Pair the Suitors
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| Related tropes/genres | Love Triangle, Ship War |
| See also | Pair the Spares |
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Pair the Suitors is a term for when the two suitors in a Love Triangle who had previously been competing over the same person, developing romantic feelings for each other instead.
Has some level of overlap with OT3s as well, when all three parties get together instead.
If there is a Ship War between the two usual fractions, this pairing can be a defiant, anti-ship-war statement. Alternatively it can be a sentiment that the shared object of their affections is not worthy of them.
Such ships are usually rare pairs.
Examples
- Sawyer/Jack in the Jate vs Skate ship war
- Sansa Stark/Daenerys Targaryen in the Jonsa vs Jonerys ship war
- Jack Sparrow/Will Turner in the Willabeth vs Sparrabeth ship war
- Lance McClain/Takashi Shirogane in the Klance vs Sheith ship war
- Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark in the Stucky vs Stony ship war
- Jaskier/Yennefer (Yennskier) because Geralt isn't doing right by either of them.
- Erik/Raoul in the Phantom of the Opera fandom
- Aerith Gainsborough/Tifa Lockhart in the Love Triangle Debate
- KorrAsami (endgame) in the MaKorra vs Makosami ship debate; so much so that "pulling a KorrAsami" has become something of an idiom for pairing the suitors
- Courtney/Gwen in Total Drama fandom. Both have dated Duncan at one point, but neither end up with him by the end of their arcs.