in fandoms where people have faces (like for example movie fandoms, tv series fandoms and the like), how important is the attractiveness of the characters for you to ship them together?

i was thinking of this because of kitty_fic's post about OTP feels. i've not responded to that post yet, but it did get me thinking of who my OTPs are and why they're my OTPs and how many OTPs i have in a given fandom, and it made me realise that...:

in text-based fandoms (like harry potter or the volstovic cycle), i have a million OTPs. i don't think much about what the characters look like, because my imagination takes care of that, and in my imagination, everyone i ship in some capacity or other, is attractive according to my standards.

and then there are visual fandoms (like bbc sherlock) where i don't have any OTPs and don't really ship john/sherlock - not for lack of subtext (or text, as is), but because to me, john watson is not attractive and picturing him with sherlock is outright unpleasant (there's also the part where i view sherlock as an asexual character and putting him in a sexual relationship with someone puts me off). i realised that part of why i don't want to get into certain fandoms or watch the canon, is because the people in the ship are unattractive/unappealing to me. i have fewer OTPs and fewer OTP constellations in these fandoms.

obviously shipping is about more than looks, but how much do looks influence the ship you choose? are you able to get into a ship despite (or because?) one or both characters are unattractive to you?

poll! i know the questions are biased, but i didn't want to overthink how to phrase them as neutrally as possible.

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