March 5 - Romantic dynamics!

[seren_ccd]

For redbrunja - repeated romantic dynamics in your shipper history.

I shall list them!

1. Respect between the two romantic leads for their respective capabilities. They may not like each other or be attracted to each other at first, but they darn well appreciate how hard they work.

2. Snark. Give me some fun dialogue and I'm a happy Seren.

3. Equal footing. I always try to make sure that if one person has one kind of advantage over the other, the other person has another type of advantage. For example - with my Primeval pairing of Jess and Becker - Becker may be a serious badass of a soldier and can take out a man 40 different ways with a teaspoon, Jess can run rings around his computer skills. I like a level playing field amongst the characters.

4. I like tall guys and petite ladies. I can't help it. I'm a rather petite lady and le husband is 6", so there's a thing there.

5. Jenny Crusie once mentioned that in Moonstruck the two leads are utterly wrecked by each other in a fantastic way. I like that. I like the leads to have to throw out all previous preconceptions about love, people and themselves and just have to go with it.

6. They need to learn from each other. They hold each other up and NEVER bring each other down EVER.

7. Oh, heck - THEY HAVE TO LIKE EACH OTHER. There was a post going around tumblr about how some pairings are all 'Oh, we will defeat this evil together because we are MEANT TO BE', but would they enjoy sitting down and watching a bad sci-fi movie together and going grocery shopping? I like my pairings to enjoy grocery shopping together. I fully expect them to bicker over whether or not to get ice cream or cake or pie and end up with all three.

I think that's the lot. :D

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck - THEY HAVE TO LIKE EACH OTHER

So much agreement. There is a book called The Bronze Horseman that I did not like as a whole, but one thing it did really well was have a period about 2/3 of the way through the novel where the two main characters are just spending time together, without the threat of death or family disapproval over their heads, and the fact that they COULD was a really solid mark in their favor.

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

Exactly. *nods* I'm all for destiny and one true loves, but if they can't just have a chat about nothing, it actually doesn't do anything for me.