Max/Liz
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| Pairing | |
|---|---|
| Pairing: | Max Evans/Liz Parker |
| Alternative name(s): | Dreamers, Chemists, Strawberries, Cherishers, Drebel, M/I |
| Gender category: | Het |
| Fandom: | Roswell |
| Canonical?: | yes |
| Prevalence: | very popular |
| Archives: | |
| Other: | See Liz/Zan for an alternate pairing of the characters. |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Max/Liz is a popular conventional couple of Max Evans and Liz Parker in the Roswell fandom and one of the main canon pairings in the Roswell television series and book series.
Fandom
In the beginning of the Max/Liz shipping days, various pairing names were used to refer to Max/Liz (see Alternate Names in profile) due to various sites and forum threads created around the pairing, however only one really seemed to stick since the beginning - Dreamer[1].
Max/Liz was the first shipper thread on Fan Forum, titled Cherishing Max & Liz[2].
Common Tropes & Fanon
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- Max and Liz being soulmates, as referred to by other characters and writers on the TV show.
- Max and Liz having a Romeo & Juliet relationship - the forbidden type since Liz was a human and Max was an alien/human hybrid clone of a king of another planet.
Types of Dreamers
The below is a classification of types of Max/Liz fans[3]:
- Snow Dreamers/Romantic Dreamers/Cherishing Dreamers - "who do not believe in cement but chaste romance."
- Amour Dreamers - "these are the Dreamers that believe in a passionate love between Max and Liz. As in, not necessarily chaste, but not quite as close to cementing as the Blush Dreamers."
- Blush Dreamers - "want passionate kissing and almost cementing but no cementing for awhile yet!!"
- Cement Dreamers/Sexual Dreamers - "who do want Max & Liz to cement but haven't quite reached the depths of depravity of the Guttercouchers!"
- Guttercouchers - "Not only do we want cement, but we'll turn every comment into a cement-related idea."
- Die-hard Dreamers - "Dreamers who believe in Max and Liz's love no matter what happens"
- Displaced Dreamers - "They're "Dreamers in the classic sense" but they explore other options when Max starts pissing them off. They bow to a Royal Court that consists of Liz as King, Kyle as Queen, and S2 Max as a royal toilet scrubber among other things..."
- Reject Dreamers - "the slightly more laid-back Dreamers of the Jason Behr boards"
- Spoiled Dreamers (aka SD) - "Deamers who couldn’t wait for Max and Liz to get back together so they read all of the spoilers"
- TNT Dreamers - "stands for Top-Notch Tolerance Dreamers, they make a point of not bashing Tess or other characters"
Fanworks
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Fanfiction
- Captive Hearts [1] by Breathless, This story begins right after the events of Sexual Healing, from season 1. Nothing that happened after Sexual Healing is relevant to this story. Max is not a king. Tess does not exist. There are no skins, or dupes or Graniliths. (Offline)
- The Home Series by EmilyluvsRoswell
- Denial Ain't Just a River by Applebylicious, Maxwell Evans and Elizabeth Parker. Best friends, roomates... and lovers?
- Out of the Woods, Legacy, Union, a series by kath7.
- The Bitter Dregs by Tasyfa, This is based on the false spoilers for the end of Season 3. The beginning bears a vague resemblance to part of Cookie2697's lovely fic, Hope Alone, for which I have obtained her permission to post this. I highly recommend HA as a wonderful read.
Art
Vids
- I Shall Believe by Lindsay Marie
- Just a kiss by kavitha
- A Thousand Years by theironist
- hey Don't Know About Us by theironist
Meta
Archives & Fannish Links
- Max/Liz works at AO3
- Max/Liz works at FFN
- Dreamer Idolatry, a LiveJournal community
- Roswell's Definitive Dreamer Dictionary
- Sweet Love
- I Shall Believe, fanfic archive (static)
- Deelicious Abyss, defunct fanfic archive
- Roswell the promise, defunct fansite
- Roswell Fanatics
- Dreamer's Home[2]
Resources
- Max/Liz ship manifesto by pepperjackcandy
- Dreamer section of Roswell Oracle
- Max/Liz at FanHistory
References
<references>
- ^ Dreamer History - the history behind the names of Max/Liz at Roswell Oracle.
- ^ Jerry D. posts on Cherishing M&L #619 announcing it to be the first shipper thread at Fan Forum. (March 20, 2007)
- ^ Types of Dreamers at Roswell Oracle