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Apologies for the long title; I couldn't think of a better way to word it.
Over the years, shipping has seen some transformation from what is considered to be just romantic, to also include platonic pairings - an idea I personally quite like. In some fandoms, to distinguish between people who interpret the character's relationships romantically - traditionally considered those who "ship" them romantically - and those who see the relationship platonically but would like to see focus on the platonic relationship, the pairing would have different names based on the ship. Usually in fandoms it's actually with pairings that involve characters who are siblings, or where one is an adult and the other minor, or some other types of relationship, as some people due to that kind of relationship are not comfortable with seeing them romantically, but do have an interest in looking at their platonic relationship (such as myself).
Some people ship them, so for the two to have separate spaces, two different names are coined (for example, in the Osomatsu-san fandom, pairings that are the two characters' names spliced together are romantic names, whereas names like choukeimatsu are the platonic names. Though there can be confusion, some people use them interchangeably but generally, people prefer them to be separate).
There are also pairings outside of the kinds of relationships I mentioned above that people like/prefer platonic interpretations.
However, in the pokemon fandom, if people prefer the platonic interpretation, normally they put "platonic" before the shipping name. Should we have two separate names, though in the western fandom (as in the Japanese fandom, the shipping names are just the characters' names spliced together)? Should we just leave people to use the ship name and indicate it is platonic? Has there been any moves to distinguish the two? What do you all think?
Over the years, shipping has seen some transformation from what is considered to be just romantic, to also include platonic pairings - an idea I personally quite like. In some fandoms, to distinguish between people who interpret the character's relationships romantically - traditionally considered those who "ship" them romantically - and those who see the relationship platonically but would like to see focus on the platonic relationship, the pairing would have different names based on the ship. Usually in fandoms it's actually with pairings that involve characters who are siblings, or where one is an adult and the other minor, or some other types of relationship, as some people due to that kind of relationship are not comfortable with seeing them romantically, but do have an interest in looking at their platonic relationship (such as myself).
Some people ship them, so for the two to have separate spaces, two different names are coined (for example, in the Osomatsu-san fandom, pairings that are the two characters' names spliced together are romantic names, whereas names like choukeimatsu are the platonic names. Though there can be confusion, some people use them interchangeably but generally, people prefer them to be separate).
There are also pairings outside of the kinds of relationships I mentioned above that people like/prefer platonic interpretations.
However, in the pokemon fandom, if people prefer the platonic interpretation, normally they put "platonic" before the shipping name. Should we have two separate names, though in the western fandom (as in the Japanese fandom, the shipping names are just the characters' names spliced together)? Should we just leave people to use the ship name and indicate it is platonic? Has there been any moves to distinguish the two? What do you all think?
