aria: ([due south] smirky fraser)
valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2009-08-05 08:42 am

why

I may be slightly flattened by how much I've come to care for the characters in My Life as a Dog. I say this because, um, I am not really much in the habit of watching telly specifically for kids these days (...if we ignore the Magic School Bus episodes I have somewhere) and so I expect to be charmed, not invested. The Sarah Jane Adventures, for instance, charm me like mad, and I may have a bit of a crush on Sarah Jane, but again I am charmed rather than invested. With My Life as a Dog I am actually spending entire episodes clutching at my face going "Johnny Johnny Johnny" in ... remarkably the same way I do with Billy and Ray, actually, so it's not that shocking. But I also care more than I expected about Zoe, and would probably be clutching my face going "Zoe!" too, except that she is sane (mostly) and wants practical things like good windows and not a caboose in the back yard, and Johnny is the one out playing hockey into the wee hours, so Johnny is the one I yell at through the screen.

My actual point, though, is [a] I love Johnny but mostly [b] little Eric has a moral compass pointing due north, and he tries very hard to solve everyone else's problems, and he has a weird encyclopedic knowledge of useful things and a twelfth-grade reading level despite very little formal training, and he always believes the best of people, and he's dealing with a dead mother and endless daddy issues, so basically Eric is Benton Fraser at the age of twelve. Except instead of being raised by traveling librarians he's being raised by Johnny Johansson. Considering how damn funny I find this, I should probably get some new hobbies.

Instead I am off to my summer retail job, but it's possible new hobbies might happen eventually.
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Fraser smiling)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! I've always thought that if Johnny and Fraser tried to hook up, Fraser would say, "You know, you rather remind me of my ex-partner, a police detective from Chicago."

And then Johnny would squint at him and grin, and say, "Well, for that matter, you're an awful lot like my nephew. It's kinda spooky. Come on, you should meet him." And that would be that.

I mean, you can't get nekkid with someone who reminds you overwhelmingly of your nephew, right? ;-)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Fraser reflected)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I like that! I think Fraser would learn a lot about having fun and how to be a kid.
china_shop: Thoughtful Fraser with his chin on his hands (Fraser (chin on hands))

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I kind of unironically think YES PLEASE! (With sugar-sprinkles-on-top bonus points if one of the Rays turns up and it gets a slashy coda of some kind. ;-)
china_shop: Fraser talking into a walkie talkie. "Penguin to Stallion -- come in, Stallion." (Fraser penguin to stallion)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/ \o/ \o/!!!

On the trail of a sub-standard hockey-gear smuggler?
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Fraser smiling)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Although... canonically Fraser doesn't have any family, does he? I suppose you could say that only meant close family...

There's always "For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture..."
china_shop: Fraser giving thumbs up (Fraser thumbs up)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
*points at the current Lost and Found challenge on [community profile] ds_flashfiction, just in case you happen to write something that fits that* (Crossovers are allowed so long as it's primarily a DS story. Fraser as central character would absolutely count.) /random pimping

*bounces anticipatorially*
china_shop: Admin Frannie in her civilian aide uniform (Frannie admin)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
The next challenge is going to be a late-summer amnesty, so there's no rush. (Also, I'm usually willing to extend flashfic deadlines in the interests of more fic, just FTR.)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Fraser and Bob laughing)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-08-05 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/