Puzzlement

[beccaelizabeth]

In a fandom where the relationship I read about was never a couple, always part of three, how come people still write angsty love triangle jealousy stuff? I mean, two people love Jack, he's not going to perceive that as a problem. Not in any world I can make fit.

Two people love Jack and mildly loathe each other, that could be a problem. But then the fun is seeing how they fit together. Having snarky bitey arguments about who doesn't belong, and Jack not participating at all except as some distant object of desire, seems like a pattern imported from another paradigm. Can't see it.


Coffee vs Tea wars I can see, Jack staying neutral I can't.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

two people love Jack, he's not going to perceive that as a problem. Not in any world I can make fit.

I agree. And we've seen nothing in canon that makes such a notion plausible.

Having snarky bitey arguments about who doesn't belong, and Jack not participating at all except as some distant object of desire, seems like a pattern imported from another paradigm.

I have read a lot of fanfic that pictures a Captain Jack who seems to me to be from some alternate universe - where Jack shows traits that I think are simply foreign to his character.

Which is okay. It's the nature of fanfic. They write the Jack they see, I write the Jack I see.

A matter of preference.

[beccaelizabeth]

*nods*

Fanfic has a lot of different facets of characters.
It just bugs me when they're too far out from the ones I like best.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It seems to me from the show that characteristics of Jack which really stand out are his good heart and forgiving nature, his polyamorous tendencies, and a capacity to be protective and nurturing of those he cares about - characteristics which are seldom if ever played up in fanfic. It might be that other fans don't see him that way. It might be that they think it's sexier to emphasize other qualities. And in purely sexual terms, I think the most attractive qualities of Jack are that he is sensuous and tender - stories of him having rough or impersonal sex seem out of character to me. (But to each his own.)

He's fun to contemplate, in any case!