The insane pairings meme
Gacked from, well, everywhere, although I particularly commend killabeez and wickedwords mixes to your attention....
Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing, etc. And the places I've seen it, people have been trying to create a synopsis of 'this is how it would be.'
Amanda/Ceirdwyn --
This one even needs an explanation? Two immortal women, two long lives, one night (or more) discussing why men are pigs and did Circe really die before she taught anyone that spell...?
Connor/Cory --
Oh, God. This would be... Cory trying to sell Connor stolen goods. Connor buying them below cost because they're hot and still sending the police after Cory when they come calling, just because Cory didn't do a better job of hiding the trail! Who apologizes to whom? Where does the snark end, 'cause it sure ain't in bed? (The snark that is. Cory and Connor? No bets.) Too funny. This could be great to write.
Darius/Drusilla --
Okay, this one scares me, but really, can you just see Spike and Dru trying to vandalize Darius' church on one of their binges through Europe? More frightening, I think Darius could make sense of Dru's ramblings. This... might just need to written. Wow.
Duncan/Fitz --
::giggling:: I can see this. I really can. Two men, a bed in a tavern (one bed because they'd rather spend the money on booze), several (now empty bottles), and a (lack of) female... What did happen last night to that tavern wench? "MacLeod, do keep your hands to yourself this time!" "Well, y'didna compain before!"
Hercules/Iolaus --
Um, well, yeah, they're a pair. This even needs explanation?
Jack/Joe --
::blink:: I'm trying to imagine Joe Dawson in Pirates of the Caribbean and well, er, yeah, I can see it. Joe as the bard they can't get rid of it because 'It's bad luck to lose a musician, Jack.' Well, and because Joe's singing keeps the pirates happy, and I'm now trying to forget stories about pirate crews so drunk the navies had no trouble catching them, and musicians pardoned because they were only doing what they'd been hired to do and... eep! It'd work! (Well, it's that or make Jack immortal, and Lady knows I've threatened to do that, too.)
Kastagir/Kronos --
Okay, this is the one that's just so wrong, and yet... you could make it work. Kronos burnt out because he's lost his brothers and looking for a fire to rekindle his spark; Kastagir looking for a good time with someone who won't need to ask why he's got weapons, and can't you just see Pestilence appreciating boom-boom? Gah. I think my brain's shorting out, here.
Krycek/LaCroix --
How wrong is it that this is the pair that I look at and think, "Completely bloody inevitable, but do they take over the world or kill each other?" But can't you just see LaCroix hiring Krycek for a job that needs a mortal, rescuing Krycek from the silo because no one harms what's his, and Krycek going, 'Fine, help with this, damn it, or they're going to take over your world, and I doubt Oil-tainted blood tastes right.' (Okay, so maybe they take over the world and then kill each other....)
Matthew/Methos --
Huh. Really, I do think they'd try to kill each other, but I could be wrong. I think. Well. Maybe not. Er. ::tries to wrap mind around it; mind cowers back, begging piteously for chocolate::
Ramirez/Robert --
Ramirez and Robert de Valicourt? You mean this isn't canon? Really? Why not? (ETA: Well. Speaking as someone with a Ramirez icon that says, "Only the pants are gay," obviously, I can see one reason, but, er, I'd love to read this anyway.)
Will --
(Turner, that is.) Er. Left out in the cold again? It could be worse; I could have loaded that Xavier St. Cloud icon....
I didn't count Aral Vorkosigan, since the icon is only a quote of his, not an illustration of him. Pity. Aral Vorkosigan and Amanda is a really scary thought, in so many good ways....
Really, the only character lacking was Ezra Standish. ::considers:: Well. And Marcus Constantine. Or Nakano. Buck Wilmington's a sweetie... ::contemplates some more:: And of course, the good constables, Fraser, pere and Fraser, fils. And Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo. Hmm. Jim West. Artemus Gordon... this thing could get a woman in trouble.
Mostly, though, I was wishing I'd had Ezra to throw in the mix. (At which point I get Duncan/Ezra? Oh, *my*. Killabeez, hon, would that work?) I don't suppose anyone has an icon they'd be willing to share?
Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing, etc. And the places I've seen it, people have been trying to create a synopsis of 'this is how it would be.'
Amanda/Ceirdwyn --
This one even needs an explanation? Two immortal women, two long lives, one night (or more) discussing why men are pigs and did Circe really die before she taught anyone that spell...?
Connor/Cory --
Oh, God. This would be... Cory trying to sell Connor stolen goods. Connor buying them below cost because they're hot and still sending the police after Cory when they come calling, just because Cory didn't do a better job of hiding the trail! Who apologizes to whom? Where does the snark end, 'cause it sure ain't in bed? (The snark that is. Cory and Connor? No bets.) Too funny. This could be great to write.
Darius/Drusilla --
Okay, this one scares me, but really, can you just see Spike and Dru trying to vandalize Darius' church on one of their binges through Europe? More frightening, I think Darius could make sense of Dru's ramblings. This... might just need to written. Wow.
Duncan/Fitz --
::giggling:: I can see this. I really can. Two men, a bed in a tavern (one bed because they'd rather spend the money on booze), several (now empty bottles), and a (lack of) female... What did happen last night to that tavern wench? "MacLeod, do keep your hands to yourself this time!" "Well, y'didna compain before!"
Hercules/Iolaus --
Um, well, yeah, they're a pair. This even needs explanation?
Jack/Joe --
::blink:: I'm trying to imagine Joe Dawson in Pirates of the Caribbean and well, er, yeah, I can see it. Joe as the bard they can't get rid of it because 'It's bad luck to lose a musician, Jack.' Well, and because Joe's singing keeps the pirates happy, and I'm now trying to forget stories about pirate crews so drunk the navies had no trouble catching them, and musicians pardoned because they were only doing what they'd been hired to do and... eep! It'd work! (Well, it's that or make Jack immortal, and Lady knows I've threatened to do that, too.)
Kastagir/Kronos --
Okay, this is the one that's just so wrong, and yet... you could make it work. Kronos burnt out because he's lost his brothers and looking for a fire to rekindle his spark; Kastagir looking for a good time with someone who won't need to ask why he's got weapons, and can't you just see Pestilence appreciating boom-boom? Gah. I think my brain's shorting out, here.
Krycek/LaCroix --
How wrong is it that this is the pair that I look at and think, "Completely bloody inevitable, but do they take over the world or kill each other?" But can't you just see LaCroix hiring Krycek for a job that needs a mortal, rescuing Krycek from the silo because no one harms what's his, and Krycek going, 'Fine, help with this, damn it, or they're going to take over your world, and I doubt Oil-tainted blood tastes right.' (Okay, so maybe they take over the world and then kill each other....)
Matthew/Methos --
Huh. Really, I do think they'd try to kill each other, but I could be wrong. I think. Well. Maybe not. Er. ::tries to wrap mind around it; mind cowers back, begging piteously for chocolate::
Ramirez/Robert --
Ramirez and Robert de Valicourt? You mean this isn't canon? Really? Why not? (ETA: Well. Speaking as someone with a Ramirez icon that says, "Only the pants are gay," obviously, I can see one reason, but, er, I'd love to read this anyway.)
Will --
(Turner, that is.) Er. Left out in the cold again? It could be worse; I could have loaded that Xavier St. Cloud icon....
I didn't count Aral Vorkosigan, since the icon is only a quote of his, not an illustration of him. Pity. Aral Vorkosigan and Amanda is a really scary thought, in so many good ways....
Really, the only character lacking was Ezra Standish. ::considers:: Well. And Marcus Constantine. Or Nakano. Buck Wilmington's a sweetie... ::contemplates some more:: And of course, the good constables, Fraser, pere and Fraser, fils. And Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo. Hmm. Jim West. Artemus Gordon... this thing could get a woman in trouble.
Mostly, though, I was wishing I'd had Ezra to throw in the mix. (At which point I get Duncan/Ezra? Oh, *my*. Killabeez, hon, would that work?) I don't suppose anyone has an icon they'd be willing to share?