Oh yeah. D: "I hate the way he thinks a fork is a trumpet!"
I may have to write this. Or we may have to co-write it through cracky DW comments or something.
Tharja: I have better things to do in my dead time than spoon-feed my kid love and success. I taught her everything she knows before I kicked it, and she's got her friends.
It's inconsistent as hell with Cori. I mean, some works aren't bad at playing things both ways-The Simpsons portrays Homer's stupidity for laughs, but sometimes it hurts the people he loves and he's gotta make it up to them. But it's also an animated comedy. With negative continuity.
Cori's trying to write a series of serious dramatic stories. The inconsistency just. Doesn't. Work.
Pikachu: Pika, pika. (So why am I a horrible hellbeast when I'm defending myself against people who want to STEAL ME AND SELL ME FOR CASH?!)
Ash: I dunno, buddy. D: This writer doesn't run on Earth logic. Cori: SILENCE, SHITHEEL! Misty: *to Brock* How much does it cost to ship a person to Abu Dhabi?
Nonsense. She would look pale and wan... right up until the point where they pigged out at the end of the fic and she was magically back to normal, the end.
And the fainting! Don't forget the dramatic fainting! Then all James has to say is "I love you, you're not fat" and she starts eating again.
In all fairness, I don't mind her WRITING whatever she wanted, but then she was all militant about NO THIS IS CANON and THE WRITERS ARE WRONG and IF YOU WRITE ANYTHING DIFFERENT YOU AREN'T A TRUE TEAM ROCKET FAN and JESSIE AND JAMES ARE THE BEST COUPLE EVER and blah blah blah. If she acknowledged that it was fanon id-fic, I'd still be creeped out but cut her some slack on 'Well, she knows the difference between fic and reality, she's just venting.' I'M NOT SURE CORI ENTIRELY KNEW THE DIFFERENCE D:
True. I may hate certain tropes and cliches but as long as the writer's not trying to foist them off as "realistic"...
*nods* Yep. That's the beauty of a LOT of initially "unhealthy" pairings I can think of. Hell, I can even vouch for Frederick/Cordelia (if you ignore their fail of an ending)-maybe she eventually DID grow to love him despite initially accepting his proposal just so she could forget about Chrom. Maybe they didn't get married straight away because he knew she needed time.
Not so with these versions of Jessie and James. Cori writes every step of their relationship, every moment, every stage. There's no room to assume they get better, we just have to watch them be horribly unstable and co-dependent until the split from canon where they're suddenly a perfect couple and all the past drama is conveniently forgotten.
"One day Ninian was walking alone when she spotted Eliwood talking to Lyn. Her poor little heart broke into a million shards of glass while crystalline tears trickled down her pale cheeks. She lifted her skirts and ran through the woods towards the nearest cliff, where she stood with her hair flowing in the wind staring at the waning moonlight. Oh, Eliwood, my love, how could you betray me?! No, it's not his fault, it is mine, for being of tainted filthy dragon blood, an unwanted child no one could ever love! Lady Lyn is beautiful and strong and deserves him so much more...if I am not the one for him, I will bow out gracefully. But just as she was about to take her dramatic swan dive Eliwood caught her, took her in his arms and professed his undying love and they made out and everything was all better." And then the rest of the socks gagged and puked and made fun of her. And Rod farted on her head.
Actually, I'd cut Cori!James as much slack as Cori!Jessie, which is why it's somewhat weird that the instability levels differ. Cori is playing genuine canon points For The Drama with him - which leaves him with strict yet neglectful parents who saw nothing wrong with marrying him off to a juvenile psychopath. His abandonment issues SHOULD be as bad as Jessie's in their own way, yet only Jessie really gets the MY MOMMA IS DEAD AND I NEVER KNEW MY DADDY angst. I guess the reason it doesn't work is that she refused to keep him as somewhat of a wimp... which just winds up making him a battered boyfriend instead. It honestly would make more sense if the flipside of Cori!Jessie's acting out is Cori!James's being passive and letting her have her way because that was his survival mechanism as a child. [/psychologically analyzing cheap wangstfics]
Well, Jessie's the weepy basket case of emotionally insecure mommy issues and the sweet pure heroine with a broken heart! Of course her issues are blown up while James's, which are actually CRIPPLING, are only given a bit of spotlight before he goes back to being Jessie's manly protector and therapist. :P Seriously, we should be lucky she even gives James's issues the attention they need-even if one of her fics involving his past is just an excuse for poor helpless Jessie to be attacked while she's ill and then run away crying and wangsting.
I still can't believe I forgot all about that last part of the fic. You'd think I'd remember something as fucked up as THE ENTIRE TOWN THROWING A FESTIVAL FOR TEAM ROCKET. WITH A STATUE.
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I may have to write this. Or we may have to co-write it through cracky DW comments or something.
Tharja: I have better things to do in my dead time than spoon-feed my kid love and success. I taught her everything she knows before I kicked it, and she's got her friends.
It's inconsistent as hell with Cori. I mean, some works aren't bad at playing things both ways-The Simpsons portrays Homer's stupidity for laughs, but sometimes it hurts the people he loves and he's gotta make it up to them. But it's also an animated comedy. With negative continuity.
Cori's trying to write a series of serious dramatic stories. The inconsistency just. Doesn't. Work.
Pikachu: Pika, pika. (So why am I a horrible hellbeast when I'm defending myself against people who want to STEAL ME AND SELL ME FOR CASH?!)
Ash: I dunno, buddy. D: This writer doesn't run on Earth logic.
Cori: SILENCE, SHITHEEL!
Misty: *to Brock* How much does it cost to ship a person to Abu Dhabi?
Nonsense. She would look pale and wan... right up until the point where they pigged out at the end of the fic and she was magically back to normal, the end.
And the fainting! Don't forget the dramatic fainting! Then all James has to say is "I love you, you're not fat" and she starts eating again.
In all fairness, I don't mind her WRITING whatever she wanted, but then she was all militant about NO THIS IS CANON and THE WRITERS ARE WRONG and IF YOU WRITE ANYTHING DIFFERENT YOU AREN'T A TRUE TEAM ROCKET FAN and JESSIE AND JAMES ARE THE BEST COUPLE EVER and blah blah blah. If she acknowledged that it was fanon id-fic, I'd still be creeped out but cut her some slack on 'Well, she knows the difference between fic and reality, she's just venting.' I'M NOT SURE CORI ENTIRELY KNEW THE DIFFERENCE D:
True. I may hate certain tropes and cliches but as long as the writer's not trying to foist them off as "realistic"...
*nods* Yep. That's the beauty of a LOT of initially "unhealthy" pairings I can think of. Hell, I can even vouch for Frederick/Cordelia (if you ignore their fail of an ending)-maybe she eventually DID grow to love him despite initially accepting his proposal just so she could forget about Chrom. Maybe they didn't get married straight away because he knew she needed time.
Not so with these versions of Jessie and James. Cori writes every step of their relationship, every moment, every stage. There's no room to assume they get better, we just have to watch them be horribly unstable and co-dependent until the split from canon where they're suddenly a perfect couple and all the past drama is conveniently forgotten.
"One day Ninian was walking alone when she spotted Eliwood talking to Lyn. Her poor little heart broke into a million shards of glass while crystalline tears trickled down her pale cheeks. She lifted her skirts and ran through the woods towards the nearest cliff, where she stood with her hair flowing in the wind staring at the waning moonlight. Oh, Eliwood, my love, how could you betray me?! No, it's not his fault, it is mine, for being of tainted filthy dragon blood, an unwanted child no one could ever love! Lady Lyn is beautiful and strong and deserves him so much more...if I am not the one for him, I will bow out gracefully. But just as she was about to take her dramatic swan dive Eliwood caught her, took her in his arms and professed his undying love and they made out and everything was all better." And then the rest of the socks gagged and puked and made fun of her. And Rod farted on her head.
Actually, I'd cut Cori!James as much slack as Cori!Jessie, which is why it's somewhat weird that the instability levels differ. Cori is playing genuine canon points For The Drama with him - which leaves him with strict yet neglectful parents who saw nothing wrong with marrying him off to a juvenile psychopath. His abandonment issues SHOULD be as bad as Jessie's in their own way, yet only Jessie really gets the MY MOMMA IS DEAD AND I NEVER KNEW MY DADDY angst.
I guess the reason it doesn't work is that she refused to keep him as somewhat of a wimp... which just winds up making him a battered boyfriend instead. It honestly would make more sense if the flipside of Cori!Jessie's acting out is Cori!James's being passive and letting her have her way because that was his survival mechanism as a child. [/psychologically analyzing cheap wangstfics]
Well, Jessie's the weepy basket case of emotionally insecure mommy issues and the sweet pure heroine with a broken heart! Of course her issues are blown up while James's, which are actually CRIPPLING, are only given a bit of spotlight before he goes back to being Jessie's manly protector and therapist. :P Seriously, we should be lucky she even gives James's issues the attention they need-even if one of her fics involving his past is just an excuse for poor helpless Jessie to be attacked while she's ill and then run away crying and wangsting.
I still can't believe I forgot all about that last part of the fic. You'd think I'd remember something as fucked up as THE ENTIRE TOWN THROWING A FESTIVAL FOR TEAM ROCKET. WITH A STATUE.
Seriously. :P