feelings meme!

[dira]

I have the day off from work and I'm watching From the Earth to the Moon like it is in fact my job, so let's have a meme!

Leave the name of a character/person from a fandom you know I'm in, and I will tell you--

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character -
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Comments

[dira]

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
Miles! I love him madly, from a nice safe distance.

* All the people I ship romantically with this character
Ekaterin! And ... really that's it! I loved his relationships with Quinn and Taura but now that he's found Ekaterin I am happy to OTP them until the end of time.

* My non-romantic OTP for this character -
Bothari is the person who sprang to mind, even though their relationship was more parent-child than anything. They were so closely bound to each other in such a unique way.

* My unpopular opinion about this character
Oh, God, are there unpopular opinions about Miles? I don't think I have any.

* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
A long and increasingly serene and happy life, surrounded by his family, as viewed in the background of, say, Hellion's crazy galactic adventures?

[axelrod]

Re: unpopular opinions, some people think Miles is a manipulative little shithead, and they don't mean it in that affectionate way that, say, Ivan would say it. Personally: Miles is one of many, many characters whom I a) adore and b) would not be able to deal with at all. If nothing else, he'd start tossing off orders and I'd be all DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO because I get like that. But some people just do not like to read about him, period.

There's this one fic where Cordelia says "my son can be a twit sometimes" or something to that effect (in reference to how Bel lost their* job in the fleet), and I fucking loved it. It's good fic, too, TW/Vorkosiverse crossover, excellently done, good plot, hot sex. And I very much like the idea that Cordelia is exquisitely aware of Miles' failings as a human being, not that that disturbs her adoration of him one iota.

*I CANNOT bring myself to refer to a person as "it". This includes a non-binary person who wanted to be referred to that way, in an effort to reclaim the pronoun - I kept stumbling and saying "they" which is my default non-specified/non-binary/gender neutral pronoun. Because, in my head, you do not ever refer to human beings as "it". Ever. Because that's what you use when you're intentionally being insulting to a trans person. And I don't respect Bujold's Betan herms, as a scifi exploration into the nature of gender and human sexuality, so whatever, I'll use the pronoun that works for me.