swim through the fires to stay in this world

This is a modified version of a meme linked to me by stainofmylove - I basically edited it around so the questions it asked fit answers I had:

( wow that was a fuckton of typing and linking good lord )

Also, when I was talking about favorite movies with a RL friend earlier I actually initially forgot about pacific rim so please, feel very free to comment if you think I forgot something or want further details.

I was thinking about Artemis/Wally (as one does, when an OTP rises from the depth of your soul to torment you once again) and I feel the reasons why Artemis is into Wally are:

a.) really obvious and
b.) often talked about

(the creator himself did a damn fine of job, although I think he's underplaying how much Artemis replacing Roy, even though Roy quit first is a legit issue)

but the reasons why Wally is into Artemis are talked about less often. I know it’s tempting to go ‘of course he loves, Artemis, who wouldn’t?’ and while that’s true, don’t get me wrong, that’s not going to lead to a tl;dr shipper post, now is it?

The thing is, Artemis makes Wally better. The flip side of Wally almost giving Artemis as good as he gets is the fact that he has to try – with Artemis, Wally has to bring his A game (both with wise-cracking and with super-heroing). Additionally, Artemis’ own backstory and how that affects her actions (that she lies to the Team to protect her secrets, the fights with Chesire and Sportsmaster) tie into Wally’s arc, which is about becoming not smarter, but wiser. (E.g, how Wally’s souvenirs are about the deeper lesson of a mission, how he will consciously choose what Aesop he’s taking away from each mission. Best example of this is him choosing the cooler that held a girl’s heart over the villain’s sword.)

And now I’m getting sad, once again, that we didn’t get to see more of Wally and Artemis in a committed relationship. (Okay, basically, I buy Artemis and Wally taking a break from super-heroing to get their degrees, but I don’t buy, short of some kind of epic tragedy, them both deciding to quit on a more permanent basis, which is kind of what the dialogue strongly implied and which I am not okay with for several reasons.)

One of the het big bang offerings was a Artemis/Wally story and that re-awoke my feelings for that couple.

(IF YOU HAVE FIC RECS, PLEASE PASS THEM MY WAY.)

Still annoyed that they killed off Wally. Just in general but especially at that place in their relationship arc.

I was totally cool with Wally and Artemis taking some time off of super-heroing to go to college, especially considering HOW FUCKING MANY heroes were just loitering around Young Justice season two, but I was operating under the assumption that after this brief period of peace, Wally and Artemis would team back up and continue on fighting baddies.

Like, some brilliant YJ fan on my flist was talking about (before season two kicked into gear) that the time to build their relationship was going to allow Artemis and Wally to stay strong and weather whatever dire events season two would throw their way and I WOULD HAVE BEEN SO DOWN FOR THAT. Unfortunately, that is SO NOT what we got.

Also, apparently Wally used to be/maybe is in the 52 dating/married to someone named Laura and, I don’t mean to be that fan, BUT NO. ARTEMIS OR NO ONE, WALLY WEST. ARTEMIS OR NO ONE.