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i ship ralph and jacks dad exclusively when they are 20-25 (and in the army!) from there, jacks dad causes the death of both roger’s father and samneric’s father. kind of indirectly, but he is the general major and sends roger’s dad to his death because he had a hunch the mission would be fatal and didn’t want to leave his own children without a dad. ralph’s dad never forgives him for this because he knows what he did and how he did it and thus they grow far apart and never see each other again. ralphs dad also promises himself that he will continue to despise jacks dad for what he did as he has taken innocent lives and the blood is on his hands. they never get together officially and are never in contact once jack and ralph are past the ages of like 3-4. they are NEVER step brothers and never will be in any au i have because of this hatred. in non canon compliant aus ralphs dad actually feeds ralphs hate for the merridew family because of his own perception of them! eventually, obviously bcs i do ship jalph, ralph overcomes the hatred of the family but his father never can because he will always see jacks dad as a killer of people he called his friends.

it’s also important to mention that jacks dad and ralphs dad never had their kids meet until they went to school together. so they literally did not know each other while their dads did!

OOOOH HELLO! i adore this question hee hee because i get to ramble!

so i’ve described why i ship mauram recently, but i’m totally happy to do it again! basically, when i joined the fandom, the main maurice ship was roger x maurice. however, it just made me a little uncomfortable to ship them together because it reminded me of a past relationship i had with someone and that sort of thing steered me away from it. BUT i noticed that the twins and maurice were portrayed as “jokesters” with similar personalities. i ended up picking sam because he has always been the sweeter, more docile twin in my mind and i thought that would work PERFECT with maurice, who thrives off of a go with the flow vibe. he could give maurice the love he never had type of thing!

for bill x piggy, i’m ngl it was a mistake that started this ship. i THOUGHT that bill was the hunter that stayed the longest (up until the “party” that jack threw) with ralph and piggy, but it’s actually henry. however, while i was being delulu, i was like oh wouldnt it be cool if bill stayed so long because he had built a relationship with piggy when ralph wasn’t around, and helped around the camp doing little things to gain piggy’s friendship. and so they became a ship for me too! like the sort of vibe that is “even if everybody else hates you, i still see good in you.”

robric is,,,,, interesting…. i gave sam and maurice a pairing, so i didn’t want to leave eric hanging? i felt like he needed SOMEONE, and i’ve always been a huge fan of robert’s character. i knew he was a hunter and i knew that he had a more naïve personality (there’s a scene where the hunters literally try and kill him and he’s like ‘ow that hurt :D’). so his happy go lucky vibe countered the more protective vibe i had assigned to eric (bc he’s the older twin, so he is responsible). and eventually he became ralph’s half brother in my au which DEFINITELY solidified the idea of older brother x younger brother’s best friend which is such a good cutesy trope. and also robert would defend eric if the choir ever tried to pull shit because that’s his brothers bestie yknow? i rlly love them 😭😭

most of my other ships were pulled out of my ASS. perciberry is just,,, childhood best friends realise they have a crush on each other o fuck what will they do! they’re actually so wholesome and i adore them sm…. jalter, wilrold, etc came from long discussions with my mutuals where we were like hey… what if johnny and walter had little crushes on each other! wilfred and harold tbh was a creation from one of my mutuals and he really HONED IN on the wilrold vibe and just got me on board too.