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This is the state of my brain today, and it is RANDOM. Click the tag at your own risk. This post is a dumping ground for a handful of thoughts that have been circling my head since I started watching Haven.
What the hell do I 'ship, anyway? I'm so non-OTPish in this fandom. I'll start off with that. I'm non-OTPish in general, and even where I've really liked pairings in the past, I've happily written those characters with other characters too. So here goes: I would be honestly made-up if Nathan and Jordan ended up together. Season 3 actively makes me not want Nathan and Audrey to get together until they've both done some growing up and each stopped trying to make the other's choices for them and... I think I might like them better as 'just' friends and partners in season 1. *says it and ducks* The OT3 thing is nice, but I mostly don't feel like writing three-way sex scenes (complicated :/ ). If the actors win their apparent campaign to have this show go the route of Duke/Nathan, I'm pretty sure I'd be on board -- I do seem to keep writing Duke/Nathan, even though I prefer my smut with boobs involved somewhere, so what's with that? DwightxAudrey forever? Also, I want Jess Minion back. :P (Nathanxharem? - Duke snuck in and is hiding at the back.)
Nathan in the s3 finale, because I seem to interpret this differently to, like, everyone else in fandom. And I just wanted to get this down somewhere, because it's been chewing at me for six months and the story I'm going to post next week uses a lot of thoughts along similar vein anyway. Yeah, he mucked up Audrey's choice. But it wasn't a fair choice anyway, and this character has had his own agency stamped on by just about everyone -- Audrey included, Audrey mostly -- since about the beginning of season 2 in subtler ways (being maneouvered into the role of Police Chief, which it seems to me is mainly so that Audrey gets to be the power behind him in that role, hm? And didn't the Teagues initially push him at Audrey as a romantic interest, too?) and definitely since the beginning of season 3 in more overt ways (Audrey deciding what he can and can't handle re their non-relationship, Vince Teagues' and the Guard's machinations). In fact, it probably goes back further than that, to his dad not telling him all the things Garland thinks he can't handle. So really it's way past time Nathan did a bit of acting out. For me, his intractability at the end falls into 'doing the right thing for the wrong reasons', since he's obsessively in love with Audrey, but I'm still cheering that someone says "fuck this shit" and decides they need to find a different solution other than continuing to offer a human sacrifice every 27 years to keep the Troubles away.
Reasons I really like Nathan Wuornos #1 - because for once, a shy, reserved character gets to be significant and active and play a major role. Though I think if you look at his choices and particularly the state of play in season 3, a lot of problems do stem from that aspect of the character (like his inability to get in Audrey's face about pushing him away). It's still awesome and I love it.
Most of my thoughts on the last scene of the finale are worked into the Nathan/Jordan fic I'll be posting sometime next week (hopefully - I want it out there at least a week before season 4 airs and it gets comprehensively Jossed, anyway), so I won't expand on those here.
What the hell do I 'ship, anyway? I'm so non-OTPish in this fandom. I'll start off with that. I'm non-OTPish in general, and even where I've really liked pairings in the past, I've happily written those characters with other characters too. So here goes: I would be honestly made-up if Nathan and Jordan ended up together. Season 3 actively makes me not want Nathan and Audrey to get together until they've both done some growing up and each stopped trying to make the other's choices for them and... I think I might like them better as 'just' friends and partners in season 1. *says it and ducks* The OT3 thing is nice, but I mostly don't feel like writing three-way sex scenes (complicated :/ ). If the actors win their apparent campaign to have this show go the route of Duke/Nathan, I'm pretty sure I'd be on board -- I do seem to keep writing Duke/Nathan, even though I prefer my smut with boobs involved somewhere, so what's with that? DwightxAudrey forever? Also, I want Jess Minion back. :P (Nathanxharem? - Duke snuck in and is hiding at the back.)
Nathan in the s3 finale, because I seem to interpret this differently to, like, everyone else in fandom. And I just wanted to get this down somewhere, because it's been chewing at me for six months and the story I'm going to post next week uses a lot of thoughts along similar vein anyway. Yeah, he mucked up Audrey's choice. But it wasn't a fair choice anyway, and this character has had his own agency stamped on by just about everyone -- Audrey included, Audrey mostly -- since about the beginning of season 2 in subtler ways (being maneouvered into the role of Police Chief, which it seems to me is mainly so that Audrey gets to be the power behind him in that role, hm? And didn't the Teagues initially push him at Audrey as a romantic interest, too?) and definitely since the beginning of season 3 in more overt ways (Audrey deciding what he can and can't handle re their non-relationship, Vince Teagues' and the Guard's machinations). In fact, it probably goes back further than that, to his dad not telling him all the things Garland thinks he can't handle. So really it's way past time Nathan did a bit of acting out. For me, his intractability at the end falls into 'doing the right thing for the wrong reasons', since he's obsessively in love with Audrey, but I'm still cheering that someone says "fuck this shit" and decides they need to find a different solution other than continuing to offer a human sacrifice every 27 years to keep the Troubles away.
Reasons I really like Nathan Wuornos #1 - because for once, a shy, reserved character gets to be significant and active and play a major role. Though I think if you look at his choices and particularly the state of play in season 3, a lot of problems do stem from that aspect of the character (like his inability to get in Audrey's face about pushing him away). It's still awesome and I love it.
Most of my thoughts on the last scene of the finale are worked into the Nathan/Jordan fic I'll be posting sometime next week (hopefully - I want it out there at least a week before season 4 airs and it gets comprehensively Jossed, anyway), so I won't expand on those here.
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