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next_to_normal) wrote2012-10-18 12:37 pm
next_to_normal) wrote2012-10-18 12:37 pm
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Wrong!shipping Meme - Day 4
The full list of days, if you want to play along.
Day 4: The ship that would ruin/assassinate the characters if it happened.
Anne Boleyn/Henry VIII (The Tudors)
(Icons from these caps are here.)
I had a REALLY hard time with this one, mostly because it's hard for me to conceive of shipping something that would ruin a character for me. I mean, if I ship a pairing, it's usually because I think it makes the characters more interesting and/or makes a better story (at least in theory - sometimes the actual execution doesn't live up to the potential). And there is no moral high ground in this bar, so I'm not judging the characters for their relationship choices, even if it is objectively a terrible decision that will almost certainly end in disaster. Isn't that the whole point of wrong!shipping? lol
If anyone has any other interpretations of this question that might be more apt, I'm open to suggestions.
But I opted to take it extremely literally and went with a ship that actually left one of the characters ruined and executed (which is close enough to assassination for me). Talk about ending in disaster.
Anne Boleyn/Henry VIII (The Tudors)
(Icons from these caps are here.)
I had a REALLY hard time with this one, mostly because it's hard for me to conceive of shipping something that would ruin a character for me. I mean, if I ship a pairing, it's usually because I think it makes the characters more interesting and/or makes a better story (at least in theory - sometimes the actual execution doesn't live up to the potential). And there is no moral high ground in this bar, so I'm not judging the characters for their relationship choices, even if it is objectively a terrible decision that will almost certainly end in disaster. Isn't that the whole point of wrong!shipping? lol
If anyone has any other interpretations of this question that might be more apt, I'm open to suggestions.
But I opted to take it extremely literally and went with a ship that actually left one of the characters ruined and executed (which is close enough to assassination for me). Talk about ending in disaster.