ROGUE: Remy, if ya have any feelings for me, any at all, leave me alone.
GAMBIT: S'funny, m' feelin's f'r ya are the very same reason I'm stayin'.
GAMBIT: S'funny, m' feelin's f'r ya are the very same reason I'm stayin'.
Last week, some of my friends and I were hanging out when one of them happened to mention something from the book “Captivated” that caught her eye. She said that women have this inner desire to be fought for or over by the man that she loves. To be honest, I was quite disturbed when I heard that at first. This is the 21st century, after all, not the medieval ages. Hey, women nowadays are lucky for guys to open doors for them. I actually was a bit offended by that thought at first, because I thought, “Come on! Women aren’t as sappy and weak as we were years ago! We’re strong individuals; we’re not pieces of meat for dogs to be fighting over!” It took me a moment to process the information before I did understand what she meant by that. For sure, we’ve come a long way from that time when cavemen beat each other’s heads with wooden clubs to win the, erm, cavewoman (at least, I hope we have), and as we have evolved from that time, so did our understanding of being “fought for.” It has gone from club-beating, to jousting, to slaying dragons, to whatever it is that men do to prove how strong they are (which in most instances just has to be a showing of brute force). These days, however, are completely different. These days involve a different kind of “fighting.”
Now, fighting could mean going for the person that you love no matter what other people will say. Fighting is not being afraid to pursue the other person, even if you are afraid of rejection. Fighting may be fighting against one’s own inhibitions, knowing that the woman is a strong person that other people might be afraid of, but still going out for it because. Fighting is not being afraid of the consequences, but at the same time caring about what the future will hold for the two of them. Fighting is not always being the knight in shining armor, but sometimes just being there when you are needed, time and attention being what is sought. Fighting is in being able to sift through one’s emotions, and determining for one’s self that what one is feeling is in fact love. Plain and simple. The circumstances might be difficult, the people involved might not be the easiest in the world, but there is the unpretentious knowledge of loving that person. That is what is involved in the story of Rogue and Gambit. Even with their inability to touch, even with all the fighting and crusading that they do, even with their dark pasts, they know that they love each other, and they are determined to make things work. Rogue couldn’t touch people, not without running the danger of killing them. Gambit, on the other hand, is a playboy who chases after anyone wearing a (figurative) skirt. They run the risk of hurting each other in more ways than one. Still, they choose to fight for what they know is theirs by right. For sure, in the “real world,” there is no such thing as sucking out one’s life force by mere touch, red on black eyes, the ability to charge objects and make them explode, and other kinds of super powers, but I think it’s a good portrayal of what fighting for love actually means (and yes, a way to release my annoyance that Gambit was still not in the film, argh!). It's not about the hitting, or the smashing, but more on fighting for what love means to a person.
Now, fighting could mean going for the person that you love no matter what other people will say. Fighting is not being afraid to pursue the other person, even if you are afraid of rejection. Fighting may be fighting against one’s own inhibitions, knowing that the woman is a strong person that other people might be afraid of, but still going out for it because. Fighting is not being afraid of the consequences, but at the same time caring about what the future will hold for the two of them. Fighting is not always being the knight in shining armor, but sometimes just being there when you are needed, time and attention being what is sought. Fighting is in being able to sift through one’s emotions, and determining for one’s self that what one is feeling is in fact love. Plain and simple. The circumstances might be difficult, the people involved might not be the easiest in the world, but there is the unpretentious knowledge of loving that person. That is what is involved in the story of Rogue and Gambit. Even with their inability to touch, even with all the fighting and crusading that they do, even with their dark pasts, they know that they love each other, and they are determined to make things work. Rogue couldn’t touch people, not without running the danger of killing them. Gambit, on the other hand, is a playboy who chases after anyone wearing a (figurative) skirt. They run the risk of hurting each other in more ways than one. Still, they choose to fight for what they know is theirs by right. For sure, in the “real world,” there is no such thing as sucking out one’s life force by mere touch, red on black eyes, the ability to charge objects and make them explode, and other kinds of super powers, but I think it’s a good portrayal of what fighting for love actually means (and yes, a way to release my annoyance that Gambit was still not in the film, argh!). It's not about the hitting, or the smashing, but more on fighting for what love means to a person.
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