The other half of the “best couples EVAR” equation.

Yesterday, Bree blogged about the couples that shaped her young little heart into the fangirly mass it is today. And it is a fangirly mass, make no mistake, as is mine.

One of the things I noticed when reading her list is that you can put them both together, and every romance we’ve ever written–or ever will write–makes utter sense. We’re in agreement on some things. Her list is populated with a few more fantasy titles than mine, but it’s painfully easy to see the intersect. LOL

First, for the similarities:

Meg Murry & Calvin O’Keefe: Who doesn’t love them? Calvin stole my heart when he first showed up with his knobby little wrists sticking out of the sleeves of his ratty-ass sweater. He and Meg are perfect.

Rhett Butler & Scarlett O’Hara: My first introduction to the one-sided romance–one party deserves to have what he/she wants, but you’d be hard pressed to say the same about the other. When I was younger, I desperately wanted them to make it work and stay together. Now, I cheer when Rhett finally takes his leave of Katie Scarlett.

And here is where we diverge a bit:

Kit Tyler & Nat Eaton (The Witch of Blackbird Pond): I probably reread this at least once a year. Nat is another of my beloved first loves. He takes care of Hannah Tupper, puts jack-o-lanterns in Kit’s fiance’s house in a quietly jealous huff…and ends up saving the day. SIGH, I say.

Sydney Carton & Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities): Don’t look at me like that. I know they don’t end up together. She doesn’t even love him, not like that; her heart belongs, of course, to Charles Darnay. But OMFG, what he does for her! That kills me, people.

Marianne Dashwood & Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility): Why yes, I do have a thing for tragically stoic older men and the young beauties they crave. Seriously, Colonel Brandon. HAWT.

Laura Ingalls & Almanzo Wilder (the Little House series and, well, life, I guess): Watching this relationship unfold from the first glimmers of two people who didn’t know each other to a couple so committed that they’d spend the rest of their days together fascinated me. The only RPF I’ve ever enjoyed. LOL

Winnie Foster & Jesse Tuck (Tuck Everlasting): Don’t judge. I know he was too old for her–too old by FAR, it turns out. I remember not being sure if I wanted her to drink that water or not. Like, really not knowing.

Wow. When you look at them all together like that, there’s definitely a pattern. I apparently like tragic love with an older hero, and I’ll take a side of social and political unrest, thankyouverymuch. The only thing this doesn’t really show is my undying love for the semi-sociopathic broken warrior type. Oh well. LOL