Fannish5: What can't we do if we're together?

[selenak]

Name the five moments in canon that made you believe your favorite pairing belongs together.

First of all, I don't have just one favorite pairing, and secondly, the whole belonging together part is tricky, as several of my favourite pairings are actually better off apart (Doctor/Master, Xavier/Magneto) with only intermittent reunions, or have make that friends-with-benefits-package really work for them, which means sometimes they're together as friends but not romantically because one or both is with other people, and they're fine with that (Duncan/Amanda), and some have too many moments to count (Londo/G'Kar) but the definition of "together" changes for them throughout canon, so.

However, it occurs to me I need to polish up my status as the world's only Crichton/Rygel shipper. Ask hmpf, who introduced me to Farscape; while other people fell for John/Aeryn and came around to John/Scorpius, I not only went for the Dominar as my favourite character (this is me, DS9 veteran who deserted Garak for Quark in this capacity) but also shipped Rygel with the show's hero from day 1. Well, almost. Anyway, scenes proving that TheirLoveIsMeantToBe.

1.) Family Ties, season 1: Crichton takes Rygel's betrayal and change of mind in stride, as part of the package that is Rygel, and kisses him on the head while making that clear. Look, this kissing on the head thing is part of one of my favourite Buffy/Faith scenes as well. (Buffy and Faith aren't the pair for this meme because they're in the Doctor/Master, Xavier/Magneto category of better-off-separate-with-the-occasional-reunion.)

2.) Won't Get Fooled Again, season 2: Rygel shows up as part of Crichton's sexual hallucination together with Chiana and Zhaan. And a whip. We're not blaming Harvey and Scorpius for that one, are we? It's all part of Crichton's subconscious desires. *veg*

3.) Fractures, season 3: in the middle of his dead-alter-ego-and-Aeryn angst, Crichton takes the time out to rescue Rygel from a femme fatale and cheer him up afterwards. So to speak. I was touched!

4.) Crichton Kicks, season 4: this time, Rygel is the one giving Crichton the matter of factly pep talk, succintly analysing the John/Aeryn relationship and offering a handy (bad pun intended) list of Crichton obsessions to boot: "Wormholes, Aeryn, Earth, Aeryn, Scorpius, Aeryn." John doesn't listen, but what else is new? He does admit Sparky has a point. Sort of.

5.) Kansas, season 4: Crichton and Rygel get high together. On sugar, but still. They have a great time and enjoy themselves without making anyone else miserable, which, frankly, is more than John Crichton manages by s4 of Farscape with most people, especially Aeryn.

All this, and I didn't even mention the fact Rygel ends up pregnant by Crichton in The Peacekeeper Wars. In conclusion: They're meant to be.

Comments

[kaffy_r]

I may not ship them, but you made me smile with the recitation of all those absolutely correct moments, and reminded me that I really, really like Rygel - he's selfish, brave, brilliant, cowardly, sly, funny, kind (upon occasion, by which he generally doesn't allow himself to think about being kind), greedy, proud, willing to work (upon occasion), able to learn from mistakes (although he doesn't generally care to), and the show wouldn't have been the same without him.

[selenak]

That's a perfect description of Rygel, and I will steal and quote it in the future.

[kaffy_r]

Heh - it can't be stealing when I'm pleased to give it to you.