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[sour_idealist]

Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.

I will try to keep the disgust to a minimum.

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[sour_idealist]

I... actually really don't like this one at all, for two reasons of varying rationality.

1) The whole thing has certain overtones of teacher/student, to me, particularly in the scene where he was showing her around the Penrose Steps, but really every scene they have together places him as the one explaining something to her. The only exception is that tiny snippet by the river at the end, and even then, he's still taking responsibility for her well-being (handing her the oxygen and everything). And unlike Cobb, who also protects her and teaches her, there's no balance; she doesn't ever exert any real power over him. This wouldn't be such a big deal except that teacher/student is one of my biggest squicks ever.

2) Okay, so, he has a certain authority over her. That comes from his greater knowledge of the dreamscape. And then he abuses that to trick her into kissing him. Dick move there, Arthur.

I love them as friends, and for some reason inserting Eames for an OT3 dynamic kills the teacher/student DNW entirely, but I just... don't really like them as a romantic couple. (...Yes, there is that one fic, but even that felt a little uncomfortable and I hadn't really thought about why I disliked it yet.)

[trialia]

That works.

[sour_idealist]

I can totally understand why others ship them, I hasten to add, and if it were balanced out a bit then it could be really great.