Fannish character meme

[auroracloud]

A meme grabbed from kindkit, because I want to be social about something and this seems like a good way. And also because I haven't done a fandom meme in a while and this looks like fun.


Give me a character and I'll tell you some things:

1. How I feel about this character

2. All the people I ship romantically and/or sexually with this character

3. Favorite gen relationship(s) for this character

4. My unpopular opinion about this character

5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.

7. A song or piece of music I associate with this character.


Feel free to pick any fandom that you know I like. If you're not sure if I know/like something, try it and I'll tell you if I don't know the fandom/character enough to have these opinions. Just one caveat: if you pick Doctor Who, I've still got very conflicted feelings about the Chibnall era thanks to the S12 finale, so please be a sweetheart and don't pick the characters from that era. Anything else goes, old and new.

My AO3 account - not only my own works but also my bookmarks etc. - can provide you some ideas as to which fandoms I've been into in the recent years, if you have trouble remembering.

Comments

[flowersforgraves]

juno steel!

[auroracloud]

1. Oh, Juno, I love him so much. He's such a fascinating character and I utterly love him and want to hug him and protect him from all harm, though I can't. (Not to mention that if we were in the same space, he'd be the one protecting me, it's not like he'd have it any other way.) I also am frequently very frustrated with him and his inability to let himself be happy or take care of himself and I just want to shake him and force him to do a good thing for himself dammit. I'm also sometimes a little scared of his pessimism and his readiness to resort to violence, to lie and bluff, and to take insane risks. He makes me sad sometimes, though at times it's the good kind of sad, the kind that is healing. I also find him deeply empowering as a protagonist and a hero, because he is so depressed and broken and complicated, and it's not often you get that degree of honesty and compassion in who gets to be a main character. He's one of my absolute favourite characters in any media, and that's saying a lot. But I do still want to shake him at times. Sometimes a lot.

2. Peter Nureyev and all and any of his aliases. Not really anyone else so far, but then again, that's plenty.

3. I really adore Juno's relationship with Rita in particular. I remember that right at first I found Rita grating, which is probably not a surprise, but after a while I started to get what her character was really about, and how Juno couldn't get by without her and how important they are to each other. Also adore their constant complaints about each other and how loyal she is to him even if she whines about every assignment he gives her. Apart from her, I'm really intrigued by Juno's relationships to the newest characters he's met in the parts of the show I've recently listened to - the last story I finished was Juno Steel and the Time Gone By, and I've started on Juno Steel and the Monster's Reflection. Am also really interested in his relationship with his brother, which the show has just started to get into where I'm at currently. Oh, and I absolutely love Alessandra Strong and her snarky yet supportive relationship with Juno, and wish there was more of her.

4. Hmm, I don't know if I have any unpopular opinions - maybe mostly because I avoid reading much fandom discussion because I'm not caught up yet and don't want to get massively spoiled. We'll see if by the time I've caught up, I'll have developed some! I have read fanfics, though, generally through making use of the AO3 function of filtering by the date updated so I don't get anything that's been written later than where I'm at with the show. From them I do get a general sense of fannish feels and opinions, but while there are individual fics whose characterizations I don't agree with, I haven't noticed anything where my opinion would be massively unpopular.

5. I JUST WANT JUNO TO BE HAPPY DAMMIT. (And get together with Peter properly and stay that way.) (Nobody spoil me about episodes that I haven't heard yet.)

6. Hmm, the closest thing I've got to a random pet theory is probably this: Something I've noticed especially in Season Two is that a lot of the people Juno meets seem to know about his nonbinaryness and using the word lady about himself even without him bringing that up. It's possible that this is just general knowledge about him that anyone who'd come across him in a case would know about him due to somehow being in a field, or maybe the people in that world have a way of broadcasting their words and pronouns to everyone without saying it. But it's also likely it's some kind of visual cues, and while in that futuristic SF world gender markers may look like absolutely anything, my 21st century mind really likes to imagine him going around on cases wearing practical shoes, a badass jacket, and very puffy skirts. Maybe not all the cases, but some of them. Depends on what he reckons he has to do. Also, glittery make-up. When he feels like bothering.

7. I swear that the other week I kept thinking about a song that was really, really fitting for the Penumbra Podcast and Juno, but I can't remember at all what that was. I'll let you know if it comes back to me!