30 Days of: Favorite Relationships

renay asked about my favorite character relationships in canons other than Final Fantasy.

One of the side effects of not really writing in other fandoms is that I might give the impression of not really being that interested in other canons or other fandoms. This could not be farther from the truth! Just because I am not often inspired to write outside the FF world doesn't mean that I don't enjoy reading fic about other canons, or metaing in them. (Especially meta; I will happily meta about almost any canon that I'm familiar with.) So, in no particular order, here's a little bit about 10 pairings/friendships that I am very fond of.

( The list! Very minor and vague spoilers for The West Wing, the Amber series, and Lost. )

So you may have noticed that seven of these groupings are friendships. Of the three romantic pairings, two are canon and the third has notable canon support; as well, the friendships listed are ones I resist seeing as romance, even those like Joey/Chandler and Sora/Riku which are very popular in their fandoms. I think this is really typical for me, because I am resistant to subtext. I almost always need some textual evidence to hang a 'ship on. And that's not just for romance, but for any interpretation of canon. I suspect this is also why I am so stubborn about my 'ships: once I've found evidence for a 'ship in canon, it's real to me. I can't unsee it.

The other thing I notice is that all of these examples are from books and TV shows, and one video game. No movies, even though there are many movie characters and relationships I love. Once again, though, I think this goes back to having more canonical text to work with. Even a series of movies is going to have a few hours of canon at most.

But this has gone sideways to the original question. And of course now I'm thinking of all the people I left out (Dream and Death! Garak and Bashir, and Sisko and Dax! Picard/Crusher and Worf/Troi! Harry, Hermione, and Ron! Arthur and The Tick! Luke/Lorelei!) so I had better stop before this post takes over the world.

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