PORNATHON.
Have been Thinking Thinky Thoughts about Things, thanks to Mith's post, and now I'm formulating ideas on gender and sexuality and how I view and use both in my work that might become an essay at some point.
Of course, lots of thinking along those lines also makes me think of porn. And when laylah puts up a pornmeme just as I'm thinking about all that. ( Read more... )
Of course, lots of thinking along those lines also makes me think of porn. And when laylah puts up a pornmeme just as I'm thinking about all that. ( Read more... )
And I know we've already talked a bit about how our views of the Solidors are a bit apart (I tend to emphasize their crazy, if only for the comic potential, and I know you get more into their power lust and the potential corruption that accompanies it) but I think the Vayne in my head isn't all about power. I mean, I certainly feel as though he's the sort of person who needs control and who is more than a little discomforted in losing it.
But I guess I can also see him (and Larsa, come to think of it) as people who are more than a little in love with their own cleverness... and how in the world could it possibly be clever to assert your own dominance over cowering and cowed subordinates, time and time again? So I see Vayne as pursuing Drace because he's so intrigued by her moral staunchness and wonders if he can fool her enough to make her think of him as far more righteous than he really is. And then Drace gets detached once she finds out what he's really capable of... and I don't see Vayne as the sort of person who can easily let go of a very valuable he would not say love, no never commodity...
Their dynamic has, I think the potential to be incredibly interesting: unhappy and angry and contemptuous... but always haunted by the ghost of what could have been if Drace had been less righteous and Vayne clever enough to keep her in the dark indefinitely. And if you want to see what I tried to do with Vayne/Drace, it's here. It's a strange little thing but I keep making fitful plans for a Drace!Lives AU fic with V/D in the background so... ::shrug:: We'll see.
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On the other hand, he's efficient. He's perfectly willing to kill people who get in his way, if it's the most efficient solution. So nuking Rabanastre in the beginning of the game is right out, because he's trying not to prove himself a tyrant, but getting rid of Drace, who's supposed to be part of his House's personal guard and yet appears quite ready to arrest and execute him? Yeah. Granted, he might not have the power to off a Judge Magister until he's Emperor, but I guess my point is that eventually Vayne will, in Archadian fashion, find out to get rid of the people who are proving themselves problematic. I think he did try to charm Drace at first, but I think she never bought it. I think she's very aware of who he is and what he's capable of doing, and while I think that makes for a very interesting dynamic -- as you do -- I don't see it as a sexual one. (Partially because I can't see Vayne-in-gametime having any kind of sexual congress where he's not in control, and he wouldn't be in control with Drace unless we really got into unpleasantness there, which - yeah, no.)
I think it's just something that stems from our different readings of the characters. *grin* But hey, as long as we're both having fun, no worries.
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