#handon : s2

[winnie-the-monster]

With you.

Without you.

[occulthours]

out of curiosity, are you a hosie or a hizzie? you're pretty loud about your dislike for handon, but i rarely see you post either hosie or hizzie.

Honestly, I had to think hard to answer this because I really did enjoy aspects of both ships. Short answer, I like both but don't love either. If I had to choose I would likely say Hizzie.

With Hosie I feel like they lacked a lot of the depth despite them being the most popular ship in the show. Ironically enough, they followed in KC's footsteps in that sense. They never really had enough build-up for them to start a relationship at any point in the show and it didn't help that the writers seemingly put a ban on them in s3. After being called out for queerbaiting the audience they just decided to completely cut Hope and Josie off from each other, even in situations that would've called for them to interact (s2 literally ended with them having an episode heavily centric on their dynamic, yet there was no follow up in s3?).

Their dynamic for the most part bored me, even as someone who enjoys the friends-to-lovers trope. Often times their scenes felt a bit empty, which definitely could’ve been intentional on the writers part to dissuade people from shipping them to be fair! They just didn’t get enough content for me to fully jump on board. I do think that out of Hope's popular ships, they had the best chemistry. They felt very natural in the scenes they shared and could've been great in canon. Had DRR and Kaylee been given the chance, Hosie would’ve been one of the few canon Legacies ships that had real romantic chemistry.

Hope and Lizzie’s relationship very clearly the star of the show. The best elements of the show were jumpstarted by their relationship (their rivals-to-friends era in s1, their hilarious scenes in s2 and 3, and their tribrid/heretic, sirebond, and enemies era in s4). The writers put more effort into Hizzie than any other aspect of the show, including Hope and Lizzie's canon relationships with their boring boyfriends. Typically, Hizzie is the thing the Legacies writers are praised for the most, and the praise is deserved.

Based on the writing alone Hizzie would've gone down as one of my favorite TVDU ships, maybe even one of my favorite ships period. But I don’t think DRR and Jenny have much romantic chemistry. Very close friends and platonic soulmates, yes. Girlfriends... I'd have to actually see it to believe it. They had the potential to start something, especially in season 4, but I’m not sure how it would feel to actually watch them have romantic scene.

It’s hard to say which I'd rather have been canon because of this. I can't see how Hope and Josie’s relationship being entertaining to watch (assuming that I can't go back and rewrite their relationship) and unless DRR and Jenny were specifically toning down whatever romantic chemistry they may have, I can't see myself rooting for them to kiss on screen. If I absolutely had to choose? Before s4 I would’ve said Hizzie by a long shot, but s4 gave Hosie an edge (I love ships where one or both of them are obsessively down bad and s4 Josie fit that to a T. Josie caring more about the girl that beat her father nearly to death, threatened to kill her mother, and actually killed her sister? EAT EAT EAT!), but also the sirebond gave Hizzie a bit of an edge (how could you not get even a little buzz from “I hate you for making me love you”?)… Hizzie was the first Legacies ship I fell for so I feel like I’m always gonna be a bit bias towards them.

I’d choose either one of these ships over the train wreck that was Hope and Landon in a heartbeat though! Both had potential to be excellent in their own ways if H.ndon wasn’t shoved down our throats.

[evilpenguinrika]

unpopular opinion

i may be primarily Hosie, but i actually really liked Jandon and didn't mind early Handon and I'm currently plotting out a Hosandon/Handosie (?) throuple fic during the whole shitstorm that was s2 because i can and we should have gotten Hope/Josie/Landon complicated messy relationship throuple situation instead of the stupid love triangle bs

the life of a multishipper does not rest

[kmze]

I think JP pulled a Kevin Williamson on Legacies haha. I think she wanted Mizzie to be endgame but then she left legacies on season 3 then only come back at the last eps of the final season and made Mizzie endgame. I haven’t watch Legacies S4 yet but I remember people saying Mizzie barely have scenes on S3 and S4A and then suddenly they are endgame on the last episode and everyone was bitching about it haha that’s why I think JP pulled a KW 😆

HAHAHA it was kinda random in the finale I was like oh yeah this will they won't they thing. I actually liked them in S2 I think it was but then I ended up liking Ethan and MG more (though I kind of throupled them with Lizzie because that's what I do). Legacies S2&3 are just a mess, they really suffered because of the pandemic because they kept having to move the ending seasons episodes to the following season and the mythology just became so convoluted I can't even remember most of the story arcs those seasons. S4 made me switch my ship allegiance to Hizzie though (their dynamic that season was *chefs kiss*) , I do still have a soft spot for Handon though but I also love Lizdon as a crackship so like again just give me Hope, Landon and Lizzie in a throuple. That's probably why I didn't like the Mizzie "endgame" despite liking them in the past because Lizzie is just too interesting for just that.

[handonhaven]

HANDON in 1.08

[legaciescw]

Did you mean what you said about not knowing why I picked you? Legacies S02E11 (requested by anon)

[pinkhysteria]

yeah, been said a million times, but Those People are actual losers. it’s actually incredibly weird to suddenly pretend to care about matt again + imply that the show has an obligation to be cancelled just because josie left. “THEY’RE KEEPING MATT OVER PRECIOUS KAYLEE? CANCEL THE SHOW!!” but y’all stayed tuned in when it was peyton right? 🤔

yes, matt sucks. everybody knows he sucks. everybody knows he’s racist. matt has sucked since tvd when he’d spend his time belittling bonnie fans and being a freak. to/tvd/julie have been a hotspot of issues for years, and guess what, we all still decided to tune in for part three. the cast still decided they want to work under julie! there’s no high horse now just because your favorite amongst the mess tapped out for reasons none of us know. 

and this faux-outrage happening is especially rich coming from the side of the fandom that decided to spend 90% of its time bitching about landon/finch/etc instead of alaric. blamed finch for jed/kaleb not getting a backstory, when alaric has been there much longer. was crying about aria’s billing placement, when that time could’ve gone to asking why matt remained part of the cast at all. the beginning of the year they were circulating that petition to get rid of landon - advocating for a moc to be unemployed, that’s right 😱, before evil racist matt davis! 

but now they all suddenly give a fuck and have to put their foot down and demand the show be cancelled, and all of us are supposed to play stupid and pretend it has anything to do with real values rather than being the result of a petty tantrum over a ship. grow up. 

all anyone is entitled to is withholding their viewership (as, frankly, many of you probably should’ve done back in s3.) that’s it! nobody else owes you anything! 

[legaciesgifworld]

[mostlyrubbish]

Girlfriends Hosie and best friends Hizzie rights

[landonkirbyappreciation]

Requested

[josettessaltzman]

hope mikaelson + hugs

[winnie-the-monster]

“I figured out why I was so obsessed with it. The story is about learning to say goodbye. I think Raf leaving is hitting me harder than I thought.”

“I know.”

[legaciesdaily]

[bibridlizzie]

Bi Handon (Bi Hope x Bi Landon)

[comic-book-jawns]

Regardless of whether you ship Hosie, Handon or Jandon, is anyone else just really proud of Hope for being so open with Josie after closing herself off from everyone for so long?

[handonhaven]

Handon + writing

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