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timepiececlockLast night while trying to fall asleep I made a list in my head of my "most OTP OTPs"... i.e. the pairings I'm most emotionally invested in, and the ones I think are "even more meant for each other than your normal OTP." Televison and anime/manga. In order of true-est.
P.S.: I typed for two hours to write this stuff. It's like a mega-essay. So please, comment! Squee with me or disagree, I don't care. :) Let me know what you think. What your most-OTP OTPs are.
Anime
1. Ahiru/Fakir (Princess Tutu) - I thought long and hard, and I have to say that Ahiru/Fakir is my anime ultimate OTP. It's weird; I've never written real fanfic for them, and there's not a lot out there to read. And PT is still a small fandom. But these two... they're my OTP. They really are. In something very unusual for anime, when I started watching I never expected them to be together. I made mental jokes about it in episode 2, but I didn't expect it. I thought Fakir was evil. And scary possessive psycho. But that all changed. The more I watched the more the characters got to know each other, and a beautiful love story started to unfold. They became unwilling partners, and then became friends. He bonded with her as a duck, and she bonded with him as the scared young man he hid from the world. She became his princess, he became her prince. Although neither of them were the true prince or princess of the story-- he's just a boy who dreams of being a knight, and she's just a duck who dreams of being a girl-- they became them anyway, for each other. The relationship between Ahiru and Fakir was so smoothly done over 26 episodes that it still amazes me. The show is not about them as a couple. And yet, their relationship, as multilayered as it is in the many forms it takes on, is the emotional foundation of the show. Their strength is what gives Mytho and Rue their happy endings. And by the time it was all over and I was staring at my computer monitor with my jaw on the floor, I had to take several deep breaths to absorb it all. Especially their relationship and how beautiful and subtle and perfect it was. In the end, Ahiru got the great heart-pounding love she consciously/unconcsiously dreamed of; she just found it with a different boy than she expected. Will Fakir find a way to make her a girl again? I have no doubt. I don't need to see it, because the show ended exactly where it should end. It ended where the story of the Prince and the Raven, the story of Mytho and Rue, ended. But Ahiru and Fakir... their story is only beginning. Their story is not a fairy tale; it's just your average love story. Because people fall in love every day, exactly the way Ahiru and Fakir did. The way that's real, and not a story.
2. Van/Hitomi (The Vision of Escaflowne) - It's very tempting to cut and paste whole sentences from the Ahiru/Fakir paragraph and apply it to Van and Hitomi. Although Van and Hitomi are VASTLY different people than Ahiru and Fakir, something in the way the character arcs were developed makes the two have a similar feel in my mind. Perhaps because they were both very, very well done? Oh well. Let me tell you about Escaflowne. Escaflowne features magic, politics, precognition, mythology, epic war, and giant robots. But that's not what it is. Escaflowne is a love story. And you don't realize it until the you've finished it, but every moment in that show was designed to develop the love story. Most anime has romantic elements or love stories of some kind. But not many anime series are a pure love story from start to finish. That's what Escaflowne is, though it hides its true nature with magic, politics, precognition, mythology, epic war, and giant robots. Have I mentioned that, by the way, Esca is fantastic and the writing is amazing? It needs to be said. Anyway, when I watched Esca, like Hitomi I liked both Allen and Van. And I didn't know who she should go with. But somewhere around the middle of the series it clicked-- the way Hitomi's relationship with Van was developing was fundamentally different from the way her relationship with Allen was developing. And sooner or later Hitomi had to realize it too. She was attracted in every way to Allen, but she was falling in love with Van. And by the last moment of the show, when she looks out into the distance and sees his image... my heart swelled. It was such a beautiful moment, so happy and so sad and so complete.
3. Tohru/Kyo (Fruits Basket) - What to say about these two... It's hard to acknowledge K/T without mentioning Yuki, because the relationships between the three of them are really what make this series. And it can be broken down like this: Kyo and Yuki don't like each other but they come to respect, trust, and care about each other as family. Kyo is so in love with Tohru. Tohru likes and admires Yuki. Yuki is so in love with Tohru. Tohru is so in love with Kyo. For a long time it was hard to tell which way Tohru's affections would lean, and it's still up for debate in regards to the anime's ending. Nevertheless, I felt there was a clear line drawn, and poor Yuki was on the wrong side. Ultimately the reason my heart went out to Kyo and Tohru, and the way I think Tohru's heart did too, is that all Kyo wants of Tohru is honesty in her feelings. In many ways Yuki buys into the mask of happiness Tohru wears nonstop in the same way that the other Sohmas do. They love Tohru, but mostly they love the way she makes them feel about themselves. They love her happiness. Yuki is the same. Kyo, however, is always pushing, pushing, pushing Tohru for more. He wants to see the side of Tohru that isn't always happy, that isn't always brave, because even though she hides it, she's got those feelings too. And he wants to be able to be the person that she trusts enough to show that side too. He doesn't just want to love her for her happiness, he wants to love her for her sorrow and her fears and her angers too. This is evident as early as episode 5 but appears again throughout, especially in episode 19. And by the end of the anime, in the big confrontation... I was happy that Yuki was there for Kyo, but he was supurfluous. And you could see on his face that he knew it too (I love FB for being a series that shows instead of tells a lot of things). At that moment in the rain, Yuki might as well not have existed to Kyo and Tohru.
4. Heero/Relena (Gundam Wing) - for all the yaoi fandom for GW, I never saw Heero as being in love with anyone but Relena. I can't imagine any other way to interpret the end of the anime or the end of the OVA. Was he in love with her from the beginning? No. But through the course of the series, she is in his thoughts more than any other person. She drives many of his choices, good and bad, for reasons political, philosophical, and personal. When he is wounded and might be dying, it's her face he sees in his dilerious visions. Because she inspires him? Because she is not afraid of him? Because she means something to him that he can't define? All that and more. Relena was the first Earth-person he met, and how prophetic that was, as his entire view of Earth people verses the people of the colonies eventually became defined by Relena Peacecraft. At what point was Heero in love with her? Hard to say. He's a very closed up guy. But by the end, it's hard to doubt it. Their interactions in episode 48 speak of two people in love. And their interactions in Endless Waltz even more so. When was Relena in love with Heero? Also hard to say; I think she was fascinated by him in an infatuation way from the beginning, but it was longer before she was in love with him. In many ways Relena is the main character of Gundam Wing, because she has as much screentime as any one of the pilots, yet she is the one who changes the most, goes the farthest, and drives the plot. As Heero says, she's a stronger person than he is-- in fact she's so strong she not only changes the world, she comes to rule it for a time. Relena discovers herself over the course of the series, and Heero does as well. Eventually, they discover they believe the same things and walk the same path. And they'll go out of their way to save each other-- something fairly unprofessional for either of them. Wufei said he expected better of Heero, but that's what love does to you. Do I think they'd get together immediately after the curtains close? No. That's not the way things work in GWverse. The world is a more complicated place than that. But I know that Heero and Relena can't escape each other forever, and deep down they don't want anyone else. And why are they a cool pairing? Because there's something very hot about a politician and an assassin being in love.
5. Ranma/Akane (Ranma 1/2) - It's been a long time since I read or watched anything Ranma, but this sort of thing stays in your memory for a long time. Ranma and Akane are not perfect, but for some reason I never doubted that they loved one another. After over two dozen manga volumes and several tv seasons and more whacked out adventure and misunderstanding and awkward romantic situations... you can't argue with destiny. Above all things, their interactions in the second movie at last drove them into my heart forever and earned them their spot on this OTP list. Their love won't ever be easy, but it's inescapable. And they both know it. Sorry, P-chan.
6. Serena/Darien (Sailor Moon) - My first anime OTP, and still a soft place in my heart. Their love spans lifetimes and dimensions. Their love conquered reincarnation, brain washing (multiple times!), memory loss, soul division, time travelling, the second great ice age, alien invasions, and death itself. Their love had an epic past, an epic present, and an epic future.
Television
1. Buffy/Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Buffy always was and always will be Spike's true love. It sounds corny that way, and I know since season 5 of Angel it's become uncool to be so sappily pro-Spuffy, but hey, it's true. If love brings out the best and worst in us, then Spike has never loved anyone like he loved Buffy, and probably never will. And Buffy... I'm sure that Buffy could love others. Buffy has a capacity to love truely more than once in her life. But I don't think she'll ever love someone the way she loved Spike by the end of Season 7. Because I can't imagine a lover more suited to her than Spike. I know these arguements have been made in a thousand forms the internet over, but that's because it's so compelling. Buffy is an emotionally complicated person, who requires an equal as her love above all things. She then requires perfect trust, and the same devotion to her friends, her family, and the world that she has. Angel could have been that, but wasn't. Spike became all of that and more. Because he was her enemy, he already began her equal. Then he was her friend, and eventually her lover, and finally he became a hero. And he makes her laugh. God, what other man should she be with? Yes, their first relationship was immature. They fucked it up. But their second relationship was a different sort, and it would have never happened without the first. And at the core of their relationship was always this rivalry that spoke of people relating to one another as friends first. Angel and Riley were never Buffy's friends, but Spike was. And you'll find it a common thing in my shipping tendencies: the best friends make the best lovers. I loved Spike/Buffy because their relationship was simultaneously both epic and mundane-- although BTVS was not about romance, it was about family, nonetheless Buffy and Spike had the epic relationship arc of BTVS, culminating in an epic finale. And, at the same time, they bickered like little kids, they hurt one another, they laughed, and they got drunk together. They were a complicated pair, but they fit.
2. John/Aeryn (Farscape) - This came so close to overtaking S/B as my ultimate tv OTP. At some point in watching this show I just accepted it: these two belong together in ways I can't even put into words. John is totally in love with Aeryn, and there's no one better for him in the universe than her. Aeryn is totally in love with John, and there's no one better for her in the universe than him. I want them to be together because with all their pain and misery, they deserve it. They deserve it, and they'll fight tooth and nail and spine for it. Unlike Spike and Buffy, who can co-exist without each other because they are not defined by love though they are strengthened by and changed by love, John and Aeryn's world become wound around each other. As crewmates, as friends, and eventually as lovers. John and Aeryn don't have a driving purpose in life-- they aren't obligated to be world-savers first and people second. They are carreening about the universe in a whirlwind of events where their biggest goal is to survive. And in this crazy universe, eventually they realize that nothing matters but the ones you love. What John loves above all things is Aeryn. What Aeryn loves above all things is John. The last episode of the series made me happy, and the The Peacekeeper Wars broke my heart, then made me happy again. If anyone, ANYONE should get a happy ending on television, it's John and Aeryn.
3. Mulder/Scully (The X Files) - Like Spike and Buffy, like John and Aeryn, like my anime pairings above--- yet another pairing that has love based on friendship. I don't know what I could possibly say about Mulder and Scully that hasn't already been said on the internet and television. They're Mulder and Scully. They're an institution unto themselves. It's from them fandom got the word "shipper", and you know that has to mean something if nothing else does. These two cats were in love for years before they started sleeping together, and we the audience were in love with them. The show might have gotten lame, Chris Carter might have forgotten his own continuity, and fandom might have as good as ended years ago. But Mulder and Scully? They're an institution. Rock on.*
There are several pairings I subscribe to that I didn't mention here: for example, Veronica/Logan, Vash/Meryl, Roy/Riza, Naruto/Sakura... but that's because either they're too new to me (Veronica/Logan), or they're not central to the series as I initially watched it, such as Vash/Meryl and Roy/Riza. They were there and they left an impression, but the story wasn't about them.
What did you learn from this meme?
That just as often as Shaka's ships have happy endings, the other half of them ends in tragedy or bittersweet departure. I guess I come from the Casablanca / Gone With The Wind school of romance.
*CURSE THE BEE! THE DAMN BEE!
P.S.: I typed for two hours to write this stuff. It's like a mega-essay. So please, comment! Squee with me or disagree, I don't care. :) Let me know what you think. What your most-OTP OTPs are.
Anime
1. Ahiru/Fakir (Princess Tutu) - I thought long and hard, and I have to say that Ahiru/Fakir is my anime ultimate OTP. It's weird; I've never written real fanfic for them, and there's not a lot out there to read. And PT is still a small fandom. But these two... they're my OTP. They really are. In something very unusual for anime, when I started watching I never expected them to be together. I made mental jokes about it in episode 2, but I didn't expect it. I thought Fakir was evil. And scary possessive psycho. But that all changed. The more I watched the more the characters got to know each other, and a beautiful love story started to unfold. They became unwilling partners, and then became friends. He bonded with her as a duck, and she bonded with him as the scared young man he hid from the world. She became his princess, he became her prince. Although neither of them were the true prince or princess of the story-- he's just a boy who dreams of being a knight, and she's just a duck who dreams of being a girl-- they became them anyway, for each other. The relationship between Ahiru and Fakir was so smoothly done over 26 episodes that it still amazes me. The show is not about them as a couple. And yet, their relationship, as multilayered as it is in the many forms it takes on, is the emotional foundation of the show. Their strength is what gives Mytho and Rue their happy endings. And by the time it was all over and I was staring at my computer monitor with my jaw on the floor, I had to take several deep breaths to absorb it all. Especially their relationship and how beautiful and subtle and perfect it was. In the end, Ahiru got the great heart-pounding love she consciously/unconcsiously dreamed of; she just found it with a different boy than she expected. Will Fakir find a way to make her a girl again? I have no doubt. I don't need to see it, because the show ended exactly where it should end. It ended where the story of the Prince and the Raven, the story of Mytho and Rue, ended. But Ahiru and Fakir... their story is only beginning. Their story is not a fairy tale; it's just your average love story. Because people fall in love every day, exactly the way Ahiru and Fakir did. The way that's real, and not a story.
2. Van/Hitomi (The Vision of Escaflowne) - It's very tempting to cut and paste whole sentences from the Ahiru/Fakir paragraph and apply it to Van and Hitomi. Although Van and Hitomi are VASTLY different people than Ahiru and Fakir, something in the way the character arcs were developed makes the two have a similar feel in my mind. Perhaps because they were both very, very well done? Oh well. Let me tell you about Escaflowne. Escaflowne features magic, politics, precognition, mythology, epic war, and giant robots. But that's not what it is. Escaflowne is a love story. And you don't realize it until the you've finished it, but every moment in that show was designed to develop the love story. Most anime has romantic elements or love stories of some kind. But not many anime series are a pure love story from start to finish. That's what Escaflowne is, though it hides its true nature with magic, politics, precognition, mythology, epic war, and giant robots. Have I mentioned that, by the way, Esca is fantastic and the writing is amazing? It needs to be said. Anyway, when I watched Esca, like Hitomi I liked both Allen and Van. And I didn't know who she should go with. But somewhere around the middle of the series it clicked-- the way Hitomi's relationship with Van was developing was fundamentally different from the way her relationship with Allen was developing. And sooner or later Hitomi had to realize it too. She was attracted in every way to Allen, but she was falling in love with Van. And by the last moment of the show, when she looks out into the distance and sees his image... my heart swelled. It was such a beautiful moment, so happy and so sad and so complete.
3. Tohru/Kyo (Fruits Basket) - What to say about these two... It's hard to acknowledge K/T without mentioning Yuki, because the relationships between the three of them are really what make this series. And it can be broken down like this: Kyo and Yuki don't like each other but they come to respect, trust, and care about each other as family. Kyo is so in love with Tohru. Tohru likes and admires Yuki. Yuki is so in love with Tohru. Tohru is so in love with Kyo. For a long time it was hard to tell which way Tohru's affections would lean, and it's still up for debate in regards to the anime's ending. Nevertheless, I felt there was a clear line drawn, and poor Yuki was on the wrong side. Ultimately the reason my heart went out to Kyo and Tohru, and the way I think Tohru's heart did too, is that all Kyo wants of Tohru is honesty in her feelings. In many ways Yuki buys into the mask of happiness Tohru wears nonstop in the same way that the other Sohmas do. They love Tohru, but mostly they love the way she makes them feel about themselves. They love her happiness. Yuki is the same. Kyo, however, is always pushing, pushing, pushing Tohru for more. He wants to see the side of Tohru that isn't always happy, that isn't always brave, because even though she hides it, she's got those feelings too. And he wants to be able to be the person that she trusts enough to show that side too. He doesn't just want to love her for her happiness, he wants to love her for her sorrow and her fears and her angers too. This is evident as early as episode 5 but appears again throughout, especially in episode 19. And by the end of the anime, in the big confrontation... I was happy that Yuki was there for Kyo, but he was supurfluous. And you could see on his face that he knew it too (I love FB for being a series that shows instead of tells a lot of things). At that moment in the rain, Yuki might as well not have existed to Kyo and Tohru.
4. Heero/Relena (Gundam Wing) - for all the yaoi fandom for GW, I never saw Heero as being in love with anyone but Relena. I can't imagine any other way to interpret the end of the anime or the end of the OVA. Was he in love with her from the beginning? No. But through the course of the series, she is in his thoughts more than any other person. She drives many of his choices, good and bad, for reasons political, philosophical, and personal. When he is wounded and might be dying, it's her face he sees in his dilerious visions. Because she inspires him? Because she is not afraid of him? Because she means something to him that he can't define? All that and more. Relena was the first Earth-person he met, and how prophetic that was, as his entire view of Earth people verses the people of the colonies eventually became defined by Relena Peacecraft. At what point was Heero in love with her? Hard to say. He's a very closed up guy. But by the end, it's hard to doubt it. Their interactions in episode 48 speak of two people in love. And their interactions in Endless Waltz even more so. When was Relena in love with Heero? Also hard to say; I think she was fascinated by him in an infatuation way from the beginning, but it was longer before she was in love with him. In many ways Relena is the main character of Gundam Wing, because she has as much screentime as any one of the pilots, yet she is the one who changes the most, goes the farthest, and drives the plot. As Heero says, she's a stronger person than he is-- in fact she's so strong she not only changes the world, she comes to rule it for a time. Relena discovers herself over the course of the series, and Heero does as well. Eventually, they discover they believe the same things and walk the same path. And they'll go out of their way to save each other-- something fairly unprofessional for either of them. Wufei said he expected better of Heero, but that's what love does to you. Do I think they'd get together immediately after the curtains close? No. That's not the way things work in GWverse. The world is a more complicated place than that. But I know that Heero and Relena can't escape each other forever, and deep down they don't want anyone else. And why are they a cool pairing? Because there's something very hot about a politician and an assassin being in love.
5. Ranma/Akane (Ranma 1/2) - It's been a long time since I read or watched anything Ranma, but this sort of thing stays in your memory for a long time. Ranma and Akane are not perfect, but for some reason I never doubted that they loved one another. After over two dozen manga volumes and several tv seasons and more whacked out adventure and misunderstanding and awkward romantic situations... you can't argue with destiny. Above all things, their interactions in the second movie at last drove them into my heart forever and earned them their spot on this OTP list. Their love won't ever be easy, but it's inescapable. And they both know it. Sorry, P-chan.
6. Serena/Darien (Sailor Moon) - My first anime OTP, and still a soft place in my heart. Their love spans lifetimes and dimensions. Their love conquered reincarnation, brain washing (multiple times!), memory loss, soul division, time travelling, the second great ice age, alien invasions, and death itself. Their love had an epic past, an epic present, and an epic future.
Television
1. Buffy/Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Buffy always was and always will be Spike's true love. It sounds corny that way, and I know since season 5 of Angel it's become uncool to be so sappily pro-Spuffy, but hey, it's true. If love brings out the best and worst in us, then Spike has never loved anyone like he loved Buffy, and probably never will. And Buffy... I'm sure that Buffy could love others. Buffy has a capacity to love truely more than once in her life. But I don't think she'll ever love someone the way she loved Spike by the end of Season 7. Because I can't imagine a lover more suited to her than Spike. I know these arguements have been made in a thousand forms the internet over, but that's because it's so compelling. Buffy is an emotionally complicated person, who requires an equal as her love above all things. She then requires perfect trust, and the same devotion to her friends, her family, and the world that she has. Angel could have been that, but wasn't. Spike became all of that and more. Because he was her enemy, he already began her equal. Then he was her friend, and eventually her lover, and finally he became a hero. And he makes her laugh. God, what other man should she be with? Yes, their first relationship was immature. They fucked it up. But their second relationship was a different sort, and it would have never happened without the first. And at the core of their relationship was always this rivalry that spoke of people relating to one another as friends first. Angel and Riley were never Buffy's friends, but Spike was. And you'll find it a common thing in my shipping tendencies: the best friends make the best lovers. I loved Spike/Buffy because their relationship was simultaneously both epic and mundane-- although BTVS was not about romance, it was about family, nonetheless Buffy and Spike had the epic relationship arc of BTVS, culminating in an epic finale. And, at the same time, they bickered like little kids, they hurt one another, they laughed, and they got drunk together. They were a complicated pair, but they fit.
2. John/Aeryn (Farscape) - This came so close to overtaking S/B as my ultimate tv OTP. At some point in watching this show I just accepted it: these two belong together in ways I can't even put into words. John is totally in love with Aeryn, and there's no one better for him in the universe than her. Aeryn is totally in love with John, and there's no one better for her in the universe than him. I want them to be together because with all their pain and misery, they deserve it. They deserve it, and they'll fight tooth and nail and spine for it. Unlike Spike and Buffy, who can co-exist without each other because they are not defined by love though they are strengthened by and changed by love, John and Aeryn's world become wound around each other. As crewmates, as friends, and eventually as lovers. John and Aeryn don't have a driving purpose in life-- they aren't obligated to be world-savers first and people second. They are carreening about the universe in a whirlwind of events where their biggest goal is to survive. And in this crazy universe, eventually they realize that nothing matters but the ones you love. What John loves above all things is Aeryn. What Aeryn loves above all things is John. The last episode of the series made me happy, and the The Peacekeeper Wars broke my heart, then made me happy again. If anyone, ANYONE should get a happy ending on television, it's John and Aeryn.
3. Mulder/Scully (The X Files) - Like Spike and Buffy, like John and Aeryn, like my anime pairings above--- yet another pairing that has love based on friendship. I don't know what I could possibly say about Mulder and Scully that hasn't already been said on the internet and television. They're Mulder and Scully. They're an institution unto themselves. It's from them fandom got the word "shipper", and you know that has to mean something if nothing else does. These two cats were in love for years before they started sleeping together, and we the audience were in love with them. The show might have gotten lame, Chris Carter might have forgotten his own continuity, and fandom might have as good as ended years ago. But Mulder and Scully? They're an institution. Rock on.*
There are several pairings I subscribe to that I didn't mention here: for example, Veronica/Logan, Vash/Meryl, Roy/Riza, Naruto/Sakura... but that's because either they're too new to me (Veronica/Logan), or they're not central to the series as I initially watched it, such as Vash/Meryl and Roy/Riza. They were there and they left an impression, but the story wasn't about them.
What did you learn from this meme?
That just as often as Shaka's ships have happy endings, the other half of them ends in tragedy or bittersweet departure. I guess I come from the Casablanca / Gone With The Wind school of romance.
*CURSE THE BEE! THE DAMN BEE!
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Date: 2005-06-03 03:20 am (UTC)I swear, I *never* got the email alert for this comment. Just happened by it tonight.
I really got into the idea of Scar out on the Mediterranian seas in a really rugged sailing vessel, all dark and gorgeous as he tugs on ropes and sweats up a storm in the hot salty sun. *sighs dreamily*
I think you just gave me a new fantasy. I was previously thinking salt-of-the-earth Farmer!Scar, but salt-of-the-sea Sailor!Scar is even BETTER. And being that I've done a lot of sailing, I can come up with quite detailed mental imagery....Mmm....
Actually, you must meet us all through just FMA talk, because I haven't read any het Scar fic. I've never even seen any. WHICH IS SO WRONG, given that he and Lust should have a thing. They deserve to have a thing. A sexy thing
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Where do y'all meet? AIM?
Ahh, mucked up my grammar there a bit. I meant that you must have met people who like that stuff through talking to them not through fic, because I've scoured the net for Lust/Scar fic and come up empty-handed.
But if you have some, point me to it!
Or... get on with writing it! I'd love to read what you do with those two sexy cats.
You know, a lot of people are down on the Mary Sue/ sparkly impulse, but I think for self-indulgence purposes it is more then okay. Who cares if that doesn't make for great writing? Just keep it to yourself, and gloat over the girly beautiful things that make YOU happiest.
Well, I indulge, sure. :) Fanfic is great for that. But when I'm trying to think of happy-ending sparkly fluff fic, my brain usually breaks it down before the thought even finishes. I need substance before I can write. And pretty much any happy-ending fic I could write at this moment amounts to:
Fakir loves Ahiru, and misses her. He writes a story, and eventually it works, and one day Ahiru wakes up on the shore of the lake as a girl again. She wanders into town, finds clothes, finds Fakir, and they hug. And maybe even kiss. And there's birds and flowers and pretty music in the background. And then they live happily ever after doing ballet together and writing books for the rest of their days. The End.
Then my brain looks at that and goes, "That's not a story! That's not even a drabble! That's a 6-panel comic strip!"
And then I go try to find someone ELSE'S fic.
It strikes me that a good Ahiru/Fakir fic could be written "between the scenes," set sometime during the series when they are just getting to know each other and before all the really serious shit goes down. Probably from Fakir's POV, because he seemed to be the one who started noticing first that he was liking Ahiru in 'that way.'
I saw one fic, "Idyll", that's like that. It's particularly good, and it's listed in the link below.
The problem is that PT fic is basically being written ALL by fansub watchers right now-- there's only one DVD out in English, and it's not been on any US tv stations yet. I doubt it would ever go on Adult Swim... and somehow it doesn't strike me as Toonami material either. But if the DVDs would be released then at least more people could rent it, watch it, and write fic for it.
Point me in the direction of good Ahiru/Fakir. I'm interested.
Really, you shouldn't encourage me! I'll never leave you alone.