Bein' not much of a shipper...

[guardians_song]

I have to admit I'm surprised by the FE ship wars. Except if you question the holy Eliwood/Ninian, heretic. Let's completely ignore that I managed to get Eliwood/Hector A the first time around... XP;; More seriously - how exactly do you claim anything as canon when, by definition, all the ships given in support-conversations are canon? One-sided Ninian/Eliwood is canon regardless of Eliwood's interests, but whether Eliwood is more interested in her, Lyn, or Fiora is *chokes* entirely up to the player. Same goes for Hector/Lyn, Hector/Florina, Hector/Farina, or, hell, Hector/Lyn/Florina/Farina. The only question is whether it's Hector's harem or Lyn's.

Why fight over it? Just match up the appropriate supports in your OWN games and have at it.

FE7/FE8 ship-warriors are all spoiled, anyway. Used to be only Roy got to have ANY paired endings, and Ray/Sophia, Noah/Fir, and so on and so forth had to just rot away into dust. XP

I just find it silly that a game that allows you to choose your own "canon" ships attracts ship wars. I mean, a game or story with a fixed canon? That I could understand. If the fans, for some gadforsaken reason, wanted to ship Athos/Aenir or Nergal/Bramimond or some other unnatural and heretical pairing, I could understand ship wars - There Can Be Only One. But when any Arena chapter doubles as a dating sim? Hrooonk?

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[sarajayechan]

Oh God, Pokemon shipping wars. From what I've seen it's WAY worse in the anime, though, the only shipping BS I've seen in the gameverse fandom has been "bawww there's too much of this ship" or "haha our ship is more popular"...Die For Our Ship is rare. Though that doesn't make the examples I've seen less irritating (an ex-friend of mine said Lyra is on her "must kill" list because SoulSilverShipping is so popular, for example).

The anime, on the other hand? Aside from Cori and her self-righteous Rocketshipping ways, we have the Ash shipping wars, the yaoi fanbrats, the shrieking denial of any same-sex subtext, etc. It's a fucking mess.