Culture Clash

[jessara40k]

Had a weird plot bunny that I posted in some other comms, and fantasia0829 suggested I should offer it up here too. I'm not writing this, but it was nagging at me yesterday.

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing: Cloud/Sephiroth or Cloud/Sephiroth/Zack
Rating: Any
Purpose: For adoption
Warnings: Anthropological bent?
Possible spoilers: No

Comments

[fantasia0829]

Hi! :D Sorry for doing this, but could you post this according to the comm rules? You can read it up here. It's just to keep the comm easy to navigate and clean. :D

Thanx!

~your friendly mod

[jessara40k]

Done, and my apologies. But not everyone reads the user profile before joining and posting in a comm, as you can see I don't, so it might be a good idea to post the rules in a permanent entry at the top of the comm, or at least put a link to them in the sidebar, if you can.

[fantasia0829]

Now that's a good idea. It didn't really occur to me. XDDD Thanx for the advice! :D And hope you get a good reponse from someone soon!

[jessara40k]

Glad it was useful. I have had one nibble over at myprettypuppet but she won't be able to work on it for a while, and the other commenter at ffvii_yaoi seems to have missed the point entirely.

[ninja_egg]

Wow, that's confusing. LOL. Why would they BOTH react to the other as female? Wouldn't Cloud react to Sephiroth as female, raised in a female-dominant society where feminine characteristics are encouraged? And then Sephiroth would think of Cloud as a chauvinist male, who's raised in a society where feminine characteristics are discouraged?

Ah, my brain!

[jessara40k]

Sephiroth was raised in a female dominated society, meaning that males there tended to act in similar ways to the way females act in the male dominated society Cloud was raised in, and vice versa. So Cloud not only has a delicacy of bone structure that can seem female, he also gives off the cues a woman from Sephiroth's society would, and Sephiroth gives off the cues a woman from Cloud's society would.

[jessara40k]

Wait, I see what you're thinking, you've assumed 'feminine' and 'masculine' characteristics are universal, whereas this bunny assumes that feminine and masculine are defined by culture.