"A tendency towards" rather than full-on overt manifestation. And those were the ones that I remembered as annoying, rather than the general trend.
(And you've got to admit that Avon's soul has its problems -- I'm as much in favour of an uncomfortable redemption as anyone. The problem comes when a reader-insert character is put in there to heal him with her selfless love/sacrifice... interestingly, my impression is that it often *is* sacrifice rather than happy-ever-after with Avon. I don't know if that's a nod to canon outcomes, where I think there are zero successful guest character romances, or an unconscious sense that they'd rather have Avon grieving over *them* than Anna Grant, or a tacit acknowledgement that he is too self-absorbed to make for comfortable husband material ;-p)
There was probably more 'shipping' around than I realised, given that all the explicit stuff was marketed separately. I'd never have had the face to buy one of those zines, even if I'd been interested!
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Date: 2020-04-22 11:27 pm (UTC)(And you've got to admit that Avon's soul has its problems -- I'm as much in favour of an uncomfortable redemption as anyone. The problem comes when a reader-insert character is put in there to heal him with her selfless love/sacrifice... interestingly, my impression is that it often *is* sacrifice rather than happy-ever-after with Avon. I don't know if that's a nod to canon outcomes, where I think there are zero successful guest character romances, or an unconscious sense that they'd rather have Avon grieving over *them* than Anna Grant, or a tacit acknowledgement that he is too self-absorbed to make for comfortable husband material ;-p)
There was probably more 'shipping' around than I realised, given that all the explicit stuff was marketed separately. I'd never have had the face to buy one of those zines, even if I'd been interested!