Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-24400457-20140415151327

@TDA, you're probably right there but I can't help but find it tedious to here people shipping characters that they quite literally know nothing about. The reason ships like Tauradonna or even Bumbleby exist are because people ship characters based on what they believe they know, or just because they can. You shipping Jaune/Goggles just because Goggles will likely play to the tomboyish commando/engineer archtype is a prime example. Can we not just wait until Volume 2 and actually let Monty characterise her and THEN try and find sensical matches. Without a weapon or any real appearance or personality I HIGHLY doubt we will see any fanfictions that explore her character heavily until then anyways. All this is is wasted optimism.

Sure some of the work, perhaps not from a canon perspective, but they definately work and have been a major theme in a large amount of high quality fanfics BUT the majority of them. The three ships I seldom see being shot down or rejected are the three ships that could actually make sense in the RWBY world moving forward. White Monkey, Arkos and Noren. Nothing else, as of now, can be considered a sensible ship. Sure White Monkey is towing the line on that one but it's certainly more feasible than White Rose, Bumbleby, Nuts and Dolts or Jaune/Goggles at this point in time.

@XDex, I can understand... well I can't obviously since as a Bumbleby shipper it's not exactly a problem for me, but I can at least see why it would be an issue. Sadly I have yet to find any real fanfictions of the quality that most Bumbleby are at that don't ship. I'm Not Perfect, Tell Me Something and Team WRBY probably come closest. And I've never seen a Blake-centric fic that didn't ship one of those be exceptional either. I attempted to write a decent (relatively) Blake-centric fanfic shipping Ladybug but I wouldn't personally consider to be up there, it's a little too angsty to be.