Shipping meme, day 10

[flo_nelja]

10. Most smutty ship

* If it's the most smutty in canon, it's Phèdre/Mélisande from Kushiel's Legacy. So much BDSM, the sex is hot, and every time they talk, the UST is hot. I don't have official pics, it's a novel, but here's a link to a nice cosplay pic.

* If it's the ship where I looked at the non-romantic interactions, and went like "I must read and write all the smut about it", it's Gin/Kira from Bleach. I'm still not over this.

Comments

[reinadefuego]

Did someone say canon femslash? Ooh, tell me more! (Please <3 I love hearing what you think about ships)

I've seen Kushiel's Legacy mentioned on Reddit but no one ever says anything about the *check's notes* femslash, bdsm, smut or hot UST.

[flo_nelja]

Wait, what are they talking about then? I'm confused.

So, Kushiel's Legacy is fantasy in an alternate France Renaissance. The God they worship here is the son of Jesus and Mary Magdalena, who had adventures before founding a kingdom, helped by angels who renounced heaven to be his companions. They see sex as holy, also every form of beauty. (They think they're pacifists with impeccable tastes, the other nations just think they're sooo superficial and elitist).

Phèdre, the main character, is the chosen of Kushiel, the angel of punishment. It gives her the ability to feel sex as pleasure, which is very helpful to her in her double carrier of sex worker specialized in masochism and of international spy.

The plots of the books are usually centered on international politics (and the author had fun researching the cultures to do alternates versions of them, with magic. It starts only in Europe, we go further later). There is diplomacy, betrayal, wars, daring escapes, etc.

But I must warn the plot is not the biggest part of the book, as the author loves her worldbuilding, the everyday live, the clothes, the magic, especially the sex. Phèdre's sexual encounters, for work, diplomacy and pleasure, or all of this, will be described in great detail (sometimes there is rape too, saying for the trigger warning).
She also puts a lot of time for establishing the personal relationships, including the ones that aren't romantic at all.

Phèdre has a lot of romantic and sexual partners, male and female, but the two main romance is with her male bodyguard, but my favourite (and one of the most important too) is with her main enemy, who is the Mélisande I was talking about, and who is a sadist who's very sexually compatible with Phèdre, and who is one of her first loves (which won't stop Phèdre from stopping her plans, submission is not weakness, and all)