#the truth to those few ships that snuck into my gen fic

[pencilofawesomeness]

I saw a previous ask about ships and as someone that loves gen stuff I highly appreciate how you decided to focus on family and friendship, the world needs more gen fluffness so I love you for that. That being said, I think the fixed ships I saw for now are jerza and zervis? You said the ships weren't going to be a spoiler or anything, so is it alright if I ask?

Yesss gen fluff for the win! I just want to write friends and found family man.

That said, for plot and character reasons, and since this series spans over the course of years and with tons of characters, I can't really avoid it. (And, I mean, there's a few ships I do enjoy. Just passively and stuff.)

So yeah, list! No problem. Not everything is super set in stone, though, and it's pretty background I promise you. Mostly because I am Terrible at writing romance. I don't understand it, lol. So even though they sneak in there, I'm not going to write the romance part in the fore front.

Zeref/Mavis are sprinkled in there, for sure, largely because their romance kinda is a big plot point, what with the mutual cursing each other and all.

Jellal/Erza also, as you said. I pretty much just see them as super close and kinda mushy while also being awkward. I am told that that's attraction, lol. Pretty much what you see now already is what you get. Them being mutual confidants and what-not. Maybe a little too codependent, but getting better.

Gajeel/Levy will probably also make an appearance, but I have also found that I am incapable of writing them as anything but Best Friends, with teasing that probably edges the line into flirting. I think. Close enough.

Alzack/Bisca are still a thing. I don't really mess with them from canon much, lol, so I can't see it differently. Besides.... Asca.......

This is is a maybe, because it's sneaking up on me, but Cana/Juvia might be a thing. I'm sitting here drafting dynamics and every time I leave it for five minutes, I turn around and squint at it, trying to figure out if that crosses the line into romantic or nah. They're playing red-light-green-light with me in my story planning, I swear.

That's it really. Or at least all I can think of. Otherwise it's like... past-past stuff, or way in the background. Like people's parents and what not. Essentially I'm mainly sticking with fairly established stuff here, character-wise, with the exception of Juvicana potentially jumping from platonic to romantic when I'm not looking. Or it'll stay platonic, but just deeply so, like intended. But that one is probably gonna stay "interpret it however" because not even I am a good judge on that one. Granted it's early. Things evolve when I start actually writing it, lol.

And, uh, confession time with slight future spoiler: I'm mainly in it for the potential of kiddos. Romance is a means to an end. I want to go full circle and get some little ones running around and maybe make Acno a granddad by the end of this shebang. The only reason I cross the line from "it's in the background so interpret it however you want" is because I can't hide the fondoodling I need to get the babies. Which is sooooo very not gonna happen on screen don't worry. But you know. That's it.

#htryds #ask #anon #the truth to those few ships that snuck into my gen fic #ngl half of it really is just me recognizing that canon does put them together #but putting my elbows into it and exploring development to make some of that a bit healthier #i'm hella ace but not completely oblivious #to relationships I mean #attraction is a myth to me but I'll believe that you guys go through that #im taking your word for it #but yeah ummmm i do want some endgame stuff here #just a smidge #grow the family and whatnot #so I had to break some characters out of my ace bubble wrap #also again for plot reasons like with zervis #their pining got us into this mess #time to find out if it can get them out #but i'm probably never gonna write anything more than hugging/cuddling #we keeping this gen as a genre still #if you couldn't tell by the hilariously short list #when you consider how gosh darn big this series is #like I can't even think about other guilds that's too much work #are there established relationship there? #sherry and rin I think? #idk if i'll ever need to address it so I probably won't #hopefully that answers your question anon #and if it wasn't clear yeah i don't write romance i barely know how #don't really want to bother with it either lol #I am happy in my gen bubble