Damn this "life" thing! It's screwing us all up. (I'm now wasting time not writing by looking up your book recs on Amazon.)
*beams with love and pride* Aw, thank you! I think the freakish and scary novelization of "Rising" is having his dad as an ass, too, so I'm sure canon thinks that he's an asshat as well, but I really just terribly wanted a different spin.
John's canon um, thing kinda strikes me as...well, it's easier to sleep with women he knows he can't have a relationship with because then he doesn't have to give anything beyond the facade. Plus John seems to kind of roll over for aggressive women. He went for Chaya, but only after she reassured him that she wanted him to. Elizabeth keeps making moon eyes at him, and he fails to take the initiative. If he wanted to kiss Teyla and the Iratus Bug thing in Conversion was just...magnifying HIM rather than directing increased energy and Random Target A, then he's been sublimating his interest in Teyla (for a variety of good reasons but also maybe some personal ones.) Half-Ascended Virgin Priestess went to him. This girl apparently jumped him. He doesn't seem to have problems saying no when it doesn't come to sex, so I remain confused.
This was so not psychoanalyzing him, but dude, in like six more comments, maybe we'll hit something. *headdesk*
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wasting timenot writing by looking up your book recs on Amazon.)*beams with love and pride* Aw, thank you! I think the freakish and scary novelization of "Rising" is having his dad as an ass, too, so I'm sure canon thinks that he's an asshat as well, but I really just terribly wanted a different spin.
John's canon um, thing kinda strikes me as...well, it's easier to sleep with women he knows he can't have a relationship with because then he doesn't have to give anything beyond the facade. Plus John seems to kind of roll over for aggressive women. He went for Chaya, but only after she reassured him that she wanted him to. Elizabeth keeps making moon eyes at him, and he fails to take the initiative. If he wanted to kiss Teyla and the Iratus Bug thing in Conversion was just...magnifying HIM rather than directing increased energy and Random Target A, then he's been sublimating his interest in Teyla (for a variety of good reasons but also maybe some personal ones.) Half-Ascended Virgin Priestess went to him. This girl apparently jumped him. He doesn't seem to have problems saying no when it doesn't come to sex, so I remain confused.
This was so not psychoanalyzing him, but dude, in like six more comments, maybe we'll hit something. *headdesk*