Was starting to say, I find the "carrying out our parents' romance" thing pretty unpleasant in general, whether forced or not. I mean...ew. That's my "lack of free will" squick right there, thanks. And then you add that to the fact that they really genuinely didn't get along, not in a romantic-comedy "we snark because we're attracted" way, but rather in a "we genuinely don't understand/connect with each other" way, and, well, no.
I tend to dislike fandom attempts to rationalize the canon female love interest out of the way in order to make room for the yaoi pairing, but FF8 is the one where I make an exception. Because the canon pairing is so pastede on yay, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to write it off as weird Sorceress magic that can be undone, or what have you. I mean, it's no more implausible than making the pairing happen in the first place. I think this is why I never really got into writing for ff8; the story is broken in ways that I'm not interested in doing the work to fix. Unlike ff7, which is broken in ways I do want to fix.
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Was starting to say, I find the "carrying out our parents' romance" thing pretty unpleasant in general, whether forced or not. I mean...ew. That's my "lack of free will" squick right there, thanks. And then you add that to the fact that they really genuinely didn't get along, not in a romantic-comedy "we snark because we're attracted" way, but rather in a "we genuinely don't understand/connect with each other" way, and, well, no.
I tend to dislike fandom attempts to rationalize the canon female love interest out of the way in order to make room for the yaoi pairing, but FF8 is the one where I make an exception. Because the canon pairing is so pastede on yay, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to write it off as weird Sorceress magic that can be undone, or what have you. I mean, it's no more implausible than making the pairing happen in the first place.
I think this is why I never really got into writing for ff8; the story is broken in ways that I'm not interested in doing the work to fix. Unlike ff7, which is broken in ways I do want to fix.