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[oyceter]

Baaa, am sheep:

Comment with the name/title of a fandom I'm aware of, no matter how obvious you think the answers will be, and I'll reply you with the relationships - canon or not - from it I ship. I'll give favorite romantic relationships as well as favorite platonic ones. Also, you're free to reply in subthreads and ask me why I ship or don't ship something.

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[shati.livejournal.com]

Oh, decisions . . .

BtVS!

[oyceter]

Hrm, I've been out of fandom for so long that I don't particularly ship anyone romantically. I mean, yes to the established couples, but they aren't what really interests me.

Platonic:
Buffy-Dawn: I love how Buffy tries so hard to protect Dawn, and I love Dawn, who is a whiny little sister who tries to help as well. The scenes on the tower and in Bargaining always kill me, as do the ones in "Forever" when they switch roles for a few seconds.

The Scoobies: admittedly, my love for them dimmed a little in S7, but I love my little group of outcasts and how they work to try and make things better!

Buffy-Giles: Bestest mentor-mentee relationship ever. Except S7. We will ignore that.

[jessibot.livejournal.com]

Aha. FMA.

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(sorry, reposting to fix HTML)

Romantic:

Roy/Hawkeye: Ok, maybe not in the schmoopy romantic way, because I can't see them being too sappy, but I love the respect between them, Roy's teasing, and Hawkeye reining him in, which he desperately needs.

Whiting this one out for spoilers!
Lust/Scar: It's so wrong! But I love it so much anyway! It's the sublimation and the "my body moved before I could think to protect you" thing, the vague stirrings of humanity in Lust, the very wrong history between the two.

Platonic:
All the military guys: I particularly love Roy and Hughes and the interesting dynamic between them, but I am a total sucker for loyalty. And I love that you can tell there's something more to Roy than the scheming ladder-climber that he first seems to be because of the loyalty he inspires from the guys, and I love that he protects them in turn.

Ed and Al: You knew this was coming. Ed and Al! They are the center and the heart of the series for me; I love how much they are willing to sacrifice for each other and how much they care for each other. I love Ed's attempts to be the big brother and shield Al, I love Al as Ed's conscience, and I love it when they're goofy and Al's yelling at Ed. I wouldn't love this series as much if I didn't have all this love for the Elrics.

Izumi and her husband: it's never really emphasized, but I like how quiet it is, how she can lean on him and how she takes her own space to do her own thing.

[jessibot.livejournal.com]

Roy/Riza: Yeah, this will probably end up being canon eventually in the manga I suppose. And the prospect of that doesn't actually irritate me - I can respect Riza and what she stands for, and of course I have undying love for Roy already. So even though my mind wants RoyxEd badly, the reality isn't awful either.

And of course I keep thinking of Roy's playfulness putting the glasses on her and commenting 'not bad'...

Spoiler couple: (what's the code for whiting out on LJ anyway?) Hee, I always thought it was so very, very sweet on his behalf. The classic crush on your brother's girl. It honestly helped a lot in redeeming his character from my perspective, given everything he did. Proof that he's still human inside.

Military: I never seemed to get the same connection with Hughes that everybody else did. I mean, funny guy, very devoted and caring, and willing to protect his friends against everything, but... I dunno. There always seemed to be something lacking, he never felt fully fleshed out. I prefer the relationship between Havoc and Roy, even if it clearly wasn't as deep.

Ed and Al: Yeah, I have no comments to make. It's all love.

And Izumi's husband is just incredible. He's always there, but never in a way that puts pressure on their relationship. I love how he walks that line.

Other relationships, platonic wise, I get a kick out of Ed/Al/Winry. There's just so much history between the three of them. Winry is always complaining that she never knows what's going on, but when it comes down to it, they don't even have to share words to understand the gist of each other's problems. It's sweet. But I hope it stays platonic.

And I constantly wish a deeper friendship/understanding had been given a chance to develop between Martel and Al. She ended up doing so much for him in such a short time.

[oyceter]

Code for whiting out spoilers: <span class="color:white;background-color:white">Spoilery text here </span>

I think I didn't quite get into Ed/Al/Winry just because Winry doesn't have that large of a role to play in the anime, though I've heard she gets more to do in the manga, yay.

I really like the Martel/Al relationship as well!

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Naruto!

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This is going to be long, because there are a lot of character interactions in Naruto that I like.

Romantic:

Ok, I don't really ship anyone in Naruto romantically. Maybe Shikamaru/Temari, but even then my mind sort of blanks out because of the age thing, and because I like them better pre-romance than during, if that makes sense.

Platonic:

Naruto and Iruka: AWWWWWW! I feel that is all I need to say ;).

Naruto and Jiraiya: They summon frogs! Jiraiya whaps him around and runs off to check out hot women, but he's also the first person who really sits down with Naruto and teaches him technique. Also... frogs!

Team 7: Do I really need to explain this?

Shikamaru and Chouji: Childhood friends! Awww!

Spoilery ones that I am whiting out:
Naruto and Sakura: Not as a romantic ship, but I love so much how they interact after the timeskip arc, how they've both gained respect for each other and how committed they are to getting Sasuke back.

Sand Sibs: It's been so cool watching their relationship develop, from insane!Gaara to Kankuro trying to fight to the death to keep his little brother from being kidnapped.

Tsunade and Jiraiya: Normally I'd include Orochimaru because I love trios, but... he's boring. Plus, they're a lot more interesting without him and with the effects of his defection on them. They've seen so much and lost so much together.

This is cheating a little, but I love the Hokage-village dynamic, how all the village is supposed to be the Hokage's precious people, the Third and the Fourth sacrificing their lives for Konoha, Tsunade's assumption of the old duty.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Deleted due to white-out failure. That relationship. You know. It's my favorite, because it's so intense and meaningful despite being so brief in terms of actual interaction.

[oyceter]

Eep! I can't believe I forgot that relationship! That is my favorite, actually, because of the change and the great illustration of why Naruto is the hero of the series despite not necessarily being the best fighter or the smartest or having the most chakra.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Angel Sanctuary! Godchild!

[oyceter]

Angel Sanctuary (whiting out all of these for spoilers up through vol. 17):

Romantic:

Uh. Where to start?

Setsuna/Kira: ZOMG ear piercing and blood and limits under the facade of being schoolmates!

Kira/Alexiel: Because of the doomed incarnations and the final one breaking away from the fate planned out for Alexiel.

Alexiel/Lucifer: The epicness! The forbidden nature!

And pretty much all combinations of Alexiel/Setsuna and Kira/Lucifer.

Lucifer/Mad Hatter: The insanity! The dirty wrongness!

Mad Hatter/Kurai: more insanity and dirty wrongness!

Raphael/his cool female subordinate whose name I still can't remember: I feel like Raphael really needs to be one-upped by a woman, and she seems to be the person to do it.

To be honest, I don't have that many platonic ships in this fandom, not because I don't like them, but because Yuki Kaori writes in such a way that every single relationship is potentially romantic.

[oyceter]

Godchild:

Riff and Cain! You knew that was coming ;). Honestly, I haven't read enough to know more character relationships -- Merryweather and Cain bore me because she's so good and innocent, Cain and Jezebel bore me because Jezebel is so obviously insane and not even in an interesting way, and Cain and his father bore me for the same reasons that Cain and Jezebel do. But there is scar-touching, and Riff can always find Cain!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Firefly.

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Romantic:

Zoe/Wash: I love that they're a stable married couple, and that they complement each other.

Jane/Vera: *snerk*

Platonic:

River/Simon: Ok, it's not quite platonic, or on that weird edge in between, but River and Simon ended up being the center of the show for me. It has the older-younger sibling dynamic which always gets to me, and the stifling, paranoid atmosphere in which they both know they can only depend on each other in the very end.

Kaylee/Mal: I like the sibling dynamic here as well, and how Mal really does try and protect Kaylee in his own misguided way until he ends up hurting her dreadfully, and the way Kaylee can sometimes keep him in check.

Mal/Zoe: I like that they aren't romantic, that Zoe follows him loyally but not blindly, that she will stand up to him if need be as well. I love the shared history and the shared pain and the different ways each of them reacts to it.