"Have you ever had an OTP?" *stares into the camera for 5 million years* Argh um U unless someone else sent that to you, in which case N
Bahaha, right? “Have you ever had an OTP” like my friend. My pal. I have several hundred works on AO3 dedicate to this concept. The short answer is yes; the long answer will discover Tumblr’s text limit.
U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
On the one hand, I feel like I should go with some characters people might not realize I’m into. On the other hand, I’m insanely tempted to go with the “Oh look M has a type“ contingents.
Since I’m pretty sure everybody knows who I would pick for “dark-haired bearded dude who is amazing at his chosen profession and an absolute goddamn dumbass with romantic relationships” and “angsty blond whose life gets fucked over by an extremely powerful older man,” let’s go with type three: “snarky ball of chaos with a fairly flexible definition of the phrase ‘moral code’”!
Or, to shorten it a bit: tricksters. :-D
Stiles Stilinski, Teen Wolf
Stiles “I define lying as ‘reclining your body in a horizontal position’” Stilinski is half the reason I joined this godforsaken website in the first place.
His very first scene in the entire series is him showing up at Scott’s house to ask Scott to go look for a dead body. When Scott’s front door is locked, Stiles’s response is to scale the house and break in through a window. His method of dealing with kanima!Jackson is to chain him up in a stolen police van. When Scott expresses concern that making a copy of the card to the evidence locker is worse than stealing it, Stiles stares at him blankly for a moment before answering “It’s smarter.”
Stiles is funny, outstandingly loyal, and the only character who voluntarily dives into the supernatural world with both feet despite being a wholly breakable human. He fast became my favorite character in the entire series.
I feel like I should’ve suspected that I would absolutely adore Puck, but I did not (or at least, I did not think I would love him this much). So, well, here we are.
Puck is the trickster, and he’s also the only one on this list who isn’t on the side of the heroes. Watching him fuck with Demona’s requests in The Mirror is hilarious, as she doesn’t bother making her requests specific enough and there are loopholes large enough for him to leap through. “Did you say ‘that human’ or ‘that human’? Oh, never mind, I’ll figure it out.” The result is a night of absolute chaos across Manhattan and it’s one of my favorite episodes, and I’ve probably rewatched it 7 or 8 times at this point.
I really, really can’t wait to see more of him.
Toph Bei Fong, Avatar: The Last Airbender
I...love Toph with all my heart. Along with Uncle Iroh, she’s my favorite character in this series. I’m so glad this gif existed in the search because this scene was immediately where my mind went upon thinking of a third trickster character. “Let’s break some rules!” *destroys a wall for the hell of it*
Toph has always been underestimated and she has had to become very crafty because of it. She sneaks away to fight in an underground rockbending competition and she’s the undisputed champion. She lies to Team Avatar about running away from home. She’s gleeful about playing the Melon Lord. There’s an entire episode devoted to her running scams on a town. She milks people’s assumptions about her for all they’re worth. She is just. So much fun.
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