Here via metafandom. I consider myself someone who has OTPs, but I don't consider myself an OTPer, if that makes sense? Like… hmmm. There's fandom A, where I OTP G and B like burning. I have little interest in reading them paired with other people, in theory, but in practice I have an interest in branching out. It's compatible, in my mind, because they're… them, and with the characters as such, they canonically have a very intense, rocky relationship that would allow me to pair them with other people for sexual or even emotional connection while still being in love with each other.
Then there's fandom C, where one of the characters is canonically not only in love with but involved with multiple other people. To disregard that would likely be a disservice to his character, but my OTP has him in a relationship with one character who he's never seen in a romantic relationship with in canon. I OTP in that I balk at the idea of shipping him with anyone else, but it would be flat-out silly to deny that he doesn't have/hasn't had sex with other people, so, again, I've written that with the thought in my mind that he is in love with this other character.
It's complicated. These are my pairings, though I'll read outside them (particularly if the author of the alternate pairing also ships them, mind, because there's more chance she'll keep what draws me to them as a pairing valued as they write the characters paired with different people). I consider them OTPs. But I don't consider myself bound by them. It helps that my OTPs tend to be people who are strongly attached to each other in some way in their respective canons, and thus I'm just as cool with gen as I am with porn. But. Yeah. ♥ OTPs.
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Then there's fandom C, where one of the characters is canonically not only in love with but involved with multiple other people. To disregard that would likely be a disservice to his character, but my OTP has him in a relationship with one character who he's never seen in a romantic relationship with in canon. I OTP in that I balk at the idea of shipping him with anyone else, but it would be flat-out silly to deny that he doesn't have/hasn't had sex with other people, so, again, I've written that with the thought in my mind that he is in love with this other character.
It's complicated. These are my pairings, though I'll read outside them (particularly if the author of the alternate pairing also ships them, mind, because there's more chance she'll keep what draws me to them as a pairing valued as they write the characters paired with different people). I consider them OTPs. But I don't consider myself bound by them. It helps that my OTPs tend to be people who are strongly attached to each other in some way in their respective canons, and thus I'm just as cool with gen as I am with porn. But. Yeah. ♥ OTPs.