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[x] Star Wars’d Lovers Volume 1: Han and Leia as Beatrice and Benedick

Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence.

Benedick: Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted. And I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love none.

Beatrice: A dear happiness to women. They would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood I am of your humor for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.

Much Ado About Nothing 1.1.92-108.

#the key to successfully landing a Belligerent Sexual Tension pair is harder than you’d think #bc just the required items to make up the trope in a blender and you just have boring unhappy assholes #for it to even perform as the dynamic should you MUST be able to see that #a) they are genuinely attracted# and b) do genuinely feel kindly or care about the other’s well-being when the chips are down #enjoying the other’s misfortune is not by itself BST #to reach the full dynamic you have to come through in a pinch when the danger is real #whether that’s ‘ok the base is invaded you have to leave with me right now’ #or ‘i make fun of you but this other person making fun of you stops NOW bc you don’t deserve that’ #if there’s no OBSERVABLE kindness then you’re left with jurassic world #kind of incomprehensible why they’d make out by almost any human standard of behaviour #if all you see is the contempt and meanness it will most likely just convince the viewer they are contemptuous and mean #it’s the kindness that’s the key element #when you get it right the sudden disclosure of feelings is not just necessary but INEVITABLE #belligerence alone is just mean #belligerence and attraction is hate-fucking (for which there is a time and place of course) #belligerence attraction and kindness is PURE NARRATIVE GOLD (via [profile] harrietvane)
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