what's your favorite fictional pairing with a *non*-obsessive/destructive relationship?
Hm. Wash/Zoe, probably... except I'm sure [Serenity spoiler] would've happened sooner or later if Firefly hadn't been cancelled. But there really aren't that many, are there? Which is strange, given how much drama-avoiding happy-ever-after-ness there is in fandom. (That's probably not expressed very well - I mean 'drama avoiding' not in the sense of cutting down gratuitous angst, but of reducing canonical complexity down to romantic-stereotype simplicity, like a lot of Delenn/Sheridan fic.)
Although, heh, yes, I do like the obsessive and destructive pairings rather a lot. My justification for this, as far as it goes, is that I wouldn't enjoy them if destructive behaviour was presented as not destructive, and so on. Which doesn't mean they have to be somber and moralistic, or that they can't have happy endings or be genuinely about love, and so on... they can go whichever way they want, so long as they're honest.
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Hm. Wash/Zoe, probably... except I'm sure [Serenity spoiler] would've happened sooner or later if Firefly hadn't been cancelled. But there really aren't that many, are there? Which is strange, given how much drama-avoiding happy-ever-after-ness there is in fandom. (That's probably not expressed very well - I mean 'drama avoiding' not in the sense of cutting down gratuitous angst, but of reducing canonical complexity down to romantic-stereotype simplicity, like a lot of Delenn/Sheridan fic.)
Although, heh, yes, I do like the obsessive and destructive pairings rather a lot. My justification for this, as far as it goes, is that I wouldn't enjoy them if destructive behaviour was presented as not destructive, and so on. Which doesn't mean they have to be somber and moralistic, or that they can't have happy endings or be genuinely about love, and so on... they can go whichever way they want, so long as they're honest.