Questions from wheatear
1. Jak vs Ratchet: who would win?
I had to sit down and think about this one for a while. Assuming that Jak had a full charge of eco and Ratchet had an end-of-game set of guns... I think Ratchet would win. Jak's dark eco powers only have so much range, and most weapons of Ratchet's (aside from things like the Walloper) have a greater range than those!
2. What's the most obscure pairing that you like and why do you like it?
Another question I had to sit down and think about. 'Obscure' kind of makes me think 'canon but not often written about', so if I'm going by that definition...that would definitely have to be Raul/Samantha from Ergo Proxy.
It's hard to get much more obscure than this one, actually. It's canon - they're married. But Samantha is a very minor character who gets a handful of lines before being offed in the second episode, and you don't actually learn her name unless you check the credits. We never see them interact directly, although we get several one-sided phone conversations. I got to wondering about what their relationship was like, which meant extrapolating on those phone conversations, and just generally pondering how they might have met and ended up together and...well, I ended up with something that had been built up out of competition and snark but was ultimately loving - a combination that I love. The more I started to think about Samantha, the more she interested me - the impression that she gives isn't a good one in her brief appearances, but when I started to think about what she wanted and so on, she turned out to have some interesting depths.
I could be barking up the wrong tree with her, of course, but...heck, the field is wide open on this one, and I intend to take advantage of that. ;)
3. Do you or have you ever had any pets?
Currently, we have a dog called Clancy. He's a staffy/blue heeler/border collie and he looks mostly like this. He's about ten and a total wuss. He likes to come over and put his head on your lap, or else flop down at your feet and solicit a good tummy scratch.
Over the years, I've also owned three guinea pigs - one was killed by a cat within a few weeks of getting her, one inexplicably just died (we had a 'funeral' for her in the backyard and my brother insisted on humming the Imperial Theme from Star Wars. Needless to say, this did not win any points with me) and the last we gave away so that she wouldn't be lonely.
We also had a tabby cat called Fergus when I was about three. What I mostly remember about him is that he bit me once. Given the habit of my brother and I to carry him around (one of us grabbing him by the neck and the other by his tail), I cannot blame him at all. We gave him away when we moved to Canberra, and I hope his new home was more peaceful than one with two under-five children in it!!
4. Which film/TV episode/book etc always makes you cry?
Uh. Lessee. Films: Avatar and Moulin Rouge can make me cry outright, although I tend to get choked up a lot more than that - happy as well as sad parts, I am such a sap.
TV episodes: there's probably more than one, but the only one I can think of right now is the Teen Titans episode "How Long Is Forever". There is one part that gets me, always and without fail.
Books: there's actually not terribly many of these, or there wasn't until a few weeks ago. I've been reading a lot of Mercedes Lackey recently (almost worked my way through the entire Valdemar series! Anyone got a copy of 'Exile's Honor' I could borrow to complete it?), and there are parts that can just make me bawl. Magic's Pawn - if/when you read it, you will know the part I mean. Storm Warning - ditto. Brightly Burning, although that whole thing is a tear jerker if you've read the whole series.
5. What was the first fandom you were an active part of?
Teen Titans! I was twelve, and I stumbled across the concept of fanfiction quite by accident while I was reading some forum discussions about the end of Season 1. I was outraged by the first fic I read - it was a Robin/Raven. Needless to say, the first few weeks were...educational, for me. (Although I wasn't introduced to the concept of slash until I made my way into the Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom a bit later.) I wrote terrible Mary Sue fics and songfics, which have long since been deleted in the hopes that people will take me seriously. ;)
I had to sit down and think about this one for a while. Assuming that Jak had a full charge of eco and Ratchet had an end-of-game set of guns... I think Ratchet would win. Jak's dark eco powers only have so much range, and most weapons of Ratchet's (aside from things like the Walloper) have a greater range than those!
2. What's the most obscure pairing that you like and why do you like it?
Another question I had to sit down and think about. 'Obscure' kind of makes me think 'canon but not often written about', so if I'm going by that definition...that would definitely have to be Raul/Samantha from Ergo Proxy.
It's hard to get much more obscure than this one, actually. It's canon - they're married. But Samantha is a very minor character who gets a handful of lines before being offed in the second episode, and you don't actually learn her name unless you check the credits. We never see them interact directly, although we get several one-sided phone conversations. I got to wondering about what their relationship was like, which meant extrapolating on those phone conversations, and just generally pondering how they might have met and ended up together and...well, I ended up with something that had been built up out of competition and snark but was ultimately loving - a combination that I love. The more I started to think about Samantha, the more she interested me - the impression that she gives isn't a good one in her brief appearances, but when I started to think about what she wanted and so on, she turned out to have some interesting depths.
I could be barking up the wrong tree with her, of course, but...heck, the field is wide open on this one, and I intend to take advantage of that. ;)
3. Do you or have you ever had any pets?
Currently, we have a dog called Clancy. He's a staffy/blue heeler/border collie and he looks mostly like this. He's about ten and a total wuss. He likes to come over and put his head on your lap, or else flop down at your feet and solicit a good tummy scratch.
Over the years, I've also owned three guinea pigs - one was killed by a cat within a few weeks of getting her, one inexplicably just died (we had a 'funeral' for her in the backyard and my brother insisted on humming the Imperial Theme from Star Wars. Needless to say, this did not win any points with me) and the last we gave away so that she wouldn't be lonely.
We also had a tabby cat called Fergus when I was about three. What I mostly remember about him is that he bit me once. Given the habit of my brother and I to carry him around (one of us grabbing him by the neck and the other by his tail), I cannot blame him at all. We gave him away when we moved to Canberra, and I hope his new home was more peaceful than one with two under-five children in it!!
4. Which film/TV episode/book etc always makes you cry?
Uh. Lessee. Films: Avatar and Moulin Rouge can make me cry outright, although I tend to get choked up a lot more than that - happy as well as sad parts, I am such a sap.
TV episodes: there's probably more than one, but the only one I can think of right now is the Teen Titans episode "How Long Is Forever". There is one part that gets me, always and without fail.
Books: there's actually not terribly many of these, or there wasn't until a few weeks ago. I've been reading a lot of Mercedes Lackey recently (almost worked my way through the entire Valdemar series! Anyone got a copy of 'Exile's Honor' I could borrow to complete it?), and there are parts that can just make me bawl. Magic's Pawn - if/when you read it, you will know the part I mean. Storm Warning - ditto. Brightly Burning, although that whole thing is a tear jerker if you've read the whole series.
5. What was the first fandom you were an active part of?
Teen Titans! I was twelve, and I stumbled across the concept of fanfiction quite by accident while I was reading some forum discussions about the end of Season 1. I was outraged by the first fic I read - it was a Robin/Raven. Needless to say, the first few weeks were...educational, for me. (Although I wasn't introduced to the concept of slash until I made my way into the Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom a bit later.) I wrote terrible Mary Sue fics and songfics, which have long since been deleted in the hopes that people will take me seriously. ;)