Our tenth round of BattleShips begins with Doctor Who! Which ship will make it off to the fandom vs. fandom showdown?
Hypable has decided to take on the monumental task of hosting a fandom shipping tournament, where we pit ship against ship and fandom against fandom to see which relationship will emerge the victor. In our qualifying round we asked you to pick your top 10 favorite fandoms, and we decided that the race was so close we actually made it the top 16.
Round 1: Damon and Elena from Vampire Diaries
Round 2: Matthew and Mary from Downton Abbey
Round 3: Nick and Jess from New Girl
Round 4: Stiles and Derek from Teen Wolf
Round 5: Leonard and Penny from The Big Bang Theory
Round 6: Merlin and Arthur from Merlin
Round 7: Castle and Kate from Castle
Round 8: Bones and Booth from Bones
Round 9: Aang and Katara from Avatar
And now Doctor Who gets its turn in our preliminary rounds to see which ship will represent each fandom in the final showdown.
And your ‘Doctor Who’ OTP is: Rose & the 10th Doctor
Shipping Recap
Let’s get you a little lesson on Doctor Who ships. Who’s canon and who’s fanon (fandom created)?
What we consider canon
Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose, Jack/Ten, Rose/Jack, Rory/Amy, Rose/Mickey, Martha/Mickey, Jack/Alonso, Martha/Jack, Donna/Jack, River/Eleven, River/Ten, Doctor/Madame de Pompadour, Idris/Eleven, Jackie Tyler/Pete Tyler, Amy/Eleven
As per our opinion, a canon relationship is one where the two characters have actually been involved in some sort of emotional or physical relations on the show. Flirting, kissing, sleeping together, that’s all something that would make a pair a canon ship. At least, that’s how we see it on Hypable. We’ve seen the characters above do everything from a small kiss to steamy sex scenes.
What we consider fanon
Donna/Ten,, Martha/Ten, Rory/Eleven, Craig/Eleven, Jack/Eleven, Jack/River, Sally Sparrow/Ten
A fanon ship is something that the fans would love to see on the show, but hasn’t actually happened (yet). Inside this realm of ships are also all the ships that have been hinted to in the show, but nothing has actually occurred.
There are also the ships that are inspired by two characters just interacting and having great chemistry. While these aren’t romantic relationships on the show, they’ve definitely turned out their fair share of romance fics and images on the Internet.
Vote for your OTP!
Only one ship will move on and represent Doctor Who in the final rounds of BattleShips. So which will you pick? Are you going to vote for something that has happened on the show because you can’t wait to see more, or will you vote for a fanon couple and try to show the producers that they need to give it more attention?
Pick your couple and tell us in the comments what you chose!
Confused about what shipping is?
If you’ve missed out first article, take a look at our first BattleShips post to figure out what all this shipping nonsense means. And if you still don’t understand, sound off in the comments below and we’ll help you out!