#it's genuinely more interesting to me to explore his character in the context of dbd.

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I love that steve is in dbd because I do not have to give a shit about stranger things itself to get new material of him. I can just explore what his adventures in the entity's realm might be.

#dbd #thoughts about media #funnily enough I was introduced to him THROUGH dbd. and I liked him in dbd first lmao. #and it was only after months of deliberating whether I should bother watching the show did I actually do so. #I suppose it was worth it because mr. keery is just. so beautiful. #but god with every season the show got worse and worse. #it's genuinely more interesting to me to explore his character in the context of dbd. #because like. take it seriously- and it's objectively SUCH a fascinating setting to put a character in. #they are hunted over and over again by serial killers and monsters from many different universes. #they die in so many different ways. and have to watch the people with them die. day in and day out. #ultimately- getting yourself killed to protect your friends doesn't actually have purpose anymore. #not when it could lead to your friend dying anyway. or in an even worse way than you did. #it really transforms the meaning of sacrifice. of death. #so having the steve nancy and jonathan dynamic in this setting is INFINITELY more interesting than whatever the fuck the show is doing rn. #and I have lucy too. my ghOCtface born of my “never harm steve” playstyle. #and THAT. is SO interesting to me. because steve would NEVER normally fall in love with a person like lucy. #but they aren't in a normal place. experiencing anything normal. they're trapped in an endless cycle of killing and dying. #and lucy. lucy WON'T hurt HIM. but they'd still kill anyone else. including nancy. #so steve would hate him. at first. but how do you keep hating someone for killing your friends- #-when you're trapped in a place where death and pain ultimately mean nothing. whereas an act of mercy means everything? #it would be SUCH a complicated dynamic and I deeply enjoy trying to unweave how steve could ever love lucy back.

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If it's ok to ask, do you have any crackships or just ships that are unpopular but have potential

Huh, somehow ‘crackships’ isn’t a word I’ve heard in forever--what a blast from the past. I don’t think I’ve ever had any for dbd. Uhhh, I probably have rarepairs though--I’m not sure they’re /un/popular, as in like, unliked, but I have some that just don’t get much attention. I like Claudette x Quentin / Medics^2 quite a bit. MegSie / SusieMeg is a great ship with almost unlimited potential. I like Quentin with Nancy a lot too, but on second thought I guess that one’s actually kind of popular. I ship Quentin with like, four people, and all of them except QuenDette/Medics^2 is decently popular at least (Nancy, Joey, David). Which is unfair because Medics^2 is god tier. I will die on that hill. Uhhhhhh, let me think. I would have considered Vigojomo / Philip x Vigo a rare ship before two weeks ago, but like, a genuinely /weird/ number of people picked that as favorite Philip ship when they took my quiz--like way more than could possibly be my friends or mutuals. So. Maybe there’s something I don’t know??? That if it still is a rare pair. It’s also god-tier. Mmmmm. I like Laurie-David, which I think is a rarepair. Or at least medium rare (I feel like I’m talking about steaks rip). 

I will never ship a Dwight ship more than I ship Parkfield, but I do feel like Dwight x Adiris has some real potential and kinda dig it, or the three of them as a polyamorous relationship? I also like Parkfield with Adam or Claudette as a trio. And don’t really ever see those. There’s almost unlimited potential here. I think David-Laurie-Kate also has potential as a trio. And Kate-Joey has potential, as does Kate-Joey-Quentin. I like Ace with Tapp, either of them with Jane. Mostly I just feel like a lot of people have potential with a lot of other people, and this fandom really limits itself by not realizing multishipping is the ideal human experience. Like, come on fam. We’re well past considering romance as the peak form of any connection as a species. It’s seethrough that some of you see  that as ‘winning’ or being most special, so you ship your faves and only your exact faves. It’s so much better if you consider people as having wild potential to be happy and well in many different combinations, and none of them are zero-sum games. They’re just...different routes. That can all be meaningful and inclusive and full of love, for whoever ends up friend or romantic partner or wherever, so long as they’re important in other characters’ life. God bless multishippers. I see some of you out there and I want you to know I love you.

Uhhhh, also I like people if they have an established relationship, being allowed to keep it and still enjoyed as a character? Like, I like Nancy-Quentin a lot. Because it’s a good ship. I ship Quentin with other people too, and I have no issue with other people who do. Same with Nancy and Jonathan. Or with Felix and his gf. He’s in a committed relationship, and I like him with his future wife he wants to raise a kid with. I don’t mind people who ship him with someone else. But I do get really side-eyes-harshly when I see characters like that where fans are only capable of being interested in that character if it is in the context of making them sexually available to someone else in the realm. Which isn’t the same thing as just like, shipping them w someone there. But like, if that’s the only way you can enjoy the character and it’s necessary for you to break off an existing connection & throw them into a sexual relationship with someone else in order for them to be in a relationship and thus existing in a context you consider worth caring about/makes them worth caring about? I am judging you very harshly. -- and I guess that’s rare? Nancy-Quentin is decently popular, but I basically never see people reflecting on Nancy and Jonathan, or developing Felix’s long term girlfriend into a full character and exploring that loss and pain? So since those all interest me, maybe that counts?

As far as like, unpopular goes? I think the only ship I’ve ever been into people were like ‘ew’ at was Ace x Adam. Which I still think could be very full of potential, and I’m really mad that that one got shot down over age when Ace x Felix has become a very popular ship, and that’s basically the same age difference. The hypocrisy. >.> (This isn’t a reflection on Felix - Ace as a ship, this is a statement of dislike against the unequal treatment & implicit racism to it.) That’s the only one I can think of offhand though. They’re phenomenal as friends, but they could be cute as romantic partners I think (Ace and Adam). Just all depends on how their lives flow in that timestream. That’s about all I can think of though.

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