:3c Friend. Thank you. Def obviously going with a hard-romantic/intimate lean here.
Gaius - Obvious, of course, but man lemme tell you it blindsided and really took the cake. This ship has just inspired and made me happier than I could have ever imagined. To be really overdramatic about it while I love all my ships a lot of them pale next to just how much fun I’ve had with this one.
Estinien - I’m not gonna lie, I never really thought about this one a lot! Which kind of keeps in line with the ship itself, tbh. I’ve personally always loved Estinien, but it wasn’t actually until, idk, some time late last year? It just suddenly smacked me in the face as a ship like… Oh wait, wow that’s… Pretty Fucking Good. But because I was tits deep in Gaius-loving land, it was p much impossible for me to wrap my head around for a long time still and get any real juice going for it. But as you can see from it’s placing on this list, that got turned around REAL fast as second only to Gaius in terms of just how much I love it.
Thancred - This was it, ya’ll. This was The Original Ship. Thancred was one of the main reasons I got into the game, and just… had such a huge impact on my first run-through of ARR and Ahru’s growth and… everything. It’s honestly a bit hard to come to terms with the fact the ship has “fallen so low”, but ICly it’s so far pretty slim and rare that their relationship continues/grows deeper - even though they are extremely close friends. But who the heck knows Shadowbringers is likely gonna hit me up with a LOT of Thancred feels and honestly I can not fucking wait.
Arshadaya/K’jhir - I’m bundling these two together cuz they come separate and as a pair (that OT3 goodness). The three of them have kind of gone their separate ways in some regards/various AU’s/are in storytelling limbo, but I love them and their stories so much, it’s all so dear to my heart and Ahru wouldn’t be who she is today without the two of them, either romantically or platonically. ; w ;
Asra - Tiny ship. Tiny tiny. But boy do I love it. It’s more of a one-night-fling (maybe more) turned really-great-friends with occasional benefits sorta deal, kind of in the same vein as Thancred tbh. They are a couple’a gal pals looking to have a rowdy good time together and they just get along REALLY swell. ;3 Really looking forward to fleshing it out a bit more tbh when we see more of the First (where Asra is from) and ShB in general. * w *