ARC-V Ships!

Suggestions Removed

TeachMeShipping (for Reiji x Shingo x Yuuya)

Suggestions Pending Removal

Mod applications are still being taken here if people are interested!

Also, as a note - the list is 100% going to be sticking to 'Yuuto' unless evidence comes in that that romanization is accurate and it really is supposed to be Ute.

Suggestions Removed

(Surprisingly)DecentShipping (for Masumi x Sora)

Suggestions Pending Removal

Mod applications are still being taken here if people are interested!

The name poll results are as follows;

AkaShun (Reiji x Shun)

HostageShipping (73%)

EnemyShipping (23%)

HostageSoulShipping (3%)

ShunSora (Shun x Sora)

PreyShipping (88%)

EnemyShipping (7%)

FalconShipping (5%)

Following the poll about double suggestions/alternate portmanteau tags, the blog will be accepting double suggestions, and fanwork in alternate portmanteau tags will be accepted. However, some things in alternate tags might not get caught, so please drop a line if it looks like something has been missed!

I'm also taking in mod applications, mostly for things like checking ship tags and helping to prepare weekly updates; please apply here if you're interested!

ETA: Sorry about Tumblr being consistently terrible with html, it should hopefully be fixed now!

Up To Vote (VOTE HERE):

AkaShun (Reiji x Shun)

EnemyShipping

Based on the saying ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, as Shun and Reiji have a common enemy making them allies.

HostageShipping

Shun intended to take Reiji hostage as leverage, and Reiji deduced that Shun’s sister had been taken hostage.

HostageSoulShipping

Shun can trap souls in cards, and in their first encounter intends to take Reiji hostage.

ShunSora (Shun x Sora)

EnemyShipping

Shun and Sora are enemies, which doesn’t look set to change anytime soon.

FalconShipping

The kanji for ‘Shun’ means ‘falcon’, and he runs a raptor deck; falcons are also birds of prey, which alludes to Sora’s line about Shun and his comrades being ‘prey in a hunting game’.

PreyShipping

Sora referred to Shun and his comrades as ‘prey in a hunting game’.

Suggestions Removed:

StickShipping (for Sora x Yaiba)

Suggestions Pending Removal:

yuyapotato replied to your post “Oh. So that means absolutely nothing can be done to get the Shun x...”

Okay ;-; but still.... There are very few actual art posts in the tag (5 artworks). Is it really too late? There can't be a special announcement for re-voting or anything?? I'll stop asking so much now ;_;

Renaming the ship now with no outright reason - because you might not like it, but others clearly did or it wouldn't have been voted in - sets a precedent for renaming that I really don't want to. The changes of finding a ship name that the entire fandom likes are miniscule, so if I open things up like this then I open the list up to a lot more 'can we change this? can we revote on this?' asks, and potentially having to run repeated votes for various ships, which gets complicated and confusing - particularly as this blog is run entirely by one person.

There are names on the list that I don't like either. That is the downside of being a fandom that uses ship names - there will always be names that you don't like, or that you think something else would fit better for.

Basically, yes. Ships will only be renamed with very good reason - we're talking things like 'the first name turned out to be something offensive that nobody caught before'.

Changing ship names spreads out fanworks further and makes things harder to find, because some people will choose to use the old name and some will use the new name, and not all of those people will cross-tag. It would mean having to keep track of old names for a ship anyway (or else make older fanwork inaccessible to newer fans who don't know the old name), so ships would functionally end up with multiple -shipping names as well as the portmanteau name for them.