... ahahaha, also, I've been reading Jim Butcher's Q&A's on the official message boards, and just came across the most thoroughly adorable quote on Thomas and Justine from an interview he gave this spring, apparently. Okay, I'm gonna have to quote it:
"They're actually happier now than they've been in ever. But it's all happening behind the scenes and nobody can see because Thomas has to have his bad ass vampire face on whenever he's in public. But when they are alone together, nothing else going on, they're like totally cute. Justine wears like these grownup version of footie pajamas so that she can snuggle up next to him on the couch and watch TV without actually burning him. They don't have like a normal relationship or anything like one, but they've kinda adjusted, they're fairly happy. You don't go around letting the other vampires go "Oh how cute." I'll have to get to that one of these days, Harry doesn't see that."
FOOTIE PAJAMAS OMG. ♥ ♥ ♥
I think one of the things I love about reading the books and short stories is that Butcher is so obviously his characters' biggest fan. He loves them, and he loves thinking about what they're getting up to between books and what's going on in the parts of the world that Harry doesn't see.
... mmmm, although this gets back to your Type A/Type B fandom thing, because obviously Butcher's idea of Thomas's life between Turn Coat and Changes is ... he's pretty happy, actually, or at least content with the status quo. And what I just wrote this afternoon is way more fucked up than that, which is a weird sort of cognitive dissonance -- I have to do a little mental push to get my conflicting headcanon to line up with actual (Word of God) canon. This may end up being a series that I can't write fanfic for, except maybe a little missing scene here and there, because it's so obvious that Butcher thinks about what's going on in those unusued corners of canon and takes the time to flesh them out.
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"They're actually happier now than they've been in ever. But it's all happening behind the scenes and nobody can see because Thomas has to have his bad ass vampire face on whenever he's in public. But when they are alone together, nothing else going on, they're like totally cute. Justine wears like these grownup version of footie pajamas so that she can snuggle up next to him on the couch and watch TV without actually burning him. They don't have like a normal relationship or anything like one, but they've kinda adjusted, they're fairly happy. You don't go around letting the other vampires go "Oh how cute." I'll have to get to that one of these days, Harry doesn't see that."
FOOTIE PAJAMAS OMG. ♥ ♥ ♥
I think one of the things I love about reading the books and short stories is that Butcher is so obviously his characters' biggest fan. He loves them, and he loves thinking about what they're getting up to between books and what's going on in the parts of the world that Harry doesn't see.
... mmmm, although this gets back to your Type A/Type B fandom thing, because obviously Butcher's idea of Thomas's life between Turn Coat and Changes is ... he's pretty happy, actually, or at least content with the status quo. And what I just wrote this afternoon is way more fucked up than that, which is a weird sort of cognitive dissonance -- I have to do a little mental push to get my conflicting headcanon to line up with actual (Word of God) canon. This may end up being a series that I can't write fanfic for, except maybe a little missing scene here and there, because it's so obvious that Butcher thinks about what's going on in those unusued corners of canon and takes the time to flesh them out.