#lemony x hector

[beatricebidelaire]

shipping ask meme: hector/lemony, kit/justice strauss

(i had to really wrack my brain for things i don’t think you’ve even talked about because you are such a rare pair multi shipper :D :D :D)

thanks mayo this is excellent i love seeing new rare pairs <3

so initially i thought, for hector/lemony, i can see the potential to explore the dynamic of, two people who grew up into adults that their teenage selves would be disappointed with ("she's not just your associate, snicket, she's your sister" vs H's inaction wrt J in tvv) but then once i start thinking about H's inaction wrt J in tvv ...... and then i decided to switch my answer from "ship it" to "don't ship it"

hector/lemony:

Why don’t you ship it?

so when i was still considering answering this ask with "ship it" i was going to make a case about considering hector could possibly survive post-canon, there's a chance of meeting up again, potentially, and it'd be interesting to explore their pre-canon vs post-canon dynamic, the difference of it all, which is not something a lot of pairings get to do because so many people died. but then they never did have much time pre-canon, and post-canon ..... there's jacques's death. i don't know if lemony would be able to forgive hector for that, or even if lemony could, if hector himself would be able to get over it and not that it hang between them. i believe they're good friends in teenage years (good enough that hector visits him) but after all that, too much has happened.

What would have made you like it?

given my previous answer it felt like i might say "tvv happened differently and H's inaction didn't partially lead to J's death" but hector's brief appearances in both asoue and atwq and the contrast in those appearances is what makes his character so interesting. if we removed that, removing that from the books - it's also not what i would've wanted. so it's sort of a paradox, really. the thing that made them impossible for me is simultaneously what made their dynamic so interesting to explore (but not in a romantic way)

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

their dynamics is really interesting to think about (as listed above) and i believe they were friends, once, and i like that and enjoy that. also hector's iconic first line in atwq "so the butler did it" is delightful and i'd like to think maybe they've discussed mystery novels when they were younger. it's fun!

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kit/justice strauss

okay admittedly i've never considered them before but i can see it, i think, so i'm going to answer this one as "ship it"

What made you ship it?

bec's horse girl headcanons about kit and justice strauss canonically being a horse thief when she was younger - so i can see them having this to bond over when they were younger! picture kit and strauss, maybe in their late teenage years or early 20s, crossing paths. or maybe strauss stole one of kit's horses (beasme parallel!) very fun to think about. i wish i can give you more details but i myself don't actually know that much about horses aside from all horses are the same color paradox

What are your favorite things about the ship?

i am now imagining that one time kit had to get out of a tight spot and needed to escape someone (possibly the authorities) but couldn't access her taxi or any other cars, and strauss was passing by with horses she just stole and they sort of travelled together for a while. which is a lovely image to think about.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

hmmm .... i am drawing a blank. i don't think there are even popular or unpopular opinions concerning them.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

I need gen fic so badly..... I’ve seen a few other people say they want it too, can we get some [found]family stuff, pls, I need it to live OTL. So much hurt/comfort potential. I’ve written two myself shameful self promotion but we need so much more than I can ever find. D’:

In general, I think this fandom has a lot of unexplored and sub-explored territory when it comes to fanfic, and it’s no one’s fault in particular. We have many great authors, some who constantly gift us with lots of content, we have quality novel-length stories, and we have fics from the early 00s that survived to this day. Our fic writers are doing their best and they are delivering. 

What I think is that we don’t have a big enough number of fic writers, compared to the potential we have. There are a lot of characters, a lot of scenes that can be expanded on, not to mention potential AUs and pairings, and not enough people to write all of them.