I have a half an hour to myself right now.

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60-second-rant, GO!

ARRRGGHH work has been crazy. For no reason at all. I had five classes yesterday, and four each day two days before that, and today I have three. And it came at the worst time because my back is hurting (don't know how I hurt it) and being on my feet all day isn't helping. And I haven't been able to RP at ALL because I come home exhausted and I have no time during the day and it's made me REALLY upset and cranky and I wish I could play with all of you guys because I really miss it. :(

*deep breath*

HERE HAVE A MEME.

Stolen from viridian and chanter_greenie:

Give me a character and I will tell you...

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character -
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

(List of characters in my profile.)

Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I kind of have to ask you about Data.

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*Data will never fail to hit my soft spot. Between Brent Spiner's acting and the way the writers shaped his journey, he surprised me time and time again with how much his story affected me emotionally. I knew right away that I would like him, though, as soon as the concept of his character was described to me over a documentary. I'm always fascinated with characters that have different sets of challenges from their peers.

*Oh, gosh. Well, I am especially fond of shipping Data with Tasha Yar. I also thought Jenna D'Sora was absolutely adorable, and the whole Borg Queen thing was oddly... well, as Data might put it, "intriguing." But I also have a tendency to slash things all over the place, so I've enjoyed shipping him with Geordi, Picard, Riker, and even Worf.

*I should absolutely have to answer this question with Geordi, for reasons that are OBVIOUS, but just to be different I'm not going to. I am in love with the vibe that Data and Captain Picard have in the canon. It's almost like a father/son relationship, except it's more complicated than that, because Picard is constantly learning about himself from Data, just as Data is learning more about himself and the people around him from Captain Picard. They have this really deep understanding of each other that I think was heightened after Picard's encounter with the Borg-- he then knew what it was to struggle against feeling empty and artificial, as well as perhaps what it was like to be treated warily for having gone through that.

*I loved the ending to Nemesis. I loved that Data died. I thought that if any one of the main characters had to die, it had to be Data. Mostly because-- and most people seem to miss this-- he was able to come back through the memories he implanted in B4 (which is canon, by the way, via the comic Star Trek: Countdown, in which he is Captain of the Enterprise). Also, if you ask me, the way it happened was no more random than when Spock died. And what I think was kind of cool about it was that it wasn't a "good of the many" situation-- Data specifically gave up his life for his Captain. Everyone else would have been saved anyway. I think that says a lot about his character.

*I wish we could have seen what would have happened canonically if Q or someone had turned him human. (I think there's a book with something similar happening, but I haven't read it or heard much about it.) I would have liked to see him end up with a romantic interest, maybe even start a family, because I like happy endings. And I'm interested in how he became Captain of the Enterprise, and that journey.