Ships that I Ship: Day 65: Sollux/Terezi

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Canon: Homestuck
Pairing: Sollux Captor/Terezi Pyrope
Canon Level: They Have Mutual Friends

So another thing unique to Homestuck that I have not gotten into up until now is types of shipping. Homestuck canon has three different alien races, each with their own version of what passes for romance for their species, plus some aliens where what they do for romance isn't explored at all. Leprechaun and cherub romance is mostly ignored by the fandom, but troll romance has been embraced. Which is to say that while I have happily shipped the previous pairs regardless of the quadrant or even whether they have a troll-style romance, Sollux and Terezi I pretty much exclusively ship pale, a.k.a. in the bromance quadrant. Sollux and Terezi are characters with a lot of sharp edges, both figuratively and literally, but I don't see their personalities as being such that they end up cutting each other with those edges. Theirs would not be an extremely cuddly and fluffy moirallegiance because Terezi is not one to couch things in gentler terms. She sees the problem and sweeps everyone along in her solution, whether they want to do what's best for themselves or not. And I think Sollux needs someone like that, who can call him on his bull without being cruel about it and who can do what needs to be done even when that's the hard choice.

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