Fannish5: The Magnificent Five
Jan. 29th, 2010 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakList five characters you'd want on your side in any kind of trouble. Bonus points for assembling an "Action Team" with complementary skills.
Ohhh, unfair requirement. Any kind of trouble? The team for the zombie apocalypse is significantly different from the one for epic showdowns with the taxman is significantly different from the one when I sob my heart out in the hypothetical case of it being broken is different from when my latest working effort is not appreciated. Etc. Take Jack Bristow (Alias), for example. Provided you are on the same side his daughter is on, he's ideal for anything from secret spying missions to zombie apocalypse. Is bound to intimidate accountants, too, and has experience in hiding money. Clever, ruthless, yet not a supervillain. Can even provide babysitters with shooting skills. But you do NOT want Jack Bristow with you if your favourite show just got cancelled and you want to grouse for hours about how unfair this was. Or your beloved character has been given the wrong story arc. And you definitely do not want him with you if you have a moral crisis and wonder what the right thing to do is. No way.
It goes without saying that I would stay the hell awy from a lot of the shady characters I love to bits in fiction even when times are good, let alone in times of trouble. A lot of them would sacrifice me to the trouble without blinking. And then there are some beloved heroes who have a way of getting their entourage killed, so I don't want them around, either.
Looking out for competence in action scenarios, in handholding and in finances, and reliability instead of sacrificing me to the cause, here's the team I came up with:
1.) Martha Jones (Doctor Who). Has proven survival skills in apocalyptic scenarios, is smart and well-read, so there'd be a lot to talk about, has had aftermaths of emotional catastrophes thrown at her and dealt with same, and is a medical doctor, which is always useful. So no matter what kind of trouble I'm in, I want Martha at my side.
2.) Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Smart, centuries old, great sense of humour, can fight (both old fashioned hand to hand combat or sci fi weapons) if that's required but also provide factual knowledge and/or emotional insight if that is the nature of the trouble. Also, she's great friends with Quark which could be helpful in the catastrophe is financial in nature.
3.) Vir Cotto (Babylon 5). Vir is sweet-natured, loyal to a fault, one of the quiet ones bad guys usually overlook (to their detriment), in possession of both strong ethics and joie de vivre. No one's candidate for a bodyguard, but that's what other team members are for. He's there for moral support and/or reminders of what's really important/ which methods are justifiable and which aren't, and also for the hugs. And he does know how to keep a secret.
4.) Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Lost). Like Vir, a genuinenly kind person, very huggable and good at hugging, with proven survival and team-building skills in apocalyptic situations. Very much a geek, which means he could empathize about characters and storyarcs to complain/praise/sob about like no one's business. Even has experience with money.
5.) Zoe Washburne (Firefly). Great fighting skills, deadpan sense of humour, stoic nature. Can survive anything. Due to her marital history, she would not mind me freaking out about spoilers for a show I'm trying to remain unspoiled for or the latest fannish kerfuffle; she has learned to tolerate such things. But her lethal talent of making a few syllables (or one, like "sir") sound sarcastic as hell would make me reign in my flailing, and get a hold on myself, so if the trouble I'm in isn't apocalyptic but fannish in nature, Zoe would be great to have at my side as well.
Ohhh, unfair requirement. Any kind of trouble? The team for the zombie apocalypse is significantly different from the one for epic showdowns with the taxman is significantly different from the one when I sob my heart out in the hypothetical case of it being broken is different from when my latest working effort is not appreciated. Etc. Take Jack Bristow (Alias), for example. Provided you are on the same side his daughter is on, he's ideal for anything from secret spying missions to zombie apocalypse. Is bound to intimidate accountants, too, and has experience in hiding money. Clever, ruthless, yet not a supervillain. Can even provide babysitters with shooting skills. But you do NOT want Jack Bristow with you if your favourite show just got cancelled and you want to grouse for hours about how unfair this was. Or your beloved character has been given the wrong story arc. And you definitely do not want him with you if you have a moral crisis and wonder what the right thing to do is. No way.
It goes without saying that I would stay the hell awy from a lot of the shady characters I love to bits in fiction even when times are good, let alone in times of trouble. A lot of them would sacrifice me to the trouble without blinking. And then there are some beloved heroes who have a way of getting their entourage killed, so I don't want them around, either.
Looking out for competence in action scenarios, in handholding and in finances, and reliability instead of sacrificing me to the cause, here's the team I came up with:
1.) Martha Jones (Doctor Who). Has proven survival skills in apocalyptic scenarios, is smart and well-read, so there'd be a lot to talk about, has had aftermaths of emotional catastrophes thrown at her and dealt with same, and is a medical doctor, which is always useful. So no matter what kind of trouble I'm in, I want Martha at my side.
2.) Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Smart, centuries old, great sense of humour, can fight (both old fashioned hand to hand combat or sci fi weapons) if that's required but also provide factual knowledge and/or emotional insight if that is the nature of the trouble. Also, she's great friends with Quark which could be helpful in the catastrophe is financial in nature.
3.) Vir Cotto (Babylon 5). Vir is sweet-natured, loyal to a fault, one of the quiet ones bad guys usually overlook (to their detriment), in possession of both strong ethics and joie de vivre. No one's candidate for a bodyguard, but that's what other team members are for. He's there for moral support and/or reminders of what's really important/ which methods are justifiable and which aren't, and also for the hugs. And he does know how to keep a secret.
4.) Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Lost). Like Vir, a genuinenly kind person, very huggable and good at hugging, with proven survival and team-building skills in apocalyptic situations. Very much a geek, which means he could empathize about characters and storyarcs to complain/praise/sob about like no one's business. Even has experience with money.
5.) Zoe Washburne (Firefly). Great fighting skills, deadpan sense of humour, stoic nature. Can survive anything. Due to her marital history, she would not mind me freaking out about spoilers for a show I'm trying to remain unspoiled for or the latest fannish kerfuffle; she has learned to tolerate such things. But her lethal talent of making a few syllables (or one, like "sir") sound sarcastic as hell would make me reign in my flailing, and get a hold on myself, so if the trouble I'm in isn't apocalyptic but fannish in nature, Zoe would be great to have at my side as well.
