Why do we ship people??

This may or may not be related to LittleRadge’s youtube video on the same topic.

Shipping, in case you’re not a teenage fangirl, is the idea of two people being in a relationship. This can be friendly, romantic or sexual. It’s mainly romantic.

Without knowing what they’re doing, most people ship characters.
Peeta and Katniss.
Ron and Hermione.
Rose and the 10th Doctor.

And so on.
So why do we do this??

Well, for some it comes from a longing to be in a relationship with one or both of the characters yourself. Oh don’t look at me like that. We’ve all done it. Deep, deep down…
For others, I believe it is possible that the person longs for a relationship like that themselves: if someone says “Oh those two are definitely a couple” about two characters that are merely the closest of friends, then they may wish for a similar experience in their own life.
Or maybe they jug find it ‘really cute’.
It happens.

Slash shipping is the idea of two female characters or two male characters being shipped.
I think fangirls slash ship because its cute. Also, and I may be searching too hard for a reason to ship John Watson and Sherlock Holmes, but most o us are students, studying for some kind of qualification in something English related.
This leads us to read very deeply into books, yes? So, in my opinion, it kind of makes sense that we also read very deeply into potential relationships between a human and an angel…

Anyway, I understand why people may not ship. They may not like the idea of messing around with how the writer/creator of the franchise wanted the characters to be portrayed. Or, they have better things to spend their lives on.
Good on ya! Though I don’t see that future for myself, I fully support you in it!!

However, I personally feel that there is nothing wrong with shipping.
Not that I’m biased.
(I am)

But I believes it makes a show more interesting, even with an already amazing show, if you can picture a hunter loving an angel. Or an angel loving a demon. Or an umbrella and a cane being together.
There is actually fanfiction on that last one. I’ve read it.

Or, maybe its just adorable.

Yeah, lets go with that.
Shannon