I'll admit, my first attraction to Kou was simply the looks. The red hair, the pretty face, the claws, the pointed ears, the sharp teeth...and the fact that that little open jacket with the sleeves pushed to the elbows made him look like he belonged in Def Leppard. ^^; But then, here comes all this *character* behind the design that just bowled me over. And all that *angst*! That's what's so funny about it, really--I am seriously *not* an angst junkie. But for Kou...it works. It really really works, and he's a wonderfully deep character to work with. Once a body starts getting into his head, it's like...like it opens up this huge canvas to work with, so huge that it's amazingly difficult to find the way back *out* again. ^_^; And it doesn't help anything that I completely *get* a lot of his driving factors, that there's so much about him and his motivations and his circumstances that I can empathize with.
And then of course there's the fact that his whole relationship with Nii is just so *twisted*...I really can't just go and make pretty smut out of it. It demands plot, thought, psychology and whole bunches of other stuff that really challenges me to stretch beyond the comfortable bounds of the PWP. Y'know? Which is just fun. In a hair-pulling cussing-in-frustration-when-it-won't-quite-come-together kind of way. ^_^ Just all the more satisfying when it finally *does* all click into place.
Ahhh...whoops. A bit long-winded there--sorry! ^_^;
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Date: 2005-01-25 02:50 am (UTC)And then of course there's the fact that his whole relationship with Nii is just so *twisted*...I really can't just go and make pretty smut out of it. It demands plot, thought, psychology and whole bunches of other stuff that really challenges me to stretch beyond the comfortable bounds of the PWP. Y'know? Which is just fun. In a hair-pulling cussing-in-frustration-when-it-won't-quite-come-together kind of way. ^_^ Just all the more satisfying when it finally *does* all click into place.
Ahhh...whoops. A bit long-winded there--sorry! ^_^;