#swiftdaisy ship

[gourdlily]

I dont ship, ever, except for one single warrior cats ship.

That ship is a rarepair that only works in an au that disregards a significant plot point to exist.

Swiftpaw x Daisy. (His name would be changed to my preferred full name for him but I don't want anyone confusing him for an oc)

Swiftpaw lives, but not without incredible trauma. He and Daisy meet in arc 2 and fall in love but beat around the bush for an arc or so while she has a failed relationship attempt with Spiderleg. Once he leaves, swift finally steps up and decides to help her raise Toadkit and Rosekit. He's their dad now.

Swift and Daisy help each other in many ways. Daisy helps Swift regulate his trauma responses. Swift helps Daisy by being someone she can trust and lean on for support. Daisy helps Swift learn to better himself and be more than his experiences and actions. Swift helps Daisy with the kids & supports her and Mousewhisker when she wants to try to interact with her first ex again.

Yada yada. It just makes sense to me now and whenever i see swift with anyone but daisy i take a moment because its just inherent to me.

What is... a rarepair?

Rarepair refers to a rare pairing inside a fandom. This means that a pairing that someone ships does not have a lot of fanart or fanfiction about them or anything at all.

While crackships are always rarepairs, these rare pairings can make a lot of sense in canon, but they are just not that popular. But they often also refer to shipping characters that do not interact in canon at all, maybe not even know each other in the source material.

There are no exact numbers on when a pairing is considered a rarepair but some characteristics are that the tag on AO3 does not have a lot of hits and that most of the entries were written by the same person.

Shipping a rarepair can be frustrating, when you feel like you are alone in your love for a pairing, but it can also be fun to be able to shape the pairing together with two, three other shippers however you want them, because you basically own the ship by solely contributing to it.