My Top 10 Ships

I made a general blog about my ships, but this is a list of my top 10 ships.

Somethings you'll probably notice. I have a very particular pairing I like...

I like a pairing of an emotional, goofy, playful, slightly childish often light-aesthetic character, usually the girl in a straight pairing, uke in a gay pairing, or neko in a lesbian pairing paired with a dignified, elegant, maybe slightly angsty, mature often dark-aesthetic character, usually the guy in a straight pairing, seme in a gay pairing, and tachi in lesbian pairing. That's just sort of the relationship dynamic that most appeals to me, possibly because it reminds me of my own relationships.

You'll also notice if you notice my personal likes, that despite the fact that I am bisexual, I generally am not attracted to both members of a ship, though for my favorite I am usually drawn to at least one.

10: Hikaru x Lantis (CLAMP)

Hikaru x Lantis really captures the basic dynamic I was talking about, with Hikaru being cute and childish and emotionally passionate paired with the oh so refined Knight Lantis. I am glad Hikaru doesn't ever become a completely dependent force, relying strictly on Lantis, as she is still a Magic Knight and a powerful force. Her Childishness and innocence is not a weakness per se since it does lead to her godlike will and her ability to speak to animals, though it can be. Hikaru and Lantis are sort of the archetypal example of the relationship I like. The downside is it doesn't have a huge amount of screentime in canon. 

9: Zatanna x Constantine (DC Comics)

I know it's never gonna be permanent, because Constantine has some rule against ever being allowed to be happy, but these two really work together well I think. Zatanna's magic stories and Constantine's magic stories are opposite sides of the spectrum of magical grittiness to magical flashiness in terms of solo stories. Zatanna's tricky playfulness can give John some actual fun in his life, without ever compromising the internal structure of his stories' themes, while John's pragmaticism and down-to-earth-ness give Zatanna's often over the top magical girl friends like Nightmare Nurse and Madame Xanadu to a lesser extent someone to play off of.

8: Seiya x Shiryu (Saint Seiya)

Furthest from canon. Both are seemingly straight with Shiryu's love for Shunrei and Seiya's thing for Saori...that said their soldier in arms thing has so much homoeroticism to my fujoshi eyes, and they keep doing heroic sacrifices for each other...not to mention Seiya's hot-bloodedness and Shiryu's composure mix really well. 

7: Apollo x Midnighter (DC Comics)

It's Superman and Batman...but like.....as a gay couple......It's genius! No but seriously the two are so hot together...it's like DC appealed to us fangirls by giving us a universe where the world's finest were the world's finest yaoi <3 The sun/moon duality thing is really cool and reflected in their personality. Superman and Batman compliment each other really well just personality wise so it makes sense that in a universe where the versions of them were gay that they would hit it off <3

6: Ichigo x Masaya (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Everytime I see these two interact it's like I'm a pre-teen again pretending I'm Ichigo and wanting my Masaya lol....I can't say my favorite thing about this ship without spoiling TMM, but Ichigo in all her cute strengths and flaws comes to represent humanity to Masaya, and this is built beautifully into the plot and character development. 

5: Harley Quinn x Poison Ivy (DC Comics)

These two are so cute together, and I love how they change each other from villainesses to antiheroines overtime and by their presence. Harley was abused and nearly killed by her ex, the Joker. Poison Ivy felt pity for her and tried to help her, and this act of kindness began both their slow paths to redemption. While both are insane, their insanity-s seem to compliment each other and provide a dual impetus towards redemption. 

4: Nanoha x Fate (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)

The Magical Girl genre is characterized by the meeting of the mundane and the magical. This is what Nanoha and Fate Represent, and so their union represents the magical girl in her totality. Nanoha is characterized as a wholly average girl, who has lived a normal life, with a down to earth pragmatic personality. Fate is representative of the magical world, having been born as a clone, and living a horrible and then "normal" magical existence, serving as magical slave and then knight, with a grand idealistic chivalrous personality and an over the top idealistic flair.  Fate brought Nanoha into contact with the magical world through the TSAB, giving her life meaning and purpose, and Nanoha gave Fate a sense of normality, allowing her to be freed of her abusive "mother's" control and living a normal life to give her perspective. 

3: Minako x Rei (Sailor Moon)

The Ancient Greeks spoke of the union of War (Ares) and Love (Aphrodite). Naoko alludes to this love with the strange relationship between Rei and Minako, Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus. Yet as befitting the change of time and the internal contradiction of the characters. Mars appears not as the wild fire of the Ancient Greek Warfare, but the cold ladylike precision and formality characteristic of this modern age where war is won not by blood and sweat by the signing of papers and pushing of buttons. Rei is Warfare rendered in the modern context, she is hotblooded deep down, but she presents a formal ladylike exterior thought her competitive perfectionist nature betrays her true intent to conquer. Minako is Love in this, what the manga calls "Age of Love", prone to spontaneous impulse, silly gestures, and sudden shifts in moods. Their union is resonant with the Greek Myths and strangely modern in it's relationship between a contradictory lady and tomboy. 

2: Yuuko x Clow Reed (CLAMP)

Once there was a sorcerer surpassing all others, Clow Reed, who knew all things. Yet appearing before him was a strange mischeivous witch, the witch of dimensions, Yuuko whose mischief and wit were so potent that not even nigh-allseeing Clow could know that which she would do. When Yuuko died, Clow's wish for her to open her eyes warped the multiverse and began the series of adventures that forms the main narrative of the entire multiverse. Clow Reed and Yuuko's love relationship is so powerful that it's presence is felt across the multiverse. The two are both beautifully elegant around each other, yet they complete each other, Clow being the sorcerer so strong that Yuuko could not control, Yuuko being the witch so unpredictable Clow could not predict. In D&D terms, they were a force of law and chaos that possessed a paradoxical love and longing for each other to complete each other. Somehow all the things unsaid about this relationship make it paradoxically stronger, as it's mysteriousness calls to mind all the curiosities about it's nature.

1: Usagi x Mamoru (Sailor Moon)

It couldn't be any other. The love between Usagi and Mamoru is so complex that it eclipses all of the other works on this list, yet so simple in it's power. It is the catalyst for most of the plot of the series, they are forces that cause the most radical changes in each other, from Usagi going from the cowardly crybaby to the hero of justice and from Mamoru going to closed off to himself to reaching out to the world. Every romantic mood, every romantic theme and imagery I can see between these two. They are all at once, two soldiers at arms, a prince and a princess, a human and alien, the younger and the older, the night and day, innocent and sexual, intense and face-paced while agonizingly slow and deliberate,  opposite personalities and shared personalities (contrasted in one of the chapters). Usagi x Mamoru is to me the very definition of romance.