Love, love, love!
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selenakFirst results in. And argh, I forgot to list Farscape the last time. Also, consider me cheered up by this activity!
What Vir loves best about Londo
...his vitality. No matter whether he shouts at you or sings with you or laughs or tells you some really embarassing detail about his love life which you don’t want to hear, Londo blazes with life and makes it touch you, too.
...and speaking of touching. Londo, physical creature that he is, is constantly putting hands on one’s shoulder, squeezes arms, even grabs chins and hugs; the sad truth is that Londo in one month has had more physical contact with Vir than Vir’s entire family in ten years. And Londo doesn’t even think about it for a second.
...his ability to love. This is what kept Vir believing in Londo through all the dark times when nobody else did. He doesn’t just mean romantic love, though he always hoped the Lady Adira would return because she brought out the best in Londo; but in truth she is not what Vir kept reminding himself of when Londo had yet another cynical talk with Refa. No, he remembers how Londo behaved when his nephew Karn was forced to read that declaration after the Narn had invaded and taken the Centauri colony. If it had been Vir,Vir’s uncle would have disowned him without a sweat, and if it had been Vir’s cousin, whom his uncle actually cared for, Vir’s uncle would still have disowned him without hesitation. Londo, who is every bit the traditionalist Vir’s uncle is and twice as conscious of the Centauri Republic’s status, was worried about Karn’s safety first and never talked about him with anything but affection.
What Michael Garibaldi loves best about G’Kar
...G’Kar’s optimistic way of looking at the universe. Mind you, Garibaldi thinks it’s a nutty way, and G’Kar of all the people should know better, but he still likes it, and sometimes he thinks he learned Narn not so much to read the words of G’Quan as to find out how the hell G’Kar got it in the first place.
...G’Kar’s loyalty. It’s not just Garibaldi respects loyalty more than most things, but also that G’Kar, for some reason, picked Garibaldi to be loyal to when he didn’t owe Garibaldi anything. Nobody else had bothered to look for him – as opposed to Sheridan – and nobody else celebrated his return. It’s not something you forget when you’re Michael Garibaldi
... G’Kar’s sheer stubbornness, which of course used to be bloody infuriating and caused no end of trouble in the old days before it became vital help in the Shadow War and the building of the Alliance. Everything keeps changing on Babylon 5, so some things staying the same are a great comfort, and G’Kar having the will power to end all will powers? Is one of them.
What Scott Summers loves best about Emma Frost
...her passion for being a teacher. It’s something that stayed with her from her White-Queen-days to the present, through all her changing loyalties, and people always tend to underestimate it, but she loves teaching, and her students, no matter how sarcastic some of her evaluations are. In fact, he’s always been more sure about Emma’s feelings for her students than he has about any of her other emotions. Some of the other X-men do the teaching as a perfunctuary part of the job, but Emma couldn’t live without it. He’s yet to find a way how to compliment her about it, but he teases her that it is because of the constant powerplay in the classroom and hopes she’ll get that this is supposed to be a joke, and he actually loves that side of her. He wasn’t in love with Emma all through theirmindfuck telepathic affair when Jean was alive, though obviously he was attracted as hell; but the moment he started to fall in love was when she said she didn’t care if he left, she’d keep the school running.
....Emma’s wicked sense of humour. Mind you, he doesn’t always get it. But he loves it when she does things like ensuring thugs will always feel sick when thinking of asparagus or whatever it was, or threatens a man a snubbed her now she’s outed as a mutant by asking him whether he wants to be sexually obsessed with the works of Neiman-Marcus. Moreover, they go through dark times and crazy stuff on a constant basis, and Emma makes him smile more often than not, sometimes even when she drives him crazy, and not in a good sense. Smiles among ongoing horror are not a gift to be underestimated, and Scott doesn’t.
...the fact that he’s absolutely, 100 % sure that he’ll never, ever destroy her. It’s not that he thinks Emma is invulnerable or couldn’t be destroyed – he saw her after Genosha, and she was close then – or that he is not aware they could end up as enemies again (looking back at his personal history), or even that he hasn’t wondered what it be like to kill her (again, look at his history); it’s just that he, Scott Summers, will never be able to do anything that devastates Emma Frost so completely that it destroyes her. The fact he loves that about her might be the most screwed up thing about their relationship, or its most healthy aspect; he can’t decide anymore.
What Hank McCoy loves best about Scott Summers
...Scott listens. Most people don’t. They wait until you have finished talking while mentally preparing their own speeches. Hank is aware he falls into that trap himself on occasion. But Scott? Really listens. Whether he gets what you are talking about or not is another matter; the point is, he listens first.
....the fact Scott still has the dog-eared copy of Profiles of Courage Xavier gave him when they were all still at school, and doesn’t care how often you point out to him that it is mostly ghost written; his usual counter-argument is that Kennedy was Ted Sorensen’s muse for the “other” (read: most of) passages. Also, he’s still underlining sentences. Even now when he knows the whole thing by heart. And fights an ongoing battle to keep it on the teaching schedule.
... the fact Scott tinkers with his bike or any other thing in need of repair when he’s troubled. This isn’t just useful (Hank doesn’t know what he’d do without a functioning coffee machine, and you can bet it stops working every other month or so, at least that’s what it looks like, and then Scott gets it repaired at once, because he’s usually troubled), but one of the things he connects with coming home, whenever he returns to the mansion: Scott, with his tools in his hand, tinking. That’s home.
What Vir loves best about Londo
...his vitality. No matter whether he shouts at you or sings with you or laughs or tells you some really embarassing detail about his love life which you don’t want to hear, Londo blazes with life and makes it touch you, too.
...and speaking of touching. Londo, physical creature that he is, is constantly putting hands on one’s shoulder, squeezes arms, even grabs chins and hugs; the sad truth is that Londo in one month has had more physical contact with Vir than Vir’s entire family in ten years. And Londo doesn’t even think about it for a second.
...his ability to love. This is what kept Vir believing in Londo through all the dark times when nobody else did. He doesn’t just mean romantic love, though he always hoped the Lady Adira would return because she brought out the best in Londo; but in truth she is not what Vir kept reminding himself of when Londo had yet another cynical talk with Refa. No, he remembers how Londo behaved when his nephew Karn was forced to read that declaration after the Narn had invaded and taken the Centauri colony. If it had been Vir,Vir’s uncle would have disowned him without a sweat, and if it had been Vir’s cousin, whom his uncle actually cared for, Vir’s uncle would still have disowned him without hesitation. Londo, who is every bit the traditionalist Vir’s uncle is and twice as conscious of the Centauri Republic’s status, was worried about Karn’s safety first and never talked about him with anything but affection.
What Michael Garibaldi loves best about G’Kar
...G’Kar’s optimistic way of looking at the universe. Mind you, Garibaldi thinks it’s a nutty way, and G’Kar of all the people should know better, but he still likes it, and sometimes he thinks he learned Narn not so much to read the words of G’Quan as to find out how the hell G’Kar got it in the first place.
...G’Kar’s loyalty. It’s not just Garibaldi respects loyalty more than most things, but also that G’Kar, for some reason, picked Garibaldi to be loyal to when he didn’t owe Garibaldi anything. Nobody else had bothered to look for him – as opposed to Sheridan – and nobody else celebrated his return. It’s not something you forget when you’re Michael Garibaldi
... G’Kar’s sheer stubbornness, which of course used to be bloody infuriating and caused no end of trouble in the old days before it became vital help in the Shadow War and the building of the Alliance. Everything keeps changing on Babylon 5, so some things staying the same are a great comfort, and G’Kar having the will power to end all will powers? Is one of them.
What Scott Summers loves best about Emma Frost
...her passion for being a teacher. It’s something that stayed with her from her White-Queen-days to the present, through all her changing loyalties, and people always tend to underestimate it, but she loves teaching, and her students, no matter how sarcastic some of her evaluations are. In fact, he’s always been more sure about Emma’s feelings for her students than he has about any of her other emotions. Some of the other X-men do the teaching as a perfunctuary part of the job, but Emma couldn’t live without it. He’s yet to find a way how to compliment her about it, but he teases her that it is because of the constant powerplay in the classroom and hopes she’ll get that this is supposed to be a joke, and he actually loves that side of her. He wasn’t in love with Emma all through their
....Emma’s wicked sense of humour. Mind you, he doesn’t always get it. But he loves it when she does things like ensuring thugs will always feel sick when thinking of asparagus or whatever it was, or threatens a man a snubbed her now she’s outed as a mutant by asking him whether he wants to be sexually obsessed with the works of Neiman-Marcus. Moreover, they go through dark times and crazy stuff on a constant basis, and Emma makes him smile more often than not, sometimes even when she drives him crazy, and not in a good sense. Smiles among ongoing horror are not a gift to be underestimated, and Scott doesn’t.
...the fact that he’s absolutely, 100 % sure that he’ll never, ever destroy her. It’s not that he thinks Emma is invulnerable or couldn’t be destroyed – he saw her after Genosha, and she was close then – or that he is not aware they could end up as enemies again (looking back at his personal history), or even that he hasn’t wondered what it be like to kill her (again, look at his history); it’s just that he, Scott Summers, will never be able to do anything that devastates Emma Frost so completely that it destroyes her. The fact he loves that about her might be the most screwed up thing about their relationship, or its most healthy aspect; he can’t decide anymore.
What Hank McCoy loves best about Scott Summers
...Scott listens. Most people don’t. They wait until you have finished talking while mentally preparing their own speeches. Hank is aware he falls into that trap himself on occasion. But Scott? Really listens. Whether he gets what you are talking about or not is another matter; the point is, he listens first.
....the fact Scott still has the dog-eared copy of Profiles of Courage Xavier gave him when they were all still at school, and doesn’t care how often you point out to him that it is mostly ghost written; his usual counter-argument is that Kennedy was Ted Sorensen’s muse for the “other” (read: most of) passages. Also, he’s still underlining sentences. Even now when he knows the whole thing by heart. And fights an ongoing battle to keep it on the teaching schedule.
... the fact Scott tinkers with his bike or any other thing in need of repair when he’s troubled. This isn’t just useful (Hank doesn’t know what he’d do without a functioning coffee machine, and you can bet it stops working every other month or so, at least that’s what it looks like, and then Scott gets it repaired at once, because he’s usually troubled), but one of the things he connects with coming home, whenever he returns to the mansion: Scott, with his tools in his hand, tinking. That’s home.
