I have to post something here, don't I?
No one had tagged me for the OTP meme but I was inspired to do it so I stole it to make you suffer ... muahahahaha ...
1. Pick your 5 favourite OTPs
2. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom* they're from
3. List your favourite moment between them
(Deliberately leaves off the tagging part since I wasn't tagged).
1. Ronia/Birke - Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
I don't have the book with me here in England but when they are in the cave and pretend that the winter isn't coming because they don't want to leave each other is my favourite moment. God, how I want to read that book now.
2. Dominic/Villemo - Margit Sandemo's Isfolket Series
Favourite moment - from Isfolket, book nr. 12 (Fever in the Blood) by Margit Sandemo (my own bad translation):
Dominic gets sent off to war and Villemo follows him. And they've to deal with that issue and the fact they so desperately want each other.
He put his fingers to her lips.
- Shut up! You told me that you desired me so much that it was like you were on fire. Don't feel that anymore?
She cut loose from him.
- I won't answer this.
His demeanour became threatening.
- Yes! Answer!
Stubborn tears appeared in Villemo's eyes.
- You are hurting me!
-Answer!
-Why should I answer? Why are you always the chaste knight, who never does anything and makes me feel like a whore? Isn't it enough that I feel deeply ashamed?
- My Villemo, he said tenderly.
- Don't you think you've been concentrating too much on one side of love.
It was then she exploded like a powder keg and all her unrefined Isfolket traits appeared.
-Do you honestly think I've travelled all this way just to screw you? she hissed. - What do you think I'm, you imbecile?
(Now while Sandemo is quite bad when it comes to the stylish thing of writing, she know how to write UST and everything is UST with Dominic and Villemo 'cause they are forbidden to have each other - but of course they break and I have actually also translated the scene where they literally break). Also while I like a lot of the pairings Sandemo thought of, Dominic/Villemo have always remained my favourite pairing of them all.
3. Darcy/Elizabeth - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Favourite moment:
After a short pause, her companion added, "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced was such as he had probably never felt before, and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eyes, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight diffused over his face become him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.
(Who says that showing is always better than telling when it comes to writing?)
4. Kári/Hildigunnur - Njals saga by unknown
Favourite moment:
Then Flosi gave away his brother's daughter Hildigunnur, whom Höskuldur the priest of Whiteness had had to wife to Kári, and they dwelt first of all at Broadwater.
(OK, when it comes to the Icelandic sagas, all the romantic pairings are doomed because one of them or both dies, usually very tragically. And because I like happy endings a lot, none of the romantic pairings are really my Icelandic saga OTP. Since I really like the characters of Hildigunnur and Kári, the idea of them getting together right in the ending of the epic that is Njals saga gives me warm and fuzzies after all the tragedy and the bloodshed that had gone before in the saga.)
5. Ron/Hermione - The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
OotP illustration by Marta
Favourite moment:
Either the one pictured above or -
"There's something funny, though," said Hermione ten minutes later, holding her pestle suspended over a bowl of scarab beetles. "How could Rita Skeeter have known . . . ?"
"Known what?" said Ron quickly. "You haven't been mixing up Love Potions, have you?"
"Don't be stupid," Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again. "No, it's just. . . how did she know Viktor asked me to visit him over the summer?"
Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this and determinedly avoided Ron's eyes.
"What?" said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk.
"He asked me right after he'd pulled me out of the lake,"
Hermione muttered. "After he'd got rid of his shark's head. Madam Pomfrey gave us both blankets and then he sort of pulled me away from the judges so they wouldn't hear, and he said, if I wasn't doing anything over the summer, would I like to -"
"And what did you say?" said Ron, who had picked up his pestle and was grinding it on the desk, a good six inches from his bowl, because he was looking at Hermione.
"And he did say he'd never felt the same way about anyone else," Hermione went on, going so red now that Harry could almost feel the heat coming from her, "but how could Rita Skeeter have heard him? She wasn't there ... or was she? Maybe she has got an Invisibility Cloak; maybe she sneaked onto the grounds to watch the second task. ..."
"And what did you say?" Ron repeated, pounding his pestle down so hard that it dented the desk.
"Well, I was too busy seeing whether you and Harry were okay to-“
(from ch. 27 of GoF US edition)
Verdict: Three pairings where one of the two has red hair. Also bickering and unresolved sexual/romantic tension and I also like like to ship them young as seen with Ronia/Birke and Ron/Hermione. No hero gets the girl but sometimes it's the heroine gets the guy. Furthermore, all the pairings come from literature, probably because films are usually too short for me to because too emotionally invested and I usually don't ship pairing in television series ('cause they have the nasty habit of breaking up or never coming to be).
1. Pick your 5 favourite OTPs
2. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom* they're from
3. List your favourite moment between them
(Deliberately leaves off the tagging part since I wasn't tagged).
1. Ronia/Birke - Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
I don't have the book with me here in England but when they are in the cave and pretend that the winter isn't coming because they don't want to leave each other is my favourite moment. God, how I want to read that book now.
2. Dominic/Villemo - Margit Sandemo's Isfolket Series
Favourite moment - from Isfolket, book nr. 12 (Fever in the Blood) by Margit Sandemo (my own bad translation):
Dominic gets sent off to war and Villemo follows him. And they've to deal with that issue and the fact they so desperately want each other.
He put his fingers to her lips.
- Shut up! You told me that you desired me so much that it was like you were on fire. Don't feel that anymore?
She cut loose from him.
- I won't answer this.
His demeanour became threatening.
- Yes! Answer!
Stubborn tears appeared in Villemo's eyes.
- You are hurting me!
-Answer!
-Why should I answer? Why are you always the chaste knight, who never does anything and makes me feel like a whore? Isn't it enough that I feel deeply ashamed?
- My Villemo, he said tenderly.
- Don't you think you've been concentrating too much on one side of love.
It was then she exploded like a powder keg and all her unrefined Isfolket traits appeared.
-Do you honestly think I've travelled all this way just to screw you? she hissed. - What do you think I'm, you imbecile?
(Now while Sandemo is quite bad when it comes to the stylish thing of writing, she know how to write UST and everything is UST with Dominic and Villemo 'cause they are forbidden to have each other - but of course they break and I have actually also translated the scene where they literally break). Also while I like a lot of the pairings Sandemo thought of, Dominic/Villemo have always remained my favourite pairing of them all.
3. Darcy/Elizabeth - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Favourite moment:
After a short pause, her companion added, "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced was such as he had probably never felt before, and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eyes, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight diffused over his face become him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.
(Who says that showing is always better than telling when it comes to writing?)
4. Kári/Hildigunnur - Njals saga by unknown
Favourite moment:
Then Flosi gave away his brother's daughter Hildigunnur, whom Höskuldur the priest of Whiteness had had to wife to Kári, and they dwelt first of all at Broadwater.
(OK, when it comes to the Icelandic sagas, all the romantic pairings are doomed because one of them or both dies, usually very tragically. And because I like happy endings a lot, none of the romantic pairings are really my Icelandic saga OTP. Since I really like the characters of Hildigunnur and Kári, the idea of them getting together right in the ending of the epic that is Njals saga gives me warm and fuzzies after all the tragedy and the bloodshed that had gone before in the saga.)
5. Ron/Hermione - The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
OotP illustration by Marta
Favourite moment:
Either the one pictured above or -
"There's something funny, though," said Hermione ten minutes later, holding her pestle suspended over a bowl of scarab beetles. "How could Rita Skeeter have known . . . ?"
"Known what?" said Ron quickly. "You haven't been mixing up Love Potions, have you?"
"Don't be stupid," Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again. "No, it's just. . . how did she know Viktor asked me to visit him over the summer?"
Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this and determinedly avoided Ron's eyes.
"What?" said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk.
"He asked me right after he'd pulled me out of the lake,"
Hermione muttered. "After he'd got rid of his shark's head. Madam Pomfrey gave us both blankets and then he sort of pulled me away from the judges so they wouldn't hear, and he said, if I wasn't doing anything over the summer, would I like to -"
"And what did you say?" said Ron, who had picked up his pestle and was grinding it on the desk, a good six inches from his bowl, because he was looking at Hermione.
"And he did say he'd never felt the same way about anyone else," Hermione went on, going so red now that Harry could almost feel the heat coming from her, "but how could Rita Skeeter have heard him? She wasn't there ... or was she? Maybe she has got an Invisibility Cloak; maybe she sneaked onto the grounds to watch the second task. ..."
"And what did you say?" Ron repeated, pounding his pestle down so hard that it dented the desk.
"Well, I was too busy seeing whether you and Harry were okay to-“
(from ch. 27 of GoF US edition)
Verdict: Three pairings where one of the two has red hair. Also bickering and unresolved sexual/romantic tension and I also like like to ship them young as seen with Ronia/Birke and Ron/Hermione. No hero gets the girl but sometimes it's the heroine gets the guy. Furthermore, all the pairings come from literature, probably because films are usually too short for me to because too emotionally invested and I usually don't ship pairing in television series ('cause they have the nasty habit of breaking up or never coming to be).