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Has there ever been a character you at first really didn't like, but then they grew on you? (from whimsicalnixiewhimsicalnixie)

I've had more than just one of these, to be sure.  I often find replacement characters who come in after another has died or been written out hard to get attached to, but I almost always warm to them in the end.

Probably the best example is Ezri Dax on Deep Space Nine.  I could not have been more bitter about what happened to Jadzia, and Ezri seemed like such a poor substitute- but once I gave her a chance I thought she was actually quite lovely.
  

 

So, a fic rec I got earlier this week made me rediscover Bashir/Garak.  I just want to say that as much as I usually love how much variety there is in the different fics for a particular ship, there's something so adorable and comforting about the fact that most of the stories for this couple are more or less the same story.

( My ruminations on this ship )

Favorite childhood show

This is definitely Star Trek.  I can't remember a time during my formative years where either reruns or new episodes of a series of Star Trek weren't on, and it was definitely my big love throughout my childhood and adolescence.  Though I don't think there was ever an incarnation of Trek that I didn't stop whatever I was doing to watch when it's time slot- rerun or otherwise- came on, Voyager was definitely my favorite and Janeway will always be my captain, and my hero, and I love her courage and her stubbornness, her brilliance and her flaws, very much.

That said, I don't believe there is a series of Star Trek that didn't inspire me to ask important questions, teach me valuable lessons about human nature- and weakness- and generally encourage me to reach for the stars.  

( The rest of the meme )