Ramble meme!

[petronia]

To distract me from the new chapters of Bleach and Viewfinder I just dled but can't read--

Name me a character or pairing and I will ramble on about him/her/it/them. (Although if it's someone/something I've never given any thought, I will probably just say "I've never given that any thought." XD) The other one I've seen going around is "Ask any of my characters a question and I will answer", which is also OK for today's purpose! ♥

EDIT -- meme closed. I've still got a couple left I shall answer shortly. XD

Comments

[lazulisong.livejournal.com]

What do you think of Doumeki? In general or in regard to Donuts, it's up to you.

[miyukis-4.livejournal.com]

Ban/Ginji from Getbackers ^__^

[marej.livejournal.com]

Winston! is that cheating? if it is, then Asami!

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

Fai, from Tsubasa RC

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

This is where, much to my embarassment, I realize how little *I*'ve kept up with what's out there. Tsubasa was the last series I *furiously* downloaded; there are a bunch more on the computer (...and *vast amounts* at the Best Buy down the block), but of course then I come home after work, grab my two bottles of beer, and then suddenly it's eleven already and I'm *still* not sure where the last five hours went...although, oh, *so* much stumbling through flamewars on the various Russian military history forums x_X;;;

You aren't following Gunbuster 2, are you?

...and if not, then, Kino's Journey, no?

[bell]

Uh, Yuusuke/Yuuta! (though I'm also curious why you have an Ashuura/Yasha icon.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Alas no to either! And I'm not exactly on the ball with respect to the latest season either. XD Tsubasa is all right if that's what you want.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Which... do you mean Shuusuke/Yuuta? XDDD

[bell]

OH GOD I'M LAME. Er, that is, yes.

[serendip.livejournal.com]

Eriol? XD

[dipping_sauce]

Motoko from Ghost in the Shell.

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Tsubasa is all right if that's what you want.

Is just the thing; I really want to start being *more* than just The Guy Who Is Obsessed With Fai (r)...

...although, maybe, Tsubasa!Seishirou?

[amamiyarin.livejournal.com]

Takumi from NANA. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I think Doumeki has awesome self-control. XD I mean, the only way the interaction in this series could possibly make sense is if you assume he finds it funny/cute to watch Watanuki spazz, except he never laughs. Not even in private. He doesn't even smile!

I've never been fond of CLAMP's "it's the MAGIC that makes it so I am inexplicably attracted to/repulsed by this person" trope (also seen extensively in CCS), though. I mean, this makes it less handwave-y than yr average shoujo romance how?

"Why does A like B? Why is B riled up by A? Why is C astonishingly clueless about D?"
"It's the MAGIC that causes it all."
"Oh, is that's what the kids are calling it these days?"

...Anyway, Donuts is too cute. In that WHUT ARE YOU TEN YEARS OLD DO I NEED TO DRAW A DIAGRAM WITH CRAYONS sort of way.

[incandescens]

Toshiki (from GetBackers)!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahaha~ XD

I was reading GetBackers 33 on the metro this morning. I keep wanting to translate Ayamine's chapter afterword gag panels, because he's sort of reached the point of "Look, the volume serialisation is in the THIRTIES, does anyone really care at this point if I stop pretending this is not total fluffy gay". Like--

Ginji: [...] But every time I lose myself, I am saved by the WARMTH of BAN-CHAN'S ARMS.
Makubex: By which you mean he BEATS you OVER THE HEAD.
Ginji: Yes, but it's a backward expression of LUV.
Makubex: ...But from my point of view it...... no. Just no.

All the way up to the umpteenth Ban vs. Raitei fight in volume 32 he was trailing his afterwords off with dark mutterings of "not enough OTP". XD;;

[lihsa.livejournal.com]

Keigo and Mizuiro from Bleach!

[tokkitsu.livejournal.com]

Uh... Hiyoshi from PoT? 8D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Winston? Are you serious? XD

Winston is short on inches and ethics but long on intelligence and cynicism. He's not just book smart - far from it - but the part of him (say 5% of overall mental resources) that's smart enough to know when to keep his mouth shut is often overmatched by the other 95% that simply doesn't work well with stupid, and as far as he's concerned violence and illegal activities are basically stupid in the long run, so... he's kind of bitter. XD He was probably beaten up a lot at school and entertained hopes that that sort of thing would stop once he was like a Nobel-track researcher and his tormentors were garbage truck drivers or something, and now etc.

He sort of likes where he's at, though. I think he's at the point of fuzzily realising it about himself, and Feilong's already seized that about him in their interview - he'll get his PhD and probably a proper day job but he won't cut ties with the Baishe, not so much because he can't give up the money but because he can't give up the freedom of having his own lab and unlimited funds for equipment and no paperwork and ability to do whatever research he wants without having to worry about grant applications let alone ethics committees. So Feilong will give him that much, because he's worth the money.

As for Asami... er, something I haven't said before? I said to Chrissie once that I don't really conceive of Asami x Feilong and Asami x Takaba as being contradictory because there's obviously no overlap in Asami's head. What attracts him about them is different. Asami doesn't talk about how he feels and you can't parse his glaring, but if you look at his actions Feilong reels him in with vulnerability and Takaba reels him in with defiance. And both are respectively totally clueless re the dynamic.

And Chrissie said yes obviously, Asami just likes what is hard to get. XD

(ZOMG I am sneak-reading the new VF and I cannot stop laughing.

Feilong: *raps Takaba over the head* You're doing it all wrong! You're very bad at this.
Takaba: Well EXCUSE ME but you don't seem very enthusiastic so how am I supposed to be enthusiastic either!

If Asami saw this he would have PAIN in his SOUL (assuming for purposes of rhetoric that he had a soul to begin with).)

[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

::cries::

I'm only on VOLUME THREE! Of the ENGLISH TRANSLATION! WHICH SEEMS TO BE TURNING KAZUKI INTO A WOMAN!

M, needs all the OTP she can get, too.

[tsutanai.livejournal.com]

Ginko.

And then, for bonus stage, whether or not Mushishi doujinshi focused on pairings make sense. XD (We've debated the platonic form of the inevitable Mushishi doujinshi here, and come up with some really disturbing hypotheses. XDXD)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

OH, FAI. I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHERE CLAMP ARE GOING WITH THIS.

I like how the big joke is that they're a simulacrum of a white-picket-fence nuclear family (mom, dad, son, daughter, pet) and Fai is the mom, presumably because he bakes. I like what inebriates they are all the time. I like how Fai pretends to be a lightweight until he and Kurogane get in a moment away from the kids, and then they are like NOW WE OLD SOLDIERS DRINK FOR REAL. Gay and tragic in the old (deprecated?) sense.

I like that Fai is healing, even though we still don't know from what. I know it won't last. >_> *downloads more chapters*

I don't have a Fai icon! Just this Yasha/Ashura one pere_chan made for me.

[marej.livejournal.com]

Winston? Are you serious?

would i ask otherwise? *g* eeeeee *draws hearts around Winston* tell me more about what he looks like!

[OT-ish: and just so you know, next time (unless of course you put a caveat. which, DON'T!!!!) you offer ficlets, i'm SO asking for some Feilong/Winston, or just some Feilong&Winston interaction.]

because there's obviously no overlap in Asami's head.

ahahahahaha. indeed!

ZOMG I am sneak-reading the new VF and I cannot stop laughing.

SABINA! Don't be evil, or I'll start calling you Asami-sama. (you only THINK I'm kidding) you got the scans? 'cause i wanna see toooooo. come onnnnn.

[marej.livejournal.com]

er. i meant to say, please? *g*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

And verily I say unto thee again, "Vampires, CLAMP? Do I really have to get up and smack a bitch?"

The jury is out. What it depends on is how much they feel like turning the tables on Seishirou, which at this point is probably a lot - the smug bastard has always gotten everything he wanted, all through the TB/X timeline! - so I suspect the finale will be inventive. I mean, mere obsessive hunting of someone to the point of total disregard for the lives and well-being of others is nothing in CLAMPverse. Everybody does it. Seishirou is not everybody, therefore it has to be more interesting than that.

I await the stomping. All else equal I will read it to the end for the stomping. CLAMP knows it too, I'm sure, which is why it won't be for a good long while yet.