Push the Button: Fandom Stlye

So, I saw this post on Facebook the other day and it really intrigued me. All these choices are really, really hard. I long to be in a lot of these fictional realms, and I initially didn’t know what to pick. As such, I decided to analyse each scenario here.

Red Button – You get to spend a year at Hogwarts but you’re not magical

This one on the surface seems a very good deal. I mean, you still get to go to Hogwarts no matter what. However, isn’t the whole point to be magical? It’s the school of witchcraft and wizardry. You couldn’t participate in lessons, would certainly get ridiculed by the Slytherins and, if it were me, become depressed and even resentful towards magic. Plus, if these years in Hogwarts are during the timeline of the books, you would be at a major disadvantage. Imagine having no magic during the battle of Hogwarts. You’d be dead within the first hour, surely. So no, I don’t think this is the choice for me.

Orange Button – You’re the Doctor’s companion but you don’t remember your adventures

So… basically you become Donna Noble?

This wouldn’t be such a bad option. I mean, look at all the adventures they went on together. I guess it wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t remember it all, but it’s the experiences that count. And wouldn’t it hurt the Doctor more? He’d still remember you and all the fun/tears/near-death-experiences you shared together. As ever the Doctor must move on, but I’ve always noticed he’s really sad when he looses his companion.

Especially Rose Tyler

What, who said that…?

Yellow Button – Your favourite character falls in love with you but you can’t have a physical relationship

This would mean I could have a choice of Captain Hook (Once Upon a Time), Loki (Marvel’s Thor) – but happy pre-Thor Loki, not the megalomaniac one in Avengers – Kili (The Hobbit) or Dean Winchester (Supernatural), spend time with them, have a relationship with them, do everything with them but I couldn’t have sex with them? This sounds like the best idea so far! Sex isn’t what makes a relationship, after all. They would still be there to live with, to laugh with, the cuddle with – cuddles aren’t sex, so it still counts – and I could be intimate with them on every other level except the physical ones. People survive everyday, single or in a relationship, without sex, so I think I could too.

I don’t see a downside here.

Green Button – You become a Shadowhunter but will die at the age of 25

Hum.. This is tempting, as out of all the fandoms mentions thus far this is my main one. If someone asked me for my top three fandoms, I would say I was a Shadowhunter first. And since Shadowhunters are trained from birth, I would have had 25 years worth of Shadowhunter experiences. But the thing is, would I know I was going to die at 25? If I did I wouldn’t want it. That would be a horrible feeling, and one of impending doom all the time, weighing down on you… No, if I didn’t know I was going to die that would be better. Being a Shadowhunter is a thankless task but it is one that is needed, and I think it would give me a sense of being in the world. Plus, if I could be at the New York Institute during The Mortal Instruments or the London Institute during The Infernal Devices then life would never be dull.

Blue Button – You’re a demigod but your godly parent never claims you

You see, this is also very temping. Whilst I would feel a little miffed at being abandoned, I would get to spend all of my time in the Hermes Cabin with the Stoll Twins. Imagine how much fun that would be. Plus, I would still have the experience of being a demigod at Camp Half-Blood every summer – or would I be an all year camper? – so I don’t see a downside to this. I would still know that pegasi and satyrs are real, I would get to play capture the flag and sing around the camp-fire, and, while monsters would be trying to kill me, I would be a kick-ass Greek warrior very capable of defending myself. Plus, many other demigods survived without being claimed before the bill that Percy made Zeus pass as his reward for saving the planet. Again.

Purple Button – Sherlock falls in love with you but you can never say you love him back

To be honest, I don’t think that Sherlock is the kind of person who would say it very often himself. He is a sociopath, after all. I think ‘saying’ the words would be such a big thing in his relationships. If he did say it surely it would be to get something out of you, or an act like his brief relationship with Janine. With him, I think there wouldn’t be huge signs of affection, so as much as I would love to be able to say it to him, I think I could live around it.

However, as much as I love Sherlock as a character, I don’t think I could be in a relationship with him. I think I would give into the urge to strangle him far too often. Unless he liked that sort of thing… :p

Pink Button – You become Divergent but you take Tris’s place in the death serum room

Well, after quickly reminding myself as to what the death serum actually is – it’s been a while since I’ve read the book, don’t judge me – it seems that it has something to do with the ending of Allegiant, which I unfortunately haven’t read yet. As I gather, strong Divergent can resist it, as Tris does, so I would hope that I too were strong enough to, also. But, since I don’t know that much about it, I’m not going to press this button, just in case.

Brown Button – You can save Finnick’s life but you have to kill Peeta instead

Ouch. I don’t know if I could cope. I mean, I loved Finnik and hated it when he died (you can click here to read more about that), but then again how can anyone with a soul kill Peeta? Plus, wouldn’t Finnik hate himself and then hate you if he found out that you killed Peeta to save him? Wouldn’t Katnis have an(other) emotional breakdown? No, I don’t think I could do it; this is not the button for me.

Decision

This is so hard! After that discussion, I would say… the yellow button! I could totally live without sex for any of my favourite male characters. Or, if I decided on one of my favourite female characters, sex wouldn’t come into it anyway and I’d just get an amazing and inspirational friend. (But let’s be honest, I’d probably pick a guy). After all, I like to feed my inner romantic and fantasise about a loving but innocent relationship. Aw! 

What about you guys? What button would you press? Let me know in the comments!

 

30 Day Book Challenge – Day 4

Favourite Book in you Favourite Series

Percy Jackson and the Titian’s Curse by Rick Riordan

This is the third book in the series, and follows Percy initially as he goes and recruits two new demigods: Nico and Bianca di Angelo. They’re ambushed my a manticore and Annabeth seemingly falls to her death over a cliff. (Not a spoiler, it happens if the first few chapters). From there, Percy goes on an epic quest that involves Hoover Dam, a Sea Cow and a San Fransico mountain and the Titan’s Curse.
This is my favourite book in the series for two new characters introduced in this book: Apollo and Nico di Angelo. Admittedly, you don’t see much of Nico in this book, but when you look back to the innocence of the character compared to later books (see Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian and Heroes of Olympus: House of Hades) he truly is a gem. Apollo stole the show for me, though. He’s a quirky character that has a thing for haikus and at his heart is only looking out for his twin sister, Artemis, who also features heavily in the book.
I must have read this book at least five times, I love it so much! Although, it is the next in the series to become a film, which i am not looking forward to. Don’t get me wrong, I like the films – as long as I look at them purely as films. If I look at them as a book fan I want to tare my hair out. But I’m getting off track. Out of all the books this is my favourite by far.

30 Day Book Challenge – Day 3

Even though it’s a day late

Favourite Book Series

Percy Jackson (and the Olympians) by Rick Riordan

I fell in love with this series a good few years ago now. It was the main thing that got me into Greek mythology in the first place. The series follows the titular character, Percy Jackson, a troubled boy of 12 from New York City with ADHD and dyslexia as he tries to keep his head down. However, in the first of the series, that all goes downhill when his substitute maths teacher, Mrs Dodds, turns out to actually be a Fury – a kind of half bat half human hybrid – and tried to kill him for stealing Zeus’s Lightning Bolt. From there he travels to Camp Half-Blood, the only safe haven for demigods like him, and he end up on an epic quest across the United States to find the Lighting Bolt and save the planet. And the rest of the series doesn’t get much better for poor Percy.
What I really love about this series is the modern take on some of the classic myths. For example, who would have guessed that Medusa, famed for fighting Perseus and turning people into stone, would bel running Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium just outside of Atlantic City, where the gnomes are her victims? Or that the entrance to the Underworld was actually in LA? (Well, that one might have been a little obvious to those who were paying attention).
The balance of humour, action and drama in this series is truly compelling. Even though it is aimed at children of about 12, the series grows and darkens as Percy ages without loosing the childlike quality for Riordan’s younger readers. From start to finish, it is a tale of Homer proportions, a clever blend of modern and classic that, for me, made me laugh just as much as it did cry.
(No spoilers, but the last one is kinda sad…)

Come back tomorrow when I tell you of my favourite book in the Percy Jackson series!