Woe

[dangermousie]

I have been reading Aoshi/Misao fluff. I have no shame. Or at least not enough to stop.

Damn you, Georgette Heyer and "These Old Shades." You have ruined me. Well, at least Aoshi does not wear jewelled heels and Misao isn't cross-dressing as a boy page. Though why this is a good thing isn't too clear to me.

Woe.

And thus ends the entry intelligible to no one. Except possibly to crumpeteer. I don't think there is a huge Heyer/Kenshin fandoms overlap.

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[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Damn you, Georgette Heyer and "These Old Shades."

See, this is the basis for my Sesshomaru/Rin OTP love, because snotty, hard to get along with, aristocratic badass + cute, unintimidated girl whose life he saves then raises = LOVE.

And frankly characters like Aoshi and Sesshomaru NEED women like that. Aoshi is not going to wander out there and pick up a woman. The only female who's ever going to get close enough to see him for what he really is, is Misao. Women might admire him for his looks and skills or whatnot, but Misao loves him for HIM, warts and all. Same way that Rin is the only thing Sesshomaru ever actively shows himself caring about. She might sort of be his "pet" now, but he cares about her and the very fact that someone that arrogant lets her call him "Lord Fluffy" shows that he's a bit of a pushover when it comes to her.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OMG, icon! *chokes*

snotty, hard to get along with, aristocratic badass + cute, unintimidated girl whose life he saves then raises = LOVE.


YES! I am not the only one! :) I think Heyer totally warped me in that regard. And they have to be all icy and uber good at hautiness. Jewelled heels optional.

Aoshi is not going to wander out there and pick up a woman.

The mental image this gives me is...priceless. But yes, someone with a personality like that needs a battering ram of a girl (because anyone else just would give up), but also someone he should want/be able to protect, because he needs that.

One of these days, I really must watch Inuyasha.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

And they have to be all icy and uber good at hautiness.

And that is what Sesshomaru won my heart with. There one point when he's sort of making fun of Inuyasha and while he's being insulting he flips his hair back over his shoulder. It left me thinking "oh Inu, he really IS too cool for you and he knows it".

but also someone he should want/be able to protect, because he needs that.

And it's so much easier to translate that feeling of sort of paternal/avuncular love over to something more than for them to ever have mushy feelings for someone right away. And Aoshi and Sesshomaru types are never going to be mushy. They're cold individuals for whom "protection" is really how they show they care. They're never going to be writing love sonnets; their affection is a lot more subtle and subdued. It takes someone who knows them extremely well not to get their feelings hurt and to understand that they really are loving in their own stilted way.

One of these days, I really must watch Inuyasha

I have really gotten hooked on that series watching it the whole way through. I avoided it for a long time because it was sooooo over rated for so long (sort of like Full Metal Alchemist is right now). I had to wait for the madness to die down a little before I got into it. The Inu/Kagome relationship is cute and all, but what I really like is the relationship with Inu/Sesshomaru. This is the first pair of warring brothers that actually sort of act like brothers. Van/Folken were, but that was so different and didn't play out like a normal relationship. Inu/Sessh really do seem like bickering brothers. Even when they're trying to kill each other and are insulting each other's lineage, there's just such an odd family quality to it. They take things so personally from each other that they wouldn't any other time and Inu is the only character able to get a rise out of Sessh and he does it JUST in the way a little brother would. It's really quite fantastic television.

[katranna.livejournal.com]

aristocratic badass + cute, unintimidated girl whose life he saves then raises = LOVE.

Aiee, to me that sounds more like emotional incest...

I mean, I know such stories are popular, but I get kinda squicked out by love relationships between an authority figure and his ward.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it depends.

The love story in Le Bossu (a movie with Daniel Auteil based on a 19th century novel) does make me raise my eyebrows a bit because there the hero takes the orphaned daughter of his benefactor when she is a few months old and raises her from scratch as his own daughter, and she actually thinks he is her father, but they get together at the end (after she finds out he isn't Daddy, of course). That's kinda...odd.

But in the two cases I mentioned, I think that's quite different (haven't seen Inuyasha so can't talk about it).

In These Old Shades, Avon 'picks up' Leonie on the streets and makes her his page when she is 19. She really isn't looking for a father figure (nor does she get one). I mean, he has authority over her earlier on, and he is certainly her protector later, but I don't think Freud would have too much to work with. They have a 20+ age gap, but that in itself isn't enough for it to weird me out.

And with Aoshi/Misao, they have a 10 or 11 year difference, which really is too small a gap for parental Oedipal stuff to kick in. Hero-worshipping crush? Perhaps. But I don't think it's screwed up.

[katranna.livejournal.com]

I kinda know what you're talking about, because when autumnflame was cosplaying as Misao, she talked about Aoshi/Misao a lot.

By the way--ask her for some photos of that, if she has any. She made a wicked Misao.

[autumnflame.livejournal.com]

I did?

... well, I probably did, given that at the time I was a huge Aoshi/Misao shipper. Not so much of a one now, though, partly because of time dimming the fandom for me and partly because of a reevaluation--I have to question now how well Misao actually knows Aoshi, and how much of her love for him is really just idol-worship, given as he left when she was only eight and she's only had a child's memories of him for all the time in between, and all that he went through in the between-time. It's still something that /could/ work out if done properly, but has some significant hurdles to get over, IMO.

And you flatter. :P It wasn't that great a cosplay, now that I look back on it.