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One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
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Date: 2014-12-11 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-12 12:36 am (UTC)How I feel about this character
It has been a surprisingly long time since I've thought of Mohinder. Let's see. I think he's incredibly pretty and very smart, but he's always made somewhat dicey choices and frequently left me wondering about common sense. It's not that he's a bad guy or a dumb guy, it's just that he keeps making these choices that leave me wondering.
Even the choice to pursue his father's killer in s1 left me a little surprised. He mostly seems like a normal, sane guy but that's not a choice most people would make (with a background as a cop, I could buy it. As a university professor? It's an odd choice and weirdly arrogant about the assumption that he could do it without any real or relevant life experience.)
I'm kind of conflicted. I mean, he's half of my Heroes OTP and yet, he's arrogant and irritating and I'm really not sure I'd want to spend any time around him.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Mohinder/Matt. All the way. I liked Mohinder most when he was living with Matt and Molly. We got to see a softer, more settled side of him -- still bright and audaciously motivated, but with an underlying practicality around food choices and parenting that I really liked. Basically, I like Mohinder most when he gives me the impression of a grown-up making adult, responsible choices.
Secretly, I have read Mohinder/Sylar but I can't see that ending in any way that isn't horrible and messed up, and I like my OTPs to have happy endings. With Matt/Mohinder, that looked possible in S2 (and then, again, odd choices and working for the Company and weird priorities, and that seemed to fall apart -- and I stopped watching).
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Hmmm. It was fun watching him and Sylar circle around each other, seeing that Mohinder was brighter/less naive/less about to be cut into tiny pieces than expected.
It's funny, but Mohinder always felt like he was in a bit of a vacuum -- interracting less with the other characters than the ones with powers -- and I don't have any secondary choices that I'd like to see him hang out with. Unless Molly counts! I loved all the scenes with Molly and Mohinder (or Molly, Matt and Mohinder, but again, OTP.).
My unpopular opinion about this character
That for a smart guy he's fairly dumb? That I secretly find him a bit annoying and if he wasn't quite so pretty and had such a lovely voice, I'd tune out the character a lot more?
In fanon, he makes interesting choices and I like him so much more. In canon, Mohinder makes odd choices that make me feel further and further from understanding the character.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
That he hadn't worked for the comapny and been so distracted by the shiny, shiny science. That he'd prioritised his makeshift family with Matt and Molly, kept them safe, settled down somewhere, and lived in domestic peace.
Seriously, curtain fic. This is my OTP of curtain fic and parenting.
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Date: 2014-12-11 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-12 12:15 am (UTC)How I feel about this character
Love! Admittedly, I'm more of a Casey-girl than a Danny-girl (and I'd throw them both under a bus for a shot at Dana, to be perfectly honest) but I still have so much love for Dan Rydell, in all of his clever, heartfelt, wounded glory. I love that he's "the cool one" but only in comparison to Casey, really. He's smart and he's caring, and he has such amazing loyalty to his friends, and he's so much fun.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Casey. Because SN is my big true OTP type show, Casey/Dan is still true in my heart. Admittedly, he had some great chemistry with Rebecca and even Natalie might be possible, but I really only ship Casey with him.
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Natalie, because I will always love Dan's little "this is what friends gear up for" speech. I like that they treat each other as equals. Dan's the on-air talent, he's a guy in a male-focused world of media and sports, he's older and better paid and went to an Ivy league school -- there are a whole host of reasons why he could be condescensing and belittle Nat, and how much more likely it is that a real guy would be, but there's a wonderful equality between Dan and Nat. (And all the women in the show, really. Dan's pretty respectful in general.)
Jeremy. because as much as Casey and Jeremy are nerds-in-arms, I like the nods towards the Dan and Jeremy friendship, especially around the seder episode.
Isaac. Because there's a genuine fondness and respect there. Admittedly, Isaac is wonderful with everyone he's around, but I will always love Isaac both being on Danny's side and caring enough to be honest and get him to fall in line when required. (One of my faovurite lines is "And because I love you I can say this: no rich young white guy has ever gotten anywhere with me comparing himself to Rosa Parks. " -- thank you google -- and how well Danny takes that.)
My unpopular opinion about this character
I have no idea what's unpopular re: SN fandom. Maybe that I liked Casey a little bit more than Danny? Or that I'm sure that Danny's strained relationship with his father comes from both of them, not just from Dan's dad's criticism.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
I'm fairly sure that's why I wrote fic -- so I could see Danny in a successful, healthy relationship that worked out for him. Where he could win a game of Celebrities and still manage to lose his pants. where he could be such a dork and yet still look like the cool one standing next to Casey.
Yeah, the beauty of SN canon is that it was such a short show, I can imagine that canon absolutely would have led to where my fannish heart desired. I don't have enough canon to disprove it, essentially.
....although, actually, you know what I would have loved? I would have loved getting to see Danny get to know Calvin Trager. (Which is less driven by a plot/show reasons, and more driven by wanting to see more of Clark Gregg on TV. It's funny that he caught my attention back in SN days, and I still find him the most attractive part of Avengers fandom.) I think I digressed.
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Date: 2014-12-14 05:42 am (UTC)Ditto your thoughts about Dan's relationship with his dad, too. There's a lot of history there I think we're not getting.
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Date: 2014-12-14 02:09 pm (UTC)With more seasons... I expect there would have been internal lack of cohesion and backstories that negated other things I loved, or things that tried to justify in a way that made me cringe. I'm weirdly glad that we didn't have more SN because it would have probably ended like TWW -- a show I loved for s1-2, still watched avidly for s3-4, and then completely lost the love for it by 5-7.
But I was going to say that I hadn't thought of that, how unexplained Nat and Dan's friendship is -- it's not justified in any way, but it's clearly *there* from the start, and it's refreshing to have a male-female relationship that isn't fraught with romance.
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Date: 2014-12-12 07:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-14 02:27 pm (UTC)I find it hilarious that every time someone's picked half of a slash OTP of mine, it's always the character I like least of the two.
Don't get me wrong -- Jeeves is brilliant and wonderful in so many ways, but Bertie's woolly-headed optimism and charming combination of seeing the errors in his friends yet still trying to help, that gets me every time.
But I do like Jeeves in his own right. I like *smart* characters, and Jeeves is utterly brilliant, able to manipulate those around him and driven by such a strong code of ethics (not strictly legal or kind or honest, but devoted and true nonetheless).
I also like that Jeeves has such a sense of humour, dry and sarcastic and so judgemental, but it's such a humanising detail to get to see.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Bertie. It's a total OTP thing. Not only do I only ship Bertie with Jeeves, but I outright wouldn't believe any other pairing. (It would be Jeeves with an ulterior motive, or Bertie misunderstanding; it simply couldn't be Jeeves head-over-heels for anyone else.)
The reason is because the two of them fit so well together. As much as Bertie gets into scrapes and needs Jeeves to fish him out of the soup, Jeeves needs someone who respects his intelligence and follows his advice, he needs someone who can trust the logic in Jeeves' plan and allow him the freedom to run the interference he does so well (which Bertie does -- running the house, running finances, even international travel gets organised by Jeeves and Bertie trusts him entirely).
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Jeeves/Young Ganymede Club. I love seeing/reading about Jeeves and his secret little club of Gentlemen's Gentlemen, the way that even Jeeves suffers a certain amount of social pressure. And that Jeeves clearly has his own friends and his own life outside of Bertie.
My unpopular opinion about this character
That Jeeves is quietly amused by Bertie's misfortune. Not always, not that he would wish it upon Bertie, but I think there's a large streak of schadenfreude to Jeeves -- he'll help, but the ridiculousness sometimes amuses him.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
Hmmmm. Leaving out the end of s4 of the Jeeves and Wooster TV series (not quite book canon, and just a touch too ridiculous), I generally like the canon I'm aware of. I mean, the kind of understand Bertie and Jeeves should have would never be acknowledged in canon (and mostly because "memoirs for public consumption" are never going to include incriminating evidence, regardless of whether or not it's happening).
I really don't know. And I haven't read all the books, so I can't help thinking that any circumstance I'd want to see probably is in canon somewhere, I just haven't got to it yet.