Glad to provide some insight. There are definitely fannish tropes that go into a lot of writing about OTPs. I've ran across many fics that just a give a warning that says, "x and y were never together like they were in canon, so here's my x and z fic." If I don't really buy a ship that much, I need the extra hand holding and believability factor.
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on 2006-06-24 01:35 am (UTC)