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jennaria. This is about the speed my brain feels today.

Leave the name of a character/person from a fandom you know I'm in, and I will tell you--

* 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.

Good fandoms for drawing characters from: KHR, Bleach, PoT, FMA, Getbackers, most of CLAMP's work, Utena, Kuroshitsuji, Meine Liebe, Sailor Moon, Trinity Blood, Trigun, Petshop of Horrors, ES21, Digimon (all seasons), HnG, Naruto, HxH, YYH, Angel Sanctuary, Monochrome Factor, YnM, Gundam Wing, Saiyuki, YGO, DN Angel, FF VII

Multiple prompts perfectly welcome.

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*squeak* I love it!

I totally agree with you on Reno. (I could see him occasionally deciding he needed to get laid and going to a sex worker or something (not the Honeybee, though, too much risk of running into old man Shinra) because it's just so much less complicated, too.) I don't see him as necessarily asexual so much as ... like you said, sex isn't his intimacy thing at all, so he tends to treat it more as, like, taking the car in for a tuneup.

Tifa and Reno drinking contests would be hilarious. (IMO, Reno would win at the time, but Tifa would win in the morning when she wasn't hung over in the least.)

And oh, Rufus. Rufus. IT IS NOT A SECRET THAT I LOVE RUFUS FUCKING SHINRA. I've sort of been writing him in other guises for at least a decade and a half. And yeah, I've always thought that's why the Turks are so loyal to Rufus: they are loyal to Tseng, and Rufus owns Tseng and always will. I think Tseng tried very hard not to want Rufus, but how can you not?

And oh my god, Vincent going back to the Turks. That would be epic. Because: yeah. Rufus would see everything Vincent was, and he wouldn't judge. And Vincent is a tool that is begging to be used, and Rufus would be able to use him in such a way that he would not break from it.

Rufus would be able to use him in such a way that he would not break from it

This, this, this. I mean, Vincent /was/ a Turk, he knows about expedience, he knows about ruthlessness, and I'm pretty sure no one enters that outfit without having a taste for danger. But the thing with Lucrecia and Hojo so clearly broke him. The promise of a leader who wouldn't /do/ that would have to be pretty darn tempting to him.

Because goodness knows, Cloud's no kind of leader. A hero, yes, but not a leader.

I've actually always really loved that about Cloud -- the fact that he isn't a leader, I mean. I have maintained for a really long time that FF7, taken as a whole, is actually a very strong (...and slightly vicious) skewering of the RPG tropes that were standard up until that point, and that it goes to great effort to point out all the ways in which those tropes are unrealistic and frankly unhealthy, and the moment where you-the-player realize that the "hero" character you've been self-identifying/self-inserting as is actually pretty screwed up and no hero at all and is doing the same self-insert thing you-the-player is doing really was a challenge thrown into the jaws of an entire industry.

(I, uh, have very strong thoughts about this. Obviously.)

But yeah, I love that Cloud isn't a leader, and I think there's a part of Vincent that likes that, in a way, because the last leader Vincent decided to follow (in the sense of, deciding to follow Shinra itself, I mean, not necessarily an individual person) betrayed him utterly and at least in deciding to join up with Cloud's merry band Vincent can be relatively assured that it won't happen again. (Or not in the same way, at least.) But yeah, I think he'd reach the point where EVEN HE will acknowledge that he has had too much moping and it is time to get up and do something about it.

(Get up, Jonah; it's your time to be born.)

And since Rufus is working to redeem the sins of the fathers at that point, well, it'd be pretty natural for Vincent to hitch his wagon to Rufus's star. Especially since, well, if Tseng and the other Turks are following this man, there must be a reason for it. It would take a lot of very, very, very tentative baby steps, but I can see it. I can really see it.

*snickering* That's another favorite moment of mine in AC. I mean, when /Vincent/ tells you you're being an anti-social twerp, it's definitely time to stop brooding.

Oh, God, say it twice!

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