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Post by fearandloathing on Oct 15, 2007 16:02:58 GMT
I know, and it was set post-VII story, so it was like TWENTY-SOMETHING-YEAR-OLDS can't make it as big-time Ice-skaters! (I'm sorry, but they can't)
She would have to be about 17, and Sephy couldn't be evil-sephy, just his character as a trainer.
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Post by Ink on Oct 15, 2007 17:09:36 GMT
Sadly, what you say is true. Badly written high-school fics should burn in Hell. I would not mind the high-school part as much if the characters were actually well written, and in the right age, with proper attitude/powers. Damn, I can't stand them otherwise. Unfortunately, there're too many authors out there, writing exactly what one should never write.
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Post by snarky on Oct 15, 2007 20:49:55 GMT
There's crack potential for a comedy in which the FF cast find out that Vincent is actually a vampire (or even more crazily, someone like Yuffie)- but when it leaves comedy is when it should be burned. (And it will burn. In hell.) I don't know if I agree with that. I've seen a few stories that play with that idea in a serious fashion, and they've done well. But that's not on topic. Lol. My guilty pairing is a Rufus x Tifa. I've always wanted to see a really good one, and if anyone ever wrote a really good one, I would love them forever. ;D (( that's not really that cracky, though... is it...?))
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Post by fearandloathing on Oct 15, 2007 22:05:40 GMT
...you know...
...I'm actually writing a Rufus/Tifa one-shot at the moment...
(P.s. you ever read 'What you carry with you//What you leave behind?' because that's what inspired me to write this unfinished shot)
Note: Rufus/Tifa shot is intended to be a lemon. In a very direct sense of the word. But no squeam, I hope
Why is Rufus/Tifa so godawfully, wrongly right???
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Post by Ink on Oct 16, 2007 13:21:32 GMT
Rufus/Tifa could, as a crack pairing, be at least tolerable (you know, me and romance...) but if it's written as a serious fic, I find it too unlikely to work, and most of them turn out really bad.
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Post by fearandloathing on Oct 16, 2007 15:40:05 GMT
Thanks. Edit: I sat here and thought about what I could say to pad out this post, knowing full-well that what I had was too short, but alas, I found nothing, and MASH was on...
So instead, as pennance, I will make up a haiku.
Genesis awards Beware not threatening welcomes Only Ink will bite.
Thankyou all. And yes, I have wayyy too much time on my hands.
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Post by piedflycatcher on Oct 16, 2007 15:59:08 GMT
Fear, could you put a little more substance into your posts, please? Just a full sentence would be fine. We technically have a rule against one word posts. As for crack ships... Hmm, I'm not sure that I do ship anything which you would call crack. I tend to go for the boring vanilla canon pairings. XD I kinda like the idea of Cloud/Yuffie though, if that counts.
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Oct 16, 2007 16:13:40 GMT
Rufus/Tifa stories make no sense to me- at all. That is pure fanon to say that they ought to be more than enemies or at the very most, VERY uneasy allies.
Say what you want, but Tifa has a pretty long memory and the Shinra name was responsible for everything Hojo did too. Rufus Shinra and his company have repeatedly ruined her life over and over. They sent Seph to Nibelheim not only did her father die but Tifa almost did too. Shinra dropped the plate on Sector Seven. Shinra let Hojo experiment on Cloud leaving him a broken shell that had to pretend he was Zack just to survive. Then here's what really kills me; Rufus was the man who came up with the idea to execute her and Barret during the original game- I just can't see it.
That pairing isn't just crack in my book- it'd qualify as really *bad character rape too*... err poor judgement on her part. Tifa is sweet, forgiving and genuinely a good person, but she ISN'T stupid- which for her to date Rufus would be.
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Post by fearandloathing on Oct 16, 2007 16:27:36 GMT
*Rufus looks up from over his file of documents.* 'You underestimate one thing, friend' *Tifa brings tray of tea into the room with a slave band on a.k.a. Terra* 'The power of the white suit. Tifa dear, can we have some biscuits too?' 'Sure.' *Rufus smiles evilly at you.* But to be serious and quote a friend of mine on 'badly matched' characters, 'I think they'd have really good hatesex' Rufus/Tifa basically are hatesex, which can be pretty damn fun it's done right. Rufus - 'In other words, with the lights on.' 'You're a pervert, you know that?' 'Yes dear.' [/insanit...who am I kidding.]
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Oct 16, 2007 16:59:59 GMT
If she was going to be in it just for the kinky stuff I'd rather see Tifa with Sephiroth in a poorly written porn fic.
At least I can see how that might get started- as in Seph brutally rapes her because he knows it will hurt Cloud...
Rufus and Tifa?? Nope. Still can't see it.
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Post by fearandloathing on Oct 16, 2007 17:12:03 GMT
It's not about 'kinky stuff', it's like... (arg) who else was a Rufus/Tifa addict besides me?
Hatesex isn't rape, it's like the whole 'I hate you and I hate what you do to me but I can't stop' mentality...kinda hard to explain. You see it mildly in matches like Aurikku and Yuffietine: they shouldn't mix but then that's why they do.
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Oct 16, 2007 17:33:59 GMT
Hatesex isn't rape, it's like the whole 'I hate you and I hate what you do to me but I can't stop' mentality... ROFL ;D Honey, please, you DON'T need to tell me what hate sex is- I've been there and actually done it- repeatedly, in fact. I was trying (and failing because I hurried) to make a joke of my response because Rufus and Tifa really rubs me wrong for VERY personal reasons that I just don't feel right discussing on a public thread. So, I was trying to make myself leave this thread alone.
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Post by Sylla on Oct 16, 2007 18:10:31 GMT
It's not about 'kinky stuff', it's like... (arg) who else was a Rufus/Tifa addict besides me? Me! *raises hand* Me me me me me! I have absolutely no idea why I love it, but I do. (Yes I am weird.) By the way, that was a very nice haiku, Fear. =P
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Post by Ink on Oct 16, 2007 19:17:37 GMT
Val took the words right out of my mouth... err, the text right out of my fingers. I agree completely.
And yes, it was a nice haiku. I was mentioned, and that alone made it awesome. I'm so flattered, fear.
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Post by snarky on Oct 17, 2007 1:41:59 GMT
I'm not a fan of Rufus/Tifa for the sex. No, it's more that I think under the right circumstances, they could have an amazing, tense dynamic that would be fascinating to read.
They say love is very close to hate - that they are, in fact, two sides of the same coin of extremely-strong-emotion. I have this image in my head - or, well, series of images - of a progression of hate to love between Tifa and Rufus, though, as I said, it would have to be under the right circumstances and with the right characterizations. I can also see them oscilating back and forth between hostility and actually liking each other - possibly enough for an attraction to grow, but then the pendulum woudl swing the other way, and bam, they're back to hating each other. I think a lot of nifty psychological things could be done with them.
... but of course I don't think it would ever happen cannonically. -shifty eyes-
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