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tj_dragonbladeAlso took a poke or five at that fandom meme what's been making the rounds:
SAIYUKI
1. The first character I fell in love with: ...Probably Hakkai.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Zakuro, omg. It was really the filler chapter where Goku found him lost in the woods that did it. ♥
3. Thecharacter everyone else loves that I don't popular character who just doesn't grab me: Ukoku. I think it really boils down to just the fact that he's not Nii. See #5.
4. The character I love that everyone else seems to hate: I dunno - is anyone really widely 'hated' in the fandom? Kanan, maybe? I like her fine, but see many opinions directed toward her that I tend to think are terribly misplaced. Mm...Hazel doesn't seem terribly popular, but I don't really mind him. Not a favorite or anything, but he has his place and his moments and watching him verbally spar with Hakkai is fairly entertaining. ^_^ 'Pippi' caught a bit of flak from certain corners of the fandom, but I rather like her and what she did for Goku's character.
5. The character Iused to love but don't any longer don't love quite so much as I used to: Ukoku - which is to say, I loved Nii and all his mysterious quirks and eccentricities, but the more I see of who's really behind the facade, the less I find myself taking any interest in him. It's very very odd.
6. The character I would shag any time: ...maybe Kougaiji. His stomach is quite appealing, and the claws and the ears and such.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Hakkai, for his ability to manipulate people and situations in his favor, for being so affable and likeable and yet damned fucking scary at the same time, for commanding both such fear-respect and such loyalty in those around him. He could be a very powerful man, had he the ambition to do so, and I'd rather like to have that sort ofpower poise and control. ^_^; Alternately, I'd like to approach life with the same open-honest simplicity that Goku does, with his ability to bounce back from whatever befalls him and enjoy to the fullest whatever pleasures cross his path. Alternately again, I'd love to lead with the grace that Kougaiji shows and inspire the same loyal devotion - plus, fire-demon summoning. That could come in very handy.
8. The character I'd slap: Gyokumen, primarily on account of dangling Kou's mother like a carrot before him and treating her own daughter as someone else's labrat.
9. A pairing that I love: Jiipu/Hakkai.
10. A pairing that Ihate am not particularly into: Sanzo paired romantically/relationship-wise with anyone but Goku - ymmv, but my sense of his character balks at reconciling itself to him allowing that sort of emotional attachment aside from Goku. Hard for me to buy into him allowing casual sexual encounters outside of Goku, also, but I can work with my disbelief and suspending it in favor of AUs and the occasional well-written exception.
11. Myfive favorite characters: Jiipu. Hakkai. Gojyo. Kou. Doku. Zakuro. Goku. Sanzo.
12. Myfive least favorite characters: Least favorite in terms of 'like to dislike/love to hate'? Mama Sha. Gyokumen. Iisou. Least favorite as in 'least interested in canon-based reading about'? Ukoku. Homura. Koumyou. AU fics using these guys, however, tend to be a whole 'nother ballgame.
13. Which character I am most like: One of the villagers in a random town who gets throwaway lines like 'Ahhh! *_* It's the Sanzo-ikkou!' and who screams and runs when the requisite Youkai attack happens.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I'd totally sex up Jiipu. In either form. Not that it's much of a secret by now.
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SAIYUKI GAIDEN
1. The first character I fell in love with: ...Probably Tenpou.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Goujun. I knew I liked him from the get-go, sure, but I didn't expect the obsessive degree that it's gotten to at points.
3. The character everyone else loves thatI don't just doesn't grab me: No one comes to mind. Homura doesn't really count as a Gaiden character, does he?
4. The character I love that everyone else seems to hate: Again, no one comes to mind.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: See #4. All the likeables in Gaiden have only gotten moreso as the story goes on.
6. The character I would shag any time: Kanzeon. Double your pleasure, and all that.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Kanzeon. Mostly on account of the hermaphrodite angle. And having a Jiroushin at my beck and call. And the all-seeing lotus pool. With koi. And being in a position/of a mindset to not give a damn what anyone really thinks about me. ^_^
8. The character I'd slap: Li Touten. Truthfully, I'd sooner do a bit more than slap, but.
9. A pairing that I love: Goujun/Tenpou
10. A pairing that Ihate am not particularly into: Goujun/Kenren with disciplinary tones. Not really my cup of tea, though even here I've read exceptions. Nothing's absolute.
11. Myfive favorite characters: Goujun. Tenpou. Konzen. Nataku. Kenren. Kanzeon. Goku.
12. Myfive least favorite characters: Li Touten. Li Touten's lackeys. That guy who engineered all the 'Natakus' with Li Touten. Anyone in the army who'd willingly follow Li Touten. The random courtly people who disapprove of Goku's exuberance. Whoever threw away Goku's dandelion wreath instead of giving it to Nataku. And Li Touten.
13. Which character I am most like: The koi in Kanzeon's pool. And possibly Jiroushin.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I have a huge kink for Goujun with reptilian genitalia and not-quite-human sexual behaviors. Again, not much of a secret.
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GUNDAM WING
1. The first character I fell in love with: Duo.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Wufei. He doesn't make a terribly good first impression, but he really grew on me over the course of the series and through fandom exploration.
3. Thecharacter everyone else loves that I don't popular character who just doesn't grab me: Heero, maybe - I like him far more than I used to, once I learned to see him on his own merit, but he'll never be my favorite.
4. The character I love that everyone else seems to hate: Wufei. He gets plenty of love from certain corners of the fandom, sure, but he gets plenty of hate from others.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: ...Zechs, maybe. I was enamoured of the pretty to begin with, but his personality as time went on just failed to hold my interest.
6. The character I would shag any time: ...probably Wufei.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Sally, I suppose - she seems very grounded and pragmatic and big-sisterly, and quite badass in her own understated sort of way.
8. The character I'd slap: Mariemaia, except Relena already did it. ^_^ So, Milliardo, right around the whole White Fang thing.
9. A pairing that I love: Duo/Wufei
10. A pairing that Ihate am not particularly into: Romantic/relationshippy Treize/Wufei.
11. Myfive favorite characters: Wufei. Duo. Trowa. Sally. The Manguanacs. Howard.
12. Myfive least favorite characters: ...See if I can remember their names and how to spell 'em. >_< Uh, Quinze. Tsubarov. The Milliardo side of Zechs. Dekim Barton. Mariemaia, though I expect she's much more palatable once out from under the thumb of the Barton foundation.
13. Which character I am most like: Relena's chauffeur - Pargan? Pagan? The spelling escapes me.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: Trowa is my fandom...er. I hate the word 'slut'. Rephrase. I am perfectly willing to read Trowa paired with just about any of the honorable characters in the series. Any of the 'girls' (yes even his sister), the pilots, the principal Ozzies, the Manguanacs, the doctors, you name it. Not that I've ever seen most any of that. But I'd totally give it a shot if I did.
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NARUTO
1. The first character I fell in love with: Shikamaru, I think. Or maybe it was Lee.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Gaara. He's one extraordinarily nasty little BAMF when he enters the story, and I resented the hell out of him for what happened to Lee in the Chuunin exam. His character growth as the series goes on is remarkable, however, and his backstory puts a whole new perspective on things that soon enough had me doing a complete three-sixty in my opinion.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: *sigh* Sasuke, I'm afraid. I try to view him objectively, I try to take his backstory into account and drum up some sort of sympathy, and I manage to kinda sorta sometimes feel a little bad for him, but...mostly, he still incites an irritated eyeroll more than anything else.
4. The character Ilove view sympathetically that everyone else seems to hate: Yondaime Kazekage, somehow - yes, Gaara's young life was hell on account of his decisions, and so much of what he did is pretty well unforgiveable, but...somehow, I find it hard to hold it against him. Perhaps on account of him dying what I'll assume was a fairly unpleasant death at Orochimaru's hands. Perhaps because I think his intentions regarding Shukaku, however misguided and poorly executed, were noble enough at their heart. Perhaps because I suspect that Orochimaru may well have been a guiding force behind the whole Shukaku idea (but don't quote me on that because I'm not at all certain that the canon timeline agrees). I won't pretend to excuse any of his atrocities. But I do think I understand where he meant to be coming from originally.
5. The character Iused to love but don't any longer don't love quite so much as I used to: ...Hrm. I still like him well enough, but I'm less squeeful about Kakashi than I was at first, mostly by virtue of discovering how much awesome was waiting in all the characters beyond Team 7.
6. The character I would shag any time: ...Sai, I think. His midriff is a work of art and his lips look delectable. Or Hinata. Hard to choose. *_*
7. The character I'd want to be like: Hinata, for finding the strength to not let her timid nature hold her back. Lee, for his conviction that enough effort and determination can accomplish anything, and for being utterly true to himself no matter what the general public thinks of him. Naruto, for pretty much the same reasons as Lee on top of his ability to inspire betterness in people.
8. The character I'd slap: The collective Hyuuga leadership responsible for the decision/tradition that Neji's father should die in Hiashi's place to appease the thugs who'd tried to kidnap Hinata in the first place. *eyeroll*
9. A pairing that I love: Lee/Gaara
10. A pairing that Ihate am not particularly into: Sasuke/Naruto
11. Myfive favorite characters: Gaara. Lee. Hinata. Temari. Kankurou. Naruto. Sai. Shikamaru. Neji. Chouji. Gai. Gyah, too many awesome characters in this series. *_*
12. Myfive least favorite characters: Sasuke. Orochimaru. Kabuto. Hiashi Hyuuga and the Hyuuga Elders don't impress me favorably thus far. Itachi, perhaps, though the hints I've gotten of his backstory secrets have elevated him somewhat in my estimation. I'm sure there are folks ready and waiting to step onto this list as I get further through the manga.
13. Which character I am most like: A mish-mash of many traits from many characters. I identify a bit with Shikamaru early on - I've got the brains to go far, but totally lack the motivation and ambition to do anything with them. ^_^; Add to that Hinata's overwhelming timidity, and Sai's complete lack of a functional interpersonal skillset. *cough*And Chouji's love of snacking.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I ship Genma/Gaara in a mad, crackish way, based solely on the fact that they're played by Hirata-san and Ishida-san. ^_^;
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Star Trek DS9 and man, but I really need to rewatch this series.
1. The first character I fell in love with: Bashir.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Sisko really really draws my attention on revisiting these characters after so long. I liked him plenty in the original run, but there's something about him now that just...hngh. *_*He's such a dragon.
3. Thecharacter everyone else loves that I don't popular character who just doesn't grab me: Worf remains popular to my (somewhat limited) observation, but he doesn't hold my interest all that much anymore - see #5
4. The character Ilove like well enough that everyone else seems to hate: I always thought Ziyal had a lot of potential to be an interesting character, but canon didn't seem to know quite what to do with her and there seem to be many in the G/B camp who resent her for presenting an 'obstacle' to Garak/Bashir.
5. The character Iused to love but don't any longer don't love quite so much as I used to: Worf, in a way, which is not to say that I don't like him anymore at all - he was my favorite on TNG, but sort of paled in comparison to everyone else when he moved to DS9.
6. The character I would shag any time: ...probably Bashir, if only for nostalgia's sake.Why is it easier to envision shagging animated characters than live-actor-based ones?
7. The character I'd want to be like: Sisko, for his poise and charisma and grace under fire and cool-tempered leadership and the very daunting teeth he has no qualms about baring when circumstances warrant.
8. The character I'd slap: Kai Winn. She's such a smug condescending more-pious-than-thou social-climbing power-hungry bi-- *ahem*. Yeah.
9. A pairing that I love: Garak/Bashir
10. A pairing that Ihate am not particularly into: Bashir/O'Brien - I mean, I totally get where it comes from, but it reads to me as friendship-'bromance' more than slashy. Partially because O'Brien's married, partially because I favor Garak/Bashir so heavily, but mostly because that's just how it feels, to me.
11. Myfive favorite characters: Garak. Bashir. Sisko. Jake. O'Brien. Rom and Nog. Odo and Quark.
12. Myfive least favorite characters: Winn. The Founder chick. Eddington. That Admiral chick...Nechayev? There's probably more; seasons 6 and 7 are hazy in my mind and I still don't think I've seen every episode complete.
13. Which character I am most like: ...Jake, maybe, on account of his writerly aspirations.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I Mary-Sued all over Bashir back in the day when I was just out of high school. Thankfully what bits of pseudo-fic I scribbled down in journals are boxed up half a continent away and will never see the light of the internet.
Randomly, there's a baby kicking about in my belly. It's an awesome, awesome feeling. He's going to be a night-owl like his brother and his parents, I can tell.
SAIYUKI
1. The first character I fell in love with: ...Probably Hakkai.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Zakuro, omg. It was really the filler chapter where Goku found him lost in the woods that did it. ♥
3. The
4. The character I love that everyone else seems to hate: I dunno - is anyone really widely 'hated' in the fandom? Kanan, maybe? I like her fine, but see many opinions directed toward her that I tend to think are terribly misplaced. Mm...Hazel doesn't seem terribly popular, but I don't really mind him. Not a favorite or anything, but he has his place and his moments and watching him verbally spar with Hakkai is fairly entertaining. ^_^ 'Pippi' caught a bit of flak from certain corners of the fandom, but I rather like her and what she did for Goku's character.
5. The character I
6. The character I would shag any time: ...maybe Kougaiji. His stomach is quite appealing, and the claws and the ears and such.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Hakkai, for his ability to manipulate people and situations in his favor, for being so affable and likeable and yet damned fucking scary at the same time, for commanding both such fear-respect and such loyalty in those around him. He could be a very powerful man, had he the ambition to do so, and I'd rather like to have that sort of
8. The character I'd slap: Gyokumen, primarily on account of dangling Kou's mother like a carrot before him and treating her own daughter as someone else's labrat.
9. A pairing that I love: Jiipu/Hakkai.
10. A pairing that I
11. My
12. My
13. Which character I am most like: One of the villagers in a random town who gets throwaway lines like 'Ahhh! *_* It's the Sanzo-ikkou!' and who screams and runs when the requisite Youkai attack happens.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I'd totally sex up Jiipu. In either form. Not that it's much of a secret by now.
SAIYUKI GAIDEN
1. The first character I fell in love with: ...Probably Tenpou.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Goujun. I knew I liked him from the get-go, sure, but I didn't expect the obsessive degree that it's gotten to at points.
3. The character everyone else loves that
4. The character I love that everyone else seems to hate: Again, no one comes to mind.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: See #4. All the likeables in Gaiden have only gotten moreso as the story goes on.
6. The character I would shag any time: Kanzeon. Double your pleasure, and all that.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Kanzeon. Mostly on account of the hermaphrodite angle. And having a Jiroushin at my beck and call. And the all-seeing lotus pool. With koi. And being in a position/of a mindset to not give a damn what anyone really thinks about me. ^_^
8. The character I'd slap: Li Touten. Truthfully, I'd sooner do a bit more than slap, but.
9. A pairing that I love: Goujun/Tenpou
10. A pairing that I
11. My
12. My
13. Which character I am most like: The koi in Kanzeon's pool. And possibly Jiroushin.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I have a huge kink for Goujun with reptilian genitalia and not-quite-human sexual behaviors. Again, not much of a secret.
GUNDAM WING
1. The first character I fell in love with: Duo.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Wufei. He doesn't make a terribly good first impression, but he really grew on me over the course of the series and through fandom exploration.
3. The
4. The character I love that everyone else seems to hate: Wufei. He gets plenty of love from certain corners of the fandom, sure, but he gets plenty of hate from others.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: ...Zechs, maybe. I was enamoured of the pretty to begin with, but his personality as time went on just failed to hold my interest.
6. The character I would shag any time: ...probably Wufei.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Sally, I suppose - she seems very grounded and pragmatic and big-sisterly, and quite badass in her own understated sort of way.
8. The character I'd slap: Mariemaia, except Relena already did it. ^_^ So, Milliardo, right around the whole White Fang thing.
9. A pairing that I love: Duo/Wufei
10. A pairing that I
11. My
12. My
13. Which character I am most like: Relena's chauffeur - Pargan? Pagan? The spelling escapes me.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: Trowa is my fandom...er. I hate the word 'slut'. Rephrase. I am perfectly willing to read Trowa paired with just about any of the honorable characters in the series. Any of the 'girls' (yes even his sister), the pilots, the principal Ozzies, the Manguanacs, the doctors, you name it. Not that I've ever seen most any of that. But I'd totally give it a shot if I did.
NARUTO
1. The first character I fell in love with: Shikamaru, I think. Or maybe it was Lee.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Gaara. He's one extraordinarily nasty little BAMF when he enters the story, and I resented the hell out of him for what happened to Lee in the Chuunin exam. His character growth as the series goes on is remarkable, however, and his backstory puts a whole new perspective on things that soon enough had me doing a complete three-sixty in my opinion.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: *sigh* Sasuke, I'm afraid. I try to view him objectively, I try to take his backstory into account and drum up some sort of sympathy, and I manage to kinda sorta sometimes feel a little bad for him, but...mostly, he still incites an irritated eyeroll more than anything else.
4. The character I
5. The character I
6. The character I would shag any time: ...Sai, I think. His midriff is a work of art and his lips look delectable. Or Hinata. Hard to choose. *_*
7. The character I'd want to be like: Hinata, for finding the strength to not let her timid nature hold her back. Lee, for his conviction that enough effort and determination can accomplish anything, and for being utterly true to himself no matter what the general public thinks of him. Naruto, for pretty much the same reasons as Lee on top of his ability to inspire betterness in people.
8. The character I'd slap: The collective Hyuuga leadership responsible for the decision/tradition that Neji's father should die in Hiashi's place to appease the thugs who'd tried to kidnap Hinata in the first place. *eyeroll*
9. A pairing that I love: Lee/Gaara
10. A pairing that I
11. My
12. My
13. Which character I am most like: A mish-mash of many traits from many characters. I identify a bit with Shikamaru early on - I've got the brains to go far, but totally lack the motivation and ambition to do anything with them. ^_^; Add to that Hinata's overwhelming timidity, and Sai's complete lack of a functional interpersonal skillset. *cough*And Chouji's love of snacking.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I ship Genma/Gaara in a mad, crackish way, based solely on the fact that they're played by Hirata-san and Ishida-san. ^_^;
Star Trek DS9 and man, but I really need to rewatch this series.
1. The first character I fell in love with: Bashir.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Sisko really really draws my attention on revisiting these characters after so long. I liked him plenty in the original run, but there's something about him now that just...hngh. *_*
3. The
4. The character I
5. The character I
6. The character I would shag any time: ...probably Bashir, if only for nostalgia's sake.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Sisko, for his poise and charisma and grace under fire and cool-tempered leadership and the very daunting teeth he has no qualms about baring when circumstances warrant.
8. The character I'd slap: Kai Winn. She's such a smug condescending more-pious-than-thou social-climbing power-hungry bi-- *ahem*. Yeah.
9. A pairing that I love: Garak/Bashir
10. A pairing that I
11. My
12. My
13. Which character I am most like: ...Jake, maybe, on account of his writerly aspirations.
14. My deep, dark fandom secret: I Mary-Sued all over Bashir back in the day when I was just out of high school. Thankfully what bits of pseudo-fic I scribbled down in journals are boxed up half a continent away and will never see the light of the internet.
Randomly, there's a baby kicking about in my belly. It's an awesome, awesome feeling. He's going to be a night-owl like his brother and his parents, I can tell.
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Date: 2010-04-22 03:54 am (UTC)I know, right? Sanzo is just so 'untouchable', so buried behind his impenetrable defenses; emotionally he bodily shoves everyone else as far away as he can get them and Goku is really the only person I can see coming back again and again past all that defensive flailing, the only one stubborn enough (and personally invested enough) to have any chance of wearing it down. Goku's the only one I've ever seen Sanzo really 'soften' toward, really show any sort of emotional interest in, and it just...it doesn't strike me as plausible that anyone but Goku could interest him on a sexual/romantic level, could get behind his barriers without him realizing it. There's a bond there that transcends his defenses whether he likes it or not. ^_^;
Ukoku vs. Nii...hm. You may have something there with the symbol vs. 'person' angle. I mean, when we hit his backstory in the Burial arc and were introduced to him as Kenyuu, I had a certain amount of sympathy for where he was coming from and where he stood on life in general. I felt like I got him, and it made Nii even more interesting. Having known him as Nii all this time until Burial, I was already hooked on the off-kilter quirkyness and smarm and the sleazy charm and the bunny fetish. He was creepy, but intriguing, and sexy in an indefinable and rather disturbing way. But once he donned his Sanzo robes again and tore up Bunny Doll and went out as Ukoku, he just..I don't know. He seems such a cardboard cookie-cutter Intellectual Super-Baddie...cliche, somehow. Like he's missing everything that made him notable/interesting/unique as Nii. This impression seems to carry backward to the post-Burial era, after Kenyuu and before Nii - I have so little interest in Ukoku in his 'original run' and less, somehow, for Koumyou/Ukoku as a pairing. And yet at the same time, I've read several AUs of the pair that I really liked - the Ukoku character seemed more dimensional, less cardboard, and the directions the story wandered in were really nice. Part of that redemption thing you mentioned, I guess.
But in general, canon Ukoku does nothing for me aside from filling a very necessary role to the plot. Nothing as a person/character. And it's funny, because Intellectual Super-Baddie is generally a 'type' that I rather like.
On Goujun and Sex Appeal: I know that on my part, at least, a lot of it is rooted in his Otherness, in plain old-fashioned Exotic Appeal. It's a great big case of terribly unattractive xenophilic fetishism that would be embarrassing and offensive were it directed at someone IRL, and I only let myself Go There on account of it all being fictional/fantasy in this case. ^_^; But yes, once I get past that, his otherness is sort of the icing on the cake. His reserved, severe sort of bearing is appealing, especially when there are hints of less 'perfection' underneath it. Like you said, he's so tightly-wrapped and controlled and contained that when we see him show a touch of compassion or uncertainty it tends to spark ideas about what else is held in check under that command persona. I'm also drawn to him in a very sympathetic way; essentially being a foreigner among the kami I would imagine there's a certain sense of isolation, aloneness, that he'd feel, and I like to give him someone (Tenpou) who can bridge that cultural gap between Dragon and Kami and give him Meaningful Companionship so far from home. Of course, this relies heavily on the mostly-fanon concepts of dragon vs. kami and the differences between the two cultures and has very little basis in canon. ^_^; There's also the fact that he holds a powerful and highly respectable position that Li Touten (and, speculatively, much of the general kami population) clearly finds him unsuitable for. He doesn't get the respect he ought - likely on account of being a foreigner - and that increases my sympathetic attraction toward him.
But taking emotions and attachments out of the mix, on a purely sexual level? I can't speak for anyone else, but it's definitely xenophilia for me.
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Date: 2010-04-22 03:55 am (UTC)Long comment is long. And late.
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Date: 2010-03-18 07:30 pm (UTC)