character meme

[inmyriadbits]

Did I mention how UTTERLY BORED I am? I am, in fact, indexing and sorting the books in our parents' garage. If you have ever seen my dad's collection of science fiction books, you would know just how Don Quixote-like amounts of crazy this is. So, please save me thus:

Leave the name of a character/person from a fandom you know I'm in, and I will tell you:

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character -
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Comments

[gingerwall.livejournal.com]

Wow, I am definitely impressed by your Don-Quixote amount of crazy.

Sorry I missed the meme when you needed it, but I'm curious how you feel about Veronica Mars and/or Dan and Casey from Sports Night.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

I was SUPER BORED. I think I actually spent several hours cataloging my dad's books in the end, since the internet failed me. It was BAD. :)

Let's do Veronica:

* How I FEEEEEL about this character

VERONICA MARS IS SMARTER THAN ME! Which is sometimes annoying, because she knows it a little too much (especially in the later seasons) and is a bit too used to being the smartest person in the room for her own good. But that's okay, that's what crossover fic where she a) hooks up with Brendan from Brick or b) becomes Peter Burke's probie on White Collar are for. But mostly I just love love love her for being enormously clever and hilarious and letting people underestimate her right up to the point where she's smirking and waving while they get hauled off by the cops. She's awesome. :D

* All the people I ship romantically with this character

Logan, in an angsty and inevitably-doomed sort of way. I also kinda loved Piz's crush on her, because I found that character very endearing and appreciate anyone who appreciates Veronica Mars -- which is why I'm actually glad that never really happened, because she would've crushed his little heart like a bug. I think Weevil could've been interesting, too. And I've seen some Veronica/Mac that really worked for me. And I crossover-ship Veronica/Brendan from Brick, which Katie and I invented for ourselves but is a brilliant match-up, if I do say so myself. :)

* My non-romantic OTP for this character

KEITH MARS! BEST TV DAD EVER, THE END. They make such a great team. *draws hearts* And also Wallace (who was sadly underused in the later seasons), who seriously appreciated Veronica's inner marshmallow-y-ness right along with her competence, and he always had her back. And Mac! I love Mac.

* My unpopular opinion about this character

I think she got way too obnoxiously smug in the later seasons. It stopped being a delight to see her besting the baddies once she started gloating about it and thinking she was infallible and more clever than anyone else in the world. Girl needed a reality check and a purpose; season 1 was more fun because she had something driving that reckless sense of righteousness. After that, it started coming across as hubris.

Also, fuck Duncan Kane, seriously. What an incredibly boring character and relationship, my god. I never got the whole star-crossed love thing they wrote for that pairing. I'm not sure this is an unpopular opinion with the fans, though -- the creators seemed to be the only ones shipping it.

* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

This is related to the last question -- I really wanted her to get some humble pie right in the face. I think this only would've happened if they'd put her up against someone who was her intellectual equal and could meet her trick-for-trick, though, and sadly, this never happened. (This is why I ship her/Brendan, btw, because he could totally stand toe-to-toe with Veronica, and it would be AWESOME.)

[gingerwall.livejournal.com]

Yay! Fun answers.

Have you two actually written said Brick-VM crossover fic? Because it sounds fantastic and I would definitely want to read it. Actually now that you bring it up, I vaguely remember saying something similar during a WIP meme.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

We've written some of it? Maybe a couple thousand words or so, and we've put lots of hours into trying to hash out the plot. Unfortunately, we stalled out a bit there, so it's just sitting and waiting for us to untangle how shit goes down.