DPP: The Recovery Ships (or shipping, post-pilots)

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In my entire life in fandom, there is no fictional couple that captured my heart as entirely as pilots did, and absolutely none that came even close to the kind of ruin and devastation they inflicted.



Post-Daybreak, I've been reluctant to ship, but earlier this year, after some fellow pilotshippers reported that a certain pair from the Avengers did function as a 'recovery ship' of sorts thanks to some similarities to pilots combined with the lack of epic pilots-scale heartbreak, I got curious.

So what I want to know today is, is recovering from pilots even possible? What has post-pilots shipping been like for you? And are there any fictional couples who make you feel better about it all, for even a little bit (using reasoning along the 'at least someone can be happy' lines) ? 

Or is it all just a load of ship? 

Comments

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I completely understand what you mean about needing canon to latch on to, bb - I'm a complete canon whore and can't ignore it, with maybe one or two exceptions :/

And pilots were the OTP for so many of us, I'm with you in feeling that it'll be hard to recapture the magic with another couple (even the pilots-reminiscent couples, like Rob and Cassie, seem to suffer inordinately - that ending left me so gutted, I doubt even fanfic could make things feel even temporarily better :(

tv-wise, the closest I've found to pilots is, weirdly, on Downton Abbey though of course they are very different characters, and things are executed a bit differently there, couple-wise. And I do like Kalinda and Cary, though more in an 'interested observer' way than in 'oh goodness please get together already', I love her as a character.