Anybody up for a meme?

[kate]

Taken from xie who has all the best memes, recessional. Help me procrastinate both work AND SGA Santa!

Give me a character, and I'll tell you:

How I feel 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

Comments

[ivorygates]

Ronon Dex.

[kate]

Oooooooooh! Excellent choice!

How I feel about this character: I LOVE Ronon. He is one of my favorite characters in SGA, and not just because he's on Sheppard's team. I feel like the show shorted him a little lot, but that was weirdly okay with me, because it meant the fans could fill in the blanks ourselves without tripping over canon too much, and there are many, MANY Ronon characterizations I love out there. I love Ronon's dreads, but the wig in Season 5 was just horrendous. They had the perfect excuse to cut them off - why didn't they? Sure it's a big switch, but guess what? WE CAN GET USED TO NEW THINGS! Arg, the wig was SO BAD.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Everyone ever. I love early seasons Ronon/Teyla, I love Ronon/John, I even enjoy Ronon/McKay, though more in a snarky friendship way than in a romantic way. I like him with Keller a lot (I cannot tell you how much I wish that was the way the show had gone) and I like him with Amelia, too.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I love him as part of the team. Team is my favorite. I enjoy his relationship with Woolsey in season 5. I like him with Zelenka, too, as well as Jeannie (his scenes with Jeannie are some of my favorite) and really, just about everyone he interacts with (and characters he doesn't! I love Atlantis because a closed society means everyone interacts with each other, even if they don't show most of that on camera most of the time). The only thing I don't really get from him is a Ronon/Atlantis vibe. Teyla, John, Rodney - they all have relationships with Atlantis. I don't feel like Ronon does. I'd love for someone to write that fic, though, when he figures out how he relates to the city. ETA: JEEZ! How could I forget my favorite rarepair? I love Ronon/Zelenka!!!!

My unpopular opinion about this character: I love him playing the brute. It's clear (I think, anyway) that he's NOT a brute, and that he is using it to size people up and/or get out of things he doesn't want to do. I appreciate how cunning that is, though the fact that people continually fall for it is kinda hilarious and also depressing.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: More backstory, more history, richer characterization. Ronon/Jennifer.

[ivorygates]

Mmmmmm yes!

I STILL haven't watched S5, but I think TPTB not letting him cut his dreds was yet another example of racism at its finest.

I think Ronon was terribly brutalized by his seven years as a Runner, and I think he uses that self as a mask, but underneath that, the guy we saw on Sateda, engaged to the nice doctor, the capable military professional, is not a brute. And since Sateda seems to have a planetary militia rather than a standing army, Ronon clearly had a day job, and in my head it is something FAAAAAAAAAABULOUSLY intellectual.

I love Ronon/Keller and Ronon/John [my rarepairing is Ronon/Daniel and why is there not more of that???] My OTP is of course, Ronon and Rule 63 Rodney, a story greenbirds and I will be writing soon...

[kate]

Yes, it's true. It was horrifying.

Yeah, my favorite Ronon occupations are poet and architect. I can't remember where I saw them, but they were brilliant.

Ooooooooooooooooooooh! :D :D :D That is a fantastic premise for a story - I can't wait to see what you come up with!

[ivorygates]

I would so much have liked to seen SG1/SGA *not* in the hands of skanky racist gynophobes. [*sigh*]

It's on our list for next year, so... SOOOOOOOOON! :D

[lunesque]

If I remember correctly, the writers wanted to give him short hair, but it was SyFy that objected.

[kate]

Really! I had not heard that! I still don't like the writers, but this makes me hate them a little less. :)

[lunesque]

Yeah, the writers were totally douchey, but I think I remember reading from Mallozzi's blog that Ronon was supposed to lose his hair in the episode where his friends were in the Wraith ship? But that Syfy changed their mind at the last minute. Momoa, of course, had already cut his hair, and so he had to wear a stunt double's wig for a while until they fitted him with a new one.

JFC, how even do I still remember that?

[kate]

I don't know, but it's awesome! :D