Ship that is unpopular but you still like
Aw, geez...I’m still scratching my head over why this is not a thing
Okay. So. So here’s the thing. I have...a history with this. I don’t know if I want to get into SPECIFICS, because I used to be a HORRIBLE PERSON on the Internet and this ship went along with that. But this used to be my crack at one point.
Anyway, I remake myself, I learn a few lessons in maturity and etiquette, and I kind of just...throw aside the whole Organization XIII superfandom thing altogether, because I had mostly been mischaracterizing everyone anyway. And I was just like “Vexen and Demyx would never get along; end of story.”
So I had it as my “LOL can you believe I used to SHIP THAT” but kind of...secretly...deep down...missed it. I mean, it follows a lot of my favorite ship conventions (1. that thing where I take my two favorite villains in a fandom and ship them regardless of if they’ve interacted 2. I will do an essay outlining the similarities to RedHatBlackHat if I need to). So I was in this state of “HAHAHAHAHA no. ........Unless? Oh, never mind, no. ..............Unless?”
Then Kingdom Hearts III happens. And I didn’t like it, for the most part. You could even say I hated it, though it had a lot of gems (mostly the Monstropolis visit). BUT THE ABSOLUTE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO ME WAS WHEN FINALLY, FIIIIIIINALLY THESE TWO GOT TO HAVE AN ACTUAL CONVERSATION AND IT TURNED OUT THEIR DYNAMIC IS WONDERFUL. Do I like that they had to become good guys to do so? No. Not at all. I mean, Demyx I could maaaaaybe see as a nice fellow, but Vexen being a grumpy jerk is his absolute charm. BUT THAT’S WHAT WE HAVE VILLAIN AU’S FOR. And you can’t stop me from making my AU where these two are still wreaking HAVOC and ruining Sora’s day for fun and profit.
So then cue me waffling on this for 3/4 of a year and making a couple AUs for it that I don’t do anything with because I don’t wanna admit how much this ship meant to me until the dam breaks. The funniest thing, though, is that I had originally been running with an utterly different perception of how Demyx worked and who he should be shipped with, so my solution right now is to USE TIME TRAVEL SHENANIGANS TO MAKE TWO DEMYXES (and actually, the other hilarious thing is that his alternate ship he had first was Hans from Frozen - I swear I have reasoning - AND AS OF KHIII, THAT’S NOT ACTUALLY CROSSOVER ANYMORE; THANK YOU KHIII FOR FEEDING THE DEMYX SHIPPERS). But anyway stick one of ‘em with Hans and make him The Edgy One and stick the other with Vexen and make him The Doofus One and I’m getting far off topic
Anyway, the biggest thing, though, is that I expected to come out of KHIII seeing people read this scene as utterly shippable and just FLOOD the gates with VexDem content, but...it’s not happening for some reason? The other ships are all good and valid, but I’m confused as to how we got this big hilarious and sweet scene of them teaming up FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIFE and nothing really came of it in the fandom? Which is kinda sad because I wanna see content of them I didn’t make, but whatever. I’m used to building rarepairs from the ground anyway.
REASONS I LIKE VEXDEM AT THE MOMENT:
-Both of them were the Organization “losers” and ended up on the bench; Re:Mind actually even has the other members talking about how these two are so not fit to join the Thirteen Darknesses and I want them to team up and take their revenge on the popular kids
-Grumpy jerk x bubbly energy drink is a dynamic that doesn’t get old
-That bit where they shush each other in succession, proving that they may SEEM to be a genius versus his idiot on the surface but get them riled up and they’re the same brand of idiot
-Vexen actually knows that you have to stroke Demyx’s ego to get him to do things, which is something no one else in the Organization ever caught onto
-That being said they would also get into so many married-couple arguments. Tell me I’m wrong
-They’re both the recon masters of the group and aces at observing surroundings - everyone else might be the fighters, but these two are the ones taking notes and realizing what’s really going on in the background
-If Vexen used his powers to freeze Demyx’s boss battle attacks and make the water clones more solid, everyone who faces them would die
-I have a very important headcanon that Vexen has severe PTSD from when Axel exploded him but is too proud to admit it and Demyx’s whole thing is that he either is afraid all the time or pretends to be afraid all the time to get out of things, but either way, he’s an expert at knowing how to exit stressful environments and enter states of extreme chill, so I see him just forcing Vexen to leave his desk and go listen to a chill mix for an hour when he starts to figure THOSE memories are coming up again
-They’re each the first Organization member to die in their debut game and I don’t know how this exactly means anything but it does
