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Wierd Ships; Sail on, you oddities!
Topic Started: Jun 1 2009, 05:07 PM (400 Views)
hpboy13
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Okay, so we all know and love/despise the conventional and popular ships - R/Hr, H/G, J/L, Harmony, Nev/Luna, etc. But what off-beat whacky and downright odd ships are you guys into? With hundreds of characters available, that's thousands of different ships out there!

I've recently gotten into the very odd ship of... Colin/Fleur! That's right. I heard of it from Witherwings's song "Colin/Fleur" which she performed at a concert two weeks ago (which was incredible!). While most of us raised eyebrows when she announced the song, it made a surprising amount of sense!
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Photography was his passion
And she liked having her picture taken

It's such a fun ship! And alright, it's kinda limited because by the end of DH Fleur is married and Colin is dead, but that still leaves load sof opportunities! One can write a fic of how they met and fell in love during the Triwizard Tournament, or a very tragic one where Fleur finds him dead in the Final Battle and confesses her love. This is so the new "it" ship!

Now, to make a graphic for it...

So what about you guys? What wierd ships are you into? Just try not to traumatize us too much!
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lily_evans
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Hmm...interesting. If Fleur and Colin were around the same age, then I'd suppose it would work.

Unfortunately, I only ship the commons ships: James/Lily, Sirius/Lily, Neville/Luna and sometimes Harry/Hermione. I only ship Harry/Hermione from one author in particular, though.
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hpboy13
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Hey, Fleur's only 4 years older than Colin - that's nothing!

And since when is Sirius/Lily common? I've seen bits of it in AD's "Chance" but I can't say that it's a ship everyone knows and many people like!
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lily_evans
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Hmm, true.

Really? I thought Sirius/Lily was kind of common? I sort of like that ship, depending on the plot and all :)
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ooh sirius/lily is a cute ship - fun to play with (i wrote a short fic with those too, it was laughable i suppose). sirius/lily defines scandalous. i'm a fan of remus/lily - not a full-fledged ship, but maybe a kiss here and huge there, maybe a summer fling.

Harry/Hermione is one ship that needs to be well written, like extremely well. I've read to many fics that butcher one character, or the other - unfortunately, sometimes both. But when the author's got both characters right then it really is a decent shipping.

But I agree, to an extent, with lily_evans. I'm a fan of the standard ships (sometimes,with a slight twist of course). However, there is one ship that I honest-to-god cannot get enough of: Draco/Hermione. I know I know - totally cliche, right? Sometimes the fic has been written so poorly with Dr/Hr and yeah, that sucks. But sometimes there's a fic that I can't help but 'awee' at the end.

Also, Draco/Ginny. Ridiculous, eh? I've only ever read one fic with that ship, but WOW was that story ever amazing. Maybe I'm just a sucker for Draco.

Might I add, that these Hermione or Ginny/Draco ships are ones that I, personally, could only write myself If they were post-war.
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I agree, Sirius/Lily is much better if not taken siriusly (I couldn't resist), but I haven't really found that many. I guess it's cuz at UR, any MWPP ship is common. Remus/Lily is a common one, but one I absolutely love.

Draco/Ginny I've seen a lot of, but the characters are so completely butchered in that one that veyr few are worth reading. Dramione at least sometimes makes an attempt. I've written my own Dramione, though you can say I cheated because I made it all about Hermione with Draco only in the first and last chapter.
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For Harry/Hermione, I think I pretty much only read cosmopolitan's fics back at UR. I agree, though, it has to be well written otherwise the pairing never seems real.

I loved your fic of Draco/Hermione, Irvin! :D The other fic I read of Draco/Hermione was awful. Really. It was horrible . I was tempted to review, but decided not to even deem it with one :/

Draco/Ginny? I've never read one, but that's mainly because I'm afraid of how the characters will be mauled and the plot mangled.

Sirius/Lily is a ship I can't get enough of. It makes perfect sense for them to be together, but then James comes along. Not that James is a bad thing, but still...

I don't like Remus/Lily. It just feels...wrong, I suppose?
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Aw, thanks Nisha! I always thought that my Dramione was my best fic, but people disagree. There are a few good Dramione ones - off the top of my head, "The Sweetest Sin" and "What is Real" on MNFF. And if I were you, I'd stay away from D/G, I've yet to find one without major OOCness.

See, I always thought Remus/Lily made so much more sense than Sirius/Lily. Remus was always the quieter and more sensible fo the Marauders, so I figure he and Lily would be attracted to each other. Sirius just seems to be too much of a douche for him and Lily to like each other. But I am a big supporter of Remus/Petunia, also - I was shipping them before HBP came out.
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:D

Draco/Ginny, it seems, never works. Ever.

Ew, Remus/Petunia. I don't understand how that could ever work out!

Remus/Lily is boring, I think Sirius/Lily would always add more spice to everything. :)
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Well, no one could argue that Sirius/Lily would spice things up!

As to Remus/Petunia, after Petunia supposedly goes all good and understanding and regrets fighting with Lily (this is usually following Dudley's death or something like that), she sees in Remus the last link to her sister and is sympathertic to his plight. It's a tad far-fetched, but I always liked it!

Another wierd ship I expect to see popping up soon is Quirrell/Voldy, after the HP Musical everyone's gonna be talking about it. I've already heard the term "Musicalverse" thrown around; it sounds like this'll become a legit part of the fanon.
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