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Tell me a pairing, and I will tell you:

1. When or if I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:

I'll be off finishing Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro tonight, with luck (and lack of MI snowstorms) I'll be able to return it tomorrow. I ordered Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja and
Graceling Kristin Cashore. For the rest of January I've got Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng, The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Sea by John Banville, and The Man Without A Face by Isobel Holland and The Hunger Games. I hope to get Catching Fire and Mockingjay next, but they've gotten fairly popular, so it's a bitch to get ahold of them.

I have finally figured what bugs me about Ishiguro's writing, and might do some blogging about it after reading this one. I'll probably still finish the rest of his works, however. I only have two or three books to go, anyways (and I have a certain habit about keeping reading books by authors whose works have bugged me to give them 'another chance' in case I got the book where they weren't playing their A-Game.

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[nijibug]

I'm not sure where you stand on Okita/Kagura from Gintama, so I'll go with Ike/Soren! ♥ ♥ (unless you've already answered this on LJ many times xD)

[bonnefois]

The biggest memory I have of O/G is that I once pulled a pitch...two years ago now at the very last moment for Yuletide. Seriously, I finished it in 30 minutes after not reading the manga for quite some time, and yet it's one of my most loved stories. Go figure. I also note that M really loves it a lot, and I've considered writing more, but never got around to doing it.

(I should read more Gintama.)

I am always up to fangirling about Ike/Soren! ♥

1. When or if I started shipping them: Hahah, this has a bit of a story behind it. So, I wasn't into Tellius yet. I'd just gotten into Seima, my first FE game and was scouring for slash for it ( and being heartbroken over the lack!) and I kept running into it. I thought it was some main het pairing, and was getting irritated and finally tracked down the supports to see what everyone was talking about. There was a two second pause of like "Oh..." and then I promptly shipped. I had some issues getting the game, so I read the script in the meantime. This was all about summer 07. I got it aboout August 07, and finished my first fic in September. I didn't think it was any good, and no one on my flist shipped it, so I might've slipped right out of fandom and gone back to whatever other fandoms, except wetheril found it via googling, I guess. She left a review and encouraged me to post it around, and I started poking around in fandom more and met a ton of people who have become my best friends and helped me grow along the way /sappy nostalgia

2. What I think their challenge is: Soren's ~issues~ Which isn't really so much as a challenge, because Ike is like, the most well-adjusted guy ever, and I think they'd not really have fights in the conventional sense. Soren is way too "Yes, Ike. I'll get to it right now." for them to have the screaming fights you see in other couples.

Soren's jealousy and clinginess might be an issue with any other couple, but Ike is so oblivious to women's advances (or downright DNW, in the case of Aimee) and well attuned to Soren's moods and issues that it doesn't even make a ripple with them.

3. What makes me happy about them: ~Everything~ Seriously! I did a round up of all the stuff which are what I love about pairs that I ship, and they got almost every single one. It was literally 99% of everything I loved in pairings, and they even didn't suffer the fast of most slash -- that is death by heteronormativity. The game makes it really clear that Soren was always the canon choice, and pretty much makes you feel guilty otherwise. I mean, really -- Soren's solo ending just makes you picture him becoming some embittered person who is like, huddled in a corner of woe. Forever. The game is practically going YOU MONSTER, HOW COULD YOU?

4. What makes me sad about them: Ike is a regular human and Soren's going to have a lifespan of thousands of years.

5. What moment I wish had never happened: Actually, I have no issues with canon. I don't even hate on the RD ending. I have issues with how their RD support was translated, but that's a language issue and nothing to do with canon.

6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: I could be comfortable with them having an asexual relationship. And that's about it. I really think Soren would take to anyone like he takes to Ike. Everytime someone shows up and tries to bond with him, he specifically tells them he's loyal to Ike and won't leave his side. Even the less raging-teenage-hormones-mcangsty!RD Soren didn't exactly welcome say, Micaiah, or Skrimir with open arms.

I tried possible other pairings, but I keep coming to the point that they have something really special, and Soren basically rejects everyone else, and Ike doesn't act in that same beautiful protective manner towards say, Elincia.

7. My happily ever after for them: Pretty much what canon gave us. Though I could go for Ike stayed AUs, or modern AUs in general :D