For the pitt ships ask game: 4 and for your top ship 19?
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4. What are your top 5 favourite ships?
This does not specify if said ship has to be romantic, necessarily, so I am going to decide for myself that: they do not! (Bc fr some of the platonic dynamics on this show are my favourite and I want to yap about them, too.) So, in no particular order:
1)- RobbyLangdon
What can I say about them? Honestly what do I NEED to say about them? Like if you've seen the show then you have: seen them. I shouldn't have to say a single fucking word about how intensely these two: Compel Me. FR, tho, the dynamic between these two is truly the keystone/lynchpin of this series. They represent so much to each other/Langdon is a symbol/encapsulation of all of Robby's hopes and despairs, dreams and nightmares, past and future, failures and triumphs, inspirations and legacy. They are each others' constants!!! They are intrinsically linked!! They have each others' fingerprints on them so deep you could cut down to the bone and find them carved there! They are the centre of the Pitt universe around which all else orbits!!! And I'm quite clearly: so fucking normal about them/that. Ahem.
2)- Jank AKA Abbot/Langdon
Yes they've had, like, 3 (small/minor) interactions across 2 seasons in the entirety of canon but FUCK IT. I have an imagination and there are much worse ways to exercise it than this!!!! Also i started calling them Jank as a joke but now i can't stop)
But no bc listen, listen, The Vision is here, okay, you too can see it. You just have to be willing to: try. Jank is almost pure vibes based for me. Because they feel similar yet different enough that they reach: balance. Their energies do reach a nice equilibrium tho, imo. Because they are both absolutely the type to: Get Shit Done. Sleeves: rolled up. Hands: dirty. The bit: fucking committed to as no bit ever has been before. They just have TOTALLY opposite energies while they do it. Very 'immovable object/unstoppable force.'
Langdon has that unstoppable force energy, (and, like, LITERAL energy), he's keeping 20 different plates spinning at the same time and somehow remembers the precise pattern/name of each one and can pick 'em out of a line-up blindfolded by intuition alone and is simultaneously absorbing 1,000 details all at once but somehow expertly picking out the 6.8 of them that matter in the moment. While Jack is the immovable object, the anchor, the port, the grounding gravity that keeps everything centred and sane, with an overview of the entire battlefield and a plan for how they win the war, just not this battle. Together they are: the anvil (Jack) against which the hammer (Frank) can consistently fall and crush MCIs into the ground to serve as their bitch.....mayhaps I got carried away but like: is the vision starting to take shape!? No?? GOOD. BC I HAVE MORE!!!
But they are both: gremlins who live/come alive for the Chaos and pressure of the ED. No-one thrived more in the MCI environment of the end of season 1 than Frank and Jack (and they should probably go to therapy about that, but listen, I'm here to ship them, not fix them, I'm cupid not a psychiatrist!!). Jack was like FINALLY. THE MOMENT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR ALL MY LIFE!!! And rocked up locked and loaded with his combat medical experience, a backpack full of MacGyver kits, and the dream of turning this nightmare into his personal theatre and I can't even be mad at him. Man was ready to fuck and boy did he FUCK when it came. Meanwhile Frank, 'I got fired/publicly kicked out of the ED, like, an hour ago/my divorce was basically broadcast on livestream hospital rumour mill to all and sundry but you know what? there are lives that need saving and that's what I'm gonna fucking do.' He lacked Jack's pre-prepared go-bag and years of military trauma but you know what? He still rocked up and served maximum cunt anyway. His feral little ADHD brain cell was SINGING, I know it was.
There's ALSO an undeniable emotion/gentleness in both of them. A softness that hides beneath the chaos and the calm. They don't show it well, but these two are both always watching, always noticing, always thinking, and always feeling - they pick up on the vibes and needs of those around them, and do their best to tend to them. They are both the types to set themselves on fire to keep others warm/to provide a light in the darkness for others to follow. They are the last sorts of people you'd expect to write a beautifully handwritten, emotional, moving letter for a dead patient they never knew but still managed to deeply understand to offer a farewell to a family member; or to proudly wear a pastel-beaded bracelet in full view of the entire hospital because their kid made it, or to be the one subtly keeping tabs on everyones' emotional bandwidths around them. Except that's EXACTLY who they both are.
Idk, y'all, they just fucking rotate the giant rotisserie chicken in my brain and i just think they're neat, okay.
3)- Fro-Yo AKA Langdon & Garcia
The OG ER siblings vibe!!! No-one is doing it like them!!!! Peak older sister/younger brother who has been annoying the tits off of me since before he emerged from the womb that I will invent a new way of calling him a moron every damn day of my life because he vexes me so hard vibes. But also the type of siblings where it's like, "hold up: I get to insult the shit out of them because they are MY mess and the thorn in MY side/the bane of MY existence. You do not get to say SHIT to them or else there will be scalpels lodged in places you do not want them."
I respect/love so hard that the dynamic between Langdon and Garcia changed: not at all between seasons 1 and 2. You could take any of their season 2 interactions and slot 'em comfortably and seamlessly into season 1, no problemo. "That's my shitty ass little brother whom I love against all my better judgement/intention.....oh, he's been to rehab for drug addiction? Great. That's: still my shitty ass little brother whom I love against all my better judgement/intention."
I got a lotta headcanons for them. But the brief overview is: They met in med school, pretty much instantly Got Each Other bc they have the same fuckerdly vibe/shitty sarcastic sense of humour that's off-putting to pretty much everyone except them. Lowkey (not at all lowkey, nothing about either of them ever is) competitive as FUCK with each other - but in the way where it actually pushes both of them to be better than they otherwise would have been.
Garcia is a year ahead of him but, for whatever reason, the universe keeps yeeting him after her to follow in her footsteps like an extremely annoying wet-ass dog (her phrasing) kind of way. So they met in med school, but somehow always ended up together in The Pitt for their random rotations - both of them residents/the OG Pittlings training under Robby (Robby and Yolanda actually get an honourable mention in the ships catalogue - they have a few 'blink and you miss it' lines/moments but I love them a whole lot/am intending to compile 'em all in a gifset Soon). Anyhooo - they're both hella talented and the dynamic they have is kinda terrifying from the outside but it seems to work for them? So. Sure. Have at it, kids.
Langdon (and Robby) have lowkey semi-joking (but also not totally joking) never forgiven Yolanda for #BETRAYING them and accepting the offer to join the surgery team as their trauma surgery fellow. Langdon will never admit (especially not to Robby) how damn close he got to following her there, too - he gets on well with the surgical team/has their sense of humour/vibe/can take what they dish out (Garcia has been lowkey preparing him for this mission for years without either of them realising it). And every now and then Garcia still makes jokes/pointed comments about his "tiny hands" (tiny hands which would be: perfect for surgery, god-fucking-dammit Langdon!!!!). But they both know that Langdon belongs in the ED and the ED belongs to him/it just Works so well.
4)- Mellis AKA Mel/Ellis
Listen. Look. Okay. If a hot older, more senior resident approached me in the corridor and proceeded to tell me to stfu so she could monologue at me and soothe my anxieties about my upcoming deposition/assure me I performed a perfect procedure and had done nothing wrong/was golden, easing my worries about my Legal Troubles in such a way that does not trigger my squirrely autistic braincells with more worry because of breaking those rules (because: this ain't a discussion it's a goddamn monologue (fall out boy, 2026)) I would straight up no longer be on this planet anymore, I would have ascended to a sapphic astral plane from which there would be no return....but if I WAS by some miracle: still alive, I'd be: motherfucking married. That was the hottest scene I've ever witnessed in my life.
Okay, me aside: I actually think Ellis' straight-talking, no bullshit, uncomplicated, direct, 'the only way out is through', 'this right here is a spade and so I'm gonna call it: a fucking spade' type vibe/attitude/energy would actually pair incredibly well with Mel's....Vibrating Autistic Anxiety. I also think they bring out The Best in each other. As can be clearly observed in the: illicit spinal tap scene in 1x15 - I know Ellis was looking at Mel in that moment, seeing that tiny lil smirk/how, oh fuck yeah, she knows EXACTLY what she did and EXACTLY how badass it was, and is just like 'okay, alright, okay then - girl got game. I see how it is, I see how it is. Respect.'
5)- Abbot/Walsh
This one is going on here as my fun, like, (almost) crackship/bonus dynamic/because their scenes and Obvious History just compels me so fucking much. I don't know what their specific deal is: but I DO know I'd watch a 6 season spinoff series and a feature-length film about it. (and I know Emery has pegged Jack at least once and good for her! Good for both of them, actually!). When will Emery Walsh return to (me) the Pitt from the war to pose immediate and terrifying risk to Jack's life and (remaining) limbs!?
19. When they get together, are [top ship - RobbyLangdon/Jank (it varies by the moment, but I can do this p quickly so FUCK IT)] keeping it quiet (secret relationship!)? If they do tell someone, who would they reveal their relationship to first?
RobbyLangdon and Jack/Frank both: keep the relationship secret. However they do it for vastly different reasons. RobbyLangdon is for the HR of it all, and the 'not wanting to make it weird for our coworkers' (who have surely not noticed our Totally Normal Absolutely Platonic And In No Way Indicative Of Our Deep Abiding And Undying Love For Each Other dynamic), and 'i want this to just be For Us for a little while longer', and 'this is Special I dont want to ruin it with prying us' 'if we are Percieved we may Die'.
Jank keep it secret for the 'we have one opportunity and one opportunity only to tell people this is a thing and we should wait and ensure that we use this opportunity: for good (aka to cause as much chaos and carnage/shenanigans/drama as possible) and/or: when it would be funniest to drop this bombshell.
