rionaleonhart: final fantasy x-2: the sun is rising, yuna looks to the future. (staring into your soul)
Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2011-08-02 04:01 pm

What Do You Want?

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2011-08-04 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I don't actually know what those things are.

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2011-08-04 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
You don't have to. The point was that I thought I lost something I like having, and then found it. :3 I was telling you so you could share in my joy.

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2011-08-04 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
The deck is precious to me because some of my favorite cards are in it- including a few rare cards that I only have because some friends gave them to me. That's why I didn't have it stored with the others, but I forgot where I put it and I thought it had gone missing.