Red and Black: Craig and Ellie

Jun 02, 2008 03:34

Title: Red and Black
Author: moirariordan
Fandom: Degrassi: The Next Generation
Pairing: Craig Manning/Ellie Nash
Spoilers: Up to What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?, season seven.
Email: downopheliadrowns@hotmail.com

It's not romance, but something more important. )

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cherrycoloured June 15 2008, 02:13:28 UTC
I hated Craig...then I read this...and now I don't hate him! I still hate Ashley though. xD But lovely manifesto! I think I like this ship now. I always hated Crash because I hate Ashley (and until now, hated Craig), and I hated Cranny because of what it did to one of my favorite characters, Manny. It was not a good relationship at all. But reading this has made me really like Crellie. The part about them being so open with each other and seeing the dark areas but still loving each other is what gets me.

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explainingsound August 16 2008, 05:28:23 UTC
meh, this was not meant for me but I'm replying anyway 'cause I'm a creeper like that...
I'm not a hardcore Manny fan, largely because I had the same but opposite reaction to Cranny as you: I hated what Cranny did to her. I went into it, however, with Craig being my favorite character, so basically what it did was make me hate her. Once she stopped being so ZOMGCRAIG! I realized that I actually do like her a whole lot... but ugh I hate her with him. SO, I totally understand how it could make you hate Craig...

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itstruelovee July 14 2008, 12:59:51 UTC
I really, really enjoyed reading this. I abandoned Degrassi in season four when all the Craig/Ashley/Manny drama was escalating just because it was so much and I didn't really feel that Craig belonged with either one of them. Prior to this, I was an off-and-on Craig/Ashley shipper. I caught a few episodes later on, when Ellie admitted to her crush on Craig, but never really saw any scenes with the two interacting aside from the cocaine episode, so I didn't really understand the two as a couple. After reading this, I really want to go watch season five now, but not only that, it has made me understand Craig/Ellie on a deeper level. They would be perfect together - too bad there are never really happy endings on Degrassi.

I adore all your Life with Derek fics; I'm now going to have to go check out your Craig/Ellie fics because I'm sure they are just as good.

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explainingsound August 16 2008, 05:22:05 UTC
This was awesome. I'm very out of the Degrassi loop, but I was right on board with you for pretty much all of it. Craig is definitely my favorite character and Ellie is a close second. The pair of them are the most talented actors on the show... and on an only vaguely related noted, the Shakespeare scene you mentioned is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series.

I am not very good with UC ships and for my top 5s I was asked to do 5 non-canon ships aaaaaand since I can't come up with 5 purely non-canon, I'm slightly cheating and putting this on my list, and I'm totally linking this post because it's phenomenal. ♥

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green_aurora September 9 2009, 08:30:56 UTC
The "Degrassi Goes Hollywood" movie does them some justice nicely and finally wraps up their friend/relationship.

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