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fandomsecrets2008-06-26 05:09 pm
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[ SECRET POST #538 ]
⌈ Secret Post #538 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 67 secrets from Secret Submission Post #077.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
#122, #131, #134
How anyone could not see how badly Simon needed someone like Nia is beyond me.
131. Take out Fai, and I agree completely. If they ever kill off Kurogane, I'm done with the series. :|
134. I'm an avid Kaiba/Jounouchi fan, but I agree with you on how much more sense Kaiba/Yami makes. There's more stability to the pairing, there's more of a sense of equality. The rivalry is seen both ways; if you shove Kaiba's huge ego out of the way, he has a large amount of respect for Yami, and vice versa. I never really felt any kind of "hate" between the two. They were just being testosterone driven males hell bent on one-upping the other to prove something to themselves (though Kaiba was more aggressive and literal in this cause. Yami pretty much just sat back and took the punches, blocking them one by one of course).
With Kaiba/Jounouch however, everything is terribly chaotic and one-sided. Kaiba has no open respect for Jou. He isn't even worth a glance let alone a dueling match. You almost feel bad for Jounouchi, it's... pathetic in a way, how absorbed and obsessed he can be with getting some type of advantage on Kaiba. Beating him in a duel, beating him in an argument, beating him in a staring contest (work with me here). He wants to show him that he's not some third-rate duelist, that he's not as low-level as Kaiba thinks he is. I mean, if you were in his shoes, I'm pretty damn sure you'd try everything you could to get the asshole who thought you were lower than dirt to take back his words (unless you've got self-esteem issues, which complicates my metaphor a lot). Call me a hopeless idiot, I'm sure other people do, but I actually think Kaiba has a tiny tiny tiny minuscule feeling of respect for Jou. Okay, maybe you wouldn't call it respect (pity works perhaps?) He doesn't show it, you can't find it, and he'd be insane to tell himself it was there, but if you want the pairing to work, you have to tell yourself that it just might be there. Be open, think outside the box.
I can't force my opinion of why Kaiba/Jounouchi has some type of sense, as much as Kaiba/Yami would have, because there's a chance you might not care in the end. I can understand that. Just understand that, there is sense to be made; it works if you take their personalities, their characters apart. The only real thing I ever try to get people to focus on to at least understand that the pairing has a chance, is that Kaiba and Jounouchi don't hate each other. They just... aren't terribly fond of each other.
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#134
/end fangasm
You're more mature then me too; Kaiba/Yami in the pairing heading has me running screaming in the other direction. :(
Re: #134
But I'm not the type to persuade or convince someone to ship my ships. I can't stand people who try to do that; it's such a huge invasion of personal preferences. You're not being persuasive, you're being a joykill. I just want them to understand what it is the rest of us see.
I used to be like that too, but as I got older it made me feel a bit embarassed. I've gotten to the point where, if I see a ship I don't like and am not interested in, I'll at least try to understand it, look at it in a different angle, and just shrug my shoulders and turn the other way. "Okay, I see. That's it. I get you. Not my cup of tea, but I get your point."
Re: #122
(Anonymous) 2008-06-27 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)