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Aug. 11th, 2011 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
splinteredstarOH SHIT I FORGOT. This is what happens when I read fanfiction for four hours.
So. Right. I've gotten into FF7 fanfiction. Unlike usually, I actually like the main slash pairing - Cloud/Sephiroth is at this point almost canon. They're stalking each other. And it's hot and all sorts of bondagey and angry and full of angst and tension even if they're both sane and not trying to kill each other.
However.
I do not like how it's normally written. Cloud will not just forget all the stuff Sephiroth did. And. I have to capslock this but CLOUD IS BADASS. LET HIM BE. STOP MAKING HIM A WUSS. Seriously, he's a bundle of twitchiness and anger and fighting instincts that probably makes the Turks go, "...dude."
Also, I like bondage and bdsm more than most souls, but Cloud is not going to sub for Sephiroth easily. He spent most of the game trying to stop that you know? Even if Sephiroth isn't trying to control him, he's still going to lash out from sheer instincts.
...it doesn't help that I'm one of like six people who likes sub!Seph, but that's another rant.
So. Right. I've gotten into FF7 fanfiction. Unlike usually, I actually like the main slash pairing - Cloud/Sephiroth is at this point almost canon. They're stalking each other. And it's hot and all sorts of bondagey and angry and full of angst and tension even if they're both sane and not trying to kill each other.
However.
I do not like how it's normally written. Cloud will not just forget all the stuff Sephiroth did. And. I have to capslock this but CLOUD IS BADASS. LET HIM BE. STOP MAKING HIM A WUSS. Seriously, he's a bundle of twitchiness and anger and fighting instincts that probably makes the Turks go, "...dude."
Also, I like bondage and bdsm more than most souls, but Cloud is not going to sub for Sephiroth easily. He spent most of the game trying to stop that you know? Even if Sephiroth isn't trying to control him, he's still going to lash out from sheer instincts.
...it doesn't help that I'm one of like six people who likes sub!Seph, but that's another rant.
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Date: 2011-08-15 07:14 pm (UTC)Hah, okay. What I meant was that the part of Cloud that was attracted to Aeris was probably Zack, if that makes sense. Not that Aeris was seeing Zack in Cloud, but rather that the Zack in Cloud was seeing her.
Cloud's brainmeats are complicated.
Yeah, I haven't played through CC - though I've started to be fond of some of the characters through fic, and any development of Sephiroth is good in my book - but yes, Zack does seem to be kind of.... a bit of a brain damaged puppy, really.
Vincent/Lucrecia has been my otp since I was fucking 12. You have no idea how much I fucking hate Yuffentine. When I first played it the game was all about Vincent, mind. I don't think half of the other characters even registered until I wandered back towards the fandom later. You wanted to be Aeris, I wanted to be the creepy psudo-vampire dude who spouted poetry at random moments.
I almost think the whole Cloud/Sephiroth dynamic is more poignant if Cloud was never actually in contact with Sephiroth more than once or twice until Nibelhiem. - while the lovers torn apart storyline has its own appeal, I feel like Cloud's heartbreak was the death of innocence and dreams. If he had any time to get to know Sephiroth as a real human being and not as a hero, it would change the experience completely. It wouldn't hurt as much - Cloud's cry isn't "I loved you!" as much as "You were supposed to be perfect!"
Hah, I'll look around. See how much Compilation you can tolerate - I threw one cc timetravel one at you, but I'll look around. I have to wade through all the messy "You're my true master Sephiroth please let me be yours!" fics, because they made my inner Domme want to hurt things. (Stockholm's syndrome is not love. How many times do I have to tell you idiots.)