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[rachelleneveu]

I should just change the title of this journal to "All Memes, All The Time." It'd be quicker. :P

Give me a pairing and I'll answer the following. If it so moves you, give me a few pairs.

1.) What they most commonly do during sex (if they are the sexing type)
2.) Who has prettier (or just more attractive) hair
3.) What they argue about most often
4.) Who'd cope best if the other one died
5.) The happiest plausible happily-ever-after I can think of for them
6.) The most tragic possible ending for them
7.) What I enjoy most about their dynamic
8.) What I find difficult to write about them

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Mary/Joe

[rachelleneveu.livejournal.com]

Can I just copy/paste everything you put in yours? No? *sigh*…Okay, here goes:


1.) They’re a pretty vanilla couple when it comes to sex; probably the kinkiest thing they get up to is the occasional quickie in one of the back rooms. Joe comes from the school of thought that believes the girl always comes first (and more than once, if possible) and Mary likes that she can set the pace, but mostly likes how after long nights of being treated like a piece of meat, Joe makes her feel like a person again.

2.) Mary, but that doesn’t mean she always likes it. It’s too long and people sometimes tease her about the color, and once in a while she thinks about cutting it short like Lucy or dyeing it black like Chick. In the end, though, she leaves it alone and deals with it.

3.) Joe’s overprotectiveness at the bar, definitely, but he and Lucy sometimes do stupid things when they go out – picking a fight with stranger is probably the most common result of their “quiet night up at Heroes” – and Mary is always afraid that if he keeps this kind of behavior up he’s going to get arrested, or worse, seriously hurt.

4.) I’m just going to quote you, here, because your answer sums everything up perfectly: “Joe, I think. He's old enough and, in this verse, scarred enough that he could handle. He wouldn't like it, and he'd probably spend a couple of months drinking himself near to death, but I think if Joe died, Mary would legitimately break.”

5.) Mary’s always careful with her clients and Joe wraps up religiously, but they slip a couple times and when Mary finds out she’s pregnant, it’s the last straw for both of them. One night, when their shift ends and they’ve picked up their last paychecks, Joe and Mary just pack up their things and neither one of them tells anyone else that they’re going away for good. It’s a quick getaway, because what do they have? Some clothes, a few pictures, Mary’s cat – between the two of them, everything important fits in two suitcases and a couple cardboard boxes. Neither of them has seen the Pacific Ocean and Mary still wants to go to Kansas, even if Joe’s convinced the whole state is nothing but cornfields. They point the car west toward California and don’t stop until they run out of road to drive on. (They keep the baby: it’s a girl. They call her “Maggie.”)

6.) The people who attacked him find him again and finish the job they started. They slice up the other side of his face and beat him pretty badly; someone stabs him in the gut and Joe crumples into a corner of the back alley they’d pulled him into. He bleeds out in the dark, he dies alone. When detectives come sniffing around the club to get a positive ID on him, Liz goes with Mary to the morgue; Mary throws up in a wastebasket when the attendant pulls back the sheet and cries for three straight days. She’s never the same after, and when she quits the club a few months later she leaves Chicago and doesn’t look back at all.

7.) For as dishonest as everyone in the club seems to be with one another, these two don’t have that hanging over their heads. They have their own problems, sure, and there are still things they don’t tell the other – Joe with all the dark stuff that happened in the past, Mary with her insecurities and feelings about Liz – but overall they’re honest with each other, and the affection is definitely genuine. There’s a reason these two have the best chance of getting out, is what I’m saying. :P

8.) I love these two, but I can’t realistically see them getting the happy ending I want them to have and it makes it hard, sometimes. Their relationship is built up so much around that knight/damsel dynamic I can’t see them lasting without the framework of the club keeping it up. Would they try? Yes, but it would take a lot of effort for them to make it in the long run.