Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20141218201832/@comment-24993958-20150108195042

LiveandSound wrote: Jay Hart, I think the reason Jaune is shipped with everyone is because he has the qualities of an average Harem Shonen Anime Protagonist. That’s oversimplifying it mate, I mean yeah what you say is true and I could add to that how “safe” it is to pair Jaune with anyone on the show, but the Don Jaune phenomenon has been a pretty gradual process as far as I’m concerned.

Imagine, if you will, a dam to a lake, a very advanced damn that can open and send water to various canals leading towards every ship in the show. This, my friends, is the ship control dam. Every character in a show have their own dam locked inside their head, where you sort out which ships are cool enough that you are willing to let sail in the never-ending sea of your imagination. It’s here where you block access towards ships that rub you the wrong way, and where you let sail or bring back to port ships whose opinion have changed overtime, and where you grudgingly let open the waters on ships the show itself supports, not necessary because you want to, but because canon has a way of making holes in your dam… anywho, every character has one, and so does Jaune…except his broke at some point between the first hiatus and volume 2. Why you may ask?

Well first let’s look at volume 1, where Jaune had the canals leading to Pyrrha, Ruby and Weiss opened and, much to my shock, none of them where closed by the end of volume 2. Now let’s look at the 2 holes that formed into the dam by Yang and Blake, not because of canons canons, but because one was flirty and at the time more pairable and and the other had a real life canon with Jaune.

Then as volume 1 passed 2 more little holes got formed curtosy of Velvet and Cardin, which actually got pluged for the most part, until the first JauneXharem fic. Oh sure it starts simple, just him and 5 main characters, but then one get’s curios and wonders how Jaune and Penny would interact.

*hole* Then the speculations that Cinder and Jaune may have a conection due to the fire symbolism which eventually leads to shipping.*hole*Then we find out the Twins will come back in the show which releases a fresh wave of fanart and pairings.*hole**hole*Then Cinder apprentices get slightly fleshed out and receives the same treatment.*hole**hole*Then someone wants to pair nora with someone that wasn’t Ren and realize there was another guy living in the same room.*hole**hole**hole*

 And there is only so many holes one can have in a dam be…

*CRASH*

…fore it brakes…and now you are pairing him with anything and everybody.

The process varies from person to person but the gist of it is, it happened over time. It happened differently for most of us, but it happened eventually.