I'm in love!

[geoviki]

I have fallen for a new fandom.  It's been the bright spot of this awful week, to be honest.  Before I drop its specific name, I want to talk about the more universal facets that I think everyone still reading my LJ can relate to: both how and why we fall for a story and its characters, be it written or visual.

For me it's just like falling in

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[midnitemaraud_r]

Yay!! Oh, man, your 28 points! I blame Seimei for (almost) everything! And the rest I blame Ritsu! :-P It's easier that way. Yun Kouga took a really long hiatus, and we weren't sure she'd ever get back to it. I was convinced she'd leave everything hanging in the breeze. But I'm really glad Viz has taken up publishing the English manga volumes!

I didn't read that light novel (I know one of the scanlation teams translated it, or at least most of it), and I didn't even know about that first story with Soubi. Ha! You're more intense about it in two weeks than I've been in eight years! I can't wait for you to write some fic!

I think a lot of people shy away from Loveless because they're wary of the age difference. You know how people can be about "chan" in fandom. Even in most of the fic, they age Ritsuka up at least a few years. (LOL not me!) But I love it, and you're right about the tropes hitting hard. It's funny because in most of my fandoms I'm all about the light, fluffy, happy, humor ships. But in Loveless (and even an extent in Saiyuki, although I love the humor there too!) it's all about the hurt/comfort. And more hurt. That and I fell in love with Soubi in about five minutes. :-P

Yay! So excited! ♥ ♥ Welcome to the fandom! \o/

[geoviki]

The psychology of the messed-up-edness is pretty intense. Seimei is turning out to be quite the sociopath, and Soubi, who grabbed me fast too, is, in the words of Sarah McLachlan, "a beautiful, fucked-up man."

I've always been squicked by chan until now. Maybe because it really isn't classic romantic love or sexual attraction. How can it be when Soubi's never known love himself and Ritsuka's, well, 12. It's not played up as a true relationship as you and I would know it. There's that unexplained business of Soubi gaining power to fight from Ritsuka when they physically embrace. And Ritusuka said it best, you can't love someone because you were ordered to.

I have to let things mix around in my brain a bit more before I can actually write anything. But I suspect it will be dark. Or darker than my usual stuff.