VSMP RAREPAIR TOURNEY - ROUND TWO
LUMBERJACK (Pyro/Owen) VS APPLEKISS (Apo/Shelby)
LUMBERJACK
APPLEKISS
Propaganda under the cut!
LUMBERJACK
Enemies with benefits (killing Avid)
because there wasn't enough Doomed Yaoi already
two traumatized suicidal outcasts, they would either somehow manage to heal together or make eachother a bajillion times worse while watching the world burn around them (latter option is way more likely). they are both severly mentally ill and they are going to make it everybody elses problem (they already have and are in superhell together, superhell situationship). (also, 18 fics on ao3 IS CRIMINAL WORK.) (also also, hot take: these two are more of a mirrors of eachother than owen and avid,,,,) (this may have been submitted already but im spreading the lumberjack propaganda regardless. everybody get more lumberjack-pilled NOW!!!! 18 fics IS NOT ENOUGH)
They can literally be as toxic or as non-toxic as you want them to be. Owen was there in the beginning to help Pyro out, they had a bit of a rough patch in the middle, but as soon as they had a common enemy, they started working together. Owen said multiple times after they teamed up that he wanted to kill Pyro, but also, he stood in front of them after they said that they killed Avid.
What’s more beautiful than seeing two fucked up little guys bond over similar yet wildly different pasts after they murder a shared enemy? Also, there is so much potential for them in the afterlife, they could date forever in hell
This might actually fix them, and I am personally of the belief that they should've kissed over Avid's corpse. They also hate each other yet narratively parallel each other. Need I say more?
they should have made out after ep 7
this post from an anonymous asker
APPLEKISS
Apo would believe in skeptic conspiracies such as the government being controlled by the wealthy (valid tbh) while Shelby would believe in conspiracies like “the government is controlled by lizard people”. They are wearing matching tin foil hats together <3
Shelby was more hostile to Apo in the beginning than she was to pretty much anyone. They both hate the government. They’re narrative foils. They both care so much yet Shelby lacks the fight Apo has in spades. Shelby is everyone’s darling, Apo is everyone’s monster. Apo sought Shelby out when the executioner’s blade of their deal hung over their head and Shelby told them vampires might just be nice. They both end up shadows of the people they were before, scarred by the violence they commited and were victim of. They had a heart to heart. Apo tried to bring them back to town. Shelby wished that Apo had stayed with the coven. They had a climatic midair battle as bats. Apo chose to spare Shelby, even when she was at absolute rock bottom.
Like passing ships in the night. They never see eye to eye but they carry the exact truths the other needs. Shubble cares about joy and freedom over duty to people who never understood them. Apo sees through the facade of the castle and knows that dancing around the hurt done to you is no way to be happy. In another world, they could have changed everything for each other.
I think this has a poetic ship name or three, but TBH my mutual calls it Shelbyapo and I’m submitting this in their honour, so I’m just going with that.
idk but my moots rly love it and they're pretty cool soooo
Sunshine x Grumpy. Apo just trying to do her job while this conspiracy theorist won't leave her alone.
Vampire Apo literally has V!Shelby's colors inverted plus it could start as toxic yuri between them being rivals at first
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okay but like. gay narrative foils amiright??? their goals are practically the same; shelby wants to protect her loved ones, apo wants to return to her loved one. imagine a world where they happen to be the loved one(s) they’d do so much for??? ughhh applekiss amiright
also!! i feel like there’s so much potential of apo like. genuinely loving shelby but then being torn bc she hates what she stands for (selfishly choosing her own happiness over the harm her “family”’s caused, both to apo and to everyone else). and i think this reverses pretty well too; i think that shelby is a very emotional thinker and therefore confuses her feelings to what’s *actually* happening, so she genuinely loves apo but doesn’t like how she — in shelby’s mind — chooses her own pettiness over the possibility of peace. so yeah like i said before. gay narrative foils 👍
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