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trobadora:
Name me a character! I will tell you:
Any character, any fandom, even if I'm not active in it - as long as you're pretty sure that I'm familiar enough with it to answer the questions. *g*
ETA: This might go without saying, but answers to the questions will include plot spoilers for the character I'm discussing and often for the show in general.
trobadora:Name me a character! I will tell you:
- How I FEEEEEL about this character
- All the people I ship romantically with this character
- My favourite gen relationship with this character
- My unpopular opinion about this character
- One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
Any character, any fandom, even if I'm not active in it - as long as you're pretty sure that I'm familiar enough with it to answer the questions. *g*
ETA: This might go without saying, but answers to the questions will include plot spoilers for the character I'm discussing and often for the show in general.
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This was the first one asked about on the LJ side, too (apparently I am predictable or something *g*), so I'll just copy my answers from over there!
1. I wasn't expecting to fall for Duncan like I did, mostly because I wasn't expecting him to be the person he turned out to be. From what little I knew of the show, I'd pegged him as a square-jawed, humorless, kind of bland hero type. I was not expecting him to be so incredibly sweet, and funny, and vulnerable, and hopeful, open to new experiences and dedicated to protecting the helpless and always, always trying to make the world a better place in large and small ways. By about halfway through season one, I'd already hit the point where I was willing to follow this protagonist anywhere. *g*
2. I adore Duncan/Tessa and Duncan/Amanda -- could not choose between them, luckily don't have to -- and Duncan/Amanda/Methos is the OT3 of my heart.
3. Oh ... this is hard, because I love all of Duncan's friendships a lot. I'm gonna have to go with Duncan and Joe here. I love their awkward dance back and forth between enmity and friendship through the seasons, culminating at last in a friendship so deep they'd willingly die for each other, a friendship that's weathered some of the hardest blows any relationship can take.
4. Hmm, unpopular opinions ... I don't know how unpopular it is, but I don't think Duncan is even remotely as inflexible and resistant to change as he's often portrayed in fic and fannish meta. He's got a strong moral code, but that's not the same thing as being close-minded, though I get the impression that people sometimes confuse the two. This is not to say that it can't be a flaw, too, but Duncan has always struck me as a character who's very willing to confront his own prejudices if he can see that there's a reason to do so. Just the fact that he's learned so many things and become friends with so many different kinds of people is evidence of that.
5. Wow ... the series took Duncan so many places that it's awfully hard to think of anything I would have wanted to see that didn't happen! Duncan is a character who's been explored to a depth that other shows can only dream of. *g* There are a few things that I would've liked to see more of -- I wish that we'd seen Duncan and Methos in the immediate aftermath of Alexa's death, for example, and I wish they hadn't jumped straight from Joe being shot in "Judgment Day" to a few days later in the basement of the bookstore, because I would've loved to see Duncan dealing with a badly injured Joe while trying to enlist Methos's help in hiding him. The only other thing I can think of is that it would've been fun to see Duncan dealing with kids a little more often; that was something we very rarely got to see. But, basically, everything I wanted to happen to Duncan has already happened in the show.
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ITA about wanting Duncan with kids! The closest we come are the pre-Immortals he mentors. I doubt this is the reason the show never gave us young kids, but I have to wonder if Duncan and other Immortals don't purposely stay away from small children. They're defenceless in ways adults like Tessa and Joe aren't, easy hostages.
And of course I agree with you 100% on #4. I think there are ways to write him as struggling with a new idea, if we tried. Did the Lakota tribe he lived with have a two-spirited shaman? For a guy with such clear expectations of himself as a man, that would have been an adjustment.
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1. Tesla had me at "hello". Even though I struggled with it quite a bit (and still do) because, well, he's way more of a bad guy type than I normally go for. Tesla's not even a bad guy who struggles to be good; he's pretty unambiguously on the evil end of the good-to-evil continuum. But I can't help loving him in a vaguely conflicted sort of way. "Smart and sarcastic" has always been my "type", going all the way back to Spock when I was in elementary school, and Jonathon Young just does such a damn good job at making him entertaining.
2. Tesla/Helen ... I kinda hate that I love the pairing as much as I do, because I think they'd be awful for each other, but it makes me all squishy for some reason. *g*
3. You know, I think this one is probably Tesla & Helen too. Even though I have a mushy side for the pairing, I don't actually want to see them get involved with each other -- for one thing, I think their relationship actually works pretty well as friends (whereas if sex got involved, I think it'd blow to pieces sooner or later). I like Tesla and team Sanctuary in general, though -- it's quite fun watching him get caught up in the good guys' schemes and end up saving the world by accident.
4. My big unpopular opinion on Tesla is that I don't think he secretly angsts about being bad, or that he embraced his vampire side because he's a disillusioned idealist, or anything of the sort. Tesla loves being a vampire, he loves being more powerful than the people around him, and he loves using that power to further his own ends. I think a lot of the fandom wants to view Tesla as a more conflicted, less dark character than I do, which is ironic since normally I prefer my baddies conflicted and less dark, but in Tesla's case, I just don't think there's any way around it - he might be capable of doing good things (for his own reasons), and I do think he's capable of caring about people (Helen, namely), but he's not a good person, and he's not a nice person. I'm just not sure how you can get "nice, angsty vampire" from a guy whose idea of bettering the human race involves subjugating the entire species, probably with a side order of eugenics/genocide into the bargain.
As a second unpopular opinion on the side, I don't think Helen and Tesla ever slept together; I'm pretty sure this whole thing is new (or at least, her awareness of it is new). I just don't think that her protests make any sense if she is actually attracted to him that much and/or has had a thing with him in the past, which is another reason why I have trouble making Helen/Tesla work for me in terms of canon -- it's hard to get a "secretly fighting off attraction" vibe from a woman who mostly just looks annoyed by Tesla checking her out.
5. I really, really hope Tesla doesn't get re-vamped, at least not permanently. I like him so much better as a human, mostly because it gives him a plausible reason for being unable to implement any of his world-conquest plans (aside from incompetence) and a reason to associate with the Sanctuary crowd. As a human, he needs other people, even if he doesn't like to admit it -- he's much less effective at rescuing himself, or protecting himself. As a vampire, he doesn't have that little side of vulnerability that makes me like him better.
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1. I do love Alphonse a lot. The contrast between his big, intimidating body and his sweet child's personality (and high-pitched little-kid voice in the anime) will never stop being adorable. And he's so wonderfully devoted to his big brother (and vice versa). Another thing about Al is that even though he's young, and usually in his brother's shadow, he's really quite brave and resourceful all on his own; I always enjoyed the storylines where he was separated from Ed for precisely that reason, because when he's around Ed he usually stays back and lets Ed take the lead (partly because he's the little brother, partly because it's just the kind of person he is), so it was always nice to see Al get to shine on his own for a change.
2. I have trouble shipping Al with anyone because he's so firmly in the "little kid" category in my head ... even though I know that little kids get crushes and grow up eventually, I just can't bring myself to ship him. I find Al/May cute, but still a little weird/awkward for me to think about.
3. Ed and Al, of course; who else? *g* I am a sucker for sibling relationships in general, and Ed and Al's devotion to each other makes me love them so much.
4. Hmm. I don't think Al is a character where I have firm enough head-canon not to be able to bend with the flow of fanfic and/or canon.
5. The one big thing that I wanted, I got -- Al getting his human body back. FMA was a manga where I was at least halfway convinced that there was no happy ending (of any sort) waiting at the end of the road, and I made little squeaky dolphin noises at that whole section of the final chapters. *g* I'm pretty sure there's nothing I wanted with Al that didn't actually happy in canon.
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Bweee! Best Freudian slip ever. :)
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1. OH HARRY. I adore him SO MUCH. It's hard to create a protagonist that can carry a really long, first-person series without becoming stale or repetitive or uninteresting, but Harry is a character who can do it. I love his narrative voice, his snarkiness, his outward shell of sarcasm and devil-may-care over a very vulnerable heart. He's marvelous.
2. Mmmm ... on the re-read, I actually found myself being drawn towards Harry/Murphy, which surprised me because I was really resistant to the idea when I was going through the books the first time. I don't think I'm seriously OTP-ish about them -- that is, I'd be just fine if they stayed friends and got together with other people, but I also find them pretty cute and I think I'd be plenty happy if they end up together. Otherwise, I don't think any of Harry's liaisons have really floated my boat, and I don't really ship him with anyone.
3. Harry and Thomas. :) :) :) They are SO CUTE TOGETHER, there aren't even words. I love their banter and their mutual protectiveness and the way that for both of them, their first reaction to finding out they were related wasn't resistance but instead "We're family, so let's act like it". I stubbornly maintain that they're going to work out their differences and become close again eventually. (Really. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
4. Unpopular opinions ... well, the fandom seems to like pairing him with Marcone, and while I'm normally pretty mellow about rolling with oddball pairings, that one makes me go "Wait, WHAT?" I just ... can't see it, I guess.
5. Er, my #1 wish for what I want to see with Harry is probably quite easy to guess after reading Changes (DON'T DIE, HARRY!), but otherwise, I also really want to see him reconciled with Thomas. And I want him to be able to have a role in his daughter's life. Mostly, I just want to see the poor guy get some happiness and stability at the end of the series, even if Butcher's got a lot more torture in store for him before then. *g* He's earned a happy ending more than any other character I can think of.
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Really??
Hm...
I guess I could see a vague mentor/student relationship there, but it would take a good writer to get me to buy it--on the other hand, in the HP fandom, I was perfectly happy reading either HP/SS slash or Severitus stories, as long as they were good, so, who knows.
I just want to see the poor guy get some happiness and stability at the end of the series
Right with you there! ::fingers crossed::
Surely, Jim Butcher wouldn't be heartless enough to kill him off after everything he's been through, right?