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

[china_shop]

Cougar.

[kate]

Oh, yummy. I love Cougar. :D

How I feel about this character: I love Cougar! I love most of the Losers a ridiculous amount, but Cougar was basically made to hit every one of my kinks. The long hair, the man-of-few-words thing, the hat, the not-overly-muscular build. Love him. Love love love.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Mostly Jensen and variations with Jensen in them, like Jensen/Cougar/Pooch, Jensen/Cougar/Pooch/Jolene, and Jensen/Cougar/Aisha.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Pooch especially, but also Roque. Aisha, too. Basically I like everyone with Cougar, romantically if Jensen can be involved.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I honestly don't know that there *is* an unpopular opinion about Cougar. I can't think of anything.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: [SPOILERS FOR THE COMICS] I wish he didn't die.

[mergatrude]

\o/

[china_shop]

This made me happy. Cooouuugar!

(I didn't know that spoiler. Huh.)

[kate]

Ack, sorry! D: D: D:

It's one of the reasons I haven't actually read the comics. :(

[china_shop]

No, no, it's fine! I'm never going to get around to the comics anyway. I've seen the movie and a vid or two and read a bunch of fic with much enthusiasm. :-)

[nagasvoice]

Right there with you on the Cougar lurve. That is a creation totally wired up for fandom. We also tend to assume a little-guy toughness more typical of characters in martial arts movies, but I'm not sure where that is anchored in canon. It's not just the official military rank, which confers a certain hard-earned respect. Possibly we're reading it into shots of him hauling seriously huge heavy guns bigger than he is?
Along with lots of other folks, I like the mental and physical contrast with Jensen, with the puzzle on how they could click and what makes it work for them. That can be endlessly varied for different writers.
Fandom tends to exaggerate all the differences pretty far, to the point that it startled me to see that iconic shot in the movie where the whole team is walking together. Cougar and Aisha are not tiny people, they're just normal when you look at the others, who probably have to duck through doorways!

[kate]

Yeah, I just assume Cougar's a tough motherfucker because armed forces. They're all a minimum level of tough.

Yeah, I forget that 5'8" is a normal (or even slightly tall!) height because in my main fandom, the main actors are 6'5" and 6'1". So yeah. They sort of dwarf EVERYONE.