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dangermousieOff to watch Veronica Mars. And I am cranky, because my Peach Girl live action isn't here yet. Booooo.
I was also thinking about Saiyuki being so slash-prone. I can understand that, as you stick a number of attractive guys around who have no current love interest and the women are all eiher secondary or dead. (And hey, even if you forget about that restriction, there is only so much Yaone to go around :P).
But. But. It's not the sexual oritentation thing that bugs me here. After all, we know nothing of Goku or Sanzo's preferences (if any), at least in the point of the story I am at, and while I think Kou has a thing for Yaone, you can very easily interpret it as friendly/protective and transfer his affections to whoever. And just because Hakkai had an OTP who was a woman and Gojyo is a huge womanizer doesn't necessarily preclude them from being bi (I am having a hard time buying Gojyo as bi, but whatever floats your boat). It's the much more important character traits thing. Hakkai is so fucked up he couldn't manage a functional relationship with a paper napkin, and Sanzo is so removed from the world and so about control and lack of intimacy or vulnerability, I can't imagine him in a relationship short of hard drugs being involved. Yet, most slash I've found involved Sanzo and/or Hakkai. Odd. You'd have to do a lot of clever writing to believably get those characters to that point (and I am doubtful they'd ever be functional enough, no matter what). Also, I've seen Sanzo/Goku and surely I am not the only one who finds it creepy since they have a quasi parent/child relationship?
And now I will completely undermine my own point and admit that the slash relationship I can see the most is Sanzo/Hakkai. Except Sanzo could never allow himself an interest and Hakkai would never be functional. Hmmmmm.
Off to watch Veronica Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars
I was also thinking about Saiyuki being so slash-prone. I can understand that, as you stick a number of attractive guys around who have no current love interest and the women are all eiher secondary or dead. (And hey, even if you forget about that restriction, there is only so much Yaone to go around :P).
But. But. It's not the sexual oritentation thing that bugs me here. After all, we know nothing of Goku or Sanzo's preferences (if any), at least in the point of the story I am at, and while I think Kou has a thing for Yaone, you can very easily interpret it as friendly/protective and transfer his affections to whoever. And just because Hakkai had an OTP who was a woman and Gojyo is a huge womanizer doesn't necessarily preclude them from being bi (I am having a hard time buying Gojyo as bi, but whatever floats your boat). It's the much more important character traits thing. Hakkai is so fucked up he couldn't manage a functional relationship with a paper napkin, and Sanzo is so removed from the world and so about control and lack of intimacy or vulnerability, I can't imagine him in a relationship short of hard drugs being involved. Yet, most slash I've found involved Sanzo and/or Hakkai. Odd. You'd have to do a lot of clever writing to believably get those characters to that point (and I am doubtful they'd ever be functional enough, no matter what). Also, I've seen Sanzo/Goku and surely I am not the only one who finds it creepy since they have a quasi parent/child relationship?
And now I will completely undermine my own point and admit that the slash relationship I can see the most is Sanzo/Hakkai. Except Sanzo could never allow himself an interest and Hakkai would never be functional. Hmmmmm.
Off to watch Veronica Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars
