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Take three!
Apr. 24th, 2013 05:56 pmgive me a character and i will answer:
Mallory Pike
why I like them
Mal is a big ol' book nerd who wants to be out of that incredibly awkward stage she's found herself in. I love that she's calm in a crisis (something not all the other Pike kids can claim) and that she's usually pretty level headed in life. She's the voice of reason a lot in the earlier books (before everyone underwent labotomies, I guess) and I like that she stands her ground.
Mal was also the character I was most like after awhile. Glasses, hair that went insane, and the inability to not make things worse for yourself in social settings after awhile. Also, I too hated gym.
why I don’t
This is harder than I thought because while I cut Dawn a lot of slack from the ghosties, some of the things I don't like about Mal are also... ghostwriter provided. Mal books tend to bum me out, so reading them is not as enjoyable as say, almost anyone else's aside from Jessi's. Odds are good life is going to kick Mal in the shins and, if it's a SS, she's going to act like a jackass. (I direct you to the entirety of California Girls.)
That said, I suspect Mal herself is pretty friggin' awesome so... I guess her unrealistic expectations from life would grow tiresome (and have) but she's also eleven so slack must be given, y'know?
favorite episode (scene if movie)
I'm currently re-reading Hello Mallory so I'm biased (and like I said, re-reading her books isn't my favorite thing to do) but I really like that she's willing to throw away her shot at the BSC if they won't take Jessi, too. She's known Jessi for such a short period of time but already thinks of them as best friends and even though their friendship could've gone bust at anytime, she's still willing to risk this thing she wanted so badly because she would rather have one true best friend over a group of sort of friends.
I love you, Mal. ♥
favorite season/movie
Took me a minute, but I remembered BSC #29: Mallory and the Mystery Diary. Better than a good chunk of the actual mysteries once that series got off to a start and Mal is actually shown being pretty awesome. She helps Buddy with his reading (come to life and help Widget, Mal!) and um, I'm a sucker for trunks of mysterious stuff. Two thumbs way up, Mal. Way up.
favorite line:
"Because the idea of leaving you behind was just as terrible to me as the idea of my leaving is to you!"
"Inside, I feel as if this is what I've been waiting for all my life. This is my chance to be myself, not just one of the eight Pike kids. Not just one of seven baby-sitters. Not to be Spaz Girl. Not to be anything but myself. I'm not entirely sure who that is, but I feel I'll find out at Riverbend."
I... if you'll excuse me, I appear to have something in my eye.
favorite outfit
I can't really remember anyone's from the books (some exceptions made) but cover wise, Mal looks adorable on Mary Anne in the middle, although it's weird for me to see her being short after so many years of her seeming to be taller than a lot of the other sitters.
Unrelated but why the heck not, I used to think Mal looked a lot like Heather Langenkamp on Mallory and the Trouble With Twins. Which is also not a bad look for her either.
otp
I really liked Mal and Ben as a couple. I'm not saying she should be saddled with her eleven year old boyfriend forever but they were cute together.
brotp
Mal and Jessi are superfriends, guys. SUPERFRIENDS. Just when you start to think maybe they were outgrowing one another, you re-read Mal's meeting of Jessi (finally, a best friend!) and how hurt Jessi was that Mal was leaving her and ohmygods, I could cry right now. *cough*
I am also a big supporter of the Mal/Stacey friendship. I do not think Mal would try and morph into Stacey, especially not after she went off to boarding school because Mal is smart enough to realize that she went down that road already and it did not work out. Why make it her life's work? I like that they started to hang out more than they ever would have without Stacey having moved into the house behind Mal's. The little bits where their mothers became friends or they had a code for whether they'd walk to school? So cute!
head canon
Mal escaped the time warp and we'll pretend that everyone else did, too. Honestly, I like to think that Mal accomplished her goal of becoming a children's author and illustrator who puts out books that resonate with kids long after they should've outgrown them. By now she'd probably have her own little subsect of fandom where people shriek "ohmyglob, you like _whatever mal wrote_ too? I love that book! I didn't know anyone else did!" and become super excited over this shared interest. Like Mal and Jessi over horse books or me and anyone and BSC/SVH.
I also see her as one of those authors who is present online but not obsessively so for the most part. Y'know the ones. You wish they would update more, but when their weekly post or whatever pops up, you adore them even more? That's Mal.
Um, if we're trying to figure out who she married, I'm thinking a geek though I really don't have a grasp on that. *shrug* I just think Mal grew up to be happy with who she is and what she does. I still think she's Jessi's biggest fan and probably one of Claudia's, too. I think she still keeps in touch with her BSC friends, even if they might not be as good as keeping in touch. Maybe a little less so with Logan or Shannon, but who knows?
That said, I have to admit I do have a fic in which none of this is true.
unpopular opinion
Y'know, aside from Mal being the punching bag of both fans and ghosties, I'm not really sure what would constitute an unpopular opinion for her. Liking her? Relating to her? I... don't know.
So, I'll go with the fact that for awhile anytime I would dare to tiptoe into fic, Mal was a slut (wha?) or a total Stacey clone (which somehow also tends to mean slut) and I... don't see either of those as likely.
a wish
Mal escaped, man. As far as I'm concerned she is the only one to have escaped the time warp. Dawn left the 'Brook but despite the fact that CD should have clearly jumped ahead to ninth grade (and felt like it to the point that the constant 8th grade bits were jarring) she was still mirred in the timewarp. Mal escaped and that is probably the biggest wish one could make for her.
an oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen
Uh, what didn't happen to Mal? Seriously, at the rate she was going they would have ended up maiming her even though she already caught mono and eventually Mal would have died. From something incredibly embarrassing because the ghostwriters took such obvious delight in torturing her.
So, really, no. I do recoil in horror from Mal gets knocked up at 14! fics though. Or younger. Because no. No to such a degree that I cannot type in full, coherent sentences, okay?
5 words to best describe them
Smart, dependable, author-illustrator, Pike.
(I threw Pike in because I get the feeling that all the Pike kids tend to take some measure of pride in being a Pike. If ever there was a show of family togetherness, it is the Pike clan.)
my nickname for them
Mal Witch. Or, y'know, no nickname at all. Malwitch is just what I call my Mallory icon. :P
Mallory Pike
why I like them
Mal is a big ol' book nerd who wants to be out of that incredibly awkward stage she's found herself in. I love that she's calm in a crisis (something not all the other Pike kids can claim) and that she's usually pretty level headed in life. She's the voice of reason a lot in the earlier books (before everyone underwent labotomies, I guess) and I like that she stands her ground.
Mal was also the character I was most like after awhile. Glasses, hair that went insane, and the inability to not make things worse for yourself in social settings after awhile. Also, I too hated gym.
why I don’t
This is harder than I thought because while I cut Dawn a lot of slack from the ghosties, some of the things I don't like about Mal are also... ghostwriter provided. Mal books tend to bum me out, so reading them is not as enjoyable as say, almost anyone else's aside from Jessi's. Odds are good life is going to kick Mal in the shins and, if it's a SS, she's going to act like a jackass. (I direct you to the entirety of California Girls.)
That said, I suspect Mal herself is pretty friggin' awesome so... I guess her unrealistic expectations from life would grow tiresome (and have) but she's also eleven so slack must be given, y'know?
favorite episode (scene if movie)
I'm currently re-reading Hello Mallory so I'm biased (and like I said, re-reading her books isn't my favorite thing to do) but I really like that she's willing to throw away her shot at the BSC if they won't take Jessi, too. She's known Jessi for such a short period of time but already thinks of them as best friends and even though their friendship could've gone bust at anytime, she's still willing to risk this thing she wanted so badly because she would rather have one true best friend over a group of sort of friends.
I love you, Mal. ♥
favorite season/movie
Took me a minute, but I remembered BSC #29: Mallory and the Mystery Diary. Better than a good chunk of the actual mysteries once that series got off to a start and Mal is actually shown being pretty awesome. She helps Buddy with his reading (come to life and help Widget, Mal!) and um, I'm a sucker for trunks of mysterious stuff. Two thumbs way up, Mal. Way up.
favorite line:
"Because the idea of leaving you behind was just as terrible to me as the idea of my leaving is to you!"
"Inside, I feel as if this is what I've been waiting for all my life. This is my chance to be myself, not just one of the eight Pike kids. Not just one of seven baby-sitters. Not to be Spaz Girl. Not to be anything but myself. I'm not entirely sure who that is, but I feel I'll find out at Riverbend."
I... if you'll excuse me, I appear to have something in my eye.
favorite outfit
I can't really remember anyone's from the books (some exceptions made) but cover wise, Mal looks adorable on Mary Anne in the middle, although it's weird for me to see her being short after so many years of her seeming to be taller than a lot of the other sitters.
Unrelated but why the heck not, I used to think Mal looked a lot like Heather Langenkamp on Mallory and the Trouble With Twins. Which is also not a bad look for her either.
otp
I really liked Mal and Ben as a couple. I'm not saying she should be saddled with her eleven year old boyfriend forever but they were cute together.
brotp
Mal and Jessi are superfriends, guys. SUPERFRIENDS. Just when you start to think maybe they were outgrowing one another, you re-read Mal's meeting of Jessi (finally, a best friend!) and how hurt Jessi was that Mal was leaving her and ohmygods, I could cry right now. *cough*
I am also a big supporter of the Mal/Stacey friendship. I do not think Mal would try and morph into Stacey, especially not after she went off to boarding school because Mal is smart enough to realize that she went down that road already and it did not work out. Why make it her life's work? I like that they started to hang out more than they ever would have without Stacey having moved into the house behind Mal's. The little bits where their mothers became friends or they had a code for whether they'd walk to school? So cute!
head canon
Mal escaped the time warp and we'll pretend that everyone else did, too. Honestly, I like to think that Mal accomplished her goal of becoming a children's author and illustrator who puts out books that resonate with kids long after they should've outgrown them. By now she'd probably have her own little subsect of fandom where people shriek "ohmyglob, you like _whatever mal wrote_ too? I love that book! I didn't know anyone else did!" and become super excited over this shared interest. Like Mal and Jessi over horse books or me and anyone and BSC/SVH.
I also see her as one of those authors who is present online but not obsessively so for the most part. Y'know the ones. You wish they would update more, but when their weekly post or whatever pops up, you adore them even more? That's Mal.
Um, if we're trying to figure out who she married, I'm thinking a geek though I really don't have a grasp on that. *shrug* I just think Mal grew up to be happy with who she is and what she does. I still think she's Jessi's biggest fan and probably one of Claudia's, too. I think she still keeps in touch with her BSC friends, even if they might not be as good as keeping in touch. Maybe a little less so with Logan or Shannon, but who knows?
That said, I have to admit I do have a fic in which none of this is true.
unpopular opinion
Y'know, aside from Mal being the punching bag of both fans and ghosties, I'm not really sure what would constitute an unpopular opinion for her. Liking her? Relating to her? I... don't know.
So, I'll go with the fact that for awhile anytime I would dare to tiptoe into fic, Mal was a slut (wha?) or a total Stacey clone (which somehow also tends to mean slut) and I... don't see either of those as likely.
a wish
Mal escaped, man. As far as I'm concerned she is the only one to have escaped the time warp. Dawn left the 'Brook but despite the fact that CD should have clearly jumped ahead to ninth grade (and felt like it to the point that the constant 8th grade bits were jarring) she was still mirred in the timewarp. Mal escaped and that is probably the biggest wish one could make for her.
an oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen
Uh, what didn't happen to Mal? Seriously, at the rate she was going they would have ended up maiming her even though she already caught mono and eventually Mal would have died. From something incredibly embarrassing because the ghostwriters took such obvious delight in torturing her.
So, really, no. I do recoil in horror from Mal gets knocked up at 14! fics though. Or younger. Because no. No to such a degree that I cannot type in full, coherent sentences, okay?
5 words to best describe them
Smart, dependable, author-illustrator, Pike.
(I threw Pike in because I get the feeling that all the Pike kids tend to take some measure of pride in being a Pike. If ever there was a show of family togetherness, it is the Pike clan.)
my nickname for them
Mal Witch. Or, y'know, no nickname at all. Malwitch is just what I call my Mallory icon. :P