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[redbrickrose]

lafemmedarla asked about Lindsey/Eve.

I . . . ummm . . . love Lindsey/Eve. (I'm so ashamed). Not because of what they are, but because of what they should be. I have this thing about evil-in-love (or even morally-ambiguous-in-love) I like it when characters are shades of gray and clever and manipulative and they run around being clever and manipulative and

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[lizzygir3]

Thanks for the answer. True villains are never really fun when they are bad just for the sake of being bad. Even Satan, at least in most stories, has a motive for becoming evil.

I also like my villains in love with each other.

It does add an extra spicy touch. Though I think my kink is having them be in love with the heroes, I blame it on my love for messy relationships.

[redbrickrose]

Right, I don't find pure villains any more interesting than I find pure heroes. I like shades of gray and struggle.

Sorry if my answer to you seemed kind of abrupt. I was trying to tie it in with what I was saying above about the het!fic kink, and I think that really, I like my villains in love with each other because it shows a side that, in theory at least, is ambiguous because it makes them show emotion.

Though I think my kink is having them be in love with the heroes, I blame it on my love for messy relationships.

I like that too, though in that case I'm a sucker for it in slash, but I have to be invested in both characters to really go for it in het. huh. That had not occurred to me until you said that. I wonder what that means.

[lizzygir3]

I like that too, though in that case I'm a sucker for it in slash, but I have to be invested in both characters to really go for it in het. huh. That had not occurred to me until you said that. I wonder what that means.

Well if you go for it because of the messy factor as do I, maybe it has to do with the fact that slash-ships are the little bit more complicated right from the beginning because we still think of them as tabu somehow.

But if you are invested in both characters the factors that are making the relationship problematic seem more important and voila it gets more messy.

Naturally if you're attracted to good on evil (or vice versa :-)) for a totally different reason then I've got no idea.

[redbrickrose]

The messiness does appeal some, I think. Also, in a lot of cases if it's a het ship, then the villain being in love with the hero is already something being dealt with for the sake of dramatic tension. In a slash 'ship, we know that it would be dealt with in a het ship, but it isn't being dealt with in that particular way, so we have to deal with it ourselves. If, umm, that makes sense.

[lizzygir3]

No, it totally does. You get more out of it in a fannish way. Never thought about that.