#chitauri

Similarities:

Mentor/student

Age gap

The older party feeling guilty as all fuck*

Depending on how you see both dynamics, father/son relationship as well which would make it pseudo-incestuous

Height difference**

Colors are damn near identical (Hershel and Chiro are associated with orange, though Chiro in his casual clothing is more red and blue with some orange + Hyperforce mode being white and orange while Hershel is black/dark brown and orange; Luke is blue but it's close to purple, a color more associated with Antauri even if his design in the second half of SRMTHFG includes blue)

Similar dynamics overall

*depends on if you ship LayLuke with Luke being an adult (such as in the anime), in which case that guilty aspect might not be there. Same with Chitauri on if you ship it when Chiro's an adult (though we've never seen an adult design for him, so that's up to the fans there)

**depends on how old Luke would be at that point. 14 and onwards there won't be much of a height difference like when he's 10-13 years old

Differences:

Chitauri would count as an interspecies relationship (unless you turn Chiro into a monkey or Antauri into a human) while with LayLuke, they're both humans and the same species

There's an extra layer of angst to LayLuke in comparison to Chitauri (Hershel having lost people before and thus being more closed off while Antauri hasn't lost people like that, only losing a previous leader to the hands of evil)

Hershel has known Luke for longer than Antauri has known Chiro. Hershel has seen Luke as a baby and known him since Luke was 10, Antauri has known Chiro since he was 13

Can you see why I instantly gravitated to LayLuke when I was getting into the series lol, I just haven't drawn or translated and published some fics yet

I could also be missing some similarities so lol

I was originally gonna keep this until I got my gel pens back, but because of wanting to make it in a similar style to another picture I did a while back and someone told me that they're happy I make content of this ship, I figured fuck it and try to replicate that look digitally! Positive comments be good motivation!

Chiro!!

:D!

My NOTP for them: I don't have a lot of ships I dislike with him, but I guess one that ain't doing it for me the most is either Chiro/Valeena or Chiro/Skeleton King. I like me my enemies to lovers, but mmm not doing it for me ig. Maybe I just need really good fanworks for them, I dunno lol

My BROTP for them: Chiro and Otto! Look at these funky little guys :D I just really love seeing some brotherly stuff with them, they're really cute honestly

My OTP for them: ugh two could fit really well here XD I'll just use ChiSprx here lol. ChiSprx is just really fucking good imo, best friends to lovers, a kid that tends to get cocky and had practically nothing before meeting everyone x a cool wisecracking guy that's probably insecure deep down, size difference, everything is just GOOD MAN. Age gap and possible pseudo-incest (depends if you see Sprx as the cool dad/brother for him or not) are just bonuses lol. I could go on about them if given the chance, same with a few other ships. Also, that damn line in VS Chiro.

"Chiro, you make one ugly chick, but if you were a (girl) monkey? Woo cha!" will forever live in my brain rent free. Ain't no way nobody on the crew DIDN'T ship them to some degree with that shit XD

My second choice pairing for them: Chinmay! They're too cute and wholesome, I can't. I usually hate the whole love at first sight thing, never made sense to me and it never works, but these two happen to make it work for me! One of the only two that manages to work love at first sight lol

My fluffy pairing for them: Chinmay, definitely

My angsty pairing for them: for something that I actually ship, Chitauri could fit here. The angst would mainly come from Antauri's side than Chiro's, but that would count right? For something I don't really ship, Chiro/Gyrus Krinkle. I hate Gyrus but OOH he's just so good for fucked up shit, and torturing Chiro with said shit with Gyrus XD otherwise, keep Chiro far away from him

My favorite poly ship for them: ChiSpantauri! :D Boy gets extra love from best friend and father figure lol. This is just fun from Chiro drowning in love, Sprx being a wisecracking teasing little shit, and Antauri just dying from embarrassment and guilt, and Chiro and Sprx reassuring him everything's alright. Could also talk about this for hours lol

My weirdest pairing for them: Including poly ships, probably SlingChinmay. I blame the fanworks for this one, and myself for getting too hyped for Slingshot when he only appears in one episode XD Fucking, gotta supply myself with interactions. But very cute, need to do more with them even if it's just Slingshot with Chiro or Jinmay