oh! i'm very sorry, i really should've specified but i forgot to mention a fandom ^^; maybe for one piece?
No worries at all! Just wanted to make sure I answered it for the fandom you wanted! I do want to apologize for the late reply. Usually I try getting to these earlier, but my dad is in town at the moment so I’ve been off doing things with him. Now I am back though and can answer the questions you asked previously!
Please note that these are just my opinions on the matter and I don’t think less of anyone who believes something different. We’re all entitled to our opinion on these sorts of subjects
6. Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?
Not hated really, more neutral about. Rarely do I legitimately hate a pairing, and generally when I do it’s because it’s a NoTP or a squick ship. There were two main ships I felt fairly neutral about though until I saw fan art. First is Marco/Ace. Originally I saw some cute Ace/Thatch fan art and sailed on that little boat for a while. I don’t remember specifically any Marco/Ace fan art that swayed my opinion, but I did eventually jump ship. The other one is actually LawLu. Shocking, I know, given how much they own my whole entire ass. For a while there I was completely oblivious to it being a ship. Went onto A03 and saw it on the top ship lists and kind of shrugged my shoulders. Well then Dressrosa happened along with Things™ and it kind of morphed into a lowkey ship. Then I stumbled upon trelldraws and their art and holy jesus was I converted into complete trash. (I hope you are ok with me linking your page on here because honestly I bow before your lovely art.) Their pieces were fundamental in forming my own view of the ship and Law as a character. And well the rest is history and I am utter garbage.
22. Popular character you hate?
I’ve covered this question in much greater detail in a previous post, but I am happy to kind of(ish) summarize it here. The character in question is in fact Vivi. First time watching, while I didn’t exceptionally like her, it was very easy for me to ignore her. Felt she was kind of a weak character and moved on from that. Well jumping into the fandom was a bit of a shock with how much everyone absolutely ADORED her. All I could see for miles was constant praise and adoration like ‘she’s such a badass’, ‘she’s the best princess’, ‘she’s so amazing’, and so on and so forth. And I’ve literally never understood that? Vivi to me is one of Oda’s weakest characters, falling victim to a bunch of Mary Sue tendencies such as people always attributing her with positive characteristics without her actually SHOWING any of them. Which given that a lot of the One Piece fans on here are early to late teens and identify as female or feminine, and the Mary Sue characters are EXTREMELY appealing to that demographic, I completely get why so many people love her. I loved her as Miss Wednesday actually. But by the time she got to Alabasta I was about ready to smack her. She messed up. A lot. Like a whole fuckton of a lot. Which is fine, no character is perfect and no character should be perfect. Unfortunately no one ever calls her out on it though, either in canon or in the fandom. She is Saint Vivi who can and does no wrong. There are no critiques of her, no discussions of how she has room to grow and what kinds of things to look forward to for Reverie to make amends for her previous mistakes. There’s nothing. Plus people have a nasty tendency of dragging the other princesses to make her appear better and I will have none of that thank you very much. All of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. We shouldn’t have this internalized misogyny of tearing down other strong female characters just to prop up another one.
tl;dr - I am probably one of the few outspoken critics of Vivi I have ever seen on here. I was neutral about her but then the fandom shoved her in my face too much, demanding her to be this perfect character and I had to agree with or else I was wrong, and no thank you.
27. Least shippable character?
Oh god this is a bit of a difficult one. There are quite a few characters I would not ship with anyone because I just absolutely despise them or think they are disgusting. One in particular though just doesn’t do anything for me - the Holy Fuck himself, his royal majesty Donquixote Doflamingo. He’s way too much of a nutter butter to ship healthily with anyone honestly. A lot of the popular ships (him with Law or with Corazon) are absolutely NOs on my ship list. I can understand the appeal of him, but while I do enjoy my trash barges, he’s a bit too much of a garbage monster to pair with anyone and not feel immensely guilty about it.
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