002: Soudam

im putting this under a cut because i went really overboard and on rambles bec ugh i love this ship sm but yeah dyfhsj 

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  when of if I started shipping it: i actually started out shipping s//ondam but as i got deeper into the fandom i started seeing fanart of soudam and i was like? whoa thats cute! so i eventually decided to reblog some and look into the tags and i began my gradual descent into soudam hell there
• my thoughts: i think theyre actually really cute together. the fact that the shipping community for it is dead makes me sad because theres so much potential there for an enemies to friends to lovers arc and just all kinds of tropes and i love it
• What makes me happy about them: in ndrv3 bonus mode, on the last event playing as gundam interacting with kazuichi, kazuichi invites gundam to a new years/hajime’s bday party and hes SO intent on gundam going!! like he could just not tell gundam or not be that big on him going and be with sonia without gundam being in the way but no. he actually wanted gundam to go and i couldnt read the scene as anything else
• What makes me sad about them: definitely the fact that the shipping community is dead now and the fact that people who ship them have so little canon evidence to rely on that they begin to look at very small things that mean probably nothing (including me. im not excluded from digging down way too deep sdfgy)
• things done in fanfic that annoys me: probably it being seen as an abusive relationship? i totally get aus or circumstances but when people think they’d be abusive together by default i feel like my skin is just going to burst. neither of them are inherently abusive and the arguments they have are petty and only over a girl and lack of understanding of eachother, so if they ever were to feel emotions for eachother that would lead to them being in a relationship i think they’d be pretty healthy. sure they’d piss eachother off occasionally but yknow… all couples do (went on a bit of a ramble here so i apologize for that)
• things I look for in fanfic: probably one of my favorite tropes in soudam fanfic is where hinata will be kind of like a wingman to souda and sonia is the same way to gundam. its like ‘’u gotta confess’’ ‘’no no i cant he hates me’’. also college aus, groupchat aus, non despair aus etc i cannot get enough of those im in the process of planning one right now
• My wishlist: i know theyll never be canon but honestly? i just want them to do mundane things together and go on dates because their canon is traumatizing and i just. want them to be happy. also just the two of them hanging out with sonia without souda being ignored god bless kazuichi souda he deserves better
• Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: really anyone actually dhfdsyf im not picky but for gundam i think itd be sonia and for souda i think itd be like?? hajime maybe! (or miu but thats a crackship so rip’t)
• My happily ever after for them: i just want them to end up recovering from the trauma of sdr2′s events together after the simulation and being supportive of one another. even with the simulation aside, they both still have trauma or terrible upbringings and i just get so happy when i think of them being there for eachother. even if its not in a romantic context (as much as i wish) its still really adorable