What I like to read/write
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branchandrootThree Weeks for Dreamwidth: Favorite pairing/character archetypes? :D Are you more fond of rival!slash or best friends turn lovers or master/servant or....?
The easy answer is: yes, please, all of the above!
I certainly do have a major kink for captain/lieutenant pairs, especially the ones where the "captain" is delicate looking and apparently sweet and the "lieutenant" is the brawny and/or stolid type. Yukimura/Sanada, Byakuya/Renji, Kazuki/Juubei, Tsuna/Xanxus. This set up only works for me, of course, when the "captain" is actually a galactic grade badass; otherwise there wouldn't be nearly such tasty tension and chemistry. If the "lieutenant" is secretly a total squish, this is a bonus, but I'm also entirely good with the trope of a "lieutenant" who feels a deep and abiding need to compete with and strive to equal his "captain".
For broadly similar reasons, I love me some rival!slash. I like the intensity with which rivals focus on each other, especially in sports manga. ES21 was a very good series for this. Roy and Ed, my gateway pairing as it were, were kind of six of captain!kink, half a dozen of rival!slash.
Of course, I'm also very fond of best-friend relationships, like Roy and Hughes. I'll write those both ways, turning sexual and not. Again, it's the intensity of the relationship that matters.
This leads pretty naturally into my taste for a particular variety of sib-cest. I'm all over the Seiran/Ryuuki dynamic, or the Yuuta/Fuji, or the Ryousuke/Keisuke. In all cases the siblings have a very intense, almost exclusive, focus on each other. I like that a lot, as long as it's written in the happy-fluffy way, and not in the hideously dysfuctional way. This is, to be sure, a fine line to walk because it would be very, very easy for the dominant sibling to take terrible advantage of the other. For this reason I am very cautious about reading fic written for these.
At bottom, I write a whole lot of "how does this relationship work?" fic. When I set out to write about Roy and Hawkeye, it was driven on the one hand by "what would the politics actually look like next" and on the other by "how would these two actually go about becoming something other than a working relationship?". When Em and I started brainstorming how to subvert and recuperate the women of KHR, a lot of my focus was on "what choices would Kyouko and Haru make when precipitated into this new world, what compromises would they reach with the people they love?". When I went to write about the AU where Seien inherits the throne, the framework was family as much as politics, and it wouldn't have been nearly as powerful is Shouka weren't more Seien's father than the Emperor ever was.
And what I like to read are stories that will give me fodder for that kind of thing.
The easy answer is: yes, please, all of the above!
I certainly do have a major kink for captain/lieutenant pairs, especially the ones where the "captain" is delicate looking and apparently sweet and the "lieutenant" is the brawny and/or stolid type. Yukimura/Sanada, Byakuya/Renji, Kazuki/Juubei, Tsuna/Xanxus. This set up only works for me, of course, when the "captain" is actually a galactic grade badass; otherwise there wouldn't be nearly such tasty tension and chemistry. If the "lieutenant" is secretly a total squish, this is a bonus, but I'm also entirely good with the trope of a "lieutenant" who feels a deep and abiding need to compete with and strive to equal his "captain".
For broadly similar reasons, I love me some rival!slash. I like the intensity with which rivals focus on each other, especially in sports manga. ES21 was a very good series for this. Roy and Ed, my gateway pairing as it were, were kind of six of captain!kink, half a dozen of rival!slash.
Of course, I'm also very fond of best-friend relationships, like Roy and Hughes. I'll write those both ways, turning sexual and not. Again, it's the intensity of the relationship that matters.
This leads pretty naturally into my taste for a particular variety of sib-cest. I'm all over the Seiran/Ryuuki dynamic, or the Yuuta/Fuji, or the Ryousuke/Keisuke. In all cases the siblings have a very intense, almost exclusive, focus on each other. I like that a lot, as long as it's written in the happy-fluffy way, and not in the hideously dysfuctional way. This is, to be sure, a fine line to walk because it would be very, very easy for the dominant sibling to take terrible advantage of the other. For this reason I am very cautious about reading fic written for these.
At bottom, I write a whole lot of "how does this relationship work?" fic. When I set out to write about Roy and Hawkeye, it was driven on the one hand by "what would the politics actually look like next" and on the other by "how would these two actually go about becoming something other than a working relationship?". When Em and I started brainstorming how to subvert and recuperate the women of KHR, a lot of my focus was on "what choices would Kyouko and Haru make when precipitated into this new world, what compromises would they reach with the people they love?". When I went to write about the AU where Seien inherits the throne, the framework was family as much as politics, and it wouldn't have been nearly as powerful is Shouka weren't more Seien's father than the Emperor ever was.
And what I like to read are stories that will give me fodder for that kind of thing.
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Date: 2010-04-27 10:21 am (UTC)where the "captain" is delicate looking and apparently sweet
followed by Byakuya, it's lucky I wasn't drinking anything XD.
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Date: 2010-04-27 04:23 pm (UTC)