Watch Me Flail
(So I'm about to head off for work, but I feel guilty because I have yet to post any more of my request!fics today. I AM working on them, though, so they should be here soon. I feel as though there should be some more Casmund out there, thus I'm offering this sad little rant that ends with surprise!Ben/Skandar. Well, not a surprise to everyone
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I started out as a Cas/Ed shipper, but then I went back and listened to the commentary from Prince Caspian, and even the freaking interviews (Ben comments about Skandar a LOT) and can't help but think that there's something there. He does hold him around the waist a lot, and I think that speaks something more because as a taller person, whenever I go to hold onto a friend, the shorter they are, the more likely I am to drape my arm across their shoulder. Unless I want to be really close with them then I make the effort to wrap my arm around their waist.
From this point, (not that it makes me see any Cas/Ed less) I sometimes wonder if it's not because of Ben and Skandar that we see so much Cas/Ed. Like they couldn't hide it and it even shines through in all that they do on screen (which is unbelievably cute in my fangirly heart).
On to the hug at the end, I agree that when it comes to Lucy, she does more of the work, but he does turn to her. However, as you said, with Edmund they both step to each other and it's not just a hug... it's like... Edmund presses his face into Caspian, grips him, tightens his grip. The two pull closer together before releasing. It has so much meaning there to me.
So yes. Crazy tinhat shipper lady over here. But I don't mind. Because even without my tinhat, I could see this haha.
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I'm one of those people that always moves and touches so when I'm with a friend shorter than me I usually have my arm around their shoulders. I rarely wrap my arm around a friend's waist if they're shorter because it always seemed awkward to me. So when I saw those pictures I was sort of a mixture between general curiosity and shipping delight.
I tend to think there's something going on between actors if I ship they're characters together. Like some of the people I know will ship a fictional couple and when I ask them why they say something like "eye fucking" or something along those lines. Yet when asked about the actors they think it's innocent, which I find kind of weird. If two characters are not meant to be seen in a romantic relationship and, in this case, are meant to view each other as brothers why would the actors intentionally eye each other up on screen? Hmm? So I completely agree with you on that.
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