Fandom meme

[selenay]

Fandom meme, nicked from paranoidangel42:

Pick a fandom you know I know about, and I’ll tell you:

1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer
6. The character I would shag anytime
7. The character I’d want to be like
8. The character I’d slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

Comments

[paranoidangel]

Decisions, decisions, which to choose... Vorkosigan series.

[munchkinott.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter. Just to be a bit unusual. :-D

[selenay]

Ooh, I wasn't expecting this one :-)

1. The first character I first fell in love with

Miles. I started reading these with Warrior's Apprentice and absolutely adored the way that a simple trip to Beta seemed to snowball into something huge and it all centred around Miles being Miles.

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now

Ivan. The first time I met him he was Ivan the Idiot. Now he's still that idiot Ivan but he's surprisingly lovable and completely loyal to Miles.

3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t

Um, probably Mark. I don't hate him, but I don't have the Mark love that so many other people have.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates

Are there any hated Vorkosigan characters out there that actually have enough redeeming qualities to make me like them? Um, no.

5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer

Bothari. At first I thought that he was redeemable and potentially a great character. Except he, er, was a sadistic rapist and never really got past that.

6. The character I would shag anytime

Cordelia. Nuff said.

7. The character I’d want to be like

Again, Cordelia. Totally.

8. The character I’d slap

Toss up between Mark (for reasons stated above) and Miles' Barrayan grandfather (name escaping me for the moment) for the times when he stops being stubborn, cool and sweet and goes stubborn, cool and stupidly prejudiced.

9. A pairing that I love

Aral/Cordelia. Or possibly Miles/his wife (name escaping me again).

10. A pairing that I despise

LMB generally creates pairings that I adore to pieces. Although I have seen Miles/Mark fics around and that is something that I simply can't cope with.

[paranoidangel]

I was going for something different :)

I'm with you on the Cordelia love.

I'm quite thankful I've not been near Vorkosigan fic and so I didn't know about Miles/Mark. It doesn't surprise me, though, but I certainly have no wish to read it.

[selenay]

Hmm, more challenging than I first thought it would be.

1. The first character I first fell in love with

Ah. Logically, it should be Harry: he was the first real character to be established and I adored him quite quickly. However, it was Sirius that sealed the Potter love so I suppose it was Sirius that really made me fall in love.

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now

Hermione. She started out as the irritating, overly bookish kid who always seems to be showing off how clever she is. Over the course of seven books she grown and showed so many other sides to her personality that she's now one of my favourites.

3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t

Severus Snape. No, even with book seven's revelations, he's a character that I like and I was happy with his backstory, but I just don't get the Snape love. Sexy Snape? Please may I now vomit.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates

Hmmm. There doesn't seem to be a universally loathed character in the Potterverse.

5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer

Draco. I held out hopes that he'd get a bit of redemption in book seven, and instead he just snivelled a lot. Grrr.

6. The character I would shag anytime

Um, none of them. Except maybe a very post-Hogwarts Hermione. But really none of them.

7. The character I’d want to be like

McGonagall :-) Or maybe Molly Weasley, purely due to her fight with Belatrix. But mostly McGonagall because she rocks.

8. The character I’d slap

Draco. Quite snivelling.

9. A pairing that I love

Sirius/Remus.

10. A pairing that I despise

Draco/Hermione. Even leaving aside the racism issue, Hermione is far too smart to be taken in by him.