mmegaera | Pairing Trend Meme

From

bright_lilim (which name always makes me think of white lilies):

Name your 10 to 15 favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms.

I don't know that these are my alltime or absolute favorites but they are some of my current favorites, and I'm not going to number them because I know I can't put them in order except maybe the first one, but...

Miles Vorkosigan and Ekaterin Vorsoisson
Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson
Miles Vorkosigan [g] and Sergeant Taura
Ramses Emerson and Nefret Forth
Ista and Illvin (do they even have last names? I don't remember)

let's see, I need some other fandoms

Charlie Epps and Amita (oh, gods, let me go IMDB her last name) Ramanujan
Rick Castle and Kate Beckett
Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and Arwen (the movie version, not the books)
Shane MacKade and Rebecca Knight
Dorian Camoys, Earl of Rawnsley and Gwendolyn Adams
Clay Yeager and Casey Scott
(the last three are from some of my favorite romance novels -- I wouldn't call them fandoms, exactly...)

Heck, that's nine. If you recognize all of them that ought to be enough, and if you don't, well, let's just say I won't be surprised [g].

Oh, well, how about Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth? And a more peculiar pair of first names I've never seen even in a romance novel. Which is saying something.

And that makes ten. There.