Isabel Lovelace/Renée Minkowski
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| Pairing: | Isabel Lovelace/Renée Minkowski |
| Alternative name(s): | minlace |
| Gender category: | Femslash, F/F |
| Fandom: | Wolf 359 |
| Canonical?: | no |
| Prevalence: | Popular |
| Archives: | AO3 |
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Isabel Lovelace/Renée Minkowski, commonly known as minlace, is the romantic pairing between Isabel Lovelace and Renée Minkowski from Wolf 359. It is the third most common relationship under the tag on Archive of Our Own.[1]
Canon
While initially distrustful of each other, the pair are shown to have a better relationship by season 3, after months of living together on the station during Episode 29: Pan-Pan, and following the arrival of a common enemy; the SI-5.
Over the course of season 3, their relationship grows as they collaborate, with the rest of the Hephaestus crew, to counter-coup the SI-5. In Episode 43: Persuasion, Lovelace helps to save Minkowski when she's in danger.[2] In Episode 46: Boléro, Minkowski struggles to process Lovelace's death, imagining a conversation between them, and making a speech about Lovelace at the funeral.[3] Following the reveal that Lovelace is an alien, Minkowski does not question her motivations or knowledge of the situation, and instead trusting Lovelace to take command of the Hephaestus, not believing herself capable of being in charge after her actions in Episode 45: Desperate Measures.
Throughout season 4, they maintain a close relationship, leading the crew as a team. In the finale, they work to take down Cutter together.
Though Minkowski is married in canon, her relationship with her husband is rarely mentioned, though generally assumed to be good. She attempts to send messages to earth for him several times throughout the early seasons, but it is soon revealed that he, along with the general population, believes the Hephaestus crew to have perished in a shuttle crash during mission launch.
Fandom
In Episode 50: The Hiccups Method, the treadmill scene is viewed as a ship moment.[4][5]
Many fanworks set during the events of canon ignore, or skirt around the topic of Minkowski's husband. Post-canon works are more likely to address him, usually by having the couple separate in an amicable divorce, or sometimes with a three-way relationship between the characters.
Minkowski is commonly headcanoned as bisexual,[6] where Lovelace is more often portrayed as a lesbian.
Examples:
- A compilation of Minlace script moments by vonkarma2 on tumblr
- MINLACE REAL (audio) by bzoup on tumblr
Fanworks
Fanart
- oh, go on then by chitinleg on tumblr - a minlace comic
- by chaosdoodles on tumblr
- minlace by vlasdygoth on tumblr
- Smoochin’ in zero g. <3 by dynamicalsystemsandchaos on tumblr
Audio
- Every time Minkowski and Lovelace have said each other’s names by captain-lovelace on tumblr
Meta
- Minlace Injury Parallels by captain-lovelace on tumblr
References
- ^ https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Isabel%20Lovelace*s*Ren%C3%A9e%20Minkowski/works
- ^ https://wolf359radio.libsyn.com/episode-43-persuasion
- ^ https://wolf359radio.libsyn.com/episode-46-bolro
- ^ https://www.tumblr.com/skoople/187308528245/lovelace-voice-if-shes-your-girl-then-why-is-she?source=share
- ^ https://captain-lovelace.tumblr.com/post/171847779333/wolf-359-au-where-everything-is-the-same-except
- ^ https://www.tumblr.com/aihera/167937297918/aihera-all-yall-looking-at-canonically-married?source=share