Meme: Make me Choose

[extrapenguin]

I am trying to write a Yulefic. I am procrastinating. Please help me procrastinate more productively:

Make me choose between:

• two ships
• two characters
• two fandoms
• two anything at all

Meme provided by journalmemes.

(Fandoms include: A:tLA, A:LoK, Guardian (镇魂), Honor Harrington, Imperial Radch, Modao Zushi, Nirvana in Fire, Revelation Space, Rivers of London, KOTOR, KOTOR II, Vorkosigan)

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I like the stupidly loyal stubborn types, so Xiao Jingyan! Very honorable, very good, cries prettily. Lots to like!

While neither threesome is something I would ship spontaneously, I prefer the idea of Breq/Mercy of Kalr/Seivarden, since that involves two spaceships, and would thus be interesting from the AI participant perspective and the disembodied existence perspective! Beverley/Peter/Nightingale, on the other hand, doesn't have those draws, and the way the fandom writes and speculates about it just doesn't click with me.

[anehan]

Jingyan really is the best. I love him.

Ah, I'm glad to hear someone else say that Beverley/Peter/Nightingale doesn't click with them. It just doesn't do anything for me. I wouldn't ship Beverley/Nightingale spontaneously, either, but I think I could like it in certain situations. I think the main reason that I don't enjoy Beverley/Peter/Nightingale is because I don't really like Peter/Beverley.

[extrapenguin]

I used to ship Peter/Nightingale, but now I'm more of a gen fan, as the canon ... hasn't been providing me with stuff that makes me ship. I don't ship Beverley/Nightingale or Peter/Beverley, either, so of the triangle, I half-ship one side and am bleh to indifferent on the other two sides, and then it just doesn't work. It's also been pushed a lot by people as the "solution" to a nonexistent ship war, which makes me go meh.

[anehan]

Canon has actually surprised me with how few scenes there are of Peter and Nightingale directly interacting, considering that they're supposed to be working together, not to mention the whole apprentice thing. I still ship them, but that lack of canon material does make it a bit challenging.

[extrapenguin]

I think they interacted a lot more in the early books, but now they've been cordoned away from each other, and Aaronovitch is writing about stuff other than magic learning and the apprenticeship. Perhaps there'll be a pivot back to the mutual figuring out of the magical apprenticeship and agreement enforcing, once the Faceless Man plot is done and Lesley's off doing something else?

[anehan]

Also, hmm, I don't really see how a threesome could be a real solution to any ship war, if there had actually been one, because a threesome is inherently a very different dynamic from a twosome.

[extrapenguin]

Indeed, it's not an actual solution, but some people like threesomes and think it's a solution, or have been brainwashed into believing it's a solution. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯