Fandom meme, day 2

B: A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

I'm ashamed to admit that the most recent one is AdriChat, thanks to recent shenanigans (for those not in the ML tag on tumblr, it is at writing one week since some BNF made a jokey comment and the fandom sent it straight to the second place on the weekly panfom ship ranking based on activity)

Obviously, shipping it is ten degrees of idiocy, but thank you tumblr and the suddenly-the-joke-isn't-a-joke-any-longer, I am having a lot of thoughts about the hypothetical scenario where Adrien and Cat Noir are two different people (and what is fanfic, if not hypothetical scenarious?)

The obvious point that nobody is talking enough about here is the extent to which Cat Noir is Adrien's dream man. He is literally his dream self, the opportunity to be everything that Adrien wants to be but isn't allowed to. Heartbreaking though it is, he's said outright that being Cat Noir is thet best part of his life. Cat Noir is a duty, and not always to Adrien's disposition. Being Cat Noir comes with dangerous conditions, and we've already seen Adrien being deprived of Plagg for his own safety once.

In the world where Cat Noir isn't Adrien's LARP character, but a different person, he is also an actor that can actively do something about Adrien's life in a way that Adrien cannot. He's no more likely than anyone else to not make Gabriel Agreste an emotionally abusive supervillain, but Adrien is the personficiation of hopeless and awkward and desperate for love. Someone claiming some degree of Special Relationship with him would give him a reasonable argument against his father's micromanaging of his life, and we all want him to have a happy family life or at least the hope for it in the future. And Cat Noir, moreover, is known to get worked up over injustice. Between him and Ladybug, I honestly think he'd be far more likely to yell at his boyfriend's dad for being a jerk.

You don't even have to make up arguments about why they should fall in love. Adrien clearly has a thing for superheroes, and he's literally a model, why wouldn't Cat Noir be into that. They're both super romantic, they're both kind and forgiving. Adrien would love Cat Noir's sense of humour. Cat Noir would delight in being the one to let Adrien let down his hair and showcase what a little shit he can be when he's given the chance. They'd be an amazing couple and I hate that I honestly think so.

Fandom meme day 3

C: A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

Subaru/Seishirou. It's one thing that "grown man flirting with sixteen year old boy who is clearly uncomfortable about it" is fifty degrees of skeevy. It's another that said grown man is a sociopath who appointed said sixteen year old as his romantic interest when said sixteen year old was like nine, and also doesn't remember it, or that it happened with the other party cradling the body of some girl he just killed.

The problem isn't that Subaru falls in love with the persona Seishirou projects in Tokyo Babylon. That tragedy is a quintessential part of the story, and I love it for what it is there. But I'll never, ever, want the two of them to be together, and it pisses me off that X seemingly tried to establish them as some kind of star-crossed romance. We've seen their AU versions in Tsubasa, and Seishirou was still an evil stalker and Subaru Sumeragi deserves so, so, so much better.