Fandom Memes

[ficwize]

I shamelessly stole these from harmoneyangel.

1. Name a character or pairing from a fandom I'm familiar with, and I'll give you a song lyric (or possibly a line of poetry) that I think fits. (I'm not really a poetry person.)



2. Name one or more characters from any of my fandoms, and I'll tell you every pairing I've ever written them in, read them in, or even just thought about.

Comments

Re: What Hank sees in Brand

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No, I don't think Brand is all ruthlessness. She's also wit and enigma and confidence. All of those things are attractive I think. :)

And you're right - she's not the sort of person to stay out of the way and if her death or anything else would save the world, I think she'd give it unaskingly. Hank may not agree with her all the time, but the fact that she's not hypocritical does make a huge difference.

And lastly, absolutely, I think the fact she finds him attractive and unabashedly enjoys having sex with him is a draw.

Naturally. Having someone find you attractive/interesting is a huge turn on and for Hank, who is so often rejected because of the physical (not just by girlfriends, but by everyone), I think that would make a HUGE difference. I just hope I don't make him sound shallow when I say that - seeking companionship is a fairly primal urge.

Especially given his last girlfriend broke up with him when the media accused her of bestiality and was ashamed of him.

That broke my heart for him. It really did. *hugs Hank*

Re: What Hank sees in Brand

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Naturally. Having someone find you attractive/interesting is a huge turn on and for Hank, who is so often rejected because of the physical (not just by girlfriends, but by everyone), I think that would make a HUGE difference. I just hope I don't make him sound shallow when I say that - seeking companionship is a fairly primal urge

Indeed, and no, it doesn't make him shallow. In Gifted, Joss gave him the serious temptation to go for the cure, and that great scene with Logan, and later the one with Scott. One of the things Hank said was "I had a mouth a woman could kiss once". That's not the only reason why the "cure" tempts him, but it's one of them, along with the idea of devolving entirely which Nova plays on. So meeting a woman who seeks him out not in spite, but because of who he is, blue fur as included as intelligence, really makes a difference, if she is someone with qualities he can appreciate (which we just demonstrated she is *g*).

And I think it was very clever of Joss to make her half alien, because that gives her a shared otherness; she knows what it is to be different from a "normal" human being not just in theory but in practice, and through more than lack of social skills.