EUREKA!!!

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What's your template, what's the script that underlies everything? Or, if you don't have a story you keep telling, maybe there's a story you keep reading. Is there something that underlies all of your favorite fairytales and novels and television shows and fanfics?

~witchqueen by way of latxcvi

I'm encouraging all ya'll to go answer that in her journal...But!

I've figured out why the Sparrington wasn't working!! ::DANCE::

Namely: My 'One True Story' is Opposites Held by Golden Chord. It's pretty much the Pisces zodiac sign (two fish swimming in apart, tied together).

Or in other words, individuals (who are similar) that move in opposite directions but are held inextricably together and are forever circling each other despite themselves...

And, see, the only way that that the they can actively move in different directions is if they have complete identities in their own right. They are similar entities, but *separate*. They aren't joined because they *are* one another (ie. The Coin With Two Heads), rather, they are joined for a reason *beyond* that. They aren't *defined* by each other, be it in opposition or in similarity. They may be 'similar' or 'opposite', but they're not basing themselves on the 'presence' of the other.

And now everything make sense! Because, y'see, Jack and Norrington's existence *are* defined by each other, The Establishment and The Anti-Establishment. And THAT is also why I don't give two hoots about Sirius/Remus, Qui/Obi, Frodo/Sam, and the whole LotRPS!

And it makes the Sands/El, Superman/Batman, and the Qui/Maul make sense! ::DANCE:: YAY! so. incredibly. relieved!

[edit] and this might actually be why I love resurrection!fic so much, what more ultimate proof could you have that a pairing is tied together irrevocably than having them be reborn and finding each other again?

[edit2] y'know, this may be why I'm not especially interested in Jack/Bootstrap fic. Thing is, at this point, Bootstrap is almost purely defined through Jack, with bit here and there from Will and Pintel. But then because Bootstrap is delinated by Jack, I can't reconcile a relationship in my mind. It always feels flat or one-sided.

[edit3] and guede_mazaka totally rocks my OTS. Delivering stuff like The Mexico series and lines like these:

"Sands isn’t a wife, isn’t a soulmate, isn’t a missing half. He doesn’t fill anything that was absent in El; if anything, the little jackass tears out more holes. But then, so does El.
...
He’ll fight to keep that, to have the privilege of snarling and clawing and hurting this one man. And to let Sands snarl and claw and wound him back. He will turn the key in the lock and push open the gate, he will cross through and Sands will follow till they’ve torn themselves into one."

~ from Archetype: Gate


Exactly. ::happysigh::

Comments

[calicokat.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Okay. Let's see. Well, I guess, weirdly, my OTS is probably the story of the menage a trois. My good friend and I who've been roleplaying together for the past eight years have a weird way of finding three way relationships between our characters creeping up on us... Yohko/Higure/Kuronue, Heero/Kaumi/Duo, Trowa/Subaru+Seshirou, Ky/Sol/Noir... I always end up trying to find those dynamics that make a three way relationship work... There's something a bit perfect about a working menage a trois and I love getting around to seeing how that balances itself out over the course of a story... Angst is better, too, in menage a trois, because somebody's often being asked to choose sides or will just be like "You two, go work it out, I'm not getting into this but I'm here if you need me." Ahhh... good stuff.

As for pairings... Well, I care for most pairings. This is my problem with music too. "What's your favorite type of music?" "Uh..." Because I like what I like and sometimes I don't like things within a type even though it's similar to something else I do like... This may, in fact, be where we're having trouble communicating, because with me, every time, it's the contrast between the whole personality and little quirks between two characters more than it is... Well, more than it is anything else.

I guess I'm still totally missing what you're saying about being defined beyond the dynamic, because to some degree or another every person is defined beyond their dynamic. If you're only defining yourself against one other person--and trust me, I got into a rut of this--then you become an awfully boring person. If you're not going out and having individual experiences, awakening something new in you, and bringing that back to your partner, then the relationship stagnates and fails. I can't see any relationship where the dynamic is the only defining factor. It sounds to me like you only like chracters who have come from wildly different life experiences, but in the case of all four of those pairings the characters have been defined by external circumstances and natrually define themselves withing the relationship as well. I mean, I don't think a (healthy) relationship exists where you can't say that. *scratches head*