rarepair

plural rarepairs · alternative rare pair

1. slanglifestyleA ship that generally receives little attention from fans and has few associated fanworks.

   With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.

   2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49

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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.

   2011, Nina Kaipia, "Drarry, Snarry and Snape: The Queerest of the Queer - Heteronormativity and Queer Theory in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Helsinki, page 61

   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.

   2018, Anne Jamison, “Kant/Squid (The Fanfiction Assemblage)”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 534