I mean, *GAH* if you're writing a fic for a certain pairing then you control the outcome anyway
EXACTLY!!! I mean, you might have to come up with some kind of a reason why so-and-so left character A for character B, or chose one over the other, but you don't have to completely assasinate anybody's character in doing that!! ARGH. I just want to scream every time grown women run away and start sobbing in jealous rage whenever ONE COWORKER SPEAKS TO ANOTHER, because... omg! These people are not 12! They're really not! Not that I keep stumbling across those fics or anything, noooo.... (I hate the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing effect with fics. Like, when a writer is actually a decent writer and spells well, and then does something like THAT!)
He's just like "Whoop, Mount St. Catherine blowing again, wow, isn't that lava pattern fascinating? Best move out of the way and stare while I wait for the reaction to settle...ooh lookit, bees!"
Bwah! Exactly. And it's nice because he's got that it's just part of her, so he doesn't fret about having to rise to the challenge and figure out how to talk her down or anything.
They're looking at a brutalized body or something and he's just examining a scraping on a thigh and Catherine's already well into FURIOUS!Cath mode and he's all "buh? does not compute."
Re: as usual, you and I are so better than the steekin' comment limits *WEG*
EXACTLY!!! I mean, you might have to come up with some kind of a reason why so-and-so left character A for character B, or chose one over the other, but you don't have to completely assasinate anybody's character in doing that!! ARGH. I just want to scream every time grown women run away and start sobbing in jealous rage whenever ONE COWORKER SPEAKS TO ANOTHER, because... omg! These people are not 12! They're really not! Not that I keep stumbling across those fics or anything, noooo.... (I hate the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing effect with fics. Like, when a writer is actually a decent writer and spells well, and then does something like THAT!)
He's just like "Whoop, Mount St. Catherine blowing again, wow, isn't that lava pattern fascinating? Best move out of the way and stare while I wait for the reaction to settle...ooh lookit, bees!"
Bwah! Exactly. And it's nice because he's got that it's just part of her, so he doesn't fret about having to rise to the challenge and figure out how to talk her down or anything.
They're looking at a brutalized body or something and he's just examining a scraping on a thigh and Catherine's already well into FURIOUS!Cath mode and he's all "buh? does not compute."
Fortunately, he's good at tuning people out. :)