Meme: Make me Choose

[extrapenguin]

I am trying to write a Yulefic. I am procrastinating. Please help me procrastinate more productively:

Make me choose between:

• two ships
• two characters
• two fandoms
• two anything at all

Meme provided by journalmemes.

(Fandoms include: A:tLA, A:LoK, Guardian (镇魂), Honor Harrington, Imperial Radch, Modao Zushi, Nirvana in Fire, Revelation Space, Rivers of London, KOTOR, KOTOR II, Vorkosigan)

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

How about: Zuko vs Gregor Vorbarra

and/or

Lieutenant Tisarwat vs Mark Vorkosigan

[extrapenguin]

This is ... interesting! I think I'll go with Zuko, because Gregor in later books transformed into a bit of a deus ex machina, while Zuko didn't turn into one for the later seasons of the show. :P I do like both of them a lot, and another day, my answer might be different, but today, Zuko.

I will pick Lieutenant Tisarwat, because Mark Vorkosigan holds no interest to me. He's got a traumatic backstory, then he gets more trauma heaped on him, and he goes into finance. None of which I find interesting. There have also been better takes on the "who am I, if I cannot be the one I was raised to be"/clones-or-twins figuring out identity.

[hamsterwoman]

I know what you mean about Gregor in the later books (I mean, I still adore him, but he does get deus ex machina-y after Memory), and Zuko for sure retains all his flaws.

(I love Mark, despite being not particularly interested in either trauma or finance. Brilliant characters diverging in interesting way is the part that appeals to me about both Mark and Tisarwat -- kind of like an experiment with a control group.)

[extrapenguin]

I think if it were early Gregor vs Zuko, I might've chosen otherwise, but including not-actually-a-character Gregor in there makes him lose.

See, Mark was just Meh piled atop Shrug, while Tisarwat had some actual Huh and Hmm to her! The "experiment with a control group" thing is interesting, but idk if I'd call Miles Mark's control group. They never were the same person, after all.