!!!! AVATAR. WTF. also, writing meta!
So spreadnparanoia invited me over tonight for food and more of Avatar: the Last Airbender. We are now at the end of Season 2. I AM DEAD. What. what!!!!!! ZUKO. and my ship. and Zuko. and my ship, damn it. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
and Season 3 is not out on DVD. I AM SO FULL OF ANGST.
okay. flailing aside, I was commenting on some stuff to mad_rex tonight and it ( Read more... )
and Season 3 is not out on DVD. I AM SO FULL OF ANGST.
okay. flailing aside, I was commenting on some stuff to mad_rex tonight and it ( Read more... )
Damnit. ...ah, well, I need to sleep soon anyway...
I have found, just recently, that I kind of do prefer happy-ending pairings. Specifically, I want to see the happy endings that games (and, occasionally, other media) won't give me. This hit me again when I went searching for TWEWY fanfic earlier: everyone is writing Neku/Joshua, and no one is writing Neku/Shiki. Without getting into spoilery details, the biggest thing bugging me about this is that Neku/Shiki could very easily have a happy ending, while Neku/Joshua almost certainly will not. (Well, yes, Neku/Joshua being yaoi is also a factor. Because I am weak.)
I think it all comes down to wanting a feeling of closure. When a story of significant length leaves things hanging like that, it irks me. Hell, it probably doesn't even have to give me a happy ending - just an ending. This is probably one thing that's kept me going through certain games, anime, TV shows, comics, etc.: I want to know how the story ends. It may also have been one reason I had so much trouble writing, come to think of it; stopping points are tough to come by for me.
(On a side note: you don't think Cloud/Tifa has sharp edges? I thought they were practically walking on them in Advent Children...)
Having said that, the relationships that aren't that, the ones that are all about the here and now, are still interesting too. I'm not usually concerned with tearing the characters down, though I'm not exactly opposed to it. But the excitement and the tension of those types of encounters are really intruiging, and fun to read about. So I can see where you're coming from.
In the end, I may even agree with where you're coming from. The happy endings are what leave me smiling...but the unhappy ones are what leave me grinning. Hmm.
Um. Did I just blog in your blog? Sorry about that...
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The happy endings are what leave me smiling...but the unhappy ones are what leave me grinning. Yes. this. Exactly. Exactly. I'm all for candy in its proper time and place, but mostly I want something solid that my brain can chew on for a while.
The thing I find most interesting about the pairings that I ship most frequently are that they're usually canon or else strongly canon-suggested in some form or fashion; Locke/Celes, Edge/Rydia, Kain -> Rosa, Delita/Ovelia, Balthier/Ashe. Perhaps because I am lazy and have to do less work to justify putting them together?
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I'd like to think it's because the writers had those pairings in mind when they were writing those characters, and that it subtly influenced their personalities and made them naturally compatible in some way. This certainly works for Locke/Celes, and it might help explain why I find Squall/Rinoa so godawful (that writing was terrible). I'd like to think that, but...yeah, we're probably both just lazy. :)
(Another side note: See, this is (one of the reasons) why FF12 is so great. I found more for Basch/Ashe than I did for Balthier/Ashe. Now Balthier->Ashe, on the other hand...)
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My FF8 ship is Seifer/Squall or Seifer/Irvine. (The latter because they both remember and how horribly awful is that, and how much worse will it be when Irvine starts to forget?)
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