Do you ship your own characters?

[delladz]

And I don't mean like the main protagonists of your romance novel, I mean do you have two OCs that are totally not destined to have any romantic ties in the story, but you think it'd be a fun and fabulous ship if it DID happen?

Since I'm writing a story that relies on teamwork dynamics/chemistry, its fun to think about the other potential relationships within the group.

[Kelheor]

Y>I>S, definitely, absolutely.

I have like... five of those absolutely non-canon ships? xD

[hockeywebcomics]

Haven't happened to me. I think I plan a lot what's going to happen in my stories so I just can't think out of it. Maybe a should, it could be a good creativity exercise.

[AbelDraws]

I do. A lot hahahaha. There's a few canon ships and then there's me shipping the whole cast together with one another in AUs lmao. I just. Like exploring how things would work out a lot.

[Kaydreamer]

Hahaha, yes! Exploring in that way tends to be where the canon ships come from as well, I figure out what really works and who gels well together, and zero in on those. But I love just imagining and playing around with crack ships between my characters, it's heaps of fun.

[vinoff]

Yeah, totally. There are only two canon ships in my story with so little progress going on while the characters are quite a lot. I just can't help imagining the other relationships between other characters. Like, there's no way these two don't have the hots for each other, right? It's so much fun.

[fleurravenbooks]

absolutely , i enjoy writing romantic parts almost as much i enjoy writing drama filled ones.

[hockeywebcomics]

Writing romantic scenes is cool indeed, even if the core of the story is not romantic stuff

[Lirina]

Yes! I totally ship Taren and Eric and it makes me sad that it can never become real because Eric's story is seven years in the past

[Tired_Spider]

I mean I only see how their relationship dynamics could work, but for the most part not really

[IndigoShirtProd]

For my comic, yea I do, but it's important to me to have an instance where a female character and a male character remain platonic friends for the whole story, because you just don't get to see much of that. I mean, it getting more common in recent years, but there's a history of that not being the case. But because they're my characters, and whatever I say is canon, in the future they totally get together.

[hockeywebcomics]

Hahaha this is lovely

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Not normally, usually the only pairings are cannon pairings. But recently I was working on a story and I had two characters were friends. But part of me really liked the idea of them together. And then the ending changed in a way that actually made that a possibility. My original plan was to just have their relationship be ambiguous, it could be interpreted as friendship or romantic. But then the ghost of queerbaitings past reminded me of all the times people have done that to ill effect, and I said screw it. They're cannon now.

[xstarx07]

For my project, I got a lot of canon ships as well, but sometimes I also think about what other ships could technically work and it's pretty fun imagining all the different "what if"-scenarios xD

[Calculus_Homework]

Ahahaha, part of me wants to DENY that I do this. But I'll be honest--yeaaaah.
I keep it to myself though. Nobody needs to know who I hardcore ship. lmao

[Calculus_Homework]

WE'RE, LIKE, PLAYING ROMANCE GODS HERE... or romance devils. lol

[Kelheor]

Nobody needs to know who I hardcore ship

[djourner]

I write a polyamorous trio. I ship all of them with each other so I hard I made it canon xD

I also ocasionally ship them with people outside the main trio, even if that relationship might never happen inside the story.
It's a like a horny 'what if...?' scenario. xD

[vinoff]

Well, in a way, we ARE the Gods of their story, aren't we? So I can, and I will, ship them with all my power. Mwahahha

[PKLucky]

Oh hell yeah I do!! It won't ever happen in canon since I'm challenging myself to not do a romance-centric story. I mean, come on. One girl who, through wacky circumstances, suddenly gets four attractive roommates? Absolute shipping fuel right there, it's kinda ridiculous.