[ SECRET POST #121 ]

[grayout.livejournal.com]

⌈ 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

[icemilk.livejournal.com]

5. Heh, agreed. I don't think it's domestic abuse, but even if it was, isn't fandom the place where people can enjoy taboos without meaning that it should translate over into real life?

Lord knows Sephiroth/Cloud wouldn't be a healthy relationship but you don't really see too much protesting from the fans there, and people don't get called idiots for thinking it's hot. Funny how that works.

[icemilk.livejournal.com]

That's always how I took it, too. I always read Cid's behavior as being generally bitter, moreso at the world than anything and funneling it in a bit more concentrated amounts toward Shera, because she's a convenient scapegoat and he's human. He's not trying to keep her down or make her pay, even if he's not dealing with the situation as maturely as he could. And canon does show some promise for them to be able to work through it.

I feel like the secret maker might be ranting about a particular fanon interpretation. Which could've been made clearer, if so.

Man, I looove double standards. :D Buttsex will work the kind of wonders that counseling could never hope to achieve. If Vincent doesn't win that fight, can I cry domestic abuse?

[turk-elena.livejournal.com]

... and calling her names and making rude demands of her isn't hurting her?

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your goddamn TEA!

I think Cid is just like that. It's not even just toward Shera, either. I never even thought he was an asshole. >>"

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

but that filthy undeserving abuser is good enough for Vincent? Double standards are awesome!

Did you fail to understand the last line? If Cid did anything to Vincent that Vincent didn't want, Vincent would shoot his balls off.


Personally, I like to think Shera is tougher than canon shows, and Cid did make a turnaround in how he treated her, but the way he acted in the original game before he got stuck under a sheet of metal is, at the very least, verbal and emotional abuse.


Besides, Vincent is better with Cloud, they can dual-emo.