a meme. =O
Hey, so I realize now that I totally need to add more people to my flist. /initiates friending memes in Route and Dissideo... I mean, once memes are kosher 'round Route again.
EITHER WAY:
01 - What is your current favorite ship?
Currently? Zelos/Sheena, Tales of Symphonia. Ask me a week ago and I'd have said Lightning/Snow, but I haven't been able to RP that in forever, so... yeah, Z/S.
02 - What was your very first ship?
Oh man, I've always been a shipper at heart. Are we talking EVER? Ash/Misty, Pokemon. On LJ, that was probably waaaay back in a now-dead RP when somehow Sheena from Tales of Symphonia and Klarth from Tales of Phantasia wound up paired. Summonercest? Fff.
03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Outside of RP: Clark Kent/Chloe Sullivan, Smallville. I'm only on season six though, so I have no clue if they get together eventually. All I know is? He ends up with Lois, and none of the movies/comics mention Chloe as far as I know, so akldhasdakd do they kill her!?
OH, and I'm still pissed that Rachel ended up with Ross and not Joey. Tell me you know what show I'm talking about.
In RP: ...man, I don't even- OH OH OH! Pearl/Sora (Ace Attorney/Kingdom Hearts). Okay, she's way too young for him even aged up to 10, but in KH1 he's 14, so that's not a HUGE differe--yeah, okay, it is. Consider this a THEY MUST BE BFFS NAO ship. (For context? I play Pearl in route_29, and she's traveling with Sora, and they have this ridiculously cute dynamic going.)
04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
...Man, I don't even know, really. The ships with ridiculous amounts of chemistry get boring so fast, to me. If 'chemistry' means they get along well, I mean. But if 'chemistry' means they're hideously fun to bounce off one another? Man, nearly everything I end up shipping is like this.
05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
I'm totally willing to play Snow/Serah from Final Fantasy XIII, but holy crap do they bore me. I'm not gonna copypaste my entire relationship-counselor rant here, but in summary, once they're out of the 'fresh love' stage? They're so not sticking together.
06 - The best kiss?
I've had awesome kisses with both Zelos/Sheena and Snow/Lightning.
07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Hmm...
On luceti, in one of Yazoo's last posts, when Martel admitted to him how much he meant to her and how scared she was that he'd leave like everyone else from his world, it was kinda devastating. D: Not that those two were a pairing exactly, she was canonically and RP-canonically with Yuan, but god did I ship that. D:
Also, pretty much anything in the first few logs electricflurry. Sadly, that's been kinda discontinued, but that AU was beautiful in so many ways.
08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Dissideo!Zelos and Sheena are tied with musebox!Lightning and Snow.
The former because Zelos is from the alternate ending and thus was killed by the party, and Sheena's from the normal ending, and Zelos doesn't want her to know she killed him because it'll devastate her, but he's a much darker person than the Zelos in her end the ending she's from, and... yeah.
The latter because even though in that musebox's AU, Serah never came back with Dajh in the end (meaning she's gone forever, as far as they know), she's still in both of their hearts. For those unfamiliar with the canon, it's basically a scenario of "woman x her 'dead' sister's former fiance whom she trusted to save the sister". If that makes sense. And Lightning's just a big ball of baggage normally, so. fff.
09 - The healthiest relationship?
Fff, uh. Man, do I play any? xD;
10 - A past favorite pairing?
Yazoo/Martel. It took a fricking year and a half to make more than a sliver of progress, and right when the breakthrough came, Yazoo dropped. D: Not that they were romantically involved because she was already in a faithful relationship, but still. akldhaskdjah
11 - What is your dream pairing?
I really don't know if I have one? I've dreamed about a couple of them, if that counts, but I don't think it does.
Or do you mean one I want to play? Really, I think it's on its way to being played already.
12 - Who had the best wedding?
Nobody really got married in canon, as far as I know?
OH OH I WATCH FRIENDS, I CAN ANSWER THIS. |D
I liked Monica and Chandler's wedding, of all the Friends weddings. Ross just needs to diaf, but Phoebe and Mike's was a close second.
13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Smallville's Clark Kent/Chloe Sullivan (like I said, season six). I used to like Lex and Lana too, before they were actually together.
Oh, and I've always been and always will be a sucker for Buffy/Angel, even though that fandom is so so overhyped.
14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Danica/Zane, Hawksong (and the Kiesha'ra series to follow, though those aren't about D&Z so much). But Tally/Zane from the Uglies series is a nice second place. Man, I read so much that there has to be mo--OH ONE MORE. I love the main relationship in the book Shiver. Sam and... Man, I forget her name. But it was beautifully done.
15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
I really don't ship people in real life, not often at least, but... I watch So You Think You Can Dance every season (shoot me if you must), and this last Season? Kent and Lauren were so adorable. God, I hope that kid got the girl. He was trying so so so hard.
16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
...man, somehow I'm drawing a blank. There are some pairings that just aren't kosher (Lloyd/Kratos, Lightning/Serah... okay, non-incest ones. Uh. Vanille/Sazh, Ross/Rachel, etc.) but I can't think of an absolute worst.
So here, I'll make one up.
RICHARD SIMMONS/CARROT TOP
I even left that beautiful pairing out of the cut. |D
However, on second thought, there is a special place in my heart that dislikes Snow/Serah of Final Fantasy XIII. I love Serah and Lightning's sister dynamic, and Serah's a fun character in herself, don't get me wrong. But Snow could've been so much greater than he was in canon if Serah weren't involved. Half of what annoyed so many people about him was that every other word out of his mouth was SERAHHHHHHH (the rest was 'HEROOOOO' but I say that's excusable). I wouldn't mind this if their relationship seemed too deep to start with, but... man, I dunno. Time to move on. Fff.
17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Once I got over hating Hope, I really kinda shipped his raging teen-crush on Lightning. And I think that's a ridiculously fun dynamic to RP, as long as it's IC (read as: as long as it's entirely one-sided, as far as romantic interest goes). That's not my usual ship.
18 - What is the cutest pairing?
WALL-E AND EVE.
NEXT? fff
well, before 'next'. I also think Peter Pan and Wendy are adorable?
19 - A pairing you’ve rooted for since the beginning?
Well, I rooted for Sheena/Zelos from pretty much the second they met, but not the beginning of the game.
Oh, and in the Jak and Daxter games? Torn/Ashelin. I thought they were perfect from even before they had scenes together in canon.
20 - The ‘can’t stand the sexual tension anymore’ pairing?
I actually don't have any of those in play right now, RP-wise. Baww. Well, I mean, I kinda do, but that's just because Lightning's mere existence oozes sexual tension. Because she's sexy, and she's always tense. >_>;
However, Torn/Ashelin from above fit under what the question's asking. Every single scene that had them was just dripping with it.
21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Hmm... Hmm...
I bet a lot of people 'wth' at Snow/Lightning, mainly because they don't know the conditions under which I ship it. (Like, I totally know that he wouldn't just forget Serah. And that Lightning wouldn't let it happen because lol serah again. Among other things.)
22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Lloyd/Sheena, Tales of Symphonia. Just... so. boring. /gouges out eye. Like, Lloyd/Colette is equally boring in my opinion, but they're both such fluffy people, so it fits. Sheena could have a relationship that's so much more interesting with Zelos. I dunno, I just feel like it's a waste of a good character?
23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Haven't tried it to say it 'worked great', but the only triangle/ot3 I've ever shipped is Fang/Lightning/Snow. I have no idea why, but that trio sounds magically disastrous. It's like Lightning/Snow with the added awesome of Fang being laid-back but just as dominant as Lightning, which pisses Lightning off, and there was that in-canon sexual tension between her and Snow when they first met.
24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Most love-geometry in LJRP falls into this category, I'd say.
25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Well okay, so this isn't 'adorable' per se (in my opinion) so much as 'fricking awesome', but god I ship my Snow with route_29's Franziska von Karma so fricking bad. Except she's all of 13 years old. I can only really ship it because she acts/talks almost exactly like her older self, meaning like at least 18 or 20. It couldn't work out because of their age difference, of course. Unless she's canon-updated sometime in the future to be her older self, it's just... doomed. Fff.
And then, of course, a Serah would show up as soon as Franziska'd be updated. Such is life.
26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
I'm thinking Will/Elizabeth of Pirates of the Caribbean. After much thought, of course. I don't usually change my mind on pairings. =|a
27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Lex/Lana - Smallville. They got weird once they got together.
Serah/Snow - FF XIII. I thought it was adorable at first.
Man, I had one in mind but I just can't think of it. D:
28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Ash/Pikachu. Just... /breaks.
29 - What ship had the best proposal?
I liked Joey's accidental proposal to Rachel in Friends. >_> But Chandler and Monica's was so much more emotional.
I liked Snow's proposal to Serah too, no matter how I feel about the pairing.
30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever!
Unfair question. =|
Tied for first:
Zelos/Sheena, Lightning/Snow, Martel/Yazoo
EITHER WAY:
01 - What is your current favorite ship?
Currently? Zelos/Sheena, Tales of Symphonia. Ask me a week ago and I'd have said Lightning/Snow, but I haven't been able to RP that in forever, so... yeah, Z/S.
02 - What was your very first ship?
Oh man, I've always been a shipper at heart. Are we talking EVER? Ash/Misty, Pokemon. On LJ, that was probably waaaay back in a now-dead RP when somehow Sheena from Tales of Symphonia and Klarth from Tales of Phantasia wound up paired. Summonercest? Fff.
03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Outside of RP: Clark Kent/Chloe Sullivan, Smallville. I'm only on season six though, so I have no clue if they get together eventually. All I know is? He ends up with Lois, and none of the movies/comics mention Chloe as far as I know, so akldhasdakd do they kill her!?
OH, and I'm still pissed that Rachel ended up with Ross and not Joey. Tell me you know what show I'm talking about.
In RP: ...man, I don't even- OH OH OH! Pearl/Sora (Ace Attorney/Kingdom Hearts). Okay, she's way too young for him even aged up to 10, but in KH1 he's 14, so that's not a HUGE differe--yeah, okay, it is. Consider this a THEY MUST BE BFFS NAO ship. (For context? I play Pearl in route_29, and she's traveling with Sora, and they have this ridiculously cute dynamic going.)
04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
...Man, I don't even know, really. The ships with ridiculous amounts of chemistry get boring so fast, to me. If 'chemistry' means they get along well, I mean. But if 'chemistry' means they're hideously fun to bounce off one another? Man, nearly everything I end up shipping is like this.
05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
I'm totally willing to play Snow/Serah from Final Fantasy XIII, but holy crap do they bore me. I'm not gonna copypaste my entire relationship-counselor rant here, but in summary, once they're out of the 'fresh love' stage? They're so not sticking together.
06 - The best kiss?
I've had awesome kisses with both Zelos/Sheena and Snow/Lightning.
07 - The most heartbreaking scene?
Hmm...
On luceti, in one of Yazoo's last posts, when Martel admitted to him how much he meant to her and how scared she was that he'd leave like everyone else from his world, it was kinda devastating. D: Not that those two were a pairing exactly, she was canonically and RP-canonically with Yuan, but god did I ship that. D:
Also, pretty much anything in the first few logs electricflurry. Sadly, that's been kinda discontinued, but that AU was beautiful in so many ways.
08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Dissideo!Zelos and Sheena are tied with musebox!Lightning and Snow.
The former because Zelos is from the alternate ending and thus was killed by the party, and Sheena's from the normal ending, and Zelos doesn't want her to know she killed him because it'll devastate her, but he's a much darker person than the Zelos in her end the ending she's from, and... yeah.
The latter because even though in that musebox's AU, Serah never came back with Dajh in the end (meaning she's gone forever, as far as they know), she's still in both of their hearts. For those unfamiliar with the canon, it's basically a scenario of "woman x her 'dead' sister's former fiance whom she trusted to save the sister". If that makes sense. And Lightning's just a big ball of baggage normally, so. fff.
09 - The healthiest relationship?
Fff, uh. Man, do I play any? xD;
10 - A past favorite pairing?
Yazoo/Martel. It took a fricking year and a half to make more than a sliver of progress, and right when the breakthrough came, Yazoo dropped. D: Not that they were romantically involved because she was already in a faithful relationship, but still. akldhaskdjah
11 - What is your dream pairing?
I really don't know if I have one? I've dreamed about a couple of them, if that counts, but I don't think it does.
Or do you mean one I want to play? Really, I think it's on its way to being played already.
12 - Who had the best wedding?
Nobody really got married in canon, as far as I know?
OH OH I WATCH FRIENDS, I CAN ANSWER THIS. |D
I liked Monica and Chandler's wedding, of all the Friends weddings. Ross just needs to diaf, but Phoebe and Mike's was a close second.
13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Smallville's Clark Kent/Chloe Sullivan (like I said, season six). I used to like Lex and Lana too, before they were actually together.
Oh, and I've always been and always will be a sucker for Buffy/Angel, even though that fandom is so so overhyped.
14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Danica/Zane, Hawksong (and the Kiesha'ra series to follow, though those aren't about D&Z so much). But Tally/Zane from the Uglies series is a nice second place. Man, I read so much that there has to be mo--OH ONE MORE. I love the main relationship in the book Shiver. Sam and... Man, I forget her name. But it was beautifully done.
15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
I really don't ship people in real life, not often at least, but... I watch So You Think You Can Dance every season (shoot me if you must), and this last Season? Kent and Lauren were so adorable. God, I hope that kid got the girl. He was trying so so so hard.
16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
...man, somehow I'm drawing a blank. There are some pairings that just aren't kosher (Lloyd/Kratos, Lightning/Serah... okay, non-incest ones. Uh. Vanille/Sazh, Ross/Rachel, etc.) but I can't think of an absolute worst.
So here, I'll make one up.
RICHARD SIMMONS/CARROT TOP
I even left that beautiful pairing out of the cut. |D
However, on second thought, there is a special place in my heart that dislikes Snow/Serah of Final Fantasy XIII. I love Serah and Lightning's sister dynamic, and Serah's a fun character in herself, don't get me wrong. But Snow could've been so much greater than he was in canon if Serah weren't involved. Half of what annoyed so many people about him was that every other word out of his mouth was SERAHHHHHHH (the rest was 'HEROOOOO' but I say that's excusable). I wouldn't mind this if their relationship seemed too deep to start with, but... man, I dunno. Time to move on. Fff.
17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Once I got over hating Hope, I really kinda shipped his raging teen-crush on Lightning. And I think that's a ridiculously fun dynamic to RP, as long as it's IC (read as: as long as it's entirely one-sided, as far as romantic interest goes). That's not my usual ship.
18 - What is the cutest pairing?
WALL-E AND EVE.
NEXT? fff
well, before 'next'. I also think Peter Pan and Wendy are adorable?
19 - A pairing you’ve rooted for since the beginning?
Well, I rooted for Sheena/Zelos from pretty much the second they met, but not the beginning of the game.
Oh, and in the Jak and Daxter games? Torn/Ashelin. I thought they were perfect from even before they had scenes together in canon.
20 - The ‘can’t stand the sexual tension anymore’ pairing?
I actually don't have any of those in play right now, RP-wise. Baww. Well, I mean, I kinda do, but that's just because Lightning's mere existence oozes sexual tension. Because she's sexy, and she's always tense. >_>;
However, Torn/Ashelin from above fit under what the question's asking. Every single scene that had them was just dripping with it.
21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Hmm... Hmm...
I bet a lot of people 'wth' at Snow/Lightning, mainly because they don't know the conditions under which I ship it. (Like, I totally know that he wouldn't just forget Serah. And that Lightning wouldn't let it happen because lol serah again. Among other things.)
22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Lloyd/Sheena, Tales of Symphonia. Just... so. boring. /gouges out eye. Like, Lloyd/Colette is equally boring in my opinion, but they're both such fluffy people, so it fits. Sheena could have a relationship that's so much more interesting with Zelos. I dunno, I just feel like it's a waste of a good character?
23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Haven't tried it to say it 'worked great', but the only triangle/ot3 I've ever shipped is Fang/Lightning/Snow. I have no idea why, but that trio sounds magically disastrous. It's like Lightning/Snow with the added awesome of Fang being laid-back but just as dominant as Lightning, which pisses Lightning off, and there was that in-canon sexual tension between her and Snow when they first met.
24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Most love-geometry in LJRP falls into this category, I'd say.
25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Well okay, so this isn't 'adorable' per se (in my opinion) so much as 'fricking awesome', but god I ship my Snow with route_29's Franziska von Karma so fricking bad. Except she's all of 13 years old. I can only really ship it because she acts/talks almost exactly like her older self, meaning like at least 18 or 20. It couldn't work out because of their age difference, of course. Unless she's canon-updated sometime in the future to be her older self, it's just... doomed. Fff.
And then, of course, a Serah would show up as soon as Franziska'd be updated. Such is life.
26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
I'm thinking Will/Elizabeth of Pirates of the Caribbean. After much thought, of course. I don't usually change my mind on pairings. =|a
27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Lex/Lana - Smallville. They got weird once they got together.
Serah/Snow - FF XIII. I thought it was adorable at first.
Man, I had one in mind but I just can't think of it. D:
28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Ash/Pikachu. Just... /breaks.
29 - What ship had the best proposal?
I liked Joey's accidental proposal to Rachel in Friends. >_> But Chandler and Monica's was so much more emotional.
I liked Snow's proposal to Serah too, no matter how I feel about the pairing.
30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever!
Unfair question. =|
Tied for first:
Zelos/Sheena, Lightning/Snow, Martel/Yazoo