Is it awful of me to hope that Harry is one of the two slated for death? Just so that I could see the fandom explode? I was holding out hope for the "Rocks fall and everyone dies" ending, but barring that
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I really want to, but I don't even have the system, much less the games. I keep promising myself that after I graduate and it won't matter that I'm a goldfish, I'm going to blow a paycheck on all the games I've been hearing about and play for weeks.
I do like Kyouya/Tamaki. They call each other mommy and daddy. Tamaki started it and Kyouya played along with him. That was enough to make me look at them more closely. The chapters where they first meet and become friends...I mean, how many people have seen Kyouya lose his cool? How many people have made him lose it? The face Tamaki shows is always 100% honest, but how many people have seen what Kyouya sees? They're two people who have a difficult time getting really close to other people, but they're close to each other.
I'm in a weird place with Ouran. Normally, I jump on slash pairings, but because I like Haruhi so much I focus on shipping her with everyone. I'm not a fan of Tamaki/Haruhi unless it's done exactly the right way, but Kyouya would make it an interesting. Plus, he'd add the possibility of hilarious alliances. I can see Kyouya and Haruhi playing off of each other to tease Tamaki. Or Tamaki and Haruhi versus Kyouya.
Are you getting your computer back soon? if not, I can mail you the episodes. Plus Haruhi and Detective Academy Q (I will get you to watch it!) and the hilarious PV of the Jyu-Oh-Sei opening theme. Becky, I kid you not, they're dancing in a circle in the jungle.
I know I kept saying I was going to rent a PS2 console and rent some games (only rent KHII by itself, it will EAT YOUR LIFE for about a week), but I probably wasn't going to until the nephew got one and then I said OH WELL MIGHT AS WELL. Also? Walkthroughs are MEANT to be abused and followed along religiously. Setting the game on "easy" also helps a LOT.
I admit, a lot of my Ouran shipping comes from liking Kyouya best of all. When I try to ship Tamaki with anyone else, a part of me quails and goes, "But what about Kyouya?" I really think a part of Kyouya is kinda a little in love with Tamaki, he gets a certain look on his face around Tamaki, he seems much more interested in Tamaki than anyone else, he'll do things for Tamaki that he wouldn't for anyone else. He's not even annoyed when Tamaki looks at him with tearful eyes and whines Kyouya's name to get him to show him to his room at Nekozawa's mansion.
It's sort of the same thing with Mori/Haruhi. I like Haruhi so very much and when I stop and look at the series through her perspective and think, "Who would be good for Haruhi? Not who she would be good for." and the answer is always Mori. It's getting around the whole thing with Hunny that confuses me because I don't know that Mori could hurt Hunny (even just by making someone else more important) that way.
They couldn't work out as a threesome like Kyouya/Tamaki/Haruhi could. (Which is one of those few threesomes that would actually be balanced, you can make a case for all three sides/pairings in it.) Which would be delightful fun for those exact reasons--imagine Tamaki and Haruhi ganging up on Kyouya because he doesn't get enough hugs? (Which Haruhi would mostly do in a passive aggressive evil streak that she's developing because of the twins.) Or Kyouya deliberately winding Tamaki up so Haruhi will flatten him because it amuses Kyouya?
My biggest problem with that threesome, though, is that it's difficult enough to bend realism in such a series towards a gay pairing, much less a threesome. Kyouya and Tamaki are important people who will be running important businesses. (Though, I do think that... Tamaki being a Suoh... Tamaki doesn't care about that sort of thing, whatever Tamaki wants, Tamaki gets.) I worry that it couldn't stand up to the characters being apart once high school is over. Kyouya and Tamaki are heading for a vastly different world from Haruhi.
I also worry that the dynamics would be off. However insightful Haruhi is, she doesn't share in their history--volume 6 is practically all about that, showing just how much she doesn't realize about them yet, constrasted directly against that scene where Kyouya and Tamaki share a quiet moment together and Kyouya says afterwards he'll deign to let Tamaki do him the great favor of showing him the best commoners' eating places. True, they've only been friends for a few years, but they have an established history by the time Haruhi comes around and I'm not sure that wouldn't clash against her, even as smart as she is.
Plus. Okay. Maybe I just really want Mori/Haruhi and Kyouya/Tamaki. (Though, I'm not opposed to Kyouya/Haruhi at all. I think he's probably the one member of the club who isn't really that affected by her and it fascinates me. All his major scenes with her are about Tamaki or about assessing her on behalf of the club, always figuring out where she stands and what she's going to do, rather than his interest being piqued.)
(I really don't understand why Tamaki/Haruhi doesn't appeal to me. Even before I watched the anime--though, the anime's overemphasis on the pairing to the point of completely and totally changing the manga's tone and pacing has certainly made me even less charitable towards it--something about it didn't click right with me. Maybe it's that Tamaki's always trying to make her girly and cute when that's just not Haruhi's nature. I'm not sure if he really likes her, which is strange because Tamaki's got good instincts. He's a total moron, but he's still a brilliant student and he knows people.)
(....which is why I like Kyouya/Tamaki so much. Because Kyouya is using him to get ahead with his father, but Tamaki knows Kyouya wouldn't ever cross a line. He lets Kyouya save Haruhi in the pool to go for the crown, who else would he have done that with? Tamaki's not stupid enough not to realize that Kyouya sets some of these things up, but he also knows that there's a good person under Kyouya's calculating exterior. And he's rewarded with a genuine friendship with Kyouya, I think he's probably the only one that Kyouya is genuinely affected by. That is what makes me want to ship them like crazy.)
Goodness. Abuse of parentheses and writing ship essays. Eh. Don't feel the need to respond, I just wanted to get that out of my system. *grin*
Anyway. The computer will probably be gone for about two more weeks, maybe a week and a half if I'm lucky. I would love to get a few series on CD/DVD, but only if you think it'd be worth the time since I'll be back to downloading in about two weeks. (I'm clawing at the walls for Gakuen Heaven 9+, Jyu-Oh-Sei 9+ if you have them? But please don't feel badly if you don't. I have up through... 37 of Detective Academy Q, I think? ....asdf;kjaldsfja, I am staring in awe at the jungle!dancing.)
Speaking of which, I have at least the first four YST DVDs burnt for you already. I should defintely be able to get 5 and 6 by the time I get my computer back. I'm not sure if any beyond that are posted, but I'll get as much sent your way as I can. >:D
AND NOW I HIT POST. (Crap, I went over the limit. Sorry.)
I do like Kyouya/Tamaki. They call each other mommy and daddy. Tamaki started it and Kyouya played along with him. That was enough to make me look at them more closely. The chapters where they first meet and become friends...I mean, how many people have seen Kyouya lose his cool? How many people have made him lose it? The face Tamaki shows is always 100% honest, but how many people have seen what Kyouya sees? They're two people who have a difficult time getting really close to other people, but they're close to each other.
I'm in a weird place with Ouran. Normally, I jump on slash pairings, but because I like Haruhi so much I focus on shipping her with everyone. I'm not a fan of Tamaki/Haruhi unless it's done exactly the right way, but Kyouya would make it an interesting. Plus, he'd add the possibility of hilarious alliances. I can see Kyouya and Haruhi playing off of each other to tease Tamaki. Or Tamaki and Haruhi versus Kyouya.
Are you getting your computer back soon? if not, I can mail you the episodes. Plus Haruhi and Detective Academy Q (I will get you to watch it!) and the hilarious PV of the Jyu-Oh-Sei opening theme. Becky, I kid you not, they're dancing in a circle in the jungle.
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I admit, a lot of my Ouran shipping comes from liking Kyouya best of all. When I try to ship Tamaki with anyone else, a part of me quails and goes, "But what about Kyouya?" I really think a part of Kyouya is kinda a little in love with Tamaki, he gets a certain look on his face around Tamaki, he seems much more interested in Tamaki than anyone else, he'll do things for Tamaki that he wouldn't for anyone else. He's not even annoyed when Tamaki looks at him with tearful eyes and whines Kyouya's name to get him to show him to his room at Nekozawa's mansion.
It's sort of the same thing with Mori/Haruhi. I like Haruhi so very much and when I stop and look at the series through her perspective and think, "Who would be good for Haruhi? Not who she would be good for." and the answer is always Mori. It's getting around the whole thing with Hunny that confuses me because I don't know that Mori could hurt Hunny (even just by making someone else more important) that way.
They couldn't work out as a threesome like Kyouya/Tamaki/Haruhi could. (Which is one of those few threesomes that would actually be balanced, you can make a case for all three sides/pairings in it.) Which would be delightful fun for those exact reasons--imagine Tamaki and Haruhi ganging up on Kyouya because he doesn't get enough hugs? (Which Haruhi would mostly do in a passive aggressive evil streak that she's developing because of the twins.) Or Kyouya deliberately winding Tamaki up so Haruhi will flatten him because it amuses Kyouya?
My biggest problem with that threesome, though, is that it's difficult enough to bend realism in such a series towards a gay pairing, much less a threesome. Kyouya and Tamaki are important people who will be running important businesses. (Though, I do think that... Tamaki being a Suoh... Tamaki doesn't care about that sort of thing, whatever Tamaki wants, Tamaki gets.) I worry that it couldn't stand up to the characters being apart once high school is over. Kyouya and Tamaki are heading for a vastly different world from Haruhi.
I also worry that the dynamics would be off. However insightful Haruhi is, she doesn't share in their history--volume 6 is practically all about that, showing just how much she doesn't realize about them yet, constrasted directly against that scene where Kyouya and Tamaki share a quiet moment together and Kyouya says afterwards he'll deign to let Tamaki do him the great favor of showing him the best commoners' eating places. True, they've only been friends for a few years, but they have an established history by the time Haruhi comes around and I'm not sure that wouldn't clash against her, even as smart as she is.
Plus. Okay. Maybe I just really want Mori/Haruhi and Kyouya/Tamaki. (Though, I'm not opposed to Kyouya/Haruhi at all. I think he's probably the one member of the club who isn't really that affected by her and it fascinates me. All his major scenes with her are about Tamaki or about assessing her on behalf of the club, always figuring out where she stands and what she's going to do, rather than his interest being piqued.)
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(....which is why I like Kyouya/Tamaki so much. Because Kyouya is using him to get ahead with his father, but Tamaki knows Kyouya wouldn't ever cross a line. He lets Kyouya save Haruhi in the pool to go for the crown, who else would he have done that with? Tamaki's not stupid enough not to realize that Kyouya sets some of these things up, but he also knows that there's a good person under Kyouya's calculating exterior. And he's rewarded with a genuine friendship with Kyouya, I think he's probably the only one that Kyouya is genuinely affected by. That is what makes me want to ship them like crazy.)
Goodness. Abuse of parentheses and writing ship essays. Eh. Don't feel the need to respond, I just wanted to get that out of my system. *grin*
Anyway. The computer will probably be gone for about two more weeks, maybe a week and a half if I'm lucky. I would love to get a few series on CD/DVD, but only if you think it'd be worth the time since I'll be back to downloading in about two weeks. (I'm clawing at the walls for Gakuen Heaven 9+, Jyu-Oh-Sei 9+ if you have them? But please don't feel badly if you don't. I have up through... 37 of Detective Academy Q, I think? ....asdf;kjaldsfja, I am staring in awe at the jungle!dancing.)
Speaking of which, I have at least the first four YST DVDs burnt for you already. I should defintely be able to get 5 and 6 by the time I get my computer back. I'm not sure if any beyond that are posted, but I'll get as much sent your way as I can. >:D
AND NOW I HIT POST. (Crap, I went over the limit. Sorry.)
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