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[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone had experiences with pre-planning ships in general? Personally, I don't see the appeal in that because I feel it could be diasastrous for all parties involved. Say you and your partner planned for Bob and Suzie to be a couple. Then you find out that not only do Bob and Suzie have little to no chemistry, but Bob has better threads with Mark and Sandy with plenty of fun moments and sizzle between them. And none of that was pre-planned!

Basically, spontaneity works best in my experience.

I'm curious to know if anyone has been successful in pre-planned ships, or if it ended poorly.

[(Anonymous)]

I planned a ship with a cast mate once. Never again.

[(Anonymous)]

only with friends i have threaded a lot with outside of the game, generally? most times when i do a ship in game its with a psl partner turned game mate.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, this is how I've always done it! It's less preplanning everything about the ship and more knowing the chemistry our characters have & getting to see how the game events push them together.

[(Anonymous)]

kinda, we both shipped something (castmates) but it happened organically

[(Anonymous)]

I've only done one preplanned one, but it was because we planned on breaking them up later and wanted the ic mess.

All the others I've done have been organic.

[(Anonymous)]

preplanned an extremely slow burn ship for a game. my ship partner had a meltdown when they found out I was shooting the shit about a ship outside the game with my character and a mutual. nothing at all to do with the game itself. I ended up dropping because it was so bizarre.

in another instance I think I accidentally interrupted a preplanned ship, got the go ahead to continue with all sides, and then it ended poorly for a number of reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

I used only do spontaneous ships, until someone blew up at me and nuked all our cr because I had my character develop a crush on theirs after multiple threads of mutual flirting. Most people I talked to about this agreed the other player was just being unhinged, but it turned me off ever playing in games again.

[(Anonymous)]

DA. oh, i feel this, anon. the exact thing happened with me.

hopefully this wont give me away, but my character was flirting with character A. Character A shown some interest in mine, but they've never dated before so they were nervous. so my character and A agreed to take things very slow and only date for a short-term to see if character A enjoyed the idea of having a significant other. if character A didn't enjoy it, they'll break it off. if things were going well, they'll keep going. and things were going swimmingly between them.

but character A's bestie got jealous and possessive about it IC and OOC, came between them, and just ruined the whole ship. and when character A broke up with mine, character A and the bestie started having lovey dovey threads and the bestie would meta rp to rub it in my face.

it didn't turn me off to never do it again, but it definitely taught me to be very wary of others.

[(Anonymous)]

i've done both! usually if it's pre-planned it's with an otp but we make sure to rp beforehand and thread to make sure we have the chemistry before committing in the end.

but there really is nothing like an unplanned ship!

[(Anonymous)]

only with castmates, and in both cases they were ships that ultimately wound up being canon so our assessment of the characters having great chemistry was right on the mark.

[(Anonymous)]

Planned-ish? Never apped into a game with one planned but after a couple threads if the other player and I find we mutually ship it we might plan on how to nudge them that way

[(Anonymous)]

I only pre-plan ships in games with players I already know and play with. We've already figured out in psls that the ship has chemistry by that point.