....this totally counts as yesterday

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OH 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.

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Strangely enough, despite my love for teh gay, there aren't a lot of gay pairings in FF7 that I like. I like Cloud/Aeris/Tifa a lot, and I like Cloud/Barret (though despite being probably one of the best candidates for yaoi in FFVII, there's not a lot of stuff about it.) I hate Cloud/Zack mainly because I hate Zack, all thanks to Crisis Core and Advent Children Complete. Turk love is kinda meh for me. I love the Turks as characters (in the original game) but am kind of ambivalent about them being romantically involved with one another.

Cloud/Seph is more like, guilty kinky pleasure reading. I like dark fic with them, or "that time in SOLDIER when Seph took advantage of the young guard" type storylines. I have a hard time being convinced of them as an actual COUPLE, sans something really dark and likely non-con (which I do like to read, anyway). I can see Cloud having a crush on Sephiroth, or being all hero-worship about him, but post-Nibelheim I should imagine Cloud's first thoughts about Seph are whether or not he'll ever be his boyfriend.

So I guess, I like Cloud/Sephiroth, but it would have to be written in character. And I don't see that done successfully unless it's really a dark fic, or done at the right point in the game. It has a lot of potential to be interesting, but I still can't see it as realistically being anything other than really messed up. ^^