1 | ->''You're on the canon ground, I'm up in crack ship space,\ |
2 | Let's start a shipping war, don't care if I get hate.\ |
3 | Don't like my pairings, well, then you can hit the bricks.\ |
4 | This is my OTP, I'll go down with this ship!\ |
5 | I ship it! I ship it!'' |
6 | -->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCDgJiPBxfI "I Ship It"]]''', Not Literally Productions |
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8 | The '''One True Pairing''' (usually abbreviated as '''OTP''') is the couple that a fan or group of fans prefers over all other {{ship|ping}}s. {{Canon}} and logic do not necessarily apply, and {{crossover}} [=OTPs=] are not uncommon. |
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10 | The degrees to which this is taken varies wildly. It can mean anything from "I just like [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Drakken/Shego]] best" to "I won't read FanFic that pairs [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Anya and Xander]] with anyone but each other" to "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud always and still loves Aerith]] and they made love to each other in the flower field at the end of [[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren the movie]]", to the extreme "All of the canonical evidence that [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry and Hermione]] are not going to get together is a lie spread by the Ron/Hermione 'shippers, who must be [[DieForOurShip stopped]] before their evil [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroys the universe]]". [[note]] All examples chosen at random, but the last group really are that scary sometimes. When one of the Ron/Hermione shippers turned out to be [[OfficialCouple J. K. Rowling herself]], some of the "Harmonians" abandoned the series in anger, lashing out at Rowling for "ruining the story." [[FanDumb That's right, some think Rowling intentionally ruined her own story.]][[/note]] |
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12 | OTP [[ShipToShipCombat shipping wars]] were second only to SubbingVersusDubbing for heat and violence. The degree of fanaticism displayed for a particular OTP may be proportional to their distance from the OfficialCouple and/or the WordOfGod for the work in question. |
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14 | In some cases, holding their preferred characters to completely different standards than the official pairing is an excellent mark of OTP shippers. If someone argues that you need to show that X and Y got married to prove they're in love, and the rings on their fingers don't count, but they know that X and Z love each other because of '[[ShippingGoggles chemistry]]', they're definitely defending their OTP. |
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16 | It is technically possible for a person to have multiple [=OTPs=], just with no overlap between them. |
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18 | Some people refer to their favourite [[LoveTriangle threesome ship]] by the similar term OneTrueThreesome, or '''OT3'''. Or really, "OT" appended with any number if they're even more ambitious with the number of people involved. |
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20 | '''[=BroTP=]''' is used as a term for [[PlatonicLifePartners non]]-[[HeterosexualLifePartners romantic]] [=OTP=]s, of the "these people are best friends and no one will tell me otherwise" variety (for instance, John Sheridan and Susan Ivanova of ''Series/BabylonFive''). Male/female and female/female [=BroTP=]s are sometimes also called [=FrOTP=]s. |
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22 | Inversely, a '''[=NoTP=]''' is a ship that one opposes vehemently. |
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24 | Often the term "OTP" is used {{sarcas|mMode}}tically in parody of shipping, especially if it involves an [[CargoShip unconventional]] [[CrackPairing pairing]] (such as the [[MemeticMutation ever-popular]] [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Chad]]x[[TheWorfEffect Floor]] OTP), or a character and their [[TrademarkFavoriteFood favorite food]] ("[[Series/{{Heroes}} Hiro/Waffles OTP]]"), etc etc. |
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26 | Compare to FanPreferredCouple, which it can overlap with if the OTP in particular ends up becoming more popular than the canon couple. |
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