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lavvyan

Character Love Meme

Jan 11, 2014 13:20

Meme snagged from sorchasilver because I'd like to be more actively fannish than just staring at the shiny on Tumblr.

This post is for drive-by nuggets of joy about your favorite character! So here we go. Give me your favorite (or a favorite) character's name in comments, and I will tell you one thing (or several) about them that fills me with joy. It can be ( Read more... )

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jimandblair January 11 2014, 15:26:08 UTC

Steve McGarrett \o/

lavvyan January 11 2014, 18:05:23 UTC

Steeeeeeeeeeeeve! That adorkable man!

I love how he thinks (or used to think) of himself as this tough, untouchable ManlyManTM when he's really just a big, lonely puppy with abandonement issues. He goes to ridiculous lengths (helping Kono with her bad guy in Japan, anyone? North Korea?) and spends insane amounts of money to help his friends, so they'll stay happy, so they'll stay with him. When I was binge-watching from season 1 to now, I had fun watching him open up bit by bit until the stoic exterior was all but gone and just anyone on the street could tell how he was feeling in any situation. I just want to hug him all the time. :D

Also, Steve's friendship with Danny is made of cookies and mutual invasions of privacy and a whole lot of snarking. I love that.

jimandblair January 11 2014, 19:09:29 UTC

so I have to ask -- what do you think of Danny?

lavvyan January 11 2014, 19:49:11 UTC

It's possibly a leftover from my SGA days (or childhood *coughsHerrvonBödefeldcoughs*), but the thing I adore most about Danny is the snark. And his inserting "huh" into every other sentence. And how much he loves Grace. And how much he loves Steve and isn't at all afraid to show it. And how he is so damn loyal to everyone he considers a friend, and a total slob, and resigned to the passenger seat of his car, and sort of prickly, and how he went from "PROCEDURE OMG!" to "Er, you might want to call your people away from there, as my partner's about to do something stupid and dangerous and Not Sane."

Danny's just... I don't know, he has this giant heart behind his bluster and is incredibly good at his job and doesn't trust easily but once he does he's all in, and that just pushes all my buttons. See also: Steve. :D

jimandblair January 11 2014, 19:56:00 UTC

OMG -- yes.

I wrote a SGA fic with H50 guest starring and Rodney v. Danny was a special kind of fun. Rodney, I adore, but I know that I would *never* want him as my supervisor. Danny, I think, that I could work with, and enjoy working with.

In both your analyses friendship is a important factor. Danny and Steve... hmmm

lavvyan January 11 2014, 20:18:30 UTC

I ship them so hard, I can't even. *spreads hands*

Also, link?

jimandblair January 11 2014, 20:33:26 UTC

voila: http://archiveofourown.org/works/254625

family history.

lavvyan January 11 2014, 20:41:11 UTC

Thank you!

(Also, while I have you here: I haven't found any selkie!Steve fic yet. Surely there must be some? I mean, it's kind of a no-brainer. Know any?)

jimandblair January 11 2014, 20:43:55 UTC

*cackles*

brb

lavvyan January 11 2014, 20:59:54 UTC

jimandblair January 11 2014, 21:09:23 UTC

so the A03 archive gives these with selkie search terms ( ... )

lavvyan January 11 2014, 21:15:48 UTC

I've read yours and the last one (Danny as a mermaid/other sea-related creature seems to be way more popular than the obvious pun), and I'll happily give the other ones a shot.

Thank you!

jimandblair January 11 2014, 22:40:48 UTC

for some reason it seems to be fun to mix it up with Danny and Steve -- make Danny the Sentinel instead of Steve, Danny as the mer, Danny as a ex-cia operative.

lavvyan January 12 2014, 10:27:21 UTC

Maybe it's fandom's need to make Danny special as well? I mean, Steve's a Navy SEAL and heads the task force and has crazy survival skills (though that thing in the woods with the facepaint and the tree stump will never not crack me up), whereas Danny is "only" a divorced Jersey cop with great intuition and badass crime-solving skills. He clearly needs to be improved! So that Steve can be impressed! AND THERE SHALL BE KISSING!

I love many of those stories, but the underlying principle makes me a bit eye-rolly.

jimandblair January 12 2014, 11:33:40 UTC

Steve’s quite defined. In reality, how the fuck do we write the mindset of a thirty five year old US Naval Intelligence officer, who is a trained SEAL? Danny’s kind of the everyman, fish-out-of-water, and more physically vulnerable*. He’s intuitively more accessible to the writer. I think that his POV is easier to get into and more pliable.

*Steve is more emotionally vulnerable, which is all kinds of awesome.

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