i normally think it's cute when people commission ship art based on rp, but with characters that are so easy to self-insert with it can get really weird really fast. different game, but i once had someone commission ship art for their malleable OC and my character who weren't romantically involved, based on a thread that was not shippy at all (at least on my end, their character was very flirtatious but mine just didn't reciprocate), and then they showed it to me with about five hundred winks and nudges, and then to their plurklist

people were telling me "oh, i thought your character was dating so and so" for like months after that