Relationship meme!
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mikkenekoI'm reviving this meme, but with a slight twist: Instead of asking me about one specific character, ask me about a relationship. It doesn't have to be a romantic or sexual relationship (although it can be;) any two people who know each other and have a history. Kurogane+Syaoran, Fai+Sakura, Yuuko+Watanuki, anything you like... and I will tell you my Thoughts On
Name me a pair of characters from one of my fandoms (GW, TRC, or FMA), and I will tell you:
* How I feel about their relationship
* The high point and the low point of their relationship
* My unpopular opinion about their relationship
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with these two in canon
* Something about them I consider true, though it's just head canon
* A ficlet (100~500 words) of them having a quiet moment together
Fire away, although as per usual I add the disclaimer that if I think you're trollin' me (say, asking about Muraki and Tsuzuki from Yami no Matsuei) I will decline to fill the prompt.
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Date: 2012-05-24 02:38 am (UTC)I love giving them happy endings, when I can, in AU stories. (Or even by cheating with the canon, as in Family Portrait.)
2) The high point in their relationship was the moment in the throne room when their uncle threatened them with exile unless they chose one of them to die... and they just looked at each other and linked hands, preferring to go into exile together rather than choosing one of them over the other. They couldn't have really understood what was awaiting them, I think -- or else Fai (AND probably Yuui) would have volunteered right there... but just because their love hadn't been tested yet didn't make it not real.
A low point... I'm not really sure I can think of a low point, at least not one that was their own doing. Obviously Fai living for years with the guilt of his brother's murder was pretty low.
3) Sometimes it's easy to forget that twincest is really rather a specialized area of the fandom and not widely accepted >.> But yes, I like them romantically together and also platonically. It's really the feelings that are important.
Another possible unpopular opinion, depending on what fics you've been reading: unlike a lot of people in fandom seem to, I don't think Yuui is a selfish evil brat who wants to destroy Fai's happiness. :P
4) I wish they could have had a happy ending. ;-; I WISH IT SO MUCH. Or at least that he could have seen Fai's spirit one more time to say goodbye.
5) In direct contravention of #4, I have a personal theory that is probably best summed up by Yuuko in The Curse of the Twins:
"The twins are born in every world, every time, with enough magical power between you to shake the stars, to crack the world loose from its moorings. But that is too much power for any one world to bear. And so before the two of you reach eight years old, one of you must die, every time. It is not always the same way. It is not always the same one. But it is always the same ending."
...Of course, the fact that they turned up both alive in SHG would seem to contradict this also! :D But then, that was also a world where they lucked into having no magic, so there's that.
6)
He wasn't, by nature, a violent man. Therein lay much of his troubles.
But he'd never in his life wanted to haul off and smack Syaoran -- any Syaoran, even the boy who'd lost his soul and claimed his eye -- quite so much as in that moment. The moment where Syaoran suggested that if he'd never made his desperate deal with Fei Wong Reed, then Fai would not have been born as a twin.
The thought of that -- the thought of being born alone, of never having known Fai, of never seeing that beloved face by his side -- how could Syaoran suggest that he would want that? However bitterly he had wished, at some times, that they had not been born a twin, that they had not brought misfortune, that they had been born into any other world that would not hate them for what they were -- he could never have wished for Fai not to be. Better to undo himself, if it ever came to that. Better that he should never have been born at all, then to be born alone.
He remembered:
In a world of giants, shadowy looming figures and sky-high looming cradles, of thunder-rumbling voices and lightning-crash claps of movement; another body by his side. He remembered a hand curled sweetly into his own, the sound of other breaths matching the tone and frequency of his. He remembered cornsilk hair spilled onto the pillows, the ends tickling his cheeks; remembered skyblue eyes returning his own gaze, mirroring every thought and inflection.
He remembered: words between them, the tones hushed, in their own special language meant just for the two of them. Games so convoluted and arcane that they could never have explained the rules to anyone else, a shared understanding that defied communication. First steps taken on the same day; seeing Fai walk, he knew that he must be able to do the same himself. Tears, all too many of those, and sticky make-it-better kisses.
Love, surpassing and unconditional; the kind that mothers were supposed to have for their children, or so he'd heard. Their mother never had. If he'd been born alone, as Syaoran suggested, would she have loved him then? Could she? If she'd been capable of that kind of love at all, why would she have forsaken them?
How would it have been better to never have had Fai? Would their father have lived, the father he never knew? Would their uncle still have been so treacherous, so mad? Would it have been better to walk the halls of Valeria cloaked in shallow smiles and acceptance, never knowing the depths of viciousness that his people were capable of, had he dared to be born a twin?
It hurt, being without Fai. It hurt that he had not been able to save his brother, it hurt not to be able to bring him back. It hurt to lose him, and then lose him again, more than any other pain he'd known in a life that was all too full of it. But the pain came only from how much they had loved each other, a love that had been torn out of his soul like a farmer yanking a deep-rooted plant from the ground and leaving a bleeding hollow in its place. He would not, could not, wish that love gone.
What might his life have been like, were he born without Fai? He was glad he'd never know.
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Date: 2012-05-24 07:34 am (UTC)Mikke~ ♥ Stop breaking my heart!
Or rather, never stop! XDFai and Yuui's story will never stop touching me - though I honestly think that Clamp should have focused more on their past together. I always feel like a piece of it is missing due to
sightlyunorganized narration, and it makes me sad. :xno subject
Date: 2012-05-24 07:36 am (UTC)