#although i have a low interest in romantic yalex in general

[icebluecyanide]

3 for the ask game! Or 2 if someone beat me to the punch :)

3. If you ship Yalex, is there a version (book, movie, tv show, some combination) that you imagine or prefer?

I tend to default to the books, and I prefer that version, but I do tend to ship yalex more in a post-canon scenario. Definitely all the yalex I've written so far has book!yalex and I really like the book scenes (the rooftop, the fer de lance, the plane) as the basis for their dynamic.

At the same time I'm also fascinated by the show's different dynamic, with Alex obsessing over Yassen after their first meeting, dreaming about him and hallucinating him. It's great stuff to build a ship on, and I've enjoyed a lot of fics set in the tv verse. And I'd probably be more likely to read yalex set during canon for the tv version than for the books because Alex is a bit older/the dynamic feels different.

I've only really seen the rooftop scene of the movie, but I've read some cool fics taking that version of them. Probably won't be writing it myself at any point, though.