#hethan

10. Hope and Roman

Does Anyone Ship This? Like Actually? No. Toxic. No Chemistry. Ew.

9. Hope and Cleo

Cute At First. But Of Course The Writers Ruined Them. Hopefully They Get They’re Friendship Back.

8. Hope and Ethan

Barely Even One Sided Let Alone Two Sided. Both Are Great But Ethan is 100% In Love With MG.

7. Hope and Rafael

Awww. They Would’ve Been So Cute If Landon Didn’t Exist. But He Does And Rafael is So Respectful ❤️❤️. Definitely Would Be Higher If The Others Didn’t Have Me in A Chokehold.

6. Hope and MG

I Didn’t Know It Was A Ship Till I Saw Edits. Honestly Hope Has Chemistry With Everyone. Would Be So Wholesome and Cute.

5. Hope and Josie

They Are Gorgeous!!! 😍😍 I Love Them. And They Deserved To Be Canon!!!! Just For A Little 😉.

4. Hope and Landon

I Agree Hope Deserves Other Love Interest Besides Landon. But They’re so Cute and Pure Until Fake Landons Started Appearing. Deserved A Better Ending. (If They Actually Ever End).

3. Hope and Maya

😍😍😍. I Don’t Know Why They’re So High Ranked, but They Are!!! Super Underrated!!! They Deserved A Chance!!!! Amazing Chemistry ✅ Girls Supporting Girls ✅ Adorable ✅

2. Hope and Lizzie

Ahhhhh!!!! 💕❤️💕❤️. I’m a Sucker For Enemies To Lovers. And They Have Spectacular Chemistry!! And They’re Iconic!

1. Hope and Ryan (Clarke)

❤️‍🔥💍😍🥵🤩

My Endgame!!!! The Writers Better Make It Happen. They Better Bring Him Back Permanently!!

Undeniably Chemistry

Enemies To Lovers (The Best Trope Ever).

The Development Is Insane.

They Understand Each Other So Much.

I mean look at this:

I mean how am I supposed to decide who to ship?

Rowing the Rarepair Rowboat: Hope Mikaelson x Ethan Fell (Legacies)

Requested by anonymous

"Thanks for volunteering to help me out," Ethan says as they hang up bags of sweets to the top of the prize stand. 

Hope smiles over at him and shrugs. "It's no problem. I have..." her eyebrows furrow, "pretty much nothing else going on, actually."

They both laugh, and Ethan nods like he gets it. She supposes with his arm being out of commission for those few weeks he probably does get it. Mystic Falls High will want proof that he is in perfect condition again before they'll even consider letting him continue on with the team, which means no practice, no tryouts. No anything. 

There's a little twinge of guilt in her chest but she buries it back down, knowing there was nothing she could have done. Something just went wrong. It doesn't matter that she has no doubt that magic was somehow involved in his arm getting hurt -- at the Salvatore School, nothing is ever just a coincidence. When something bad happens, something supernatural is involved, it's just how it goes. 

"And," Hope says, rolling her eyes, "honestly, I felt kinda bad for you. You just looked so stressed, with an armful of cotton candy."

Ethan laughs again, evidently unable to help himself. Hope swears a flush creeps up his neck. 

"Thanks," he says, with a drop of sarcasm, then adds, "You're not wrong. Without practice, my summer schedule was empty, and I... somehow got roped into helping with this funfair thing? I - I don't know how either, honestly, I think Maya signed me up as a joke before she left."

"That sounds like something she'd do," Hope agrees, grinning.

Ethan just hums his agreement. He turns back to the bag in his hand, mindlessly reaching up and hooking it up. His expression has changed though, his smile almost fading entirely without Hope's full attention on him. But she still notices, and she frowns. It's obvious he's missing his mom and Maya. They only left two weeks ago.

Hope plays with the plastic-tie that's wound around the top of one of the bags, keeping it sealed. The sky is still light, and there's barely a cloud in sight. With the funfair opening in a half hour, there will still be plenty of daylight afterwards for at least a few hours. 

She stretches up, trying not to wobble as she does, reaching to hook up her last bag of mint chocolate pretzels. She can't quite reach far enough, and she is definitely wobbling from what she can gather. Her free hand quickly catches the top of the ladders to steady herself. 

"Oh, hey. Here" --Ethan hurries to climb down his own ladders-- "I can get that."

Hope tries to protest. "It's fine, I can get it. It's just" --she tries to stretch back up again but she's just a few inches off, and a muscle in the back of her legs is threatening to bring her back down if she goes up any further-- "Yeah, you know what? You can do it. I'm good."

She climbs down and hands the bag over to him. Ethan's up and hanging it on the hook then climbing back down in seconds. When he rejoins her on the ground, standing in front of her, she smiles at him.

"Thanks," she says. 

"No problem," Ethan says. "Couldn't risk you getting hurt; you're the only good quarterback Mystic Falls High has left now."

Hope scoffs, then laughs, her eyes widening as he grins at her. Clearly, he's teasing. They're both well aware that her skills on the field are sub-par at best and astounding at worst. 

"You're funny!" she jokes back, nodding with mock enthusiasm then says, "But there is no way I am joining that team unless you're the quarterback." When Ethan raises his eyebrows, she answers with the obvious, "Well, I need someone whispering what all of the terms mean and when I should go long."

"All right, you know what?" Ethan places his hands on her shoulders, holding her gaze with a sparkling smile. It makes her heartbeat jump and heat spreads out above, across her chest, but she keeps her cool on the outside. "I am teaching you all of the basics. I know you could do it! You just... need some help."

"Hm. Like you with painting?" she replies, arching an eyebrow at him. 

Ethan falters. Hope nods with a telling smile.

"Yeah," she confirms. "I was in that class with you. And, honestly, I'm a little scared to know what kind of birds you've been seeing if that's what you think an owl looks like."

Dropping his hands from her shoulders -- and inadvertantly giving Hope the ability to breathe a little easier again -- Ethan fumbles to defend himself. "It - it was... owl-ish."

Hope stares at him, unblinking, and flat in tone when she says, "It had three wings."

"That was its beak."

"And no eyes."

"It had eyes! They just... happened to look exactly like its markings."

"Mhm." Hope just nods, not breaking her stare. 

Ethan rolls his eyes, but his mouth is twitching up at the corners. "All right, there is definitely room for my artistic abilities to improve."

Hope smiles back now, smugly. "It's okay. I can teach you the basics."

Perking up, Ethan actually looks thrilled at that idea. "Really?"

She nods, and he is downright delighted. It secretly brings Hope a little bit of joy seeing him this way. At least he's not dwelling on things. And neither is she, she supposes. If they're both distracted, then they don't have time to think about the bad things going on in the back of their minds. 

"It would be a waste of a perfectly good summer if neither of us had any plans," Hope tells him, to which he agrees. They get back to work with the fair, setting up the prizes and making sure everything else is in order before people actually start arriving.

They're technically the first two there aside from the rest of the planning and decorating committee and the crew who brought and set up the heavy machinery. Deciding to start their summer of distraction, they stick around for a bit, playing some of the games. Winning the prizes is surprisingly a lot easier when you helped set up the game.

Hope doesn't know how to feel when Ethan wins another prize -- a medium-sized, fluffy teddy bear -- and gives it to her with this look in his eyes and this smile that she can't not smile back at. But she knows she holds onto that bear the entire way around the fair, and when she finally leaves him to go back to the house, she sets it on her bed before going downstairs to join Jeremy for something to eat. 

She ignores his questions about it. She ignores his questions about the boy who walked her to the path and lingered for five minutes saying goodbye. When she eventually goes to bed to try and get some sleep in preperation for whatever monster is inevitably going to rear its head at them tomorrow, the soft fur of the bear is surprisingly comforting.

Hope is supposed to be the most powerful being ever, she should be with someone who can ALMOST match her power.. Or at least someone who can take care of themself. Hope is constantly having to save the World, and on top of that she's always having to save and protect Landon. I feel like it would be so much more interesting if Hope's significant other was able to hold their own AND help Hope battle the monsters.

My girl needs balance. She needs someone she can rely on too. Someone to help take care of her for once. 

What I'm praying, is for Julie to not only give Hope a more interesting love interest, but also that she lets Hope be the badass, powerful tribid that's been foreshadowed since 'The Originals'. Another thing, she better bring Rafael back!!