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Soooo ship review Ghost and Colon— or if you’ve already done that, Colon and Gavin (just messing around with the second one XD)

So I've actually done Colon and Gavin and I swore up and down that I'd done Ghost and Colon too, but while I was going through and tagging all of my ship reviews I couldn't find it! I was gonna write it either way since my opinions have changed on it but still, very weird to discover that haha

btw keep an eye out for my reblog right after this (tumblr likes to bury posts with links in them), it'll have a link directly to my Gavin/Colon review! <3

Ghost/Colon

okay so if i remember correctly, i wasn't crazy about this ship in the past, but mostly i just didn't know enough about Colon to actually ship him with anyone other than Spooker

if anything i say is ooc for colon please forgive me, im still not super knowledgeable on him haha

okay so i think i like this pair now

cause Colon is this really chill dude right? so chill that he gets along with GHOST of all people the first time they meet

Ghost is a total bitch, and if you don't know that's honestly how he shows affection that can be real off-putting

and that's probably how Ghost likes it. he doesn't like getting attached to people, he prefers to keep others at a distance and his hostile front is a part of that

but Colon has never been bothered by Ghost's bitchiness

maybe Colon knew from the beginning that it was a front, maybe he didn't, but either way, he was never bothered by it

but Ghost hates when people see through him, he doesn't want to be seen as weak, you know?

so he puts up more walls

he did it with spooker too, called him an idiot and was outwardly hostile, all the while keeping him on the team, despite his harsh words

he does the same with colon

but, and if you don't mind me saying, colon is just a tad bit brighter than spooker

and so, calmly, carefully, with that aura of chill confidence he always carries, he starts breaking down the walls that ghost has built between them

and maybe it starts with saying something like, "How was your weekend?" or. "Are you doing anything this saturday?"

and at first the answers are always standoffish and clipped, as if waiting for the other shoe to drop

but slowly "It was fine." turns to "Went downtown for lunch; it was awful." and "I'm busy." turns to "I've got an appointment at noon but after that I'm free."

and Colon can't help but smile encouragingly

and maybe they aren't the dates that Colon wishes they were, but they're something, and that counts, right?

and maybe spooker playfully ribs him about staring too long when ghost isn't looking (or when he thinks he isn't) and maybe toast gives him a sympathetic shoulder squeeze when ghost snaps at him a little harsher than usual one day

but it's fine.

he's fine with this.

it's better than nothing.

and that's his mantra for a while. it's better than nothing, he'll say to himself when he itches to hold Ghost's hand during a mission; when he lies awake at night thinking about this and that and all the things that could be, but aren't; when he looks between them and sees nothing but endless walls behind walls behind walls. It's better than nothing.

sometimes though, he'll look at spooker and wonder if it really is.

thinks maybe he'd be happier if he'd never started down this horrible winding path to misery, lined carefully with just enough hope to keep him going, but not enough to keep him from looking back.

but deep down, he knows if given the choice, he'd do it all again.

because even if it hurts, he knows without it he wouldn't get to see the rare smiles when he brings Ghost his coffee exactly how he likes it, with just enough creamer to dull the aftertaste, or when he hands ghost something he forgot to grab for a mission - they're small and quick enough that if you aren't looking for it you might miss it, but he knows it means something that Ghost is willing to show them at all.

even if he doesn't know exactly what it means.

but that's fine. he can wait.

Conclusion: OKAY well, that was a lot more angsty than I expected, but it really just wrote itself haha. anyways I'm running a little out of steam here but I'll give you a hint on how it ends: I think they'd work :)

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Maddie's Ship Review Masterlist!

[Tag: ship reviews]

I'm only including the original posts in this for organization's sake! for some of the more obscure ships I've given them my own ship names for funsies haha

PolyPie ToastedGhost

Spoon

Javin

Ghost/Jimmy

Sally/Maddie OLD

Jimmy/Spooker

Gavin/Colon

Spooker/Maxwell

Ghost/Toast/Amie

Ghost/Gavin

Ghost/Josh [TW: Larrydacat in comments!]

Josh/Jenny G/Jenny T

Sally/Josh

Maloney/Ghost (ParanormalCrimestoppers?)

Josh/Maddie

Josh/Sue/Katrina

Gavin/Spooker

Sue/Maddie

Sue/Josh

Slendally

Amie/Maxwell

Maddie/Colon

Toast/Spooker (SpookyBread :3)

Ship-me-nots

Amie/Sally

Toast/Ghost/Casket (BurntGrave)

Ghost/Spooker (Ghooker my beloved)

Spencer/Ghost (NerdsUnite also this is chaos I may rewrite it)

Ghost/Colon (DeadInsides via @/overthinkingtaleblr!)

Light Zeron/Maloney (I'm dubbing this SirenZeron)