For the ship ask game: root/shaw
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Ship It
What made you ship it?
Mors Praematura. I think that's the start of it for me, the first meeting did plants seeds but it was Mors Praematura that did it and every little interaction after.
Shaw lending her her gun and then going: "Okay, that was kind of hot."
And then: "Don't make me look bad."
After that, we were off to the races.
What are your favorite things about the ship?
I like how they're unconventional, and on another show with different actors, it could be one note and flat.
It's lightning in the bottle, the writers weren't intending for them to happen but saw it anyway and wrote towards it. Also, both of them are in some spectrum in the DSM-V from one end to the other.
But in the end, I loved that Root loved Shaw exactly as she is. She didn't want to change Shaw or fix her or make her better.
Root loved Shaw for who she is. And it's why the Machine loved Shaw too.
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
For some reason this must be said but: Shaw is also just as smart as Root is, in different ways. There was some fanon that made it into fic that wrote Shaw as only the Brawn Jock.
Shaw presents herself as a jock but she's as nerdy. She's just not computer nerdy. Shaw was a brilliant doctor before she was kicked out of the medical program for bullshit reasons.
