#rinona

*cackles evilly* I am one of those people who enjoy many ships, regardless of who or how many are in it. Despite being aroace, shipping is one of my favorite things to do in fandom, though it's not the only thing I do. Off the top of my head:

Crooler X Spinlyn: I love some toxic sapphics but putting these two together somehow evens out to a perfectly healthy relationship that's detrimental to anyone else. I think this may actually be my OTP. I even call their pairing "MindWeb".

Laval X Li'ella X Cragger: Look. We get the best of every world here. Li'ella gets two boyfriends. Laval and Cragger get to work on their mutual tension. Crominus gets to seethe about his son dating not one, but TWO Lions. Everyone except Crominus wins, especially love.

Lagravis X Tormak: ...Honestly this one is just too fucking funny to me so I ship it just to laugh.

Razar X Eris X Rogon: Again, a very good trio. Rogon can even carry the other two around, one in each arm.

Li'ella X Eris: Wholesome sapphics to make up for the toxic ones above. A friend of mine on Discord ships them and I've been pondering writing for them as a treat for him. Sometimes you need to give your token cishet friend a little treat every once in a while.

Scorm X ...literally anyone at this point: Scorm is just a guy with so many fucking issues and it's very funny to me to see how he handles those issues when you add a romantic or, more commonly for Scorm, sexual angle to it. Scorm is Chima's bicycle and I know this in my heart. And I'm the Mayor of Scorpions so I'm obviously correct. (Characters that fall into this category, in order of most to probably least healthy: Gorzan, Worriz and Scolder, Laval, Sir Fangar [let Scorm fuck that old man])

Lavertus X Crunket: Crunket needs to divorce Crominus. Someone please get her away from that Croc man. And I can bet you that Lavertus would be able to pull it off.

...I'm very much a Crominus hater, as you can tell. He's just such an easy punching bag.

Rinona X Mottrot: Look. Okay. This is entirely and only based on my Tales of Chima soulmate AU because I forced the Mammoths and Scorpions to go live with the Rhinos, but these two could get along! They both would appreciate having someone to talk to who really gets them!

Gorzan X Worriz: Gorzan could teach Worriz how to chill out, and Worriz could handle beating the shit out of anyone who gave Gorzan trouble. Also, can you imagine how good scritchies behind the ear from a Gorilla feels? Maybe it's just the werewolf otherkin in me, but I'd love to get ear scritchies from Gorzan.

I probably have, like, seven dozen more because I love examining how character relationships change when you introduce romantic and/or sexual elements to their dynamics. And because it's fiction, no actual people are getting hurt when I examine the more toxic ones! It's great!

Thanks for sending this question, anon! I love chattering about Chima, even though I don't get to do it very often.

Because just one wasn't enough to get everybody.