The unmistakable aura two people give off that makes everyone around them — and the entire internet — convinced they should be together. Ship energy is not necessarily physical attraction; it is the specific chemistry of two people who exist in each other's orbit like they were written that way. They finish each other's thoughts. The banter crackles. When they are in the same room the whole scene tilts toward them. Ship energy can come from fictional characters, from celebrities doing press together, or from that one pair of coworkers that everyone at the office is quietly convinced are in love but nobody says out loud.
Those two have been friends for years but the ship energy in that interview was off the charts — my parasocial investment has never been higher.
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