I explained Paire to my friend 8D
My, ah, not-knowing-anything-about-Heroes friend. XD She was upset over Lupin/Tonks because she ended up loving the pairing AFTER Harry Potter had ended and they had, ah, yeah. >> But I told her this story to show her how I've gone through it, too. XD It was a while ago (August 23rd, I think) but it was really fun to do. 8D
Idifol says: (11:29:37 PM)
Anyway, I are sad about it!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:29:42 PM)
I was too! ;;
Idifol says: (11:29:54 PM)
Because I never DID care much about them and therefore wasn't too sad to see them go.
Idifol says: (11:30:02 PM)
I just accepted it, right?
Idifol says: (11:30:29 PM)
I just had a very neutral position with that pairing, only supporting it because it was canon, not quite understand what others saw, yes?
Idifol says: (11:30:55 PM)
And tHEN I READ AWESOME FIC OF DOOM AND THE ARE LIKE GAH ADORABLE abd it's just heartbreaking!
Idifol says: (11:31:00 PM)
Why, oh why?!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:05 PM)
Awwwww.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:09 PM)
I hate when that happens. D8
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:20 PM)
I have a story that might make you feel better. 8D
Idifol says: (11:31:44 PM)
I was easily over both the deaths and HP itself being over (I stopped liking it) and then I read fanfic and fanfic makes me love both again and it's OVER? UNFAIR.
Idifol says: (11:31:45 PM)
Story?
Idifol says: (11:31:48 PM)
Where?!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:54 PM)
XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:09 PM)
In my head, about a couple I ship in another fandom.
Idifol says: (11:32:22 PM)
Well, do tell me.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:25 PM)
Okay.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:33 PM)
Have you ever seen/heard of the TV show Heroes?
Idifol says: (11:32:46 PM)
Heard in passing.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:49 PM)
-nodnod-
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:33:11 PM)
Okay, so at the beginning there are these two characters who COULD be construed as the main characters, though all the characters are very important.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:33:32 PM)
There's Peter Petrelli, the hospice nurse and dreamer who wants to save the world - even if it's one person at a time.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:34:21 PM)
And then there's Claire, who's a cheerleader in Texas who is dealing with a lot in life because of her newfound ability to, ah, spontaneously regenerate.
Idifol says: (11:34:35 PM)
*nods*
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:35:15 PM)
Well, when Peter's trying to figure out what's happening to him (he's an empath, he absorbs the abilities of other people and can call upon them by thinking about said person) he gets a visit from a time-traveling man who told him to "save the cheerleader, save the world."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:36:27 PM)
So he visited this artist named Isaac Mendez because he was told he would have the answer, and he found a series of paintings that revolved around her - paintings of the future. Oh yeah, Isaac can paint the future. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:37:52 PM)
Anyway, I kinda started shipping it then - Peter was in a way obsessed with saving this cheerleader, even though he didn't know her, and even when he was painted in a picture at her high school dead.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:38:35 PM)
Well, obviously, the cheerleader turned out to be Claire - she bumped into him in the hallway while she was on her way to change for Homecoming.
Idifol says: (11:39:02 PM)
Aw, sweet!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:39:26 PM)
And they talked a little, Peter not knowing this girl was her, and he told her at the end of their conversation as she was walking away, "It gets better, you know. Life after high school - it gets better."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:40:35 PM)
And then the villain, named Sylar (he's one of my favourite characters, for some reason XD), attacks Claire's friend because he thinks she's Claire. When he finds out he found the wrong person, he started chasing Claire - who once again ran into Peter.
Idifol says: (11:41:05 PM)
*nods*
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:41:41 PM)
He basically threw himself and the attacker off of the school building, not knowing that he had absorbed Claire's ability to heal, and he technically "died." Until Claire came out, stood next to him in despair for a second until she saw him heal.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:41:59 PM)
Needless to say, she was amazed because she had no idea people like her existed.
Idifol says: (11:42:33 PM)
Oh, wow.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:43:02 PM)
Peter asks her, "Are you her? By saving you, did I save the world?" And Claire tells him with this sad, little smile, "I don't know, I'm just a cheerleader." before going to get help.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:43:20 PM)
Skip ahead a day or two, Peter was arrested for being at the crime scene but didn't have any charges.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:45:57 PM)
Claire visits him in jail, talks to him and asks, "How long have you known?
Peter: "Known what?"
Claire: "That you're like me."
"Wait... do you heal? Is that it?"
Claire nods, and Peter's like, "I'm not like you, Claire. I think I died."
"I've died before, it's not big deal."
"Yeah, well, this whole healing thing is kinda new to me."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:46:06 PM)
Continued, important conversation. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:46:35 PM)
Claire: "What, you didn't know you'd heal when you jumped off the building?"
Peter: "No. Kinda stupid, huh?"
Claire smiles, "It's not stupid."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:47:00 PM)
And then she moved to leave, and when she's about to walk out the door, she looks at him and tells him, "You're totally my hero."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:47:27 PM)
And by then I was like, "Ahhhhhhh, so cute. <333"
Idifol says: (11:48:10 PM)
"I've died before, it's not a big deal!" XDDDD
Idifol says: (11:48:30 PM)
I agree with you.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:25 PM)
A couple of things happened then; Peter was being trained to control his powers and to make him learn his... mentor threw him off a building to try and make him fly - turns out he didn't fly, instead landed on a taxi. XD But right before he crashed into the ground he got a mental flash of Claire which caused him to heal.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:32 PM)
Yaaay, I have an agreement!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:41 PM)
You probably won't agree for long, though, once I get to the clincher. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:48 PM)
But for now...
Idifol says: (11:49:58 PM)
Well, so far I agree.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:50:01 PM)
-nod-
Idifol says: (11:51:02 PM)
Continueplease?
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:53:43 PM)
Well, meanwhile Claire is searching our her biological parents - she finds her mother, who was supposed to be dead in a house fire (which, incidentally, Claire supposedly died in too), and was also accidently STARTED by her mother, who can control and create fire.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:53:53 PM)
Oh.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:54:04 PM)
I guess I have to explain about Claire's dad.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:54:21 PM)
He works with this company who "kidnaps" special people to see how they're progressing.
Idifol says: (11:54:45 PM)
Weird.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:54:55 PM)
It's mostly for their own safety, but he has this guy who can erase memories so when they're inserted back into their lives after a day of disappearing they don't remember anything.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:55:56 PM)
After the Homecoming event, her dad had Claire's best friend's and brother's memories erased of her power, and consequentially her best friend's friendship (since that was how they started being friends; he taped her trying to kill herself per her request).
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:56:37 PM)
He also sent the Haitian to erase Claire's memory, but he told her it was important for her to remember. So Claire has to act like she can't remember homecoming, or Peter, or anyone, and her trust in her father is shot.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:56:55 PM)
Until he regains her trust again, but that's a longer story - just know she does. XD
Idifol says: (11:57:02 PM)
Well, that's awful.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:58:06 PM)
Anyway, he sends her off with the Haitian to keep her safe from the company's hands since they found out she had a power, but instead of going to France she steals the Haitian's passport and goes to New York to find Peter - only to find her grandmother in her apartment with the Haitian.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:58:10 PM)
And now here's the clincher.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:59:25 PM)
Peter has a brother, named Nathan, who's running for congress in New York. Nathan Petrelli and Meredith Gordon, Claire's mom, had a "youthful folly" (as Mama Petrelli puts it) about sixteen years prior... which makes Nathan Claire's father, and Peter her uncle.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:59:41 PM)
And I was just like, "DDDDDDD8 Nooooooo!"
Idifol says: (12:00:19 AM)
....NOOOOOO
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:00:53 AM)
And it's just so hard, because no matter what I still ship them like crazy. XDDD Their on-screen chemistry is so strong.
Idifol says: (12:01:03 AM)
*giggles*
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:07 AM)
And the actors are dating in real life, too, so they obviously saw it too. XD
Idifol says: (12:01:16 AM)
I fail at percieving chemistry. I just see the wubb. <.<
Idifol says: (12:01:23 AM)
OH, I'm so sorry!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:26 AM)
Seeing the wubb is the seeing the chemisty.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:28 AM)
Hmm?
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:30 AM)
XD
Idifol says: (12:02:18 AM)
Well, I'm really sorry your ship had to end like that
Idifol says: (12:02:19 AM)
XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:03:19 AM)
But yeah, what makes it worse is that even though people write AU fanfiction where they're NOT related, I still prefer the canon relationship, but not just romantic stuff - friendship fics are my favourite. XD but I still prefer canon!romance over AU!romance because of the forbidden factor and the angst. >_> I don't know why.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:03:27 AM)
That's just the thing, though, I don't think it's over. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:04:40 AM)
In the preview for the third season it end with a shot of the future, and it goes like this:
Claire, sounding somewhat wistful: "I'm sorry Peter..." and she steels her voice, and raises a gun to point at his forehead, "I always loved you." And he closes his eyes and you hear a shot ring out.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:04:49 AM)
And I pretty much just went, "O_O"
Idifol says: (12:05:20 AM)
O_O
Idifol says: (12:05:26 AM)
Makes no sense.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:05:58 AM)
Mmmm, I've got a theory but I dunno. XD
Idifol says: (12:06:22 AM)
Well, I can safely say I don't understand. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:06:25 AM)
XD
Idifol says: (11:29:37 PM)
Anyway, I are sad about it!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:29:42 PM)
I was too! ;;
Idifol says: (11:29:54 PM)
Because I never DID care much about them and therefore wasn't too sad to see them go.
Idifol says: (11:30:02 PM)
I just accepted it, right?
Idifol says: (11:30:29 PM)
I just had a very neutral position with that pairing, only supporting it because it was canon, not quite understand what others saw, yes?
Idifol says: (11:30:55 PM)
And tHEN I READ AWESOME FIC OF DOOM AND THE ARE LIKE GAH ADORABLE abd it's just heartbreaking!
Idifol says: (11:31:00 PM)
Why, oh why?!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:05 PM)
Awwwww.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:09 PM)
I hate when that happens. D8
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:20 PM)
I have a story that might make you feel better. 8D
Idifol says: (11:31:44 PM)
I was easily over both the deaths and HP itself being over (I stopped liking it) and then I read fanfic and fanfic makes me love both again and it's OVER? UNFAIR.
Idifol says: (11:31:45 PM)
Story?
Idifol says: (11:31:48 PM)
Where?!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:31:54 PM)
XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:09 PM)
In my head, about a couple I ship in another fandom.
Idifol says: (11:32:22 PM)
Well, do tell me.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:25 PM)
Okay.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:33 PM)
Have you ever seen/heard of the TV show Heroes?
Idifol says: (11:32:46 PM)
Heard in passing.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:32:49 PM)
-nodnod-
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:33:11 PM)
Okay, so at the beginning there are these two characters who COULD be construed as the main characters, though all the characters are very important.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:33:32 PM)
There's Peter Petrelli, the hospice nurse and dreamer who wants to save the world - even if it's one person at a time.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:34:21 PM)
And then there's Claire, who's a cheerleader in Texas who is dealing with a lot in life because of her newfound ability to, ah, spontaneously regenerate.
Idifol says: (11:34:35 PM)
*nods*
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:35:15 PM)
Well, when Peter's trying to figure out what's happening to him (he's an empath, he absorbs the abilities of other people and can call upon them by thinking about said person) he gets a visit from a time-traveling man who told him to "save the cheerleader, save the world."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:36:27 PM)
So he visited this artist named Isaac Mendez because he was told he would have the answer, and he found a series of paintings that revolved around her - paintings of the future. Oh yeah, Isaac can paint the future. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:37:52 PM)
Anyway, I kinda started shipping it then - Peter was in a way obsessed with saving this cheerleader, even though he didn't know her, and even when he was painted in a picture at her high school dead.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:38:35 PM)
Well, obviously, the cheerleader turned out to be Claire - she bumped into him in the hallway while she was on her way to change for Homecoming.
Idifol says: (11:39:02 PM)
Aw, sweet!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:39:26 PM)
And they talked a little, Peter not knowing this girl was her, and he told her at the end of their conversation as she was walking away, "It gets better, you know. Life after high school - it gets better."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:40:35 PM)
And then the villain, named Sylar (he's one of my favourite characters, for some reason XD), attacks Claire's friend because he thinks she's Claire. When he finds out he found the wrong person, he started chasing Claire - who once again ran into Peter.
Idifol says: (11:41:05 PM)
*nods*
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:41:41 PM)
He basically threw himself and the attacker off of the school building, not knowing that he had absorbed Claire's ability to heal, and he technically "died." Until Claire came out, stood next to him in despair for a second until she saw him heal.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:41:59 PM)
Needless to say, she was amazed because she had no idea people like her existed.
Idifol says: (11:42:33 PM)
Oh, wow.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:43:02 PM)
Peter asks her, "Are you her? By saving you, did I save the world?" And Claire tells him with this sad, little smile, "I don't know, I'm just a cheerleader." before going to get help.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:43:20 PM)
Skip ahead a day or two, Peter was arrested for being at the crime scene but didn't have any charges.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:45:57 PM)
Claire visits him in jail, talks to him and asks, "How long have you known?
Peter: "Known what?"
Claire: "That you're like me."
"Wait... do you heal? Is that it?"
Claire nods, and Peter's like, "I'm not like you, Claire. I think I died."
"I've died before, it's not big deal."
"Yeah, well, this whole healing thing is kinda new to me."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:46:06 PM)
Continued, important conversation. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:46:35 PM)
Claire: "What, you didn't know you'd heal when you jumped off the building?"
Peter: "No. Kinda stupid, huh?"
Claire smiles, "It's not stupid."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:47:00 PM)
And then she moved to leave, and when she's about to walk out the door, she looks at him and tells him, "You're totally my hero."
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:47:27 PM)
And by then I was like, "Ahhhhhhh, so cute. <333"
Idifol says: (11:48:10 PM)
"I've died before, it's not a big deal!" XDDDD
Idifol says: (11:48:30 PM)
I agree with you.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:25 PM)
A couple of things happened then; Peter was being trained to control his powers and to make him learn his... mentor threw him off a building to try and make him fly - turns out he didn't fly, instead landed on a taxi. XD But right before he crashed into the ground he got a mental flash of Claire which caused him to heal.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:32 PM)
Yaaay, I have an agreement!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:41 PM)
You probably won't agree for long, though, once I get to the clincher. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:49:48 PM)
But for now...
Idifol says: (11:49:58 PM)
Well, so far I agree.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:50:01 PM)
-nod-
Idifol says: (11:51:02 PM)
Continueplease?
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:53:43 PM)
Well, meanwhile Claire is searching our her biological parents - she finds her mother, who was supposed to be dead in a house fire (which, incidentally, Claire supposedly died in too), and was also accidently STARTED by her mother, who can control and create fire.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:53:53 PM)
Oh.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:54:04 PM)
I guess I have to explain about Claire's dad.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:54:21 PM)
He works with this company who "kidnaps" special people to see how they're progressing.
Idifol says: (11:54:45 PM)
Weird.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:54:55 PM)
It's mostly for their own safety, but he has this guy who can erase memories so when they're inserted back into their lives after a day of disappearing they don't remember anything.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:55:56 PM)
After the Homecoming event, her dad had Claire's best friend's and brother's memories erased of her power, and consequentially her best friend's friendship (since that was how they started being friends; he taped her trying to kill herself per her request).
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:56:37 PM)
He also sent the Haitian to erase Claire's memory, but he told her it was important for her to remember. So Claire has to act like she can't remember homecoming, or Peter, or anyone, and her trust in her father is shot.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:56:55 PM)
Until he regains her trust again, but that's a longer story - just know she does. XD
Idifol says: (11:57:02 PM)
Well, that's awful.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:58:06 PM)
Anyway, he sends her off with the Haitian to keep her safe from the company's hands since they found out she had a power, but instead of going to France she steals the Haitian's passport and goes to New York to find Peter - only to find her grandmother in her apartment with the Haitian.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:58:10 PM)
And now here's the clincher.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:59:25 PM)
Peter has a brother, named Nathan, who's running for congress in New York. Nathan Petrelli and Meredith Gordon, Claire's mom, had a "youthful folly" (as Mama Petrelli puts it) about sixteen years prior... which makes Nathan Claire's father, and Peter her uncle.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (11:59:41 PM)
And I was just like, "DDDDDDD8 Nooooooo!"
Idifol says: (12:00:19 AM)
....NOOOOOO
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:00:53 AM)
And it's just so hard, because no matter what I still ship them like crazy. XDDD Their on-screen chemistry is so strong.
Idifol says: (12:01:03 AM)
*giggles*
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:07 AM)
And the actors are dating in real life, too, so they obviously saw it too. XD
Idifol says: (12:01:16 AM)
I fail at percieving chemistry. I just see the wubb. <.<
Idifol says: (12:01:23 AM)
OH, I'm so sorry!
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:26 AM)
Seeing the wubb is the seeing the chemisty.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:28 AM)
Hmm?
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:01:30 AM)
XD
Idifol says: (12:02:18 AM)
Well, I'm really sorry your ship had to end like that
Idifol says: (12:02:19 AM)
XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:03:19 AM)
But yeah, what makes it worse is that even though people write AU fanfiction where they're NOT related, I still prefer the canon relationship, but not just romantic stuff - friendship fics are my favourite. XD but I still prefer canon!romance over AU!romance because of the forbidden factor and the angst. >_> I don't know why.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:03:27 AM)
That's just the thing, though, I don't think it's over. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:04:40 AM)
In the preview for the third season it end with a shot of the future, and it goes like this:
Claire, sounding somewhat wistful: "I'm sorry Peter..." and she steels her voice, and raises a gun to point at his forehead, "I always loved you." And he closes his eyes and you hear a shot ring out.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:04:49 AM)
And I pretty much just went, "O_O"
Idifol says: (12:05:20 AM)
O_O
Idifol says: (12:05:26 AM)
Makes no sense.
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:05:58 AM)
Mmmm, I've got a theory but I dunno. XD
Idifol says: (12:06:22 AM)
Well, I can safely say I don't understand. XD
*naf Chaka/Carrie says: (12:06:25 AM)
XD