Rare pairs

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Over on pillowfort I made a little concoction of links to parts of my Fitter of the Species, relating to Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner as a rare pair. Fitter of the Species should you wish to rifle about at AO3 for readings.

What rare pairs do you write or read? What makes for a road less traveled?

Comments

[highlander_ii]

I would love for more ppl to make stuff for - Harry Dresden/Carlos Ramirez - https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Harry%20Dresden*s*Carlos%20Ramirez/works

[yourlibrarian]

It kind of makes me think about what a rare pair actually is. For example, within MCU, Loki/Tony is definitely a rare pair. But given all the content that continues to come out for it, it doesn't seem a lot more rare than some leading pairs in other fandoms. (A small fandom with a rare pair must be a special form of agony). In Merlin fandom, for example, virtually all pairings besides Merlin/Arthur are rare. One of the most mentioned is Gwen/Lancelot yet while they're IN many many stories, there are very few about them.

[mythicmistress]

"Road less traveled?" One theory of mine is that it might be from having an overly dominant pairing combined with tons of vitriol aimed at any other character that would possibly get in the way, that might discourage people from writing other pairings. Of course this could be from my personal experience from my days in Artemis Fowl fandom.

[rattfan]

I like Crowley, King of Hell, paired with Bobby Singer, from Supernatural. Massive fandom, full of stuff that absolutely squicks me, but occasionally wonderful. There used to be quite a bit of Crobby, as it's called, now mostly moi and friends :-)

[alexseanchai]

In Miraculous Ladybug, literally anything that isn't some permutation of Marinette/Adrien is a rarepair XD

[boneknives]

Ooh, I love rare pairs... My main fandom is Queer as Folk, and Brian and Justin are my OTP, but I have a big love for Ted/Emmett, which would definitely be considered a rare pair... The majority seem to pair Ted up with Blake, which I just can't get into (and the show kept pushing it, tbh), and poor, poor Emmett was left high and dry by every single romance the show pushed him into! I felt that, personally, Ted and Emmett, as different as they were, clashed in the BEST way, and the punch to the gut was that the show actually made them CANON, only to break them up later.

WEH.

Another rare pairing that I like is 17/Pan from Dragonball (Z/GT). I am, literally, the only person that ships this, and it's allll because of a fic that I read, like, seventeen years ago. No pun intended, lmao!

[raving_liberal]

I wrote a rarepair (and a rare-triad) for so long that it became (based on number of fics) no longer a rare pair!