I asked, you guys voted! The next poll? A rarepair ship battle, so here we go!
Now that we finished the Poly Ship Battle, it's time to move onto a new set of polls. A best rarepair ship poll. What do you feel is the best Teen Wolf rarepair ship ever? So, a few things first:
I believe I got a very good majority of rarepair ships there are in the fandom. I was able to get 128 rarepair ships from lists online and friends letting me know what other rarpair ships there are out there and of course, you guys on here telling me your rarepair ships. Still, I might have missed a rarepair ship here and there that you ship or feel should have been in the competition, and I apologize if your own favorite rarepair ship did not make it onto the list, but 128 is a good amount, and in will divide equally by 2 the whole competition.
The criteria for a ship to have counted as a rarepair for this poll is obviously they aren't that popular of a pairing in fandom (so they could have been canon/almost canon and such) AND they had to HAVE LESS THAN 1,000 FICS ON AO3. So I got a few suggestions here or there that actually had above 1K fics on AO3 and so they didn't make it into this competition. So if it's a more well known pairing, like Petopher or Stackson, etc, they didn't make it. If feel your ship counts as a rarepair, check it's AO3 fic count (signed into AO3, mind you) and then you'll know why it's not in this competition.
Also, YES, incest pairings were allowed in this competition. If you have a problem with that, well...look down three bullet points. No hate means NO HATE. Anyone showing disgust or hatred toward incest pairings will be reprimanded and possibly blocked like usual. This is FICTION, so please remember that, have fun, and just vote against what you don't like and leave it at that!
And remember, this is a rarpair SHIP poll, so even if you prefer them platonically or hate the pairing, do NOT vote for a rarepair ship based on how you feel about it platonically or not, vote on if they HAVE THE BEST ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP, not if you love them together platonically. So think ROMANTICALLY, and no other way when voting.
The matching up for this was basically entirely random, so a match up might be kinda 'meh' for the first few rounds for a few of them.
WARNING: Obviously, NO SHIP HATE IN THESE POLES. Keep it civil! You can disagree with the winners if you're bummed yours didn't get through to the next round/didn't win, of course, but don't go hating/fighting with others over the rarepair ship that wins a round. That will not be tolerated and if I see that I will either delete the comment if I can/give a warning/block the user/or if it's too many people going too far I will shut this WHOLE thing down. This is meant to be fun and not serious. Remember that, please. Also it may seem silly to say this over a rarepair ship poll but a bit of this happened in the regular ship poll, so you NEVER know and I'm being cautious here.
HATE WHILE LINKING TO AND ASSOCIATING WITH MY POLLS which could mean quoting or replying to someone linking to my poll! - WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
Also, given what happened in the shipper polls, this has to be warned for just incase: If there is ANY significant spike in the votes in a very short period of time - like say jumping 10% points or something in like an hour of time or something - outside of the initial votes being given at first, of course - I will assume botting has taken place. If someone is making more than 1 account on tumblr to vote, i.e. fake accounts, that is also cheating and THAT RAREPAIR SHIP WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED. Again, with what happened with the ship battle, this needs to be said. NO making multiple accounts or there will be consequences.
Because this is a rarepair ships battle, there will be two ships per poll. So you're about to see quite a bit of of poll posts from me…just a warning if you're wondering why there's going to be continued ship poll posts from me 😭
As always, every poll will have a 1 week duration. I will show the brackets as they stand below. And after every round, I will show the updated version, pinned to my blog if you're curious to see every winner of every round.
Lastly, have fun! Let's see what rarepair ship lands on top 😎
Here are the brackets - ignore the numbers on them, the site I used just did that🤷♀️ (and you'll have a pretty good idea who the winners will be up against next round as well). I will start posting the polls momentarily (but might not get all of them up right away, that might be staggered.)
