Why is the Smash fan-base obsessed with Yaoi ships?

[Aielyn]

XanderXT said:

Aielyn said:

I don't know for certain, but it's probably just a case of Smash having 15 female characters (counting Wendy Koopa, Sheik and ZSS as separate characters and Robin, Wii Fit Trainer, Corrin, and Villager as their female forms), compared with 32 male characters (not counting Robin, WFT, Corrin, or Villager because I'm assuming them to be female, nor any of the Pokemon, Kirby, Yoshi, ROB, Alph, and Duck Hunt because they're either genderless, indeterminate, or just a giant pink puffball - funny how that last condition applies to more than one character).

So if you're going to start shipping characters from Smash Bros, you're going to run out of females before you're even half way through the guys. I'd imagine that's what's driving such a high proportion of "yaoi" shipping.

That's my theory, at least.

Yeah, but half of the characters have canon ships where they come from. Mario, Link, Cloud, Marth etc. Why use characters and make them so OOC?

Because a lot of people don't play games like Fire Emblem, etc, and thus their only interaction with those characters is in Smash. As for Mario and Link... well, those are kind of special cases (people who are likely to do "shipping" are going to do "special" things with the biggest names in gaming).