Fandom meme!
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Stolen from salmon_pink
Name a fandom and I'll tell you:
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. Favourite character
11. What are your five favourite things about your fandom?
12. What are your five least favourite things about your fandom?
13. Who are your five favourite characters?
14. Who are your five least favourite characters?
15. What are your five favourite pairings?
16. What are your five least favourite pairings?
17. Which character are you most like?
18. What is your deep, dark fandom secret?
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Date: 2008-10-10 04:07 am (UTC)I agree! I love the apperances the character's make between the two manga's. CLAMP is equally wonderful and horrible. They're just amazing and creating lovable characters you care about, and then they hurt them terribly. :( Oh, really? I wasn't really all that familiar with CLAMP when I started xxxHolic and TRC, so I was clueless.
Sorry! I'd link you, but I don't know where to find it either. :( Do you want RAW or translated?
I haven't read RG Veda, though I've heard of it. So, Ashura has a hurtful past, then?
YES. Fai is adorable when he's pretending to be a kitten. But so there's only so many Kuro-puu's and Kuro-tan's I can take before I wonder how Kurogane can manage to not strangle him in his sleep. >.< *Feels bad for feeling that way*
Soooo! Are you going to do this? XD
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Date: 2008-10-10 04:27 am (UTC)And lil Shaoran is cute, even with his bushy eyebrows and mean disposition. XD
I started with the anime and then read the manga... the anime is a bit easier to watch, as the cuteness is a bit more spread out, but the plot is better in the manga.
I had already read most of their works when TRC began serializing it, so I was able tos peculate about the direction it would take off on since the beginning. And I can definitely remember hoping fervently that it wouldn't end up dark and bloody halfway through, since I had such nice memories of the characters from CCS. But it was a lost cause. By the time Seishiro made his first appearence, I knew it wasn't going to be a harmless, cute story. -_-
Translated, as I still can't read Japanese... I only know four kanji: Wild, Fire, Dog, and Fox. (oh, and the kanji for Zoro's name, but that's hardly useful XD) So unless the big revelation in chapter 201 is that Watanuki somehow loves wild dogs on fire, RAWS won't do much for me. XD
It's not really that he has a hurtful past, but rather than he has a very good reason to be a bloodthirsty maniac. Saying anymore would spoil the story if ever you were feeling masochistic enough to read it, so I won't. Just one thing: Ashura was involved in one of the few yaoi couples in canon CLAMP have ever admitted to, and it's actually implied that he had a male lover despite being married. We even see them leaving the bed once... ^^U
So unfortunately, that Ashura/Fai thing is not so far-fetched as we would like it to be... >_<
Methinks the only reason Kurogane hasn't strangled him in his sleep is that Fai sleeps on his front (knowledge courtesy of Mokona in one of the bonus chapters), so every time Kurogane set off to do some sleeping-Fai-strangling he got distracted by the sight of his perfectly nice tushy... XD
*blinks* who, me? *innocent air*
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Date: 2008-10-14 05:25 am (UTC)That's cool. So you're a long-time CLAMP fan? Yeah. I thought TRC wasn't going to be a particularily happy series because of all the dark foreshadowing.
LOL (I want to know the kanji for Zoro's name ♥ He's my favorite). I hope Watanuki doesn't like wild dogs on fire.
Ooo, I definitely want to read that series then. *Loves Teh Ghei* The only downside is, as you mentioned, the Ashura/Fai likeliness. =.=
HAHA that's so likely. Fai unconciously displays his butt as protection against people like Kurogane. :D
OH HO HO. DO NOT THINK YOU FOOL ME! I'm on to you!
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Date: 2008-10-14 06:15 am (UTC)Ok, yeah, there are a couple of slightly saddening situations, but nobody dies, and you can expect a happy ending to every chapter. The worst injury Sakura ever gets is pricking her fingers with a needle when she was trying to make a present for Shaoran. :P
Yep, I'm a long-time CLAMP fan. I used to be in a spanish-speaking fanfiction mailing list, and some of the girls got me into it. I still don't know if I should thank them of send them a hate mail for it. I'm holding out until the end of TRC and xxholic to make up my mind. XD
The kanji for his name is extremely easy to learn. I took the liberty of making a quick avatar with it, just for you to see it (and keep it, if you so wish. ^^). Sorry it's in black and white, but I really didn't spend too much time in it. :P
I'll try to get a higer quality image of his name, but that's the best I have so far. ^^U
Er, I don't think that's such a good idea. RV Vega is almost bloodier than X/1999, and that's saying something... plus, they really do make you fall in love with the characters , just to show you in full detail their death by dismemberment a couple of pages later. -_-
The plot is awesome, though... it's still one of my favourite stories of all times, even if it makes me cry like mad and howl in indignation every time I read it. :x
Oh, darn. I'm going to have to do it, then? Well, you'd better be the first to request a series, then. No running away, now! *mock glares*