Oh, I've seen that. Not a lot, but it's there. (You know, it's not a good idea to start anything involving fandom with "I presume people don't ship..." Usually they do.) I don't know who else they ship him with, haven't really looked. I've seen people mention shipping him with Nyssa, but that confuses me extremely much since I read her as being at least 3-4 years older and she's definitely way more mature, and at their ages that kind of age difference is pretty darn significant.
it's partly because they spend 95% of their time arguing, so they feel very couple-y.
... *blinks* .... I'm sorry, I've never understood that argument for saying people feel like a couple. How is arguing all the time couple-y? Maybe this is because I grew up in a family where my parents argued A LOT and loudly throughout my childhood until they divorced, and it was horrible and not even faintly romantic. And I'm basically still traumatized by this in my adult age (I'm struggling not to cry now, sorry for too much information and it's not your fault, bringing up that topic at all just does it to me, but it's one of the reasons I get really uncomfortable with this implication).
Another thing is probably the way in my childhood and teens, adults would always imply that if a boy and a girl had any disagreements or fight, it had to be because there was a romantic vibe between them, and I a) got bullied severely by some boys who were definitely NOT into me, and b) am not that into non-fictional men; so the argument always feels connected to undermining my very real problems as well as my consent and feelings.
I know it's a popular trope, but it makes me extremely uncomfortable for real-life reasons and therefore I don't like it when people say that as a given, that arguing=romance and of course everyone agrees.
Sorry for going off on a tangent, I guess I've just seen that argument too many times by now and couldn't stay silent.
Frankly for what I've seen Six and Peri remind me more of siblings, because communicating mostly with snark is totally what siblings do. But I haven't seen enough of that era to comment more on their dynamic, and I haven't got much of a grip on Peri's character yet.
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Oh, I've seen that. Not a lot, but it's there. (You know, it's not a good idea to start anything involving fandom with "I presume people don't ship..." Usually they do.) I don't know who else they ship him with, haven't really looked. I've seen people mention shipping him with Nyssa, but that confuses me extremely much since I read her as being at least 3-4 years older and she's definitely way more mature, and at their ages that kind of age difference is pretty darn significant.
it's partly because they spend 95% of their time arguing, so they feel very couple-y.
... *blinks* .... I'm sorry, I've never understood that argument for saying people feel like a couple. How is arguing all the time couple-y? Maybe this is because I grew up in a family where my parents argued A LOT and loudly throughout my childhood until they divorced, and it was horrible and not even faintly romantic. And I'm basically still traumatized by this in my adult age (I'm struggling not to cry now, sorry for too much information and it's not your fault, bringing up that topic at all just does it to me, but it's one of the reasons I get really uncomfortable with this implication).
Another thing is probably the way in my childhood and teens, adults would always imply that if a boy and a girl had any disagreements or fight, it had to be because there was a romantic vibe between them, and I a) got bullied severely by some boys who were definitely NOT into me, and b) am not that into non-fictional men; so the argument always feels connected to undermining my very real problems as well as my consent and feelings.
I know it's a popular trope, but it makes me extremely uncomfortable for real-life reasons and therefore I don't like it when people say that as a given, that arguing=romance and of course everyone agrees.
Sorry for going off on a tangent, I guess I've just seen that argument too many times by now and couldn't stay silent.
Frankly for what I've seen Six and Peri remind me more of siblings, because communicating mostly with snark is totally what siblings do. But I haven't seen enough of that era to comment more on their dynamic, and I haven't got much of a grip on Peri's character yet.