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[florastuart]

Borrowed from veleda-k.

1. Comment with any ship from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about.
2. I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.
3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

Comments

[neontiger55]

I know you love Neal/Kate, so I'm gonna ask about Neal/Alex... :)

[florastuart]

I love Alex! Alex is fun. :) One of the things that draws me to any relationship is a sense of shared history, and it's clear from the moment she shows up that Neal and Alex have a long and complicated history. She also shows a side of Neal that he doesn't show with many other people - there's an edge to their relationship. They're not a warm and fuzzy couple.

They don't, IMO, have a future together. Which doesn't make them any less enjoyable to watch - I don't have to believe a couple is ever going to be able to make it work over the long term to find them interesting. And there's real affection on both sides.

Alex is in love with Neal but ultimately loyal only to herself; she's not going to let those feelings influence her actions to the point where she gets hurt. While Neal is loyal to her as a friend and would cheerfully take a bullet for her but he's never going to love her the way he loved Kate, or the way Alex loves him.

She wonders, sometimes, what she'd be capable of giving up for him if he did love her that way, but she

[veleda_k]

Kate/Keller. Did it happen? Why? When? How? Etc.

[florastuart]

Oooooooh - I like this one! The way I see it, Neal met Keller fairly early after he left home, and they were partners for some six or seven years, on and off, before Neal came to New York and met Kate and Mozzie. Neal didn't really have any other consistent partnerships then; those were some very dark years for him.

Keller shows up again a little while after Adler disappears, while Kate is still new to this life of crime, and the four of them end up pulling several jobs together. Kate is drawn to Keller for the same reasons Neal was drawn to him seven years ago when he first ran away - she's scared and angry and she's just had her world turned upside down by a father figure she trusted who turned out to be not who she thought he was. And Neal gets this, he knows exactly how she feels, and he wants to protect her from spiraling somewhere dark the way he did for a while; he wants to teach her to survive, and he wants to take care of her and teach her to take care of herself, and he wants to tell her everything is going to be okay

Heh.

[anonymous]

Fowler/Kate (or Fowler & Kate, if you prefer)

Re: Heh.

[florastuart]

*waves at you* :)

Fowler understands her in a way no one else does. Kate doesn't really like people, on a fundamental level, and she doesn't let many people get close to her at all, and she hides a lot of the rough edges around Neal and those she doesn't/can't hide he often chooses not to see. Fowler is really the only person who sees the depth of her love and loyalty toward Neal and her capacity for ruthlessness, and accepts and understands both. He gets that she is both fiercely loyal and protective of those she loves while also being not a very nice person in general - she's much less likely than Neal is to show compassion toward random strangers. And she's the first person he's allowed himself to give a damn about at all since his wife died.

Fowler is profoundly isolated by the time we meet him in canon; he was on leave for a year after his wife was killed, and in my head he lost touch with everyone he was close to at work once the investigation into her death was no longer active; after he kills the guy I think he would have