WIPweek June 24, 2019 entry
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Bonus Question: What small fandom/rarepair would you love to see/create more fanworks for?:
Ok, this is one for GI Joe fandom (specifically the Real American Hero era of GI Joe): Wetsuit/Leatherneck needs more fic love. Wetsuit's a Navy SEAL, Leatherneck's a Marine and together (along with the rest of the Joes), they fight Cobra while arguing constantly about which service branch is better: Navy or Marines. Of course, they really are friends, when it gets down to it. And if they weren’t both men, they’d be an official couple like Scarlett and Duke or Flint and Lady Jaye.
Their canonical rivalry is pretty heavily FoeYay from their first appearance (hell, they're introduced bickering at each other about which one's the better soldier) and carries on throughout the series. Though for me the episode “The Rotten Egg"is what I point to as the closest thing to canonical evidence of them being a couple. There’s just something about the way Wetsuit frets about the fact that Leatherneck hasn’t called in for a couple days that screams “I am worried about my boo!” to me.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever done a Leatherneck/Wetsuit fic – or if they have, I’ve never found it. I’ve got a fic in mind that references the idea of them as a couple, but no ideas featuring the pair have come to mind. Yet.
Speaking of Scarlett – in the cartoons she was paired up with Duke, while in the comics she was paired up with Snake-Eyes. I wouldn’t mind seeing fics featuring them as a thruple or some other variation on a polyamorous relationship.
wipweekBonus Question: What small fandom/rarepair would you love to see/create more fanworks for?:
Ok, this is one for GI Joe fandom (specifically the Real American Hero era of GI Joe): Wetsuit/Leatherneck needs more fic love. Wetsuit's a Navy SEAL, Leatherneck's a Marine and together (along with the rest of the Joes), they fight Cobra while arguing constantly about which service branch is better: Navy or Marines. Of course, they really are friends, when it gets down to it. And if they weren’t both men, they’d be an official couple like Scarlett and Duke or Flint and Lady Jaye.
Their canonical rivalry is pretty heavily FoeYay from their first appearance (hell, they're introduced bickering at each other about which one's the better soldier) and carries on throughout the series. Though for me the episode “The Rotten Egg"is what I point to as the closest thing to canonical evidence of them being a couple. There’s just something about the way Wetsuit frets about the fact that Leatherneck hasn’t called in for a couple days that screams “I am worried about my boo!” to me.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever done a Leatherneck/Wetsuit fic – or if they have, I’ve never found it. I’ve got a fic in mind that references the idea of them as a couple, but no ideas featuring the pair have come to mind. Yet.
Speaking of Scarlett – in the cartoons she was paired up with Duke, while in the comics she was paired up with Snake-Eyes. I wouldn’t mind seeing fics featuring them as a thruple or some other variation on a polyamorous relationship.
