30 Day Shipping Meme-Day 19: A Pairing you don't understand?, Best Proposal?, & Favorite ship?

[brendala]

Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Kit Cloudkicker and Molly Cunningham (Talespin)



I’ve glanced at the Talespin fandom and this pairing seems to be mildly popular there. And I will NEVER understand why!
Yeah, they’re not related; but all of their interactions in the show from the moment they meet scream “Brother and Sister” (heck, in a few episodes, Kit is her freakin’ babysitter!). And Baloo, Becky, and the kids already function a lot like a step-family (Molly even calls Baloo “Papa Bear” sometimes) and the show seems to imply that it’s only a matter of time before Baloo and Becky do end up getting together.

Not only that, there’s a six year age difference between them. Six years isn’t a big deal for adult characters. But it’s a really creepy age difference if some fanfic writes Kit as an adult and Molly as a teenager. Just…ew.


"Don't worry, Kit! The next person who writes a dirty fanfic about us will get beaten with this spatula!"



Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Bernard and Bianca (The Rescuers Down Under)



The second Rescuers movie (Rescuers Down Under) pretty much revolves around Bernard trying to propose to Bianca and getting delayed at every opportunity. So the proposal scene is an extremely satisfying thing to see.
It’s a shame that plans to make more Rescuers films dissolved when Eva Gabor passed away. I would have loved to see how their dynamic as a globe-trotting married couple would have been handled.

Check out the proposal scene here:

 

I stuck this picture here 'cause...well, just look at it! ^_^



Honorable Mention for best proposal goes to Edward Elric and Winry Rockbell from Full Metal Alchemist. Because it won a freakin' Art Museum contest!


"Screw engagement rings! I’m giving you an engagement ARM Edward!"



Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?
Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev (Slayers)



I had to go with Lina and Gourry. Mainly because my interest in it and the fandom surrounding it hasn’t waned at all even when my interest in the show itself comes and goes. Though that might have a lot to do with the fact that the folks in the Slayers LJ fandom are super special awesome (y’all know who you are ~_^).



Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship?
Day 02 - What was your very first ship?
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?
Day 06 - The best kiss?
Day 07- The most heartbreaking scene?
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ever?

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Wow, the fandoms I never knew anything about... I did always like that Kit's a great surrogate brother for Molly, but pairing them up? Why are people always so fascinated with pairing off kids? (Even when older, if they had grown up as brother and sister, I really doubt they'd want to pursue a relationship like that.)

I too am sad that Eva Gabor died before another Rescuers could be made, but at the same time, the series ended on a great note with Bernard finally getting to propose. I love that scene. ^_^

I'm always a bit iffy with L/G. I adore it in the actual series, but they've become something in the fandom that I really do not like at all. Call me crazy, but I am loathe about fanfics and the like that focus solely on Lina and Gourry's secret sex life. I find no enjoyment from seeing the two 'cheapened' like that. (I do love images like the one you posted. Why can't fic writers see that Gourry showing Lina a nice gesture speaks much more loudly than shuffling them off into a corner to make out?)

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Pairing off very young kids always struck me as weird, too. Though I can kind of understand the appeal of the "childhood sweetheart" thing in fanfics where kid characters are aged up.
Kit and Molly shippers aren't abundant (as far as I could tell); but the fact that they're around at all is strange. Even if you ignore the surrogate sibling thing, the age difference makes it weird. And I know I could never date somebody that I used to baby sit! >_<


It is good that the Rescuers series at least got to end with a bang. And it got to serve as the inspiration for one of my favorite Disney Afternoon shows. :)


I agree that it does feel wrong when Lina and Gourry act like some unholy combination of romance novel heroines and porn stars. But fics about Lina and Gourry "making out in a corner" aren't all bad. It's just that very few writers manage to get the characters' dynamic right.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I do know crazier things have happened with kids falling in love later as adults...but yeah, when they're that close to being siblings and even act like siblings..bleh, no.

Yes, thank you, The Rescuers, for spawning Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers! I need to pull out my Dale plush in all his loud Hawaiian shirt of glory to celebrate. ^_-

Few writers is right. I have seen it done well, but most seem to focus too much on the physical and not at all on the characters. As it is, I'm still sticking to canon Slayers sources for my L/G fix, it always leaves me with a smile...not a feeling of horror or disgust!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Bernard and Bianca! AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. When I was a kid, I though they and misses brisby where in the same universe and related. And that the rescue rangers would drop in once in a while.

[brendala.livejournal.com]

My inner child/silly fangirl is hoping that Bernard and Bianca will make a cameo in the upcoming Rescue Rangers comic. :)