Wrong!shipping Meme - Day 2
Oct. 10th, 2012 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalThe full list of days, if you want to play along, is here.
Day 2: The ship you love because it really never will happen.
Cassie Holmes/Nick Gant (Push)
Yeahhhhhh, so the reason this ship would never really happen is pretty obvious? Cassie is thirteen years old. Frankly, I wouldn't want to see them get together in the movie, because that'd be kinda gross. And yet, these two have fantastic chemistry! It's ridiculous. They have more chemistry than Nick and his actual love interest, Kira (who, granted, is so two-dimensional she's practically a walking cardboard cutout).
Obviously it would never happen because Nick sees Cassie as still a kid, even though she's been forced to grow up much faster than any child should. She's had to take care of herself, because there was no one else to do it. She's spent her life on the run, seen horrible things in her visions, and so by the time she shows up on Nick's doorstep, she's far more mature and jaded than she ought to be for her age. (She also clearly has a crush on Nick, if the jealous reactions to Kira are any indication.)
And Nick? He's gotten really good at not caring about anyone. He's cut himself off from the world, and Cassie's the first person in a long time to break through that isolation. She also draws out his powers - he'd only just begun to discover what he could do, but when Cassie's life is in danger, he instinctively tries to save her, tapping into power far stronger than he'd ever managed before. And that's before he even realizes why she's important to him.
Nick and Cassie's relationship is really at the center of the story. Here are two people who are so used to being alone, used to having no one in the entire world they can count on, learning to trust one another, to work together, to save each other. They need to become a team in order to survive, not just because they're fighting bad guys, but because that connection gives Nick something that's worth fighting for.
Their fates have been intertwined since before Cassie was born, and they've been running toward each other, without even realizing it, their entire lives. And, of course, the movie ends as their journey together is just beginning. It's easy to imagine them spending years on the run, battling Division, trying to free Cassie's mom, doing other vague, plotty-type things. And that's the point at which I can see a relationship developing, once Cassie gets a little older and Nick learns to accepts it (because you just know he'd resist acknowledging that she's growing up, and he'd probably be disgusted with himself for thinking of her that way at first, until he realized she's not a kid anymore).
(Icons from these caps are here, btw.)
Cassie Holmes/Nick Gant (Push)
Yeahhhhhh, so the reason this ship would never really happen is pretty obvious? Cassie is thirteen years old. Frankly, I wouldn't want to see them get together in the movie, because that'd be kinda gross. And yet, these two have fantastic chemistry! It's ridiculous. They have more chemistry than Nick and his actual love interest, Kira (who, granted, is so two-dimensional she's practically a walking cardboard cutout).
Obviously it would never happen because Nick sees Cassie as still a kid, even though she's been forced to grow up much faster than any child should. She's had to take care of herself, because there was no one else to do it. She's spent her life on the run, seen horrible things in her visions, and so by the time she shows up on Nick's doorstep, she's far more mature and jaded than she ought to be for her age. (She also clearly has a crush on Nick, if the jealous reactions to Kira are any indication.)
And Nick? He's gotten really good at not caring about anyone. He's cut himself off from the world, and Cassie's the first person in a long time to break through that isolation. She also draws out his powers - he'd only just begun to discover what he could do, but when Cassie's life is in danger, he instinctively tries to save her, tapping into power far stronger than he'd ever managed before. And that's before he even realizes why she's important to him.
Nick and Cassie's relationship is really at the center of the story. Here are two people who are so used to being alone, used to having no one in the entire world they can count on, learning to trust one another, to work together, to save each other. They need to become a team in order to survive, not just because they're fighting bad guys, but because that connection gives Nick something that's worth fighting for.
Their fates have been intertwined since before Cassie was born, and they've been running toward each other, without even realizing it, their entire lives. And, of course, the movie ends as their journey together is just beginning. It's easy to imagine them spending years on the run, battling Division, trying to free Cassie's mom, doing other vague, plotty-type things. And that's the point at which I can see a relationship developing, once Cassie gets a little older and Nick learns to accepts it (because you just know he'd resist acknowledging that she's growing up, and he'd probably be disgusted with himself for thinking of her that way at first, until he realized she's not a kid anymore).
(Icons from these caps are here, btw.)
