Non-Rec: Shipposting, the Braime Edition

[isabellerecs]

When I was first starting to read fanfiction, I read het fic. I wasn’t fully aware of the other options because heteronormativity is a thing. Once I became acquainted with the alternatives I read het fic less and less over the years and now in my adulthood, it is rare indeed. I also rarely get interested in new het pairings, but boy howdy, Braime is one of the major exceptions. Their dynamic is a delicious inversion of the “Beauty and the Beast” trope, but more than that their interactions are so wonderful and full of emotion and growth, and genuine regard that does not have to be romantic to be interesting (but it’s even more fun when it is :)). One of the best things about this pairing is that you can take them and put them in any world, at any time and the tension, the uncertainty and the conflict to them being together translates. The “ugly” girl and the “handsome” man will always fly in the face of the conventional while their chemistry makes them undeniable which I suppose that is why I love it so much.

And because I can't help myself, Icons! :D

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