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  jetgirl78:

  50 Favorite OTPs: John Luther/Alice Morgan - Luther

  Alice: Yes, you do. “The mind is it’s own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” The universe isn’t evil, John. It’s just indifferent. That hasn’t changed. It can’t. But what I did for you proved something to me. Something I hadn’t… believed until that moment.
  John: What?
  Alice: It’s you who’s right. There is love in the world.

  It probably says a lot about me that this relationship intrigues me so much, but I can’t help it. DCI John Luther meets Alice Morgan during the murder investigation of her parents. It become apparent that Alice Morgan committed the crime, but John Luther just can’t prove it. All great love stories should have a “meet cute” like this. In Alice Morgan, John Luther finds his equal and his opposite, the Catwoman to his Batman. He understands Alice in a way that she has never been understood before which, of course, peaks Alice’s interest in John. Because John knows exactly who she is and what she has done, she drops all pretense and just is herself around him, a luxury that Alice has probably never been afforded. John Luther isn’t scared of what he sees in the deep abyss that is Alice. Alice sees that same abyss in John. Luther is so consumed by doing right by the victims of violent crimes that he allows himself to do the wrong things. Alice and John are both so focused, so driven that it blinds them to consequences even though they are driven by completely different traits - Alice by an absence of morals, Luther by a strict code of them. This is why they are drawn to each other. I adore that their relationship is developed throughout series one through conversations. In Alice, Luther finds someone he can just talk to, unguarded, about the things that haunt him. He finds himself trusting Alice more and more. By the end of the series, trusting a killer that has never lied to you because vitally important when up against a best mate who has lied to you about everything. Their relationship boils down to trust and honesty and because that is so strong, it defies all the logic that says they shouldn’t be. One of the other aspects of this relationship I love is that it plays with some very basic notions of love and turns them on their head. Alice and John see each other for exactly who they are. Exactly. Yet, because they are on opposite sides of the law and of the spectrum, it becomes an impediment to their relationships. Also, I also love that Alice would do anything for John and with a figure like Alice Morgan … a “I’d do anything for you” statement of love is just about the scariest thing she could ever say because we all know - and John is painfully aware - that she means it. When he calls upon her help at the end of series two, we know the threat John makes that Alice might visit his nemesis is very real. Alice Morgan would come and kill you in the middle of the night to make sure you don’t hurt John. It’s frightening and … dare I say it … romantic. The show has used a lot of space/physics metaphors - matter/anti-matter, blackholes and such - and I feel like this describes John and Alice. Their relationship has its own gravity, they are two cosmic bodies in constant orbit, forever together yet forever apart and if they do ever collide, the universe would shake with a release of energy so great, it would destroy everything, but what an awesome destruction it would be. With the series officially renewed for another series, I have no idea what will happen between these two. Will their cosmic, gravitational dance go on forever or will they collide? Your guess is as good as mine.

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