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Funny thing happened with my roommate. She's not fannish at all, but somehow I got to talking about FFVII with her, since it's my current thing, and now she's weirdly invested in Cloud. Like, she identifies with him really hard, and keeps on asking me about how I analyze the character and stuff like that.
She doesn't want to play the game, either - just hear about Cloud.

I know that awkward fandomy encounters might be more common, but have any of you had non-awkward ones, or just plain odd ones like this?

Lol! That's cute.

I can sort of understand the sentiment, when you're attracted (not necessarily sexually) to a character design and what you hear about the character's story. But then again, I am a fannish, obsessive person.

My older sister is very much not fannish, as in, not geeky, and always made fun of me for going to conventions and cosplaying and such. But she will talk at great depth about the thematic elements in Harry Potter, and binge-watches Netflix with the best of them.

It's funny where different people will draw their fannish lines, you konw? Like drawing fanart is too much, but obsessively analyzing scenes is fine. Going to conventions is cool, cosplaying is weird.

Then again, I guess we all have our limits - mine was LARPing. I get why people do it. It looks like they're having fun. I tried it once and NOPE'd the hell out.

Why does she identify with Cloud? I feel like to identify with Cloud you'd have to be severely depressed lol

The only encounter I can think of right now is when my Grandmother saw my Sailormoon fanart and called them showgirls, she apparently really liked the fanart too because she printed it out and put it on her mantle lol.

omg the thing with your grandmother is adorable.

Well, she's not exactly depressed, but she had a bit of a hard childhood and finds it difficult to let other people in, and also has a tendency to try and do for others rather than taking care of her own wellbeing. I think she identifies strongly with the redemption aspects of Cloud's story - overcoming what others have done to him, finding his own identity, and being able to achieve great things by his own merits at the end of the day.

Okay I can see that and it's cool she took some really positive aspects from Cloud. Sometimes when I think about Cloud I just think of beginning of game Cloud, especially since it takes a hell of a lot of game time to finally see what's up with him.

Well, part of it has to do with how I see him and characterize him, because that's part of what drew me to the character - he's so broken at the beginning, but he works so hard to change that. And he got very far (and it does matter! lol).
So she's been hearing my own analysis of him. But I'm glad it worked out that way, because it does seem to be helping her a lot - and hey, if it's helping her figure out her own life, that's good :)

My first college roommate was a theater geek. We got along pretty well but for the most parts our interests didn't overlap. She wasn't really into fandom or any of my hobbies, but was suuuuper into musicals, acting, singers, etc. which is cool, no judgment here. The funny thing though is I watched the entirety of Yu-Gi-Oh! DM - all five seasons - while I was a freshman/sophomore in college, and she saw me watching it and started watching it, and then she binge watched the whole thing that semester and the following summer. I still find it really funny, I wasn't even actively trying to get her into it, but she loved it and we talked about it a few times after that.

Ha. That's great.
It reminds me of last summer when I was in Korea, we had a little Walter Benjamin reading group of three (two grads, one undergrad). Both of us grads were kind of into Berserk, and had a bunch of conversations about the series; the undergrad wasn't into manga at all.

Then one day she comes to us and goes "so I read Berserk" and we're both WAIT WHAT?
And she goes yeah, since both of you kept talking about it I got curious...
Mind you, this is a sweet girl who likes fluffy slice-of-life and romance. And somehow her first (maybe only?) manga ended up being Berserk...

I've never heard of Berserk, but it doesn't sound like fluffy romance or slice-of-life, that's for sure! That's pretty funny, that she just said that out of the blue.

Berserk is grotesque, slightly horror, and much more violent, rapey, and has a higher bodycount than Game of Thrones
....yeah

lol yikes

and has a higher bodycount than Game of Thrones

is anyone left alive???

Well, yes, in part because new characters get introduced. Like, there's this whole arc where you get to know a mercenary band - and then every single one of them (but 3) are killed horribly. You have giant monsters literally curbstomping entire armies. Scenes with tens of children killed at once. Hundreds of women forcibly impregnated with monsters that then kill them.
Seriously, I was shocked that this girl didn't quit early on XD I have no idea how I read this thing, tbh.
This is a series that needs all the trigger warnings

lol, wow. really. "Berserk: TW: EVERYTHING"

One year my great-grandmother came over for a birthday, and walked away with one of my sister's books. We think she started looking at it at our house because it had a pretty big font. But none of us noticed this at the time, not until my mom called her the next week about the grocery shopping she did for her and my Nonna started going on about the story: "The bad mens! They steal Ani-kin!"

Yes, my 90-something year old Croatian Nonna stole and read a Star Wars EU novel.

Looking up plot details, I think it was The Crystal Star; but maybe also one of the Jedi Academy books. Both have kidnapping plots. But we will quote that line incessantly because it is so hilarious.

That's amazing.

I told my grandmother I was watching Doctor Who and she was surprised because she used to watch it on PBS in the 80s. It was just one of those shocking moments, I never pictured her watching it.

Ha. Sometimes you forget that these series have been ongoing for so long.

In my high school chem class, we had assigned seating and I got placed next to one of those pretty, popular girls who I'd never talk to because I was awkward and nerdy and thought she might make fun of me for some reason. She saw me reading Mars one day, asked what it was about, and wanted to know if she could borrow it. I ended up lending her the rest of the series and seversl other shojo manga titles that I owned. We basically bonded over dramatic, angst-filled shojo manga and she's still one of my good friends to this day. Her love of shojo manga is basically the only fandom-y thing about her.

That's really cute! I love being reminded not to judge people by stereotypes - especially important in high school! Really cool that you guys could bond over that.

That's adorable. And it's cool that you guys are still friends!

I was chatting with a guy I work with one day, and we started talking about words that British people say that us Canadians don't say. And I knew quite a few, which prompted him to ask how I knew so many. So I said I read a lot of British fiction. He then asked for examples of what British fiction specifically. And my mind just completely refused to come up with enough titles to make a convincing lie. So I had to swallow my pride and admit that, actually, I read a lot of fanfiction based on British TV. And I guess this guy really liked asking questions, because he asked what TV? So I said Sherlock. And he asked what kind of fanfic? Like, solving crimes? Or, like, John and Sherlock getting it on? And I just laughed (and probably blushed scarlet) and said (with as much dignity as I could muster) "Um, well, a bit of both."

Back when I was OBSESSED with The X-Files (and shipped Mulder/Scully like burning), I was visiting my aunt and uncle and I mentioned that I was really into the show, and the first thing my uncle said was, "So, do you ship Mulder and Scully?" and I nearly choked on air from shock. Mainly because my aunt and uncle are just...not people I connect with AT ALL. Of all the people I know, my uncle would have been one of the last people I would have expected to ask such a knowing and spot-on question.

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