Full Metal Panic: FUMOFFU. Weeeeeeee!

[dangermousie]

FUMOFFU had me and Husband laughing so hard we had to periodically stop the DVD.

But underneath all the giggles, I love the character consistency. FUMOFFU has very few serious moments, and the end of FMP is severe angst-fest, yet the characters are consistent between the two.

And my shippiness grows stronger by the moment. Kaname is, after all, as unorthodox and odd as Sousuke is. She is more functional in the normal world, but then Sousuke is perfectly functional in his world, the world of mercenaries, and she'd be lost on the submarine. I think that is a lot of where his differences come from. He is serious, but he has to be. If he takes things lightly, it will cost him his life. Kaname wonders why ghosts don't scare him (his comment on a bloody little girl moaning for him to go away is 'she can't do much damage with just a hammer') and why he fights those karate people using his weapons and has such a hard time comprehending the concept of fighting just with your hands in practiced poses, but his view makes sense. He is a mercenary. He is someone who is not only a professional soldier, but a person who's been fighting since he was eight. For him the goal is to survive and to win and those artificial rules or psychic dangers are not important. He's got a very real potentiality of death around him every day, after all.

Oh, and the shippy bits make me SO happy. From the first ep, when after he rescues her and they walk off arguing about what they'd like for dinner, to the last ep I watched (number 6, with the 'ghosts' in the hospital), where Kaname is getting annoyed he isn't getting scared by ghost stories or even real ghosts in the hospital, but then she falls through the floor and she lies in a pool of what looks like her own blood and THEN he loses it and is completely scared for her. Because she is toally his weak spot. He might be impervious to fanciful fears, but he is not impervious to losing her. Kaname says Sousuke has no imagination, and it's true in a way, as he is an immensely practical person, but he can imagine the real horrors or bad things well enough, and I'd imagine Chidori's death would be ranked at top among any nightmares for him. And then, after this whole escapade, you see him bycicling back to her place, with her unconscious draped on his back, and then she comes to, and asks to be put down, and is kinda wobbly, and he puts his arm around her (squeeeeee!) and helps her. And then, as they wheel away again, she asks him, "Were you scared when you saw me with all that sticky blood?" And he is silent, just pedalling away, and I am so sure thi is where it's going to end, but then after a long pause, he quietly says "Yes, I was scared." And then he immediately tries to cover it up (boy, does he know she is a weakness of his or what?) and says "nothing" really quickly. but of course she caught it and she goes "what?" and she is so delighted and she starts teasing him: "I didn't hear it. Louder" And they ride off, and thy are adorable.

Trust me to write a serious, shippy post on FUMOFFU.

I so need a S/K icon.

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

You know, I like the fact that Sousuke even admits he was scared. For being as tough as he is, Sousuke isn't some macho, tough, insensitive guy. Oblivious, yes, very, but not insensitive.

I'm glad you like the series so much. ushitora_icons has some great FMP ones you might like.

And really Sousuke has no need for an imagination. His job deals with fact and orders. You aren't required to do a lot of embellishing in your head.

"She can't do much damage with a hammer"? LOL. What a Sousuke thing to say. I love him to death.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I think you'd really like watching FUMOFFU. I am probably going to keep a copy around to cheer me up when something goes bad. It's too, too perfect.

Thanks for the icon link!

I like the fact that Sousuke even admits he was scared. For being as tough as he is, Sousuke isn't some macho, tough, insensitive guy.

I know. I was utterly surprised he admitted this. In some ways, he is so secure in his role (and his masculinity) he doesn't need to prove it through artificial machoness. He is plenty macho enough. But I think that largely, it's because where Chidori is concerned, his brakes are just turned off, and he is a lot mor open and vulnerable and he can't help but not share what he felt if she asks.

His job deals with fact and orders. You aren't required to do a lot of embellishing in your head.

And if you started having an over-active imagination and imagining all the horrible things that could happen to you, you'd be dead. Or in a mental hospital.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

And Sousuke is so straightforward I don't think he could lie if he wanted to. He's not lying to Chidori, he just is confused by his own feelings (I have a hard time thinking he's ever even liked a girl before, much less had ridiculously confusing UST with one). He's also never been in an environment that would stunt his thoughts when it came to his own masculinity or what not.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes. I thin Chidori is about the best choice for him because she can match his straight-forwardness. With her, you always know what she is thinking because she lets you know.