I think it's just a fandom habit that makes people want to mesh as many characters into an OTP as possible, even if they never interact on screen.
I don't know when the trend started, but it's really popular in mcu. For example, the "Everyone is Poly Because Avengers" tag on AO3 which made me so annoyed whenever I saw I had to block it.
Yeah, I scroll by any fic with that tag. I think it's the "because Avengers" add-on that bothers me because it seems so fetishistic, and I know it's caused a lot of drama in fandom, with shippers claiming those that didn't ship it were bigoted and whatnot.
But mostly I ignore those fics because I've found they tend to be giant cuddle piles, ignoring dynamics between characters who don't get along or even like each other.
Well, for a fandom where the main characters have a team or found-family dynamic, everyone/everyone being in a big cuddle pile has obvious appeal. Although the Avengers in the MCU aren't that close, it's easy to AU them to being all good friends.
To me, that makes more sense than a TFA OT4 or OT6 that includes characters who are mortal enemies. Like, that would take a lot more words of fic to get me to believe. Though I guess that's also why people do coffee shop AUs where characters can be bitchy rivals not genocidal space Nazis.
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Re: Multiple OTPs
(Anonymous) 2016-01-28 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)I don't know when the trend started, but it's really popular in mcu. For example, the "Everyone is Poly Because Avengers" tag on AO3 which made me so annoyed whenever I saw I had to block it.
Re: Multiple OTPs
(Anonymous) 2016-01-28 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)But mostly I ignore those fics because I've found they tend to be giant cuddle piles, ignoring dynamics between characters who don't get along or even like each other.
Re: Multiple OTPs
(Anonymous) 2016-02-04 09:59 am (UTC)(link)To me, that makes more sense than a TFA OT4 or OT6 that includes characters who are mortal enemies. Like, that would take a lot more words of fic to get me to believe. Though I guess that's also why people do coffee shop AUs where characters can be bitchy rivals not genocidal space Nazis.