More EXO OTPs

Jul 04, 2012 22:32

Sort of requested by moriko_chan I guess, and I thought I'd probably end up talking about it anyway sooner or later since I want to write all 66 so this is something kind of like the mini OTP pimp post I did earlier which I swear wasn't even supposed to be for any other purpose than for chibitenten and moonhunter666 to get more familiar with EXO and the OTPs I shipped lol.


The pimp post before was one of all my main OTPs, my preferred OTPs, my favorite OTPs, however you call it. But with EXO, I just feel like it'd be a missing experience if you try the approach I had with Orig3 which was to just sail a certain ship to the end and think of all the others as plot devices/bromance/friendship. There's 12 people in EXO and if you're going to sail certain ships to the ends of the earth, I feel like you'd be fighting miserable fanwars for a good part of their career. It might be weird if you're the kind of person who likes very established OTPs, but my ultimate bias band is MBLAQ okay - the band who doesn't even bother with OTPs and goes straight for the OT5 orgy.

So these OTPs aren't my favorites even though I love them all and I want to write them all one day soon. I also love all the different dynamics they have and since they aren't my main/preferred pairings, I don't really have as much err - data? - of them as I do with XiuHan, TaoRis, BaekYeol, and KaiSoo, but I do have some of their most famous OTP moments saved.

HunHan (Sehun/Luhan): I actually used to ship this as my main OTP way back when it was the only OTP there was in EXO lol. Even though Sehun is younger and the seme in the pairing, Luhan still kind of holds the same dynamics here as he does with Xiumin for my headcanon. No matter how seme Semehun looks, he's still four years younger and giggly and squishy - in my opinion, a lot squishier and aegyo-ier than Xiumin, who's actually pretty manly even though he legit looks like Sohee. Sehun clings to Luhan, probably looks up a lot to Luhan, and the great thing about it is that Luhan doesn't dote on him. Luhan treats him like an equal and giggles a long with him because Luhan is the kind of person that can mold his attitude to whoever he's dealing with and they just connect very seamlessly together in terms of flirting interactions.

For HunHan, I highly recommend reading this as well as this for real life interaction.

SeKai (Sehun/Kai): The sexy OTP, the maknae line OTP. The way this OTP works for me is pretty simple, and there's not much explaining to do. The way I look at it, they're kind of the KiSeob, the MirDoong, the 2Ji (Zico/P.O.) of EXO. KiSeob are same-aged friends, MirDoong are maknae line, and 2Ji are both. That's what SeKai are. They're same-aged friends, they're the maknae line, they're both dancers, and they have that easy sort of connection because they have so much in common. I'm sure they laugh a lot together with inside jokes about their hyungs, and you can tell when they dance together that they're genuinely having a good time making us claw at our faces and worry about jailtime.

KrAy (Kris/Lay): This OTP actually have one of my favorite sets of dynamics and headcanon. Kris is a suit of stainless steel on the outside and a cuddly teddy bear on the inside, but sometimes he's a suit of stainless steel on the outside and the inside, and Lay is the only one who really doesn't seem to notice. There's a difference between this, TaoRis, and KrisYeol that I'll talk about later with KrisYeol, but Lay is just very 4D, very adorable and quirky and spacey, so that he doesn't really notice that Kris is glaring at him with eyes that spell impending doom. And in return, it's like Kris falls right in because it's impossible not to love Lay.

KrisYeol (Kris/Chanyeol): This is probably tied with Kray for my favorite kind of dynamics and headcanon. Like TaoRis, it's the tall OTP, the OTP that looks straight out of a yaoi manga. The difference between KrisYeol and KrAy and TaoRis depends on the different kinds of oblivious Tao, Chanyeol, and Lay all are to Kris's suit of stainless steel. Lay is, like I said before, very spacey and adorable and doesn't seem to notice how Kris glares at him (and if he does, then he's just extremely brave), whereas Chanyeol doesn't care. Chanyeol is so completely over the border that he notices and still doesn't have the fear of God instilled in him when Kris looks the way he does. Tao is a combination of both Lay (oblivious) and Chanyeol (crazily fearless), and probably knowing that duizhang is wrapped around his didi's little finger.

Because Chanyeol is so weird and energetic and optimistic, he's the direct antithesis to Kris's everything, and like always, opposites attract. Chanyeol is so charmingly strange and insane that Kris just soaks it all up like a sponge, letting Chanyeol make him laugh like no one else does.

SuKai (Suho/Kai): I know there's been a lot of wank with this OTP, about how Kai hates Suho and Suho is just masking all of it with a smile, etc., etc. but I honestly don't think Kai hates Suho. I don't think it's possible to hate Suho first of all, and Kai is someone who's very guarded  in terms of personal space, and he's often tired and aching (his back injuries, remember, and that he always gives 110% as the main dancer) and sometimes probably just wants to be left alone - so everyone leaves him alone but Suho tries anyway. Thus, resulting in Kai shrugging him off like in those few fancams. Suho's very hyung-like to everyone even though he's not even the oldest in EXO, and I think he especially has a soft spot for Kai. While Kai has a soft spot for D.O., so Kai's usually inclined to hang around D.O., and Sehun and Luhan have that special ability to make Kai laugh, Suho's more timid, more reserved, and seems to have to work harder to make Kai laugh/smile/etc. which is why they're so sweet together and I think Kai does love Suho and appreciate him deep down.

So, those are all the OTPs that moriko_chan requested, but if you have your own list, and want to watch me word vomit ramble rant give my two cents on them, just let me now ^-^ (because there's still 57 that I haven't talked about)

sekai, exo, kray, personal, krisyeol, pimp post, sukai, hunhan

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