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Ships that I Ship: Day 111: Virgil/Richie
Canon: Static Shock
Pairing: Richie Foley/Virgil Hawkins
Canon Level: Best Friends
Oh man, Virgil and Richie are so great. I think I spent like an hour last night watching Static Shock clips on YouTube and smiling. They're best friends, they support each other and work well together, they're able to have fun and be silly. They just get each other, through thick and thin. Now, I think it's fairly obvious by now that I do not do OTPs in the traditional sense because I am a fannish magpie who is easily distracted by anything that catches my eye, but Virgil/Richie comes close to being an OTP for me. (What I read in Static Shock: Virgil/Richie, Virgil&Richie, Hawkins or Foley family gen with background Virgil/&Richie, and the one Adam/Sharon fic in existence.) Even the gen just sort of tends to read as either pre-slash or slash minus the kissing to me, probably because I see Richie as gay.
(Possibly interesting aside! The character from the comics that Richie was mostly based on, Rick, is gay but there was no way a Saturday morning kids cartoon on the WB was going to be allowed to have an out character in the early 2000s. Dwayne McDuffie said that they couldn't even hint at anything or even have Richie be silent when the topic of girls came up, so instead they went the opposite direction and made Richie be super vocally into girls in a way that comes across as trying way too hard. So there's your bit of background trivia for the day. I'd link to a source, but link rot got to the one I had bookmarked.)
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Too Many Stars by
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Summertime by
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Pairing: Richie Foley/Virgil Hawkins
Canon Level: Best Friends
Oh man, Virgil and Richie are so great. I think I spent like an hour last night watching Static Shock clips on YouTube and smiling. They're best friends, they support each other and work well together, they're able to have fun and be silly. They just get each other, through thick and thin. Now, I think it's fairly obvious by now that I do not do OTPs in the traditional sense because I am a fannish magpie who is easily distracted by anything that catches my eye, but Virgil/Richie comes close to being an OTP for me. (What I read in Static Shock: Virgil/Richie, Virgil&Richie, Hawkins or Foley family gen with background Virgil/&Richie, and the one Adam/Sharon fic in existence.) Even the gen just sort of tends to read as either pre-slash or slash minus the kissing to me, probably because I see Richie as gay.
(Possibly interesting aside! The character from the comics that Richie was mostly based on, Rick, is gay but there was no way a Saturday morning kids cartoon on the WB was going to be allowed to have an out character in the early 2000s. Dwayne McDuffie said that they couldn't even hint at anything or even have Richie be silent when the topic of girls came up, so instead they went the opposite direction and made Richie be super vocally into girls in a way that comes across as trying way too hard. So there's your bit of background trivia for the day. I'd link to a source, but link rot got to the one I had bookmarked.)
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Hurricanes and Sisters by
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Sunset by
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Too Many Stars by
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