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selenak...with the caveat that there are a great many characters whose love life I couldn't care less about, independent from how much or little I like them otherwise. But hey, I do have a few whom I ship romantically, too, so here we go:
Give me a character and I will tell you...
* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
Give me a character and I will tell you...
* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
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Date: 2014-04-12 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 05:45 pm (UTC)* How I feel about this character:
I love her. It wasn't love at first sight, naturally; at first she appeared to be a very one dimensional character designed to make Regina look better, but without a life of her own. Then came s2, and I think the first turning point for me was the episode named after her, "Queen of Hearts", because of her reaction when Hook tries to rip her heart out on Regina's instructions ("She should have come; if this is what she wanted, she should have come herself") and later to Regina's "dearest mother, you always had my heart" speech over her supposed dead body, because "I'm going to get my daughter back, but first I'll completely break her" is just so awesomely twisted. Her interaction with Hook - for example, the way she points out to him that magic now works in Storybrooke, which is why Rumple completely outclasses him in a direct confrontation - always had wry humor. Her scene with Rumplestilskin two eps or so later also had me mightily intrigued, as it seemed to hint at a more complicated backstory than we hitherto knew about, and then, of course, came The Miller's Daughter and I fell utterly in love.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
Rumplestilskin. How can I not? They're former lovers doublecrossing each other and trying to kill each other while still having feelings. Mind you, had they remained together it would have been great for them and a disaster for everyone else, with them being two evil masterminds together, but hey, I do not necessarily ship for happy endings.
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
Like I said, her amused exasparation with Hook was enjoyable to watch, and the spin-off show introduced another contestant via Anastasia as a replacement daughter figure, but ultimately it has to be the utter, utter mess that's her relationship with Regina.
* My unpopular opinion about this character
I stay away from OuaT fandom other than lj and dw friends, so I'm not sure about popularity, but going by the fact there is stll not much Cora centric fanfic on the AO3, my fondness of the character itself is one.
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
More flashbacks. I have no problem with her being dead, btw; it was the right time, she would have lost villain credibility otherwise, and it was a powerful story for Snow and Regina. But I do want Cora flashbacks telling us more about what happened between Regina's birth and her and Henry Sr. ending up from a palace, about encounters between her and Rumplestilskin (when Rumple in the diner scene with Belle boasts he was always the more powerful, Regina says sweetly "that's not what I've heard", so I'm assuming there were clashes that made their enmity public and notorious), how she got to be Queen in Wonderland (btw, thank you, spin-off, for making her Anastasia's mentor, because of course she'd be), and yes, I do want to know how Zelena happened, but I expect that's one flashback I'll actually get.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
From her guest starring in the spin-off: Cora had planned on killing Will; it was his request to take his heart out that saved his life, causing a moment of unwanted identification on her part. Err, congratulations, Will?
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Date: 2014-04-12 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-13 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 06:00 pm (UTC)I like her enormously. Not always - I have moments of going "what the hell, Kalinda?", as when she went with a baseball bat after Blake's car which was evidently meant to look cool, except that Blake at that point hadn't yet done anything remotely justifying random destruction of property and so I just found it bullyling and stupid - but most of the time.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Err. Um. None, in the sense of wanting her to end up with someone and only that someone. I mean, I liked some of her girlfriends, and Cary just might be my favourite character on the show right now, but given Kalinda's trust issues, I can't see any romantic relationship lasting.
* My non-romantic OTP for this character: her friendship with Will was one of the few things I liked about Will. I liked her friendship with Alicia for the first two seasons but after the official reconciliation post big s3 fallout, there was no more emotional intimacy, and I lost interest in wanting it to be there again. I loved her reluctant Batman scenes with Robin and hope we might get more of those now and then. But really, it has to be Cary, because ever since s2, that relationship HAS remained compelling to me. Just because I don't think they have a future as lovers doesn't mean I don't think they can't remain friends.
* My unpopular opinion about this character
She's actually not pining after Alicia anymore. If Alicia instead of Cary had asked her to come with them to the new firm, Kalinda would still have said no and remained at L & G.
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
More like "can we either remove parts of the Blake and all of the Nick storyline or completely rewrite them, because whenever this show tries a Kalinda/Bad Boy combination, their judgment as to what works and is sexy and what is repulsive completely deserts them?"
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
Kalinda hasn't thought of herself as Leila in years, but sometimes, in her dreams, she has no name at all, can't remember any of them, and that's a recurring nightmare.
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Date: 2014-04-12 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 06:19 pm (UTC)I like him enormously. I "met" him in an unusual way; years and years ago, before the movies and just when the controversial Civil War storyline was being published in the comics, I was active in a roleplaying community called Theatrical_Muse (playing among others London Mollari from B5, Darla from AtS, and Connor from the same show),
* All the people I ship romantically with this character: That's different for Comicverse and Movieverse. In the comics, due to my original imprint, see above, it's Tony. In the movies, though, it's... wait for it... Peggy. Yes, that's right. The canon love interest. It's not that I can't see all the background for Steve/Bucky (ditto for the comics, btw), but I'm just not interested in Bucky, any version of him, for his own sake. And if I ship, I need to be emotionally invested in both characters and curious what makes them tick. "You poor guy, you had a hellish brainwashed life" is not enough of an investment. Whereas I thought movieverse Peggy was great, I thoroughly approve of the fact that she didn't spent her life pining for Steve alone somewhere, and their scene in "Winter Soldier" killed me in its poignancy. "You're still my best girl."
* My non-romantic OTP for this character: Movies: NATASHA. I also loved the easy banter and quiet veteran understanding with Sam in the film, and Sam is probably the non-romantic bff in the comics of my choice, but zomg I loved and adored the dynamic between Steve and Natasha in the movie. Runner up, also in the movies: Steve & Nick Fury.
* My unpopular opinion about this character
In such a large fandom, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an unpopular opinion. Even if your kink happens to be Steve/Red Skull hate sex, there are bound to be a few others who feel the same. (For the record: I'm not into Steve/Red Skull.) My lack of shipping him romantically with Bucky isn't due to any opinions about Steve, it's due to my own inclinations, but I suppose that's the closest thing I have to something unpopular?
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
We haven't had any scenes between him and Thor yet, so while this isn't a priority of mine (as opposed to MORE STEVE & NATASHA), I'd be curious how they will relate. Fanfic goes with uncomplicated warrior brotherness, which I could see, but as opposed to A1, in A2 Steve might want to talk to someone who has gone through fighting someone he grew up with and loved and tried to bring back to his side...
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
I adopted the popular fanon about Steve being a Roosevelt Democrat.
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Date: 2014-04-12 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-12 06:34 pm (UTC)I love her dearly.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
Not Sherlock Holmes. *clings to platonic One True Friendshipness* None of her admirers that we've seen on the screen sparked for me, except for Jamie Moriarty in a hatesex manner, but I can't see that ending well for Joan, so no. I could see Joan Watson/Marcus Bell if canon should choose to go there, or fanfic, but while I like their interactions on screen so far, I'm not feeling any OTP drive yet.
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
Well, duh.
* My unpopular opinion about this character
I didn't see her having a one night stand with Mycroft as a terrible insult to the character and/or the viewers? Apparantly a lot of people were incredibly upset about it. Meanwhile, my only point of rage in s2 remains episode 2.03 for entirely Joan- unrelated reasons.
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
The show in general has the problem that Joan's first season arc - slowly developing a friendship with Sherlock, going from helping to actively wanting to become detective and becoming one - isn't something you can repeat, not without an artificial breakup between friends and/or Joan suddenly dropping the detective business in favour of sober companion ship, then moving back. Which I really would not want, so I'm glad they didn't do that. And they haven't found something ongoing developing for Joan to replace it, so her being a good detective and good friend comes across as her having less to do than last year. My own suggestion would be more cases where she also has to do some doctoring leading to her wondering whether she could still practice in a limited fashion without dropping the detective business.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
Every now and then, Joan checks, from afar, what is going on with Moriarty's daughter. So does Sherlock. Neither of them, however, talks about this to the other.
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Date: 2014-04-13 04:51 am (UTC)Oooh. Yes, this seems very plausible.
Thank you for answering this!
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Date: 2014-04-13 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-13 11:36 am (UTC)* How I feel about this character
I'm very fond of him. Both book and tv wise, he was the first main character Id come across as a teenager who was handicapped, stuttered, smart and smart enough to use all those weaknesses to survive. As an adult, I thought Graves took the easy way out to preserve his premise of wanting Claudius to want the Republic by the whole "he marries Agrippina and makes Nero his heir because they are the worst, and THEN surely the people won't want the monarchy anymore" ploy, and by making Agrippina such a flat villain (especially in comparison to her predecessors), and the tv show followed suit. Not only is it historically questionable (the first years of Nero's reign with Agrippina and Seneca as main incluences were actually supposedly some of the best Rome had, before it went massively downhill, but it's fictionally an anti climax. It would have been more challenging to let Claudius conclude (without being prompted by his son) that the Republic just wasn't workeable anymore, and to let him be affected by having power enough to want to keep it. But all this being said, I still think he's one of the most memorable characters in historical fiction.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
Ha. Poor Claudius, his love life is pretty much a catastrophe. His courtesan was a nice and sensible woman, but significantly we did not see much of that relationship either on screen nor in the book before it broke up.
(BTW, I will say that in the book, that paragraph out of nowhere where Claudius suddenly says that never ever did he have a gay thought in his life made me sigh and comment "Oh Robert Graves, get over the fact that the boy you loved in school had sex with other men already!")
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
His friendship with Herodes Agrippa was lovely and in the end sad, but really, two distinctly unfriendly family relationships are among the most facinating, especially in the tv show where awesome actors present them: with Livia and with Caligula.
* My unpopular opinion about this character
See above, if that's unpopular, which is more an opinion on the writer.
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
Also see above.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
Claudius made Augustus look better (or more naive) than Augustus actually was in his memoirs because he never had much contact with him, and because he needed someone other than his dead father to hero worship. It was easier to blame Livia, and Livia alone for the fates of Julia, her daughters and her sons than to face the fact that Augutus was quite capable of sacrificing members of his family if they got in the way of politics.
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Date: 2014-04-13 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-13 11:45 am (UTC)He was the only good thing about the movie, so I was glad Big Finish gave Paul McGann the chance to play him with better scripts. Never read the novels, though.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
None. Well, Romana, but that's because of their backstory.
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
While some of the Big Finish stuff gives us a distinctly dysfunctional look at Doctor/TARDIS, Doctor/TARDIS it has to be!
* My unpopular opinion about this character
I don't think I have one?
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
A better movie comes to mind, but then we'd never have gotten the current 2005 onwards version of the tv show, so...
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon
Since the prequel to "The Day of the Doctor" did us the favour of verifying Big Finish canon by letting Eight reference his BF companions, I don't even have to say "the Big Finish stuff really happened" because, well, it did. :)