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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2009-05-26 07:01 pm
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Everybody's doin' it

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.

This doesn't mean sexual couples because (disdainful) I don't Do That any more. It means binary relationships. And nobody has to try and find a pattern here, because I doubt there is one.

In no particular order:

1. Gou Jian/ Ya Yu (Woxin Changdan)
-- Gou Jian and everybody, in fact, because he's *so* much all things to all men-- or different things to each individual. Gou Jian/ Ku Cheng, Gou Jian/ Wen Zhong, Gou Jian/ Fan Li, Gou Jian/ Ye Yong, Gou Jian/ Wu Zi Xu. But Ya Yu is the most satisfactory and unpin-down-able relationship.

2. Goujou /Hakkai (Saiyuuki)
-- returning to my roots here, the satisfaction of that tacit friendship whose unspoken boundaries take in most of the known world

3. Haruka/ Michiru (Sailor Moon)
-- still the acme of how f/f should be done

4. Elizabeth/ Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
-- just because one would rather like to be married to either of them

5. Fan Li/ Wen Zhong (Woxin Changdan)
-- old marrieds. I just wish I knew what they were *saying* whn they snipe at each other.

6. Aoarashi/ Ritsu (100 Demons)
-- people who get on each other's nerves but can't do without each other

7. Koh/ Kubota (Wild Adapter)
-- always wondered what that's all about. But neither is the kind to talk and tell you

8. Marlowe/ Shakespeare (RPS)
-- if someone would just do it *right*

9. Hakkai/ Hakuryuu (Saiyuuki)
-- Hakuryuu's devotion is the purest in the series. Even Gokuu's devotion to Sanzou has a reason, but Hakuryuu's just is.

10. (shameless self-indulgence) Goukou/ Hisui
-- I have a thing for managing types, especially when they manage with grace

What we need is a meme for the Solitaries, people one wants to see in a relationship with someone but for whatever reason doesn't, short of fanfic. My own shortlist:

1. Vetinari (Discowrld)
2. Keiki (10 Kingdoms)
3. Katse (Ai no Kusabi)
4. Kinu (100 Demons)
5. Goujun (Gaiden)
6. Ageha (Basara)

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2009-05-27 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
9. Hakkai/ Hakuryuu (Saiyuuki)
-- Hakuryuu's devotion is the purest in the series. Even Gokuu's devotion to Sanzou has a reason, but Hakuryuu's just is.
You HAVE the right of it there! ^__^

and Marlowe/Shakespeare ... gosh and I thought I was an odd one! *grins very broadly!*

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-05-27 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohh, everyone does Marlowe/ Shakespeare, and anyone who can read does a version of enemy slash (love triangle with Lord Southampton-- 'Was it the full sail of his swelling verse' thing.) The relationship's pretty much canon implicit in the sonnets, and then Shakespeare's being sad about M's death all through As You Like It.

[identity profile] unearthly-calm.livejournal.com 2009-05-27 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember your Aesthe essay on Ageha! It was what prompted me to start reading Basara.

[identity profile] paleaswater.livejournal.com 2009-05-27 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no Kai/Ritsu?

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-05-27 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That occurred to me, but it's not by any means an absolutely favourite couple, I don't really like the way they interact in canon (a bit one note for me), and no one's ever done any yaoi riffs on it that I know of.