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Ten highly improbable pairings that someone should write:
Two themes seem to be running through these: "like calls to like", and Smallville (the former for reasons which may become obvious as the pairings unfold, and the latter because the relationships on that show are so amazingly dysfunctional that almost anything -- at least from the characters' perspective -- ought to be an improvement. (And yet I keep watching....)
Xander Harris/Chloe Sullivan -- because both of them understand about watching other people save the world. And because Chloe, unlike most of Xander's prior partners, is so utterly trustworthy....
Lionel Luthor/Vala Mal Doran -- Can you just see the waves of deviousness and charm crashing against each other? The incredibly complicated dance of one-upsmanship and counterplot? And Lionel is as insanely wealthy as Vala could possibly hope for, whereas Vala is sultry enough to make Martha Kent look like, well, a farm girl. This would almost certainly not be a happily-ever-after story, but boy, would we have a lot of fun watching the fireworks.
Gen. George Hammond/Martha Kent -- Obviously would happen after George goes to Washington and Martha goes into politics. As two people with unreasonably strong ethical codes, it obviously wouldn't take long for them to gravitate toward each other in that environment, though it might take quite a while for friendship to blossom into Something More.
Clark Kent/Veronica Mars -- He goes to Neptune, she figures out his secret, chemistry ensues. For Clark, Veronica is Chloe without the friendship baggage; for Veronica, Clark is Logan without the trust issues. And the opportunities for world-class snark would be exceptional.
Spike (aka William the Bloody)/Lana Lang -- This is about as improbable as a pairing could possibly get, and yet . . . both of them are incredibly emotionally needy. Both of them are (for their respective audiences) sinfully hot. You'd barely have to point them at each other and they'd be so magnetically fused you couldn't pry them apart with a fusion bomb. Although that might not stop Lex from trying.
Rodney McKay/Fred Burkle -- I have now seen just enough SG:A to understand why the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yuletide story a year or two back in which it is revealed that Rodney is actually grown-up Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes makes such perfect, insane sense. Nobody but another brilliantly dysfunctional genius could possibly understand him -- and Fred is about as brilliantly dysfunctional as they come. [Can you just see Rodney being seduced into working for Fred at W&H's research department? Then again, maybe that was where the SGC found him....]
Wesley Wyndham-Price/Barbara ("Oracle") Gordon -- I think the like-ness that makes me suggest this one is that both characters have a kind of doomed encyclopedic wisdom that few of their associates really understand or appreciate. OTOH, I'd think they'd be totally likely to see and appreciate it in each other....
Vala Mal Doran/Jayne Cobb -- Okay, so much for "like calls to like" -- or, for that matter, for anything resembling logic in the romance department. This one would be amusing because Jayne (of course) would totally underestimate Vala's innate cunning, whereas Vala would be likely to totally underestimate Jayne's sheer brute-force durability. But neither mistake would stop either of them from using the other for as long as they could keep the scam going....
Lex Luthor/Glorificus -- The problem with finding a romantic interest for Lex Luthor (particularly the Smallville version) is that you need a partner who's both incredibly strong and incredibly tolerant of his Evil Manipulations. And there aren't many of those characters around. This would take a bit of finagling with continuity to engineer, but Glory clearly qualifies on both counts. In fact, one suspects that they might work entirely too well together; it could be awfully challenging to write this in a way that doesn't end with the two of them either ruling or destroying the immediate multiverse.
Samantha Carter/Jethro Gibbs -- And last but not least, a wild speculation: suppose, just suppose, that Sam was one of Gibbs' legendary ex-wives? It wouldn't be at all unlikely for the younger NCIS agent to have had an eye for a young Air Force scientist....
liviapenn:Ten highly improbable pairings that someone should write:
Two themes seem to be running through these: "like calls to like", and Smallville (the former for reasons which may become obvious as the pairings unfold, and the latter because the relationships on that show are so amazingly dysfunctional that almost anything -- at least from the characters' perspective -- ought to be an improvement. (And yet I keep watching....)
Xander Harris/Chloe Sullivan -- because both of them understand about watching other people save the world. And because Chloe, unlike most of Xander's prior partners, is so utterly trustworthy....
Lionel Luthor/Vala Mal Doran -- Can you just see the waves of deviousness and charm crashing against each other? The incredibly complicated dance of one-upsmanship and counterplot? And Lionel is as insanely wealthy as Vala could possibly hope for, whereas Vala is sultry enough to make Martha Kent look like, well, a farm girl. This would almost certainly not be a happily-ever-after story, but boy, would we have a lot of fun watching the fireworks.
Gen. George Hammond/Martha Kent -- Obviously would happen after George goes to Washington and Martha goes into politics. As two people with unreasonably strong ethical codes, it obviously wouldn't take long for them to gravitate toward each other in that environment, though it might take quite a while for friendship to blossom into Something More.
Clark Kent/Veronica Mars -- He goes to Neptune, she figures out his secret, chemistry ensues. For Clark, Veronica is Chloe without the friendship baggage; for Veronica, Clark is Logan without the trust issues. And the opportunities for world-class snark would be exceptional.
Spike (aka William the Bloody)/Lana Lang -- This is about as improbable as a pairing could possibly get, and yet . . . both of them are incredibly emotionally needy. Both of them are (for their respective audiences) sinfully hot. You'd barely have to point them at each other and they'd be so magnetically fused you couldn't pry them apart with a fusion bomb. Although that might not stop Lex from trying.
Rodney McKay/Fred Burkle -- I have now seen just enough SG:A to understand why the
yuletide story a year or two back in which it is revealed that Rodney is actually grown-up Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes makes such perfect, insane sense. Nobody but another brilliantly dysfunctional genius could possibly understand him -- and Fred is about as brilliantly dysfunctional as they come. [Can you just see Rodney being seduced into working for Fred at W&H's research department? Then again, maybe that was where the SGC found him....]Wesley Wyndham-Price/Barbara ("Oracle") Gordon -- I think the like-ness that makes me suggest this one is that both characters have a kind of doomed encyclopedic wisdom that few of their associates really understand or appreciate. OTOH, I'd think they'd be totally likely to see and appreciate it in each other....
Vala Mal Doran/Jayne Cobb -- Okay, so much for "like calls to like" -- or, for that matter, for anything resembling logic in the romance department. This one would be amusing because Jayne (of course) would totally underestimate Vala's innate cunning, whereas Vala would be likely to totally underestimate Jayne's sheer brute-force durability. But neither mistake would stop either of them from using the other for as long as they could keep the scam going....
Lex Luthor/Glorificus -- The problem with finding a romantic interest for Lex Luthor (particularly the Smallville version) is that you need a partner who's both incredibly strong and incredibly tolerant of his Evil Manipulations. And there aren't many of those characters around. This would take a bit of finagling with continuity to engineer, but Glory clearly qualifies on both counts. In fact, one suspects that they might work entirely too well together; it could be awfully challenging to write this in a way that doesn't end with the two of them either ruling or destroying the immediate multiverse.
Samantha Carter/Jethro Gibbs -- And last but not least, a wild speculation: suppose, just suppose, that Sam was one of Gibbs' legendary ex-wives? It wouldn't be at all unlikely for the younger NCIS agent to have had an eye for a young Air Force scientist....
