They might still bicker, jab verbal barbs at each other, and sometimes very genuinely fight and hurt each other. But they also would very visibly and demonstrably die for each other, sacrifice for each other, and choose each other over everything else that has been important to them throughout the series.
Yes. The signal underneath the noise, even if the noise is itself an important component of their relationship. (It's clear even before either of them would identify it as such that stupid arguments are one of their love languages.) By the end it's unbreakable. And that sort of bond does not just drift with distance or time.
And one thing I discovered was that a particular category of fixit AU exists which is basically G'Kar staying on as Londo's bodyguard in a Drakh-free world in which Londo is a much less dysfunctional flavor of emperor, presiding over a less dystopic Centauri Prime.
I can absolutely see why a reader would want that. The tragedy is brilliant, but God damn, Londo with G'Kar as a court fixture would have been one of the great Emperors of Centauri Prime, the right one even for the moment of rebuilding. He had to put himself back together. Both of them did.
He would have stayed, happily, surrounded by the ancestral enemies that he's spent his whole life hating, protecting one of those enemies. He ended up physically on the other side of another war with the Narn - not precisely participating on the other side, but protecting the Emperor-elect of their enemies. He did it because he wanted to and because Londo needed him, and he would have kept doing it straight through peacetime if he had been able to.
Yes! Basically just yes. And continuing to work on his book all the while.
Their relationship never could fail to have a slightly uneasy side because of the history between their people, and them personally; as in the Na'Toth episode, they would always be in danger of stumbling into hidden traps and pitfalls, and having to work through the emotional fallout from it.
(Which I would trust them to do, as often as it happened.)
But I figured canon was going to give me hints and I would have to read full-blown love into it. I didn't expect this. The only thing they don't do is use the actual word. But it's all very visibly there on the screen.
It's there in those last exchanges of looks, if everything else flew over the viewer's head. But I really did have the anything-dar of a rock in high school and I had seen it.
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Yes. The signal underneath the noise, even if the noise is itself an important component of their relationship. (It's clear even before either of them would identify it as such that stupid arguments are one of their love languages.) By the end it's unbreakable. And that sort of bond does not just drift with distance or time.
And one thing I discovered was that a particular category of fixit AU exists which is basically G'Kar staying on as Londo's bodyguard in a Drakh-free world in which Londo is a much less dysfunctional flavor of emperor, presiding over a less dystopic Centauri Prime.
I can absolutely see why a reader would want that. The tragedy is brilliant, but God damn, Londo with G'Kar as a court fixture would have been one of the great Emperors of Centauri Prime, the right one even for the moment of rebuilding. He had to put himself back together. Both of them did.
He would have stayed, happily, surrounded by the ancestral enemies that he's spent his whole life hating, protecting one of those enemies. He ended up physically on the other side of another war with the Narn - not precisely participating on the other side, but protecting the Emperor-elect of their enemies. He did it because he wanted to and because Londo needed him, and he would have kept doing it straight through peacetime if he had been able to.
Yes! Basically just yes. And continuing to work on his book all the while.
Their relationship never could fail to have a slightly uneasy side because of the history between their people, and them personally; as in the Na'Toth episode, they would always be in danger of stumbling into hidden traps and pitfalls, and having to work through the emotional fallout from it.
(Which I would trust them to do, as often as it happened.)
But I figured canon was going to give me hints and I would have to read full-blown love into it. I didn't expect this. The only thing they don't do is use the actual word. But it's all very visibly there on the screen.
It's there in those last exchanges of looks, if everything else flew over the viewer's head. But I really did have the anything-dar of a rock in high school and I had seen it.