Favourite Character Meme

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candesgirl gave me Supernatural, Star Trek: TOS, Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek: TNG.



1. Supernatural

You may have noticed that I've fallen fast and hard for this fandom, and that's more than anything to do with my love for Dean Winchester. I fell for him in the pilot episode, and everything we learn about him from that point on just makes me love him more. The thing about this fandom is that, actually, there isn't really anyone I don't like - I love Sam too, bless his sensitive little heart, and Castiel is 100% made of win, in every conceivable way. But despite this, making the 'favourite character' decision here didn't even give me pause. I think Dean is well-rounded and complex in ways that very few characters on television are. He wants you to think he's such a tough guy, this leather-jacket-wearing, Led Zeppelin-loving, swaggering demon hunter in his muscle car, all slick charm and sex, but the moment you start to look at his relationships with the people he loves, you know that's all a sham. I mean, he is that guy, but he's so much more than that. He's a kid who never had a childhood, who's been an adult since he was five years old. He's been the mother and wife of this fucked-up little family, looking after his father when his father should have been looking after him, and invested in his little brother to this truly unhealthy extent. Dean loves so hard, and it's admirable and terrifying, because there's such self-loathing mixed up in it. I love the little observations other people make about Dean, particularly the demons, the minor characters like the girl in the Christmas episode who wonders why he can't drop the act and be 'the way he is with his brother'. Ultimately, he's a righteous man. As Castiel puts it, he just doesn't believe he deserves to be saved, and that is just - just -

oh, Dean.

That's all I got.

2. Star Trek: TOS

Again, this is a show where I love everyone. I love the main trinity, and their interactions with each other; I love Scotty, I love Uhura. But I love Kirk best. I shouldn't, really - I should love Spock best, for obvious reasons; or McCoy, for his goddamn adorable grumpy Southernness. But I don't. I love James T. Kirk, for many of the same reasons, really, that I love Dean Winchester. He's so shiny-shiny-fantastic on the surface, but so layers and layers deep with insecurity and uncertainty under all the bravado. He's brave, he's a good soldier, but he doesn't blindly obey the letter of the law if he thinks it'll do damage to the people he loves. He puts his ship first, but to him, that really does mean the ship, as a family, including its inhabitants, rather than the ship as representative of the Fleet. I love the way he's drawn with humour; I love his relationship with Spock. I even love his failtastic inability to walk past a girl without flirting with her. And it's no secret that I really, really love his face.

I could probably go on about Kirk for a lot longer, but suffice it to say that there was no contest here, for me, either.

3. Sherlock Holmes

Watson.

Next!

No, no, okay. I'll admit it: I have a thing for overlooked sidekicks. People who appear to be ordinary, people who have no special obvious talent, but who manage to win out anyway, despite the fact that they're ordinary. The people about whom nothing is extraordinary except everything. You may have noticed that I go for the characters who love really hard. It's like Xander, in Buffy, who is the only one without any special power, anything holding him up outside of his own self and his beliefs, and yet who saves the world just with how much he loves his best friend. Watson's one of those. He's clever, he's handsome, he's a surgeon, he's a soldier, but of course he looks like nothing next to Holmes. Holmes rags on him all the time, and he puts up with it, because he isn't the genius; he isn't the brains of this operation. But Holmes needs him. And it does become obvious that this is very much the case; Holmes doesn't want Watson to leave him, increasingly can't imagine it, goes to great lengths to try to express his affection for Watson in his own, messed-up way. Watson is so warm, so steadfast, so necessary as the support for Holmes's madness; he keeps him in place when he could so easily have spun out of control without that pivot. Holmes would be lost without his Boswell. He knows it. Nothing pisses me off more than television adaptations that don't.

4. Star Trek: TNG

Hmm. I don't love TNG the way I love TOS, and the main reason for it is that I just don't love the characters enough. I think there are too many of them, maybe? Again, there's nobody I violently dislike, except Tasha Yar, possibly, but there's nobody I adore, either. I like Data, I like Geordie. I think my favourite is probably Worf. Goddamn, I love his voice. It's a lot of fun to randomly say things in Worf-voice, for example. Mundane statements become somehow elevated. "I am a delicate flower," for example. "Unicorns are real."

See?

Yeah, okay, this was a crappy answer. WORF!



If anyone wants me to give them four fandoms, just comment and ask. :)

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ST: TOS; ST: Voyager; 24, Glee?

In Which I Blatantly Cheat

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So I am going to blatantly cheat, mmmkay?

ST TOS: Wow. See, there are two characters I love in TOS. Kirk, of course, is a BAMF GQMF who is snarky and sly and has eyesex with Spock all the damn time. But the winner has to be our Southern, julep-drinking, compassionate, emotional doctor, who I wish to marry and whose children I wish to bear. I do not know what it is about De Kelley. I will probably never know. Maybe it's the eyes, maybe it's the surgeon's hands, maybe it's that look he gets when he's actually being serious and caring instead of snarky and brisk - not that I don't love snarky and brisk, of course. My point is, I could go on for days about Kelley's McCoy and not even come close to everything I want to say. And of course, it helps that my feelings for McCoy are inextricably bound up in my feelings for De, and vice-versa. You are stardust now, bb.

ST Voyager: I have had a rampant crush on Tom Paris since the first time I watched Voyager, with the devil-may-care bad-boy attitude and the way he looks at B'Elanna and the way he looks at his Captain and the way he says "yes, ma'am!" like the greatest thing he'll ever do is fly that ship. But really? My bb girl is my fiery, melty, tender, sweet, hardheaded Kathryn Janeway. There is nothing she does that doesn't make me either melt, swoon or cry. She just cares about her crew so damn much it's enough to stop my heart. All I know is, I'd follow her wherever she asked me to go, and if I have to say "How high?" when she asks me to jump I'm not doing my job, because I should already know. Oh, Kathryn...

24: Allison Taylor is my girl on this show. I've made no secret of it. I started watching the show because I knew Cherry Jones would be playing the President, and with every episode of season 7 I just fell in love with her more and more and more. Even in the trainwreck that was season 8, the way she looked at Ethan when she got hurt and the way she kept trying and trying for peace just makes me love her. (We're going to pretend this whole Logan thing never happened, because that? That was not my Allison.)

Glee: Kurt. Fucking. Hummel. He's such a bitchy queen and normally I hate that, but something about the way Chris Colfer plays him just... it makes him human. Also, bb can SING.

And now, bonus round!

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: I want to nibble Barbara Havers for the rest of my life. The cute, the snark, the shy, the awkward, the brilliant - every little thing about her makes me love her more. She's completely captivating, and I want to marry her like nothing else. I could just eat her alive. I just have all these visions of seeing her realize that someone does love her unconditionally, and although I ship her with Lynley hardcore, I will not deny that if I could get in the picture, Lynley wouldn't have a chance, because mine. Just look at that smile! *points to icon*