Thread:Angel Emfrbl/@comment-31195725-20190926104050/@comment-53539-20190930193101

The pair were going to be shipped as twins, and overseas CFM still do, but CFM also abandon them because producers tended to try and have their relationship open. Having a romantic relationship between two characters becomes awkward when their shipped as twins, as it implies incest. Nowadays, so long as it complies with TOU its not going to be shunned.

Okay so I admit, I had to look up that Pripri thing.

I've seen this with the MLP fandom as well, for example Scootaloo has a pair of "aunts" living together, however, this has been common for years in some countries that two sisters will live together. At the same time if two people are in a relationship, they are generally accepted as family, so "aunts" also can imply "one sibling and their partner" to a parent. Later on another relationship is revealed in the final episode that had two meres living togehter that displayed no relationship prior then rivalary. Obviously, I'm not going to spoil the ending of a series here. But it could also mean one of the two left home because their sibling got married and was starting a family as well.

A lot of companies don't mention relationships that are official be it straight, lesbian, etc because romance can get in the way of telling a story. A lot of writers are aware fans ship characters and will either keep things vague for the sake of fans or confirm/deny the relationship at all because of how popular it is. In my time in the fandom when I was younger if fans weren't shipping themselves with a character they shipped their two favourite characters the most, even if the two hated each other. The argument is "opposites attract", though in reality two people with little in common are in a doomed relationship. The other habbit of shipping is "OMG she/he looked at that character, I must SHIP THEM!!!!" which is annoying as hell. When you consider teens especially have no idea about what is involved in a relationship to work or how long term relationships begin, its cringe worthy. I've only seen more cringe worthy stuff from housewife romance, but thats written for stay at home housewives who can't get out to experience more then lives given them, and it plays on their feelings of wasted chances due to having a married life.

At the end of the day, when I reached about 21 I grew to hate shipping because it pretty much was taking up most of places like Fanfiction.net. I noted that no matter what the show was about, fan-fiction amounted to either a romance or some other half-baked idea, with many stories leaving me thinking "did we watch the same show". Ideas like Fallout Equesteria were rare and unheard of in some fandoms.

The biggest issue is that most of the time, fans sadly take a fraction of the source material and go with it, I can't remember which character it was but someone once pulled up that in season 1 of a show a character played and was bad at darts. The fans picked up on this 4 minute scene and wrote entire stories that mentioned that. A particular critic, I forget who as this is going back to about 2004 I believe (it might be movie bob), pointed out that this 4 minute scene was being used to define an entire character, but all other traits of that character were being ignored including what he is good at. Its as if the fans took 1 detail they grasped and ran with it and just ignored all the rest of the series on who he was.

So, when you have to talk about shipping, you have to also bare in mind... This rule applies to ships. It doesn't matter that Character A has family, career, a cat, etc, they are shipped with Character B whose family, career, dog, etc doesn't matter. Its all about the shipping of two characters and nothing about who those characters are.

Lets just say, I'm fully aware of how most ships go, I don't like the idea of gate keeping and I tend to only say things like this to prove a point, but when your on the net for pretty much 2 decades... You notice how things change but at the same time stay the same. I see the same level of treatment in modern fanfiction references as those in my first serious fandom Beyblade in 2001. When I first entered the internet, I did see a lot of fans debating on things like "who could beat Superman" (summed up answer; depends of which version of Superman is on the table and what version of the character your throwing at him can do). But generally, honry fans had their fair share of a lot of debates (though in comic fandoms, it was a lot more horniness at the time and a lot less shipping, unless its something like Batman/Superman and Wonder woman level of fan debate).