Meme and Stuff

[mark_asphodel]

I did not enter fe_contest  this time, even though I liked the prompt.  I had an idea I really liked for "Vanity" involving courtship/marriage between Innes and L'Arachel in a 1930s-ish setting, an evolution of the 'fic I keep wanting to write entitled "A Simple Game of Self-Respect."

When a 'fic title is derived from Elvis Costello's "Two Little Hitlers," you know it's not gonna be very fluffy.

But honestly?  Writing something like that promised to be emotionally draining and a great deal of... work.  Work to make the dialogue actually witty, and the interaction smart and sexy... and the atmosphere what I wanted it to be.  And I really, really didn't want anything to distract me from writing "Starchild," which is a) a great deal of fun to write and b) something that needs to be finished so I can move on and not have my head filled with details of this cracked-out mashup world.  Seriously.  I've dreamed up mission logos.  I've tried to place the various continents on an actual map to figure out an orbital path.  I've wondered what sports the characters like best.  Is Ephraim more of a basketball guy or a hockey guy?  No, not baseball.  They don't play baseball in the Magvel Union.  That's what those foreigners down in Lieberia play.

Also, there's a sequel to "Starchild" germinating in my head, and it's awful.

-x-

I haven't done a meme in a while.  I guess I stole this from hooves ... and half the rest of the f-list.

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I will reply saying:

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

PS: I have fandoms other than Fire Emblem (Utena, Gundam Wing, Harry Potter...) I just don't write them.

Comments

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Trowa!

1) I admit to "meeting" him through the dub, but I think Kirby Morrow did a good job with him, and from his introductory scene he really got to me. Just taking the animated side of the franchise into account...

Honestly? He comes across as the most competent of the pilots by far. "Perfect Soldier" Heero keeps botching his missions, but Trowa gets the job done with a lot less fuss and noise. Saves Heero? Check. Infiltrates OZ? Check. Talks Quatre out of insanity? Check. Deals with that satellite destabilization issue in Endless Waltz? Check. Trowa: he gets shit accomplished.

2) I 'ship him with Quatre, I admit. Not passionately in the OTP!!! sense, but I do see the potential and dammit I think it works. And I still think Trowa is a better match for Heero than Duo is, fandom be damned.

3) Both of the above still make a hell of a team in a non-romantic sense. Also, Cathy.

4) Have all the crazies gone away? Can I say that the "rape victim uke Trowa" stuff was complete and utter bullshit and that his totally deranged fans ruined everything I value about his characterization (level-headed competence, ability to Get Shit Done... hell, they even got his sense of humor wrong).

5) His muscles in Endless Waltz were kind of gross. Also, the woobie factor when he had amnesia is kind of off-putting in retrospect. Also... why the @#$% did Heavyarms have a clown mask in EW?

[shimizu-hitomi.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm amused as those are pretty much my thoughts (though Heero/Trowa was my main Trowa ship of choice after one too many bad Quatre/Trowa fics, and I admit to also dabbling in a bit of Midi/Trowa, except I never did come across a fic that really pulled it off and I found that subsection of fandom to be generally very strange... even compared to the rest of fandom).

At some point all the various canon spinoffs and fanon crap muddled the whole fandom for me though. @_@