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sylph_fics) wrote2008-03-27 10:36 am
sylph_fics) wrote2008-03-27 10:36 am
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pairing meme answers
Yes, yes, I know they're horribly late, but I finally got at least a hundred words from them all.
Dick/Roy
What can I say about my OTP that I haven't said a dozen times? *sighs*
I mean... I love the two of them together. I love how almost freakishly well they work together, how well they know each other, how deep the understanding between the two of them, the only two purely human members of one of the most high-powered super-hero teams--and they've both led said team--is. To my way of looking at their canon, they know each other probably the best of anyone in the world.
I love how damn complicated the relationship between each of them and their mentor is, and how wildly differently they deal with said relationships, but that Ollie and Bruce are still something that they can bond with each other about.
Kon/Tim
Kon/Tim was my re-introduction to the fandom, and the first piece of fic I ever put up on livejournal, and I will never stop being massively in love with them. From the way they met in Worlds' Finest 3, to the varying shades between 'in-each-other's-faces' to 'Bart's-parents' of their relationship in Young Justice, to the pure and true OTP of Teen Titans v.3 (aka "the only good thing about the entire book"), I love the two of them. I love their being best friends, I love that they can totally pass the 'broccoli test' without even trying, I love that Tim-who-runs-from-girls is so utterly crazy about Kon, and I love that I'm pretty sure that Kon loves him back just as much.
Dinah/Ollie
Dinah and Ollie... for a long time, they really did just belong together. They were the Emerald Archer and the Pretty Bird, and they fit. They were crazy in love, and Dinah was the better fighter and they both knew it and they were good at working together... and then life happened. Ollie's mistake with Roy happened, and Dinah forgave him because Roy asked her to, and they tried to stay together, to work through everything. They moved to Seattle to try and have a new start... and instead, their world was torn apart not just the once, but over and over again.
They wound up being the hero couple that had to make difficult if not impossible choices over and over again. They were in situations where it was kill or be killed, and they wanted to survive, and I miss and long for the fact that they were willing to make the hard choices. But those choices cut hard into their personal lives, too. The Slasher, finding out she couldn't have children, Ollie not being able to cope with her being the one to save him, his fascination with Shado... all of it just piled up until the point that they couldn't live together any more, even though they were both still in love with each other. They were mature enough to admit that it was over, and even when it broke my heart I loved them (and Mike Grell) for giving me a story about adults.
But they still loved each other, even when Ollie died, and when he came back I guess there really was no way that they weren't going to try to start over. And for a while, that worked. They were back in love, and they were both young in body again, and while they both (eventually) remembered the past mistakes, they were trying. And then their relationship got butchered by a writer who hates her, and if I say more about it I'll scream.
It could have been amazing, if it had been done right, because theirs really was an epic love sometimes.
Bruce/Selina
The Bat and the Cat.
Forbidden love, cross-the-line romance, the Rich Boy and the Woman from the Wrong Side of the Tracks... what's not to love there, especially when they're so much more than that?
Selina's more than just the woman from the wrong side of the tracks, and more than just the thief the Bat can't (or doesn't want to) catch, even while she is completely both of those. She's stubborn and fiery and unwilling to back down and so very smart... she can challenge Bruce at every turn, when she's written well. Her utter brazen unapologetic-ness about what she chooses to do may steam him, but he needs a little frustration in his life.
And Bruce... with Selina, he has to be more than just the playboy or the Bat. She pulls him out, makes him react, think--something he badly needs. I don't know if they would ever make it in a typical relationship, but they don't need typical to have something that's real, and true for them both.
Dick/Roy
What can I say about my OTP that I haven't said a dozen times? *sighs*
I mean... I love the two of them together. I love how almost freakishly well they work together, how well they know each other, how deep the understanding between the two of them, the only two purely human members of one of the most high-powered super-hero teams--and they've both led said team--is. To my way of looking at their canon, they know each other probably the best of anyone in the world.
I love how damn complicated the relationship between each of them and their mentor is, and how wildly differently they deal with said relationships, but that Ollie and Bruce are still something that they can bond with each other about.
Kon/Tim
Kon/Tim was my re-introduction to the fandom, and the first piece of fic I ever put up on livejournal, and I will never stop being massively in love with them. From the way they met in Worlds' Finest 3, to the varying shades between 'in-each-other's-faces' to 'Bart's-parents' of their relationship in Young Justice, to the pure and true OTP of Teen Titans v.3 (aka "the only good thing about the entire book"), I love the two of them. I love their being best friends, I love that they can totally pass the 'broccoli test' without even trying, I love that Tim-who-runs-from-girls is so utterly crazy about Kon, and I love that I'm pretty sure that Kon loves him back just as much.
Dinah/Ollie
Dinah and Ollie... for a long time, they really did just belong together. They were the Emerald Archer and the Pretty Bird, and they fit. They were crazy in love, and Dinah was the better fighter and they both knew it and they were good at working together... and then life happened. Ollie's mistake with Roy happened, and Dinah forgave him because Roy asked her to, and they tried to stay together, to work through everything. They moved to Seattle to try and have a new start... and instead, their world was torn apart not just the once, but over and over again.
They wound up being the hero couple that had to make difficult if not impossible choices over and over again. They were in situations where it was kill or be killed, and they wanted to survive, and I miss and long for the fact that they were willing to make the hard choices. But those choices cut hard into their personal lives, too. The Slasher, finding out she couldn't have children, Ollie not being able to cope with her being the one to save him, his fascination with Shado... all of it just piled up until the point that they couldn't live together any more, even though they were both still in love with each other. They were mature enough to admit that it was over, and even when it broke my heart I loved them (and Mike Grell) for giving me a story about adults.
But they still loved each other, even when Ollie died, and when he came back I guess there really was no way that they weren't going to try to start over. And for a while, that worked. They were back in love, and they were both young in body again, and while they both (eventually) remembered the past mistakes, they were trying. And then their relationship got butchered by a writer who hates her, and if I say more about it I'll scream.
It could have been amazing, if it had been done right, because theirs really was an epic love sometimes.
Bruce/Selina
The Bat and the Cat.
Forbidden love, cross-the-line romance, the Rich Boy and the Woman from the Wrong Side of the Tracks... what's not to love there, especially when they're so much more than that?
Selina's more than just the woman from the wrong side of the tracks, and more than just the thief the Bat can't (or doesn't want to) catch, even while she is completely both of those. She's stubborn and fiery and unwilling to back down and so very smart... she can challenge Bruce at every turn, when she's written well. Her utter brazen unapologetic-ness about what she chooses to do may steam him, but he needs a little frustration in his life.
And Bruce... with Selina, he has to be more than just the playboy or the Bat. She pulls him out, makes him react, think--something he badly needs. I don't know if they would ever make it in a typical relationship, but they don't need typical to have something that's real, and true for them both.