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redfiona99Due to RL stuff answers may be delayed.
Name me a character! 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.
Major spoilers in my answers
Name me a character! 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.
Major spoilers in my answers
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-20 09:14 pm (UTC)Or, alternately: Thorin.
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Date: 2011-04-24 09:55 pm (UTC)Help, I appear to have broken the character limit
Date: 2011-04-29 09:51 am (UTC)I'm glad they gave me the extra -ees in feeling, because I have a great many of them about Zeke Stone. I need the singing alien macro, I have that many feelings.
I like him. He seems like he's a nice guy. He's got a sense of humour and he's kind. I'm always struck by how quiet he is, not that he doesn't crack wise when faced with the Devil, and not that he doesn't talk, but he's very reflective, more so even than say Gil Grissom who is normally held up as the ultimate in non-alpha male TV detectives. He's dealing remarkably well with the whole 'was in hell' thing and the 'back alive' thing. But he's not perfect, and I like that even more. I like characters who go 'horrible thing happened, can't change that, must get on with rest of my life).
He has a temper like burning and a nasty streak (see also killing Gilbert Jax). He's a normal guy who happened to be a police officer who did a very terrible thing and is now stuck trying to make up for that mistake.
I love that he realises that there is a reason why all those souls are damned (even if in certain cases, Ashur, for instance, it seems to be a case of wrong place, wrong time, although I'd love to know how the mythology actually works in the show because several of the souls are from non-Christian cultures with different concepts of right and wrong and what the afterlife is), and that even when he feels sorry for them (see the Nazi episode), he still does what he has to do. It's that little sliver of selfishness that makes him relatable.
He's also reasonably clever, because I think he knows that the Devil is going to try and cheat him out of his reward, even if he manages to catch all 113 souls, but he's so desperate that he's willing to try it anyway.
*All the people I ship romantically with this character*
Ros. I think the reasons should be obvious. Lt. Ashe, which was something I liked because it was clear that Stone still loved Ros, and yet was able to have feeling of a romantic kind for someone else without him betraying anything or anyone. /soapbox
Also the Lt. bit is important. Much though I get a little flaily hands at Ashur/Zeke, it's not the slightest bit romantic.
*My non-romantic OTP for this character*
Zeke + Max the hotel clerk. Together they fight demons. That's a TV show I want to see.
*My unpopular opinion about this character*
Zeke/the Devil, I don't get it. Or rather I get it, but I don't subscribe. It's beyond the whole the Devil is the Devil thing, although, and I quote 'I never loved anyone but God, and that was a long time ago.' Yes, I know that's the Prince of Lies talking but still, I mostly believe him. And I think Zeke has more sense than that. Not much more, but some.
Also, if we temporarily ignore the metaphysics, you have this really awkward situation where you have this man, let's call him Bob, who used to be one of the VPs of a company but there was thing and then he got demoted. He's still in the company but in one of those divisions where they send people to when they've no use for them.
Anyway, Bob messes something up, something major and has to call in Zeke to help him. This is already an unlikely place for romance to spring from. Add to that that Bob had the break up from Hell, not recently, but recently enough in his mind, and Zeke's just out of an LTR (distance broke them up), and okay, I can see two lost and unhappy souls (you know what I mean) hooking up, but there's also this problem where in between times they've both also had a relationship with the same woman, who works for an entirely different department (the department of 'getting out of Hell and staying out of there'). It's all kinds of awkward and unlikely. And also, you know, the Devil is the Devil and Zeke isn't quite that stupid.
Zeke part 2
Date: 2011-04-29 09:52 am (UTC)Probably not answering this properly, but I'm answering this honestly instead.
The creator of another show that I liked that was killed off before it's time, once posted what he imagined would have happened at the end of the series, and I'd love to know what happens to Zeke afterwards. I mean, does he succeed in getting all 113? Does the Devil go back on his word? Is Zeke, as I have a horrible feeling he might be, one of the 113 (see also, the Devil lies)? In trying to succeed does Zeke do something that damns him again? What does Ros think about all this? (Damn it, I really need to find my DVD of it again) If Zeke succeeds and the Devil actually ponies up (or is forced into ponying up) what happens next?
I have lots of questions. I would have loved to have got answers to some of them.
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Date: 2011-05-21 11:55 am (UTC)He's another character I have a great many feelings about. Not all of them are entirely sensible. Very few of them in fact. (Also I'm going to do that thing where I smudge book and film-canon)
* How I FEEEEEL about this character*
I <3 him so much. I think I have a thing for stoic characters. Change that, I know I have a thing for stoic characters, and he's so much that. Because, given all of the horrible things that happen to his family, and therefore him, he'd be forgiven for moping, or angsting or lashing out. And he doesn't.
He's clever and he's wise, and it's like they decided to make a mash-up of all the things that Red likes in a character. There's a reason he's in my default icon.
*All the people I ship romantically with this character*
Celebrian, which I have undoubtedly misspelled. Partly it's because the various Middle Earth canons are gen fandoms for me and when I have no great feelings on the matter I go with canon. I also think it's quite elf-ish, in that I imagine them to be very like oil-tankers (work with me on this analogy), sort of glacial where it takes them some time for them to do anything but once they do they stay with it.
*My non-romantic OTP for this character*
Not sure it counts as an OTP, in the sense that it's not something where it's their friendship that interests me but how Elrond relates to Gandalf, Aragorn and Arwen.
*My unpopular opinion about this character*
The whole 'Arwen don't throw your life away on a puny human' thing is totally justified. This is not because I don't <3 Aragorn. This is not because I think immortality is something awesome. I'm also totally behind Arwen doing what she wants to do. However, I think because of Elrond's experience, he knows what Arwen is letting herself in for because either way she'll still live far longer than Aragorn. I can't blame him in anyway.
*One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.*
Film canon - I wish we'd had more of Elrond kicking arse. Or being wise. Or more, in general. But then again, what we got was gold.
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Date: 2011-05-28 02:00 am (UTC)And this is part of what makes him so awesome. Because yes, yes to all of this. Considering his history, he could easily be one very screwed-up character.
The whole 'Arwen don't throw your life away on a puny human' thing is totally justified.
I AGREE TIMES TEN MILLION. Gah. I mean, I <3 Aragorn, too, and I don't think immortality is amazing (Silmarillion actually contextualises a lot of LotR and presents the idea that immortality is actually sort of a curse and death - at least death as Men experience it - is a gift, and I like that idea a lot more than the standard immortality-awesome-death-bad interpretation that fandom seems to cling to). I'm also fully in favour of Arwen making her own damned choices. But. It's not like this is a matter of moving to a different country to marry someone. I don't understand how people can fault Elrond for not being 100% behind the idea of his daughter choosing mortality and being parted from him absolutely permanently.
Film canon - I wish we'd had more of Elrond kicking arse. Or being wise. Or more, in general. But then again, what we got was gold.
Agreed, again.
... Also, that oil tankers thing is about the greatest thing I've heard today. Seriously. =D
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Date: 2011-05-30 06:39 pm (UTC)I'm glad you liked the analogy. I'm mostly glad it made sense to someone who wasn't me :)
Sorry for this being late
Date: 2011-06-28 05:37 pm (UTC)*How I FEEEEEL about this character*
I love him muchly. Partly it's both national and regional bias. There's a man on the telly and he sounds like me.
Not only that but he's deliciously evil, and I like my evil delicious. I also like my good guys not stupid (see I don't even ask for cleverness, I just don't want stupidity) and on those very, very few occasions where Regal has been the good guy, he's still been snarky and vicious. Like the run with Eugene. It should have been a disaster (it kind of was a disaster, but let's skip over that temporarily) but you had a situation where there was an accidental good guy, what with Regal originally being in it for his own devious ends but then he comes to like Eugene so he ends up trying to protect him from Evolution, and then you get the fantastic promo where he goes wrath of god on Triple H.
It's the little things in his matches, like him wiping his feet, and remembering which leg was worked on, and the sneering. And I like the way he wrestles, I have a fondness for that very crisp style.
*All the people I ship romantically with this character*
Really all of them? Because it's a longer list than the previous two (although, admittedly not that long, I can't help it, I'm just not a 'shippy person in general):
Molly
Lance Storm
Christian
HHH
are the main ones, but, much as with the friendshipping bit coming in a second, Regal is one of those characters who does work well with lots of people, either as a contrast or as a comparison.
And I have a disturbingly large number of WIPs were Regal pines after Stephanie McMahon, which I didn't realise was a thing until I wrote this up.
*My non-romantic OTP for this character*
Molly, Lance, HHH, I can see Wade Barrett turning into one, the whole contrast of how Regal has spent most of his career playing quite a posh characters (despite his accent <3) while Barrett is allowed to just be the big bad, without any frills. I am interested by the contrast.
*My unpopular opinion about this character*
I am actually okay with him wrestling less, this is despite how much I like his style, but given his previous health problems a slow creeping towards not wrestling can be lived with. I'd like to keep him on TV though. That leaves very few positions, because the major role that would give him tv time with a minimum of wrestling is GMing and I don't want to get rid of Teddy Long, and I think that the anonymous GM is working for RAW, I think. Now, if only WWE still went with valets/managers.
*One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.*
If RAW did want a non-anonymous GM, or the GM needed some visible muscle ...
Re: Sorry for this being late
Date: 2011-07-01 02:08 am (UTC)