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past & present in reference to root - (shaw’s version)(root’s version)

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A friend once told me, in our line of work, we walk in the dark. Doesn’t mean we have to walk in it alone.

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You think I was damaged? Some… childhood trauma? That is so sweet.

#person of interest #harold finch #root #sameen shaw #john reese #their childhoods were just so sad...

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#terra incognita #and then a year later they tell her she doesn't belong at a wedding!? #root #how dare they! she always belongs at a wedding

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Root just BLEW my mind back in the day.

I had NEVER seen a female character be openly flirty with another female character on a major network. First of all, rarely saw openly flirty female characters, it was usually subtle on tv. But to have one direct that energy at another woman? And not as a joke but with just enough fluff mixed in to show the interest was genuine and there was feelings attached? Blew my mind at the time. I had only ever seen this dynamic between het pairings and always with the flirty man.

Even when you have canon wlw characters on major networks they rarely are shown to have attraction to other women, or check them out or flirt with them. I think that has a lot to do with how queer women walk through real life as well. Like we can't show that part of our queerness because it'll make people uncomfortable. We mute it. Sometimes, out of concern for our safety but usually because it's what's socially acceptable from us.

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root + smiling at shaw in mors praematura

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Amy Acker as Root in PERSON OF INTEREST (2011-2016)

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Rumour had it that the underworld’s most elite assassin was taken out by the so-called “Man in the Suit”. But I always figured you were too clever to be done in by some gun for hire.

#root #i love her

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Sameen Shaw

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang

hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | Hufflepuff

I’ve seen her sorted as a (burnt) Badger Lion and I’d agree.

best quality: can be summed up in the “a good soldier does both” moment (getting the job done AND revenge) -with its callback when she kills Root’s assassin in the finale. I love a woman who can have her cake and eat it too sometimes xDD

worst quality: huh?

ship them with: Root, The Machine.

brotp them with: Bear, Reese, Fusco... all of Team Machine really.

needs to stay away from: she can handle herself, it’s everyone else who should think twice xDD

misc. thoughts: she really had an AMAZING character intro. One of the best I’ve seen imo.

#sameen shaw #relevance really is the best character into!

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shoot rewatch  »  waiting for her to figure out what you really meant was, i’m crazy about you

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Miss Shaw, you know something about this?

#poi 3.08 #Shaw's face when Harold guessed correctly kills me #but also... she had to have known they'd figure it out eventually

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look i get that sometimes characters dying is like good for the story or whatever but consider. i want them all to be alive and have family dinners together. check and mate

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Root, no offense… you’re hot. You’re good with a gun. Those are two qualities I greatly admire. But you and me together would be like a four alarm fire in an oil refinery. 

Sounds cozy.

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#sameen shaw #person of interest #i love John so much but I would have let Shaw shoot him for that if she wanted to

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#shaw’s development with root will forever give my chest literal pains okay? #it took her like 3 seasons and a half to get to the point where she didn’t wanna kill her anymore but instead care for her as much as she could #mind you this all happened over various eps so it took TIME #but just seeing shaw go from pure hatred for root to essentially choosing root’s life over hers??? #i’ve never seen a better transition and i’m talking about it forever

#shoot #their relationship arc makes me cry #and you also see how their character arcs become so much better because of it and just... AHHHH!!!!!