Going THERE.

[tdotbabs]

Just a heads up, I hate every single one of you that put me into this headspace to begin with. But here goes. Shipping.

So, I was watching the Real Ghostbusters episode, "Boo Dunit". There's a scene where Egon lands in Winston's lap, and Winston offers to read a story out loud to him. There's also a scene where Egon and Ray are bickering back and forth, and briefly there's a scene where Egon's holding onto Ray from behind for no real reason. And Peter? He's kind of off on his own, and other than a few bits where the other 3 regard him in annoyance, no one pays him too much mind.

So yeah. I can see Egon/Winston (And there need to be more of that, if you really want to Go There. Hell, Omorka? You wanna help me out with that one? :D), I can see Egon/Ray, I can see Ray/Winston, but Peter's....just this kid. He's lazy, irresponsible, makes messes, whines, and half the time is a hilariously useless little brat. The other 3 initially are supposed to be a few years older. But that's in the original 78 episodes.

When they retconned the show's continuity and got Dave Coulier to voice Peter, THEN he aged 10 years to about 35, grew a foot taller and become more robust looking. He became a completely different character who was much more in line with the other 3. But I always hated that version of him and the show was a flaming hot mess, so you want to ship that version of Peter, go ahead.

But the original Peter? Scrawny derpy little thing voiced by Lorenzo Music? Not seeing it, man. Leave the 'ships to the "grownups", and Let Cupcakes be Cupcakes.

(Obscure reference for the win!)

Comments

[serendipity8791]

I don't really have a slashy ship in GB, the main reason being that, for me to ship something, there has to be a plausible romance between the characters, and I just don't see it with them. That could just be me clinging to a childhood thing and whatnot, but I don't see it. I have preferences to slash pairings, but no ship.

Yes, I read smut for smut's sake... sue me, lol.

I honestly thought the only pairing I would like at all would be Egon/Ray (all 'verses), for some reason, that made the most sense to me, but I wound up prefering movie-verse University!Peter/Egon (Peter was clearly the instigator) as written by Omorka. But I am not emotionally attached to the pairings.

My actual Ghostbusters ships are all het... and all canonical (whether movie-verse, RGB/EGB or IDW), because I am boring like that. My OTP being Egon/Janine, and, on a lesser level, Ray/Jenny (I hope they get together before the end of the IDW comic series, omg...) and Winston/Tiyah.

[omorka]

You have a much, much stronger division between the cartoon and movie characters than I do. For me, Peter Venkman is first and foremost the guy telling the library manager to "Back off, man, I'm a scientist." And I think from a writing perspective, if perhaps not so much a visual one, the showrunners and better scriptwriters for ABC Season 1 and the syndicated season - JMS and Mueller especially - have based RGB!Peter off of GB!Peter, which makes it really hard for me to see him as the youngest. He and Egon, after all, both have two doctorates, while Ray only has the one. Did you see the cartoon before the first movie?

To answer the specific question, I never saw a whole lot of chemistry between Egon and Winston. Winston and Ray, absolutely; Winston and Janine, sure; Winston and Peter, even, when they were divided off into Team Physical (versus Egon and Ray on Team Intellectual). But Winston and Egon don't directly interact directly nearly as much as either one does with the other three. I can happily ship them in the various triads, or in my One Big Happy Firehouse OT5, but as a pair I think it would have to be an angsty story about father issues and expectations never met no matter how good they were (which is really only canonical on Winston's side, no matter how much the show and novelization may imply it for Egon).

Ray, on the other hand, I will and do ship with anyone and everyone. Like, the entire universe. I would write Ray/Howard the Duck fic if I thought anyone other than me would read it.