Thanks for the Narnia recommendation. Not sure when I'll get there, but interested. :)
As for power imbalances... Mitai and I spawned an epic (still in very slow progress) because we wanted to get two characters to have conversations -- not a romance, even, just conversations! -- without anyone getting killed. Which required us first to make the more powerful character helpless and then to put him under the other's protection so she'd be obligated not to kill him.... and the results of this are where the plot came from. This is rather a different case, of course, as part of the problem was that they were on opposite sides to begin with, whereas in such imbalances as student/teacher relationships some of the problems that can arise do so on account of the fact that they're supposed to be on the SAME side....
I think that Logan does tend to be attracted to mature women, and the young girls he keeps getting associated with are... well, I won't say safe with him, because he attracts danger like nobody's business, but genuinely under his protection, that he's not going to go taking advantage of them. The obvious alternate interpretation is, I think, what a lot of people get upset about, but I don't take it. That doesn't mean I don't figure on the girls eventually growing up. *grins* I think another point of contention might be that to some who see the "protector" relationship as highly parental, it really would be difficult for it to transform to be non-platonic.
Granted, I personally rather like stories exploring assorted relationships neither romantic nor sexual, but they're hardly all I read....
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Re: Oh, you *knew* I'd reply to this one.... (part the second)
Date: 2002-10-29 09:32 am (UTC)As for power imbalances... Mitai and I spawned an epic (still in very slow progress) because we wanted to get two characters to have conversations -- not a romance, even, just conversations! -- without anyone getting killed. Which required us first to make the more powerful character helpless and then to put him under the other's protection so she'd be obligated not to kill him.... and the results of this are where the plot came from. This is rather a different case, of course, as part of the problem was that they were on opposite sides to begin with, whereas in such imbalances as student/teacher relationships some of the problems that can arise do so on account of the fact that they're supposed to be on the SAME side....
I think that Logan does tend to be attracted to mature women, and the young girls he keeps getting associated with are... well, I won't say safe with him, because he attracts danger like nobody's business, but genuinely under his protection, that he's not going to go taking advantage of them. The obvious alternate interpretation is, I think, what a lot of people get upset about, but I don't take it. That doesn't mean I don't figure on the girls eventually growing up. *grins* I think another point of contention might be that to some who see the "protector" relationship as highly parental, it really would be difficult for it to transform to be non-platonic.
Granted, I personally rather like stories exploring assorted relationships neither romantic nor sexual, but they're hardly all I read....