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#drukkari had way more chemistry than them
scarlettsoldier · 1 year
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frazzledsoul · 2 years
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Eternals would have made a lot more sense if the romance primarily focused on Druig and Makkari.
I know it was an "accidental" ship but it makes sense. They were devoted to the mission and were kind of adventurous hellions who distrusted humans. Druig's conflict between using his mind-controlling abilities to keep humans from hurting each other and staying passive because it's morally wrong and against their mission is way more compelling than Ikaris deciding to either be an emotionless robot who is only devoted to what his robot God tells him or a sociopath who viciously attacks anyone who gets in his way. I could see Makkari basically staying on the ship and letting him do his thing because she understands why he's compelled to but isn't willing to join him. And then years and years go by and he doesn't come back, until he does and they agree to join forces. And then we get a sex scene that's actually worth watching.
Ikaris would work more as a celibate soldier boy who is above petty little concerns like love. His personal relationship with Sersi doesn't really sway either of their perspectives and we're not told how they managed to be together for five thousand years with such wildly divergent belief systems without ever being pulled on a new direction one way or the other at any time. We're not told why he decided to leave and never come back instead of have a conversation with his wife about how her life's work was futile, but that does illustrate that they had little in common to hold them together and didn't have great communication skills anyway. More to the point, he never really tries that hard to get her back. Why would he? They're being uploaded to the next planet in a few days. He's like to preserve the good memories, but their life as an superhero power couple is long over.
Ikaris is a religious fanatic. He loves Arishem more than he could love anyone or anything else, including Sersi. He's willing to commit extreme acts of violence to serve his master, and he doesn't deserve to be given brownie points for stopping short of physically attacking his estranged wife.
Sersi and Ikaris is not an epic love. It's actually quite pathetic. It should have never have been a thing.
If Sersi and Ikaris are just friends during the entire story, the same conflict will arise between them without having to explain why they were together so long despite having nothing in common and his willingness to keep huge secrets from her. Take out the montages and direct Richard a little differently during his two "love confessions" (you can still miss your friend and want to preserve your memories together without being in love with her and it makes more sense for a friend to only want that and reject all talk of a resumption of your romantic relationship as opposed to an estranged husband) and literally nothing will change.
Now we have Dane, who despite the protestations of certain GoT stan groups, is in a romantic relationship with Sersi. Ikaris seems to mostly exist as a romantic obstacle when it comes to him, but we can tweak that. Sersi feels pulled between her old life and her human ties to him and that doesn't require a romantic rival to make that a plot point. Sersi obviously cared for him and knew a great deal about his family, so this was a serious relationship despite multiple stans arguing otherwise. I'm not sure how much evidence is required to indicate to them that it exists. So Sersi not having an estranged husband but being an immortal robot alien is still weird enough on its own.
Druig and Makkari have shared values, goals, and actual chemistry, and come to each other's aid when threatened. Makkari's howl of outrage and attempt to beat the shit out of Ikaris when she thinks Ikaris has killed him was more indicative of a true romance than we got from any of the other three couples...until you get to Dane picking up that demon sword on Sersi's behalf that, is.
Drukkari forever. Should have been the whole story.
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