Grandecho
| Pairing | |
|---|---|
| Pairing: | Grand Magnificent/Echo Reverie |
| Alternative name(s): | Echogrand |
| Gender category: | Nonbinary |
| Fandom: | Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage |
| Canonical?: | No |
| Prevalence: | Common |
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Grandecho is the pairing of Grand Magnificent and Echo Reverie, two player characters from Friends at the Table's Twilight Mirage season. In fandom, it is one of the most popular ships from Twilight Mirage, and it remains popular in the fandom as a whole even years after the season's end.[1]
Canon
In canon, Grand Magnificent is a pretentious, mononymous artist and engineer, and Echo is a martial artist and petty criminal; they work together as part of a small envoy sent to prepare the planet Quire for possible future settlement. They have very different personalities, and one throughline in the season is Echo frequently needing to rescue Grand from peril.
History
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Creator Response
As with several other PC/PC ships in Friends at the Table, such as Tenfour and Balence, the cast of the show was aware of the ship's popularity and addressed it in the season's post-mortem episode. In the case of Grandecho, the players stated that they wanted to keep the exact nature of the relationship between Grand Magnificent and Echo vague, citing shows like The X-Files and Bones that they felt suffered for having the UST between main characters become major plot points. Fans were encouraged to take their headcanons and run with them, however.[2]
Common Tropes in Fanworks
Example Fanworks
Fanart
- Here we go again, always needing to be rescued by SeamonsterArt. A good example of the common fanart trope of Echo holding Grand in a princess carry.[3]
- this is grandecho 2 me. for some reason by emarcial. Fanart based on a popular Tumblr text post.[4]
- You ever think about how the Mr. Magnificent and Elegy scene... by dancy-nrew. Accordion-folded watercolour fanart based on a specific scene from canon.[5]
Fanfic
- Point of Return by twinewool. Novella-length futurefic in which Echo and Grand Magnificent reconnect a decade post-canon.
- love me 'til my heart stops by harpydora. Missing scene fic featuring "sad fluff".
Archives and Communities
Other Fannish Resources
- Echo Reverie page on FatTWiki (canon resource)
- Grand Magnificent page on FatTWiki (canon resource)
References
- ^ e.g., in March 2024, nearly six years after the season's end, grandecho was the seventh most commonly tagged relationship in the Friends at the Table (Podcast) tag on Archive of Our Own, and the most commonly tagged ship from Twilight Mirage.
- ^ Twilight Mirage post-mortem episode (Sep 10, 2018). Friends at the Table.
- ^ @seamonsterart (Jan 30, 2023): Here we go again, always needing to be rescued. Tumblr post. Accessed February 12, 2024. (archive link)
- ^ @emarcial (Nov 22, 2021): this is grandecho 2 me. for some reason. Tumblr post. Accessed February 13, 2024. (archive link)
- ^ @dancy-nrew (Apr 11, 2022): You ever think about how the Mr. Magnificent and Elegy scene was possible because of their shared moment of intimacy building Echo's mech, so you have the set up and payoff of this bond and then they are IMMEDIATELY blasted with the independence wave telling them that they are alone, that they have always been and will always be alone, and then they don't talk to each other for like a year and a half? But then, in the end, after everything, they DO reach out? They act on that connection? Grandecho is thematically relevant to twilight mirage welcome to my powerpoint. Tumblr post. Accessed February 13, 2024. (archive links: post, video)