Lost without my linguistics
Mar. 31st, 2006 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandroot*snaps fingers* That's it! *hearts Athena for making her think*
What I really don't like about so much fic-Yukimura characterization. It's that, in absence of hard information, the vast majority of fandom writes Yukimura like they write Fuji.
And that's totally off.
Fuji is one of the single most elusive characters in tenipuri. I'd put him and Tezuka in the top two slots, though for rather opposite reasons. Tezuka is elusive because he shows so little of himself. Fuji is elusive because he shows so much that's misleading. Fuji always keeps an ace in reserve, or tries to. Fuji stays out of arm's reach, perceptually speaking.
Yukimura never hides what he is.
And where part of Fuji's character development has been for him to become engaged, to learn how to feel involved and act on his own and his team's ambitions, Yukimura has never been un-engaged.
Disengaged, perhaps, but most certainly not by his own will or desire, and he takes a significant personal risk to return to tennis and his team as soon as humanly possible.
To write Yukimura as hidden, in the way that Fuji typically hides himself, really seems to miss a core aspect of his character.
*amused* This started with the thought that Yukimura uses ore, while Fuji uses boku, and why the difference exists.
What I really don't like about so much fic-Yukimura characterization. It's that, in absence of hard information, the vast majority of fandom writes Yukimura like they write Fuji.
And that's totally off.
Fuji is one of the single most elusive characters in tenipuri. I'd put him and Tezuka in the top two slots, though for rather opposite reasons. Tezuka is elusive because he shows so little of himself. Fuji is elusive because he shows so much that's misleading. Fuji always keeps an ace in reserve, or tries to. Fuji stays out of arm's reach, perceptually speaking.
Yukimura never hides what he is.
And where part of Fuji's character development has been for him to become engaged, to learn how to feel involved and act on his own and his team's ambitions, Yukimura has never been un-engaged.
Disengaged, perhaps, but most certainly not by his own will or desire, and he takes a significant personal risk to return to tennis and his team as soon as humanly possible.
To write Yukimura as hidden, in the way that Fuji typically hides himself, really seems to miss a core aspect of his character.
*amused* This started with the thought that Yukimura uses ore, while Fuji uses boku, and why the difference exists.
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Date: 2006-04-10 10:38 pm (UTC)You know, curiously enough, the one I've been coming to think of as most manipulative in the fanon-Fuji manner is Sanada. He's so calm and watchful when he isn't actually playing, and then so (I think) calculatedly and flamboyantly arrogant and loud when he's on. The contrast says deliberate manipulation of his opponenets, to me, rathere the same way Fuji's head games of late-power-revelation do.
I rather despair of ever seeing /that/ Sanada in fic, though. *sighs*
And yes. I know what you mean about the anime versus manga Yukimuras, though I don't know that I can express it any better. I think... perhaps the anime Yukimura's ferocity is inwardly focused. The bridge scene is all about his inner struggle. Where manga Yukimura's is outwardly focused, toward interaction with his team.
*goes to ponder this some more*