Sunday Ship, KarmaRio!
Another request by Jackie.
I'm going to start by saying that this pairing absolutely terrifies me. I think they just feed each other way too much and everyone around them suffers because of it. I kept seeing this video on FB a couple of years ago that I think explains it really well. Here it is.
*Okay, I literally spent hours trying to find this video and couldn't, so I'm just going to explain what I remember from it. Boy meets girl and pranks her. She "cries" and runs away. Next scene, boy tries to get out of his chair and can't because of glue; she pranked him back. It's on! He puts a sign on her back that says "kick me" and she puts it back onto him. He cuts off one of her braids and she just beats the shit out of him and they both end up at the principal's office. In high school, he pranks her again and she returns it. Their friends are always in the middle and they start leaving, but they don't care because they are in love. They pull pranks on each other while making out. I'm pretty sure something gets broken... Another time skip and they're in their 20's getting married. He threatens to prank her, she warns him not to and for a second, you think she's actually mad, but no, she glues his hand to the handle. Then he did something to the curling iron so it stuck in her hair and burned some of her hair off. She apologizes by making dinner for him. He doesn't trust it, like it has laxatives in it or something, but that wasn't the prank. She ends up getting him and he gets mad and breaks something important of hers. So, she gets into his car and tries to crash it. He manages to get the keys and locks her in and turns it off somehow? (Man, I'm really reaching for this memory here... No idea how much of it is wrong.) But it's a keyless car so he eventually gets close enough for her to turn it on again and crashes into some trashcans with him on the hood. They both end up in the hospital and they kiss each other passionately, because it's all a fun game to them. Then they do something else and chase each other throughout the hospital again.
It's cute, but insane. I wish I could've found the video.
Some may see that as pure love and passion, but to me it just looks so painful and unpleasant! It's entertaining to watch, but I don't see them having any friends willing to get anywhere near their damage path after a long time, and maybe they don't need friends, but that's part of why it terrifies me! They have to have a ceasefire at some point. Right? Right??
Anyway, maybe Karma and Rio wouldn't be as bad.
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They'd be worse. So much worse because of their intelligence. If by some miracle it isn't as crazy as that video, I think nothing would be out of reach for this couple. They'd go skydiving with Terasaka just to push him out of the plane and watch him cry. He'd have a parachute, but that's beside the point. They'd torment Nagisa. I mean, look at this art!
Link to post. Art by @decadentrot
They'd go wild and crazy in so many ways. Threesomes, a different country every weekend, fire, explosions, blood, lots of blood for Karma and honestlyโฆ I can't ship it for one major reason. I don't think either of them would make it to 30. They would die incredibly young. Having a blast the whole time, but young as fuck!
And I don't think they'd always be crazy, but who's going to be the voice of reason, the one who stops them, if it's just them? It wouldn't start this extreme, but unless someone else joins the fray to ground them, their energy would just continue to build and build until it explodes. With fire. And lots and lots of blood for Karma. So, this is a dangerous couple imo, and I'd much rather see them live to have grandkids. They either need a third party, which I could definitely see them doing, or they just need to not.
If anyone's seen Ouran High School Host Club, Kyoya would be perfect to ground them. He's intelligent enough to keep up, rich enough to afford their hospital bills, and commanding enough if you piss him off. But I think I'll have to save my thoughts on that threesome for another day. And I'm not convinced Kyoya's bi, so I'm not sure how it'd work. He may be attracted to their power enough to be willing to join, but after dealing with Tamaki, I'm not sure he's willing to pick up a wild party like KarmaRio.
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