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1) Buffy and Willow (one might argue that the subtext there is pretty texty)
2) Gabrielle and Xena (see above, but somebody had to mention it)
3) Shadowcat and Rachel Summers (because I'm a great big bouncing geek).
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Buffy and Willow is an obvious one - they've been friends for ages, and yet Willow has remained totally oblivious a) to her feelings for women and b) to Buffy's status as a woman for that entire time. I think not. Lots of mutual encouragement with boys, occasional faux pas that may hint at a deeper sadness ("You can do that thing with your mouth that boys like...NOT THAT THING!"), of *course* the "I kind of love you" in "Choices", Willow taking really seriously against Faith, and Buffy subsequently failing completely to deal with Willow's relationship with Tara - it all points to unfulfilled (or possibly intermittently fulfilled irrespective of het couplings - see especially their roomies period) f/f longing, with the assumtpion that they would always be there for each other, deflated by first Faith and then, more seriously because more stably, Tara.
2) Gabrielle and Xena - I refuse to insult anyone's intelligent by going over this one, but I think it deserves a mention.
3) Shadowcat and Rachel Summers. Reasonably obviously, the future Rachel and Kitty are lovers. So how does Rachel feel when dumped back in time and suddenly confronted by a Kitty Pryde twenty years younger? Probably pretty damned confused. Note also that Rachel takes a notably dim view of lecherous men - throughout Excalibur she is the subject of male attention, which she deflects more or less gracefully.
Kitty Pryde, meanwhile, almost certainly has some form of previous with her ex-boyfriend's younger sister Ilyana, whom she returns to the X-Mansion to nurse in her final hours, lest we forget (she has bad luck with time. What can we say?). Although she does have a history of dating boys, she moves from the older and sexually unthreatening Piotr Rasputin, to the young and utterly sexually unthreatening geek boyfriend Doug Ramsey, to an unfulfilled infatuation with Alistaire Stuart (unfulfilled perhaps at least in part because he is clearly involved in some way with his twin sister Alysande). It is telling, perhaps, that she only enters an adult het relationship - with lovely lovely Pete Wisdom - after Rachel has effectively died. |
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