User blog comment:ObiWanCokeNosey/Someone want to explain something to me?/@comment-25396609-20150422224048

I have a rather odd mindset when it comes to shipping. once it has been confirmed (in-show or by word of god) that a pairing is/will-be cannon (such as Arkos), i become effectively incapable of accepting any other pairing that involves those characters, with the exception of pairings that are specifically pre-canon-ship or post-cannon-ship, with post-cannon-sjips needing to have a good reason for the breakup, it has to be natural.

on the other hand, if characters have no such confirmed future-cannon relationships, my subconcious will compare&contrast individual characters and decide whether or not i think they would work out, at which point i lock those into the same state as the confirmed-cannon ships, (as I have done with MercuryxYang, some of you are already familiar with my opinions on that pairing)

at the same time, if i have already locked a pairing in by my own headcannon, even the cannon/word-of-god confirmaton will not dislodge it.