yay, so much to chew on! and an outlet for my audrey/bobby thoughts <3
audrey/bobby - SHIP IT 🗣️🗣️🗣️
✧ what made you ship it?
this gifset, honestly. i didn't bat an eye at them during my initial watch (i had completely checked out by the time ben's goddamn civil war subplot came along), but when i saw those gifs i was charmed and went back to watch their scenes from season 2. i was delighted by their chemistry and playfulness, and i guess i'm kind of a sucker for the bad boy/initially uninterested and totally out of his league, but begrudgingly finds him very endearing girl thing, because here i am!
✧ what are your favorite things about the ship?
audrey/bobby live in my head as a friends with benefits/situationship/summer fling AU, which i see as something audrey wouldn't have entertained at all until the particular part of season 2 where we see them start to interact. by that point, she's done a heavy deal of growing up over the span of only a few weeks, and i think that everything she experienced at one-eyed jack's, together with nursing her first heartbreak (thanks, cooper), would be enough for her to just kind of say "fuck it, lol" and let herself indulge in something far less glamorous and more "normie" than the life she'd been envisioning for herself. i don't think she'd completely lose sight of her main goal of skipping twin peaks, but a big part of what i love about this ship is how i think it would encourage a lot of self reflection in audrey, and i guess reevaluation of what exactly she wants, both in the bigger picture and in the here and now.
i also love the idea of them kind of noticing each other for the first time, despite having been in each others' lives since they were probably very small. i think bobby would have found audrey too freakish and off-putting to really consider any kind of attraction to her while they're at school, but would now find her weirdness both intimidating and very arousing. i also think that he'd really enjoy the chase of trying to win her over because he'd be so used to girls fawning over him! and likewise; i don't think audrey would have taken him for much more than a knucklehead, but i can see her being pleasantly surprised by how easy it is for her to warm up to him and how much they actually have in common.
my most favorite thing of all is that audrey/cooper/bobby are to present-day me what bella/edward/jacob twilight were to 13-year-old me. except i actually like jacob in this rendition, and there's no fuckass CGI baby, and it's 100% less mormon! yippee!
✧ is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
i mean, i guess that i ship them at all? i don't see much talk about them as a pairing, which makes sense because a) they don't actually have that much on-screen interaction, and b) most people ship bobby with shelly quite loyally, and people have all sorts of opinions on who audrey should/shouldn't be with, but bobby is rarely ever included in those discussions.
shelly/bobby - a third, worse option, but for the purpose of the game, i will say ship it!
✧ what made you ship it?
in all honesty, i don't really find their relationship very compelling. i do think their messiness really fits in with the lore of twin peaks as a town and makes them very believable as a couple, though, and i don't think that they shouldn't be together, so i think that counts as a ship?
✧ what are your favorite things about the ship?
i love their joint capitalizing off of leo subplot! it's what he deserves. and i do like where their relationship ends up in the return - again, very realistic and true to both their characters, i feel!
i'm also just now realizing that they're kind of the antithesis of cooprey to me, in a way. which is interesting! i'll have to think about that some more.
✧ is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
i'm far more invested in audrey/bobby and shelly/gordon than i am or ever will be in shelly/bobby 😭
cooper/laura - don't ship it
✧ why don't you ship it?
i touched on this a little in a previous ask, but for personal reasons, i don't ship laura with anyone. i also like to think of cooper as being entirely devoted to audrey in a very gomez addams way and the thought of him having eyes for anyone else makes me want to kill him with knives.
✧ what would have made you like it?
in another life, i think that i would have shipped it! their dynamic is very gothic and cold and full of dread in a way that i think i could have found quite beautiful; i certainly understand those that do.
who knows? maybe someday i'll come around. just not today <3
✧ despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?
