Shippy meme!

[moonwise]

Ganked from jaina

Off the top of your head, right now, what ten ships would you likely drop what you're doing to read fic for? Or, alternately, what are the top ten ships that you'll give a fic a chance for, or that you've been dying to write, or that you've been dying to read... These can be new loves, old flames, or something in between. Explain if you like, but you don't have to. Then tell us 3 things these ships say about you. Leave a comment about what you think these ships say about me, then repeat in your own LJ.

Like jaina, I'm leaving out Vash/Meryl, because it's too obvious.

1. Jin/Shino. (obsessed much? yes.)
2. Mugen/Yatsuha. (Because for those two, breaking things = foreplay, and sex would be loud.)
2. Egon/Janine
3. Keith/Allura
4. Ichigo/Rukia
5. Ayato/Ixtli
6. Ed/Winry shut up. just shut up.
7. Jet/Faye
8. Laguna/Raine
9. Squall/Quistis
10. Kyo/Tohru

What does this say about me?

1. I like the default m/f ships, especially those with UST.
2. Grumpy couples are fun.
3. Deep inside, I'm a hopeless romantic.

And another stolen from jaina...

Give me a relationship (romantic or not, canon or not) from a fandom you know I'm interested in. I'll comment on it, be it cheering, explaining why I don't get it, ranting, or whatever.

Comments

[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

For starters, I didn't find any of the characters in FFVIII (or Final Fantasy 90210, as we like to call it) to be all that likeable. Of the girls, Selphie was my least of the three evils, because I appreciate a little bit of insanity. "Are we going to blow it up with a ROCKET LAUNCHER?!?!?"

Into this mix, enter Quistis Tripe [sic]. Now if you mean galloping insecurity in the sense of the Mongol hordes storming across Russia, then we're on the same page here. Everytime Quistis whines about something, mentally add, "...and now my Daddy is gonna take away my credit cards!" at the end. It works all too well.

Aside from the one event where she guns down the spiderbot at Dollet (and fanboyz spontaneously cream themeselves), Quistis is damn worthless. Worse than worthless, in fact--at best she's a drag on the rest of the group, at worst she gets them into even more trouble with her flakiness. Consider the assassination attempt on Edea. Quistis: "Although the FATE OF THE WORLD depends upon the critical timing needed to pull off this mission, I had better abandon my post and go APOLOGIZE TO RINOA because she might be upset! In fact, apologizing to Rinoa is so important that....why did the door lock?!?!? If my Daddy hears about this, he'll take away my credit cards!"

It makes you wonder why an elite paramilitary force like SeeD would entrust someone like Quistis to be an instructor in the first place. I'd have said she slept her into the position (har har), but I think she's too vapid even for something so simple. Credit for firing her, though.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Honestly, why SeeD would trust the fate of the world to a gaggle of teenagers is beyond me, no matter who the teenagers are.

Regarding Quistis and the apology: I'd have to wonder about the cultural context there. The Japanese place an incredible value on politeness, and I'm sure that Quistis's need to go back and apologize says something very positive about her character in that regard. To Americans, who do not apologize for things to nearly the same degree, her apology becomes more of a WTF moment.

She was actually one of my stronger characters, to tell the truth. ^_^; I kinda felt sorry for her, because I can identify with feeling insecure.

[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

An interesting point there. I suppose Quistis is "polite to a fault," which would explain also explain why she can't control her classroom (being a university professor, I have experience with this phenomenon). And to tell you the truth, I wasn't thinking about Japanese cultural context during that part of the game, I was thinking that it was a rather contrived way to advance the plot.

Still, I can think of overpolite characters that I can appreciate--Yuna in FFX (at least earlier in the game), and Belldandy in Oh! My Goddess (though I'll never admit to that in public). So I guess it's something else that keeps the soul burning with Quistis.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Still, I can think of overpolite characters that I can appreciate--Yuna in FFX (at least earlier in the game), and Belldandy in Oh! My Goddess (though I'll never admit to that in public)

I ended up liking Yuna a lot by the end of FFX, because I felt that the relationship-building that went on with Tidus was a lot more realistic than, oh, Rinoa and Squall (Disc 1: "I hate you, Rinoa!" Disce 2: "I hate you, Rinoa!" Disc 3: "I hate you, Rinoa!" Disc 4: "I love you, Rinoa!") Unfortunately, FFX-2 was not a worthy sequel - it took what maturity Yuna had gained during FFX and replaced it with Charlie's Angels. Color me unimpressed.