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[timepiececlock]

It baffles me how Sesshoumaru is such a popular character with IY fans. I mean, I don't dislike him... in fact I have no reaction to him at all. But all the fangirls out there seem to love him.

He's so boring. He's good for a one-scene cameo where he proves he is the biggest fish in the room, and then that's enough, time to get back to the interesting characters with actual personalities.

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[octopedingenue]

Now, now, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

I am of the rare breed that finds Sesshomaru completely asexual but still fascinating. I love that you never know what he's thinking or what his motives are, and I love watching more outgoing characters react to him. I love the complicated and antagonistic relationship he has with his brother (more complicated in the manga, I think). I love the contrast he provides to Naraku, amoral vs. eeeeevil. And most of all I love that his role in the series gradually changes from uberbaddy to ally with no real OMG!EPIPHANY moments on Sesshomaru's part--the changes in Sesshomaru are so subtle as to be almost ungaugeable, or else he wasn't that fantastically horrible guy all along. That is why ep 99, "Koga & Sesshomaru's Dangerous Encounter", is my favorite even though it's a filler ep, because it's like "Oh. Huh. Sesshomaru (and Koga) had character development. Wow. They totally did. Did anyone else not notice this til now? Huhm."


And I love, love, LOVE the weirdly close-knit little family he has with Rin and Jaken and even Ah-Un. (But never ever EVER Sesshomaru/Rin as a 'ship, 'cause that just...cheapens it and simplifiees, to make it sexual.)


Still. Do not find him sexually attractive in THE LEAST, except in an objective "Yes, I can see why people think he is pretty" sort of way.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

damn I had this great reply.

LJ lost it.

sorry.