Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-24993958-20141102181715

AnonymousReader wrote: Why do people pair up characters who havent even met each other in the show? And if I get it right, this is basically a naval roleplaying thread about relationships in an anime universe? I think im going to try being a voice of reason, unless I am getting flamed for it. It’s a defense mechanism. Most shippers have a favorite ship, a flag ship if you will, and nothing would make them happier than for that ship to become canon…and by canon I mean official, not armed to the teeth. Consequently, the worst thing that could happen to their ship is for it to become…let’s not say impossible… for something to happen that would cause the ship to sink, and the easiest way for that to happen is for at least one of the members of the pairings to hook up with someone else. As a result, anyone that is a shipper, hard or softcore, has gotten into the habit of pairing anyone that they see in order to ensure they don’t pair up with someone in their ship, basically try and fix a problem that isn’t there yet…it works about as well as you’d expect but nobody said shipping is a sane pastime.