What Do You Want?

[rionaleonhart]

In case anyone who might be interested missed it on account of my terrible timing: I posted an X-Men: First Class fic whilst Livejournal was being difficult! No common sense. It is about Raven and Erik and Charles and their relationships with each other. It is also, inevitably, about Pokémon.


Over the weekend, I stayed with mogamus_ii! She had the first two X-Men films on DVD, so, at my request, we watched them.

I went into the films hoping to see more of the fascinating relationship between Erik and Charles. By the end of X2, they could have had sex right there on the screen and I wouldn't have noticed.

I am 'shipping Rogue and Logan more than I have ever 'shipped anything in my life.

No, seriously, it twisted my insides when I realised that the films were going to go the Logan/Jean route instead. I was so oblivious to any tension between them that, close to the end of the first film, this happened:

Jean: I think she's a little taken with you.
Logan: Well, you can tell her my heart belongs to someone else.
Riona: Wait, what? NO. NO IT DOESN'T. Who?
Logan: How's the professor?
Riona: He's in love with Charles?

Not that there necessarily wasn't any tension between Logan and Jean; it's quite possible that they were constantly setting the air between them aflame and I simply didn't notice because I was so busy hoping for more Logan-Rogue interaction.

I don't know how this pairing hit me so hard and so fast! During the truck scene after Logan and Rogue's first meeting, I was fascinated by the atmosphere and the dynamic, although thoughts of pairing them up hadn't occurred to me yet. By the train scene, I was shouting 'GET MARRIED' at the screen.

And then there was that intensely awkward scene at the beginning of X2 between Logan and Rogue and Rogue's boyfriend and I was dying with how much I needed Logan and Rogue to be together. X-MEN FILMS WHY ARE LOGAN AND ROGUE NOT MAKING OUT CONSTANTLY

I MEAN, YES, ROGUE'S MUTATION WOULD KILL ANYONE SHE MADE OUT WITH, BUT OTHER THAN THAT YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

(Well, if it's any comfort, my OTP can't actually conceivably have sex.)

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Except they totally could! Because Wolverine comes back from anything!

(Also, I know for a fact that there is such a thing as liquid latex body paint, which should theoretically solve most of the complications involved with Rogue having sex, although she still couldn't kiss people.)

[rionaleonhart]

I appreciate your noble efforts to make their sex-having plausible even if it makes you uncomfortable! I suppose that if they did have sex they would have to go for the body paint rather than the 'well, he can come back from anything' approach, because having sex whilst feeling constantly as if you're dying probably wouldn't be that sexy. Unless you're into that sort of thing.

In any case, I think the pairing's more interesting when it's frustrating and impossible and in any case Logan is furiously repressing his attraction to Rogue. Maybe at one point Rogue's mutation is somehow temporarily deactivated, and Logan isn't strong enough to keep repressing when suddenly something between them is possible, and they have sex and fall asleep in each other's arms and WHOOPS ROGUE'S POWERS RETURN IN THE NIGHT AND LOGAN WAKES UP TO HIS LIFE-FORCE BEING SAPPED AND NEARLY DIES.

Not - not that I've been thinking about this at massive length or anything.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. The liquid latex body paint thing has been bothering me about "Rogue can never, ever, ever have sex with people!" for years.

Rogue's powers have been temporarily deactivated many times in the comics, so you could totally do something like that, if you don't mind me not reading it.