My Favorite Character Ships of All Time! (feat. my totally super secret OTP)

good morning, cyberspace!

As predicted, blog posts are taking quite a hit this month. At least I’m getting better at this realistic expectation thing, though, right?

But anyway, hopefully I’ll get this posted in a reasonable amount of time this week, because IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY WEEK, EVERYBODY!!!

Or not. Depending on when you read this/when this post actually goes up. Right now I’m hard at work writing for my February Freeze Out Challenge, which means that most–if not all–of my writing time is going towards finishing my current Super Secret Project (for more info on this, please refer back to last week’s post!). But seeing as though Valentine’s Day is one of my absolute favorite days of the year, I really wanted to try and get a Valentine’s Day inspired post out.

Which brings us to today’s smudge! Today–in true Valentine’s Day spirit–I’m going to be sharing with you all of my absolute favorite fictional ships, which, if you know literally anything about me and my smol romantical heart, you will know that there are . . . ahem . . . quite a few of these. Because I like to ship characters.

Like a lot.

I’m pretty sure the people I beta read for get annoyed with all of the “SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!” messages I sprinkle their manuscripts with, but it’s fine. They put up with me.

i hope

So without any further ado, here’s a totally non-exhaustive list of ALL of my favorite bookish ships!

WARNING: This post contains major/minor spoilers for the following books and series: Harry Potter // The Lunar Chronicles // The Hunger Games // Anne of Green Gables // Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them // The Girl Who Drank The Moon // 

If you have not read these books and do not want to be spoiled, please DO NOT continue reading until you have finished the series’/books mentioned!

My Favorite Character Ships Of All Time!

i. Ron and Hermione

I don’t care what you have to say in defense of Hermione and Harry or Hermione and Draco or whatever terrible awful no good pairing you believe in, Ron and Hermione will always be my Harry Potter OTP.

Well. Sort of. But we’ll get to that in a second.

Back when I was a smol young one–back when “shipping” was reserved for FedEx and “OTP” sounded like some strange brand of toilet paper–I really really really really really wanted Ron and Hermione to get together.

I can’t remember if this bizarre desire stemmed from watching the movies or reading the books (my Harry Potter path started with the movies, and then somehow I got caught up with the books before the final movies came out? it was a very wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey, non-linear experience), but I just knew in my hopeless romantical heart that at some point within that series, Ron and Hermione had to get together. There was just no way that they couldn’t.

THEY WERE SIMPLY PERFECTION, OKAY?

And I know that a lot of people–including Rowling herself, if I’m not mistaken–thought Hermione deserved to be with Harry, but like. . .? NO. HERMIONE BELONGS WITH RON. He’s the perfect amount of bumbling idiot for her brains, and “Harry and Hermione” is just too many H’s. It refuses to roll off the tongue, which is something you seriously have to consider when forming a couple. If their names don’t roll off the tongue together, they obviously don’t belong. Kind of like Katniss and Gale (too throaty), but of course, that is a predicament we shall be getting to shortly.

ii. Remus and Tonks

I believe I’ve mentioned my love for these two previously on the blog, but you seriously cannot expect me to write a post about ALL of my favorite ships and NOT include these two.

I mean, come on. Remus and Tonks are the most adorable couple in the whole wide Wizarding world. One’s a werewolf, one’s a bizarre shape-shifter/duck-faced/pink-haired creature with a penchant for tripping over random inanimate objects. . . WHAT IS THERE NOT TO LOVE ABOUT THESE TWO???

I mean, yes, Remus ended up abandoning her in the final book because he was terrified of becoming a father, but I think we can all safely agree that this was a very non-Remus thing to do and deserves to be stripped from all our memories for the rest of time. Personally, whenever I think about that moment in the series, all I see is a gaping black void of nothingness.

Because it never happened.

Nope. Nope nope nope nope nopety nope nope.

iii. Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blithe

Ah yes. The very first ship I ever did ship.

I’m not exactly sure if I’m proud of how intensely I wanted these two to end up together, or if this is some dark secret that I should just eternally conceal within myself for the rest of my existence and never admit to.

But I guess if you’re reading this, I’m admitting to it.

Aha. #fail.

But be honest, now. Who here has read Anne of Green Gables and DIDN’T ship Anne and Gilbert??? It’s kind of an impossibility, am I right?

Ever since I read Anne of Green Gables when I was but a wee little thing, I just knew that Anne and Gilbert were Meant To Be™. They were such a dynamic duo, and their hatred-to-friendship-to-love was just the most adorable and precious thing in the whole entire world.

Also I now know that the best way to get a boy to fall head over heels in love with you is to crack a slate over his head, so clearly these books taught me multiple things. #themoreyouknow

iv. Katniss and Peeta

I know a lot of people ship Katniss with Gale. I understand and acknowledge that this is a valid ship, and I even have a very close friend (*cough*KATE*cough*) who thinks Katniss should have chosen Gale over Peeta.

. . .HOWEVER. I cannot in good faith support Katniss ending up with Gale. I JUST CAN’T, FOLKS. It’s an abomination. A DISGRACE, I say! Katniss belongs with Peeta. She and the baker boy were made for each other, and THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING YOU CAN SAY TO DISSUADE ME, PEASANTS.

And apparently Suzanne Collins agrees with me, so HA.

^^ actual footage of Gale fans setting my ship on fire

v. Xan and Glerk

This one might seem a little weird, I’ll admit. I mean, Xan is a witch, and Glerk is . . . well . . . a swamp monster. But they are just so adorable together and I totally 100% ship this friendship.

Because friendships deserve to be shipped as well, I daresay.

And also I may or may not have shed a little tear at the ending of The Girl Who Drank The Moon, because Glerk and Xan’s ending was just — AGH. It was beautiful and heartbreaking and soulcrushing all at once, and although the book’s end was a tad bittersweet, it was still absolutely precious where Xan and Glerk were involved. I’m 1000% in love with these characters still, and if you haven’t read this book yet. . .

What on earth are you doing.

vi. Newt and Tina

I’m sorry, but the minute he started comparing her eyes to a salamander, I was sold.

This ship is one that is most definitely sailing, my friends, and I’m happily waving from the mast.

^^ me @ every single one of these character ships, tbh

And finally, last but never the least, my absolute favorite ship of all time and my OTP. . .

The one, the only. . .

vii. Cress and Thorne

If you’ve been around my blog for any length of time (or you know me personally or something) you most likely already know that I obsess over The Lunar Chronicles quite often. If the titles of these books are mentioned in conversation–no matter how trivial it may be–you will find that I miraculously spawn out of the depths of nowhere to scream incoherently into your face about how much I adore these books.

I will never forget the day Cinder came in the mail as my prize for having won my first ever NaNo, and I will never forget the nights I spent devouring these books long after I was supposed to have gone to bed. These books were a crucial turning point for both my reading and writing, and no amount of words would ever be able to express how deeply these books impacted me.

However, out of all the ships found within those pages, there were two characters in particular who I truly believe I shall squeal over for the rest of time itself.

Cress and Thorne. If you’ve read The Lunar Chronicles, perhaps you understand the obsession. Or perhaps you’re one of the many who prefer Cinder and Kai or Wolf and Scarlet or Winter and Jacin.

(I must admit that Winter and Jacin are quite adorable, as well, though I never really could get into Scarlet and Wolf as much as the others.)

But as for me, Cress and Thorne (a.k.a. Corne, as me and my friend, Hannah, often called them XD) will forever and always be my absolute favorite Lunar Chronicles ship. There’s just something about Thorne’s arrogant ways and Cress’s disarming innocence that makes even my totally-not-hopelessly-romantic heart melt into a puddle of happy ooze.

I’ve also always been a really huge fan of the story of Rapunzel, so when I found out that Cress was the TLC version of my absolute favorite fairytale of all time, you can bet your buttons that I was hooked from the start.

And besides. I’m sure we can all admit that Thorne was the absolute best hero in that entire series. I mean, Kai was obviously an adorable, clueless little muffin, and Wolf was . . . whatever people like about Wolf. And Jacin was an angry little cinnamon roll, but Thorne.

Thorne was the best.

I’m starting to get the feeling that Rapunzel’s hero is always a million and one times better than all the others, though, which is a little odd.

I mean, just compare this—

To this—

. . . or even this—

. . . Okay. That took a bit of a weird turn.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is this: Rapunzel’s prince is always the best, Cress and Thorne are absolute perfection and are my OTP forever and always.

That is, until I find a new OTP, of course. But seeing as though literally nothing has been able to compare to these two for the past three years, I’m highly doubtful that this will actually happen.

Until that day arrives, however, Corne shall reign victorious as the most glorious ship of all time.

Well, that and the Black Pearl. But I digress.

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TALK TO ME, PEASANTS!

What are some of your favorite ships of all time? If you’re a Gale fan, did this post anger you severely? (please don’t hate me…) Do you think friendships should be shipped more often, or do you think ships should be strictly romantic/love interest-y? Which fairytale prince do you think is the absolute best? and most importantly. . .

WHAT IS YOUR OTP?

(bonus points if it’s Cress and Thorne, and TRIPLE points if you call them Corne and not Creswell or Thress)

Let us talk about ALL OF THE VALENTINE’S THINGS! down in the comments below, shall we?

And as always, until next time. . .

*flings cookies in the air and disappears*

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