Comment here if you want to play, and I will give you three-six couples that I associate with you, and you make an entry in your journal talking about those couples and fics that you wish the universe would write for you.
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Nori/Thorin
My muses like to throw things at me that I have no idea what to do with at first, and this started as one of those things. Just. In the AU I had not intended to write more of, it worked, and not because of the other changes I made in that AU. (Agnu Ra Nutû, for those interested.)
I like a Nori who is unapologetic about what and who he is, and isn't going to change for anyone, not even those he loves. I like a Thorin, who while he has all the issues of Durin family FEELS, isn't going to go all sappy or soppy over anyone. Love between them, but neither of them are going to let being in love with each other stop them from doing what they have to do - and making the hard decisions, if it comes to that.
Seeing more of that? Would be awesome. And if it includes a Nori who isn't monogamous, or a third with them, I wouldn't object to pretty much any dwarf who isn't closely related (or non-dwarf characters) being the one involved.
Boromir/Éowyn
The fascination of this pairing is that it can be done without disturbing canon too much - although I will use just about any excuse to keep Boromir alive, and this provides one that works very well for me. And Éowyn isn't going to let being in Gondor and married to Boromir stop her from being a warrior and a damned good one at that. Boromir is (probably) not fool enough to try to stop her from keeping in practice, though he's going to do his best to make sure she never has to use that practice with blade and bow and horse for war.
It's also fun because it's a rare pairing (like the other two here, actually *smiles*), and so most of those who write it are writing stuff that's pretty good. Still, I wish there were just more of it, no matter if it's fitted around canon and Boromir dies, or canon is used as a reference while building an AU around the pairing.
Willow/Methos
I don't think it works with early Willow, but later Willow, the one who is exploring her magic more completely, and who has seen and touched darkness, it works so very well. She's the strength to see Methos's darker side and not flinch away. She's also intelligent enough and powerful enough to intrigue Methos, and that's enough to start from.
Although the AU I'm working with this pairing in skews more toward them as a non-romantic-romance, if that makes sense? There's physical attraction, there's compatibility of minds, there's a friendship, there's even love, but they're never really in love, as it were. Which is honestly the sort of relationship I have the most fun with, anyway.
I'd love to see more of post-series Willow and post-series Methos getting together, even just as friends, and how the relationship develops. Though I'm not terribly interested in them having any sort of shared info-dump (Methos telling Willow about Immortals, Willow telling Methos about demons), but more an unfolding of the exchange of knowledge over time. And more with Willow's magic interacting with Methos's Quickening, and how other people see that working.
I commented to
idontlikegravy and she gave me:Nori/Thorin
My muses like to throw things at me that I have no idea what to do with at first, and this started as one of those things. Just. In the AU I had not intended to write more of, it worked, and not because of the other changes I made in that AU. (Agnu Ra Nutû, for those interested.)
I like a Nori who is unapologetic about what and who he is, and isn't going to change for anyone, not even those he loves. I like a Thorin, who while he has all the issues of Durin family FEELS, isn't going to go all sappy or soppy over anyone. Love between them, but neither of them are going to let being in love with each other stop them from doing what they have to do - and making the hard decisions, if it comes to that.
Seeing more of that? Would be awesome. And if it includes a Nori who isn't monogamous, or a third with them, I wouldn't object to pretty much any dwarf who isn't closely related (or non-dwarf characters) being the one involved.
Boromir/Éowyn
The fascination of this pairing is that it can be done without disturbing canon too much - although I will use just about any excuse to keep Boromir alive, and this provides one that works very well for me. And Éowyn isn't going to let being in Gondor and married to Boromir stop her from being a warrior and a damned good one at that. Boromir is (probably) not fool enough to try to stop her from keeping in practice, though he's going to do his best to make sure she never has to use that practice with blade and bow and horse for war.
It's also fun because it's a rare pairing (like the other two here, actually *smiles*), and so most of those who write it are writing stuff that's pretty good. Still, I wish there were just more of it, no matter if it's fitted around canon and Boromir dies, or canon is used as a reference while building an AU around the pairing.
Willow/Methos
I don't think it works with early Willow, but later Willow, the one who is exploring her magic more completely, and who has seen and touched darkness, it works so very well. She's the strength to see Methos's darker side and not flinch away. She's also intelligent enough and powerful enough to intrigue Methos, and that's enough to start from.
Although the AU I'm working with this pairing in skews more toward them as a non-romantic-romance, if that makes sense? There's physical attraction, there's compatibility of minds, there's a friendship, there's even love, but they're never really in love, as it were. Which is honestly the sort of relationship I have the most fun with, anyway.
I'd love to see more of post-series Willow and post-series Methos getting together, even just as friends, and how the relationship develops. Though I'm not terribly interested in them having any sort of shared info-dump (Methos telling Willow about Immortals, Willow telling Methos about demons), but more an unfolding of the exchange of knowledge over time. And more with Willow's magic interacting with Methos's Quickening, and how other people see that working.