UNPOPULAR OPINION!

[rhivolution]

Something discomfits me about Pairing: Pendragon/Merlin, but I can't put my finger on it, I really can't. It's cute and all, but...I thought it'd be more cutting and it's not.

(Maybe that all the female characters in it are sorta insipid? I do know it's not that I can't stand what I see in the mirror, okay, so don't say it's that.)

Am I completely alone in this?

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid]

I had problems with the characterisation, actually - given canon characterisation and fandom dynamics, I was expecting to find Arthur as a somewhat douchey BNF to begin with, and Merlin as someone who hated BNFs on principle (while reading all their fic) and then OVERCOMING DIFFERENCES etc.

Every time I try to get to thinking critically about it though, the thoughts get caught in the fic's web of different response styles and I end up back at SQUEEE OMG.