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grimoriefor chaila
Forever OTPs! I have a few that gets on this level, these days ‘OTP’ gets tossed around for every pairing but I take my OTP classification seriously! I have levels of shipping that from ‘I ship it’, ‘I ship it but I can still see them with other people’, ‘OTP but I can see them with other people before ending up together’, and finally the golden: ‘OTP to end all OTPs’ where no matter what universe, what timeline they must/should end up together.
In fact, I think only two ships only made it to this level: Lois Lane and Clark Kent, Elizabeth and Darcy.
I didn’t even realize Elizabeth and Darcy reached OTP to end all OTPs until I watched ‘Lost in Austen’ where an Austen fan crashes into the world of Pride and Prejudice, switching places with Elizabeth and then Darcy ended up with the fan. I reaaaally got my back up then, and went: “Oh no, you did not!”
I was so angry, I was happy for Elizabeth in the modern world, but I am not happy about Darcy ending up with anyone but Elizabeth!
I didn’t get why fangirl didn’t end up with Wickham since they were getting on really well and pushing her to Darcy seemed force and only done for wish fulfillment. Then, in the comics world, they broke-up Lois and Clark and on top of everything they did with the Darker and Edgier New 52 I dropped DC comics (all of them— that’s how much it annoyed and angered me) until Prime Clark and Prime Lois came back with a son, and I felt like all was right in the world again!
And this is the only part I’m glad the TV and movies were not in sync with comics canon and kept Lois and Clark together, because to me they are the Gold Standard, and one of my formative childhood influences. I latched on to them and never let go, and the thing is, I don’t just ship them because they’re together in my childhood. It’s because the canon supports them. Especially in TV canon from Lois and Clark the TV show, but also in Smallville, where the anvils can drop at any moment, and yet they made Lois and Clark as a pairing a really fantastic slow burn romance, and why they work together as working partners and romantic partners.
They did it in such a way, that I can’t buy them being with another person long term. Lois and Clark work. They have similar core beliefs that power them and give them strength, they like each other, which is something that shows with love stories always fail to take account. There’s being in an end of the world scenario, proclaiming unending love, and there’s being together everyday and liking each other. A lot of the time, they fail at that. And, that’s one major element that can make me ship characters, that they genuinely like each other, being together, and supporting each other, and even when they fight, they never lose sight of that.
For some reason sitcoms and dramas think constantly being angry with each other has the makings of a good relationship. It’s not, and if a pairing has that, it instantly has my vote, along with something extra that tips them over into the OTP zone.
