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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-07 03:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2105 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2105 ⌋

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pantswarrior: Sydney stands menacingly over Hardin. (sydxjohn)

Re: Ships you like because you KNOW it's fucked up

[personal profile] pantswarrior 2012-10-08 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That sums up my OTP: Sydney/Hardin from Vagrant Story. Huge power imbalance there, Hardin flinches when Sydney approaches him angry, and at one point Sydney actually uses a sort of mind-control power on Hardin to make him stop arguing.

But I ship them in part because after Sydney stops using that mind-control power, despite Sydney's incredible power and immortality and general dominance in everything, Hardin has the balls to get up and tell him "NEVER do that again." And Sydney says nothing in his own defense, just walks away.

I was pretty much sold on the pairing right then. So messed up, those two. So unhealthy. But the rest of their interactions show that there's mutual respect, and Hardin's clearly not following Sydney because he's immortal or because he thinks Sydney's infallible, but because Sydney is Sydney.

Over in Ace Attorney fandom, I sort of fell in love with the idea of Kristoph/Phoenix during the years between AA3 and AA4 just because both of them are just biding their time, spying on the other, waiting to make their move. Kristoph is pretending to be Phoenix's friend just in case he figures out who screwed him over and starts making trouble, so he can dispose of him, and Phoenix already knows, but is pretending to be clueless and gathering info so he can avenge himself. Incredibly precarious balance there, mutual hate masquerading as friendship even in canon. Adding the extra dimension of a relationship into that? HNNNNG.