The Return of Ship Name Silliness
So! Anyone remember this particular post of mine: Ship Name Silliness? I’m guessing not, as it’s from late 2017 and thus about four-and-a-half years old at this point.The short version is that I made it when I came up with the name for my Victor/Alice/Victoria/Emily foursome ship, Vemilicia, and it covered both that and pretty much every combination of the four that I could come up with. Well, I looked it up recently (because I was like “I think I used the wrong ship name on that post about OT3s and everyone’s respective roles for Victor/Victoria/Emily”), and I have decided to make a sequel to the nonsense because -- well, I have a lot more poly ships featuring a lot more characters these days! So, without further ado, here are the ships that I currently have for Victor/Alice universes:
Featuring Victor and Alice themselves:
Valice -- Obviously, the core ship of Victor/Alice, present in most of my fics! A requirement for these universes, I think you will agree. (Don’t point at “Londerland Bloodlines,” it’s coming!) I’m reasonably certain that @danydarkly is the originator of this name, and I liked it so much I adopted it as the “official” ship name.
Vemilicia -- The poly ship that inspired the first post, as above -- Victor/Alice/Victoria/Emily. I was an OT3 shipper for the main Corpse Bride trio before getting into Valice, so combining the two ships was probably inevitable. :p So far, my only major fic for it is “The Technicolor Phase,” but “Londerland Bloodlines” is eventually going to go in that direction too.
(Oh, and since I just mentioned the CB OT3 -- yes, I did originally use the wrong ship name in the OT3 post linked above. As seen below, I intended “Vemilia” for just Victoria/Emily. The one I came up for Victor/Victoria/Emily was Vemiglot -- a combination of “Vemily” (Victor/Emily) and “Everglot” (Victoria’s last name, because her and Victor’s first names are too similar to use together). Though, now that Emily has a semi-canonical last name from that old script that went around a while back, “Merrimack,” you could also do Everdortmack (combining it with the standard Victor/Victoria “Everdort” name).)
Cuddlepile -- Previously my biggest poly ship, and the first without a portmanteau name -- it’s Victor/Alice/Victoria/Emily/Christopher/Richard, aka “the main Vemilicia ship plus the two versions of The White Knight and The Hatter that I’ve shipped Victoria and Emily with before (see below).” I came up with this one while doing various sexual orientation headcanons for my characters after discovering and liking the “Alice is ace/on the ace spectrum” tumblr posts from a few years back, and it’s persisted ever since. This is specifically a Modern AU set during everyone’s college years -- Christopher White is an inventor who is interested in food science (referencing the White Knight’s infamous gunpowder pudding) and Richard Hatter is an agender master of prosthetic limbs (both xe and Emily use them in this verse thanks to various accidents, and of course it references how the AMA Hatter is mostly steampunk robot these days). It features most prominently on my RP blog, @thevalicemultiverse.
Queer Apocalypse -- One of the newer kids on the block, my second foursome ship and another I couldn’t think of a good portmanteau for -- this is Victor/Alice/Preston/Piper, the latter two being specifically Preston Garvey and Piper Wright from Fallout 4. As you might imagine, this is specific to my “Fallout of Darkness” universe. :p Basically what happened here is I fell in love with both of these companions on my first attempt at a playthrough of FO4, and decided that Victor (who is bisexual in my headcanons) could fall in love with them too. Preston’s just such a genuinely good guy, and Piper has exactly the kind of spunk Victor appreciates in a partner. :) I haven’t romanced either in my current playthrough (too early with Piper, and I need more Charisma-enhancing stuff to try it with Preston, as Victor is LOW Charisma), but I do intend to!
Valicer -- Pretty much the newest kid on the block, and the start of some of the weirder shipping on this list -- Victor/Alice/Smiler. As in The Smiler roller coaster. Because for some reason I got obsessed with the damn thing last year, had some thoughts about a hypnokinky Valice AU that featured the actual coaster -- and then Victor came up with his own AU within that featuring a romance with an AI version of the coaster, which led to me eventually creating a humanized coaster OC and yeah. I don’t understand my brain either. I have gotten rather invested in this weirdly cute threesome, though -- a Sims 4 vampire version, Smiler Always, now lives in my Chill Save and is dating Victor while being great buds with Alice (Victor and Alice having married some time earlier -- they’re all marked as polyamorous though), and I have multiple versions of the fanfic OC, Smiler Alton, for a couple of different universes, including “Londerland Bloodlines,” “Fallout of Darkness,” and the “As Long As You Love Me” holistic verse. . .
Four Victorians On A Roller Coaster -- And realizing that a couple of those verses, notably “As Long As You Love Me,” were leading to a Victor/Alice/Victoria/Emily/Smiler match-up is how we got this. See, my brain was able to come up with a ship name for it! Not being a ship that lent itself well to a portmanteau (I guess the closest would be “Vemliciar?”), I instead decided to focus on the silliness of it all. XD Obviously haven’t written anything for it yet, but it’s in the background of a couple of verses, including “As Long As You Love Me,” possibly “Londerland Bloodlines” (depending on how long it takes me to write the “main story” -- Smiler would be introduced in a sequel set long after the main action of Bloodlines), and a fairy tale AU idea I will be detailing in a future post.
Running Headlong Into The Bullshit -- And just because, I decided to come up with a ship name for ALL OF THE ABOVE PUT TOGETHER -- Victor/Alice/Victoria/Emily/Christopher/Richard/Preston/Piper/Smiler. XD Yes, NINE FREAKING PEOPLE. You need a flow chart to track the relationships here. XD I actually originally was thinking of this as “Alphabet Soup” (because this would be IMPOSSIBLE to portmanteau), but changed it to the current one after doing that OT3 post linked above and realizing how often Victor is dragged into bullshit by his love interests. XD If you’re wondering how this would work, I picture it as a variation on the main Cuddlepile verse, with Preston, Piper, and Smiler also college students -- Preston volunteers a lot and is part of an “anachronistic history” joke-reenactment group for fun (hence keeping his “Minuteman with a laser musket” aesthetic); Piper is either on the school paper or has created her own alternative; and Smiler is a psychology student and is known for throwing the best parties.
Side Ships not featuring Victor and Alice:
Vemilia -- As stated above, Victoria/Emily as their own ship! This was inspired by me seeing “Vemily” used as a Victor/Emily ship name, and figuring “Vemilia” would be the natural version to use for Victoria/Emily. I haven’t used it much as a side ship -- currently it’s only in “As Long As You Love Me” -- but it’s there as an option!
LizJangles -- Probably the most popular side ship I have, this is Lizzie/Bonejangles -- AKA, Alice’s sister Lizzie Liddell and ensemble darkhorse of Corpse Bride Bonejangles! Much like Valice itself, them getting together wasn’t really intentional on my part -- I just thought it would be interesting if they interacted, and things took off from there. I like them as a ship because Bonejangles is such a different kind of person from the men that so annoyed Lizzie in life, I figured he’d be a breath of fresh air for her, and Lizzie allows Bonejangles to show a softer, less showmany side of himself. They’re just a fun dynamic, and I like including them when I can. Obviously they’re most obvious as a ship in the Forgotten Vows Verse (having a whole side story, “In The Land Of The Dead”), but they also pop up in “The Technicolor Phase,” and they’re intended to show up eventually in “Londerland Bloodlines.”
Victopher -- Probably the most common side ship so far in my stories, this is Victoria/Christopher, covering both Sir Christopher Lloyd from the Secundus Verse and Christopher White from the Forgotten Vows Verse. As stated in the Cuddlepile write-up, the Christophers are meant to be a take on the White Knight from Wonderland, since it amused me to ship Victoria with a Wonderland character while giving her a happy ending that didn’t necessarily mean ending up with Victor. And as you might guess from the Secundus version, they’re named after and at least partially based on Christopher Lloyd’s portrayal of the role in that one Hallmark version that I otherwise don’t like very much. They too have a good dynamic, I feel -- Christopher in either incarnation is an open and caring guy, with a touch of bombastic-ness to his personality that I like. :)
Richily -- And now to the least common side ship, since it’s really only appeared once -- Richard/Emily, from the Secundus Verse! Again, this was born of wanting Emily to have an alternate love interest that was also a Wonderland character, so she got the Hatter. Whom she could bond with because of loose limb problems. XD It really only works in Secundus because Richard never had the “turned evil once” problem Hatter did in the games, and because it was written before I decided Emily was a biromantic lesbian (though, admittedly, the sexual incompatibility would never come up for them, given Emily’s dead and Richard’s mostly robot and not that interested) -- I can see her getting along with the actual Hatter, but not being romantically interested in him. Currently it’d probably only show up in Secundus-related stories, and as part of larger poly groups, like Cuddlepile and Running Headlong Into The Bullshit.
And there you have it! Or at least there I have it, since I don’t know how many of you are gonna use these ship names. XD But they’re there if you need them!