User blog comment:Corbierr/Let's discuss our shippings/@comment-4816103-20140916213343

Patrome time!

This will actually be a bit hard, because dissecting so deep into my love for this potentially-crack pairing is something I'm not used to. BUT, to be completely honest, the more I analyze why and how pairings like Peddie and Jeroy fall/fell apart, I realize more about what draws me to Patrome...

Let's see what I can say.

1) Simple, raw chemistry. Rather than the writers forcing a relationship down our throats and trying to convince us to ship it (despite many big flaws with the pairings they are pushing), Patrome is just...Patrome. They never seem forced or over-complicated, they never suffer from bad plot or pacing or obvious communcation errors. They just do their thing and make it work. Their personalities work well together, contrasting while complimenting at the same time, and there is nothing fake about their relationship. They bicker and tease without being portrayed as being the perfect couple, which ironically makes them FEEL more perfect, at least to me. If you guys can't ship it, you can at least admit they have a certain spark other pairings lack...

2) Similar...yet different! Too many pairings on this show are either opposites attract or pretty much genderswapped versions of each-other. Patrome, however...they certainly have their share of similarities  (to list them all: Rufus (including kidnapping!), Pranks, being "Jerks With A Heart Of Gold" (though Trixie is a lesser case), being clever, being very determined when they want something, a close relationship with both Mara and Joy (admittedly, kind of iffy now considering developments in the relationships of Jara and Joytricia...), a love/hate relationship with their current romantic partner, kind of one-sided best friendships (though opposite cases, Jerome almost treats Alfie similar to the way Joy treated Patricia), being descendants, and having siblings they hid at first but grew closer to...that was a long list!) However, they are also quite different in many ways as well, most notably with Patricia having a greater moral compass and Jerome being more subtle and sneaky while Patricia is more expressive and impulsive... The similarities give them a good foundation to bond and gain trust, and the differences serve to stablize them and give each character ways to grow up. The bickering possibly comes from their subtle similarities more than their differences...it's been said that people tend to dislike someone who reminds them of themselves, I think. People who are extremely different don't tend to get along easily either, but in their case, their similarities are bigger than their differences, even though it's their differences that really define each character. And even though they may disagree on the methods, they think similarly and as s1 showed, they make an extremely good team together. My point? I love them for being realistically balanced. Similar yet different...not too much of either extreme...more perfect for each other than their "perfect matches" are, in my opinion...

3) The more the writers ignore us, the more my love for the pairing grows! Call it...defiance, or call it the freedom that comes with less knowledge. Other pairings have many scenes and many, many times are said that "they look great together" in some way as if to convince us that they belong together. Patrome, on the other hand, has scenes that slap the shippers in the face by saying "THEY WON'T BE TOGETHER" and enough missing information that I get to be defiant and fill in the holes on my own. I get to interpret them in my own way without being told how I should see them, I get to believe they once dated in the past and used to be best friends because we were never told otherwise, and I get to come up with my own real reasons to love them other than the fact that the writers say we should ship them. Because that sort of strict system we have in the show doesn't work for me. I don't want to be told what to ship and I will continue shipping Patrome for the reasons I want- and I won't be told otherwise.

...So I guess that's it! They have amazing chemistry, traits that both contrast and compliment each other (in a realistic way) and I guess being forced to interpet the signs on my own and thinking the way I want to think makes me genuinely believe Patrome is the best.

There you go.

I'm open for discussion on this :3