I come to you since you seem to have an ear to the ground. Why is Aro/some guy named Peter Vincent a thing? I keep seeing this pairing, and it feels like the internet is playing an elaborate joke on me where two characters from wildly different franchises who have absolutely nothing in common in any way are somehow a popular ship with fics and art.
Please explain, not knowing is killing me. I feel like... like how a tumblr newcomer who'd never heard of Destiel would have felt last year on November 6th.
-therealvinelle
The most popular ship with Aro, on AO3 at least, is with some guy from a completely unrelated fandom. It’s crazy.
I wasn’t around for the launching of this ship, so I don’t know the history, but I’m going to guess that it at least started off as more of a Michael Sheen character x David Tennant character thing. Especially after Good Omens, ships involving characters played by these two started popping up more frequently as an extension of the GO universe.
Someone probably looked at Aro and Peter Vincent, went “hey, vampires, it works” and started creating. I’m assuming that this led to others seeing this vampire x vampire hunter AU (enemies to lovers, vampires, pining, angst, vampires, you’ve got all the ingredients), some of whom thought “you know what, this could work.”
And the vincturi ship set sail.