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[redbrunja]

Comment with a pairing and I'll tell you:

1. When I started shipping them
2. What I think their challenge is
3. What makes me happy about them
4. What makes me sad about them
5. What moment I wish had never happened
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other
7. My happily ever after for them

If you comment with a pairing I DON'T like, I'll tell you why.

Comments

[meitah.livejournal.com]

Hermione/Remus

Faith/Buffy

Stein/Marie

Hermione/Remus

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I don't ship this.

Despite the age difference, and him formally being her teacher, it's too easy. I think they're a little too alike - both loving books, both loving academia, both wanting desperately to be liked - that they're not enough contrast between them.

Re: Hermione/Remus

[meitah.livejournal.com]

Really? I think they'd have several issues to give their relationship tension. First off, his "furry little problem"- you know he'd have more of a problem with that than her. In the same vein is the age difference, with which he would again take more issue. On Hermione's side, I'd have to say that since she's never spent time with an intellectual equal as a social equal, she'd definitely have a very hard time with that. And I think that they each have any number of little traits that would bug the other to no end.

But not every relationship is about tension and contrast. Some people are very similar, and do well in relationships because of that degree of similarity that some might find absurd. Relationships don't have to be hard, and I think these two characters need something easy after all they've been through.

Of course, making them accept that it really is that easy would be a good source of conflict between the two.

Re: Hermione/Remus

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

No, not every relationship is about tension and conflict... but reading the books, I don't get any zing between them, you know? So thinking about them in terms of fanon, I ask myself, 'what would make this pairing interesting enough that I don't want the characters pairing with anyone else?' and for me, I don't really have a good answer.

Although I agree about it being very, very interesting to see Hermione interacting with someone who is her intellectual equal.

Faith/Buffy

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

1. When I started shipping them After watching here's luck's fantastic vids for them.
2. What I think their challenge is They don't ever seem comfortable with each other.
3. What makes me happy about themHot chicks being badass together
4. What makes me sad about them How they can't seem to connect with each other in a healthy way.
5. What moment I wish had never happened In comics season 8 where Buffy sleeps with a chick who isn't Faith.
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other For Faith, Wesley, for Buffy, Angel. (The show ruined Spike/Buffy for me.)
7. My happily ever after for them Honestly? Faith gets in a relationship with Wesley, and I don't care what happens to Buffy.

Re: Faith/Buffy

[meitah.livejournal.com]

They really aren't comfortable with each other, and I mostly blame that on Buffy. She's always been The Slayer, and she doesn't know what to do when "The" becomes "a." So she takes that out on the new Slayer. I'm fairly sure she did the same thing to a lesser degree with Kendra, too. And Faith reacts to that defense mechanism with her own, and conflict grows exponentially. Faith wants to be liked, she just doesn't think she deserves it. Buffy unintentionally uses that against her, which leads to her switching to the dark side.

But if they could ever get past all of that, they'd be so amazing.

Re: Faith/Buffy

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Faith wants to be liked, she just doesn't think she deserves it. Buffy unintentionally uses that against her, which leads to her switching to the dark side.

I totally agree, and that's a great way to put it.

There is also that factor that, especially in later seasons, Buffy is well aware that Faith wants what she has, even if Faith isn't pursuing it anymore. Honestly, I think Faith will always want to BE Buffy more than she could ever WANT Buffy.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

1. When I started shipping them When I realized that Medusa was too much of an evil bitch for me to ship with Stein.
2. What I think their challenge is Stein is insane and Marie is stuck on someone else.
3. What makes me happy about them When they go off to be badass together.
4. What makes me sad about them See question 2.
5. What moment I wish had never happened n/a
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other Stein/mad science, Marie/chick with the glasses
7. My happily ever after for them Marie spruces up the lab, Stein does mad science. (Not on Marie. Well, only sometimes.)

[meitah.livejournal.com]

Stein/mad science is hot. As is Marie/Azusa.

And I can totally see them being adorable in the lab together. Squee.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Stein/mad science is hot. As is Marie/Azusa.

Trufax.