As she sat staring at videoclips of John Simm

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You know, I still haven't made up my mind about whether he's good-looking or not. And that after a year and a half or so of fancying him.

I know he's *attractive*, in some hard to define way. But, good-looking? I don't know. I just don't know.

The journalist who called him "ugly-handsome", ages ago, was wrong, though. He's not ugly. Just kind of... utterly "normal" looking, sort of. Sometimes. Unspectacular, unremarkable.

And then something happens, now and then, and he turns... "startlingly attractive", I think some other journalist put it. And yeah, it is startling. Kind of mind-boggling, really.

*boggles*

I'm also amused by how he seems to be always the short one. Is he really that short, or do they just always team him up with giants?

Yikes, I'm looking at celebrity pics. What's wrong with me? *g*

Comments

The "Sam a psychopath" conversation is just too fun *not* to have!

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Well, no. His character flaws aren't that of a psychopath, but they don't preclude the diagnosis. It'd be very easy to stretch them a little and come up with someone very convincing. (and, as that's what I do as a writer, I'm still working on a *proper* psycho!Sam fic...)

I'd like to think that, at least subconsciously, the inappropriateness of the relationship was a major factor in the relationship going bad. And you're right that it happens sometimes. But I guarantee he'd come down on any of his DIs like a tonne of bricks if he found out they were conducting a comparable relationship. Maya is a direct subordinate and therefore he has to have some belief of superior morals to even enter into the relationship without finding an alternative. Furthermore, the conversation he has when he pulls her off the case. Not professional at all. In any way, shape or form.

Oh, sure. Perfectly fine for fic.

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I just don't take him for a canonical psychopath, is all.