couples part 1

Penryn and Raphael (aka Raffe) from Angelfall by Susan EE

I feel really strongly about Angelfall and its characters. At first glance, it’s like your everyday YA paranormal romance about a girl and an immortal angel (I know, right?!). Throw in a post-apocalyptic world full of resistance movements and cannibalistic children and crazy mothers and you get this fast-paced and fun novel (which you can devour in one night. Trust me on this).

Now what makes Angelfall so important to me are the two main protagonists, Penryn and Raffe. Penryn is your kickass heroine who just wants to save her little sister from the bad angels and Raffe is… an angel. A wingless angel, at that. So whatever reasons, these two journey across California to go save the little sister and Raffe’s wings. What you get is this roadtrip (actually, a walkathon would perhaps fit better) during which these two bicker constantly to hide the obvious UST (or is the bickering a result of the UST? Questions to ponder over) and get into a lot of danger and there’s constant fighting and everything.

What makes their romance really special is the fact that it doesn’t become the central part of the book. Good things are even better in small doses. There are tons of YA books out there which get absolutely ruined because of the romance overtaking the actual story (looking at you, Angel Burn) but Angelfall gives us the romance in little doses which makes it all the more exciting. It doesn’t hurt that both the characters are extremely likeable on their own and not just together which is the whole point of a strong main character, isn’t it?

Randall “Pink” Floyd and Jodi Kramer from Dazed and Confused

I root so hard for these two. Like really really really. Dazed and Confused is- in my opinion- one of the most perfect movies ever made and Pink and Jodi are like harbingers of this perfect movies (that didn’t make too much sense, did it?).

Pink is the kindest guy on the show and Jodi is the nicest girl. That doesn’t stop them from having fun and all of that teenage jazz (as opposed to clichés that tell us that nice people don’t have fun. Maybe I should retract because Pink and Jodi are popular people who are nice, and not nice people who are popular. That’s quite a distinction). Case points are Pink being an A+ guy to Mitch and Jodi being all cool older sister-y to Sabrina and the moral is that Pink and Jodi should totally be together. While watching the movie for the first time, I didn’t think much about them together until the (spoiler?) make out scene in the park! And Jodi stops Pink because he has a girlfriend and she’s decent like that and then they don’t hang out for the rest of the movie (which is, technically, just one night in their lives. Maybe I should write Dazed and Confused fanfiction about senior year) but who cares! Pink and Jodi forever! They’d form the kindest and most powerful couple in their little suburb!

Juliet Burke and James “Sawyer” Ford from Lost

What I’m going to do is ignore every cool aspect of Lost: the mythology, storytelling, the Island and the likes and concentrate on the romance. Now Sawyer is a cool guy and probably one of the funniest (and hottest) on the show. And he’s deep and full of layers and he’s got that con man act going for him, etc. etc.. Juliet is like this mystery woman with the smirk and you never really know what she’s thinking. So Sawyer is stuck in this endless triangle with Jack and Kate (who I happen to dislike so perhaps this whole ship is biased because I’m a huge Sawyer fan) and Juliet is all hung up over Jack and lots of drama and then wham! These two are the only ones left (I’m not counting Miles and everyone else, mind you) who’re stuck on the Island and that too in the 1970s! So what are the two to do?

Get together and be the most perfect couple until everybody comes back in time to ruin it, of course! They work so well together and they’re cute and everything good and I rooted so hard for them. I was actually frightened with Kate’s reappearance but by that time, I’d given up on the general storyline that the show took so… whatever. It all worked out okay (purgatory, remember? The season finale?).