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[salinea]

stolen from a_white_rain

Comment with a fandom and I'll tell you my:

One True Pairing Ship:
Canon Ship:
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
"You are one sick bastard" Ship:
"I dabble a little" Ship:
"It's like a car crash" Ship:
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:
"When all is said and done" Ship:

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I think for me the difference is that with Cersei and Loras Jaime is aware of the mirror-ness and actually thinks in those terms (dunno about Arthur Dayne, as I don't remember what Jaime thinks about him beyond general fanboying), whereas with Brienne, while the mirrorness/oppositeness is there in the book, I think Jaime thinks of her as a separate, individual person, not in relation to himself as with Cersei and Loras.

(It's weird... I like Jaime/Brienne a lot in theory, in that they're *good* for each other... but I actually enjoy reading fanfic about it a lot less than Jaime/Cersei or Jaime/Arthur or the sadly rare Jaime/Loras, even when the Jaime/Brienne is really well written. I don't know if it's because I subconsciously realize the doomedness of this ship (from the "Jaime dies heroically!" syndrome, most likely) and thus avoid it, or if it's *too* healthy for me to enjoy. *is a sick bastard, obviously :P*)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a good point. Brienne definitly is also her own person in Jaime's eyes. She's the one conducting the quest to restore his honour too (yay genderfuck!)

I think the issue is also that Jaime/Brienne is basically very hard to write well, and even the good writers in fandom don't write it a lot :D and the sick bastard syndrome too :)