Well, I'm not 100% sure, but I think you do fall a little more into having a more unusual interpretation and preferences with characters. I mean, this is just me trying to remember how you prefer things and how (HP, Trek) fandom has tendencies, so... (Also those are huge fandoms, so what do I even know).
I actually don't know if most people tend to favor 1 character over the other. I know I do though. I can't even think of a pairing right now where I love both the same! Like there are pairings where I think both are cool people and equal to each other, but I almost always have a not-so-secret fav.
Hm. Now that I think of it wanting to read about people being in love with your favorite is probably a very immature urge. I blame the cartoons I grew up on as a child and romance novels. I have primitive emotional needs ok.
I have so many thoughts about reboot!Trek ad TOS, but yes, Kirk and Spock are both awesome. But having another character be ultra-into your fav character is like... leveling up or something. Or the prince coming with the slipper for Cinderella. The hot popular guy into our clumsy, mousey shoujo heroine! The other characters never guessed how secretly awesome this person was! I feel like these all stem from similar impulses.
Though a well-written Trek fic avoids this since Kirk and Spock actually have a good support system and are functioning adults, which is why I can actually happily read gen for them--just following their adventures and not having anything to do w my lame emotional porn needs. I actually don't care who puts what where with the couple, as long as it's not one of those creepy Spock-is-abusive-Jim-is-a-golden-enabling-god fics.
K/S don't need to be broken to get together! T'Pring dumps him! So then he's free :D I... don't know what to think about Harry not being with Ginny meaning brokenness. There's something I'm not understanding about your reasoning there...
Jim is a Captain and thus should shed control in the bedroom' make me gack
lol I can kind of get this reasoning though. Aren't ~powerful men supposed to tend to like to be dominated in bed? idk It's not something that turns my crank. I do like my fav being held down/dominated, but... lol maybe this is why I tend to skim 99% of sex in all Trek fics.
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I actually don't know if most people tend to favor 1 character over the other. I know I do though. I can't even think of a pairing right now where I love both the same! Like there are pairings where I think both are cool people and equal to each other, but I almost always have a not-so-secret fav.
Hm. Now that I think of it wanting to read about people being in love with your favorite is probably a very immature urge. I blame the cartoons I grew up on as a child and romance novels. I have primitive emotional needs ok.
I have so many thoughts about reboot!Trek ad TOS, but yes, Kirk and Spock are both awesome. But having another character be ultra-into your fav character is like... leveling up or something. Or the prince coming with the slipper for Cinderella. The hot popular guy into our clumsy, mousey shoujo heroine! The other characters never guessed how secretly awesome this person was! I feel like these all stem from similar impulses.
Though a well-written Trek fic avoids this since Kirk and Spock actually have a good support system and are functioning adults, which is why I can actually happily read gen for them--just following their adventures and not having anything to do w my lame emotional porn needs. I actually don't care who puts what where with the couple, as long as it's not one of those creepy Spock-is-abusive-Jim-is-a-golden-enabling-god fics.
K/S don't need to be broken to get together! T'Pring dumps him! So then he's free :D I... don't know what to think about Harry not being with Ginny meaning brokenness. There's something I'm not understanding about your reasoning there...
Jim is a Captain and thus should shed control in the bedroom' make me gack
lol I can kind of get this reasoning though. Aren't ~powerful men supposed to tend to like to be dominated in bed? idk It's not something that turns my crank. I do like my fav being held down/dominated, but... lol maybe this is why I tend to skim 99% of sex in all Trek fics.