Why Dan/Blair makes sense once you look at it
...and squint really hard.
1. They're both the smartest kids in the class
Let's admit it, Blair and her type A personality (who has never gotten anything less than an A might we add) has to have some sort of grudging respect for the boy who due to scholarship or circumstances or just plain street smarts, outscores everyone. Remember the brief scene at the SAT's? Both are on time, pencils sharpened...overachieving bastards. They also are the only two who got into Yale based on merit (well Blair did handicap Nelly, but Yuki has proven she's not much above it these days). Let's face it if Yale happend, their respect then friendship and ultimate relationship would've happened too.
2. He's a journalist and she's a princess
Everyone have their Hepburn references handy? Roman Holiday! The princess loosens her curls (or looses them all together) and goes slumming in Brooklyn and the storyteller obliges, exposing her and helping her explore everything her world doesn't allow her too. Lofts with doors in the middle of bedrooms, art galleries that double as cofee shops, rock concerts for aging has-beens *Cough* I mean vespa rides, the mouth of truth and wild dance parties.
C'mon you've got to admit that when Dan and Blair briefly cross over into each others worlds there are some awwww worthy moments. Like in "Bad News Blair" when they have a mini convo where he opens up even though he called her "95 pounds of girly evil" to his father hours before. Or in "Much I Do About Nothing". And I quite enjoyed his whole coaching through the love-thing in "Pret a Poor J" even this bit here.
And let's be honest, if our aspiring writer were going to pen something epic it would be about our most beautifully flawed heroine who scares the hell out of us all, Blair Waldorf.
3. Witty with a heart
Yes, banter is something most people associate with C&B because coupled with their sexual tension it is explosive. But here's the thing, the verbal sparring remains, with Dan, while the stakes aren't the same. As much as I ♥ ♥ ♥ C/B the thing that will ultimatley fuck them up in the end...is they can't or don't trust each other. And that is fundamental to any relationship, Sorry!(And where I insert my own romantic history).
Dan's a puppy dog. A wide eyed, stammering, romantic but he has a backbone and can more than keep up with Blair (see: bathroom confrontation where Dan decides its on like donkey kong...but then gets flustered by the girls coming in. Adorkable. Or his frequent punching out of Chuck Bass, he SO needs it). But I think Dan's the right combination of emotionally available and loyal to really heal and be good for a broken girl like Blair.
Plus he'd so piss off Eleanor Waldorf, Bonus! Can you see it? With his sarcasm, and small witty slights--I'd literally pay to see those scenes...which I think would rock for Blair's self esteem, might I add.
She wanted fairytales with Nate, learned that they didn't always come true, took a trip plummeting to earth and the dark side with Chuck, who celebrated her good but her bad most of all, and he hurt her just the same (if not more) and if she were to try for a third time, maybe with a guy like Dan, she could have it all, he knows her dark side, loves her for it, especially when it manifests itself as protectiveness and loyalty, but reminds her she could be better.
Besides, being wistful romantics isn't the only thing they have in common...they both have cabbage patch kids :)
For more convincing please check out before the glaciers drown us by irishmizzy. But I still ship C&B and tiny N/B and want Chuck with NO ONE ELSE!
1. They're both the smartest kids in the class
Let's admit it, Blair and her type A personality (who has never gotten anything less than an A might we add) has to have some sort of grudging respect for the boy who due to scholarship or circumstances or just plain street smarts, outscores everyone. Remember the brief scene at the SAT's? Both are on time, pencils sharpened...overachieving bastards. They also are the only two who got into Yale based on merit (well Blair did handicap Nelly, but Yuki has proven she's not much above it these days). Let's face it if Yale happend, their respect then friendship and ultimate relationship would've happened too.
2. He's a journalist and she's a princess
Everyone have their Hepburn references handy? Roman Holiday! The princess loosens her curls (or looses them all together) and goes slumming in Brooklyn and the storyteller obliges, exposing her and helping her explore everything her world doesn't allow her too. Lofts with doors in the middle of bedrooms, art galleries that double as cofee shops, rock concerts for aging has-beens *Cough* I mean vespa rides, the mouth of truth and wild dance parties.
C'mon you've got to admit that when Dan and Blair briefly cross over into each others worlds there are some awwww worthy moments. Like in "Bad News Blair" when they have a mini convo where he opens up even though he called her "95 pounds of girly evil" to his father hours before. Or in "Much I Do About Nothing". And I quite enjoyed his whole coaching through the love-thing in "Pret a Poor J" even this bit here.
And let's be honest, if our aspiring writer were going to pen something epic it would be about our most beautifully flawed heroine who scares the hell out of us all, Blair Waldorf.
3. Witty with a heart
Yes, banter is something most people associate with C&B because coupled with their sexual tension it is explosive. But here's the thing, the verbal sparring remains, with Dan, while the stakes aren't the same. As much as I ♥ ♥ ♥ C/B the thing that will ultimatley fuck them up in the end...is they can't or don't trust each other. And that is fundamental to any relationship, Sorry!(And where I insert my own romantic history).
Dan's a puppy dog. A wide eyed, stammering, romantic but he has a backbone and can more than keep up with Blair (see: bathroom confrontation where Dan decides its on like donkey kong...but then gets flustered by the girls coming in. Adorkable. Or his frequent punching out of Chuck Bass, he SO needs it). But I think Dan's the right combination of emotionally available and loyal to really heal and be good for a broken girl like Blair.
Plus he'd so piss off Eleanor Waldorf, Bonus! Can you see it? With his sarcasm, and small witty slights--I'd literally pay to see those scenes...which I think would rock for Blair's self esteem, might I add.
She wanted fairytales with Nate, learned that they didn't always come true, took a trip plummeting to earth and the dark side with Chuck, who celebrated her good but her bad most of all, and he hurt her just the same (if not more) and if she were to try for a third time, maybe with a guy like Dan, she could have it all, he knows her dark side, loves her for it, especially when it manifests itself as protectiveness and loyalty, but reminds her she could be better.
Besides, being wistful romantics isn't the only thing they have in common...they both have cabbage patch kids :)
For more convincing please check out before the glaciers drown us by irishmizzy. But I still ship C&B and tiny N/B and want Chuck with NO ONE ELSE!