Let Me Tell You About My Best Friend...

[redbrunja]

fannish5 asks:

Name the five unlikeliest (but successful) canon friendships.

1.) Sokka & Zuko. Never in a million years would I have seen that coming.

2.) Sarah & Casey. The slow, almost behind the scenes build of their friendship - from interdepartmental rivalry to having each other's backs - is one of my favorite things about Chuck.

3.) HIMYM. I think just the show itself deserves a mentions, for writing a show about three couples (or two couples, one dude, and a mystery woman) and having each character have a friendship with all the other characters. It is truly a show about a group of friends.

4.) Black Star and Soul. I did not expect them to be BFFs, or to get the attentions their BFF-ness did.

5.) Sumire and the English journalist. They start out disliking each other (they were just too alike) and end up friends who look out for each other.

Comments

[arquileon.livejournal.com]

...kimi wa pet which I haven't finished ;;
does the english journalist hook up with the red-haired one? because I was rooting for them

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I was referring to the red-haired journalist being the one Sumire forms a friendship with, and yes, she and the other English journalist DO hook up.

[the-sun-is-up.livejournal.com]

Sokka and Zuko are one of those I never would have expected, but now that it's happened, it seems so natural!

And Soul and Black Star are so adorable. I love how Ohkubo subverted the usual shonen patterns by making the two boys BFFs and then leaving the rivalry business to Black Star and Maka.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Sokka and Zuko are one of those I never would have expected, but now that it's happened, it seems so natural!


I know! I feel the same way.

I love how Ohkubo subverted the usual shonen patterns by making the two boys BFFs and then leaving the rivalry business to Black Star and Maka.

One more reason why Ohkubo is AWESOME! (have you read the latest chapter?)

And I feel I must comment on the swath of Sailor Moon icons you know have - you're really digging that series at the moment, aren't you?

[the-sun-is-up.livejournal.com]

Yes I have read the latest chapter! (OMG Maka, every time I think you can't possibly get more awesome...)

And yeah, I've been on a huge Sailor Moon kick lately. Mostly due to the massive amount of gay in the series. :D

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know! Maka just keeps raising the bar for herself.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Same here. I thought Katara and Zuko would connect and then Sokka would be the last hold-out - I'm actually quite glad that it worked on in reverse!

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

Totally agree about Sokka and Zuko, but it seems really natural (and adorable) once they do.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Really? I knew that Zuko was going to join the gang, but I did not imagine that Sokka and he would be BFFs - I actually thought Sokka would be one of the LAST people Zuko would win over (and was quite glad I was wrong about that).

[rabidline.livejournal.com]

Total word on Sarah & Casey- if they weren't such good partners/reluctant BFFs I would've shipped them. Their relationship is just too awesome as that- they're one of the battle-pair I don't ship because of it :)

*sighs happily* To think of it, Chuck is full of awesome friendships- the whole Bartowski family/Nerd Herd stuff.. Chuck&Casey, Captain Awesome&ANYONE.. I need third season now.

I expect Black Star and Soul to have some kind of rivalry, at first (signs of too much reading shonen mangas) but they turned out to be BFFs. A lovely pair of one, unexpectedly. Even their rivalry with Kid was much, much less than what I expected, and I'm surprised that the three boys are pretty much bros-for-life in the next chapters.

I predicted Sokka&Zuko OTF after Zuko started showing out his dorky side. Seriously, no writer would want to miss that opportunity.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I sort of tried to ship Casey/Sarah in the beginning, but then Chuck/Sarah won me over, and honestly? I think Casey and Sarah being friends is MUCH more interesting than them having sexual tension.

*sighs happily* To think of it, Chuck is full of awesome friendships- the whole Bartowski family/Nerd Herd stuff.. Chuck&Casey, Captain Awesome&ANYONE.. I need third season now.

SAME HERE.

Even their rivalry with Kid was much, much less than what I expected, and I'm surprised that the three boys are pretty much bros-for-life in the next chapters.

This is very true. And another reason Soul Eater is great - it doesn't waste time with stupid rivalries.

[rabidline.livejournal.com]

I think Casey and Sarah being friends is MUCH more interesting than them having sexual tension.

THIS. Exactly. I really hate to break the awesome partnership with half-baked romance (espescially since Chuck/Sarah has all signs of being the series couple).

Oh, third season- Josh Schwartz, come on.

And another reason Soul Eater is great - it doesn't waste time with stupid rivalries.

Agreed oh so much. After Naruto's epic-but-not-really saga, I don't think I can handle another one of those male rivalries of the hero/antihero or whatever.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

THIS. Exactly. I really hate to break the awesome partnership with half-baked romance (espescially since Chuck/Sarah has all signs of being the series couple).

I have no trouble saying 'hell no' to the canon couple if I don't like it, but I DO like Chuck/Sarah, and there isn't anyone I'd rather see them with.