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So what is it about John and Rodney together that leaves me reading stories until 3AM when I really, really need sleep?
Why those two? Because I have an abiding passion for Ronon/Rodney, and Ronon/Sheppard can be hot or hotwrong or even sort of sweet, and Rodney/Daniel is crossovery and good, and Teyla ought to be sexing Rodney, because he's Rodney. Even Sam would come around eventually.
But back to the McKay/Sheppard show I come again and again. Only Ronon/Rodney really comes close. And I can't stop with the reading of McKay/Sheppard fiction, in an insanely prolific fandom I can't get enough of the good stuff. So what are these elusive reasons for my obsession?
Naturally, being me, there will be a list.
1. John seems to me like the type who has major hidden abandonment issues. Rodney is a jealous freak of nature, and their messed-up psyches could meld well here. It reminds me of my impressions of Fraser/Kowalski in this regard. Their neuroses dove-tail in a queerly healthy manner. They keep each other alive by virtue of mutual derangement.
2. They are opposite enough to balance each other yet have so much in common they can squabble over obscure details.
3. They look really cute when they play. As a thousand good and not-so-good vids have shown us the balcony scene and the weapons-light-him-up thing YET AGAIN, obviously this is a common opinion.
4. John is so very, very gay. In that special way where he could sleep with/have UST with women smoking hot like Teyla and yet. Plainly gay. And Rodney can legally marry him! Yay, Canada.
5. Rodney is so very, very in love with John. He just is, his expressive face just beams and melts and squishes at him. The final scene in Trinity, the Siege bomb thingy, why am I even pointing these out?
6. Rodney is the first person John has met that he *knows* is smarter than him, whose ideas he takes in preference to his own. This is my interpretation, of course, but I can back this up. And John is a faster on-the-ground thinker than Rodney, and in many ways a superior tactical one. This must fascinate Rodney.
7. The snark is incredibly flexible. It can express everything necessary while being entertaining in and of itself.
There are more reasons, I think. John becomes so much more lovable when he is a buddy to Rodney. He is adorable when he shores up the social weaknesses that leave Rodney exposed. And John has changed Rodney in many excellent ways, strengthened him and rubbed off some of the worst edges. Rodney can keep Sheppard alive, in spite of insurmountable odds, by being able to produce the things Sheppard imagines.
It all comes down to the fact that John loves to fly machines and Rodney can build and design machines, that John says he likes Ferris Wheels and Rodney could make him one. That John can make Rodney show his heroism and develop his undeveloped skills and Rodney can appreciate John's intellect. They are much better together, and also?
I can't be OTP in Atlantis, because there is so much potential. But in 83.252344323% of the universes, John and Rodney are having sex.
Why those two? Because I have an abiding passion for Ronon/Rodney, and Ronon/Sheppard can be hot or hotwrong or even sort of sweet, and Rodney/Daniel is crossovery and good, and Teyla ought to be sexing Rodney, because he's Rodney. Even Sam would come around eventually.
But back to the McKay/Sheppard show I come again and again. Only Ronon/Rodney really comes close. And I can't stop with the reading of McKay/Sheppard fiction, in an insanely prolific fandom I can't get enough of the good stuff. So what are these elusive reasons for my obsession?
Naturally, being me, there will be a list.
1. John seems to me like the type who has major hidden abandonment issues. Rodney is a jealous freak of nature, and their messed-up psyches could meld well here. It reminds me of my impressions of Fraser/Kowalski in this regard. Their neuroses dove-tail in a queerly healthy manner. They keep each other alive by virtue of mutual derangement.
2. They are opposite enough to balance each other yet have so much in common they can squabble over obscure details.
3. They look really cute when they play. As a thousand good and not-so-good vids have shown us the balcony scene and the weapons-light-him-up thing YET AGAIN, obviously this is a common opinion.
4. John is so very, very gay. In that special way where he could sleep with/have UST with women smoking hot like Teyla and yet. Plainly gay. And Rodney can legally marry him! Yay, Canada.
5. Rodney is so very, very in love with John. He just is, his expressive face just beams and melts and squishes at him. The final scene in Trinity, the Siege bomb thingy, why am I even pointing these out?
6. Rodney is the first person John has met that he *knows* is smarter than him, whose ideas he takes in preference to his own. This is my interpretation, of course, but I can back this up. And John is a faster on-the-ground thinker than Rodney, and in many ways a superior tactical one. This must fascinate Rodney.
7. The snark is incredibly flexible. It can express everything necessary while being entertaining in and of itself.
There are more reasons, I think. John becomes so much more lovable when he is a buddy to Rodney. He is adorable when he shores up the social weaknesses that leave Rodney exposed. And John has changed Rodney in many excellent ways, strengthened him and rubbed off some of the worst edges. Rodney can keep Sheppard alive, in spite of insurmountable odds, by being able to produce the things Sheppard imagines.
It all comes down to the fact that John loves to fly machines and Rodney can build and design machines, that John says he likes Ferris Wheels and Rodney could make him one. That John can make Rodney show his heroism and develop his undeveloped skills and Rodney can appreciate John's intellect. They are much better together, and also?
I can't be OTP in Atlantis, because there is so much potential. But in 83.252344323% of the universes, John and Rodney are having sex.
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