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Post by leafonthebreeze on Oct 7, 2007 20:45:39 GMT
Favourites? Well Cloud/Tifa, Zack/Aerith, Cloud/Jesse (is actually canon, her feelings for him anyway) Vincent/Shalua. Others that I quite like are Reno/Elena, occasionally Tifa/Vincent if done right, and Vincent/Yuffie, oh and Cid/Shera obviously Reno/Rude is pretty tolerable, maybe because I've read so much of it (It is basically the only person Reno is ever paired with on Ficwad...) I don't really mind other pairings, because I think anything can work if you do it right, I just avoid Cloud/Aerith because I don't like directly contradicting Cloud/Tifa
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Post by piratesrox on Oct 7, 2007 22:56:51 GMT
I'm Clorith to the end! I refuse point blank to believe she left with Zack! That gutted me! He's been looking for her for like 2 years! Then she leaves with a dead guy... And here's a thought. At the end of AC, was she actually there? Those kids she crouches next too... can they see her?
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Post by Sai on Oct 7, 2007 23:14:12 GMT
I remember a scene in the actual game, after Aeris/th is dead, you go to the church and there she is for a flicker of a moment, then you go talk to the two children inside, and they are like "Where did the flower lady go?" So, I pretty much figured that they could see her. This only increased when I saw AC, because she was basically doing the same exact thing she had been doing for a flicker of a moment with two children.
I like Clorith. It isn't my favorite pairing, but I like Clorith more than Cloti.
Just my thought.
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Oct 7, 2007 23:49:03 GMT
I'm Clorith to the end! I refuse point blank to believe she left with Zack! That gutted me! He's been looking for her for like 2 years! Then she leaves with a dead guy... And here's a thought. At the end of AC, was she actually there? Those kids she crouches next too... can they see her? ROFL The dead guy happens to be Zack. Zack was her boyfriend before she ever met Cloud and he is still in love with her. Regardless of how she felt for Cloud, she did love Zack too, so why would her leaving with Zack come as some sort of a shock?? Zack's last thoughts in the battle where he died were of her and during CC, she used her power to keep him alive long enough to see that Cloud was okay. Zack shared something far, FAR deeper than she ever had with Cloud. Over time, had she lived, I think she and Cloud would have been okay together, and Zack agrees. Zack flat out says- "If you meet Aerith, I'll be counting on you..." Cloud didn't hear it, but Zack loved her and he knew that he was dying- he wanted Aerith to fall in love again. That is what it means to love someone completely, but they are both dead now, so what on earth could possibly be wrong with it??
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Post by Clan Dragoon on Oct 8, 2007 0:03:33 GMT
You have to excuse Zephyr, he's hopeless...
But Lady V's correct. Zack and Aeris had something so much more real then Cloud and Aeris. That's why I love them.
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Post by Pen Against Sword on Oct 8, 2007 16:53:52 GMT
My favorite pairings usually involve Yuffie. I like things that most people would consider crack. (Heck, in the Kingdom Hearts section, I'm writing a Yuffie/Axel. And attempting to be serious!)
My favorite pairing that I have a hard time finding good fanfic for is Yuffie/Vincent. I can sometimes roll for Reno/Yuffie because I just like to see how people pull that off, and on a very few, rare occasions, I have seen some amazingness done with Cid/Yuffie. I know, I know, that's weird as hell, but if anyone's ever read Ain't Like I Planned by Enkida, they'll know what I mean.
And one time, I read a Yuffie/Rude. Very short, very cute, actually worked in a way. A lot of the time, I really think that it's all up to how exactly the thing is written.
Least favorite? Eh, well, I'm not usually all that interested in slash pairings. It's just that most of the characters people slash together, I never can picture as being homosexual. I see a lot of Cid/Vincent and I just go "huwha?"
And let me just admit this:
Cloud/Tifa and Cloud/Aeris bore the hell out of me. Really. Just...boring. If a fic is romance and its main pairing is Cloud/Tifa or Cloud/Aeris, I just go "meh" and pass it over. I realize I could be passing something good up, but it just loses my interest so quickly. I just, for some reason, have never found Cloud all that interesting. To a point, I like Aeris, and most times, I really enjoy writing Tifa, but most times, they make me yawn and go reread Sunshine In Winter.
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Post by fearandloathing on Oct 8, 2007 17:28:04 GMT
I will hear nothing against your Yuffie/Axel. You called Mansex 'moonboy', which makes you a legend in my book Reno/Yuffie OTP
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Post by Sai on Oct 8, 2007 19:07:13 GMT
Moonboy?
I think I'm going to have to go read that.
It sounds completely interesting.
Moonboy. .>.< hahahahaha.
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Post by Dee on Oct 9, 2007 9:37:42 GMT
That would be Cid/Vincent, yes it's completely fanon but it's my favorite! Least favorite would have to be a tie between Cloud/Tifa, Cloud/Aerith, Zack/Aerith. I'm sorry but....just...no. Like PAS mentioned, those last three are just so damn boring and hard for me to buy. Other than Zack/Aerith, which I'm sure they loved each other but I still don't like the pairing, Cloud/any woman seems highly implausible to me.
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Post by fearandloathing on Oct 9, 2007 11:39:53 GMT
To quote an insane interweb-friend of mine.
OT3! RenoXRudeXReno's nightstick!
Why does that frighten me so very much?
I think the point I had with this was that I'm more of a fan of realistic pairings, not to say that I hate anything other than cannon, but some things are just impossible in my mind.
Which brings up the question, what is your crackiest ship?
Get's onto thread-maker-thing
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Post by Dahhak on Oct 25, 2007 11:26:13 GMT
Man, it's threads like this that just go to show how incredibly complex this series is and the character relations and such. It's hard to know where to start.
Favourite Pairing - Vincent and Shelke. Yes, I am aware that I am the single, one and only person on this planet (and probably any other) that likes that pairing, so there's no need to point it out to me, I do know by now.
Least Favourite - Aeris and Red. Well? Hojo tried to force them to breed! That was just all kinds of wrong! But seriously, I'd have to go for ... Aeris and Cloud. I don't like Cloud much and I don't think he's really good enough for her.
I'm all for Cloud and Tifa, although that's in part because I find them both boring and think they suit each other. As far as Aeris and Zack go ... haven't a clue. I haven't seen any of this new stuff involving Zack so all I know about him is what I saw in FF7 and AC, which isn't much. He seems nice enough, and Aeris did have him as her boyfriend back when they were both still alive.
Can I just say, by the way, poor Yuffie! Does anyone favour a ship with Yuffie? Ok she's really off the wall and goofy, but I do think she has a sensible side burried under there somewhere. Ooooh! How about Yuffie and Reno!! *starts daydreaming* that would be so cool ...
Don't kill me.
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Post by leafonthebreeze on Oct 25, 2007 12:12:24 GMT
I do love Yuffie/Reno, it was my first ship, and my first train wreck of a fic was about them heh
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Post by T. Costa on Oct 25, 2007 20:04:28 GMT
I don't really support or dislike any particular pairings, except for Valenwind, which makes me go "Buh?" Simply because while Cid may or may not be gay, and Vincent may or may not be gay, I really couldn't see them getting together. Opposites attract, but there's a frickin' limit, and the limit is right before those two. It would be like the Odd Couple - a constant battle between good and evil, ironed slacks and sweats, and probably a whole lot of Vincent trying to convince Cid not to keep smoking (Dunno why, but Vincent kinda always struck me as one of those people who would frown and step away from cigarette smoke).
I'll pretty much read anything as long as it's done well - and nothing illegal or disturbing is going on. I don't like Nanaki in ANY pairing as long as he's in his current form. I've seen AU fics where he's human, and fics where he somehow gets transformed to human, and forms a romantic relationship, and that's fine, but I won't read anything where he's still nonhuman, because that's just disturbing.
I also won't read anything with Marlene or Shelke romances unless they've matured. I know Shelke is 19 but still...ick. I've read, however, really good stories featuring either of those where they've got adult bodies and it's very tastefully done, so that's fine. Same with Denzel.
Incidentally, rapefics bother me a whole lot. It's one thing if a rape furthers the plot - it's another if that's the whole story. There's a difference between BDSM and rape and I cannot deal with rapefics. They disturb me on a level I can't quite describe (although stories that start out with rape but move into consentual stuff, or like I said, have rape but because it furthers the plot) are fine by me.
I'll pretty much read anything, though, as long as I can sort through the grammar - het, slash, yuri, canon, noncanon, whatever. Recently I've been writing a lot of Yuffentine, but that's an odd one - you have to be really careful with it, or else it's going to come out ridiculous. It takes a lot of reading between the lines, and a lot of postulation. I tend to go to the future, because there's not a lot in-game that suggests that pairing, although it can and has been done well.
Oooh, Ain't Like I Planned is such a good fic. I can't say it brought me into the pairing - I'd written a Cid/Yuffie fic before that - but it's so realistic. That's a woman (Enkida is a woman, right?) who has Cid, down pat.
~Tasha
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Post by Yokai Salute on Dec 7, 2007 2:51:37 GMT
... I'm surrounded by Yuffentine haters on all sides except above me, and I'm feeling quite small, helpless and rather scared now... But yeah. Yuffentine is my OTP, followed closely by Zack/Aerith and CloTi.
Yaoi scares me. Really, it does. Especially when it has no basis. Like Cid/Vincent. Or any other slash that I can think of that have such better ships besides Yaoi ships. That stuff makes me want to go hide under my bed and not come out until Mushroom Kingdom Hearts rears its prophesied and Nintendo-ified head.
Seriously. To borrow a term, GROSS-NESS. I would ship Vincent with Lucrecia before I did that. Although I suppose that's hardly fair to say, since it's canon. Okay... I would give up Zutara as my A:TLA OTP before I shipped any kind of Yaoi besides anything canon. Like Haku/Zabuza.
I'm rambling.
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Post by fearandloathing on Dec 7, 2007 10:18:13 GMT
Now, I used to be against yaoi until two things hit me. 1. Cardcaptor Sakura - I swear if her older brother and Yuki don't have SOMETHING going on I'll eat my life-size model of Syaoran They are just about the cuuutest thing ever, and both guys, but the CUTE IS JUST TOO MUCH TO BEAR! 2. Papa to kiss in the dark - it's already been discussed in the anime thread, but basically this has yaoi everywhere you look (ONE female character in entire show) and parts are just '...aaw' *wibble* For some strange reason, the song 'Complicated' by Avril Lavigne reminds me of Yuffietine...*shrugs* oh well. I don't mind the pair, they can be very funny and cute - but just *not* my sweet sweet ficrack that spot is reserved for Kakashi/Sakura and Kakashi/Sakura alone
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