30 Days Of Doing Shipping Wrong (19 to 21)

[redbrunja]

Ever felt like you should revoke your shipping credentials? Because you like the strangest ships and/or parts of your ship? Well TELL US MORE. Answer the questions with ships you love like burning.*

*I have comparatively few pairing that I could accurately say I ship like burning, so I qualify this as ships that I a.) really like and b.) would be interested in reading and/or writing fanfic about.


(masterlist of prompts)

(past answers)


Day 19: The starcrossed ship where the obvious reason they're starcrossed is the least interesting aspect to you.

Kara/Lee.

She used to date his now-dead brother and played a part is said brother's death is the LEAST interesting thing about Kara/Lee. Their super-intimate sibling-esque relationship + bantering + fucking boatloads of sexual tension + being most important people to each other (for a while there especially) + screwed up pseudo-family dynamics= I AM SO THERE.


Day 20: The couple you only ship in an "in another lifetime" sort of way.

Here is the really tragic thing about Gale/Katniss:

Gale's Katniss, his Catnip, the girl who volunteered for her sister at the reaping – she never came back from the Capitol. The Katniss who survived the Hunger Games still did not want to be part of a rebellion and did not view the people in the Capitol in black-and-white terms. At the same time Gale is growing more ruthless and driven, Katniss's view of the citizens of the Capitol is growing more nuanced.

At that point, romance-wise, Gale and Katniss are kind of fucked. Especially considering what was happening between Peeta and Katniss at the same time.

But if they'd escaped into the woods together? If Katniss had never gone into the area? I think they could have made each other very happy.

Day 21: The couple with the most daddy (or mummy) issues.

To be honest, I couldn’t think of a good example for this entry. One of my rules is that I have to nominally ship the pairing in question, and while I love *characters* with parental issues, I tend not to like a ship if those issues are playing out in the romantic relationship in question, instead of just informing who the character is. (For a good example of this exactly dynamic done really well, check out Agnes and the Hitman. Actually, just read Agnes and the Hitman, it's awesome.).

Oh! I thought of an example that actually fits the question: Bond/M. ESPECIALLY in Skyfall, good lord.

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

I always thought Kara's past with Lee's brother was interesting but not the most interesting part of their relationship by far. In fact, her past mostly speaks to Kara's issues which continue throughout the series, so yeah, dead brother doesn't even BEGIN to cut it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

What I really love about the brother backstory is how genuinely unflattering it is, and that the show didn't sugarcoat what Kara did but also didn't vilify her for it.

And what a great icon, btw.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

LOOK AT THIS POST FULL OF MY SHIPS!! ***hugs it and you***

Also, Agnes & the Hitman was my fave of her books with military guy writer whose name I'm totally blanking on at the moment. Yup.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I feel that Agnes and the Hitman is FAR superior to their first attempt, on both author's parts.

And I knew you'd enjoy this post!

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

+100000000 on 19 and 20. What I love particularly about Gale/Katniss is that in spite of the life-and-death circumstances it was just a case of two people believably growing apart. But yeah, Gale was always the love she could have had.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

What I love particularly about Gale/Katniss is that in spite of the life-and-death circumstances it was just a case of two people believably growing apart

Exactly. My heart particularly breaks for Gale, because I think (given the life and death circumstances) he lost one of his best/only friends as well. I can't remember how much of his family made it out of Mockingjay alive.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Hunger Games is an interesting one for me, ship-wise, because Katniss basically goes from "I don't want to date anyone, don't want to have kids, no interest in any of that junk" to "I have been through enough shit that I will just cling to Peeta since he's the only other one crazy enough not to judge my current mental state".

I . . . I don't actually have any ships for it, but I can see where the various attractions came from. Like, Peeta, I've been sympathetic to the guy ever since I read an analysis that pointed out how his dad told him on the first day of school that he nearly hooked up with Katniss' mother, because that's kinda a fucked up thing to tell your kid. So while Katniss was imagining Peeta to grow up in a wonderful home where you could eat fresh bread every day, Peeta was imagining she grew up in a wonderful home with parents who actually loved each other.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Hunger Games is an interesting one for me, ship-wise, because Katniss basically goes from "I don't want to date anyone, don't want to have kids, no interest in any of that junk" to "I have been through enough shit that I will just cling to Peeta since he's the only other one crazy enough not to judge my current mental state".

I actually thought that Collins did a really good job of showing Katniss growing love for Peeta, even when she didn't frame it like that, but the ending line about Peeta convincing her to have kids never fails to freak me out.

So while Katniss was imagining Peeta to grow up in a wonderful home where you could eat fresh bread every day, Peeta was imagining she grew up in a wonderful home with parents who actually loved each other.

My heart is legit broken right now.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to imply there were no in-between stages, just . . . yeah, it's not good they had kids. Doesn't help that I read Graceling right after, which handles a heroine who goes "I don't want to marry or have kids" with a hero who goes "How do you feel about casual sex with careful use of birth control?"

Thinking about it, I'm wondering if maybe Peeta wanted kids to prove something to himself; to show that hey, he could raise kids in a home with loving parents like he always dreamed of growing up in, a desire to cling to normalcy after all the crazy they went through. And the mess his brain was left in after all that mental torture didn't realize it's a bad idea for two people with severe PTSD to have kids.

[lokifan]

Soooo true abouit Gale/Katniss. Like, by the end it wouldn't and couldn't have worked (even before Prim) but I love their dynamic in Hunger Games and if things had gone differently...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Like, by the end it wouldn't and couldn't have worked (even before Prim) but I love their dynamic in Hunger Games and if things had gone differently...

Exactly. Like, it makes me curious how things would have played out if, say, Gale and Madge had been reaped, and Gale had come home.