fuyu | Fangirl meme

I WILL BEGIN WITH THE OBVIOUS.

Kingdom Hearts

:D

Woo! The fandom that are my brain!

Well, first - and obviously - SoRiKai. particularly the SoRi and RiKai parts, but really, all three of them are love.

Axel/Roxas, but in a very distant and passive way. Because damn, that fandom is 98% batshit.

Leon/Yuffie. For this I totally blame Guardian. Also Leon/Aerith, because she totally wears the pants. ... Oddly this is not an OT3 for me, however I wouldn't object to seeing it that way.

And for the platonics... Riku and Mickey's friendship makes me squee unto death, and the Trinity is love. :D

OH and Xigbar/Demyx. And that one I totally blame on

alba_aulbath.

Yeah, she's who I got my Xigbar/Demyx fascination from, too.

I keep having to try and explain why I ship them, and I keep failing because I can't think of a reason beyond "bur, Alba write good". XD

Yeah. It's one of those where I wind up reduced to explanations like, "It um, it... er... well... it works inside my head, okay?" And then I send them to go read Alba's stuff.

*giggle* At Oni-Con yesterday, during one of the cosplay skits, we had a Xigbar and Demyx come on, and Demyx ended up singing him the "It's Okay To Be Gay" song from Avenue Q. It was amazing. ♥

riku/kairi is impossibly hot, for some reason

...HEEEEEEEEE. XD That sounds AWESOME.

god, I know ♥

Hehehe...I have managed a new love for platonic Riku and Mickey myself. I love how the king can make Riku smile the way he does in CoM (thus this doodled icon) ♥~~~

Mmm...Riku/Kairi...

Seriously. :D I think what I love so much about Riku and Mickey is how Mickey clearly fills a hole that Riku desperately needed filled in order to be anything like emotionally healthy again. (If he ever was.) He judged himself by his place with Sora and Kairi, but his faith in that place had become so fragile and eroded over time that no matter what they could have done, even if Sora said straight to his face, "Riku, I've always looked up to you and admired you and I love you, you're my best friend and you're the standard I've always measured myself by, please come back to us, we miss you" Riku probably would have distrusted it.

... Enter Mickey, who meets Riku for the first time when he's at his lowest and darkest and supports him the whole way. The context of their relationship is wholly different, it's new, it's on a solid foundation that hasn't been riddled through with doubt. Mickey's not a rival, so Riku doesn't have to test himself against him - and what would be the point if he did, anyway? Mickey's a king. But he's also friendly and humble and says "gosh" a lot and insists that Riku call him by name instead of title, and sticks with him no matter how bad things get. He proves to Riku, in a way Sora and Kairi would never been able to no matter how much they wanted to or how hard they tried, that Riku really is Worth It. Worth being friends with, worth fighting for, and genuinely loved. It's hardly a coincidence that we don't see Riku really being happy or content until after he's met and spent time with Mickey.

So yes. They are a WOOB.

... [/tl;dr]

Mmm, Riku/Kairi indeed. :D ... I have an essay on why I like that one too but I'll spare you XD;;

Ahh yes, those were seriously my favorite parts during CoM. Just the way Mickey was subtly saying SFTU YOU ADORABLE TARD to Riku, and Riku being all OH OOPS SORRY AHAHA. ...*has an odd way with words*

I do know what you mean though. The problem with having close friends over a long period of time is that thought in the back of your head that makes you wonder, "Are they being honest, or are they just being my friend?" It's odd how sometimes I find myself taking the word of someone I've known for a month over someone I've known for a year. Though that's likely due to not having a chance to develop an unconscious bias/saying what the person wants to hear.

I always hated that deal with friendship - the closer you are, the harder it is to be honest (generally speaking).

But YES, I completely saw why Mickey affected Riku the way he did. It wasn't a life-long friend talking to him and "possibly" saying what needed/wanted to be heard, it was this person of awesome ~~Yodaness~~ higher up than Riku could ever reach saying LOOK YOU'RE A GOOD PERSON OKAY NOW *KICK OF LOVE* UP AND AT 'EM.

I like woob.

*countered your tl;dr MWAHAHAHA*

Oh, do share Riku/Kairiness :D~ It might make me want to draw more of them ♥

Yes, exactly. :D It's exactly the same "yes, you idiot, we LOVE YOU" treatment he would've gotten from Sora or from Kairi, but the fact that it was coming from somebody totally new to him made it somehow more credible. Mickey has nothing he's trying to preserve with Riku - he just really does think Riku is worth it.

Which was pretty much exactly what Riku needed, not just to get over his mundane insecurities, but also to surmount his MASSIVE GUILT COMPLEX and get shit done. Mickey's friendship and loving kicks in the ass were probably a large part of why he was willing to go home in the end. :D

Woob is good.

Ah, and the Riku/Kairi... I think it's because there's such an overarching theme of reconciliation and forgiveness there. For one thing, they're thematic opposites - she's Light, the Princess, the Damsel, while he's Dark, the Rival, the Foil. He called the darkness to Destiny Islands, she tried to fight it back. And, of course, my whole theory about her fear of him and his insecurity about her. They were completely at odds at that point in the story, and their relationship could easily have been the weakest link between the three friends.

... And yet, Riku tries to help her when she loses her heart, even if he fucks things up worse by trying. Even after he's possessed by Ansem, his will to protect her is so strong that he can stop Ansem dead in his tracks before he has a chance to hurt Kairi. And Kairi, in KH2, reaches out to him, and believes in him even when he's resigned himself to possibly never being with her and Sora again.

It's just so... They take everything that could come between them, weaken their relationship, tear them apart, and they make it another bond. It's beautiful, is what it is. To top it all off, they even have a pleasing visual contrast. I lurve them. :DD

;_;

Yeah. Yeah that's kind of exactly it, yeah. ♥

(and, of course, i feel the need to balance it out with a sora/riku icon. i'm a dork, :])

I shall go with the other fandom I actually know!

FFVII?

*rubs hands gleefully!*

Icon, for one. I mean, okay, it started out with my love for Zax/Cloud, and then I fell in love with the canon woobie of Zax/Aerith, and eventually started OT3ing them, and then I got converted to Cloud/Tifa, which works out nicely, but I still love Zax/Cloud so in a theoretical alternate universe where they all survive, OT4. It's the easiest way.

I also ship, as you know, Vincent/Yuffie, Vincent/Cid, and I can certainly see the appeal in Vincent/Reeve. I also have a thing for Reeve/Elena (thank you, bishink) and Tseng/Elena, and then of course there's Reno/Rude. Also Cid/Shera (it's really cute that he named his airship after her XD), and I'd kill for some good Barret/Tifa or Rude/Tifa. Rude's crush on her is so cute.

... For platonics, Cloud and Denzel make me woob, as do Tifa and Marlene. Yay, patchwork family! Also, anyone and Nanaki, because Nanaki is awesome.

OT4, seconded! If you ever find an OT4 fic, please share k thx.

Totally will.

... I really suspect that if I write anything set in the future of the AtRverse, it will include OT4. Because they all live, and you have Zax who never going to stop taking care of Cloud but still loves Aerith, and Aerith who is willing to try and pick up again, and Cloud not having half as many issues with Tifa because they both get the full story straight up, and...

I've always been an Aeris/Tifa fan, myself, ♥

I never quite got that, beyond a warm friendship, but I can see how it could be lovely. :D

...and I really want to read that. Really. (Also, you forgot to add "and they're hot together" :D)

Well, that goes without saying. ♥

...Oh man, I'd love to see an OT4 for them.

I don't think I've ever seen any Reeve/Elena -- intriguing!

Cloud & Denzel & Tifa & Marlene stories, when well done, make me melt into a little puddle of sappy goo.

Ta-da!

I cut my fandom teeth on bishink, so they have a special place in my heart... even if their universe does suffer a bit from "but what about Aerith?" syndrome.

Hee. ♥

They make the cutest family ever. ;_;♥

They do! ♥

UM. Can't quite recall if you do Ouran, but. OURAN, PLEASE. :DD

Alas and alack, I cannot answer, for lo, I have not seen so much as a minute of Ouran, ever. D:

Woe and rememberance! You want a torrent link?

Nah, not at the present time. Thanks, though.

O, I WEEP.

;_;

Sorry. D: Feel free to try another fandom?

Might I request compensation in the form of FMA, then? :DDD

Why certainly. :D Mind, I'm going off the anime.

Let's see... Roy/Hawkeye is awesome. Roy/Ed amuses me terribly and works oddly well. Hoenheim/Trisha is eeeee so much woe. Al/Winry is adorable. Winry/Scieszka would be doubly cute. And... uh... well-written elricest is a guilty pleasure of mine please don't kill me. ._.

so long as you don't kill me for guiltily adding in roy to that mixture. o:

EEE. So much glee in all of that, :D I've only seen some of the anime, to be honest, and read lots of fic, and watched the movie, so I haven't seen much Hoenheim/Trisha, but everyone else I flail at in glee, ♥ THOUGH. I've never even contemplated Winry/Scieszka. Huh. O:

LOVE TO YOU, BABE, ♥♥

Probably weird and out of left field, but Vagrant Story. :]

YEEHEE.

Ashley/Sydney is my big ship. Their dynamic is just... it's... Ashley is awfully well-disposed towards someone who has mindfucked him as badly as Sydney has.

Callo/Hardin would be really sweet in better circumstances.

Sydney/Hardin would be delightfully fucked up.

Neesa and Tieger are my favorite (assumed) platonic relationship. Sure, they could be involved and I'd like that, but their partnership is just so much more interesting without the "oh, well, they're lovers, that's why they work so well together" card in play.

Absolutely anyone's caretaker relationship to Joshua, because he's the most adorable RPG kid I've ever seen, with possible competition only from Vivi. Sydney's relationship with his father is also intriguing and sad.

Okay, this one's pure whimsy, plus I already asked for one, so feel free to ignore it. But --

I saw Elfquest on your interest list. Do you happen to have any favorite pairings or friendships there?

(I devoured the series several years back, though I'm not up on anything recent. Pretty wolfy elfpeople FTW.)

Oh, man, Elfquest. ♥ Been so long since I've read that and I'm way behind too, but...

Yeah, most of the canon stuff. Cutter/Leetah, Skot/Pike/Krim, Redlance/Nightfall... Clearbrook/Treestump...

And, of course, Cutter and Skywise rule all. (Skywise was my favorite elf, man.) Savah and Suntop are awesome in their mentor/student, grandmother/grandchild relationship as well.

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