#they're both about unconditional love but category one is tragic and category two is tender and sweet. kind of. lmao. i love insane men.

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

like i said before and will continue saying for perhaps ever it’s very very. Telling. about me that i always get really attached to *ships that are basically just overly dedicated male/male friendships/frenemies that get separated and then reunite and them reuniting is an important plotpoint in the thing. and the reunion’s all Messy and Complicated because they fell out or ended on just. a general bad note. and All The Feelings (good and bad) come back up to the surface to bite once again.

primary examples being philip and neville from thtdb, herbert and paul from madhouse, and sil.co and van.der from ar.cane. to name a handful i’ve been pretty attached to.

or *ships that are like. dedicated male/male friendship where one of them is the isolated, Insane genius and the other is their dedicated, lonely bestie who would do anything for them. and the insane one is kinda of a prick but actually insecure and the unconditional bestie reassures them and kinda. tames their temper a bit just by finally being a positive force in the insane one’s life. and they find solace in each other’s support and even just mere presence. :).

primary example being sherlock and watson, Of Course. i’d also put victor and hans in revenge of frankenstein and victor and hans 2 in evil of frankenstein up there, too.

(though with victor and hans it’s kind of implied they eventually fell out after the events of revenge by the lack of hans kleve in later entries in the series. which drives me up the wall :) if you take it as it’s own thing, they get a happy ending, but if not, then they don’t. which just. adds so much more to victor and hans 2′s dynamic in evil of frankenstein if you view the two movies as chronological/evil as a continuation of revenge with a time-skip explaining away hans’s absense.)

*(fandom-y ships, yes, but also more. hm. observational ships? like you don’t ship it in a ‘they’re cute together’ way but in a ‘them being together/having feelings for each other is either so implicit that it might as well be canon or is just much more narratively interesting to look at within context of the media than them being only friends, etc. you don’t necessarily ‘ship’ them but you prefer to interpret them as such.)