Fandom pairing meme swiped from _debbiechan_

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:

Heh. I really only have 2 main fandoms, but I'll try to expand my horizons a bit. (Not in order of importance; more like chronological order of when I got into them.)

1. Sirius/Severus (HP)
2. Lupin/Snape (HP)
3. Ichigo/Uryuu (Bleach)
4. Renji/Uryuu (Bleach)
5. Ryuuken/Uryuu (Bleach)
6. Chad/Uryuu (OK, maybe I should have just said "Most Any Bleach Guy/Uryuu"...)
7. James/Snape (HP)
8. Gin/Rangiku (Bleach, and OMG a HET ship!)
9. Isshin/Ryuuken (Bleach)
10. Ulquiorra/Orihime (Bleach and OMG ANOTHER HET ship!)
11. Naruto/Sasuke (because even tho I don't follow the manga faithfully, I find Naruto's fixation on Sasuke just damned compelling.) ;)

Hmm. OK, so what trends do y'all see, oh my dear f-list? ;) I have my own opinions, but I'll put them below a cut so as not to influence you.

Right. Like I haven't scratched my head and gone "Why the heck do I like this stuff and these pairings?" before. Here's what I've come up with:

Contrast, baby! Contrast, friction and sexual tension. Gryffindor vs Slytherin. Shinigami vs Quincy. Relationships that start out with competition, fighting or outright hatred and precipitate (chemically, of course) into desire, love and need. Like "OMG I hate you and this is WRONG and we SHOULDN'T but we can't STOP OURSELVES!" followed by urgent, passionate wall-sex. Or better yet, guys realizing that those uber-intense emotions which they thought were hate and rage... really aren't. To that let's add established relationships where the rivalry/competition remains an undercurrent in the pairing. (Kurosaki/Ishida, I'm looking at you. Both sets of you.)

I also love the physical/emotional contrasts: introvert Uryuu with extrovert Ichigo; slight, intellectual Ishida with muscular, brash, physical Renji; snarky, pale, 120# dripping wet Uryuu with 190# of gentle, gorgeous, caramel-colored ~~incredibly well-endowed~~ Sado. (Obviously, Ryuuken/Uryuu goes against this trend. It goes against a lot of things, because it's just wrong. And yet.... there it is.)

As for the het ships, I like Gin/Ran because it's fucked up. Again there's the contrast of lush, happy Rangiku with sly, secretive Gin, but mostly I love it because of that one scene: "I wish you had held on a little longer. Gomenasi, Rangiku." As heartless as Gin seems, my instincts tell me that Rangiku is the one person in creation that Gin truly cares about, and mark my words, it will bring him to grief. Gin/Rangiku will end badly and beautifully and tear all our hearts out when it goes. And I find that irresistible.

There's a bit of that in the UlquiHime pairing as well, but with them the "doomed" element takes a backseat to the the Light/Dark, Heart/Heartless contrast. Plus, it's basically a reboot of the oldest "ship" in my stable: Pluto/Persephone. (Yes, I am that much of a geek.) It's also the one het ship that I honestly find damned smexy; one where I will not only look at but seek out NWS art and even fic. (Don't ask me what it is about these two, because I honestly don't know, but they're one of the very, very few het ships I'd actually consider writing NC17 fic for. Without squinting as I type, that is.)

OK, coffee break's over. Back to polishing up boy pron. ;)

Cries and Whispers

Fandom pairing meme swiped from _debbiechan_