Lexington is a pretty place. My second cousin was a priest there. Might still be; haven't seen him in about five years.
Funny, I always imagine Kent going off to be with Lyn in Sacae, but almost never any of the reverses (e.g. Lyn staying for Eliwood).
Well, there are plenty of reasons not to stick Lyn in a castle, especially if the actual pairings involved aren't one's thing. Lyn/Eliwood has been and remains pretty meh for me[*]. Lyn/Hector I like just fine, but neither of them are characters I particularly adore and so the "slap/kiss" dynamic goes down easier than it would've had I genuinely latched on to either of them. It's not something I usually gravitate toward.
I just don't like it when these scenarios are treated as though they turn Lyn into an oppressed victim of the hateful patriarchy. Particularly when ALL of the marital choices for Hector and Eliwood are unconventional and subject to pushback from society's finest... and when the flip side of Kent joining Lyn on the plains often adopts a highly romantic view of what Kent would go through culturally.
As Raphi said, it's not that people don't like these pairings, it's the double standards often used to support or attack them.
* I thought "One Year" might finally be that fanfic that presented the case for it, and admit to being disappointed when Ninian came back into the picture. I was hoping to be convinced of Lyn/Eliwood by somebody, somewhere.
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:12 pm (UTC)Funny, I always imagine Kent going off to be with Lyn in Sacae, but almost never any of the reverses (e.g. Lyn staying for Eliwood).
Well, there are plenty of reasons not to stick Lyn in a castle, especially if the actual pairings involved aren't one's thing. Lyn/Eliwood has been and remains pretty meh for me[*]. Lyn/Hector I like just fine, but neither of them are characters I particularly adore and so the "slap/kiss" dynamic goes down easier than it would've had I genuinely latched on to either of them. It's not something I usually gravitate toward.
I just don't like it when these scenarios are treated as though they turn Lyn into an oppressed victim of the hateful patriarchy. Particularly when ALL of the marital choices for Hector and Eliwood are unconventional and subject to pushback from society's finest... and when the flip side of Kent joining Lyn on the plains often adopts a highly romantic view of what Kent would go through culturally.
As Raphi said, it's not that people don't like these pairings, it's the double standards often used to support or attack them.
* I thought "One Year" might finally be that fanfic that presented the case for it, and admit to being disappointed when Ninian came back into the picture. I was hoping to be convinced of Lyn/Eliwood by somebody, somewhere.