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_tehriah. I meant to take it days ago, but it seems my attention wandered. Or something.
1. How long have you been pairing up characters in your fandom?
In fandom, I do believe Pokémon started it in fifth or sixth grade. Remarkably, Ash/Misty still survives as my Pokémon OTP to this day. It's so very almost!canon and cute and such. Hahaha, I've been writing fanfiction for it since practically forever, too. (In fact, Pokéshippy fanfiction is how_tehriah and I met.)
2. What got you into this?
I'm confused as to what 'this' might be referring to, but if it's fandom in general, I blame all of it on Pokémon for good reason.
3. Do your friends/parent(s) know about this?
I think everyone who has done so much as walk past me in a hallway knows about my fangirlishness, as I tend to blatantly advertise it with my anime shirts, anime bags, random cosplay accessories, and anime laptop. I also tend to blabber about anime almost nonstop (except when I talk about animals or writing). I'm flamboyantly otaku.
4. Do you tend to fall for canon pairings or so-called "weird" ones?
I usually go for near-canon, or at least pairings that give me something to go off of. This isn't to say I don't like some weird pairings every now and then, though--I just prefer stuff with lots of character interaction and hints and so on and so forth.
5. Name some pairings that you've obsessed over in the past:
Ummm... Wow. Let's see. Ash/Misty (Pokémon), Tsume/Toboe (Wolf's Rain), Claus/Lavie (Last Exile), Amon/Robin (Witch Hunter Robin), Tatsuha/Ryuichi (Gravitation), Declan/Miranda (Mysterious Ways (OMG, non-anime pairing!)), Naruto/Sasuke (Naruto), Lee/Sakura (Naruto), Kiba/Hinata (Naruto), Ayato/Haruka (RahXephon), Franz/Albert (Gankutsuou), Albert/Eugenie (Gankutsuou), Haruhi/Kyon (Haruhi), Tamaki/Haruhi (Ouran)... Suffice to say, 'lots of things'? I don't ship for all my fandoms, though.
6. What is currently your hottest pairing?
I go through random day-by-day phases of what I obsess on. At the moment, it's probably jumping around between SasuNaru, HaruKyon, Franz/Albert (I can't squish that one!), and TamaHaru. So, uh. I don't know. Like I said, I switch around a lot.
7. Name some characteristics of your ideal seme:
Meh, stereotyped characters don't really interest me.
8. Name some characteristics of your ideal uke?
Same as above.
9. Which do you tend to like more: seme or uke?
I tend to fall more for the uke type, but that doesn't mean I support limiting the character to that stereotype.
10. Are there any pairings that you simply despise?
Back in the old days of all-out pairing wars, I used to despise pairings (read: Palletshipping)--but now, I don't so much hate pairings as I am wildly disinterested in them. If people like it, that's fine with me, and I won't bother them about it. For some reason, SasuSaku and ItaSasu kind of squick me, though, and...I don't know, there are plenty of pairings out there that I don't particularly care for.
11. Mark all that apply:
o = yes
- = sometimes
x = never
[o] het - I'm a straight girl, and therefore straight relationships are certainly of interest. I tend to support more het pairings than anything else, really. If it works well, who cares what gender the characters are? O_o;
[o] yaoi/BL - Yeah, I'm a shounen-ai fangirl. I don't deny it in the slightest. I'm choosy with it, though. I've got to be working off something meaningful in canon.
[o] yuri - I don't seek it out and it's pretty rare to begin with, but I do have my shoujo-ai pairings I'm definitely fond of. :D Like Ino/Sakura from Naruto and Kouya/Yamato from Loveless. (I still have to write something Kouya/Yamato, once I figure out what I want it to *be*...)
[o] love - Love is good. Isn't that kind of point of pairings? (Smut aside, I suppose? I don't know, I don't read smut except for occasional mock-age.)
[o] angst - I read and write so much angst it's ridiculous. I try to make it meaningful angst, at least, though, and at least somewhat realistic. What can I say? I'm a sucker for things that can make me emotional. It doesn't help that so many of my fandoms are sad, too.
[x] lemon - No thanks, except if I'm out to mock it (and there are some gloriously bad lemons out there!). Smut just doesn't interest me.
[o] fluff - Fluff with the right pairings makes me happy. That's why I love Lee/Sakura and Kiba/Hinata. It makes such wonderful cute fluff without all the angst and heaviness behind a large amount of the pairings I support.
[x] pr0n - Nah, no thanks. I guess I'm just not perverted enough to be a normal fangirl. *Weeps*
[?] sou-uke/sou-seme - I don't know what this is. O_o;
[-] 3some relationship - I don't have anything against them, persay, but don't usually read or write them. They're okay if done right, though.
[x] Mary Sue - Mary Sues lose at life.
[o] seme-uke switch - Why does it matter so much to people that they should stay in their "configurations," so to speak? I don't know--I just can't see a relationship working unless there is a certain amount of balance. I guess seme/uke works sometimes (Yuki/Shuichi and Tsume/Toboe are both pretty one-sided in that way), but the vast majority of the time I don't see why the characters can't just switch off and compromise and such.
[x] incest // twincest - I almost put a '-' for this because I'm not opposed to it as long as it's consentual and all that--but...uh, I just don't do anything related to it that I can think of. I want to see Koi Kaze, though, because I'm hearing such wonderful things about it.
[x] shota/loli - Um, no. I mean, if it's just characters looking younger than they are, it's one thing, but actual shota/loli is just...no.
[x] crossover pairings - Nah, there's nothing to go off of. Crossovers in general aren't very interesting.
[x] changing genders - Why can't the characters just stay their own genders? D:
[x] real life people - Other than Nicole and I randomly trying to pair up Maaya Sakamoto with people (jokingly, mind you), no. I see no point, and when they're actual people it's just weird.
From bothspiritdream and maryblue:
Pick five fandoms and answer these questions.
...Okay, time to randomly pick some of my fandoms out of the metaphorical random hat.
Naruto
1. The first character I first fell in love with: I think it was Sasuke? I don't know, it seems like such a long time ago. @_@ I think it was Shikamaru shortly after that, and then Naruto.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Sakura. She was so annoying at first, but she's really grown as a character and I think she's stronger emotionally than Naruto and Sasuke combined.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Perhaps I'm insane or something, but I really don't see what the big deal is with the Akatsuki. I mean, they're interesting, but people make them out to be OMG SOOOOO COOL and I don't think they're *THAT* cool. Maybe I just like the good characters too much, but I just...uh, don't care that much about the Akatsuki.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Uh, I don't think I love anyone who's wildly unpopular.
5. The character I would shag anytime: YONDAIME. ANYTIME. ANYWHERE. <--Hahaha, yes. XD;
6. The character I'd want to be like: Naruto. <--Agreed again!
7. The character I'd slap: Sasuke. Who doesn't want to slap Sasuke?
8. A pairing that I love: NaruSasuNaru, LeeSaku, KibaHina, InoSaku, NaruSaku (my own fanfic converted me, amusingly enough), ShikaTema, NaruHina to a degree (though I think it's boring), and others I'm sure.
9. A pairing that I despise: SasuSaku as a two-sided thing. It just...ick. I don't know why. ...Also, JiraiyaNaruto. I add that only because a badfic broke my brain forever thanks to that pairing.
10. Favorite character: Naruto and Shikamaru, probably. And Sakura and I guess Sasuke and Kiba and Akamaru and practically everyone, actually.
Honey & Clover
1. The first character I first fell in love with: MORITA. ♥ I was infatuated with him pretty much right away, and then I wasn't so infatuated and then it came back. So, yes. Much love for Morita.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: ALL OF THEM. Seriously, I loved them right away, but by the end I just wanted to HUG them all and cry with them and laugh with them. If they were real, they'd be good friends of mine. Mayama struck me as being kind of a questionable guy at first, and I found Hagu annoying for a little while, but they both totally grew on me along with everyone else.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: I don't think HachiKuro fans generally dislike any of the characters, and even if they do I definitely don't dislike anyone.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Is there a character people dislike in HachiKuro? I don't know--Nomiya? Is Nomiya disliked? I don't think he is. I like him, though. He's a good guy.
5. The character I would shag anytime: MORITA. I love Morita.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Takemoto. I think I am a little like Takemoto, but I love his outlook. :)
7. The character I'd slap: B-but I love everyone! I don't know, at first I thought I'd maybe like to slap Mayama for his behavior towards poor Ayu, but I forgave him.
8. A pairing that I love: Most of the canon ones, but particularly the two main one-sided ones (Takemoto/Hagu, Mayama/Ayu). I like Nomiya/Ayu, too, though, even though I didn't
9. A pairing that I despise: I don't despise anything or anyone from HachiKuro. Morita/Hagu never grew on me all the way, and neither did Shuu/Hagu if taken romantically, but I definitely can't say I dislike the pairings. I just don't like them as much as the other ones.
10. Favorite character: Morita. But I love all of them!
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
1. The first character I first fell in love with: That's really hard to say. The first time I watched Haruhi, I had no idea what to think. I think it was probably Haruhi, though. The second she stands up after the movie in the first episode she instantly oozes charisma, in my opinion. Kyon's narration cracked me up, though, so perhaps I liked him first?
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Yuki! She seemed like such a personality-less Rei-clone at first, but episode eleven totally won me over.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don'tThe character I love that everyone else hates: Itsuki! Well, okay--maybe people don't hate him, but I find him a rather under-rated character. He does have a personality under that fake smile! (Kind of...)
5. The character I would shag anytime: Um, no one really. I love Kyon, but not in an obsessive way. And I like him best with Haruhi, so...yeah.
6. The character I'd want to be like: One side of me wants to say Haruhi because I want her charisma, but at the same time she's awfully tyrannical.
7. The character I'd slap: I'll take d) none of the above.
8. A pairing that I love: Haruhi/Kyon rocks myworld universe!
9. A pairing that I despise: I don't really care for anything involving Kyon or Haruhi with anyone but each other, to be honest.
10. Favorite character: I can't decide between Kyon and Haruhi. Probably Haruhi just by a nose. ♥
Gankutsuou
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Albert! Teh cute.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: FRANZ. ;_; And Eugenie, too--I ended up really loving her as a character. OH, and Peppo! Awww, Peppo, you're so sweet!
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: My love for the Count is less than that of the average Gankutsuou fan.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Most of the characters in this show that are hated by the fans are hated for good reason. Let's just put it that way.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Possibly Albert. ._.;;
6. The character I'd want to be like: FRANZ! So selfless! *Sobs*
7. The character I'd slap: The Count, although his actions were justifiable to a degree.
8. A pairing that I love: Franz/Albert. ;_;
9. A pairing that I despise: Villefort/Albert. Yes, I just made that up. What are you going to do about it?
10. Favorite character: Albert or Franz. I can't decide. Franz is so sweet, but Albert is cute and naive.
Ouran High School Host Club
1. The first character I first fell in love with: TAMAKI. It was love at first sight.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Hikaru and Kaoru.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: I don't like Kyouya as much as many Ouran fans. I don't dislike him, either, but he just doesn't appeal to me much.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Renge? I don't know if people hate her or not. I think she's hilarious, anyway. Plus, I can sort of relate.
5. The character I would shag anytime: TAMAKI.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Haruhi! I ♥ Haruhi.
7. The character I'd slap: N/A? Eclaire at first, but she let Tamaki go and that was admirable.
8. A pairing that I love: Tamaki/Haruhi.
9. A pairing that I despise: I don't really care for Haruhi/anyone else. :/
10. Favorite character: TAMAKI! With Haruhi at a close second. :D
I have so much studying to do later tonight. :(
_tehriah. I meant to take it days ago, but it seems my attention wandered. Or something.1. How long have you been pairing up characters in your fandom?
In fandom, I do believe Pokémon started it in fifth or sixth grade. Remarkably, Ash/Misty still survives as my Pokémon OTP to this day. It's so very almost!canon and cute and such. Hahaha, I've been writing fanfiction for it since practically forever, too. (In fact, Pokéshippy fanfiction is how
_tehriah and I met.)2. What got you into this?
I'm confused as to what 'this' might be referring to, but if it's fandom in general, I blame all of it on Pokémon for good reason.
3. Do your friends/parent(s) know about this?
I think everyone who has done so much as walk past me in a hallway knows about my fangirlishness, as I tend to blatantly advertise it with my anime shirts, anime bags, random cosplay accessories, and anime laptop. I also tend to blabber about anime almost nonstop (except when I talk about animals or writing). I'm flamboyantly otaku.
4. Do you tend to fall for canon pairings or so-called "weird" ones?
I usually go for near-canon, or at least pairings that give me something to go off of. This isn't to say I don't like some weird pairings every now and then, though--I just prefer stuff with lots of character interaction and hints and so on and so forth.
5. Name some pairings that you've obsessed over in the past:
Ummm... Wow. Let's see. Ash/Misty (Pokémon), Tsume/Toboe (Wolf's Rain), Claus/Lavie (Last Exile), Amon/Robin (Witch Hunter Robin), Tatsuha/Ryuichi (Gravitation), Declan/Miranda (Mysterious Ways (OMG, non-anime pairing!)), Naruto/Sasuke (Naruto), Lee/Sakura (Naruto), Kiba/Hinata (Naruto), Ayato/Haruka (RahXephon), Franz/Albert (Gankutsuou), Albert/Eugenie (Gankutsuou), Haruhi/Kyon (Haruhi), Tamaki/Haruhi (Ouran)... Suffice to say, 'lots of things'? I don't ship for all my fandoms, though.
6. What is currently your hottest pairing?
I go through random day-by-day phases of what I obsess on. At the moment, it's probably jumping around between SasuNaru, HaruKyon, Franz/Albert (I can't squish that one!), and TamaHaru. So, uh. I don't know. Like I said, I switch around a lot.
7. Name some characteristics of your ideal seme:
Meh, stereotyped characters don't really interest me.
8. Name some characteristics of your ideal uke?
Same as above.
9. Which do you tend to like more: seme or uke?
I tend to fall more for the uke type, but that doesn't mean I support limiting the character to that stereotype.
10. Are there any pairings that you simply despise?
Back in the old days of all-out pairing wars, I used to despise pairings (read: Palletshipping)--but now, I don't so much hate pairings as I am wildly disinterested in them. If people like it, that's fine with me, and I won't bother them about it. For some reason, SasuSaku and ItaSasu kind of squick me, though, and...I don't know, there are plenty of pairings out there that I don't particularly care for.
11. Mark all that apply:
o = yes
- = sometimes
x = never
[o] het - I'm a straight girl, and therefore straight relationships are certainly of interest. I tend to support more het pairings than anything else, really. If it works well, who cares what gender the characters are? O_o;
[o] yaoi/BL - Yeah, I'm a shounen-ai fangirl. I don't deny it in the slightest. I'm choosy with it, though. I've got to be working off something meaningful in canon.
[o] yuri - I don't seek it out and it's pretty rare to begin with, but I do have my shoujo-ai pairings I'm definitely fond of. :D Like Ino/Sakura from Naruto and Kouya/Yamato from Loveless. (I still have to write something Kouya/Yamato, once I figure out what I want it to *be*...)
[o] love - Love is good. Isn't that kind of point of pairings? (Smut aside, I suppose? I don't know, I don't read smut except for occasional mock-age.)
[o] angst - I read and write so much angst it's ridiculous. I try to make it meaningful angst, at least, though, and at least somewhat realistic. What can I say? I'm a sucker for things that can make me emotional. It doesn't help that so many of my fandoms are sad, too.
[x] lemon - No thanks, except if I'm out to mock it (and there are some gloriously bad lemons out there!). Smut just doesn't interest me.
[o] fluff - Fluff with the right pairings makes me happy. That's why I love Lee/Sakura and Kiba/Hinata. It makes such wonderful cute fluff without all the angst and heaviness behind a large amount of the pairings I support.
[x] pr0n - Nah, no thanks. I guess I'm just not perverted enough to be a normal fangirl. *Weeps*
[?] sou-uke/sou-seme - I don't know what this is. O_o;
[-] 3some relationship - I don't have anything against them, persay, but don't usually read or write them. They're okay if done right, though.
[x] Mary Sue - Mary Sues lose at life.
[o] seme-uke switch - Why does it matter so much to people that they should stay in their "configurations," so to speak? I don't know--I just can't see a relationship working unless there is a certain amount of balance. I guess seme/uke works sometimes (Yuki/Shuichi and Tsume/Toboe are both pretty one-sided in that way), but the vast majority of the time I don't see why the characters can't just switch off and compromise and such.
[x] incest // twincest - I almost put a '-' for this because I'm not opposed to it as long as it's consentual and all that--but...uh, I just don't do anything related to it that I can think of. I want to see Koi Kaze, though, because I'm hearing such wonderful things about it.
[x] shota/loli - Um, no. I mean, if it's just characters looking younger than they are, it's one thing, but actual shota/loli is just...no.
[x] crossover pairings - Nah, there's nothing to go off of. Crossovers in general aren't very interesting.
[x] changing genders - Why can't the characters just stay their own genders? D:
[x] real life people - Other than Nicole and I randomly trying to pair up Maaya Sakamoto with people (jokingly, mind you), no. I see no point, and when they're actual people it's just weird.
From both
spiritdream and maryblue:Pick five fandoms and answer these questions.
...Okay, time to randomly pick some of my fandoms out of the metaphorical random hat.
Naruto
1. The first character I first fell in love with: I think it was Sasuke? I don't know, it seems like such a long time ago. @_@ I think it was Shikamaru shortly after that, and then Naruto.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Sakura. She was so annoying at first, but she's really grown as a character and I think she's stronger emotionally than Naruto and Sasuke combined.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Perhaps I'm insane or something, but I really don't see what the big deal is with the Akatsuki. I mean, they're interesting, but people make them out to be OMG SOOOOO COOL and I don't think they're *THAT* cool. Maybe I just like the good characters too much, but I just...uh, don't care that much about the Akatsuki.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Uh, I don't think I love anyone who's wildly unpopular.
5. The character I would shag anytime: YONDAIME. ANYTIME. ANYWHERE. <--Hahaha, yes. XD;
6. The character I'd want to be like: Naruto. <--Agreed again!
7. The character I'd slap: Sasuke. Who doesn't want to slap Sasuke?
8. A pairing that I love: NaruSasuNaru, LeeSaku, KibaHina, InoSaku, NaruSaku (my own fanfic converted me, amusingly enough), ShikaTema, NaruHina to a degree (though I think it's boring), and others I'm sure.
9. A pairing that I despise: SasuSaku as a two-sided thing. It just...ick. I don't know why. ...Also, JiraiyaNaruto. I add that only because a badfic broke my brain forever thanks to that pairing.
10. Favorite character: Naruto and Shikamaru, probably. And Sakura and I guess Sasuke and Kiba and Akamaru and practically everyone, actually.
Honey & Clover
1. The first character I first fell in love with: MORITA. ♥ I was infatuated with him pretty much right away, and then I wasn't so infatuated and then it came back. So, yes. Much love for Morita.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: ALL OF THEM. Seriously, I loved them right away, but by the end I just wanted to HUG them all and cry with them and laugh with them. If they were real, they'd be good friends of mine. Mayama struck me as being kind of a questionable guy at first, and I found Hagu annoying for a little while, but they both totally grew on me along with everyone else.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: I don't think HachiKuro fans generally dislike any of the characters, and even if they do I definitely don't dislike anyone.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Is there a character people dislike in HachiKuro? I don't know--Nomiya? Is Nomiya disliked? I don't think he is. I like him, though. He's a good guy.
5. The character I would shag anytime: MORITA. I love Morita.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Takemoto. I think I am a little like Takemoto, but I love his outlook. :)
7. The character I'd slap: B-but I love everyone! I don't know, at first I thought I'd maybe like to slap Mayama for his behavior towards poor Ayu, but I forgave him.
8. A pairing that I love: Most of the canon ones, but particularly the two main one-sided ones (Takemoto/Hagu, Mayama/Ayu). I like Nomiya/Ayu, too, though, even though I didn't
9. A pairing that I despise: I don't despise anything or anyone from HachiKuro. Morita/Hagu never grew on me all the way, and neither did Shuu/Hagu if taken romantically, but I definitely can't say I dislike the pairings. I just don't like them as much as the other ones.
10. Favorite character: Morita. But I love all of them!
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
1. The first character I first fell in love with: That's really hard to say. The first time I watched Haruhi, I had no idea what to think. I think it was probably Haruhi, though. The second she stands up after the movie in the first episode she instantly oozes charisma, in my opinion. Kyon's narration cracked me up, though, so perhaps I liked him first?
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Yuki! She seemed like such a personality-less Rei-clone at first, but episode eleven totally won me over.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don'tThe character I love that everyone else hates: Itsuki! Well, okay--maybe people don't hate him, but I find him a rather under-rated character. He does have a personality under that fake smile! (Kind of...)
5. The character I would shag anytime: Um, no one really. I love Kyon, but not in an obsessive way. And I like him best with Haruhi, so...yeah.
6. The character I'd want to be like: One side of me wants to say Haruhi because I want her charisma, but at the same time she's awfully tyrannical.
7. The character I'd slap: I'll take d) none of the above.
8. A pairing that I love: Haruhi/Kyon rocks my
9. A pairing that I despise: I don't really care for anything involving Kyon or Haruhi with anyone but each other, to be honest.
10. Favorite character: I can't decide between Kyon and Haruhi. Probably Haruhi just by a nose. ♥
Gankutsuou
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Albert! Teh cute.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: FRANZ. ;_; And Eugenie, too--I ended up really loving her as a character. OH, and Peppo! Awww, Peppo, you're so sweet!
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: My love for the Count is less than that of the average Gankutsuou fan.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Most of the characters in this show that are hated by the fans are hated for good reason. Let's just put it that way.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Possibly Albert. ._.;;
6. The character I'd want to be like: FRANZ! So selfless! *Sobs*
7. The character I'd slap: The Count, although his actions were justifiable to a degree.
8. A pairing that I love: Franz/Albert. ;_;
9. A pairing that I despise: Villefort/Albert. Yes, I just made that up. What are you going to do about it?
10. Favorite character: Albert or Franz. I can't decide. Franz is so sweet, but Albert is cute and naive.
Ouran High School Host Club
1. The first character I first fell in love with: TAMAKI. It was love at first sight.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Hikaru and Kaoru.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: I don't like Kyouya as much as many Ouran fans. I don't dislike him, either, but he just doesn't appeal to me much.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Renge? I don't know if people hate her or not. I think she's hilarious, anyway. Plus, I can sort of relate.
5. The character I would shag anytime: TAMAKI.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Haruhi! I ♥ Haruhi.
7. The character I'd slap: N/A? Eclaire at first, but she let Tamaki go and that was admirable.
8. A pairing that I love: Tamaki/Haruhi.
9. A pairing that I despise: I don't really care for Haruhi/anyone else. :/
10. Favorite character: TAMAKI! With Haruhi at a close second. :D
I have so much studying to do later tonight. :(
