What Do You Want?

[rionaleonhart]

In case anyone who might be interested missed it on account of my terrible timing: I posted an X-Men: First Class fic whilst Livejournal was being difficult! No common sense. It is about Raven and Erik and Charles and their relationships with each other. It is also, inevitably, about Pokémon.

Over the weekend, I stayed with mogamus_ii! She had the first

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[derryderrydown]

Except LOGAN CAN'T DIE. In comics, he regularly gets frizzled down to a cracked skeleton, then pops back up again. So, really, he's about the only person who COULD be with Rogue.

[rionaleonhart]

CLEARLY MEANT TO BE.

[captlebubbles]

The only reason Rogue is taken with Logan and the Popsicle is because she hasn't met Gambit yet. ROGUE/GAMBIT IS OTOTP OKAY.

Completely unrelated to my rabid Romy fansqueeing, here, have a comic I found online, like, aaaaaaaaaaages ago.

[rionaleonhart]

I'LL FIGHT YOU

Well, all right, I won't. I'm not really the 'shipwar-waging type. But I appear to be an absolute nutcase OTPer over these two, and opposing pairings actually make me a bit sad. This almost never happens to me!

That comic is quite cute, though.

[captlebubbles]

Romy is actually my only OTP that is actually OTP. ROGUE BELONGS WITH REMY. FULLSTOP. Anyway I always like the interpretation of Logan being fond of Rogue as a favorite student/surrogate little sister/whatever rather than a romantic option. Probably comes from watching Animated, where they were like siblings, then Evolution, where he was a kinda mentor (a relationship that didn't get explored NEARLY enough). I actually found the implied one-sided romance in the movies to be quite jarring.

[rionaleonhart]

Apparently X-Men has a way of making people really invested in pairings! ALSO LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU.

[yumiboo]

X-MEN FILMS WHY ARE LOGAN AND ROGUE NOT MAKING OUT CONSTANTLY

YES, X-MEN FILMS WHY NOT?!

I thought I was the only one who totally shipped those two together! I remember squeeing at them both when I first saw them together, and all of my friends being all like 'but he likes Jean and that's who he's supposed to like'. I'm sure I was sad.

I mean... the only other person I likes Rogue with was Gambit, but I think that had a lot to do with the fact that I watched the cartoons like a bit massive nerd every Saturday morning because... well... Gambit has cards that light on fire. That's pretty impressive stuff!

[captlebubbles]

Don't forget that one verse where she had a kid with Mags.

[yumiboo]

Oh my word! I did forget, and now I am astonished and delighted all at once!

[captlebubbles]

And of course there's her boyfriend that activated her powers. I forget his name, just that he got turned into a bug in Animated.

[denorios]

Oh my God, I was a diehard Wolverine/Rogue shipper back in the day. Im a sucker for May/December relationships anyway, and those two...

Yeah, Wolverine and Jean sucked. No chemistry at all.

[rionaleonhart]

I approve of your back-in-the-day 'shipping!

The Logan/Jean really did take me completely by surprise. The closest analogy I can think of is Lupin/Tonks, where I also went 'wait, what, where did that come from, was I meant to be aware of this?' But Logan/Jean was even more startling for me, because Lupin/Tonks was clearly meant to be a bit of a surprise, whereas I got the impression that I was meant to have picked up on Logan/Jean beforehand and I really, really didn't.

Plus Lupin didn't have massive chemistry with Rogue before the Tonks reveal.

[kerrypolka]

BUT HE WOULD HAVE

[kestrellan]

I rewatched X-Men yesterday and though it was obvious Rogue had a crush on Logan I definitely can't see them together. I think their levels of maturity are too far apart? I mean, they're both still unsure of themselves but in very different ways. I see their relationship as familial (uncle/niece perhaps?)

On the other hand, I also really don't ship Logan/Jean either. Jean is with Scott. I think it's out of order for Logan to go after her after learning that (though I do love the interractions between Logan and Scott). So. Yeah. I also rediscovered my love of Cyclops on that rewatch :3

Oh yeah, and as regards Charles/Erik? It's difficult to ship them in this film. I see a yearning for past friendship but there seems to be to much bitterness and disappointment between the two of them to see beyond that. :(

[rionaleonhart]

your perfectly reasonable arguments against my new OTP have no place here :(

I think it's out of order for Logan to go after her after learning that

Me too! I was a bit uneasy with the way Logan pursued her. But, then again, I am tremendously biased.

'Shipping or no 'shipping, the relationship between Erik and Charles was still a really interesting one, and they had more interaction than I was expecting given that they were on different sides. It's a much more complicated enmity than in most superhero tales I've seen, and I'm deeply intrigued by it.