Okay, I'm going to need more info on the Ian/Alan/Ellie OT3 agenda because it never occurred to me before and that suddenly seems like a crime
This is a million years late, but. Some Facts:
1) Ian Malcolm is into Ellie Sattler the first time he sees her face. He /falls/ for her the first time he sees her Science.
2) Alan Grant yellingĀ āIan! Freeze!ā is the exact moment that Alan realizes that he is doomed to want to protect this mega-annoying quasi-scientist forever and ever amen, and that eventually this is going to Backfire in Spectacular Ways.
3)Ā "Kids get scaredā /Ā āWhatās to be scared about? Itās just a little hiccup in the powerā / āI didnāt say I was scaredā / āI didnāt say you were scaredā / āI knowā
4) IanāsĀ ādamn, girlā and AlanāsĀ āthatās my girlā faces, respectively, atĀ āwomen inherit the earthā
5) Ellie legitimately appreciating just how hot Ian Malcolm is, and Alan never acting even the slightest bit jealous until he pushes back a little when Ian checks to see if sheās ~~available~~
6) They all have TERRIBLE self-preservation instincts, but I will be truly and utterly damned before you can convince me that Alan is not, by the end of the movie, Fully Prepared to Risk Life and Limb to Save His Dumb Boyfriend and His Perfect Girlfriend (even tho his gf will def save him first)
7) Ellie refusing to go for the gun because she refuses to leave the door because she knows Alan canāt hold it on his own, and maybe sheāll be fast enough to kill the raptor but she knows she wonāt be fast enough to save Alan
8) Ian Malcolmās laugh-growl is Enough To Turn AnyĀ āStraightā Man into a Ā Bisexual Man (and also for the record Alan Grant has neverĀ been straight hduĀ that kid had the biggest crush on Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones, WHERE DO YOU THINK THE HAT CAME FROM, that boy is a solid 3, heās just a chill 3, Ian, NOT EVERYBODY HAS TO WEAR BLACK LEATHER IN 80 DEGREE WEATHER AND WEAR SHIRTS THAT TIGHT OKAY, he is a Paleontology Bisexualā¢ okay)
9)Ā āthe next ex-Mrs.-Malcolmā okay buddy we know youāre looking for the next ex-Mr-or-Mrs-Malcolm and literally at this point you are definitely curious about if anyone on this island wants to be next ex-Dr-Malcolm bc you are getting a definite thing for doctors, kiddo
10) Ftr there is not one point in the movie where Ian Malcolm is not looking at Ellie without either Severe Interest or Extreme Awe
11) Alan is the same except also add Long Suffering Fondness because lordy she gives that boy a run for his money and HER LAUGHING AT HIM WHEN SHE SENDS THE KIDS AT HIM IS JUST A THING OF TRUE AND UTTER BEAUTY (as are all the other times she laughs at him, she laughs at him a LOT, their love is Pureā¢)
12) Ian Malcolm would take True Offense if I say him being involved would make their love more pure, so letās just say it would definitely make it more interesting
13) Real Talk: The thing about OT3s that are so great is how they bring out different sides in different people, and obviously canon only works in the scope of the movie, but there is enough in there to pull out so many threads of maybe-could-be-would-beās. Ā Some of those are:
- Ellie canonically likes teasing Alan, and Alan is canonically grumpy but fond about it all. Ā Ian definitely likes pushing things off shelves to see what happens, so there is no way that he would not pull Alan dramatically out of his comfort zone, but I also believe, given Alanās talk of adaption, the way that he is so protective of those he loves (and those he so quickly falls for like Lex and Timmy), and the dumb, dumb half smile he gets sometimes, that he wouldnāt not only enjoy Ian knocking him off-balance, but that he would also give as good as he gets
- Ian is a FLIRT, gosh heās a flirt, but yāknow what???? Ellie enjoysĀ it. And Alan is likeā¦.actually real okay with it?? Like heās not grumbling about her flirting back or whatever, heās p confident in her, and also heās dealing with her, yāknow, throwing small children in his path. But what are the chances that Alan is a romantic??? Like, deep down he obviously is. He probably is planning on, like, making her a ring or something. But Ian is an outwardĀ romantic, and heāll plan dinners and heāll make Alan wear a tie and heāll make dinner and heāll be so great at seduction, you guys. He will be so great at that. Alan will likely be fairly grumpy about this, too, but you know what????? He will also probably do something devastatingly romantic to the both of them, because heās more of a still-waters-run-deep kinda guy, and you know - you just knowĀ - heās gonna fucking buy them a house or something. Something absurd. You just know it.
- Ellie is a girl that gets what she wants. You saw how she went after trying to convince Alan how great a baby would be???? You saw her staying with the sick Triceratops??? Ā Tenacious is the word. Ā And āyou have no ideaā is the response of the man who is head over heels for her. Ā If she gets it into her head that theyād make a great OT3, you know sheād do a lot of the legwork.
- Speaking of which, Ellie is the one who is going to invite Ian out to dinner when theyāre stuck in hotels being interviewed/interrogated/giving their statements to every possible government organization that can get away with getting involved. Because Ianās finally out of the hospital, and Alan keeps jerking every time a bus drives by their window, and she canāt have the bathroom door shut because sheās sure thereāll be a raptor in there if she has to open it. Ā Ellie is the one that gets Ianās phone number (just in case you ever get boredĀ Ian says when he offers it up, but even then sheās sure that his eyes skimming the room are intending the words for more than just her). Ā Ellie is the one that letās Ian sleep in their bed because heās not used to the elevation their dig is currently at and got too drunk too fast, and when Alan complains she tells him their bed is plenty big enough for the two men (itās not) and that she needs to finish her job applications anyway (turns out dark fields and decaying bones are holding less appeal to her these days when every sound carried in the night sounds like footsteps of creatures that shouldnāt be alive but are-are-are). Ā Ellie is the one that leans her shoulder in the doorway at three a.m. and looks at them lying there, close together and still, somehow, continents away. Ā But maybe that can change. Maybe distances can be breached. Sixty-five million years ago and today have, after all.Ā
Anything at all can and will happen.
The thing about them is this:
There are a hundred thousand ways for them to get together, but all of them are due to the fact that they make more sense together than apart.
