#MaxLogan

[gabbyg77]

Happy Dark Angel day!

The pilot aired 24 years ago.

#DarkAngel #MaxLogan #LoganMax

[coff33andb00ks]

I beseech thee, do not lose thine faith in me! Alas, the wretched word "yet" has appeared in our discourse, and I shall fret until I am met with reassurance that you do not believe me so villainous as to cause those among us who know only adoration for Logan - my very self included!!! - to think him unworthy of his infatuation's love! Pray, do not think so ill of me, for the pain in my heart upon reading your words is worrying indeed and I shall be unable to hold proper conversation until I am comforted that I have not lost your good faith...

i hath returned and after much deliberation, i hath graciously decided to overlook the suspicious nature of thine words. on account of your self proclaimed love for logan, i place my trust in you.

Thine words fill me with brightness and gratitude, and I shall endeavor until I breathe my last to always strengthen your most precious trust in me.

I beg you please cast your eyes upon this, which gives hope of Max and Logan being, if not the best of friends, at the very least friendly and respectful of one another: https://www.tumblr.com/ablogtocheck/744859270035685376/the-minimal-maxlogan-interactions-i-have

And also I beg thee to also consider this, which I found yesterday and have decided is none other than our beloved y/n, unintentionally showing her affection for Logan on a public platform: https://www.tumblr.com/coff33andb00ks/753563807507415040/wait-a-minute-why-didnt-anyone-tell-me-yall-know

In short I say, the odds are in poly's favor 🫶🏻

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Bangel and Lomax visual parallels:

And then Angel and Buffy using Angel giving Buffy the amulet as an excuse to hold hands:

And Logan giving Max intercoms as an excuse for them to hold hands:

[kennyfabre]

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[fratboykate]

so last night when i said "im getting off the dark angel tag" what i apparently meant was "let me see if the show is online by any chance." and it is. and that was like 10hrs ago and i haven't sleep and im like 12 episodes deep into the first season. just 30 more to go before i can be a productive human again. these are the perks of being a freelancer though. i can cry over old tv shows whenever the fuck i want and not have to answer to anybody. one day i need to have a sit-down with james cameron and give him a very stern talk about why he shouldn't have let the perfect tv show die like that.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I just... I’ve always loved this scene, because Logan just comes up with the most ridiculous lie ever to tell her and it’s funny. Logan, my guy, you’re supposed to be a genius. You couldn’t have come up with something better. And Max so nearly calls him out on it, too. She probably would have, if she hadn’t been starting to go into heat.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

All the Lomax almost kisses:

Pilot

The shared dream sequence in Blah Blah Woof Woof

Rising

The Kidz are Aiight

Meow

...And Jesus Brought a Casserole

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Parallels.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Character development.

There were actually maybe some better shots I could have used of Max on the hoverdrone, but my laptop is being dumb and not wanting to let me use them. Maybe I could try and edit it later. Or not...

[oveliagirlhaditright]

A remake of something I made on my old blog:)

Max is being way too hard on herself here. She is that high-minded. But it says a lot here that she doesn’t think she is, but thinks Logan is (it hints at how much she does respect him, and surely partly why she falls in love with him, I think).

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I want to do more with Tru Calling this year too, because that was another great show that ended way too early. So I decided to do a picture post of this parallel with Dark Angel that I love. Though Max and Logan (Dark Angel) have a romantic relationship, and Davis and Tru have a father and daughter one. (Also, Max sees Zack as a brother. When she says “hooked up”, she doesn’t mean “slept with” or anything like that)... I’m sorry this post is so long. It is to show the parallel. But I’ll never make a post this long again.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I’ve ranted about it so many times... but I love Max and Logan from Dark Angel so much. As I’ve said, they’re my favorite TV show couple (and one of my OTPs). And to me, one of the best written couples ever.

You just... you see their full relationship: how they meet, become acquaintances/allies, and then friends and confidants, and then best friends and eventually in love. And it’s just so well-done and believable. You get why they fall in love and why they’re good together. 

And the writers wrote them as perfect Foils/”You Complete Me as My Opposite”  characters to each other. But they also have so much in common, too, that you don’t think the differences they had would ever be enough to drive them apart. Like, they have enough similarities to hang onto, too.

And their whole rough journey to becoming a couple... at least in season one, it was so adult, raw, and real. They’re both so broken for different reasons (and maybe a few that are the same), and are somewhat jaded and don’t really believe in romantic love... They both also have their own insecurities, and all these reasons in their heads that they shouldn’t be together and even try it, but they are in love, and eventually they have to figure that out.

Also, that relationship they were in... Where they were both essentially in a relationship with each other, without the physical--and both of them knew it, for the most part it--but could never admit it for the longest time, and were so scared to breech this fake world and lie they’d made for themselves... holy crap, was that interesting.

And they broke gender norms, too.

And it was a disabled guy with a super hero girl.

I just love this ship so much.

Edit: And here’s something else I also liked about them, that I don’t think I’ve ever once talked about: I enjoyed how the girl was the dark one and the guy the light one (morality-wise), as usually it’s the other way in stories. Or if it was done this way in the past, the girl was often times vilified... but not Max. She’s the hero of this story, even if she is the darker and more cynical one. And I love it.

Edit 2: They were also each other’s equals, for some of the reasons I’ve said above (like, emotionally they were on the same level). But Max was a genius like Logan was (in fact, she may even be smarter than he was)... and though Max was “stronger” than Logan as the genetically engineered, able-bodied girl... there were still so many times where he had to save her. In fact, it seemed like every episode it was like, “And this is the episode where Max saves Logan, but next week he’ll save her”, rinse and repeat. And it was great.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

For @kae-leah​. Some Dark Angel/Lomax goodness:)

I love this parallel for many reasons. One, because I adore how it actually shows how well Max knows Logan--one of the reason I love this ship so much. They know each other inside and out--and for once we’re getting stuff about Logan’s family (that Max is aware of his feelings on), as we got a ton on Max’s family in DA... but I feel the show could have done more with Logan’s.

And Logan’s so in love (and so is Max. She just feels guilty in scene two, and is mad that he stood her up in the first scene... and that Logan is acting all weird and distant, and hasn’t told her the real reason for not going with her to the ball game). In both cases, he’s sold favorite paintings of his for Max. In season one, he was losing his ability to walk again, and at this point--even though he won’t admit this is why for a while--he’s in love with her, and afraid she’ll never love him back as a cripple (someone has severe PTSD), and that’s why he wants to stay walking... so Logan’s spent a ton of money that he got from the painting to try and fight against the process, and it doesn’t work out like he wanted it to. But they get through it. In season two, the scientists at Manticore (where Max was created) have made it so the two can’t touch. Max has a deadly virus in her DNA that is targeted just at Logan’s DNA, because they were hoping she’d kill him for them (he was exposing them) with a touch. And Max goes so crazy with her worry this season, that she stops even wanting to risk being in the same car with Logan and stuff. So Logan is paying a doctor to try and cure it (and Max pays for half of it, because she also wants to be free of the Virus). But of course, that also doesn’t happen for them and the Virus stays all season. Ugh. But in the last image, you can tell Max is thinking she isn’t worth Logan selling family memories away for her... So you have Max’s self-doubt there, and Logan’s in the season one moment.

I’m also just here for our cat burglar gal (who freakin’ met Logan through trying to rob him) paying attention to this stuff and knowing all of Logan’s worthwhile paintings.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxE_nCDRexw&feature=youtu.be

@kae-leah

A Max and Logan beta that I had to make, because my babies deserve the world and so much more. (Sadly, some of these clips have glitches and there's nothing I can do about it:() 

 Hopefully I'll be able to finish this someday--and I want to finish this--but if not, here's the first half. Making this was actually murder for me, since my laptop with Sony Vegas is literally being held together with duct tape... I can't download YouTube videos anymore, so had to make do with the episodes of DA I already had on my computer from there and for scenes I wanted and didn't have... I recorded them from my DVDs with my phone, and then sent them to myself through Google Drive (and now I'm running out of room on my Google Drive). This video just also refused to render. Yeah...

 I also wanted dialogue in here, but the Dark Angel voice clips were too quiet no matter what I did, so subtitles it was. 

Max in the one clip is saying how Logan only thinks and talks about his Eyes Only mission, by the way, that he thankfully gets over (like in a clip in here I wanted to use to show some of their cute season two moments, that they did have). 

Enjoy, my lovelies!

[oveliagirlhaditright]

A Dark Angel AU, where it was actually Ben who died at the beginning of Pollo Loco, and Max agrees to having dinner with Logan to try and cheer up.

The Arms of Someone You Love

“Max… why don’t you come over and I’ll cook you dinner?" Logan asked Max over the phone, as he tried to cheer her up about Ben’s death. And, despite herself, it made Max's lips turn up the tiniest bit, even amidst her grief.

What was it that Logan had once told her? That in this short, brutal life, one needed to take every opportunity they could find to celebrate?

Well, that certainly sounded like a good idea to Max right now. She’d never been good with all of the sad feelings she should have been feeling, anyway. So she whispered somewhat brokenly into the receiver, "See you in an hour then, Meal Ticket." And as awful as it was, Max only somewhat regretted those last words. But she had had to say them, hadn’t she? Or risk breaking the careful illusion that she and Logan had meticulously created for their relationship.

...

Logan ended up making orange beef for Max... which was something she’d never even heard of before, since cows were especially hard to come by these days. And oranges could be, too, for anyone who didn’t live in Florida. But miracle of miracles, Logan had procured both things as only he could… and it was absolutely delicious. And absolutely what Max had needed on this shit day she was having.

"Thanks for making this, Logan,” the X5 said now, as she took a sip of the white wine he’d poured for her, because he was Logan and always had the best drinks for every meal. “… And for even using blood oranges to do so—it somewhat redeems red and blood to me after losing Ben. Y'know?"

And Logan, surprisingly, seemed... touched by Max's words, in a way she'd never seen him be before, as his face lit up with the slightest smile. And she had to wonder if she’d finally gotten through to him that he was worth something…. worth so much, really.

"To be honest... I didn't do it for that reason, Max. That thought about colors didn't hit me, even if it seems so obvious now. But I'm glad I was still able to somehow make you happy with it."

And the look he was giving her now was so similar to ones he’d worn when he’d been in the hospital—after his blood transfusion—before she’d taken their kiss in front of the cabin back. And Max wanted to run away... because the idea anyone could want her to feel positive emotions at all was too much for her. And it even reminded her of the feeling she'd had with Hannah, where she’d imagined she was safe and warm for the first time ever—that was scary in and of itself—and it was only in digging her fingernails into the armrest of the chair she was in, that Max kept herself from bolting.

"Logan... I gotta be honest here—and I don't know why; maybe because I'm actually looking for a reason to ruin this night, like everything always gets ruined for us—but today…I thought the body was Ben's victim at first and not him, okay? We were… taught to kill like that back at Manticore. And if it had been one of Ben’s victims instead of him... I would have called this whole dinner thing off, knowing you wouldn't want to be around someone who consorts with killers... but I'm glad it didn't go that way."

"Max..." Logan choked out after Max’s confession: a confession that had made her leave her seat at the table, and head towards the couch and large window behind it, that she’d stared at who knew how many times now? In her peripheral vision, Max could see Logan reach a hand towards her—and she only slightly flinched at it—which shocked her. Max had thought for sure that Logan would put on his Eyes Only persona here and wish to be judge, jury, and executioner, perhaps… but he wasn’t. Instead, tears seemed to sting at his eyes, and at had Max whirling around to face him again, completely taken aback.

"Max... while I'm glad that the situation didn't go that way, either, know that I would never judge you for that kind of stuff. …I know that Manticore made you do horrific things that you would never want to do... And I hope I've shown you how I will be by your side, no matter what."

Max supposed that Logan had shown that—and, in fact, all of the times that he’d saved her life recently began playing in her head—but she still wasn't sure that she trusted it. How many guys had told her that before, in just trying to ring the gong? But this was Logan.

"…Let's just eat," Max decided to simplify things, as she walked back to the dining room table—too enthusiastically, she knew—as she tried to stave off the awkwardness of this conversation. She didn’t quite know what to do with it.

And eat they did... quietly, like the night they had when she'd gone to save Zack from Manticore. And not wanting to go through that awful “date” again, Max finally found her voice again, as she complimented Logan on his cooking like usual. “Logan, this is great… And, God. I can’t even believe these words are about to come out of my mouth… but I don't just mean the food. Maybe- maybe we could try to be something together again... but I'd rather not do it in response to Ben's death."

And Logan wheeled over to Max and looked at her intently now… and it wasn’t unlike the expression he’d worn when he'd done that Eyes Only broadcast for her to save her sibs. Just why did he seem to care about her and them so much? What was in it for him? Max found herself pondering this, as she tried not to swoon in knowing the answer to all of these questions, even though she was still afraid to.

"And I would never ask you to, Max. I know science, and I know facts... and I know tragedy can sometimes push people into intimate settings with each other… and that when the dust settles, it isn’t real and never was.”

There wasn't any bitterness or self-loathing in Logan's voice as he told Max this, she noted. He really seemed to be all about her needs for the night... and it made Max love him all the more, even though she hated saying that word to herself, since Manticore had fucked her up good.

And just as it began to rain outside again—for the three-hundred-and-fifty-seventh time now, Max supposed—she looked over to Logan and told him without missing a beat, "And they also push you into the arms of someone you love."

And the couple watched the rain fall together, again, as the sun began to rise on Seattle. And this time, Max made a move as she laced her fingers with Logan’s and squeezed.

Author’s Note: This story was somewhat a doozy… because as much as I love Max and Logan, they’re always sort of hard to write. Because you want them to get together, of course, but you also want them to be in-character, and their in-character selves can be so bad at humaning with each other. So, it’s a tight line we fanfic writers for them walk, but hopefully this was decent and at least somewhat believable.

Also, I know in canon that Logan was horrified for a while about the murder Max was forced to do as a kid, but I feel the different situation in this AU could have made him respond differently here… and he did.