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[bookelfe]

I have not forgotten about my Top Fives! littledust asked me for my Top Five BFF moments in fiction, which is a NIGH-IMPOSSIBLE REQUEST. So, fair warning: I am going to blatantly cheat. I am also going to babble a lot about dorky feelings. Stoic types who are embarrassed by this may wish to turn back here! I won't hold it against you.

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[spellcoats]

GOD I LOVE MILLIE AND CHRISTOPHER SO MUCH.

[bookelfe]

THEY ARE THE BEST DORKS

wait I am sorry Christopher, I meant the smoothest, most charming and glamorous at all times, how could I so misspeak

[spellcoats]

Have you seen the comic that halcyonjazz did of Christopher confessing his Deep and Ardent Affections to Millie (with Conrad as unwilling moral support), and Millie just being like.......NO.

[bookelfe]

I DID AND IT WAS GLORIOUS. Oh my god. <33333MILLIE<3333333 (I still desperately want someone to write the fic where Sophie and Millie hang out and roll their eyes at their ~super dramatic~ husbands while Howl and Christopher attempt to out-dressing-gown each other.)

[ojuzu]

Am I remembering wrong, or were Yoko and Rakushun's hilariously awkward hugs also hilariously awkward naked hugs?

I actually don't ship Millie and Christopher at all! They are adorable BFFs and I always got the feeling they just got married and had kids because it was The Thing To Do. It makes me sad that all the fics out there are shippy, because I just want them to be awesome hilarious BFFs for ever.

Utena and Anthy and their promise to drink tea together in ten years! OH MY HEART. <3

Mai and Ty Lee! They have grown on me so much since I first watched the series, but that episode was the one that clinched it for me. They should hang out and be badass and fantastic forever. \o/ Also, I may possibly have started writing an alternate universe where Mai and Ty Lee rule the Fire Nation. For reasons of awesome. Can I blame this on you at all?

[bookelfe]

The first hilariously awkward hug was only naked because Rakushun was an unclothed rat! (Rakushun: "TRUST ME, THIS IS AWKWARD. YOU DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT YOU WILL PROBABLY FIND OUT.") The second one came later and was human-shaped naked because as a rat he is too small to give proper hugs. And therefore BRAVED THE AWKWARD. <33333

Awww, I ship it - though I did not ship it hard before Conrad's Fate, but I was won over by Christopher being hilariously ready to swoop Millie off her feet while Millie firmly refused to be swept. They are total BFFs regardless, though! I love them together in any context.

I have just started an Utena rewatch (having finished the one about the crossdressing nun, and oh is a post on THAT forthcoming) and I AM EXCITE. For . . . many scenes, but that one definitely included!

*cracking up* I don't think I can fairly take credit for any of that, BUT IT IS NONETHELESS AWESOME.

[nevacaruso]

Yay for Utena and Anthy! Yay for Millie and Christopher!

[bookelfe]

Their interactions fill me with joy always!

this is the closest icon I have to non-shippy BFFery

[futuresoon]

I do not know all of the people on this list but the ones I do know are ones I HEARTILY APPROVE OF. I uh may have recently acquired the third Chronicles of Chrestomanci book but am saving it for the five-hour plane ride I will be having in like five weeks, assuming I can wait that long, the promise of Christopher + Millie dorkery is highly tempting

Re: this is the closest icon I have to non-shippy BFFery

[bookelfe]

I AM GLAD. :D hahaha GOOD LUCK WAITING. Although due to the weirdness of DWJ numbering/publication order I do not know which you mean by the third! :O If it is Conrad's Fate, though, then that is the one that is full of Christopher and Millie being adorkable and *_*. BUT THE OTHERS ARE ALL EXCELLENT TOO.

Re: this is the closest icon I have to non-shippy BFFery

[futuresoon]

It is a compilation of Conrad's Fate and The Pinhoe Egg, which are the only ones I have not read as far as I know. And I maintain that the proper order is The Lives of Christopher Chant --> Charmed Life, not the other way around. CHRONOLOGICAL IS ALMOST ALWAYS BETTER

Re: this is the closest icon I have to non-shippy BFFery

[bookelfe]

OH RIGHT I FORGOT ABOUT THE COMPILATIONS. MOST EXCELLENT, then. >:D >:D Also I totally agree! Lofty Chrestomanci!Christopher is twice as lolarious when you realize that he grew up out of baby self-centered Christopher bossing everyone else around.

[shati]

This list made me smile so much! Baby robot and his baby sister! Ty Lee's crowning moment of awesome! (And I love that it's not at all about the bigger picture for her in that scene, and that if it was Mai about to kill Azula I could easily see her going the other way.) MOMOKO!

I want to see Mai and Ty Lee and Ichigo and Momoko all in the same room. I think it would be epic.

So remember that time that Utena and Anthy drank tea together, and were totally best friends despite a number of complicated dynamics in their relationship at that point, and then promised to do the same thing together in ten years, and then Anthy tried to commit suicide (although it probably wouldn't have worked) and then Utena was like YOU PROMISED and my heart exploded? Because I do

[bookelfe]

(Yesss me too. I love how for Ty Lee it is all about the personal, it is BFFS SHOULD NOT KILL BFFS. Ty Leeeee <3333) OH MAN SO DO I NOW. *___* Headbutting I think is gloriously inevitable! Headbutting and hair tips.

That's fine, Shati, I put ebola in your Akio icon. ^__^

[genarti]

That's all right. I laced your font tags with strychnine.