Why I Ship Zemyx

zero-graviza:

Because I asked myself the question “Why do I ship Zemyx so resolutely?” awhile ago and I thought the answers might make an interesting post.

I ship Zemyx (Zexion x Demyx) because I see them as two halves of a whole. Now, normally, I’d consider this response a cop out. Two halves of a whole? How cliche. But really, I see Zexion as quietude and Demyx as noise. Neither of which can exist without the other.

Zexion is quiet.
Demyx is loud.

Zexion is logic.
Demyx is fun.

Zexion is booksmarts.
Demyx is creativity.

Zexion is self-control.
Demyx is impulsiveness.

Zexion is patience.
Demyx is impatience.

Zexion does his job.
Demyx procrastinates (or shoves work on Roxas).

Two halves of one whole, they literally complete each other just by being so different from each other.

And then there’s the other hand where I find myself relating, almost equally, to both Zexion and Demyx in turn, which is like… I can almost see them as being two halves of the whole that is me. Though that’s not really a reason to ship.

On another-another hand. I find myself more like Zexion than Demyx, and I’d love to be around someone like Demyx. Someone to smile even when I can’t. And if I was more like Dem, I’d want to make someone like Zexy smile, get them out of their shell, hear their laugh.

All in all, this pairing makes me extremely happy because… I can see a lot of facets to it.

Let’s say that Demyx isn’t always happy behind his smile. I can’t imagine that he is with how the others in the Organization seem to see him. But anyway, let’s say he’s smiling… but sad.

I think that Zexion would be able to see that, be it because he’s good with details or maybe because he cares enough to look for it. Or he knows sad eyes when he sees them. And if he sees sadness in the happiest (seeming) Nobody, maybe he will want to drive it away?

Zexion wouldn’t be very good at cheering up, but Demyx would be surprised that anyone noticed/cares at all.

And then, out of anyone in the Organization, I think Demyx would be the one most able to coax a smile from my favourite bookworm.

Zexion would probably find it annoying, getting the Nocturne’s attention, but he’d eventually find Demyx’s insistance endearing.

I’m off on a tangent, but I dunno, I think I might have done an okay job explaining why I like this ship so much?

On the other hand, I think Zexion/Vanitas, Zexion/Riku, Zexion/Roxas, Zexion/Namine, and Zexion/Xion all cute ships. But, for me, none of them work as well as Zemyx.

And Axel/Demyx, Xigbar/Demyx, and Demyx/Namine are all cute ships as well. But I can’t ship them because they all seem to be missing… something. Something I seem to be able to find in Zemyx.

Well, that’s all. I should go to sleep.

vandestel:

So I was trying to sleep a few days ago but my brain launched into “LET’S THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING MODE” and I got this au-idea

Where in Demyx is a lonely Siren in a world where fae-folk are plenty, whose beautiful singing voice turns into banshee screams and wails when above water, so no humans and abovewater folk dare to go near him, and he’s alienated under sea too because he’s a predator- 

-but one day he finds the deaf (and mute) human Zexion reading picture books near the shore and approaches him, since Zexion can’t hear so he doesn’t mind Demyx’s voice at all (Demyx likes talking to fill in the silence apparently). He’d show Demyx his picture books, with all the weird things humans would do, like riding bicycles, and when Demyx is curious he’ll point to the pictures. Zexion would either try to mime the actions for Demyx or even bring a bike so Demyx can see why humans have that weird contraption. 

———but I can’t write stories so I ended up drawing it hahaha~

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Part 2 in ‘I want to draw like I did on my computer but utterly failed at it because fuck the laptop’. Part one is Enzeleon. 

Other Zemyx-y art: 

Chuu

Reading

Based on a FanFic

afilitaria:

Emerald Eyed Serenade

The responses to my last zemyx art was so non-existent-heart-crushing that I teared up. Oh god. I love this fandom. It really doesn’t help that I lose at least half of my sleep reading zemyx fics aaaa 

Have some more OTP content! ❤