Why I am a House/Cuddy fan

‘You are always gonna be the most incredible man I’ve ever know’
‘I love you’

I think I root for House and Cuddy, because Cuddy has exactly the same reaction and feeling towards House as I do. I identify with her because, like me, she sees him and thinks, “brilliant!” and believes that that kind of genius overshadows absolutely everything else about him. Even the ugliest thing about him is exalted to a tragic flaw because he’s (almost) always right, because he saves lives, because he’s genius.

Cuddy is a deeply serious fanwoman. And like any good fanwoman, she knows and cares for everything about House, sometimes despite herself. She stands up for his genius. She stands up for him. She means it when she says she doesn’t want him to change. Nothing could diminish or improve his genius.

And anybody who’s been in some semblance of love knows, sometimes being loved in exactly the right way is more than enough. This is exactly the right way House needs to be loved and House loves her back for all that she is - smart, strong, competent, funny, bootilicious (House is such a feminist in his taste) - and the complete way she knows him. It scares him precisely because she is the closest thing to the solution to the riddle of his misery. If he blows this, then he is totally hopeless, even more hopeless than he had originally believed. He’s afraid that the fanwoman will one day realize that he is not worthy of her love. He’s afraid that once he isn’t genius in her eyes, he will cease to be genius altogether.