what is so special about mulder and scully? why does everyone call them the only otp?
I don’t even know where to start with this. I could write a dissertation on “what’s so special about MSR.”
On the superficial side of things, have you seen Mulder and Scully? They are two outrageously attractive people. The thought of them naked together is enough to make them special. And sexy, so incredibly sexy.
On the opposite side of the scale, you have the theological argument of them being soul mates. This has been beaten to death, so I won’t go into it. But they are, anon. They are.
I’m going to tell you why I think they are special to so many people. Bear with me.
We are all alone in this universe. No one else thinks our thoughts, feels our feelings, or sees the world in the same way that we do. Let that marinate for a moment. Your view of life and what it means is subjective. No one else shares it.
That is isolating.
Humans, by nature, are collectivist creatures. Aristotle said it best, “Man is by nature a social animal.” As people, we need to connect with others. We need a shared experience with which to base ourselves, some reassurance that our existence is noticed by another human being.
The problem is, getting someone else to see you, to know you, is exhausting. Hours of small talk and expositions about your life to someone who has bags of their own to carry. A view of the world they’ve shaped over many years gets in the way of really experiencing you. But we all try, oh do we try.
Sometimes, after all this work, we fall in love. Or we gain a best friend. A person who appreciates our individual life experience, our subjective view of the world. They get a piece of ourselves, after all that work.
But they still don’t truly get it. They never can.
Mulder and Scully didn’t have to engage in hours of small talk or exposition. Mulder and Scully communicated without words from the moment they met. They understood each other intrinsically in an instant. They each have a subjective viewpoint of the world, sure, but they respect the hell out of each other’s looking glass. They are able to access both views, their own and each other’s. Mulder is able to tell you exactly how Scully sees the world, with deadly accuracy, and Scully can do the same for Mulder. These two simultaneously experience life as themselves and as the other. They are one.
And isn’t that the ideal? Don’t we all wish we could exist with another human being without words? Knowing they understand us to the very core, never needing to explain the meaning behind our actions? Because they know. They know.
That’s the dream, anon. Mulder and Scully are the truest form of paired human existence. The ideal we all strive for and sometimes don’t even know we desperately want.
Mulder and Scully are the answer to all of the questions we are afraid to ask.
