The June Something - Day Two

[smallhobbit]

Day 2: You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them?

My current OTPs are Lucas North/Adam Carter from Spooks, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson from ACD Holmes (retirement era) and Sherlock Holmes/Stanley Hopkins from BBC Sherlock (my river police 'verse).  None of them, for me, would work with a third.

Which isn't to say they don't have friends, but none would make it to a relationship in the OT3 sense.  But then a lot of the OTP I'm writing is more background within my fic than the focus point.

The closest I've ever managed to an OT3, was for Winnie-the-Pooh, where I sometimes write fic of a more adult content - or at least not quite the same as the books you loved in your childhood.  [So be warned.]  I can't find it now, but I did write for a prompt in which someone had 'outed' Piglet.  Owl was trying to explain to Pooh why Piglet would have to leave the Hundred Acre Wood, and when Pooh finally understands he exclaims that he and Piglet have a wonderful relationship and sometimes Tigger joins them as well.

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I had forgotten about your 100 acre woods threesome!

[smallhobbit]

Not surprising - not your average OT3!

[solosundance]

when Pooh finally understands he exclaims that he and Piglet have a wonderful relationship and sometimes Tigger joins them as well.

Aw!

[smallhobbit]

The perfect icon too!

[margaret_r]

Threesomes have never been something I've considered very much, but the question has made me think.

I remember the Pooh/Piglet/Tigger combination with a smile.

[smallhobbit]

Answering the question made me realise I'm unlikely to write one because the idea behind it isn't one I explore.

[debriswoman]

Still haven’t got the measure of your limits, ma’am:-)

[smallhobbit]

Very few have!

[moth2fic]

I have an OT3 in my Cheshire fae fantasy series, but it's fantasy. I can't somehow envisage OT3s in the 'real' world. The only time I've had an OT3 in fanfiction was a LotR fic to a very specific prompt. For some reason it's my all time most hits and kudos fic - but maybe that's just the size of the fandom. And again, it's fantasy!

[smallhobbit]

Yes - that's why it worked for me with Winnie-the-Pooh, which is close to fantasy. The complicated nature of most of my 'real world' pairings really don't allow for a third person.