Things I'd Like to Learn

[scribblemyname]

Those of you who like to read my stuff know I like Gambit. A lot. However, as the lovely mwffj pointed out, there's a side of him that doesn't get half enough attention.

Let's start with

banter. He's exceptional at it. It's also rarely sexual in nautre.

REMY: Wanna go find a bar and start a fight?
LOGAN: I don't think you could fight a kitten right now.
REMY: 'Course not. Kittens fight dirty. I'll just sit int the corner and kick people in your direction.
~ X-23, Issue 12

Also see any of the quotes I use to open chapters of Without a Trace.

Which brings me to

humor. Not my forte,b ut I love it when it's done right. Almost all my favorite quotes of his are funny.

PHOENIX: I think the more nervous you get, the more jokes you crack.
GAMBIT: Shh . Ancient family secret.
~ Uncanny X-Men, #333

I don't know if this is just an acquired skill (that I don't seem to be successfully acquiring), but most of my humor is purely situational. :sighs:

Or maybe I'm reading the wrong fics. :sets chin on hands and thinks:

Comments

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

It sounds kind of like... fun, to me.

Yeah, it's hard to get every part. Some are able to focus on just a single part of it. It's easier for me to play Remy off of Rogue or Logan, I think. There's just something there that seems easy. I actually avoid too much of the sexual banter (because it's not all sexual, and my version of Remy has issues there), though I'd agree that Chellerbelle has some very good banter.

I'm trying to think of any fics I read where there was banter and it wasn't a lot of sexual banter, but I am not coming up with anything. I can only remember the other kind, but I think that's because I read mostly Rogue/Remy fics.