@sarashouldbestudying are you a mind reader? Just yesterday I was contemplating making a page for my blog so I could gush over my ships. I didn’t in the end because I figured that would turn into gushing over shows generally and that it would get long and boring with me just going “ahhhh I love it!” a lot 🙂 *rolls eyes at self*
Anyway this is the excuse I’ve been looking for *cracks knuckles* and just like you, I’m going to stick to one per show or I’d go over five. Although … maybe not? There are different levels of ships or more accurately levels of obsession on my part.
Rumbelle (Rumple and Belle, Once Upon a Time)
^^ the moment I started shipping them, especially with how awkward they were afterwards! I mean Rumbelle is just a given on this list right? Over 500k on AO3 says I have a *cough* minor obsession. It’s just there’s so many layers, and variations, and incarnations, and it’s still all just them because true love.
Evlynn (Flynn and Eve, The Librarians)
My latest obsession, oh merlin they are perfect. She’s tough, no nonsense and organized. He’s a little crazy, reckless and absolutely definitely doesn’t need her help. They clash as she wants to plan and he just dives in but they accept each other. It’s like ying and yang, two halves that separately struggle but combined are unstoppable. Librarian and guardian. I’m not doing them justice. I think Charlene said it best in the very first episode with “you’re perfect” because yeah, the chemistry is off the charts.
“I love you more than learning itself.”
“Kissing you is exactly how I’d want to spend eternity”
and lets not forget “there you are” as they true loves kiss twice in one episode.
Come back alive Librarian!
Fitzsimmons (Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, Agents of Shield)
The perfect embodiment of best friends to lovers, who are still best friends and don’t forget that because they are also in love. It was a slow journey as Fitz loved Jemma first, and Jemma just had him in the ‘best friends box’ and it took a season for her to think actually I have always loved him, he will always be my best friend but he could be more. That transition was believable and then they went through the true love test.
I’m talking constant, painful separations but they always find each other. They dove through a hole in the universe for each other. Fitz literally to another planet, and Jemma into a virtual world. Nothing, not time, not space, can keep them apart. They are stronger together.
Jack and Irina, Alias
I don’t talk about them much because Alias ended what back in 2005? But I rumbelled their relationship in Between Two Fires. Basically KGB agent Irina Derevko went undercover to seduce CIA agent Jack Bristow so she could spy on him longterm. The one thing she didn’t count on – falling in love with him.
It ended badly of course. She faked her own death as an extraction but twenty years later despite everything he still loved her too. It was painful, there was no possible happy ending really because too much had happened. They worked against each other more often than they worked together but that bond of love never went away.
Jefferlynn (Jefferson and Lynn, Black Lightning)
Divorced, still friends, co-parents and very much in love. They separated because it was a bit like there were three people in the relationship. Jefferson, Jefferson’s hero work and Lynn. It wasn’t that Lynn didn’t want to share, it was that she was scared. He came back hurt and she thought it was going too far. He started off going after big targets in Freeland, doing what the police couldn’t, but then he didn’t stop and it took over.
It’s one of those relationships where they are both right and they are both wrong. It’s about fear more than anything and that’s not always logical. Lynn was scared of losing him so she walked away. It’s really well done and nuanced on the show. They could have turned Lynn into a villain but they didn’t. They fleshed it out showing that everything she did came from a place of love.
I can’t wait for next season!
