Edit to my anon author: I am SO sorry I never made this visible! Please feel free to ignore everything here, since it didn’t get posted until way late. Trust me, I’m so very easy to please with any of these pairings 🙂
I usually have a really strong squick around non-con, but in the case of Death Knights, part of the thing I LOVE about them is that they’re always subject to the whispers of the Lich King (Arthas or Bolvar, doesn’t matter. A benevolent mind-controller is still a mind-controller!) If you have any interest in exploring the tension between what Koltira and Thassarian feel for each other, and the demands/expectations of their Master, that would be lovely. Especially something where the boys might want to be kind/loving/romantic/consensual with each other, but the mind-control injunction to cause pain/harm/trauma/heartbreak is something that is constantly causing tension and making them act other than they would (or having to fight against it/understand).
I don’t know if I articulated that very well, but those are my fuzzy thoughts.
In this case, the whole violence/non-con thing would really not work for me, and non-con in particular would fell squicky and totally out-of-character.
Mostly, I want more banter and adventure-avoidance. However, if you want to give me backstory, or have them get dragged unwilling into an adventure, that could be a lot of fun. Basically, I see them as similar to Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot, or Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern from R&G are Dead – that is… more commenting on the world around them and only participating unwillingly. So yeah, they might be a good pairing for snapshot interactions, rather than a fully-developed story.
But of course, Matthias Shaw can’t let that happen. That is a recipe for epic, tragic conflict.
Bonus points for VanCleef kicking Wrynn in the junk, whether actually or symbolically.
I saw that about a year ago…Wasn’t it a trip? OMG…I rewatched it several times just to understand the multiple layers of time lines going on. A truly inspiring film and one that really makes you think about the anomolies of time travel. Maybe Stephen Hawking was right.
This is a new movie that I will have to go to the theaters to see, or something I can get at the video store?
I believe it came out in 2004 and won the Sundance Award. It’s hard to find in video stores but I rented my copy from Netflix.
Fantastic.
Video store. Came out in 04, I think.
^^
Yeah, two posts with the same info posting at the same minute. Apparently there’s a kitsunealyc hive mind.
Or maybe I time-traveled from the future and did it on purpose just to play with all your minds.
Just like I time traveled from the future to get you to admit that you’re from the future!
Ah-hah!
Damn! I’ve been foiled! *grabs lottery numbers and runs for time machine*
Or I travelled from an even further future, made a record of what you would reply, stole your LJ passwords, and staged this entire conversation by myself to make people think I had cool, meta-conscious people who regularly read my LJ.
Oh, wait. No. I was too busy trying to finish my Doctor Who/Harry Potter crossover exchange fic, which is, like, a week overdue.
Damn. Could I get a little help here from you time-travelling fools?
By the way, it took me a moment to recognize the scene from your icon, but now I have the Doctor’s voice in my mind talking joyfully about how moments ago we were all small and made of clay. So, icon-love.
Indeed. That is why we are all here, is it not?
What, like bringing back a copy of the Sirius Black/Capt Jack chapter from after you’ve already posted it? That would be unsportspersonlike.