Character Love Meme

[lavvyan]

Meme snagged from sorchasilver because I'd like to be more actively fannish than just staring at the shiny on Tumblr.

This post is for drive-by nuggets of joy about your favorite character! So here we go. Give me your favorite (or a favorite) character's name in comments, and I will tell you one thing (or several) about them that fills me with joy. It can be

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[jimandblair]

Steve McGarrett \o/

[lavvyan]

Steeeeeeeeeeeeve! That adorkable man!

I love how he thinks (or used to think) of himself as this tough, untouchable ManlyManTM when he's really just a big, lonely puppy with abandonement issues. He goes to ridiculous lengths (helping Kono with her bad guy in Japan, anyone? North Korea?) and spends insane amounts of money to help his friends, so they'll stay happy, so they'll stay with him. When I was binge-watching from season 1 to now, I had fun watching him open up bit by bit until the stoic exterior was all but gone and just anyone on the street could tell how he was feeling in any situation. I just want to hug him all the time. :D

Also, Steve's friendship with Danny is made of cookies and mutual invasions of privacy and a whole lot of snarking. I love that.

[jimandblair]

so I have to ask -- what do you think of Danny?

[lavvyan]

It's possibly a leftover from my SGA days (or childhood *coughsHerrvonBödefeldcoughs*), but the thing I adore most about Danny is the snark. And his inserting "huh" into every other sentence. And how much he loves Grace. And how much he loves Steve and isn't at all afraid to show it. And how he is so damn loyal to everyone he considers a friend, and a total slob, and resigned to the passenger seat of his car, and sort of prickly, and how he went from "PROCEDURE OMG!" to "Er, you might want to call your people away from there, as my partner's about to do something stupid and dangerous and Not Sane."

Danny's just... I don't know, he has this giant heart behind his bluster and is incredibly good at his job and doesn't trust easily but once he does he's all in, and that just pushes all my buttons. See also: Steve. :D

[percysowner]

Can I do two? Captain Irving from Sleepy Hollow. Skye AOS

[lavvyan]

I don't see why not? :D

I still haven't quite figured out how Captain Irving ticks, tbh, since we keep getting hit over the head with new information about him. I love how protective he is of his daughter, and how once he accepted that yeah, supernatural shenanigans, okay, he pretty much dedicated himself to dealing with those shenanigans. He still doesn't quite get them - his reaction to the guy in the park was way different than, say, Ichabod's or Abbie's would have been - but he's trying.

Also, his crush on Abbie's sister continues to be a source of much grinning.

Re: Skye, I love how she's growing up as the show progresses. The more she sees, the less self-involved she becomes (or at least it seems that way) and the more she starts trusting those around her. It's a nice change from a bit more static characters like FitzSimmons, and I wonder where she'll be when the season ends.

[innie_darling]

I was going to ask about BBC John Watson, so feel free to spring another wonderful fact about him on me, but I'll make a proper request too: Andy Brooks from Sleepy Hollow.

[lavvyan]

John Watson must have been the inspiration for the energizer bunny: he just keeps going. Whether he's suffering from PTSD or grieving or being confronted by his new flat-mate's crazy, John Watson finds something to hang on to (be it aforementioned flat-mate as the lesser evil or a new girlfriend - and another one, and another one - until he finds Mary) and uses it to pull himself up and go on. It's a bit co-dependent but it works for him, so go John!

Andy The Undead is one of those characters that make me squee when they appear on screen. He is so full of contractions: Serve & Protect vs. selling his soul to a demon, wanting to help Abbie but creeping on her like a creepy creeper who creeps (also denying her an agency of her own, which, again, creepy), telling the guys how to capture the Horseman but then working to free him. I'm not sure how much of what he's doing is of his own volition, but that just keeps me more interested in the character. He's a joy to watch.

[innie_darling]

Oh, thank you! It's true, John endures like it's his job. And your thoughts about the dichotomous nature of Andy Brooks are great. I certainly wouldn't have paid the character any attention were he not played by the lovely John Cho, who brought so much depth to the "reanimated and possibly reluctant assistant of evil" role.

[berlinghoff79]

That guy in my icon, please. Yay! for the SGA RBB, I wish I had any inspiration to do anything anymore.

[lavvyan]

I LOVE THAT GUY IN YOUR ICON! He's such a bright mind and makes intuitive jumps (even if he won't admit it) like nobody's business, but he's really amazing at missing any and all kinds of social cues around him. Which is adorable, especially when he makes that befuddled face of my-genius-senses-tell-me-there-are-Social-Undercurrents-somewhere-around-here but still fails to recognise them. So he's this crazy mixture of wildly confident/arrogant and utterly clueless/vulnerable, and, yeah. Totally adorable.

Plus the sniping. I loves me a good rant. :D

[seikaitsukimizu]

I'm going to have to ask about both Hawkeye and John Sheppard.

[lavvyan]

Like several of the other characters people brought up, I love Hawkeye for the way he keeps going. Life has thrown an unbelievable amount of shit at him (yay comic book backgrounds), but he keeps going. He gets to his feet, no matter how much it hurts, and continues to do what's right. And it's damaged him; of course it has. But he stubbornly refuses to let life beat him for good, and that's just admirable.

John Sheppard, on the other hand, brings me joy with his many, many, many scrunchy faces. There's the lopsided scrunch of self-satisfaction, the raised-eyebrows-and-doubt scrunch of Rodney-that-plan-sucks, the whole-face scrunch of talking-about-feelings-help, many others, and a boatload of fake smiles for every occasion. John communicates way more through body language than through words, and I love him for it. (And the being smart and loyal and whatnot, but that's a given.)