I think one reason why I'm balking on this is because any argument for Roy/Riza romantic subtext being canon -- aside from authorial intent, which is damned hard to prove -- can apply equally to characters for whom I don't believe that the canonical-subtext argument holds water, like Sam/Dean on SPN or pretty much any mutually co-dependent partners in any big fandom ever.
I also don't want to let my feelings on the pairing sway me, because I do support Roy/Riza as a pairing, so I know darned well that I'm going to be glomming onto any bits of canon that provide support for it. Whereas with something like, say, John/Teyla in SGA, which isn't one of my pairings but probably has at least as much canon support as Roy/Riza if not considerably more, I think I'm guilty of downplaying it when I write them because I prefer the friendship. I also struggle with how much of the perceived subtext is simply due to the characters being a man and a woman in a close emotional relationship (in both cases ... actually, in most situations of that sort).
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I think one reason why I'm balking on this is because any argument for Roy/Riza romantic subtext being canon -- aside from authorial intent, which is damned hard to prove -- can apply equally to characters for whom I don't believe that the canonical-subtext argument holds water, like Sam/Dean on SPN or pretty much any mutually co-dependent partners in any big fandom ever.
I also don't want to let my feelings on the pairing sway me, because I do support Roy/Riza as a pairing, so I know darned well that I'm going to be glomming onto any bits of canon that provide support for it. Whereas with something like, say, John/Teyla in SGA, which isn't one of my pairings but probably has at least as much canon support as Roy/Riza if not considerably more, I think I'm guilty of downplaying it when I write them because I prefer the friendship. I also struggle with how much of the perceived subtext is simply due to the characters being a man and a woman in a close emotional relationship (in both cases ... actually, in most situations of that sort).