With Johnny/Evan, I don't even like RPF. But with these two I can't help it - they're just begging to be shipped. I justify it by saying that figure skating is more like performance than any other sport, that, like Johnny says during Vancouver, that they're portraying characters when they're on the ice. So much of what we know about them is really a persona, so it's okay to ship their personas - characters - together. So enough about my completely in vain internal justification - why them? Uhm... I guess because they're so much more interesting than the other common ships in the fandom, because of their rivalry dynamic. Because Johnny plays up his persona with his shove-massive-things-in-me-smirks and because it's so easy to be swept away by what everyone else is shipping with their analyses and their fics. Guh, I don't know. I'm new to this fandom and still learning.

I have a question for you - why is Johnny/Stéphane your OTP? I thought I loved J/S more than J/E, but I seem to have forgotten J/S in the recent drama...