I'm going to be fully honest, I hate the use of problematic as a coined term for fictional ships. I feel like problematic has just become one of those terms tossed around at anything and everything and often used as a gotcha net.
"I don't care about your ships as long as they're not problematic."
Okay. Are we talking about incest or just a ship where they have clashing political opinions?
Am I not allowed to ship the sentient wolf creature with the twink or am I not allowed to ship the two middle aged store clerks who have different views on wanting children?
What if one half of my canon ship gets de-aged to eighteen? Is it suddenly problematic to ship them for as long as that character remains de-aged?
What kind of age brackets are we defining as problematic these days? What are the cut-off points for when its not problematic for two people to fall in love? What if one person has a birthday before the other one and for a few months they're not part of that acceptable bracket anymore?
Problematic is just being used as a one-word way to shut people down and force them to comply with your own expectations and boundaries. Problematic is thrown around as a way to box people into behaving and existing in ways that make you comfortable.
"I don't like the way that you exist so I'm going to brand you as this negative word that forces you to change to suit my preferences or be shunned by society."
Problematic means to constitute as or to present a problem. It is not the shiny new term for 'if you ship this thing you're a terrible person.'
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Bingo on Bowigi and Booigi
Bowuigi :
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I still can't believe that the thing that got me out of a 2 years writing block is Luigi and Bowser from Mario fucking, and all because of that damn trailer. It opened the gates, my friends. It opened the flood gates.
I have two settings for this ship : teeth-rotting fluff or fucked up angst, BUT in every case it has to have Luigi being a little freak for Bowser's Bad Dragon 8D
I'm sorry for the people who get uncomfortable with such ships but I like when it's love at first murder attempt <3
I like it when fics make it about both of them having insecurities and bringing out the best AND the worst of each other.
Booigi :
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The key difference between Bowuigi and Booigi is that Booigi is funny because Luigi and KB are sworn enemies (well, on KB's side at least), while Bowuigi is funny because they are NOT supposed to mean anything to each other.
I have so many "bad endings" to Luigi's Mansion games, you have no idea...
Even when I don't ship them (like in a verse/AU/fic where Luigi is with someone else), you can be sure King Boo plays a role, usually Luigi going "before we start dating I have to tell you about this guy who wants my head on a plate or at least in a painting."
Ask me about a ship and I'll fill the bingo card
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sephiroth and/or reno for the character ask thingy if you're still accepting! you can do either or both it's up to you <3
OOOH THE TIDDY SQUAD
For the Opinion Meme || Still accepting!
Sephiroth
Sexuality Headcanon: Aaaah, Sephiroth. I see Sephiroth as more or less demisexual with surprisingly (to him) possessive romantic leanings when his emotions are engaged.
Gender Headcanon: Cis male. I'm so boring with gender headcanons. XD
A ship I have with said character: All right, surprising no one, I adore Sephiroth/Tseng. Like, I just think they're so good for each other before, you know, Nibelheim. I think Sephiroth needs someone patient with him, someone willing to let him go at his own pace when it comes to figuring things out, and Tseng is very happy to let him do so.
That said, I also really like Sephiroth/Genesis. I tried my best to get some written for Sephesis Week, but I just couldn't get the dynamic I wanted on the page. I'll have to try again.
A BROTP I have with said character: Angeal and Genesis and Glenn and Lucia and Matt. I just. I want Sephiroth to have all of the friends, tbh. T_T
A NOTP I have with said character: I used to ship Aerith/Sephiroth really hard when I was young (I feel like in part because it side-stepped me out of the Aerith/Cloud/Tifa thing), but honestly, I don't know that I could ship them together anymore. It would be... It would have to be a very weird relationship, and most of what I see just tries to push it into very simple boxes.
A random headcanon: Sephiroth is quietly brilliant with all things science-related, and when Gast was still around, he was occasionally allowed to follow Reeve around the Science department as he did work on reactor designs. This lasted until Gast vanished and Hojo took over, when Sephiroth was around eight.
A year later, Reeve took the reactors from Science and started putting together what would eventually be Urban Development, and the next time he and Sephiroth saw one another, Sephiroth was a SOLDIER and Reeve was a director.
General Opinion over said character: I love Sephiroth. I have a particular soft spot for sane!Sephiroth, mostly because that's the time period I prefer to write in.
BONUS! A song I associate with the character: Midnight, by Jorge Mendez.
Reno of the Turks
Sexuality Headcanon: Aromantic, and definitely on the asexual spectrum. He is perfectly happy to have sex with someone-- no repulsion or anything; he just doesn't feel sexual attraction to any individual.
That said, he'd climb Rude like a tree, if Rude will let him. In no small part because he is 100% aware that Rude experiences romantic and sexual attraction, and Reno wants their partnership to be unbreakable on Rude's end.
Gender Headcanon: Cis male, but he's far less attached to the 'male' part of his identity than most of my characters.
A ship I have with said character: I... don't know that I have any happy ships with Reno, but I have plenty of absolutely heartbreaking ones.
Reno/Rude - A classic for a reason, but I suspect Rude leans a little more straight than most of my others, so it's always temporary to some degree.
Tseng/Reno - Ah, Tseng/Reno. A favorite and the bane of my existence, all at once. Basically, my default Reno and Tseng are in a D/s relationship where Tseng has carte blanche to tell Reno... anything. Because of that, I write it where Tseng would never let himself press into a sexual relationship with Reno, just because he knows that Reno cannot tell him no emotionally. For more information on this, I recommend my "Reno and Loyalty" meta that I just cross-posted from my old RP blog!
Reno/Elena/Rude - So this starts out as Reno wanting to tie Elena into the group a little more during the OG. (Curious what that looks like? I've written it here.) And when it's become a regular thing and they have a rhythm and everything, Reno... slowly pulls back. It's after AC and everything, and it's really gradual. And he doesn't pull back from them because he dislikes them or anything, he just... He knows what long term relationships are supposed to look like, and they don't usually include "someone like him," you know?
Reno/Tifa/Rude - This starts out super great, but just like Reno/Elena/Rude, will almost inevitably end with Reno pushing Rude and Tifa together and drifting off from them.
A BROTP I have with said character: Reno and any Turk, frankly.
A NOTP I have with said character: Mm. Most Tseng/Reno stuff, frankly. But not because I don't love it! I just love... specific variants of it.
A random headcanon: Reno has five younger sisters that he's responsible for. They live in the slums when he's first hired on into the Turks, but eventually, Reno gets them moved Above the Plate.
General Opinion over said character: Reno was the first canon FF7 character that I ever RPed, well over 20 years ago now. He's got a special spot in my heart, as I'm sure you can tell, given my icon is basically this icon on everything.
BONUS! A song I associate with the character:
There ain't no scene in the VIP for me
So you can take your class, shake your ass
And drown in that martini
'Cause there ain't no scene in the VIP for me
It's understood that you're all too good
This shit is crazy
[...]
I wanna get down, down and get dirty
Sick of this scene, it doesn't deserve me
Uh-oh, there's gotta be somewhere else to go
'Cause I wanna get off, get a bit trashy
Wanna get hot, get a bit nasty
Uh-oh, baby, let's go
-- VIP, by Ke$ha
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