loved first: Jack Aubrey, you charming n00b, you are just the cutest thing ever in those first few books. He's so excited and vital and inexperienced and FOOLISH, oh my god, such a DORK, and I don't know why but I just find him irresistible.
love more now: Queenie, who it took me a while to find - she's kind of dispersed through the text, so you have to patch her together, but now yeah I'm pretty sure she's the coolest!
don't get the love: Diana. She RUINS EVERYTHING by making it all dark and ambivalent and complicated, and damn it I'm here for debauched sloths and Jack's puns and the constant endearments, I don't want things to be dark and complicated! And I don't find Diana cool enough as a character to pay for the loss of easiness and cheer she causes - yes, yes, gorgeous remote impetuous brunette plays games with hearts, yeah sure whatever. I find Sophie and her sisters much more interesting, and think it's a shame we don't see more of them, but Diana Villiers I could really do without.
nobody else gets the love: the flipside of the above, poor Sophie, who I find charming and sweet. She's the more outwardly femme of the two characters, and for this reason is too often dismissed as a wetblanket or a nursemaid or a ninny. I would love it if she were not relegated to land but let to come to sea, the way Diana does - if she were allowed more into the meat of the story. Now THAT I could OT3: Jack/Sophie/Stephen anyone?
love less now: hrm. do I love any of them less? I do not think I do!
kiss: TAKE ME NOW JACK AUBREY, TAKE ME LIKE THE LUBRICIOUS SEAMAN YOU ARE.
be: I AM NOT AT ALL CONVINCED OF THE WISDOM OF ATTEMPTING TO BE LIKE ANYONE IN THE AUBREYAD.
slap: Jack Aubrey, until his bottom is nice and red :P
pairing I love: Jack/Stephen. They are just too cute for words. I love how much they bitch; I love how little the bitching means, most of the time.
pairing I don't: Stephen/Diana. I don't TRUST HER, it's not SAFE, NOTHING GOOD WILL COME OF THIS.
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love more now: Queenie, who it took me a while to find - she's kind of dispersed through the text, so you have to patch her together, but now yeah I'm pretty sure she's the coolest!
don't get the love: Diana. She RUINS EVERYTHING by making it all dark and ambivalent and complicated, and damn it I'm here for debauched sloths and Jack's puns and the constant endearments, I don't want things to be dark and complicated! And I don't find Diana cool enough as a character to pay for the loss of easiness and cheer she causes - yes, yes, gorgeous remote impetuous brunette plays games with hearts, yeah sure whatever. I find Sophie and her sisters much more interesting, and think it's a shame we don't see more of them, but Diana Villiers I could really do without.
nobody else gets the love: the flipside of the above, poor Sophie, who I find charming and sweet. She's the more outwardly femme of the two characters, and for this reason is too often dismissed as a wetblanket or a nursemaid or a ninny. I would love it if she were not relegated to land but let to come to sea, the way Diana does - if she were allowed more into the meat of the story. Now THAT I could OT3: Jack/Sophie/Stephen anyone?
love less now: hrm. do I love any of them less? I do not think I do!
kiss: TAKE ME NOW JACK AUBREY, TAKE ME LIKE THE LUBRICIOUS SEAMAN YOU ARE.
be: I AM NOT AT ALL CONVINCED OF THE WISDOM OF ATTEMPTING TO BE LIKE ANYONE IN THE AUBREYAD.
slap: Jack Aubrey, until his bottom is nice and red :P
pairing I love: Jack/Stephen. They are just too cute for words. I love how much they bitch; I love how little the bitching means, most of the time.
pairing I don't: Stephen/Diana. I don't TRUST HER, it's not SAFE, NOTHING GOOD WILL COME OF THIS.