Chris Lester
Ooh, good question! While many of the stories I love feature characters who are in relationships, it's rarely the relationships themselves that draw me to them. Some of the most interesting and engaging characters have love lives that are tragic, unfulfilling, or just desperately ill-advised. And sometimes two interesting characters have a relationship between them that just isn't all that compelling -- John Sheridan and Delenn, from BABYLON 5, is a good example of this.
There are two fictional couples, though, that I dearly love: Alexia and Conall in Gail Carriger's THE PARASOL PROTECTORATE, and Aral and Cordelia in Lois McMaster Bujold's THE VORKOSIGAN SAGA. In both cases, these are loving, successful relationships between smart, tough, headstrong characters, who were powerful and effective as individuals but somehow become even more formidable together. They fight; they argue; they butt heads over matters of principle; but in the end, they are on each other's side, even when the whole world is arrayed against them.
There are two fictional couples, though, that I dearly love: Alexia and Conall in Gail Carriger's THE PARASOL PROTECTORATE, and Aral and Cordelia in Lois McMaster Bujold's THE VORKOSIGAN SAGA. In both cases, these are loving, successful relationships between smart, tough, headstrong characters, who were powerful and effective as individuals but somehow become even more formidable together. They fight; they argue; they butt heads over matters of principle; but in the end, they are on each other's side, even when the whole world is arrayed against them.
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