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[froodle]

Ugh. Anyway, that's enough of my whinging bullshit, let's do some memes! Robbed from chibimarchy and Evil Insane Monkey.

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  How I feel about this character
  All the people I ship romantically with this character
  My non-romantic OTP for this character
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[scheherezhad]

1) Dash/Mars

2) Simon Holmes

3) Since Eerie's already been done, how about Luther?

[froodle]

1: OH MY GOD, YES! If God came down from heaven and told me he would give me the power to write awesome porn, but that I would only ever be able to use my power for one pairing, I WOULD CHOOSE DASH AND MARSHALL.

Shortly afterwards I would be found dead of hunger and thirst, because I had spent EVERY WAKING MOMENT writing slash for them to to exclusion of everything else, and thus had starved to death.

Then I would go to heaven, where, ironically, I would get to read new and filthily awesome fic about them every single day and it would never get old or trite or use weird penis euphamisms that are silly and make me laugh and ruin the moment.

THAT IS MY THOUGHTS ON DASH/MARS.

2: Simon Holmes

How I feel about this character: LOVE him. I always kind of forget to talk about how great he is because when I talk about Eerie, I usually talk about Dash/Mars (see above), but really, I adore Simon.

He's so incredibly sweet and yet he has this terrible home life - there's a scene in the Lost Hour where Marilyn says something about his bedtime and he's like, "My parents really never told me when I have to go to bed," and there's this HORRIBLY AWKWARD pause where she's quite clearly trying to think of a nice way to say, "THATS BECAUSE YOUR PARENTS ARE AWFUL SIMON!" and it just made me want to cry for him.

Again in Broken Record, after Tod's dad has just completely humiliated him in a scene that was really hard to watch, Simon says "Does your dad know my dad? They could start a club" and again, my heart just broke for this little kid who's having to live with that kind of abuse.

And of course, the absolute worst one, Mars and Simon in Simon's bedroom in ATM with a Heart of Gold and a man and a woman giggling next door, and Mars says "sounds like your mum and dad are having a party" and Simon says, "my mum's not home." Oh. My. God.

And it was so dark and so awful and yet through it all, Simon remains this perpetually cheerful, engaged, enthusiastic little kid.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: well, he's nine, so none.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Simon/Marshall's mum - she kisses him goodnight and takes him to the movies and either buys or makes him a birthday cake with his name on it. I love Marilyn Teller.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I dunno, is Eerie a big enough fandom for there to be popular or unpopular opinions? My main opinions about him is that he is lovely and needs to be cuddled, and I'm pretty sure most if not all of the fandom would agree.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: In general, I just wish there had been more episodes, so we would have gotten to see more from all the characters.

I would have liked to see Simon as he got older, and more of his relationship with Harley as they both grew up - I see Simon trying to look out for him and be the responsible older brother, while Harley goes down the other road and turns into one of those cat-torturing hellions you sometimes get in families where the parents are complete nightmares.

[scheherezhad]

If god ever gives you that power, let me know, and you can come live with me. That way I can make sure you're fed and watered in order for you to not die, because although you would get to read more Dash/Mars in Heaven all the time, I would be stuck down here with none. And that is sad.

Re: Simon - Yes, to all of that. I kind of feel like he would be a John Watson-ish sort as an adult, in that he would be a total secret!BAMF in wooly jumpers. Under that adorable, sweet facade, he ain't afraid of no paranormal shit. God, he probably would be something like a school counselor because Eerie is the center of weirdness and also ASSHOLE PARENTS. ...and dammit, I just made myself want that to be a fic.

[froodle]

True, and I like to think that if God gave me that power, he would intend for me to use it to make the world a better place and help humanity with my gift for awesome Dash/Mars porn, so he'd probably be pretty mad if I showed up on his doorstep a few weeks later like, "Hey, you remember when you gave me that great gift that I was supposed to use to enrich the souls of mankind? Well..." And God would be like, OH MEDAMNIT, FROODLE! and I'd be like, dude, you should TOTALLY have seen that coming.

OH GOD, I totally need grown-up!secret badass!school counsellor!Simon Holmes. He would be whatever the American equivilent of Giles is - all polite and softly spoken but underneath it he is totally capable of pistol-whipping you til you cry like a bitch.

[froodle]

3: Luther

The first character I fell in love with: Alice. I started watching it because it had Idris Elba, but Alice captured my heart from the moment she said: "Did they make me a freak? Yes. Did I hate them for it? Absolutely. Did I kill them?" *almost-sarcastic pause* "No."

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Ripley. At first he basically reminded me of every stalkerish fanboy-type character in anime ever (specifically, JJ from FAKE), and he was kind of amusing but in an i-can-take-you-or-leave-you way, and then Zoe died and John's whole life went to shit and Justin was right there, always willing to believe him and trying to cover for him.

The character everyone else loves that I don't: Jenny from the new series. I'm aware that most of the things that annoy me about her are just normal teenage behaviour, but CHRIST she is irritating!

The character I love that everyone else hates: I don't know if other people hate him, but I like Shenk, I love how he's all softly-spoken and courteous and baldie but underneath it he is in fact SUPER BADASS.

The character I used to love but don't any longer: Ian Reed, because he is a baddie and also dead.

The character I would shag anytime: Luther

The character I'd want to be like: Alice

The character I'd slap: Jenny

My five favorite characters: Alice, Luther, Ripley, Shenk, and Rose Teller from the first series

My five least favorite characters: Ian Reed (after he went evil) Jenny's mum (Jenny is an annoying teenager, but her mum has no excuse) the handbag killer dude (loved the shots of the dead girls on the hillside and the creepy traffic shots, but the guy himself, what a boring sad little man! which I think was the point) the satanist (way too pretentious for my taste in villians) and that stupid nephew of the old crime hag in season two who jenny killed. he was just... so embarrassing as a baddie, basically all his scariness came from people being afraid of the old crime hag.

My deep dark fandom secret: though I will freely admit to shipping Alice/Luther, I kind of also secretly ship Luther/Ripley. Truths.

[scheherezhad]

One giant YES to pretty much everything here. :D