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[nano_moose]

I'm bored. Time for meme!

Stolen from thebaconfat, who used it approximately a jillion years ago.

1. Comment with any pairing (or character, or threesome, or platonic relationship, or theory, or whatever. Multiple suggestions are also fine) from a fandom (or fandoms, crossovers are fine) that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about.
2. I will ramble for about 100 words (I may [read: probably will] go over a bit) about the aforementioned relationship/character/theory. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.
3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

Silent Hill 2, James/Mary. HOORAY, DISTURBINGNESS.

[nano_moose]

Man oh man oh man. What can I say about this that hasn't already been said?

My view of the Mary/James pairing is a combination of 'Awwww' and 'AAAUUGH'. Because...looking at it one way, if you believe (as I do) that James put himself through Silent Hill to earn the right to see Mary again, that's about the saddest, most terrifyingly devoted thing I could imagine. Looking at it another way, James is one seriously crazed up fruitloop with truly twisted desires and a sadomasochist streak a mile wide.

Poor Mary - out of all the characters in Silent Hill 2, more so than Eddie or Angela or Maria, she was the most innocent, and she suffered terribly anyway. Not just from the disease, but also watching herself strike out at her husband and him slipping away because of it. I think James' crime was this horrible instant when he finally hated her and loved her too much to let it continue, and I'm not at all surprised that it broke him apart.

The most tragic thing about it all was that they were so ordinary before she got sick. Just this loving, slightly boring young couple.

Sometimes, I kind of wish I could see fic of them in happier times? Or of James after the Leave ending that is not awful NUDGE NUDGE HINT HINT? It is all so full of tragedy and leaves me profoundly depressed, and I probably shouldn't have thought so hard about it right before going to bed. IF I HAVE SUFFOCATION NIGHTMARES, I AM BLAMING YOU HARDCORE.

...I totally forgot I no longer have a Silent Hill 2 icon. OH WELL NEXT BEST THING.

[rionaleonhart]

I have tried to write fanfiction in which James did not colour everything miserable and insane! It is not possible.

But yes, these are pretty much exactly my thoughts. James is amazingly devoted and at the same time utterly twistedly batshit insane, and the relationship between the two of them is sort of adorable but manages at the same time to be completely terrifying.

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

I think James' crime was this horrible instant when he finally hated her and loved her too much to let it continue, and I'm not at all surprised that it broke him apart.

THAT WAS AN AWESOME WAY OF PUTTING IT. Excuse me while I take five minutes to flail about the game. FDAJSKLDAAUGH. And the two ways of looking at James and his reasons for putting himself through all of this is pretty awesome too. WHY DON'T YOU WRITE FIC FOR THIS GAME.

Sometimes, I kind of wish I could see fic of them in happier times?

I don't know if you've read this, but thebaconfat wrote a drabble for the prompt "James/Mary, set before The Illness but still somehow disturbing, please?" It kind of deals with the whole "happier times" thing! Kind of. You should read it anyway, though. ...you know, if you want to. Eheh.