not too short for a stormtrooper

like you're not in my sight by pen
The Pretender, Miss Parker at CNY in Penang, G

Yeah, like I'd write about anywhere else, especially at this time of year.

Thanks to Piecesof

( Parker is from a country of people who can't drive, so this isn't the worst, but it's pretty fucking close. )

there's some sort of 'post about a female character you love' thing going on, so i thought i would say:

Miss Parker is well-educated and confident and sure of what she thinks and what she wants. She knows how to handle a gun and she knows how to torture and she knows Japanese and Ukranian and she can be so subtle, so soft and malleable that you don't see the danger until it's too late. She is also damaged, her father probably arranged a hit on her lover and her twin is a complete and utter nutter who probably thinks inappropriate things about her, and she has some sort of crazy love/hate thing going on with Jarod. Her pride is so compelling, she is beautiful and her weaknesses will probably make her stronger, I think, and when she's ready on her own she'll escape the Centre, or she'll die trying.

She is my favourite character ever, no qualifications.

Just when I'm worrying that she let Jarod slip through her fingers, that his escape was her (unintentional) mistake, she says, Next time, do your homework. Jarod's allergic to pistachios, and I realise how much I love her.



OH CRAP and now we're on the way to the Zoe episode. UGH. WHATEVER.

this rollercoaster, fic + soundtrack, words by pen, artwork by pieces
The Pretender, rated PG.
5 x 200 words of the ways it never ends between Parker and Jarod

OH SHOW <333





( she doesn't look back )

answers to this meme:

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

( edmund pevensie )

( duncan atreides )

( miss piggy )

( sydney )

( miss parker )

( the princess irulan )

( ghanima atreides )

( billy keikeya )

( elliot stabler )

( seymour birkoff )

still accepting, if you want them, either in this post or in the original

Swallowed Like Daylight into Morning by Pen
The Pretender, Parker + Jarod, PG.

With assistance rendered in the form of AWESOME and FLAILING by Pieces.


( She follows clues like bread crumbs )


UNRELATEDLY, you wish your fandom still gave out the goods like mine does:


INAPPROPRIATE TOUCHING:




UH, SHE IS LAUGHING INTO HIS MOUTH AS HE KISSES HER ALSDFKJALSK:

With the Lights Left On, by Pen
The Pretender, Miss Parker, PG.

Chinese New Year #6

( The package arrives three weeks before Christmas, and the clues mean absolutely jack shit to any of them. )

Broots: Miss Parker, that's a wall.
Miss P: Yeah, and this is a rental.

So, those of you who have zero interest in The Pretender, I hope you've noticed how I am strictly restraining myself - I only post once a day about the Pretender, no matter how much I have to say or how excited I am!


Today, I would like to talk about Jarod and Miss Parker (yes, I know you're surprised).

I was just watching this vid by StuckHereWithNoTV over on youtube. It's a Miss Parker vid to Alanis Morissette's 'Everything,' and as it started I thought, what a terrible song choice, so slow and sappy and it's Alanis. I was so wrong - this vid is surprisingly perfect, and I was amazed at how much I enjoyed it.

I think the funny thing about Jarod and Miss Parker's relationship is that it isn't the sort of thing you can see; there are no hugs or kisses on the forehead, and there are no light touches or anything like that. Through everything, even though Miss Parker is driven to recapture Jarod; even though he hates the people that she works for and even though she's really mean, he still loves her, in his way. And their love is in the silence on the phone when she answers late at night, in the distance between them when they meet, in the things he leaves behind when he runs and the way he always comes back.

Sometimes I consider that their relationship is unequal. Jarod is always the one feeding her information; he's the one with the power to infiltrate the Centre and the one who could disappear at any moment. However, she has exactly the same power, she just chooses not to use it. She loves her father too much, and she fears what the Centre will do to her if she leaves, whereas Jarod fears what the Centre will do to him if he stays.

In my head, sometimes they meet where the Centre can't see them; footsteps echoing through a dark alley; nonsensical messages left on voicemail; hotels on the other side of the world. And of course, as the director told us, Jarod clearly had a key to the back door of her house. In my head there are scratches on his back and bite marks on her shoulder; he handcuffs her to the bed and she never, ever calls in sick. And one day he'll disappear and there'll be nothing left of him but a thousand stories with happy endings and her, bitchy and bitter and fighting with her brother, and it's then that she'll show them what she can do, because she'll disappear, too, and it'll be for her, and not for him.

And then she'll find him and they'll have wild monkey sex.


On a related topic, I think that Gar (the albino Sweeper) totally suspects that Miss P and Jarod are conspiring together.


Finally, remember that awesome BSG vid Breathe Me? I love it so much when I can watch vids using the same song in different fandoms, and this morning I watched this vid, also by StuckHere, using 'Breathe Me' for the Pretender and it's cool. Not as awesome as some of her other vids, but still good.



&hearts

We're rewatching the Pretender from the pilot. Right now we're watching 1.07, A Virus Among Us and I'd just like to mention that Jarod gave Miss Parker the flu. And just after she sneezed, Mr Raines indicated that she should hand over her cigarette. "I'm dying," he explained in his horrible voice, and then smoked her cigarette.

UH, EW.

In other news, 1.06 (To Serve and Protect) features a whole lot of beautiful Miss Parker shots. When she's about to shoot Jarod, and when she's got her gun out in the agency.