dollsome-does-tumblr asked: For the character meme: Gabrielle! :)
Oooh, yay!
how I feel about them: She is probably my favorite character in Xena, even above Xena herself, because Xena comes to us badass, she comes to us grown up (even if she’s got changing and learning and atoning to do), but Gabrielle goes from this kid from the middle of nowhere, no fighting skills, just a liking for telling stories, to Xena’s best friend and equal in this glorious arc. She messes up and makes mistakes and learns and I like her for that—it’s way easier to identify with for me (and possibly for others as well).
favorite scene: Impossible question, oh my goodness. Six seasons of gloriousness! Probably in “One Against an Army,” though (that is my favorite episode) when she knows she is about to die and she and Xena have their talk. So brave, so wonderful!
otp for them: I am pretty sure nobody can doubt that Gabrielle/Xena is my OTP of OTPs, I probably ship them harder than I do Arthur/Merlin which is saying something. It’s pretty much to the point where when they are having one of their Heterosexual Episodes it just reads to me like they’re inviting whoever-it-is for a threesome.
my endgame of choice: Gabrielle finds a way to handwave Xena back to life like she has a million times before and then adventures all over the place until they decide to retire and then they have a hero academy and Gabrielle teaches barding on the side.
my response to fandom’s attitude toward them: Another one I don’t know how to answer this question for! I’ve never run across any hate for her so I suppose my response is a cheerful “yay, everyone else likes her too!”?
rane-ab replied to your post: How about Rapunzel (Tangled)? :)
Banter is pretty much my #1 weakness/requirement for couples I ship, too. :D And I love Rapunzel with Eugene! And Eugene is not exactly a stranger to climbing roofs, either. ;D Their kids are probably very agile…
Really, what is shipping without banter? It’s why I love Joss Whedon. And Julia Quinn. And a lot of things, really.
Oh man, those kids must just climb all the things, all over the kingdom. Rapunzel and Eugene take them on occasional family vacations to the tower and they learn how to scale the walls before they’re five.
rane-ab asked: How about Rapunzel (Tangled)? :)
*claps* Yay, I love Rapunzel!
how I feel about them: Rapunzel is such an amazing character—courageous sometimes because she doesn’t know not to be (in the thug bar, for instance) and sometimes simply because she’s brave (going outside the tower in the first place. I mean, wow, given what her foster mother told her about the outside world it is nothing short of a miracle that she copes with everything as well as she did). I could do ages and ages of analysis on how awesome she is, but suffice it to say she is one of my favorite Disney princesses ever.
favourite scene: either the bar scene or the fight that follows. Can we count that all as one long scene? The bar scene because of course she gets a bar full of terrifying warriors singing along with her, and the fight because she manages to take on the guards with her hair and a frying pan and /wins/ because Rapunzel is badass like that.
otp for them (romantic or otherwise): Eugene! Eugene so much, they are so fabulous and precious and adorable together all the time. And there is banter, which is a weakness for me in any couple I ship.
my endgame of choice: After some faltering around (because living in a tower for eighteen years doesn’t teach you to become a queen in the most practical sense) she becomes one of the best rulers her country has ever seen. Eugene helps out and also takes care of the kids because Rapunzel has a habit of clambering around like a monkey and she /should not encourage them, Rapunzel, why are the kids on the roof/.
my response to fandom’s attitude toward them: I am not really part of the fandom beyond gleefully reblogging pretty much any gifs/graphics I come across, so if there’s hate for her I haven’t heard it (and, I should add, do not want to). So, for the positive response to her I’ve seen, I approve!
Anonymous asked: Merlin
how I feel about them: conflicted? I adore Merlin and want him to be happy, but I also spend a lot of the show these days wanting to shake him and make him be honest. I do think he’s a fascinating character, though, and wish the show didn’t bill itself as family viewing, because I think he could be even more fascinating if some of the darkness they hint at could be explored.
favourite scene: Prooobably the speech he gives to Gilli in 3x11? Because that sums up, to me, the character of Merlin that I want to be watching, as well as making me want to tear up and clutch him to my bosom. Also, I love that you can see him wondering if Gilli is right about whether he’s “actually forgotten who [he is],” which is one of the parts of him I like to see explored.
otp for them (romantic or otherwise): Can anyone doubt my commitment to sparkle motion Merlin/Arthur? I do like reading some Merlin/Morgana, but in the end it’s always Merlin/Arthur that I come back to (or some poly relationship including the two of them—OT4, Arthur/Gwen/Merlin, and even though I’m the only person on this ship, Arthur/Freya/Merlin).
my endgame of choice: Merlin is honest with everyone and happy and Court Sorcerer and possibly in a polyamorous relationship with Arthur and Gwen.
my response to fandom’s attitude towards them: I never really know how to answer this question? Because there are various factions of fandom who either really love Merlin or who call him out (and justly so) for lying and mind-controlling Arthur and poisoning Morgana and listening to the dragon and Gaius too much, and they both have valid points. So my response as with all my responses to fandom in general tends to be “why can’t we all just get aloooooong.”
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