>>85763108Well it just kind of happens. Or well - I'm sure that some morons just pick a pairing to ship in the same way you'd pick a team to support in every franchise they follow, because they want to interact with the shipping community, or whatever their reasoning is.
But for me, I ship seriously and only ship the pairings I get a really strong gut feeling for. The first ship I ever got was
Hans x Elsa from Frozen. Until then I'd never ever shipped any pairing, just accepted canon pairings, and couldn't quite understand how passionate some people would get about something that clearly wasn't canon.
But then I saw Frozen and boom. I can't explain it. You just get invested in the characters, you want them to grow and be happy, you feel they'd be great together and you want to see that interaction.
It may have unlocked something, because recently I got dragged onto another ship from
Steven Universe. It makes absolutely zero sense because to this day they haven't properly talked to each other. I just feel like the personalities etc would match well, but it's not a conscious process and figuring out the reasoning behind why it feels so right comes afterwards. I just find myself shipping something. It's bothersome, but I can't help it.
But if you ask if you self-insert into one character and ship them with the other, nah it's not like that. You just want the characters you care about to be happy.
