Hangups

[resonant]

Enough real life. Let's play a game.

You give me a fannish character I'm reasonably familiar with, and for that person I will give you a hangup. You know: a sexual dysfunction, an unexpected inhibition or aversion, some perfectly ordinary thing he/she simply cannot handle.

If I'm *not* familiar with your character, maybe some other reader will join in.

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We have requests that I'm unable to fill:
Joe Dawson
John Winchester
Reese or Finch
Christopher Chant

Anybody want to take these on?

Comments

[resonant]

Wow, that's challenging.

Eames struck me as being uncommonly comfortable in physicality -- all there, occupying three-dimensional space, this big guy in a loud shirt who knows very well how sexy he is.

What's more, I think Eames would be able to find the sexiness in pretty much any amiable person (or pleasantly non-amiable people such as Arthur, too), and feel a lot of honest lust for people that others overlook. There's probably an extraordinary number of people in his world for whom he provided their ten or eleven best-ever sexual experiences.

But if somehow sex with you managed to open up deep emotions in him, you'd lose him. Possibly even in the middle of sex you'd lose him. And I'm talking no-forwarding-address, never-met-anybody-by-that-name lost.

[riverlight]

This was brilliant! I love your way with characters; this reads as utterly Eames to me.

My fannish inclination, of course, tends to be for a) OTP stories and b) happy endings, where happy endings often equal "they lived happily ever after", so of course I like the idea of a story where this exact thing dynamic takes place between Eames and Arthur—there's some sex that is meant to be casual but somehow starts feeling rather like making loveknow this about Eames; his job is knowing details after all—only of course dreamshare is a small world and they're the ones who get called in for hard jobs—so they have to work together, history be damned—and since they've slept together once it's easy to do it again—and things get out of hand.

(Oh, Inception. Time for a re-watch, I think!)

[resonant]

You're describing a kind of story that I just love. I tend to fall in love with the emotionally unavailable guys, fictionally speaking, but not many of them are as expansively emotionally unavailable as Eames.