Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-2.96.106.45-20131022215901/@comment-226878-20131026044855

TL;DR (too lazy so I didn't read)

Generally more girls equals more lesyay and the more boys the more hoyay. Another rule is that the harder two characters fight against each other, the harder they are shipped as in Cloud x Sephiroth and Ruby x Weiss. Sometimes characters are shipped just to give them something to do. For example, Blake and Yang haven't had a lot of screentime, so fans make up for it by coupling them offscreen. An important factor to any ship be it ever so ludicrous is that it contain some interesting dynamic. Generally, we need to know a bit about a pair of characters before that's possible. But even someone we haven't seen much of like Crimson can be shipped. I don't know if there's currently any lesyay pertaining to Crimson or hoyay regarding Torchwick (I assume anything would be relegated to him and Ozpin or his henchmen from Ep1 or maybe Junior, or for non-hoyay, him and Ruby or Glynda).

Another popular one is any kind of incestyay so there would likely be something about the Malachites macking on each other. It's got the incestyay-lesyay double-whammy bonus.