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/ˈɹɛəˌpɛə/ · noun
(fandom slang) A ship that generally receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks..
Rare pairs might also slash together people or creatures that are considered unnatural, such as a human character with a magical creature such as a centaur or a house elf, or Dumbledore with any young student from Hogwarts.
With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.
If a Yuletide reader requested a rare pair (Silver Surfer/Aunt May?) in The Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers, that story will now assemble with its more popular Hulk/Iron Man and Captain America/Bucky Barnes fanfic colleagues in the Avengers tag.
Use rarepair when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rarepair means (fandom slang) A ship that generally receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks..
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Rare pairs might also slash together people or creatures that are considered unnatural, such as a human character with a magical creature such as a centaur or a house elf, or Dumbledore with any young student from Hogwarts.
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