[ SECRET POST #121 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #121 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Posting for Liz, sorry it's late!

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 65 secrets from Secret Submission Post #018.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, May 7th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[jetamors.livejournal.com]

4. Well, if it makes you feel better, in the manga he doesn't really have a gender (or maybe he has both genders... it's a little complicated).

11. Huzzat?

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[liizziioo.livejournal.com]

1. Curse my curiosity.
3. Haha, I do that too. :'D

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[existentially]

WK fans in general seem to be on the wonky/freaky/stupid side. DX (but oh how I love that series. ♥)

He is not even the team leader.

No kidding.

I agree with more of your secret than what I'm writing, too (no tl;dr here. ;;;) You aren't alone.

Re: 11

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, thank God for that. I was deeply worried I was the only one. Well, that's not entirely fair as I know three other people who think like I do, but that's really not many in the face of what appears to be a crazed army of Aya fans.



I wouldn't mind Aya so much if it wasn't for the way his fans turn him into a perfect demigod who is always right and can do everything marvelously and always looks beautiful, too, while the rest of the team, in between marveling at Aya's beauty and being upstaged by him at every possible turn, act like the Three Stooges. I wouldn't trust Aya to hamster-sit, still less to run an assassin team.

Okay, stopping here before I succumb to my TL;DR demons...

[4ti3k4t35.livejournal.com]

5. I think I love you. ♥

[sylviaviridian.livejournal.com]

1. Out of sheer curiosity, what pairing/fandom? *ships random things sometimes just because*

3. I did that gesture even before I got glasses. >>;

5. I think you've got the wrong impression of Cid, possibly due to fanon-poisoning. Don't want to start wank, just my opinion.

11. It's why I started liking Yohji better. (AxY still wins, tho.)

12. Hm...interesting idea, I'll have to look into the possibilities of that one.

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[(Anonymous)]

Fandom is fma.

[liltigre.livejournal.com]

12. It has Reeve, so it's pretty much a given that I'll read it. *dies* While Reeve/Vincent is my OTP, I'll take what I can get. (Which is also why I'm hoping to meet Shinra cosplayers at Anime North- to take all sorts of goofball pics with them. >3 I'll be the idiot crossplaying Reeve.)

[fishie]

5. Maybe I'm not in the fandom enough, or... maybe I didn't play the same game... but I swear, I don't remember Cid ever being outright abusive. Sure, he had a temper; maybe he lost his temper a few times, but I didn't think he tossed her around like a ragdoll. It was pretty obvious to me that he cared for her. :/ Am I the only one?

8. That secret is adorable, and the response comments were adorable, too. ♥ Yay~.

12. I don't think it's ever crossed my mind, but at least it's not Rufus/Reno. sdjkfldagdsl;k;sa. I don't know why it irritates me so much, but it does.

I'm a diehard Rufus/Tseng 'shipper, anyway. *Waves banner.*

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

don't remember Cid ever being outright abusive.

but I didn't think he tossed her around like a ragdoll.


There's more to abuse than just physical abuse. The way Cid yelled and insulted Shera in the first scenes the two of them are in has plenty of verbal and emotional abuse.

Personally, I'd like to think Cid did a turnaround and was better to her after the end of the game or else their canon marriage in the Compilation is not going to end up going downhill sooner or later.

[infringe.livejournal.com]

Moi-channnn. ;___; I CRIED SO HARD

[(Anonymous)]

I really thought that Sei was going to save him. I honestly did! But then he picked him up in his arms and shook him gently and called his name and I lost it because I knew he wasn't coming back.

;-; I'm crying again.

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

10. You and me both, man.

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[heron-advocate.livejournal.com]

...omg.

I don't watch or read FMA, so I just assumed. (I do know most of the characters' names, because I have friends in the fandom.) YES I THOUGHT ENVY WAS FEMALE. Glad to be enlightened. xD

[nanakibh.livejournal.com]

FIVE - YOU ARE MY HERO.

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

SECRET NUMBER ONE IS NOT ME

But it might as well be. I feel exactly the same way about Lloyd/Colette. I want a Lloyd in my life. >:

[(Anonymous)]

11. Why would anyone want to think of Aya/Ran as perfect? The entire reason I like him is because he's fucked in the head. Perfect!demigod!Aya sounds boring as hell.

[(Anonymous)]

And that's a large part of the problem. PerfectGaryStu!Aya gets really damn old really damn fast. There are only so many times you can watch him reading Walt Whitman, making amazing omelets and being lusted after by an entire club's worth of horny gay males, in between sweeping Ken Hidaka off his feet, before it starts to get extremely irritating. Doubly so if everything he says is treated as an Amazing Revelation of Profound Truth that leaves his teammates awed or shamed or both.

Canon Aya doesn't bother me at all, but fanon Aya I could quite happily strangle. He's too damn IRRITATING for words.

[panksters.livejournal.com]

Post Script - Aya is the team leader ROFL maybe you didn't watch the show or something idk.

Basic rule of thumb: Guy with swords is the leader. There were four baby turtles etc.

Not poster of 11, but too lazy to log in

[(Anonymous)]

Erm, I'm pretty sure Omi was the leader? He was the one I recall doing most of the research and planning, so if he wasn't the leader then he should've been.

[hughes]

5. As a huge Cid fan, yeah, he treated her like dirt and did pretty much verbally abuse her, I have no illusions about that, but I found her just as much at fault in the fact that she just took it and never stood up for herself, which, IMHO, made her a pretty damn uninteresting character. I mean, yeah, she saved Cid's life, but she did it in such a way that she was knowingly putting him in a position where he had to either throw her life away or throw his life-long dream away (and since he is a good person at heart, he did choose her life) without any warning at all, and... yeah, the woman has issues. (Why not just tell him right before the liftoff?)

Cid does make a big turnaround at the end of his plot arc, though, so I think it's really unfair of you to think he's this abuse-all wifebeater, wtf. I mean, I like Vincent/Cid, not because I think it has canon evidence, but because I think it makes for an interesting relationship, and I'm not rabid about it or anything, but I don't think Vincent would have to "fight back," because although Cid is a crude and crass individual, the only person we seem him actually abuse in the entire game is Shera, and there's a whole shitload of backstory and reason for that. Not an excuse on his part, but a reason, and he certainly realizes his error in the end, so your implying that he's this asshole with no redeeming qualities is completely inaccurate.

All of that said, yeah, I dislike Cid/Shera as well, not because I sympathize with Shera and not because I hate her, but because they do have that complicated and emotionally-scarred history and because I don't think the dynamic is all that interesting. More than the fact that I hate how Compilation made it canon, I hate how they portray it as yayayayaypairing without any kind of realistic time in-between them being in a dysfunctional relationship and them being... a yayayayaypairing. Makes things concrete that are completely out-of-character and basically turns Cid into a caricature.

[/rant]

12. I LOVE YOU. I mean, I don't know if there's any Compilation basis for this, but my friend and I did a crack one-on-one Rufus/Reeve roleplay a while back and... IT WAS AWESOME.

[killiana.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. It's neat to find so many people that disagree with 5 and agree with 12. X)

First off, re: 5.: yes, yes, thank you! Though I do disagree on the 'yayayayaypairing' part. There's two long years between the end of FFVII and Advent Children, when we first see Cid again, and it's.... I'm not certain which word I'm looking for (I'm TIRED), so I'll say unfair. It's unfair to assume that the development didn't occur, and that they didn't have any rough spots. Unfortunately, Squeenix is never likely to elaborate upon that--unless they already have in some never-to-be-officially translated short story (like Maiden Who Traveled The Planet, god!). In which case, uh, ignore me. :x

Second: Out of curiosity, did you play Rufus, or Reeve?

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[ekoko.livejournal.com]

ME TOO.

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[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Is that Nevada-tan?? .___.

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[(Anonymous)]

<3

I know how you feel. Fandom?

Re: 13.

[(Anonymous)]

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[valorously.livejournal.com]

2. I would gush all meeee tooo, but in all honesty, if they're too tight they bother me. And I feel all awesome and dramatic doing the glasses adjust la la la

8. After a day in retail hell and wanting to destroy humanity this makes me smile. It's just so sweet. ♥

12. If there was more snark and less overt fluff in the pairing, I think I'd be more of a fan. And if I could tear myself away from Tseng.

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[thefuturemaker.livejournal.com]

Aya sucks regardless of his fangirls.




But they suck too. ♥

[floatablerock.livejournal.com]

3. gdfhjhdfjfdj I LOVE YOU ♥

[luzerna.livejournal.com]

3. It's so annoying to have the glasses slip off your face. D: I'm not sure if it's because they're crooked or it's because I have a strangely shaped nose but I have to do that all the time (twice in the time that it's taken me to write this far) and it sucks.

4. Envy's supposed to be totally androgynous.

13. Write it anyway. So what if nobody comes at first? The internet's a big place. There's always going to be someone who cares and just doesn't flaunt it openly (possibly for the same reason) and tons of other people who'd try it out if they heard about it.

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[anonymous-proxy.livejournal.com]

hello fellow Shera hater <3

[zeto.livejournal.com]

#4 The-er-FMA video with a female-voiced 'Envy' singing the "Anything You can Do" song doesn't help much either, lol!

#5 Tee hee, made my day! xDDD

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[naxelgrl.livejournal.com]

It's cool, a friend of mine made the same mistake.