[ SECRET POST #2417 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2417 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I won't call it a "childhood" ship, but Vegeta/Bulma has an interesting place in my heart as the ship I shipping before I discovered slash (which I found while hunting for more V/B fic).

Meanwhile, Usagi/Mamoru is very much a current ship for when my side-reading wanders into Sailor Moon.

Squall/Rinoa though... I never really got that one. Oh, I would rather read fic where Rinoa is treated nicely (which is bloody rare since most of the slash fandom seemed to hate her and want her to die in a fire), but while the game convinced me that fanfic was treating her terribly, it failed to convince me that she and Squall would last all that long. I was probably charitable when I gave them six months too, but I prefer to think of them peacefully accepting they don't work romantically and deciding to be friends (and Squall stays her knight, just a knight who is her best friend).

All the rest, I've never thought about.

As for my own ships, a fun one I am still somewhat attached to? Sarevok/Imoen.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I won't ever call them "childhood" ships because I didn't get online until I was 23, so I didn't start actually shipping until after that. Pairings I liked before that were just... pairings I liked.

[(Anonymous)]

When I played FFVIII, I talked to some random NPC (in Galbadia Garden, i think?) who said he'd heard that sorceresses could brain wash people. So I like to think that Rinoa, without knowing what she was doing, made Squall into fall in love with her when she got her sorceress powers, just before she fell into her coma. Because she was really, really scared and really, really wanted him to keep her safe, and making him love her was the best way. That's why Squall changed so suddenly, and that's why he couldn't see her face clearly in time compression the way he could his friends', because she wasn't really supposed to be in his thoughts the way his friends were, she'd forced herself in there.

Then after the game they realize what's happened, Rinoa feels terrible, they fix things and become dear friends instead.

Here, have my thoughts on Squall/Rinoa even though you never asked for them.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That's not a bad plot, especially since it's totally accidental on Rinoa's part, and they figure it out.

My thoughts on it tend to be more prosaic, with no overt manipulation on Rinoa's part, but neither is Squall's sudden turnaround about her a healthy thing, with him acting like that as a kind-of knee-jerk reaction to something bad happening to a girl he's kinda awkwardly becoming friends with.
Because let's face it, Squall had lots of problems with abandonment and losing people hidden under the GF-induced memory problems.