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The case of shipping in the Kid Icarus community is honestly quite a strange one.

I know it’s got a lot of popular ships like Pit/Dark Pit, Pit/Palutena, etc. But the ships themselves and the context between them are… peculiarly complex to say the least? If you really think hard about it, barely any ship between the characters is romantically compatible.

Like, for one, Pit/Dark Pit. Or as others like to call it, “Pitcest.”

I personally, am not a fan of Pitcest. Not because I don’t like the “cute and quirky boy dates edgy boy” dynamic, but literally any ship with “cest” in the name is just a turnoff for me. Plain and simple.

That being said, I’m not the biggest fan of Pit/Palutena either, for obvious reasons. That being Pit is portrayed as an adolescent (Sakurai even states he’s canonically 13 in human years) and she’s portrayed as a fully matured woman. Even if ages weren’t a problem, there’s still the unbalanced power dynamic these two have with each other.

 Yes, I know it’s heavily implied in the Japanese version that he has feelings for her, but I never really saw her as a “potential love interest.” I always saw her as his mother figure or parental guardian. 

The one ship I can kind of see as compatible is Pit/Viridi, and even then there’s the “age gap” that’s commonly disputed, since Viridi is said to be eight in human years. Not as big as the Pit and Palutena one, but it’s still there nonetheless. 

I know there’s a hella lot of debate about these characters’ ages, whether they count as adults or not because, “they’re a thousand years old, they’re basically immortal” which is a whole ‘nother can of worms that I honestly don’t wanna open.

Personally, I find it interesting when a popular work doesn’t have a lot of room for shipping as opposed to a bunch of other franchises. It goes to show that romantic relationships are opportunities people can have, but they’re not requirements.