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muneca_brava ([personal profile] muneca_brava) wrote2011-05-24 06:46 pm
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Exam period starting means a lot more posts! :P

Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.

(doesn't have to be a ship I actually ship!)

[identity profile] muneca-brava.livejournal.com 2011-05-24 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I really love the whole theme of Firefly; a bunch of people who are so different, who are from different backgrounds but who find this perfect home together. This particular group of people would never have had the friendship and sense of belonging they have anywhere but on a spaceship that is kind of falling apart, travelling across the verse.

And I think that sense of home is the strongest with Mal. He clearly lost a lot in the war, most of all his faith and his optimism, and I don't believe he could have kept going if he hadn't stumbled on Serenity. Of course, it's all about that moment in Out of Gas when he first sees her. The look of True Love. And along the way, the ship got filled with all these unexpected people he may not really want there at first (with the exception of Zoe), but it becomes home.
But I also think that no matter what happens to the rest of the crew, no matter how much it will hurt him when they die or leave, he'll be reasonably okay as long as he has Serenity.

We never really see Mal as soft, and - I'll say it - serene, as when he is 'interacting' with his ship. She is what keeps him going. And I love that Serenity is really another character in the show, and how much care has gone into the design, because it is SO important that it feels like a home, not a means of transportation.

So yeah, in many ways Mal/Serenity is like Doctor/Tardis for me. It is the ultimate OTP of the show, and overshadows all the ship wars between various characters because long after everyone else is gone, it will be the captain and his ship. That's not to say I don't also ship Mal/Inara and Mal/Saffron! :) But I have many feelings that I never really articulated on Mal/Serenity, clearly! :D

[identity profile] mollivanders.livejournal.com 2011-05-24 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Mal/Serenity will always be my OTP of the show. Women come and go in Mal's life (maybe except for Zoe), but Serenity is more than his home. It's his resting place. It's where he's okay, where he survives, where he gets up and can go to sleep and live in a way the Alliance wouldn't let him.

Oh, I ship it so much :) Captains and their ships forever.