No.2837[Last 50 Posts]
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.2840
>>2839wow I didn't know he fucked a guy, I only ever watched the show
No.2841
>>2837Felix/Ashe 3 House. I liked the dichotomy of "guy groomed into service of the king thinks it's fake and gay" and "guy who idolizes knighthood is conscripted against his will in non-BL paths". They only go up to B support in both 3H and the musou game, which is offensive to me. I hate that they stopped giving everybody A supports + paired endings in the one game where it would have been good for me.
After realizing Felix was fated to be the fandom's uwuke bicycle with Sylvain and Dimitri or the otomes who self-insert as Annette I dipped. Being into a rare pair is suffering when the fandom is really active but not in the way you want it to be. Rare pairs for slow/dead fandoms are much more tolerable.
No.2842
>>2840Makoto fucks basically anything sexy with a pulse, including his mom and sister.
The guy he fucks (who's also the true route of that game) is a trap for a lot of the game however.
No.2850
>>2849I was thinking of that in the theater too, head empty "boys should love boys" thoughts for a while because the movie was so straightforward.
No.2858
>>2857>Shipping old menI don't get it but you live your best life.
Ironically Fuyutsuki x Shinji probably makes more sense since he tries to rape him in one of the games because he looks like his mom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r26VFYHj1dY No.2911
>>2880The only thing I ever liked about this show was the ending song and the panda kid.
No.2929
I wanna post my crackship but i'd probably break anonymity cause im the only one on this forsaken planet that publicly ships those two orz
No.2963
>>2962Holy shit are you me? I thought the exact same thing.
No.2964
>>2962lezard valeth lookin ass
No.2965
>>2963I'm glad I'm not the only insane person who thought this, now the real question is who's the uke?
>>2964I don't know who he is but he looks kinda cool based on the cursory google search I gave him.
No.2967
>>2966NONNIE I LOVE YOU I WISH I COULD KISS YOU I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE IN THIS DAMNED WORLD WHO THOUGHT RITO WAS BREEDABLE AND CUTE. MY KINDRED SPIRIT
No.2968
>>2965> now the real question is who's the uke? Wizard-kun. Can't let a good cock go to waste, but I like to think he's the one manipulating the top to do all the evil things.
>>2966Who is this cute slut?
No.2969
>>2966He is really cute! Never watched the anime though.
>>2968>Can't let a good cock go to waste, but I like to think he's the one manipulating the top to do all the evil things.>evil power bottom manipulating rapeman from the sidelinesThat’s fucking hot.
No.2970
>>2968>Who is this cute slut?Rito from To love ru.
>>2967If my wallet wasn't already dedicated to commissioning art of my OC it'd be so tempting to get a femboy artist to lewd this guy.
No.2972
>>2970If you ever get around to doing that some day please post it on the boards! I will gladly consume any crumbs
No.2977
>>2969>>2969I wouldn't recommend actually watching it. Its pure male gaze fanservice with no plot aside from shoving groping gags in your face every 5 minutes. The only positive is that the mc is cute and there was a gag where he turns into a girl. otherwise its typical ecchi slop
No.2998
>>2977Yeah, I figured as much. It's the same deal as when I found out Futoku no guild had a femboy in it. I'm into femboys but it's not gonna be worth it to watch ecchi slop for one femboy.
No.3005
>>2998>femboysI came here to stay away from such terms
No.3007
>>3005Nta and I mean no aggression but I don't get takes like this. Why should anon adjust her word choice for you, if that's what she feels best describes the characters she likes?
No.3010
>>3007I just don't want this to turn into another /cm/ where dudes talk about how they're totally femboys and how they look exactly like the cute anime boy AI pic they post.
That being said, it's true that I can't stop it and I didnt mean it as a "leave you are unwelcomed here." or knocking on their taste.
If this turns into another cm, I'll just leave.
No.3016
>>3010Tbf 'femboy' sees use by fujos on twitter as well. Not that that's the best crowd either lol, but it's a term that's taken root now for better or worse.
I understand your concerns though. We're lucky this place has a different culture, for now. Best enjoy it while it lasts, which will hopefully be a long time, we have a good adminjo from what I can tell
No.3017
>>3005I'm just using the word that describes that anime archetype. I don't know or care what baggage it has for you. Would you rather see "otokonoko" instead?
No.3018
>>3017nta but when did femboy replace the word trap? I do think otokonoko would be the better choice.
No.3020
>>3018Yeah I prefer trap or if not crossdressing just use bishie for effeminate men. Femboy is too associated with real life unsavory people for my tastes.
Anyway, bringing it back around to topic I think I might be one of 10 people who's preferred able achilles ship is Ishida/Sado. Poor Sado in general doesn't get a lot of love and everyone pairs Ishida with Ichigo.
No.3022
>>3018I don't like to be that person but when people started complaining about it being transphobic.
No.3023
>>3020ME TOO! ichigo/ishida is just your par for the course insipid shounen main boy yaoi, they have no chemistry. not even as rivals because ichigo lacks the emotional depth to truly foil to ishida. sado is perfect though cause he's outcast and sensitive and cerebral like uryu without being debilitatingly neurotic. It's easy to imagine a symbiotic dynamic between them where sado soothes his nerves and ishida is a fastidious prick where sado isn't. like by making him buy pants that don't have holes in them and shit like that. excellent taste.
No.3050
>>2964lmao that other guy kinda looks like Arngrim
No.3074
>>3073Oh wow, I watched that back in the day but it's been quite some time and I've never seen anyone else talk about it. That sure takes me back.
No.3088
Gonna have to break this posts into parts because fujochan couldn't take my great autism.
Tony Stark x Gene Khan from Ironman: Armoured adventures. Despite the show title it isn't as kiddy or childish as it seems and did surprise me a lot with some of the writing choices. It was very fun.
That aside, this ship has me by the ovaries. The Tony Stark of this alternative take is a 16 yo teenage boy who isn't an asshole or annoying or anything, he's just a normal dorky nerdy kid who's a genius, homeschooled, and rich. His dad dies in their private airplane crash and Tony survived using his iron man armored but got a heart injury yada yada yada. He has to go to highschool now and he lives with Rhody and Rhody's mom is his legal guardian. At school he meets Pepper Pots and they don't start dating until the literal last episode. Before that he has a slight better romance plot with and girl but she becomes "evil" so they can write her out of the story so Tony and Pepper can be a think.
Gene is the step-son of the chinese mafa overlord and is looking for the makluan rings and he ambushed his step-dad to get his rings then becomes the mandarin and looks for the rest of the rings. He meets Tony in the money laundering shop his step-dad owns that sells ancient chinese artifacts, and Tony asks him about the rings, which gets Gene interested in Tony and he ends up enrolling in the same highschool as him.
They hit it off immediately because they have some things in common, both lost their moms when they were young kids, are rich, have the responsibility of huge companies to be inherited from their fathers, and are kinda nerdy and are interested in the rings. So ofcourse they go on a private jet to get one of these rings together, alone, without the remaining friends of Tony's that he usually takes with him. Picrel is from that trip. And they had a great time together, and once Tony is back he gets scolded by a jealous Pepper and Rhody kek.
Their relationship keeps getting more developed by the end of s1, because Gene is lonely, has no friends, no real family, and grew up around organized crimes and criminals and was sort of abused by his step-dad. So he's THIRSTY for being treated kindly for once for a change.
No.3089
>>3088At some point, he and Tony were giggling and chatting during a class, which made Pepper so jealous she threw hands at Gene and it was hilarious. Ofcourse they got a punishment where she has to work with him on an assignment, which makes her get to know him and like him. The show was trying so hard to create a love triangle but it somehow looked like she considered him a rival, she even compared him to the other girl I mentioned above and said she was jealous of him getting closer to Tony, so it sounds like she sees him as competition or something. Ofcourse stuff like that can happen with friends but I find it hilarious.
Then it all came trembling down by the end of s1 when Tony revealed he's iron man to Gene in a life or death situation to save him, but Gene revealed he was the mandarin all along, and they had a giant fight. Then Gene revealed he bombed the plane that day and that he's keeping Tony's dad hostage to use him for his search for the rings, and didn't know Tony survived. Now this is awkward af because they became friends and got close and Gene genuinely got attached to Tony, but he's the one behind all the bad stuff in Tony's life as well.
Tony lets him go because he wants to see his dad again, and Gene IMMEDIATELY regrets all the things he did and wishes he didn't do any of it, because being with Tony made him happy and was more important than fulfilling his destiny as the mandarin or reviving his dead mother. Until he discovered there are more rings to collect than he thought, so he distracts himself with that instead.
Tony got so upset about this whole thing he actually physically locked himself up in his lab and barely ate or went to school, because he was hurt so badly by what I like to call the divorce. He became so hostile and mean spirited that he refused to help a guy who asked him for help due to a misunderstanding, that Pepper and Rhody had to force him to get back on his feet. He eventually moves on and decides that he hates Gene's guts but will try his best to continue being Ironman and save his dad one day.
Then Dr. Doom gets involved in all of this for some reason, with a back story where he accidentally killed his mom and gf when doing an experiment, and is trying to access all forms of magic and technology to bring them back, so ofcourse he has one of the rings Gene is after. And he goes and asks Tony for help in exchange of giving him back his dad. The balls on this kid, man. They defeat Dr. Doom and make him get eaten by a demon because ofcourse, and Gene lets Tony take his dad with him and says "do you still think I'm a monster?", bro is down bad, he wants this guy's approval so bad and cares what he thinks of him and wants to be back with him, I can't take it, it's too good.
No.3090
>>3089Then by the end of s2 it gets revealed the rings belong to an alien race and collecting all of them signals their location, so the alien race comes to get them back. And Gene is apparently like 1% alien which is why he can use the rings, and that could explain why he's kinda shredded and good at martial arts. He and Tony work together along with other people to save the earth, and it was Tony's 18th birthday that day so Gene joked "you can't say I didn't get you something for your birthday", fucking kek. After the fight is over, Tony was looking for Gene to talk to him to just come back and be a good guy, but Gene has ran away already talking to himself about how he should be a hero just like Tony. And man, I'm dying at how bittersweet this is. He really got inspired by him and is centering his whole existence around him at this point. Makes sense because he genuinely has no one else, so he's sort of obsessed with and codependent on him, but maybe that's why he thought leaving is a better idea. His step-dad died at some point and if I'm not mistaken he's 17 so he's officially an orphaned minor, though he has all the inheritance from his step-dad that he was secretly operating this whole time anyways. But it's really sad how he was so alone and his love for Tony is the only thing that made him happy, but he had to give that up so Tony x Pepper becomes canon lol.
The potential of this to be a great gay romance was wasted, but it was 2009 so it's understandable. And even though Tony and his dad forgave Gene for everything he did, and Tony got some superpower that healed his heart condition, it's still kinda awkward to date someone who did all of that to him kek.
The parallels between them and the drama of their relationship is so good. Though I wish it was more fleshed out and that we got some follow up about it in their future. I made a little continuation inside my head where they're adults and CEOs of their own companies, and Gene needs some super advanced tech for some work he's doing that only Tony has, so he decides to take it as a chance to talk to him again after all those years and apologize to him properly after finally realizing and understanding the extent of his mistakes. And Tony is hesitant at first because he didn't like how Gene ditched him so suddenly, but eventually warms up to him because they're just too attracted to each other to care. Then he breaks up with Pepper who he didn't have a good relationship with to begin with (canonically she was possessive and too jealous before they even started dating, she'd probably be a pain in an actual relationship), and he starts dating Gene whom he's truly happy with.
I know this is a very long post and I'm sorry for anyone who read all of this, but also thank you for reading this far.
No.3091
>>3090Came back to add something I remembered. The rings have some tests that need to be passed for their powers to be activated, and only a worthy person can do it. And in 90% of the time it was Tony passing the tests while Gene took the credit and the rings kek. But Gene respected and at the same time envied Tony's worthiness of the rings and was kinda impressed by it. I like this little fact about them because it gives "self-loathing loser who's in love with the person he wishes he was like". And it can lead to "I don't deserve you" kind of angst and comfort conversations and I'm a sucker for that shit.
No.3107
I'm really obsessed with Fleren. Struggled to find good fan art on pixiv or twitter. Surprisingly found some interesting stuff on tumblr and even better stuff of pinterest.
No.3121
>>3120This guy was absolutely wasted. I don't know why they didn't make it a character-focused conflict with him feeling taken advantage of by the townspeople and lashing out due to turning bitter over the years. Instead they just made him cartoonishly evil over the course of a single song. What a waste! An evil side honeslty makes more sense than believing its all one personality honestly, I approve of this ship.
No.3277
>>3276
>Dungeon Meshi ship
>Rarepair
No.3278
>>3277Rarer than the other ships, and frankly I just wanted to post it. I'll delete it if its the wrong thread for it.
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.