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.
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Drace/Vayne, please? And... consensual sex, I hope?
I keep wanting to write a Drace!Lives! series based on these two, after writing the Stages of Love meme thingy with theme. Tell me I'm not a total fool for kinda-sorta shipping these two? They kind of strike me as a bizarroverse version of Penelo/Larsa... but with more homicide involved!
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Hmm. Could be interesting. I -- have a very specific context under which I enjoy Drace/Vayne, because anything with Vayne asserting power over her squicks me right out, and Vayne is all about power, sooo. It really has to be when he's a lot younger and still developing the Solidor Smooveness. But it could be interesting, yes.
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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 ( ... )
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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 ( ... )
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Zack/Aeris, "reunion."
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