Kait Jagger
I confess, despite the fact that I write romances, many of my favourite fictional couples feature heterosexual men--'bromances,' as it were. Holmes and Watson, Kirk and Spock, Joey and Chandler...there's something deeply romantic, to me at least, about platonic love between two men.
My most revered bromance? Without a question, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr Stephen Maturin, of Patrick O'Brien's nautical historical novels (source material for the 2003 film Master and Commander). The juxtaposition of naval man of action Aubrey with intellectual naturalist Maturin is one of the great fictional pairings of all time, in my opinion...and watching Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany recreating their violin/cello duets in the movie...well, I get bromantical just thinking about it!
One of Aubrey and Maturin's many, magical moments:
Shortly after they meet, naval ingenue Maturin asks Aubrey if he could be whipped by the master for breaking naval law and Jack responds, '"You must allow me to explain our naval ranks some time. But in any case, you will never be flogged - no, no; you shall not be flogged," he added, gazing with pure affection, and with something like awe, at so magnificent a prodigy, at an ignorance so very far beyond anything that even his wide-ranging mind had yet conceived.'
My most revered bromance? Without a question, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr Stephen Maturin, of Patrick O'Brien's nautical historical novels (source material for the 2003 film Master and Commander). The juxtaposition of naval man of action Aubrey with intellectual naturalist Maturin is one of the great fictional pairings of all time, in my opinion...and watching Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany recreating their violin/cello duets in the movie...well, I get bromantical just thinking about it!
One of Aubrey and Maturin's many, magical moments:
Shortly after they meet, naval ingenue Maturin asks Aubrey if he could be whipped by the master for breaking naval law and Jack responds, '"You must allow me to explain our naval ranks some time. But in any case, you will never be flogged - no, no; you shall not be flogged," he added, gazing with pure affection, and with something like awe, at so magnificent a prodigy, at an ignorance so very far beyond anything that even his wide-ranging mind had yet conceived.'
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