how they fit.
FFXII is kind of like FFIV, where it isn't a natural gangpile like CM or VIII, but where I see links of interacting, inter-tangled relationships across the board.
Weirdly, other fandoms aren't like that: FFVI, FFX, FFVII. I'm open to all ships but don't see the communal relationship thing quite as strongly.
Having identified this as something I am strongly, fiercely drawn to makes my original-fic concept (A MAGICAL GIRL PILOT, A LESBIAN WEREWOLF, AND A TRANS VAMPIRE EXPLORE SPACE WHILE MAKING OUT) make weird amounts of sense now.
Anyone have canons like this? Other omniships? Thoughts?
/back to the couch
So my brain is in that (bad) place right now where my only "comfort" (pronounced ironically) is knitting to Criminal Minds. I get this way occasionally; I've acknowledged it as a sign that my depression is [about to hit / hitting] hard, and I have ways to deal with that (namely, sleep until I forgot my own name), but in the interim: Criminal Minds and knitting it is.
In my own idle-brained way as watching the show I started thinking about how I want all these beautiful people to touch each other more - this is a core fundamental part of watching Criminal Minds, you know - and it got me thinking about fandoms in which I omni-ship the "team".
I'm not really in Criminal Minds fandom, but I read fanfic occasionally, and I don't have a pet pairing - sometimes I'm in the mood for one thing over another, but my favorite concept is the team together as one big omni-ship: an understanding between them all, where they can turn to one another for whatever it is that they need -- or whoever it is that they need. There's something about that kind of emotional setup that really, really appeals to me; and whenever I'm binge-watching the show and idly thinking about all the porn I should write, it's within that kind of context.
And that got me idly thinking about other fandoms in which I ship this way: FFVIII is one; Gundam Wing is another. Even FFIV I see as a chain of oddly-linked open pairings and threesomes: Rosa/Cecil, Cecil/Kain, Rosa/Cecil/Kain, Rosa/Rydia, Rydia/Edge, Kain/Edge, Rydia/Kain/Edge, all happily existing in the same place and on the same plane. STOP YOUR LAUGHING. STOP IT RIGHT NOW
Gundam Wing is pretty self-explanatory: G-Team of boys who end up paired off in all kinds of combinations at different parts of the story, with unique interactions to build on, that eventually learn to fight together: right up my gay, gay, alley. (DON'T TALK ABOUT MY GAY ALLEY LIKE THAT)
FFVIII is really just an omniship. Give me any pairing or threesome in FFVIII and I will make it work with canon justification: plain. as. that. Bam. Anyone, everyone. Anything, everything. It's a bag of marbles and I can just pick two or three and instantly see how they fit.
FFXII is kind of like FFIV, where it isn't a natural gangpile like CM or VIII, but where I see links of interacting, inter-tangled relationships across the board.
Weirdly, other fandoms aren't like that: FFVI, FFX, FFVII. I'm open to all ships but don't see the communal relationship thing quite as strongly.
Having identified this as something I am strongly, fiercely drawn to makes my original-fic concept (A MAGICAL GIRL PILOT, A LESBIAN WEREWOLF, AND A TRANS VAMPIRE EXPLORE SPACE WHILE MAKING OUT) make weird amounts of sense now.
Anyone have canons like this? Other omniships? Thoughts?
/back to the couch
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Date: 2015-08-04 10:02 pm (UTC)XII- LADIES OT3 (+Serah occasionally. And Hope. And Everyone) But Light/Fang/Vanille is actually my favorite ship, and usually an OT3 is one of the things not The Thing but here it is very much The Thing.
XIII- Pretty much anything and everyone, considering. Ashe/Basch/Balthier, Ashe/Basch/Vossler, Ashe/Balthier/Fran, Baltheir/Basch/Vaan, Balthier/Basch/Vaan/Vossler/Larsa, Vaan/Penelo/Basch (yeah, weird) and…yeah. Especially because I see Balthier/Fran as a open, poly-friendly “partnership”.
VIII- Hmm….I’ve always seen Squall/Seifer/Rinoa, and Squall/Seifer/Zell, but I’m open to others. (I have a little interest in Squall/Rinoa/Quistis, but I dunno if it’s ever been done. Oh, yeah, and the obligatory Big Gay Trio of Laguna/Ward/Kiros.
VII- This is one of my big ones. Cloud/Aerith/Tifa(+Zack) and even throw in Cid, Barret or Vincent. Of course Turks + Rufus.
VI- Everything. Seriously. Everything. Any combination of human PCs, with the exclusion of Gau and Relm, get this. (though Older!Gau/Sabin/Cyan has some appeal to me) in general any grouping that includes Celes/Terra or Sabin/Cyan (….or Edgar/Sabin don’t judge me) works. Some favorites include Terra/Celes/Locke/Edgar/Sabin/Setzer/Cyan. Yeah.
Yeaaaaahhhhhh
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Date: 2015-08-05 03:26 am (UTC)I LOVE THIS WHOLE LIST OK FFXIII was one I forgot, but I am definitely into big ships there!
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Date: 2015-08-05 01:56 pm (UTC)Yeah, don't forget Lightning's crew! XIII convinced me Fang/Vanille was canon, while Fang and Light had some delicious UST and then Lightning Returns solidified them as an ultimate OT3.
(I still haven't decided I feel about throwing in Serah, because I kind of go back and forth in seeing Lightning's feelings for her possibly going that way for her or not, but if you throw her in then you might as well throw in Snow, Hope, Noel....Caius...Yuel...Sazh...everyone but Dysley and Dajh, I suppose!)