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Fandom Meme, 11
Jul. 22nd, 2021 08:40 am11. Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
I’m probably going to go down with the good ship Steve/Bucky, which is unfortunate given Marvel’s… everything. It’s like they smashed together everything that I like into one epic ship. World War II! Childhood friends to lovers! The Soviet Union! Fish out of water stories! (They played Steve’s man out of time thing mostly for laughs, but it has great tragic potential.) Characters who were friends ending up on opposite sides of a fight, where one character refuses to fight the other, and their love and self-sacrifice bring the other character back to the light!
My ur-pairing for that particular plotline is Jaina Solo/Zekk from the Young Jedi Knights series. Zekk is Jaina’s street urchin friend, who gets recruited by the Shadow Academy after the regular Jedi Academy inexplicably fails to notice his talent with the Force, and then Zekk leads the Shadow Academy’s attack on the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, which culminates with Zekk facing Jaina for a one-on-one duel. Jaina apologizes for past mistakes and asks him to stop fighting. When he refuses, she throws aside her lightsaber, and stands there with open hands as Zekk raises his lightsaber so close that she can feel it crackling alongside her neck…
God, that’s the good stuff. Of course he can’t kill her. The power of her love and faith in him draw him back to the light, and then he joins the regular Jedi Academy and they go on adventures together, presumably, it’s been probably twenty years since I read the books and the rest of it didn’t stick with me quite like the crackling of Zekk’s lightsaber beside Jaina’s neck.
(One of the more exasperating features of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the fact that it had Sam try this sacrifice move on the Flag Smashers’ leader Karli without setting up the necessary groundwork between the characters. This kind of scene only works if the characters have some powerful prior connection. Sam and Karli had a single conversation one time which got cut short in a way that made Karli think Sam was just stalling for time to capture her.)
I’m probably going to go down with the good ship Steve/Bucky, which is unfortunate given Marvel’s… everything. It’s like they smashed together everything that I like into one epic ship. World War II! Childhood friends to lovers! The Soviet Union! Fish out of water stories! (They played Steve’s man out of time thing mostly for laughs, but it has great tragic potential.) Characters who were friends ending up on opposite sides of a fight, where one character refuses to fight the other, and their love and self-sacrifice bring the other character back to the light!
My ur-pairing for that particular plotline is Jaina Solo/Zekk from the Young Jedi Knights series. Zekk is Jaina’s street urchin friend, who gets recruited by the Shadow Academy after the regular Jedi Academy inexplicably fails to notice his talent with the Force, and then Zekk leads the Shadow Academy’s attack on the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, which culminates with Zekk facing Jaina for a one-on-one duel. Jaina apologizes for past mistakes and asks him to stop fighting. When he refuses, she throws aside her lightsaber, and stands there with open hands as Zekk raises his lightsaber so close that she can feel it crackling alongside her neck…
God, that’s the good stuff. Of course he can’t kill her. The power of her love and faith in him draw him back to the light, and then he joins the regular Jedi Academy and they go on adventures together, presumably, it’s been probably twenty years since I read the books and the rest of it didn’t stick with me quite like the crackling of Zekk’s lightsaber beside Jaina’s neck.
(One of the more exasperating features of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the fact that it had Sam try this sacrifice move on the Flag Smashers’ leader Karli without setting up the necessary groundwork between the characters. This kind of scene only works if the characters have some powerful prior connection. Sam and Karli had a single conversation one time which got cut short in a way that made Karli think Sam was just stalling for time to capture her.)
