Oh, why not?

[mark_asphodel]

 Stolen from raphien :

Provide pairing and I'll whip up the following:

1. When or if I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:

Comments

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

1) I didn't ship any Lyn/Anything at first, because I'd seen several flavors of Lyn wank in my days in SSB:M fandom and found it repulsive. But I turned around some time late in '09. I admit part of the reason I do ship them is political (in the context of the game, not in fandom)-- I am not totally comfortable with the idea of Lyn bailing on Caelin after people died over the succession issue, and I like the idea that Lilina's career as the unifying force of Lycia starts off with the legitimate union of Ostia and Caelin. And while "combative" relationships usually aren't my thing, I do find their interactions to be cute.

2) Their personality quirks. And yeah, Lyn would be homesick for Sacae, but in my personal experience, if you do love someone, you can deal with not going home again. Especially when the "home" you grew up in really isn't there anymore (parents dead, tribe disassembled, and so on). The pair of them aren't really cut out to be the front-and-center couple of Lycian political life.

3) The Lilina thing, above. Also, in spite of the tease/insult nature of a lot of their interactions, they do hit my warm-and-fuzzy spot.

4) Well, if they marry, then Lyn is guaranteed an early exit from the scene... and Hector's life doesn't go so well, either. He's a character set up by canon to fail, and no amount of cool or funny or awesome will erase that.

5) I wish their ending hadn't been so generic. Fail, IS, for copy-pasting all Hector's paired endings.

6) I like Lyn's ending with Florina. It doesn't have to be a romantic ending, though I'm fine with that too. Also wish she'd had an ending with Wil, heh. As for Hector, he works well with Farina and I personally like the thought of him with Serra.

7) Um... well, it's inherent in the nature of the pairing that they don't get one (long-term, anyway). So hopefully the time they have together is satisfying enough.