DPP: So THAT's how it is in their family.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Happy Labor Day, US pilotshippers! I'm kicking off this week's festivities with an intriguing question for discussion from bop_radar. She would like to know:






If Kara and Lee were (actual biological) siblings, but in other regards their relationship/dynamic was otherwise as close to what we saw in the television series as possible...

... would you still love them / feel the same way about them / ship them?

Why or why not?

Feel free to discuss in comments what factors influence your feelings or decision.


By the way, Guest Posts are welcome at the DPP anytime! If you don't feel you have it in you to host a whole week but want to bring up a topic or throw out some sort of meme/game/writing challenge or a pretty pic you want to share, just contact me via PM! ~taragel

Comments

[sugarhaven.livejournal.com]

I kind of have an almost-incest kink. Not biological incest, no, but a lot of the time best friends from childhood/people who were raised as siblings but aren't actually siblings/step-siblings who fall in love is a thing that I am often drawn to in stories

Totally with you on this one. I love the "almost incest" thing too. I said it in my earlier comment, it makes things so much more intense, complex and intriguing, and the relationship so impossible and so more likely to be doomed. They get trapped in this insane connection with a person they cannot really be with but it also makes it pretty much impossible to be happy with anyone else. I feel like Kara/Lee have just enough of this incestuous vibe (even though they didn't grew up together) and I love it, but making them blood related changes the picture, not as much because incest is wrong but mostly because their dynamic would be different from what we saw on the show.

They'd either accept it and learn to love each other as siblings and best friends (I would still love the characters and love their dynamic) or they would spent the rest of their lives not getting in terms with it, being frustrated, obsessing about each other, hurting each other, lusting for each other and hating each other at the same. I would still love to watch that but I wouldn't like the characters that much anymore.