SINCE I AM UP AT 6 AM (I hate pain... ow)

[crankyoldman]

Post one of my fandoms and the number of any of these questions (as many or few as you like) and I'll tell you the answer!

Fandoms available: Final Fantasy IV, VI, VII, VIII, X, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Dollhouse, Burn Notice, RahXephon, Hellsing (um, before the manga esploded), -FAKE-, Comic Party!, Last Exile, Kiddy Grade (yes, I like this), Star Trek: TNG, and anything you and I know and I forgot about cause I'm on pain meds!

1. The first character I fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
4. The character I love that everyone else hates:
5. The character I would shag anytime:
6. The character I'd want to be like:
7. The character I'd slap:
8. A pairing that I love:
9. A pairing that I despise:
10. Favorite character:
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom.
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom.
13. Who are my five favorite characters.
14. Who are my five least favorite characters.
15. What are my five favorite pairings.
16. What are my five least favorite pairings.
17. Which character are you most like.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret.

Comments

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO PICK THEM ALL.

but I will start with FFIV because I am predictable.

(And if you are really bored I will also request Firefly.)

FFIV

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Cecil, actually.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Yang.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Kain, though, not that I don't like him, I just don't nearly feel as compelled by his stuff. Everyone else's angst is just so much more awesome.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Tellah. XD
5. The character I would shag anytime: Rosa and Rydia. At once.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Cecil.
7. The character I'd slap: Edward, but affectionately! I do like him! I just think it would be hilarious.
8. A pairing that I love: Cecil/Rosa. Still my favorite main character canon pairing.
9. A pairing that I despise: Kain/anyone. XD Except maybe widowed!Rosa, but not prematurely so. He kind of needs to get over himself first, and too often this means an epically epic story that I get bored with.
10. Favorite character: Cecil and Rosa are pretty much tied. Also Rydia.
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom: (1) It's wacky (2) It's small (3) Awesome fanart (4) Makes me seem less like a lame newer gamer to be sorta in it (5) Hot cosplays
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom (1) The tendency for the awesome hero to be overlooked. Dude, he has angst too. I figured people would be all over that. (2) Edge being the fandom buttmonkey. He's cool! (3) The tendency towards really flowery language. Old school and chivalric doesn't mean you have to sound stiff. (4) Lack of femmeslash (5) Not enough Tellah or Yang!
13. Who are my five favorite characters: Cecil, Rosa, Tellah, Rydia, Yang
14. Who are my five least favorite characters: pretty much the bad guys, minus Kain. the good guys were just so much awesome.
15. What are my five favorite pairings: Cecil/Rosa, Rosa/Rydia, Edge/Rydia, Edward/Edge (yes), Edward/Anna (it's so sad!)
16. What are my five least favorite pairings: Kain/Rydia (dude, her mom not to mention he's way too stiff for her), Kain/Rosa (minus when they were kids or after Cecil's death, which could be cute), Cecil/Rydia (I like gen with them), Cecil/Edward (I've seen it, not so impressed), Golbez/Anyone (badtouch!)
17. Which character are you most like: Tellah You know, I'm really not enough like any of them to say.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret: I do enjoy a well-written Kain/Cecil once in a while.

Re: FFIV

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I need an Edge icon that just says "FANDOM BUTTMONKEY" now!

Agreed on lots of things! Yang is so unappreciated.

Re: FFIV

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Re: FFIV

[lassarina]

Ahahahahaha I may have something relevant to your interests re #9 and widowed!Rosa. Maybe.

Re: FFIV

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Well, this is widowed in the "they lived a long natural life and Kain just happens to be around longer" type widowed. XD KILLING Cecil off is the way to disappoint me.

Re: FFIV

[lassarina]

Ah, I see. XD I don't dislike Cecil, but I sometimes think that (given the realities of politics) his paladin-ness is apt to get him in a whole big lot of trouble sometimes, possibly leading to his death.

Re: FFIV

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

And I think he's a lot smarter than people tend to give him credit for. ^^

Re: FFIV

[lassarina]

Oh he's definitely not dumb! I just wonder how the conflict gets resolved when idealism (we saved the world, etc.) comes into conflict with reality--the default assumption *should be* that the people of Fabul, Damcyan, Mysidia, and Eblan hate the people of Baron and don't understand why their rulers are so friendly with Cecil after what the Red Wings did, and I have my doubts that Joe the Plumber is going to understand, much less accept, the explanation of GOLBEZ MAGIC GO.

That's one of the things I'm messing around with in Every Light, because I really want to know how that works out.

Re: FFIV

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

And it's also old style politics, where a change of monarch really would make a massive difference to people.

Re: FFIV

[lassarina]

Yes. And also I have to wonder how good a ruler Odin was - the kingdom's had at least a year of evil rulership at worst and no rulership at best, so Cecil has to reassemble the mechanics of government.

Given that we also know that Baron has a noble class (cf. the information about Rosa being noble-born in the instruction booklet for the DS remake) I assume that Baron operates on a largely feudal structure, meaning that the nobility probably got a heady taste of power while Cecil et al. were off saving the world, and they are unlikely to want to give that up now that he's back and being like "o hai, I iz king nao." So I wonder how that plays out, also.

Firefly

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Shepherd Book. For realz.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: River! I really like that crazhead.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Um... I seriously like everybody.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Simon? Maybe he's just overlooked.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Inara. She's TRAINED for good sexing.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Kaylee. Mechanical genius with a girly side. Love her.
7. The character I'd slap: Mal. Because he needs it once in a while.
8. A pairing that I love: Zoe/Wash
9. A pairing that I despise: Zoe/Anyone but Wash
10. Favorite character: Zoe.
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom. N/A
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom. N/A
13. Who are my five favorite characters: River, Simon, Book, Kaylee, Zoe
14. Who are my five least favorite characters: I like them all.
15. What are my five favorite pairings: Simon/Kaylee, Jayne/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, River/Book (shut up, I know), Inara/Kaylee
16. What are my five least favorite pairings: Any combination of Jayne/Simon/Mal. Slash just really doesn't register in this fandom like others.
17. Which character are you most like: Honestly? Wash. Deep down inside.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret: I saw the movie before the series.

Re: Firefly

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Mal/Inara and Inara/Kaylee = total, total favorites. YESSSSS.

Also I have a fic rec to dig up for you. It's a long multichapter that's still ongoing, but it's written in "episodes", so it's more like a collection of smaller stories tied together. ANYWAY, it operates after the movie but [spoiler] and [spoiler] both survive, which makes me totally happy because WHY DID THEY HAVE TO DIE.

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

Burn Notice!! 1-7 and then 10.

Burn Notice (I love that show!)

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Sam. OH SAM.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Carla. She was a good baddie!
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Ah... can't think of any.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Michael's mom? I can see some people not liking her.
5. The character I would shag anytime:
6. The character I'd want to be like: Michael, yes. Being that badass would be fun.
7. The character I'd slap: Victor, despite his partly redeeming exit.
10. Favorite character: Fiona. Crazy woman with a gun!

[tijuana-pirate.livejournal.com]

BSG - 1, 2, 5 (ha!), 7, 8 (bet I know...), 9, 11, 12, 17, 18.

FEEL BETTER. <3

-T. pirate

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Laura Roslin. Right off the bat.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Lee. I kind of wanted to shake him at first, but he's come so far.
5. The character I would shag anytime: D'Anna
7. The character I'd slap: Gaeta. Seriously.
8. A pairing that I love: Roslin/Adama OF COURSE.
9. A pairing that I despise: Lee/Dualla, actually. Should have stuck with Billy. I just never got that one.
10. Favorite character: Laura Roslin.
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom: (1) I can talk about it with my dad (2) I can talk about it with all my guy friends (3) I can talk to people that are less game-y sometimes (4) Bear McCreary's blog (5) It's ability to let older generation and newer generation sci-fi fans talk and sometimes argue
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom: (1) Old BSG and New BSG fan fighting. (2) Fanboys who complain there's too much drama (3) Some of the idiotic things I saw on io9
17. Which character are you most like: a weird combination of Lee and Starbuck, I'd say. XD
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret: I thought the Tigh/Caprica thing was cute.

[wallwalker.livejournal.com]

FFVIII, since I'm replaying it at the moment (slowly!) Any and all questions you wanna answer. ^^

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Rinoa. She was so refreshingly NORMAL.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Selphie.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Seifer.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Rinoa.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Quistis.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Ha ha, truthfully? Laguna.
7. The character I'd slap: Odine.
8. A pairing that I love: Cid/Edea.
9. A pairing that I despise: Seifer/Edea.
10. Favorite character: Edea.
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom: (1) Less OTPers and more experimenters (2) the insane number of plotholes to fill (3) sorceress meta (4) usually being able to find someone to write crack for me (5) crack in general
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom: (1) Rinoa haters (2) the borderline creepy teenager porn (3) it's tendency to either be super romance blech (4)
13. Who are my five favorite characters.
14. Who are my five least favorite characters.
15. What are my five favorite pairings: Rinoa/Ellone, Squall/Rinoa, Irvine/Quistis, Laguna/Quistis (damn you Sev!), Fujin/Xu
16. What are my five least favorite pairing: Seifer/Zell (I don't get it), Raijin/Fujin, Squall/Quistis, Irvine/Selphie (I like it when done well, oftentimes it's just assumed), Seifer/Edea (cause I doubt Ulti was into the touchy touchy)
17. Which character are you most like: Edea, but turn maternal into paternal. I assure you it makes sense.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret: I find it hard to write Squall because he was one of my ex-husbands favorite protagonists and it's kind of like... going back there at times.

[lassarina]

FF6, any you feel like answering =)

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

. The first character I fell in love with: Terra. I was just like, "who is the girl, I'm intrigued."
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Shadow.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Locke.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Edgar?
5. The character I would shag anytime: Celes
6. The character I'd want to be like: An unholy combination of Edgar and Terra
7. The character I'd slap: Celes, but she kind of needed it later.
8. A pairing that I love: Celes/Terra
9. A pairing that I despise: Locke/Terra
10. Favorite character: Terra & Celes
13. Who are my five favorite characters: Terra, Celes, Shadow, Edgar, Kefka
15. What are my five favorite pairings: Celes/Terra, Locke/Celes, Edgar/Setzer, Setzer/Terra (it could be fun), Leo/Celes
16. What are my five least favorite pairings: Locke/Terra, Edgar/Terra, Shadow/Celes (I've seen it), superhappy!Locke/Celes
17. Which character are you most like: A little like Edgar? I really didn't connect as much with these characters to say much there.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret: I kind of hated the World of Ruin and how the plot suddenly got all fucked up.

[lassarina]

Shadow! ♥

I want to destroy superhappy!Locke/Celes. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. And every time I see someone writing Celes happily settling down with a white picket fence I feel the need for some Flare Star. She would DIE OF BOREDOM.

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

NEXT GEN. Please and thank you.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: JEAN-LUC PICARD
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Troi, actually.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Riker. >.>
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Geordi? I don't know many TNG haters of any kind.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Tasha Yar.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Ironically, I wanted to be Wesley Crusher when I was like eleven when I started watching. Now I'd want to be Data cause Geordi would be my BFF.
7. The character I'd slap: Q. Even if I love him, I'd slap his joker ass.
8. A pairing that I love: Jean-Luc/Beverly (yeah....)
9. A pairing that I despise: I wasn't too fond of Worf/Troi, it kind of came out of nowhere
10. Favorite character: Data
13. Who are my five favorite characters: Picard, B. Crusher, Data, Geordi, Worf
17. Which character are you most like: Hrm... random Ensign? I'm just not as cool as the main cast. XD
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret: Not so deep and dark, but a Trek convention was my first convention, and I cosplayed Beverly. And tap-danced.

[muggy-mountain.livejournal.com]

LOL, 8-9. We totally cancel out each other's OTP's. All is well in the universe.

[churched.livejournal.com]

FFX, one through ten, please!

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Auron.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Wakka
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Seymour?
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Jecht.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Lulu
6. The character I'd want to be like: Rikku
7. The character I'd slap: Seymour
8. A pairing that I love: Lulu/Rikku
9. A pairing that I despise: Auron/Rikku
10. Favorite character: Yuna

[churched.livejournal.com]

YES! I do not understand the Auron/Rikku movement. But I still unfailingly 'ship Auron/Belgemine.

[ovo-lexa.livejournal.com]

Legend of Mana! All, goshdarnit! XD

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with: Lil Cactus
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Bud & Lisa
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Escad? I dunno much of the fandom.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Alexandra
5. The character I would shag anytime: Alexandra had hot legs.
6. The character I'd want to be like: Daena
7. The character I'd slap: Escad
8. A pairing that I love: Elazul/Pearl
9. A pairing that I despise: Gilbert actually getting the girl. XD
10. Favorite character: Pearl
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom: (1) it's full of cuteness (2) there used to be some actually good epics
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom.: (1) What fandom? (2) You mean there's something other than Secret of Mana?
13. Who are my five favorite characters: Lil Cactus, Pearl/Lady Blackpearl, Elazul, the PENGUINS, Niccolo
14. Who are my five least favorite characters: Escad... can't really think of many others.
15. What are my five favorite pairings: Elazul/Pearl, Elazul/Sandra (I read a very good story with this), Irwin/Matilda, Sandra/Florina,
16. What are my five least favorite pairings: Escad/Matilda, Gilbert/any of the girls, Escad/Daena...not many others. XD
17. Which character are you most like: The heroine? Ha ha, kidding. Esmerelda, I think.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret: I skipped several of the sidequests.

[taekwonangel.livejournal.com]

To be different, toss me a Hellsing, because I've started to flirt with the manga/anime/whichever sounds better at the moment.

Any questions you want, 'cause I'm late to the bandwagon!