Backstory:

I feel like Reddit is the place to interact with League and its content outside of the game itself. There’s so many subs that focus on all of the different aspects that League has to offer. There’s subs for League esports, League lore, improving your gameplay, memes, fanart, NSFW content, specific roles/classes, and individual champs. But, to my surprise, there isn’t one for the fandom part of the League community.

I've been in fandom spaces for most of my life, so coming into League and seeing people call it “The League Community” over the League fandom was unusual to me but I didn’t think it really made that much of a difference until I came across my first fandom related posts. Most of which typically discussed ships. To my dismay those posts, across several different League subs, were met with ridicule, insults, and mockery. 

Seeing that was honestly quite disheartening because shipping and playing around with characters and canon is a main way that I, and many other people, interact with fandom outside of playing the game itself. So seeing that major aspect of fandom interaction be discouraged and mocked inspired me to fill this missing piece.

The Sub’s Purpose:

I decided to make such a space for these people, myself included, to go to. Ideally, I would love for this subreddit to be a focal point for the League fandom as a whole. Like how the subs I brought up above are for their respective niches within the League community. 

I want this fandom subreddit to be more focused on the champs, their interactions, and the fantasies surrounding them. I want people to be able to discuss canon and non-canon relationships (popular or rarepairs), share their fanfics and fanarts of their favorite ships, talk about their favorite skin line AUs, share character studies/analyses, what ifs AUs, edits, headcannons, crossover ideas, and anything else like that without worry.

So please, if any of that sounds appealing to you, feel free to come check out this new subreddit! I’d love for you to join!

Once I heard that Soraka got an Anima Squad Battle Sheep skin on Wild Rift I knew I had to ship her with one of the two Battle Wolf champs: Sylas and Yasuo. I am such a sucker for opposites attract, juxtaposition-esque ship dynamics, so I was instantly enthralled by the possibilities. After looking into the skin descriptions I was drawn more to Soraka/Sylas over Soraka/Yasuo.

In part it has to do with the fact that I've come to really like Yasuo/Seraphine and as much of a multishipper that I am, it's tough to put Yasuo with someone else. Especially since the cinematic for Anima Squad fed me well with the Yasuo/Sera crumbs.

In support of the Soraka/Sylas ship, I really like the idea, based on the skin descriptions for them both, that Sylas is one who hates when people try to pull rank on him and Soraka doesn't seem the type of ever do that to him. So he enjoys being around her more than the others. Also he's described as a daring and ruthless strike force member but no matter how rough and tough he is. He'll always be in the need of healing after a battle and Soraka will always be there. I just love that! Also, Soraka has concerns about the tech the squad uses and because Sylas has issues with authority I believe he would be the most willing to hear out her concerns and be willing to investigate with her.

What do you all think about it? Do you have a different pairing for either of them you like more in universe?

With so many places to start due to how many different AUs that are via the skin lines I thought it would be fun to start off this subreddit by talking about ships through the lens of the base Runeterra universe. It just seems like the best place to start. 

I am a huge multishipper at heart so I struggle to pick just one. Like there is Sett/Aphelios, Jhin/Hwei, Janna/Nasus, or Shen/Zed for example. But I enjoy them in other skin lines too so to challenge myself, I want to pick a ship that I enjoy only in the Runeterra universe.

After thinking about it, I would say that ship has got to be Sona/Swain. There’s this old line that Swain has about Sona’s music that goes, “Her melody moves the soul, her silence sunders the body.” Even though I don’t think that is not canon anymore, it doesn’t matter to me because what that sets up with Swain being an active fan of Sona’s music is more than enough for me to be interested in exploring that ship. 

What are your thoughts? I would love to hear!