My fangirlish pairing rant: [link]

Oh look, another unconventional pairing. |D; This is becoming a bad habit of mine.

Historically they WERE married, and quite young in fact I think. So I purposely made them look like they were in their mid-teens or something here. Like...their parents arranged it instead of Kocoum asking for her hand...so here they are sizing each other up. XDDD

Prompt Table: [link] Theme 017: Accept It done for the Fanart50 [link] challenge over at LJ.

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<sub>Now Disney's Pocahontas wasn't my fave movie as a kid, but I've always held a soft spot for Kocoum. Now mind you, I never loved/hated him as a kid; he was just there. XD

But watching the movie now, when I'm older, I can see that while he did have an expression like a constipated stone half the time, he was a good man - protective and loyal and flawed. He was serious, sure, but you tell me what man isn't after recently coming home from a war. |D

As such it irks me to see his character bastardized into a male, chauvanistic pig in what little fanfic he appears in. WTF.

Have you seen the initial draft opening for the movie? He was adorable! [link]

This is one of the few times I've gone against Disney's "canon pairings", I dunno, I often sit back and think 'He should have gotten the girl.' John Smith was cool, don't get me wrong, I loved his sense of humour and John Rolfe was a bit of a ponce...but Kocoum was more man than either of them. XDD</sub>

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OMG HET? WTF ME. Yeah, Kocoum/Pocahontas is my unconventional Disney pairing. w00t. |D It's probably just me...again. But I like the idea of the challenge that could make this pairing work, AU or otherwise.

There is much fun to be had with a silent warrior and a free-spirited princess. I've always thought it unfair that Poca never gave him a chance or got to know him before writing him off. Things could have been very different. Man I haven't been this in love with a het pairing in YEARS How amusing.

That and this AMV brought me to tears: [link]

I'm very tempted to do fic now. This pairing needs more love. X) Rare pairings FTW.

PS. I don't care if you like John Smith/Poca or John Rolfe/Poca better than Koco/Poca, cos frankly I don't mind those pairs either.

I just think a lot more fun could be had with THIS pairing. 8D

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Pocahontas (c) Disney Studios
This pic (c) Schreiend 2008