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Remaking this thread
>>1479 since all the pics are gone. Please let's share the obscure ships you have! OP pic might not be super obscure according to some so definitely share your ship.
I'll start the thread with a question to help stirr conversation.
>What is it about your rarepair that you like so much, compared to the more mainstream ships in your fandom? No.3279
>>3278Rarepairs are relative, I think you were fine. Especially with how loud and aggressive the fanbase in question is about yuri. I checked, and despite the series being a big hit fotm anime right now, shuro/liaos only has 31 fics. Not the most obscure pairing in this thread for sure, but within rarepair for its fandom. One of the first pairings posted in this thread has close to 200 fics.
Anyway, here's my contribution… it has some content out there, but was scrappy despite having a lot of cute potential. The DS sequel not even letting Ivan show up and canonizing hetships doomed it further, and it was just so bad generally it killed the series… I loved Golden Sun a lot as a kid, it makes me sad it got tarnished and I don't have a whole lot of nostalgic fujo content I can enjoy of it.
No.3280
>>3279Full agree fandom being big does not equate to pairing being big. In fact one character being big doesn't equate to a popular pairing either since one other ship might suck up all the air in the room.
>>3279Never played Golden Sun nonna and I never run into any content for it. Heard good things about the game but unfortunately Smash is the closest I've got to it. MC is cute though!
My massive fandom rarepair is Bill x Lt. Surge. Specifically it was the Pokemon Adventures manga that sold me on it where you get Rocket!Surge paired up with a uncooperative Bill and you have the two forced to work together during the Yellow arc against the Elite 4. I see big Enemies to friends to lovers vibes here, but I guess me and 2 other people are the only ones. Oh well.
No.3289
>>3279Whoa blast from the past. I drew some r34 of them for somebody on 7chan's /y/ in like 2007.
>canonizing hetshipsI will never like this but I really loved seeing all of the Isaac/Mia shippers getting BTFO.
>>3280>fandom being big does not equate to pairing being bigIt's hell when one half of your rare pair OTP is the other half of the fandom's most popular ship and that fandom is also popular. Takes the fun out of hanging out when you gotta see tons of untagged shit you have blocked, haha. For
>>3278, it's extra funny seeing anime-onlys getting so into Laios/Kabru when everybody with a brain knows Mithrun exists. Maybe when the anime gets there that will push more people toward your ship!
No.3291
I still haven't finished Devil Survivor, but Protagonist x Atsuro will be one of those ships I'll keep coming back to. I was sold on these two since day 2 in game.
>>3289>It's hell when one half of your rare pair OTP is the other half of the fandom's most popular shipThis fandom is not so big, but I feel this so bad. I like all the ships in the fandom, but I just want a little tlc given to these two in at least the fanart department because they do have a few fanfics at least.
No.3293
>>3291I wish there was more love for Giggilo, especially since he's revealed to be homo for the mc in one route
No.3443
I like Deku/Mineta.
No.3444
>>3443I personally ship Mineta with Bakugou but I'm down for him with any male student that doesn't treat it as crack.
No.3458
>>3457ah thats a cute ship, hate when otome has such hot designs for characters they shouldn't be simping for a woman they should be using each other as fleshlights
No.3459
>>3458Isn't that kind of the fun of playing it though? Pick your favorite boy to be your husbando and then make everyone else gay, or if you don't like any of them just make them all gay.
No.3461
>>3460Unless the game actively forces me to self insert (Amnesia being a good example of this actually) I usually just pair the heroine up with whoever I think would be a good match for her/has the best chemistry with her, I like hetships so I don't really need to pretend the protagonist is a guy. It's just a bonus if the male love interests have chemistry with each other since then I can ship them together too.
No.3462
>>3459Idk, I'm one of those fujos where I want my husbando to be with another man lol if I had a favourite character in an atome or whatever id want him to have a husbando himself
It's probably because I don't really like to self insert and id want to see my favourite character in a gay relationship, with the rare couple of hetships Ive liked it's been one where the girl has a personality and isn't a cardboard cutout for the female player/watcher
No.3466
>>3462…is that Randy and Stephen Stotch from south park?
No.3469
>when it's not really a rarepair for the fandom size and content, but they only make porn of it
No.3475
>>3469This hurts, I want stories where they actually interact and get together! If I just want porn I'd rather read a doujinshi or look at porny fanart.
Actually on my first sweep though a fandom on AO3 I just remove E-rated stories since 5000 words of smut is what I read when I'm desperate.
No.3515
>>3514Yeah they are, though I have a different Eva rarepair.
Shame Kawoshin is so overwhelming in terms of content. I think its cool that its a canon gay ship, but Kaworu does not have a personality I'm interested in shipping, Shinji bounces much better off of his classmates imo.
No.3516
>>3515I love picrel, i often look at it because it really is perfect. It's also my fave rarepair, they're so cute together
No.3523
>>3521Is the seme the younger brother, because I'm sold if so.
No.3524
>>3522Trails in the sky
>>3523They aren't brothers and the seme is also the older one but he's basically a surrogate father to the uke if you're into that
No.3789
>>3788God, I wish they were more popular. Unfortunately it suffers from the curse of being from an anime that's extremely straight baby-making propaganda.
No.3790
>>3788Genuinely surprised I didn't see more of this, Yuri is so cute and the idea of a guy disapproving of his brother in law and thinking he's not good enough for his sister but then falling for him instead is such a fun scenario
No.3791
>>3788just binged through this last week and i was absolutely convinced that yuri was attracted to loid and it made his meltdown/general derangement like, ten times worse. even with the siscon thing, it felt so stereotypically tsundere that it hurt and i’m in disbelief that there’s not more content for it.
No.3792
>>3791>>3790It would kinda hot if there was a SxF AU where Yor was a dude as well but idk how that would work with the context of a fake family in Cold War era Eastern Europe
No.3793
>>3792The closest scenario I could think of would be where a hitman is hired to seduce a yakuza member but ends up catching feelings for him instead, the only way I think a gay version of spy x family could work whilst keeping the setting would be having Loid on the dl or something lol and then have him have to keep both the secret of being a spy and the secret of secretly being gay from his beard assassin
I feel like a lot of "fake lovers become lovers for real" plotlines just don't work with bl but especially with bl set in non progressive/modern settings, friends with benefits falling in love with each other or realising their feelings is nice though
No.3811
>>3809What's that thing on his nipple?
No.3812
>>3811Nipple clamp, which just look painful to me.
No.3813
>>3812Ouch yeah, looks a bit painful, to say the least. I'm so used to piercings and clothespins on the nipples instead, so this is quite the irregular shape.
No.3960
>>3809Definitely Noiz, as much as I enjoy NoiAo, Noiz gives such bratty uke vibes and Koujaku would be perfect as a brat tamer for him (//ω//)
No.3962
Proteus/Sentinel from the Transformer comics. I am a sucker for villain/villain ships and like the scheming twink/loyal brute dynamic.
>tfw most of your ships are so rare you are literally the only western artist of them or the only artist in general, making talking about them hard without hinting who you are>>3120Didn't watch it but for how much of a raw deal he got it's funny how hard his popularity exploded. Twitter was flooded with fanart of him for a while, I don't even know the MCs lol because I never saw anyone but him on my timeline. Maybe corps should casually go online to see what clicks with large parts of the audience and get some ideas. I feel like the market is over-saturated with insecure male MCs and self-inserts.
No.4016
>>4014I shipped Art and Nice. It just makes sense narratively.
No.4021
>>4014I've been meaning to pick this up for ages, I've heard one of the side characters are unambiguously homo as well
No.4036
>>4014Oh neat, I've been meaning to watch this, love the character designs especially the blonde one.
No.4179
>>4171I'm watching this for the first time (just finished season 3) and while I see the vision I just can't get invested in the show in a brainrot kind of way.
>>4176The Sopranos.