I’ve been binge-watching Outlander over the last few weeks, and I’ve just gotta pause for a moment and say that there is something about Jamie and Claire Being A Team that really does it for me.
Sure, the sex scenes are great, but you know what’s also great? Jamie and Claire doing espionage together in France. Jamie being Claire’s surgical assistant when needed. Claire creating a distraction so Jamie can release a kid from the pillory. Jamie and Claire defending their house from a lynch mob with nothing but a shitload of guns and a kitty-cat.
My favorite fictional couples are the ones that are teammates before anything else (see the Battle Couple trope), and Claire doing a hernia repair in the foyer of a theater to distract everyone while Jamie sneaks out to warn his godfather of an impending ambush will never NOT be sexy to me.
