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The best for last, my two big wubbies! :D
OK, Lisa Simpson? Probably my first true love of the series. (Homer more sort of grew on me at first, but for so long now I can't live without him.)
Now, ever since a kid I've always had a special soft spot for the brainy types. (And for girls either being like boys or pretending to be boys, but that's completely off topic.) So Lisa might have gotten on me so fast mostly out of brilliance, but has since grown on me for her other qualities. Her determination to do what is right over what is easy, her strong sense of loyalty and also her flaws and how they have formed her.
In flaws, what I mainly think of is partially her inability to accept that she might be wrong, and partially her arrogance.
In those ways she reminds a lot of Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. Too self-assured, stubbornly refuse to believe her logic would fail her, but with a good heart and the wish to always do the right thing.
Lisa has at times done the wrong thing willingly, such as stopping her sister from playing the saxophone to not be outdone by her. (Even though one of her main drives is to make sure that Maggie can grow to be an equal to her in intelligence, or at least have a shot at doing so.) Lisa's relationship with Maggie is one of the few simple relationships in the Simpsons. Lisa wants Maggie to have the opportunities she didn't have, and to help her get smarter.
Lisa's moral drive is the most defining characteristic she has, and it's also what makes her so unpopular in Springfield. Partially because Springfield as a whole is pretty amoral and partially because she has a tendency to see issues in black and white, and thus often end up choosing one extreme over the other when both are bad. But one can't deny that this drive of hers comes from her heart, and wanting to see her hometown/school/familymember/friend improve its ways. It does at times make her feel a bit too self-righteous at times, in a "I'm-a-vegetarian-and-thus-better-than-you"-way, but it doesn't happen often as she both has low confidence at times and strives for humble perfection.
So, the pimp-part? The show just keeps coming with guys either falling for her or her falling for them. Some personal favorites of mine include Luke from that dude-ranch, the guy from West Springfield Elementary whom she spinned around with for hours and that boy in Brazil that she penpaled and gave money to for buyin dance-shoes. Why the writers keep throwing in these potential love interests? It could be both that Lisa is one that grows on you quite a lot and because her maturity for her age makes her interesting for seeing mature relationships with kids involved.
Harry Potter/Lisa Simpson is crossover-OTP btw. And it's canon too! (You see, in HP-fandom everything the author says is more important than what the books say. And JK Rowling did tell Lisa that Harry Potter "grows up and marries you". It's even more canon that Harry/Ginny, because she never said those two get married.)
I also have a more creepy pairing for Lisa, which is very much based on one episode and one scene in particular:
Lisa: "You're evil! And when you try to be good, you're even more evil."
Burns: "I don't understand. ~snip~ You inspired it."
So yes, Burns/Lisa, for the kink of manipulating a good-natured girl and use her goodness to turn her evil. And for the times when I really want cross-gen. (How many generations are we talking about really?) Of course she has to be grownup and Burns must have just begun by manipulating her to follow an evil plan of his, until he sees and appreciates how she's grown.
So in summary: I love Lisa both for her brilliance and her obvious flaws. And in my love for her, I want to find good love for her, but I can't decide which so I multi-ship her. Except angst with Lisa is so interesting and that's what I get from Burns/Lisa.
All the romantical relationships aside, there is one relationship that Lisa has that pwns them all. The relationship she has with her father, Homer. Because lets face it, if they weren't family, they'd probably never be friends. Because that would have to require them to get to know one another, and being such glaring opposites would push them away from each other.
But being opposites have in ways brought them closer by first pushing them apart, and it most certainly have made them grow in ways. Especially Lisa who has her father to thank a lot for realising the importance of accepting others' opinons even when you think they're completely wrong. (The vegetarian episode.)
The best point to this with Homer is his understanding, in spite of not understanding his daughter, that she's the best thing he ever helped create. (Yeah, so it means he downvalues his other kids, but he still loves 'em.) There are really only two characters in the entire show that can make Homer make the right choice. Lisa and Marge.
Flanders: "How do you silent that little voice inside of you?"
Homer: "You mean Lisa?"
Marge is Homer's true love, and Lisa is his common sense, and the two of them have their work cut out for them.
So, that's it for now. Will probably go into Homersexuality later.
OK, Lisa Simpson? Probably my first true love of the series. (Homer more sort of grew on me at first, but for so long now I can't live without him.)
Now, ever since a kid I've always had a special soft spot for the brainy types. (And for girls either being like boys or pretending to be boys, but that's completely off topic.) So Lisa might have gotten on me so fast mostly out of brilliance, but has since grown on me for her other qualities. Her determination to do what is right over what is easy, her strong sense of loyalty and also her flaws and how they have formed her.
In flaws, what I mainly think of is partially her inability to accept that she might be wrong, and partially her arrogance.
In those ways she reminds a lot of Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. Too self-assured, stubbornly refuse to believe her logic would fail her, but with a good heart and the wish to always do the right thing.
Lisa has at times done the wrong thing willingly, such as stopping her sister from playing the saxophone to not be outdone by her. (Even though one of her main drives is to make sure that Maggie can grow to be an equal to her in intelligence, or at least have a shot at doing so.) Lisa's relationship with Maggie is one of the few simple relationships in the Simpsons. Lisa wants Maggie to have the opportunities she didn't have, and to help her get smarter.
Lisa's moral drive is the most defining characteristic she has, and it's also what makes her so unpopular in Springfield. Partially because Springfield as a whole is pretty amoral and partially because she has a tendency to see issues in black and white, and thus often end up choosing one extreme over the other when both are bad. But one can't deny that this drive of hers comes from her heart, and wanting to see her hometown/school/familymember/friend improve its ways. It does at times make her feel a bit too self-righteous at times, in a "I'm-a-vegetarian-and-thus-better-than-you"-way, but it doesn't happen often as she both has low confidence at times and strives for humble perfection.
So, the pimp-part? The show just keeps coming with guys either falling for her or her falling for them. Some personal favorites of mine include Luke from that dude-ranch, the guy from West Springfield Elementary whom she spinned around with for hours and that boy in Brazil that she penpaled and gave money to for buyin dance-shoes. Why the writers keep throwing in these potential love interests? It could be both that Lisa is one that grows on you quite a lot and because her maturity for her age makes her interesting for seeing mature relationships with kids involved.
Harry Potter/Lisa Simpson is crossover-OTP btw. And it's canon too! (You see, in HP-fandom everything the author says is more important than what the books say. And JK Rowling did tell Lisa that Harry Potter "grows up and marries you". It's even more canon that Harry/Ginny, because she never said those two get married.)
I also have a more creepy pairing for Lisa, which is very much based on one episode and one scene in particular:
Lisa: "You're evil! And when you try to be good, you're even more evil."
Burns: "I don't understand. ~snip~ You inspired it."
So yes, Burns/Lisa, for the kink of manipulating a good-natured girl and use her goodness to turn her evil. And for the times when I really want cross-gen. (How many generations are we talking about really?) Of course she has to be grownup and Burns must have just begun by manipulating her to follow an evil plan of his, until he sees and appreciates how she's grown.
So in summary: I love Lisa both for her brilliance and her obvious flaws. And in my love for her, I want to find good love for her, but I can't decide which so I multi-ship her. Except angst with Lisa is so interesting and that's what I get from Burns/Lisa.
All the romantical relationships aside, there is one relationship that Lisa has that pwns them all. The relationship she has with her father, Homer. Because lets face it, if they weren't family, they'd probably never be friends. Because that would have to require them to get to know one another, and being such glaring opposites would push them away from each other.
But being opposites have in ways brought them closer by first pushing them apart, and it most certainly have made them grow in ways. Especially Lisa who has her father to thank a lot for realising the importance of accepting others' opinons even when you think they're completely wrong. (The vegetarian episode.)
The best point to this with Homer is his understanding, in spite of not understanding his daughter, that she's the best thing he ever helped create. (Yeah, so it means he downvalues his other kids, but he still loves 'em.) There are really only two characters in the entire show that can make Homer make the right choice. Lisa and Marge.
Flanders: "How do you silent that little voice inside of you?"
Homer: "You mean Lisa?"
Marge is Homer's true love, and Lisa is his common sense, and the two of them have their work cut out for them.
So, that's it for now. Will probably go into Homersexuality later.