Erm... think I've answered this in other posts up above and down below!
Truthfully, what makes them interesting to me is where their differences lie -- yes, I think they're equally tough, but not in the same ways. Yep, exactly my point! I'm absolutely gobsmacked by the idea that you think I'd make them "carefully equal" in any story that I wrote (meaning "no different"?). Yes, I do think they're more or less equal in skills, otherwise (as I said above) they'd not be balanced professionally. Recipe for disaster, I'd say, if one of them always had to wait for the other when they were on the run, or compensate for their partner's poor shooting, or wait for them to figure out what the baddies were going to do next etc. So they have to be balanced - but to me that doesn't equate to equal, let alone "careful equality"...
That obviously shapes how I see their characters and their dynamic, which then affects any fic I were to write. Yup - and depending on how that dynamic is written (and I suspect you'd do it perfectly well, with understandable motives and contexts, from other things that you've said!) I may or may not go along with a fic that reflected that. See above for comment about useless Doyle and eternally competent Bodie!
And of course my perception that Doyle is less lucky in circumstances offers me lots of room for writing. Yup, also as I said somewhere above!
That's intriguing to me, something that could be explored. Hah - it was, even canonically, in Servant of Two Masters, "Doyle's always dropping his!" Less haste, more speed, as my mum would probably have said!
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Truthfully, what makes them interesting to me is where their differences lie -- yes, I think they're equally tough, but not in the same ways.
Yep, exactly my point! I'm absolutely gobsmacked by the idea that you think I'd make them "carefully equal" in any story that I wrote (meaning "no different"?). Yes, I do think they're more or less equal in skills, otherwise (as I said above) they'd not be balanced professionally. Recipe for disaster, I'd say, if one of them always had to wait for the other when they were on the run, or compensate for their partner's poor shooting, or wait for them to figure out what the baddies were going to do next etc. So they have to be balanced - but to me that doesn't equate to equal, let alone "careful equality"...
That obviously shapes how I see their characters and their dynamic, which then affects any fic I were to write.
Yup - and depending on how that dynamic is written (and I suspect you'd do it perfectly well, with understandable motives and contexts, from other things that you've said!) I may or may not go along with a fic that reflected that. See above for comment about useless Doyle and eternally competent Bodie!
And of course my perception that Doyle is less lucky in circumstances offers me lots of room for writing.
Yup, also as I said somewhere above!
That's intriguing to me, something that could be explored.
Hah - it was, even canonically, in Servant of Two Masters, "Doyle's always dropping his!" Less haste, more speed, as my mum would probably have said!