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[queenofmay]

Want to write paper, but not in mood. Neck hurts a lot (re: rear-ending in friends car yesterday I have not written about yet). Thus I leave me you meme and will try to work on my Jhumpa Lahiri paper anyway.

Comment with your character's name (past or present) and the name of one of mine, and I will tell you:

1) how my character's opinion of the named character has changed over time, or
2) why my character does or does not get along/like/other with the named pup.

Mine, for reference, are:

Maid Marian (queenofmay)
Allie Keys (grandsuccess)
Star (bright_daughter)
Lyta Alexander (vorlon_weapon)

Comments

[varadia]

Ow. Your poor neck. *hugs*

Wanna talk about Marian and X-23?

[wanderlustlover]

Have finished copying over all the quotes I want, so is entirely time for a break. *grins*

Marian adores Laura. I think this greater poignancy to it popping up more recently even surprised me.

She knows the girl is (--and at this point it's careful, precise, selection of word, with hoping that won't make either frown at me--) queer, both in ways she understands and for things she just doesn't. This queer-being-differentness does two different things. On one hand it makes Marian very curious and wanting to know of what caused it, and on the other hand, it means Laura reminds Marian of herself and people like her in her world, who don't fit inside someone's rules or lines or assumptions, and makes her want to take Laura as she is, being content in who she presents herself to be.

There is a simplicity to Laura that makes her easy to be around. There aren't requirements to speech, which, if making Marian slightly panicked in certain moments because she hides very well behind words, also, make her feel more relaxed and more free near Laura.

X is also, very, very direct and without filter which Marian emphatically either loves or is amused by, because no one ever is in her world (including herself)...but this also bites her in the ass when she doesn't expect Laura to do it to/about her to her face.

Totally someone Marian is *keeping*.

[muji]

Pick a Reynolds, any Reynolds.

[an_evening_star]

Star and the star Miss Yvaine, right back at you.

Because I cannot resist.

[landlesslord]

I think that the only one I can throw at you is Guy. Unless I am utterly failing to remember one of the others meeting any of your pups.

So. Guy. :d

[river_meimei]

How about Marian's opinion of Edmund? Though I know they only met the once.

For all we talk, lady, we've threaded sadly few times. We really ought to fix that! I am tempted to ask about River-Marian anyway, but I don't know if one (unfinished and I am up, oops) thread is enough to base an opinion on. So disregard that if she doesn't have one yet. :D

[queenofmay]

I think one of the most important things to point out now is that there is a growing recent difference between what Marian thought about the Narnian's before they left to heaven and what thinks about them now (because of Aslan thread/tracking down Lucy's books).

While Caspian could tell Marian about Narnia, it was Edmund who gave her a thing she could see (seeing being a very big thing for Marian, because her court is all about "talk" and "act" in many ways) and remember physically. It was her first physical glimpse into another realm through the hands of someone who truly loved and believed and was there.

Her encounter with him was ungaurded and unexpected because of the sea, which seemed to be an easier amusement for the conversation to both of them, and lead to further ungaurded and interesting conversation. I think given time they might have been amazing friends and that Marian still thinks on occasion about that meeting with great fondness, because they spoke honestly about love and shadows and heaven and longing.

No matter what she'll probably always associate artist with him when she does think of him, too.

[queenofmay]

The first thing that comes to mind with Mal, albeit subconsciously now, is respect. Because the beginning was so starkly filled with presumed disrespect (from him to her(/Caspian)) and offensive disrespect (from her to him), that then mingled embarrassment and grief and anger.

(Which of course replicated into levels of her feeling like she disrespected Caspian.)

Marian likes Mal in a way she doesn't like many people, possibly because it started off with yelling and being wrong and settled into never being able to guess just what Mal would say after that. He has a crazy sense of humor that baffles her and keeps her amused, but she's also impressed by the depth of loyalty to his crew and those around her that she hears about him through.

[queenofmay]

On one hand Marian adores Sallie and on the other she's not sure what to do with her.

The second has a lot to do with the fact Sallie is a motherly/mothering person and Marian isn't quite sure what to do with that influence after not having one in her life for a very, very long time.

Sallie's a truly lovely lady, whom isn't like the ladies of court at all. She has a harsher way to her, that Marian's world does not identify with, but then shines refined suddenly out of the blue, too. She calm and kind and wry amused at turns, being good with horses and straight forward with knowledge.

It keeps Marian on her toes, while making her think, very quietly, that if she wants to be all the things she wants to be Sallie is a direct example of the fact it could happen. And be a good life.

[queenofmay]

Egad.

See this is the semi hard one. Which I think should start with this.

Without Milliways Marian would 'mostly hate' Guy, except because of Milliways Marian is torn between the fact she is uncertain what to do with the fact she thinks she might like him while 'mostly hating' him.

Especially if 'mostly hating' in the second reference is translated into omfgpolarbear why is he not killing people here or being mean and why does he keep trying to convince me he cares the world for me here but is still trying to cut out peoples tongues and killing people at home?

Guy in bar confused her because he's becoming a multidimensional person who has emotions and faceted opinions, not simply someone she can look on as the sheriffs dog. (And, oh, how she tries to keep this ability intact.) I think she's moved into a gray space where she doesn't, and can not, consider him the enemy, but she will not allow herself to consider him friend-material because he has too much power/black mail ability over her life and her fathers.

.....which will remain true until the end of the burnination oom. And then it will return, with even more powerful confusion and *cough*possiblerealfriendshipormore*cough*, a while later.

[queenofmay]

Oh, there is a mixture here!

Star being both the representation of all stars and The Star of the tarot deck there are so many different reactions to Yvaine.

She can not feel sad, being hope, but she does understand and feel the weight of someone being denied the sky. Which was why she offered Yvaine a walk, on any conditions. Because beginnings and endings, that impart connection to peace and the future, are parts of her domain. She, also, never will feel sad for Yvaine's fall because it brought her into the future of her path and the best things of her life and it was the impetus to her joy.

She is very curious about Yvaine because she has experience human life, which only Moon has told Star about. She can watch it but it does not all make perfect sense, because she is tapped into the future and in caring for those in the darkness needing the push to make it through into the light. She's curious of Yvaine's love, though she doesn't understand it fully outside of the facts.

Not personally, or opinionatedly, but simply because she is a Star and a Tarot and love belongs to beings.

Trying to be part of life is hard for Star, because she will never be normal, because she doesn't fall and won't, which is why the attempt seems easier when Yvaine is nearer by, because the girl understands in the closest way, outside of her breathern cards, that someone can.

[herdivineshadow]

why does he keep trying to convince me he cares the world for me here but is still trying to cut out peoples tongues and killing people at home?

because he luuuuurves her and that's his job. :D heee. I think for Guy, it really is as simple as that. He's come to love her and wants Marian to understand that. He cuts out tongues and kills people because that's his job. It puts bread on the table.


I think Marian being in Milliways has made Guy love her more than he would have without her there. In Milliways, he doesn't have the Sheriff to worry about or maintain what position he has while at the same time trying to advance himself so he can better provide for the family he wants. So all there is to think about is Marian and what he hopes they will have together.


Hilariously, I think that bringing Tiny Guy in has only made his love of Marian worse. Or better. Or something. Because sub-consciously she is the princess he met one day when he was little. So maybe he doesn't entirely remember it any more, but it's there.

And now, I have crazy thoughts for after the wedding and the burnination and how Marian rejecting him leaves him with nothing and he kind of wants to do the same to her in a way but he can't leave her with nothing because he would have to kill her daddy for that. SO. Lashing out. And such. With brooding and angst.