a little more detail is necessary suppose. welllll. finral is hands down my absolute favorite character in bc. i will gladly give him the world i adore that boy soo muchhh. right on his heels is leopold. 

normally id be all for shipping top favs together and seeing what happened. of course im not going to ship my two best boys in this case because my lil lion cub is an actual child so there went that idea (and ive already got my ot3 for him so hes good). 

i wasnt really settled on a ship for finral at this point. basically just wanted to see him happy because its what he deserves. id seen some posts about him and yami and wasnt sure how i felt about that. he and vanessa are cute but do i like them more as friends?? it was this whole lukewarm feeling for me and those ships. i needed something that set my feels on fiiiiiire.

ended up wasting time looking at character info a while back and i noticed a bunch of the characters ages was not what i expected. not even sure why that is lolllll. that lead me down the informational rabbit hole. aside from the obvious ones like asta, yuno, leo, noelle… my assumptions were mostly incorrect. oof. 

[another side note: ive adored zora since he was introduced. when i found out he was a black bull and not just gonna disappear i was thrilled!!! give me more of hiiiim. he needs some healing after what hes been through. someone pls hug my boy :’c ]

while checking out the ages i ended up stumbling upon the fact that finral is 21 and zora is 25. my brain immediately went oho? whats this? the gears started to turn at speeds i couldnt even control. (its worth noting that my fav ship in another fandom is also red-haired shark-toothed boy x my fav char that never did a thing wrong in his life and deserves all the happiness in the universe so i guess you can say i was predisposed to liking that dynamic  dfghgfd)

all right!! 

so with the two of them we have royal sweetheart x angery commoner / soft boy x sharp boy / flirty one x abrasive one…. etc... that aesthetic hit me so hard so fast oh my goddddddd

the more i considered the pair the more i realized i could def ship them. so i decided to write some hcs about them just to get my thoughts in order… do you know what happened next? those hcs turned into a FULL ON FIC- my first for the pair- and that was the end of that. havent looked back since. written for them a few times so far and ive got more in the works!!

now theyre my otp in the series and like three of us ship them sdfgfds. im happy to have the small group of people interested in them!!! the more the merrier!!!