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[tj_dragonblade]

(but mostly, this is an excuse to experiment with crossposting)

Name any character from any fandom with which I am familiar and I will tell you:

- Why I like them
- Why I don’t
- Favorite episode/scene
- Favorite line
- Favorite outfit
- OTP
- Non-romantic OTP
- Headcanon
- Unpopular opinion
- A wish for them
- An oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen for them
- 5 words to best describe them
- My nickname for them

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[amai_kaminari]

Goujun!

[tessercat]

Ahaha, that was my first choice. :)

So my second has to be.... Kenren!

[tj_dragonblade]

Why I like them: There's a lot to like about Kenren. He's just the right balance of fake Bad Boy facade and Big Brother heart; he's got irrepressible spirit and he's going to do what strikes him as The Right Thing, regardless of personal consequence.

Why I don’t: ...Buh. Hard to come up with an answer, but. I think he's got a little too much inherent 'coolness' to ever be my favorite? If I'm making sense. He seems like he's 'designed' to be a popular/favorite character? Which usually means I tend to be slightly more...dismissive, to characters with that 'feel' about them. I don't know. I do like him. Plenty. But he doesn't hit enough of the right buttons in the right combination to reach 'favorite'.

Favorite episode/scene: ...Possibly the pinky-swear. Possibly the resignation of his commission when they turn Goujun loose. Or possibly his death scene.

Favorite line: *points at 'been a long time' disclaimer on Goujun answer* Memory is not the best. But his dying speech stands out as particularly deep-in-a-Kenren-way and rather moving. And/or his lines about watching the way Nataku behaves hurting more than his punch ever could, and that bringing his concerns to Goujun wouldn't have made any difference in Nataku's treatment - those lines that show the true colors underneath the 'rambunctious general' surface and his grasp of how things really are.

Favorite outfit: He's only really got the one. But it is pretty sexy. ♥

OTP: KenTen. ♥ They have such an Old-Married-Couple vibe about them, it's really hard not to ship them.

Non-romantic OTP: I love his big-brotherliness with Goku.

Headcanon: ...Uh. Wow. Do I have any? *wracks brain* Um, anything in Tenpou's personality that Kenren perceives as stuffy/boring/overly-intellectual-like, he blames on Goujun's influence.

Unpopular opinion: I don't actually think he pairs with Goujun very well, not without Tenpou in the mix for balance.

A wish for them: It would have been nice if Goujun had realized/acknowledged his value and true character while he was still alive.

An oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen for them: ...Getting reincarnated into a life where he never encounters Tenpou's reinc would suck for him, I think.

5 words to best describe them: Brash. Big-hearted. Loyal. Integrity. Memorable.

My nickname for them: Don't have one. I mean, he's got canon nicknames but I've never called him anything but Kenren.

[tj_dragonblade]

Why I like them:  He's a dragon.  *_*  That has a lot to do with it.  His otherness, his being an outsider among the kami, his differentness-of-culture and such.  His even keel, his honor, his reserve, his strong-and-unflappable civilized surface over a core that's a lot more fiery than would really meet with favor in Tenkai.  His sort of understated struggle between being Dragon but living Kami - it's hard to articulate in a way that really gets at it.  ^_^;;  And of course, on the shallow end, his reptilian nature and exotic appearance don't hurt my opinion of him in the least. 

Why I don’t:  Or rather, one thing I think he could stand to improve:  He had too much faith in The System to be functioning as it should, and failed to see how things really stood until too late.  A little too blindly bound to The Rules, to the letter rather than the spirit - that kind of thing.

Favorite episode/scene:  ...The illustration of him naked in the water with falling sakura petals included in Vol 3 doesn't really count as a 'scene', does it.  *cough*  Uh, probably Kenren's death scene, when I think he's finally realized the true character of the man.  That salute speaks volumes.

Favorite line:  Hrm.  Been a long time since I thoroughly read through Gaiden.  There's nothing that's standing out in memory as particularly striking; I'd probably have to revisit to come up with a decent answer.

Favorite outfit:  He's only really got the one.  Is it wrong to say I'd like to see him out of it more often?

OTP:  GouTen.  ♥  I think they mesh well, regardless of their minimal non-hostage-y canon interaction.  Possibly it's got more to do with the bond observed between Hakuryuu and Hakkai, also. 

Non-romantic OTP:  *headscratch*  Hrm.  We really only get to see him interact with Kenren and Tenpou, and a little moment of conversation with Konzen.  I don't know that I have an answer here.  I do kind of see more potential for Kenren to be a highly-valued brother-in-arms than a lover, if that counts.  He'd also make a great foil for Kanzeon and Jiroushin in fic.

Headcanon:  Hah.  Uhm.  Long-term intimate relationship with Tenpou, check.  Occasionally drinking Tenpou's blood to get around the dietary restrictions of Tenkai, check.  Adamantly topping in bed except for one (so far) very very rare and Meaningful Occasion with Tenpou, check.  Unsure if Tenpou is the reincarnation of his boyhood tutor to whom he was extremely close, check.  That's a chunk of backstory that still bears writing, if ever I get to it.

Unpopular opinion:  ...I-I don't actually think he pairs with Kenren all that well.  *hides*  It can work sometimes with Tenpou in the mix, but just the two of them?  I can't see it anymore.

A wish for them:  On one hand, I wish he could have died a better death.  I understand story-wise why it worked out the way it did, but I still feel like, compared to the other three, he got...cheated, somehow.

An oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen for them:  I would not want to see him reincarnated into a life where he never found the others, particularly Tenpou. 

5 words to best describe them:  Honorable.  Regal.  Beautiful.  Isolated.  Proud.

My nickname for them:  Honestly, I don't have one.  He...isn't exactly the 'nickname' sort.  ^_^;