The meme!
As I have promised to , I sat down and wrote this meme write after I came back from my 10-day vacation. It's the one I first saw done by blurry19 then finally got around to ask for from xploded_tb. For this you: ♥ Reply with "It's over 9000!" and I'll give you four fandoms. ♥ Write about your favorite character from each fandom. These are what I got :D
1) Twelve Kingdoms: Taiki/ Kouri - Kaname Takasatou
Aw.. tough decision already. The thing about TK is that the characters are not just great by themselves but have interesting interactions that really make the story ship. After a (short) debate I finally come down to Taiki because his 10-years-and-ongoing cliff-hanger makes my heart ache whenever I think of TK =(.
Fanart from members.jcom.home.ne.jp/theknights/
My reason is sympathy and anticipation. In his first book in TK, Taiki is young, innocent; he barely has any knowledge about himself and the world of 12 kingdoms. He remains an adorable and unselfish child throughout this short period in the care of people who understand and help him with adapting into being a kirin. Compared to the main characters of other storylines, the young Taiki is quite… boring. This turns out to be Fuyumi Ono’s biggest character built-up in the series so far, as she gives us in detail the hardships Taiki endures after the disappearance of Gyousou. He is no longer a child; and despite still knowing not much about surviving in this world, he is calm and quite self-reliant (meaning we can trust that he will go seek for help when he need to, unlike one branch of the stubborn character cliché). The young Taiki thinks he is useless to those around him when he can’t get his kirin power to manifest; the old Taiki, on the other hand, goes back to Tai to find Gyousou even though he doesn’t have any power. I really really want to see how these changes in his character will fix the situation. I hope he will be happy again, because he deserves to be happy, although I doubt he will be able to laugh brightly like he did 6 years before.
Besides, the relationship between Gyousou and Taiki is nice. Of the four monarchs focused in the series, Gyousou is the most gentle and caring toward his kirin, not to mention he likes to keep Taiki around, while for other couples it’s more about kirins sticking closely to their masters. As a slasher, I can’t help notice them more XD. Rokuta and Shouryuu is fun together and have a remarkably lovely marriage of 500 years and counting; but they don’t show their care toward each other (they don’t worries about each other very much really, best conversations though), and Rokuta’s 11 years old physical appearance is just… a little hard for someone who don’t read shota like me… Taiki’s 17-18 year’s old so him and Gyousou together is more appealing, haha XD.
That’s one big rant, now off to the next one:
2) Aitsu no Daihonmei: Yoshida
The obvious, of course. Can you look straight into my eyes or, if you don’t dare to, look straight at your screen and say that you love this manga like no other and follow it like a craze because you like the gorgeous and gentlemanlike and all-spot-light-on-me character named Satou?
If your answer is yes, then I’m sorry but you have very high chance of ending up the way countless girls who worship Satou does in the manga. Don’t say later that I didn’t warn you.
The reason is simple, Yoshida has good spirit, is fun, humble but not abnormally unselfish or ignorant about romance, not intelligent but practical and has common sense. A most realistic uke for the outrageous seme type that readers have been waiting for for quite a while.
In short, without him prince Satou is miserable; with him the world has one less jerk to deal with. Yoshida is our (sacrificing) hero. (Okay I should stop now). *Note on picture: yes, I think he's cool that way.
3) Junjou Romantica: Hiroki
I would interpret this as including the whole Junjou verse just so that I can choose Hiroki XD. The reason is, ehm, there’s no one else I can choose…. *averts eyes*. I read the Junjou series because it’s crazy and it’s full of crazy people (without the people part it’ll just be another giant Opera bar of soap…), but I choose Hiroki because although he is always desperate and highly violent, as the story progresses he doesn’t become madder, just… explores his old madness (this explanation is going nowhere, I know).
For another try, I ‘d say that all aggressive people in the Junjou verse (Usagi, Nowaki, Shinobu, Isaka) have some serious personality problems. Hiroki is the only partner that have just enough abnormality for me to not feel sorry for his ending up with the guy the author gave him (Misaki and Miyagi literally stray out of the common sense world for their lovers) or for the angst he gets because the respective partner doesn’t have the right sort of craziness (yes, I’m talking about Asahina…)
Make sense of what I wrote as you can, I’m at your mercy =]]]].
Cain Saga - Count Cain/ Godchild: Riff
Blurry has very kindly let me choose my own fandom so I draw back to one of my oldest fangirl crush - Count Cain and his man servant plus butler Riff. Riff is the type of gentleman girls like to marry and fangirls like to see getting matched up. Drama, tragedy, angst, undying loyalty and yearning from both sides are the reasons I gave my love to this couple. And they look good together too.
Note on picture: why picking a picture that doesn't show Riff's face? Because I think this one show them well - we don't know who is hiding behind who here :).