User blog:AustinDR/Shipping: Luaggie

Real quick one; sorry, I'm just feeling tired. Basically, this was one shipping that I didn't expect to exist, but it does. I had seen this particular pairing circulating on deviantART, which genuinely caught me off guard as it's basically a pairing between Luan and Maggie, a girl who was introduced in "Funny Business." This pairing is what TV Tropes calls "Ships That Pass in the Night," essentially meaning that two characters are paired together without having that much chemistry, interactions, etc. I mean, seriously: Luan doesn't as much as share a line of dialogue with Maggie, and yet you have this ship starting to gain traction. What's worse is that Maggie herself is just a plot device used to make Lincoln realize that falling on his butt doesn't automatically make him funny. Besides that, there is also the fact that Maggie is a one-time character. Granted, there have been a few characters who had returned here and there, but I just think there has to be a reason to make Maggie a recurring character.

Now, before you accuse me of hating yuri shipping, I don't. I personally have nothing against it; heck, my favorite yuri pairing is NanoFate. But with Luaggie, there's simply not enough substance to warrant a ship. Despite that, I don't really hate the pairing. On the contrary: one plus to this ship is that it actually gives Maggie more character. In "Funny Business," Maggie is simply a moody girl who whines to her mom about how Lincoln was ruining her party. Again, a generic emo girl. With Luaggie, she displays more emotions, albeit she is slightly distant from Luan in some instances. Overall, Luaggie is a pairing that I don't completely hate, but I will agree that there are some flaws to it.