7 and 13 for the general selfship ask game :)
- @aro-simp
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7. If you could choose one f/o to be with you RIGHT NOW who would it be, and why?
Bull Armor from Shippu! Iron Leaguer! Really, he's my main/only.
(The one with the horns.)
I just love him sooooo much and I've never selfshipped this hard before, I would love to have him here with me! Hell, it would be interesting for him to meet my wife! 💦
13. How close do you prefer to stay to canon?
I like staying really, really close to canon, but with some caveats and conditions in there.
I wanna stay so close to canon that I flesh out the world within Iron Leaguer, but unto itself, these fleshing outs are indeed rooted in headcanons and idealizations. So for example, I set forth that Iron Leaguer takes place in the early 90s (when the show released), but it is in an alternative reality where technologies advanced at a different rate. People aren't walking around with cell phones yet, but at the same time, there's robots that are so advanced that they essentially have souls. And folks treat that as normal, not new or strange.
Then comes the headcanons, where it's pure extrapolation of the groundwork I set forth. Leaguers seem to be 1) the main form of entertainment for humans and 2) really fucking gay, so I think that this is also a world where queer identities have been normalized and accepted much earlier than in our real timeline. So me, being an openly queer agender HRT-taker, isn't out of place even though our story is taking place in the 90s.
Then there's also the fact that I personally despise the OVA, so it's not canon to our timeline together. I treat our relationship as like, a sequel series to the show, supplanting the OVA entirely. The OVA does not exist.
There's nuance there that I always try to acknowledge. I say I stay "true to canon", but it's my interpretation of the canon. I wouldn't be upset if Sunrise (for some reason) said that like, Iron Leaguer doesn't take place on Earth at all, or that it actually takes place in the year 3869 but humanity decided that cell phones were stupid in 2080, or something. And I don't ever want other Leaguer fans to think I'm insisting that my version or understanding of canon is the only one, because it's not!
Mostly, it ends up meaning "the robots have no fleshy bits, they exclusively drink oil, and yes, I do have to adjust his mouth guard every time I want to kiss him".