A nice simple sounding meme

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About time I posted something, so via golden_d:

Give me one character and I will tell you:

1. OTP for them.
2. Runner-up pairing.
3. Hono(u)rable mention(s).
4. Crack pairing(s).
5. Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't.

(Fandoms: HP, Whoniverse, LOTR, Trek (except Enterprise and the reboot), Wodehouse, ASOIAF -- feel free to suggest others if I've mentioned them before, of course.)

As she said, "considering I don't generally ship anyone enough to have an OTP, I expect this to be fun but difficult, and certainly thought-provoking". :)

Comments

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

I'll go for Lily Potter and The Doctor :D.

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That would be a pretty good pairing in itself! He seems to like feisty redheads. :)

Lily (assuming you mean the original one):

1. Has to be Lily/James because we don't have a series without it, but there's also ...
2. Lily/Snape, definitely! Poor old Sev, if only he'd not been such an idiot.
3. Lily/Remus. No, I'm not saying that because you were the one who asked -- they'd probably have done well together, given that Tonks appealed to him.
4. Lily/Slughorn! Don't tell me he wasn't carrying a torch for her, that seemed obvious even before the movie came out. :) Or how about Lily/Andromeda?
5. Lily/Sirius. Because cheating on your SO with their best friend, or your best friend with their SO, is Especially Not Cool.

The Doctor:

1. Doctor/Romana. He must have spent about a century with her, for the Doctor that's impressive! And it's a much more equal pairing than most.
2. Doctor/Donna. Because their chemistry was brilliant and there were several points at which he seemed to be in the Martha or Jack role for once.
3. In nearly 50 years of show? SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. Doctor/Jack, Doctor/Liz Shaw, Doctor/Jo Grant, Doctor/Sarah, Doctor/Nyssa, Doctor/Martha ... and that's not even counting Doctor/Jamie because I haven't seen enough Troughton episodes to tell. And wasn't there somebody called Rose he met?
4. EVEN MORE POSSIBILITIES. Doctor/Mickey, Doctor/Barbara, Doctor/Ian, Doctor/Brigadier, Doctor/Tosh, Doctor/Zoe, Doctor/Mike Yates, Doctor/Harriet Jones -- you could make them up all day. :)
5. Doctor/Master. As angsty backstory or plot driver, fine. As an OTP, not really, because the Master really is quite genuinely an evil psychotic bastard. Or for that matter Doctor/Rose, at least by the end of S2 ...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I am now almost tempted to write Lily/Andromeda as a classic "Sirius goes out with Muggle girls to annoy his parents" type fic.

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And then there's James's reaction ... On the one hand, he doesn't like the idea of her going out with anyone but him. On the other hand, at least it's not a bloke. On the gripping hand (hm, possibly an unfortunate phrase here) he thinks the two of them together is just hot and can he watch please? :)

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

Cersei! :D

Great minds think alike

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that!

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Let's overlook the canon casualty rate for the moment. :) With Cersei, you have to keep one eye on the politics ...

1. Cersei/Bronn. Because he's both devious and dangerous enough to cope with her, despite the vast power imbalance (and the common sense imbalance). Both appreciate physical qualities in the opposite sex, neither are overburdened by sentiment. Made for each other!
2. Cersei/Prince Oberyn Martell. Now that would be a fearsome partnership.
3. Cersei/Jaime, I suppose -- it says something for how the characters have developed that he now seems like a better person than her! Cersei/Asha Greyjoy, Cersei/Mance Rayder, and Cersei/Archmaester Marwyn would all have interesting possibilities for development ...
4. Cersei/Tyrion. Keeping it in the family. Cersei/Margaery, for hate!sex fans. Cersei/Dolorous Edd, because you did say 'crack', right?
5. Hmm, haven't seen enough fanon to say. Cersei/Ned, maybe?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Madeleine Bassett!

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Hmm, I hadn't realised just how much any PG Ships would involve breaking up canon couples. Oh well, in for a penny ...

1. Madeleine/Pongo Twistleton. To match her with an equal you need a chap who isn't too bright, with a soulful and hopelessly over-romantic streak, not to mention a proven susceptibility to good looks. Pongo seems like just the man for the job!
2. Madeleine/Rosie M Banks. Because you're not going to find many people quite so fluff-tolerant as Rosie.
3. Madeleine/Bingo Little. If we're splitting him and his wife up anyway he's pretty well qualified too. Madeleine/Freddie Widgeon has possibilities as well. After all, taking the two chaps together, in summary and in toto there can't be that many other girls they haven't already fallen in love with.
4. Madeleine/Jeeves. The man keeps his preferences very close to the chest, you know. Or Madeleine/Veronica Wedge -- in which Madeleine might actually be the one with more sense for once. Or just for the lulz, Madeleine/Oofy Prosser.
5. I'm not sure who anyone else pairs her with. :) So let's say Madeleine/Spode -- pretty much a 'well, I've used up both characters' comic potential now, let's get them out of the way' pairing. Even in PGW, you wouldn't bet on that one ending well.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Well, PGW does a lot of circulating the canon couples around himself, so as long as they end up together in the end I think you're probably OK.

Madeleine/Jeeves presents intriguing possibilities - counter to the slash fandom, Jeeves persistently breaks up Wooster/MB out of jealousy because he cannot bear the thought of living so close and yet so far from his beloved Madeleine.

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Snape! :) (and "none, none none, none, all of them" is cheating ;) )

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1. Snape/Lily! See above. I feel sorry for poor old Sev, even if he did bring it on his own head.
2. Snape/Lucius. A slash pairing I thought might actually play well with canon, which makes a change for me!
3. Snape/Tonks (largely the result of kerrymdb's stories, mind you). At a pinch, Snape/Hermione or Snape/Remus.
4. Snarry? :) Or Snape/Libatius Borage, because I've actually drabbled that. Snape/Luna can be quite fun, provided you finesse what happened in the Shack. And if we're going to do that, how about Snape/Lily Potter II?!
5. If we're sticking to the canon personalities of the characters, then Snarry, obviously (fanon versions can be OK, for some values of O and K). Otherwise, Snape/Sirius, maybe? Because no, honestly, those two really really do loathe each other.

[virginia-bell.livejournal.com]

Narcissa Malfoy!

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1. Narcissa/Lucius. Can't argue with the canon here.
2. Narcissa/Blaise. Theirloveissointergenerationalandpureofblood.
3. Narcissa/Snape. Because she trusts him.
4. Narcissa/Slughorn, because he tried to collect all the Black family. Narcissa/Pansy, a consolation prize Malfoy for losing out to Asteria. Narcissa/Rowle, because she likes the blonds.
5. Narcissa/Bellatrix. Because even though there's a shortage of comparable-age characters to slash her with, this one just seems like going through the motions.

[train-lindz.livejournal.com]

Neville!

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1. Neville/Parvati. Because Neville needs more lovin' and Parvati needs more love.
2. Neville/Susan. Same sort of reasoning, really.
3. Neville/Seamus. No-one ever seems to ship them. Why not?
4. Neville/Sprout! Romance blossoms in the greenhouses.
5. Um, Neville/Draco? Although I haven't got around to reading Lust Over Pendle yet, so I suppose I might change my mind after that.

[shiiki.livejournal.com]

Seeing as train_lindz has already picked Neville, I'll choose ...

McGonagall!

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Tricky!

1. McGonagall/Sprout. Because canonically they understand each other. :)
2. McGonagall/Sirius! Because she could actually handle him (um, read that how you will).
3. McGonagall/Slughorn. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Minerva McGonagall.
4. McGonagall/Nott Snr. Another one I've drabbled. And McGonagall/Trelawney, of course. :)
5. McGonagall/Tom Riddle. Any Riddle ship sounds unlikely to me.

[ashez2ashes.livejournal.com]

Luna Lovegood. :)

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1. Luna/Harry, actually. Had a soft spot for that after OotP, still likeable even if not canon workable.
2. Luna/Ron. Another OotP-based pairing that would have been fun.
3. Luna/Draco, because she's a forgiving sort. Luna/Hermione, since we're ignoring canon preferences. Luna/Snape, since we're ignoring canon deaths.
4. Luna/Blaise, perhaps. Luna/Albus Severus?
5. Luna/Neville. No actual objections to it, but it just doesn't catch my interest.