Talk:Lyra Heartstrings/@comment-24.118.255.197-20120717131702/@comment-2170890-20120717180048

Firstly, Shipping can sometimes be "best friends" rather than a couple. So some shippers shipped them as best friends (in fact the two of them being best friends began as fan made - the layout artists simply placed them together a lot because they coordinated well, but once bronies started drawing as friends they continued to pair them up as a "shout-out")

As for why characters who are best friends are shipped romantically, it's basically just how when two people (or in this case ponies) are such close friends it's sometimes kind of cute to imagine them as a couple, because they're already close as friends. It can be either friends who are of the same gender or of opposite gender - seeing as there's no difference whatsoever. Obviously not all best friends who are of the same gender turn out to be a gay couple, but then not all best friends who are of opposite gender turn out to be a couple either.

Hope that helps. :)