Here via emmagrant01. It's so interesting to read other people's reasons for shipping!
For me, about 95% of the time, I ship a pairing because I feel like they share a certain (often unresolved) chemistry in canon that I want to explore. I often don't mean to - I don't go into something (be it a show or a movie or a book or even a sport) looking for ships, it just happens. Two characters / people share a moment and my brain goes, "Oh" and that's it.
I don't even have to like the characters - there are quite a number of pairings that I ship passionately when I don't like either partner, but the chemistry is what gets me every time.
The other 5% it's a bit like frodosweetstuff said above: falling in love with a character and wanting a happy ending for them, in which case it doesn't necessarily have to be about canon chemistry because there are a couple of cases when I actually ship those pairings who barely / never shared any 'screen time', but that's really the exception.
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Date: 2014-06-23 02:15 pm (UTC)For me, about 95% of the time, I ship a pairing because I feel like they share a certain (often unresolved) chemistry in canon that I want to explore. I often don't mean to - I don't go into something (be it a show or a movie or a book or even a sport) looking for ships, it just happens. Two characters / people share a moment and my brain goes, "Oh" and that's it.
I don't even have to like the characters - there are quite a number of pairings that I ship passionately when I don't like either partner, but the chemistry is what gets me every time.
The other 5% it's a bit like