bold-sartorial-statement answered your question: hobanwashburnes: who is the first character you… Booth and Angel.
Success! As they should be :) Oh my poor daddy issued, mission obsessive, guilt complex having yet still rather different DB looking boys.
Booth/Brennan.
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when of if I started shipping it. The Science in the Physicist. When Booth pushed Brennan to the wall protectively, I couldn’t help but think ‘KISS HER!’ It took a little while longer for me to truly start shipping them after that but that was the start.
my thoughts: Where to start? I can only ship them romantically from a certain point, which is probably The End in the Beginning because I am a canon shipper mostly and before that there was no real acknowledgment of romantic feelings from either side. Before that, they were 2 people who were very close friends, who were attracted to each other but who had totally different POVs on some of the most important aspects as far as relationships go. The atheist/Catholic divide took me a long time to get over, since it is something I can relate to somewhat and something I personally wonder, could I, as an atheist, be with someone who’s deeply religious? I still don’t know the answer personally, it probably depends on the person, but for a long time, the way Brennan and Booth held their respective world views, they couldn’t have gotten together without it being a disaster. Add to that that their views on relationships in general were so very different, and they really couldn’t have gotten together any sooner than they did, in my view. Yes, they could have slept together ages ago. They both wanted to but they also knew they weren’t in the same place emotionally and they valued their friendship and working relationship more. I really, really love that.
I don’t like the way fandom romanticizes their whole relationship because I think that takes away from their mutual growth and development I love so much. They weren’t in love from the beginning, no matter what Booth says, they had to grow together to become the awesome beautiful couple they are now. They couldn’t have been a couple the way they are now if it hadn’t taken about 5 years of development to get them there.
I have no problem with any part of their love story. I love their development from grudging partners to close friends into a surrogate relationship which then gets shattered and they try to deal with the best they can, I really liked Hannah, I mostly love how Brennan handled the realization of her feelings, I love how they developed the last part of their relationship in S6 and I love how they got together, I love Christine (readymade family ship ftw!) and I love how they are as a family and a couple who are still working on how to join their lives together but they are, slowly but surely. I just love them, they make me so happy.
What makes me happy about them: How good they are together, how well they complement each other, how well they have handled changing their relationship from friendship to romantic and how lovely they are as Christine’s parents.
What makes me sad about them: That I kinda can’t stand their fandom. I ship them in a very specific way, after certain point and most people don’t do that. Also there’s so much Emily Deschanel/David Boreanaz shipping in this fandom I cannot stand it. The other day, someone said Jaime Bergman is the real life Hannah Burley. It’s so fucking gross that I mostly avoid the shippy part of fandom.
things done in fanfic that annoys me: When Booth gets reduced to someone who’s just there to ‘heal’ Brennan. TBH I don’s read that much fic because this fandom urgh. I get most of what I need about them from the show so I don’t really need fic. Also, Brennan being called Bren.
things I look for in fanfic: Sometimes missing scenes stuff. Equality for them as characters. Some AtS crossovers (I’m obsessed with possible Angel-Booth interaction, Cordelia-Brennan would also be awesome. Damn, I wish I could write, or at least had the time to attempt to write.)
My kinks: —
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: I really liked Hannah, although I don’t think her and Booth were ultimately right for each other. HOnestly, I like Booth’s taste in women so I have no problem with anyone he might end up with. Brennan is more difficult because it took her so long to open up to people so I don’t really know.
My happily ever after for them: Bones is already giving it to me :). I don’t need them to get married although I’m not against it either. Whatever the show decides I’m probably gonna be happy with.
who is the big spoon/little spoon: Booth is the big spoon. After they got together he held her just a little too tight during the first nights, the make sure she was still there and it was real. Oops bit of my headcanon slipped through J
what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Family time with Christine.
