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chemicalarospec · 16 days

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What Makes a Ship Demolition Lovers Core?

I want to do a series where I make posts for a bunch of my ships evaluating their Demolition Lovers AU potential (though who knows if I will). I figured it’d make the most sense to set up these basics in a separate post instead of just squeezing it in the first one.

Oh, and if anyone doesn’t know (A/N: u don’t belong here, prepz!!!), the Demolition Lovers story, is, in short: “the story of a man, a woman, and the CORPSES OF A THOUSAND EVIL MEN” outlaw lovers gunned down to restore their lives and reunite, one approaches the devil and a deal seals: “bring me the souls of 1000 evil men.” 999 he slays, only to realize the blood has sullied his soul and the 1000th is himself

traits of the demolition lovers dynamic:

the ship is not unfamiliar with “darkness” and “death” . inspecific phrasing but like basically they just gotta be a little emo

willingness to “sell soul” - turn to dark forces

willingness to kill — they don’t HAVE to be a murder couple to fit a demolition lovers AU but nobody can be a goody two-shoes (murder couple is another category on my list of favorite dynamics - status is determined by canon amounts of violence)

the non-killing character must have the capacity to find the killing endearing/romantic. this trait isn’t featured in the original demolition lovers lore but it’s a part of how I see it plus since they were described as Bonnie and Clyde-esque, I think it’s an easy assumption. speaking of their pre-death dynamic,

partners in crime

mutual commitment that reaches codependency — extreme devotion — inseparable in this life and the afterlife. They would fight for each other!! if one dies, they do NOT move on

Notably, the original demolition lovers has that bit of sexism to it where the man does the whole killing thing and the woman doesn’t. Sometimes I like to change this up and split the labor, sometimes I work with it as is -- depends on the canon of the ship.

uh I don't have an ending for this post. that's all for now!

#i might edit this if i think of more later #i don't think i'll evaluate each ship on these like categories but we'll see #i said this #ship dynamics #demolition lovers #shipping #shipping dynamics #(one couple i won’t be featuring is SO close to being demolition lovers core but they canonically broke up so it just doesn’t Fit)#(actually reflecting on them (they come from a problematic source) the bigger problem with them is that one of them WOULD do the murder #and the other WOULDNT like it)#demolition lovers core #dynamics #will they demolition lovers AU?#<- potential series title

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