Character icons meme

[annathepiper]

Snurching this one from cadhla, because it's hysterical:

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc. Then write your reaction to each pairing (or a snippet of a hypothetical fic featuring each pairing).

And now, the pairs from my icons:

1) Arwen Undomiel (Liz Tyler in Lord of the Rings) / Bender (Futurama)

Now we know what the daughter of Elrond does in the Sixteenth Age of Middle-Earth, after Aragorn has long bit it and she discovers she's not nearly as mortal as everybody thought she was going to wind up. Bender, for his part, cheerfully makes off with that shiny sparkly pendant she's so fond of.

2) Bob (from http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/) / Chad Gates (Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii)

Afterwards, the entire population of Honolulu agreed that it was one of the stranger romances the island of Oahu had ever witnessed. However, they also all admitted that the big hula-dancing musical number on the virtues of pie really made the wedding.

3) Chip Morton (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) / Clark Kent (Lois & Clark)

In which Commander Morton learns an entirely new meaning for the phrase "DIVE! ALL DIVE!"

4) Deke Rivers (Elvis Presley in Loving You) / Dib (Invader Zim)

Dib and Deke's affair only really got off the ground when young Dib picked up a guitar and set his insistence that Zim was about to take over the earth to music.

5) Elizabeth Bennet (A&E production of Pride & Prejudice) / Fitzwilliam Darcy (same)

I think Jane Austen beat me to this one already.

6) Galadriel (Cate Blanchett in Lord of the Rings) / Gaz (Invader Zim)

Galadriel: "To bear a Ring of Power is to be alone!"
Gaz: "Pfft. Whiner!"

7) Han Solo / Indiana Jones

Now we know exactly why Solo and Jones both look insufferably smug at several points during their respective movies.

8) Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe in Master and Commander)/ Kara Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)

Disgusted with the inferior technological and sociological advancement of the lost Thirteenth Tribe once the Galactica finally made it to Earth, Starbuck consoled herself as best she could in the arms of a dashing British commander. It was a stormy relationship, as all of hers ever were. She never did understand why Jack didn't just blow the hell out of the French with a squadron of Vipers, and furthermore was completely convinced that Maturin was secretly a Cylon.

9) Laura Holt (Remington Steele) / Lois Lane (Lois & Clark)

Lois was fed up after catching Clark in the arms of a blond naval officer--she never did buy his innocent-farm-boy-from-Kansas routine. She transferred to a major Los Angeles newspaper, and when drowning her sorrows in a trendy Hollywood bar, came across Laura doing the same. It seemed she was incensed at some smooth-talking Englishman who'd ruined her detective agency's fortunes one time too many, which immediately fired up Lois' sympathies. The two instantly vowed to found their own independent detective agency--after the night of passion in Laura's loft.

10) Lucky Jackson (Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas) / MacGyver

Mac had to admit he was impressed by how Lucky handled both a racecar and a guitar--and Lucky, until his dying day, got a bright gleam in his eye every time he remembered the extremely creative things Mac could do with a rubber band, a chewing gum wrapper, and chocolate sauce.

11) Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly) / Marion Ravenwood (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

It was one of the stranger jobs the crew of Serenity had ever hired on for. How they'd made it through the wormhole back to Earth-That-Was he still wasn't sure--and not even Simon, the best brain on the ship, was able to suss it out. But they'd gotten those supplies dropped right in the middle of that godforsaken, snow-blown hellhole that the computer banks told them was called Nepal, and it was a damned good thing they found the bar, too. And that little black-haired spitfire running the place... well. After she drank Jayne under the table, Mal couldn't take his eyes off her. Not even after she drank him under the table, leaving him to wake up the next morning with a splitting headache and a parting, smirking farewell of "Sorry, flyboy, you look too damned much like Jones."

12) Max Skinner (Russell Crowe in A Good Year) / Pacer Burton (Elvis Presley in Flaming Star)

One moment, Max was destroying other people's fortunes in the British stock market, and Pacer was getting shot at in the middle of Texas. How they both wound up in the south of France surrounded by the best wine either of them had either drunk was beyond them--but they weren't about to question their luck.

13) Rillwhisper (my character from Two Moons, the Elfquest MUSH) / Sawyer (Lost)

He wasn't all that unattractive for a human boy, the chieftess supposed. But he was so very not her type--humans were after all her daughter's inclination, not hers.

14) Scuzzbopper (Twice Upon a Time) / Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany in Master and Commander)

It began out of mutual respect between two men of learning: Scuzzbopper had always hidden the breadth of his reading from Synonamess Botch, and Maturin for his part had few chances to properly discuss works of literature on board the Surprise. But what was Stephen to do? Jack was distracting himself with that saucy blonde baggage who'd migrated from some fantastic entire other world, and so the doctor applied himself to assisting in his new companion's efforts to compose the Great Amurkian Novel.

15) Strongbow (Elfquest) / The Doctor (David Tennant in Doctor Who)

In all of his regenerations, the Doctor had never had a Companion nearly as irascible and taciturn as the small pointy-eared fellow he accidentally picked up from the two-mooned world in a remote star system, and that was counting Turlough. Turlough hadn't ever shot up the TARDIS control panel with primitive projectile weaponry--but then again, Turlough had also never learned the value of knowing when to shut up.

16) "The Man" (Russell Crowe's otherwise nameless character in The Silver Brumby) / Uhura (Star Trek)

Uhura never did utter a word to anyone else on the Enterprise about what she did on shore leave in Australia, every bit as bare as the horse she was riding--and the horse handler who came after.

17) Weebl (also from http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/) / Zim (Invader Zim)

Weebl: Want pie now!
Zim: YOU! Wobbling dirt-monster! Surrender all your pies to ZIM!
GIR: YAY! PIE! I'm going to sing the Pie Song now!
Weebl and GIR: PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE!
Zim: (muttering) They've got to tire out eventually. I'll just WAIT.
(one year later)
Weebl and GIR: PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE!

Comments

[annathepiper]

Gives a whole new meaning to this icon, too. ;> (Because the only man good enough for Harrison Ford IS Harrison Ford!)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I don't have enough characters in my iconset, I don't think, to make this nearly as much fun as yours was, but yours was great. Hee hee hee. :)

[annathepiper]

*bows* Thank you, thank you!

And I realized only after I was done that I TOTALLY left out Harry Dresden and Martha Jones. Though that pairing is pretty hot, I may just have to allow that. ;)

[janne.livejournal.com]

15) Strongbow (Elfquest) / The Doctor (David Tennant in Doctor Who)

That one needed a 'not safe while drinking coffee' warning! Bwahahaha!

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

AMEN!!!

/Is still having trouble breathing after snorting coffee
//At least my sinuses are now clear.
//Can't stop laughing.

[annathepiper]

Hee! Yeah, that 'un's still making me snicker too. ;)

[ellerisse.livejournal.com]

Sign me up for the snorking club. *ded* XD

[annathepiper]

And in a corner of my head, Rill is sulking that she wasn't close enough in the alphabet to get paired up with Strongbow. ;>

[annathepiper]

Yeah, that was by far my favorite, if nothing else just imagining the look on the Archer's face as he tries to reconcile "extremely cool Palace-like starfaring vehicle" with "guy who looks like a human but ACTS like a High One"... I think his brain would explode. ;)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

It's not so much the pairings as your interpretations of them which says something about you. I'm not sure what that is, but it definitely says something. :-)

[annathepiper]

Which is, after all, the point. :)

[boxer-ferret.livejournal.com]

16) "The Man" (Russell Crowe's otherwise nameless character in The Silver Brumby) / Uhura (Star Trek)

Uhura never did utter a word to anyone else on the Enterprise about what she did on shore leave in Australia, every bit as bare as the horse she was riding--and the horse handler who came after.

Now there's one to read! Actually, you can hear The Man being called Egan a couple times during the film. So that's his name.

[annathepiper]

Huh, I didn't catch that the character had a name at all, when I saw that film. I blame it on being distracted by the "Russell lying half-naked and soaking wet in the stream" part at the beginning. I'm pretty sure there was more film after that, but aside from "MONDAY IS WASHING DAY IS EVERY DOGGY HAPPY?", I couldn't describe it if you paid me.

And yeah, the idea of him and Uhura is pretty hot! ;>

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

I think the fact that most of my icons are images of myself and my kids means I'll stay well away from this one :-)

[annathepiper]

Hee! Yeah, though by the rules of the meme, it does say "characters" in your icons. I don't think real people count. (Which is why Russell Crowe as himself and Alan Doyle and Eddie Izzard were not on my list!)

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Hm. Severus Snape + Tor the Calculate = OTP!

[annathepiper]

Hee! There ya go! ;)