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@EvilQueen wrote:
“One true pairing”
I don’t understand it too well myself yet, but I guess it’s an way of indicating how much a fan is emotionally committed when shipping certain couples?Well, where there is one true love there should be one true pairing 😛
Rumours have it, that the first one true pairing was Spock/Kirk (something for fandom historians, from times when we were not as creative with ship names as today, uhm, with names for excisting or wished for relationships of characters of a series or movie) 😉
It means the one and only pairing a fan is interested in, the one pairing that is meant to be. Can lead sometimes to ship wars (no, not things swimming in water fighting each others, but supporters of different pairings in the same fandom having heated and long lasting arguments) and flame wars (flames are angry, offensive, hostile comments or messages).
Seems to me the term is used by some less strict by now, some have more than one one true pairing in one fandom (doesn’t make sense to me but terms change with time).
Concerning writing names out: As long as we don’t have some “Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawud al Gossarah” living in Storybrooke I think it’s not too much to ask.
(any German should know that name. It’s one of Karl May’s fictional characters. More about that character here )
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@EvilQueen wrote:
“One true pairing”
I don’t understand it too well myself yet, but I guess it’s an way of indicating how much a fan is emotionally committed when shipping certain couples?That’s basically it, it’s not just that you love the couple (Ex: I love Mad Wolf but they’re not my OTP) it’s the couple you love the most.. It’s the couple you root for most of all…
Yeah it’s a bit less strict for some people but let’s face it you only really have one OTP..you might have a lot of ships but one OTP (per fandom of course) at most I’d say two OTPs and have them be really truly OTP status…the rest are just couples you love
Hope that helps!
Just noticed this line from The Cricket Game when Emma walks in to Gold’s shop Rumple tells Emma that she has her mother’s chin lol Nice reference to True North when Snow makes the same quip.
@Schmacky wrote:
I don’t get how you can have two OTPs if it means ONE true pairing…
What people aren’t taking into account here is the rise of Multishipping. Here’s an example: If you ship Gremma, MadSwan, WoodenSwan, CaptainSwan, SwanQueen, and Swanfire, many shippers will call their main ship for Emma their OTP for her. It’s the ship that they love the most for that character and would support over their other ships for her/him. So Multishippers can easily have an OTP for each character they ship in a fandom. For example:
I ship Gremma and Swanfire, but my OTP for Emma is Swanfire.
I ship Hook x Regina, Regina x Daniel, Hook x Milah, but my OTP out of those is Hook x Regina.
I’m fine with the other canon ships from Rumple’s past, but I only ship Rumbelle. So that’s my OTP for Rumple and Belle.
I’ve got a number of multishipper friends who use the term that way, and I’ve used it that way in some other fandoms. I try to avoid doing it around folks who don’t already know that usage though, because it confuses them.
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