I do think this is one of the ships where they're at their moral worst around one another. By worst I mean, care the least about anything.
1. I have been thinking about this the past couple of weeks/months, and you know, I don't think co-dependent siblings is my thing after all? But obvs Seth/Richie = most fascinating and sadly co-dependent who nevertheless end the series far apart, ~we have a sacred bond~ (said however ironically)
2. TBH I'm still stuck on the pool sequence. I like what Richie/Kate is in canon with the soft power muscles being stretched as you say, plus Kate actually connecting with Richie too on some level but mostly it's for a power/rebellion trip (early on) and then to get the hell out of dodge alive (later on), but I don't have ~shippy feelings for it.
3. Which makes it all the more ironic that I do have feelings for Kate/Seth, and they're the only pairing in the show that actually gives me shippy feelings (as opposed to fascination and/or pain). But like you said:
Is there any trope more bulletproof than people unexpectedly banding together because of mutual abandonment?
NO THERE IS NOT
(THEM KATE|SCOTT + RICHIE|SETH PARALLELS.) They're the leftovers: the preacher's daughter whose faith has been obliterated, and the professional thief who doesn't believe in anything. It actually makes sense that after everything they'd choose to stick together, because the rest of the world no longer makes sense to either of them.
*Draws hearts and flowers and skulls around this*
This is 110% the reason I ship them tbh, they are literally THE ONLY ONES LEFT. (Except Freddie... but Freddie still has a family to go back to. His arc culminates in choosing his family over revenge.) It's not even about who they are, so much as what they have been through.
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Date: 2014-12-18 02:37 am (UTC)1. I have been thinking about this the past couple of weeks/months, and you know, I don't think co-dependent siblings is my thing after all? But obvs Seth/Richie = most fascinating and sadly co-dependent who nevertheless end the series far apart, ~we have a sacred bond~ (said however ironically)
2. TBH I'm still stuck on the pool sequence. I like what Richie/Kate is in canon with the soft power muscles being stretched as you say, plus Kate actually connecting with Richie too on some level but mostly it's for a power/rebellion trip (early on) and then to get the hell out of dodge alive (later on), but I don't have ~shippy feelings for it.
3. Which makes it all the more ironic that I do have feelings for Kate/Seth, and they're the only pairing in the show that actually gives me shippy feelings (as opposed to fascination and/or pain). But like you said:
Is there any trope more bulletproof than people unexpectedly banding together because of mutual abandonment?
NO THERE IS NOT
(THEM KATE|SCOTT + RICHIE|SETH PARALLELS.) They're the leftovers: the preacher's daughter whose faith has been obliterated, and the professional thief who doesn't believe in anything. It actually makes sense that after everything they'd choose to stick together, because the rest of the world no longer makes sense to either of them.
*Draws hearts and flowers and skulls around this*
This is 110% the reason I ship them tbh, they are literally THE ONLY ONES LEFT. (Except Freddie... but Freddie still has a family to go back to. His arc culminates in choosing his family over revenge.) It's not even about who they are, so much as what they have been through.