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Stellar-Kill
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Don't you hate it when writers come up with the crummiest couple ever? (i.e Caithseth and Cid) What are ppl thinking?! This is why this forum exisits. Discuss hot couples, cold couples, what works in a yaoi and what doesn't!
#1 Dec 21st 2005, 7:30am
foggybrains
Oh god yes. Like VincentxCid. Oh man, I was reading this one really good story and then POOF, they stuck in that horrible pairing. Scarred me. Badly. Loz and yazoo is pretty bad too. Incest! There's crazy people out there, I tell ya.
#2 Dec 21st 2005, 8:52am
Stellar-Kill
Lol, I seen a doujinshi with those two..o_x. To my surprise, it wasn't as bad as I thought, visually that is. Have you read the Cactuar and Sephiroth fic??
#3 Dec 22nd 2005, 1:26pm
Apathetic Rhapsody
Have you read the Cactuar and Sephiroth fic??

That fic rocks my socks! *hiss* It's freaken' awesome, and hell, if the author's smokin' something then damn I want some too, it's just awesome. XD

*coughs* Anyway, I think that Vincent/Cid does work. Along with a few other 'weird' pairings as some may dub them.

#4 Dec 23rd 2005, 3:21pm
Van 'n' Kim
(cough)Kadaj and Yazoo(cough) First, brothers, second, Kadaj is not... Really... That... Close... to him? (glares at all the Kadaj/yazoo fans) It's true though. The same for Kadaj and Loz, It wouldn't work. Kadaj doesn't seem to be too close to his other brothers. I mean, the relationship's there, but Yazoo and Loz go in one direction, and Kadaj seems to go in another! Okay, I'm calm. I'll stop now. No offense to those who like these pairings, okay? I'm sorry if I offended you.
#5 Jan 02nd 2006, 6:52pm
Saki Inazuma
Oh god yes. Like VincentxCid. Oh man, I was reading this one really good story and then POOF, they stuck in that horrible pairing. Scarred me. Badly. Loz and yazoo is pretty bad too. Incest! There's crazy people out there, I tell ya.

What planet are YOU from? That's one of the best pairings in the game!

#6 Jan 04th 2006, 3:05pm
DragonLady626
I don't like yaoi unless the characters are so definetly (you can guess right?) that there is no question of their preference!? It Just really ticks me off when people mash around the character's personalities and the way they think so much!
#7 Jan 16th 2006, 1:51pm
Stellar-Kill
I can understand that. Though sometimes it's kinda fun to see a spin on a charrie's persona. It's amusing, if done properly.
#8 Jan 17th 2006, 9:44am
SapphireXSerpent
I read the fic, 'Rainy Day' by SylverSkyz and it had little tiny joking hints of Reno/Rude. As in Rude and Reno got into a fight, and Rude pinned Reno down, and Reno goes, 'Oh, I didn't know you liked me like that.' And Rude jumps off REALLY fast. That's okay with me, if it's just joking. Other wise, gayness just isn't right. :Gags:
#9 Mar 31st 2006, 3:46pm
Alexes L. Ashton
I think gayness is perfectly okay. :D But that's just me. I personally favor the following pairings: SephxCloud, SephxZax, SephxCloudxZax, VincentxCid, RufusxReno, RenoxRude, and CloudxChocobo... alright. Just kidding on that last one. (I mean, have you seen the doujinshi with that actually happening? OMFG! Talk about disturbing.) But, like I said, I truely think gayness is absolutly fine. I mean, I've had my own gay experiences with other women before(though, we won't go into that, b/c it was mainly kissing.) and I'm still okay with gay couples. Especially if they're gay couples from games that are bishies with awesome personalities. (My fav person is Sephiroth... he's my Alter Ego.)

But, those are my opinions.

~Alexes

#10 Apr 03rd 2006, 1:03pm
Requiem For The Innocent
Catuar/Sehpiroth? O_o Okay... -_-
#11 Apr 15th 2006, 11:18pm
scarlettHuntress
Dude! cactuar/seph? can you please link me there?
#12 May 05th 2006, 1:50am
Requiem For The Innocent
I don't have a link for cactuar/Sephiroth lemon! O_o
#13 May 05th 2006, 1:52am
scarlettHuntress
ahh yes i should of mentioned, my #1 fave ff7 yaoi pairing is cloud/seph. cloud/zack, zack/seph or zack/seph/cloud are second, and others i like are reno/rufus, cid/vinnie aaaand..... practically everything else. there's a story out there that's vin/cait, that's disturbing but quite interesting. they also have a cloud/cid pairing in there.
#14 May 05th 2006, 1:54am
jj-chan
lol, i don't think a lot will agree with me, but for me, there IS no bad FFVII yaoi pairing.

there are just badly and brilliantly written yaoi FFVII fics.

#15 Jun 17th 2006, 7:29am
Stellar-Kill
lol!

...Though.. the SephxVin ones.. I dunno. Its just that they're like.. inches away from being father n' son..

#16 Mar 13th 2007, 10:22pm
Wild Fantasy
I don't know about you guys, but I HATE brother incest (very perverted). I mean, I saw a "Zack and Cody" fic and they had coughsexcough with their own mother! And they sometime pair Zack and Cody themselves!

To me, a well-done yaoi is a happy yaoi...if it actually is reasonable.

I might start something, but I think the Cloud/Sephy pairing is way too freaky. They're arch enemies, and imagining them having a romance is just darn unreasonable. The pair would make sense if it was BEFORE the Nibelheim incident. After that, I doubt they would fall for each other.

~Fran

#17 Apr 23rd 2007, 7:41pm
Bloz
I BEG YOUR PARDON?
#18 Jul 18th 2007, 2:25pm
Wild Fantasy
I beg YOUR pardon? You like incest? :0
#19 Jul 18th 2007, 6:38pm
scarlettHuntress
I might start something, but I think the Cloud/Sephy pairing is way too freaky. They're arch enemies, and imagining them having a romance is just darn unreasonable. The pair would make sense if it was BEFORE the Nibelheim incident. After that, I doubt they would fall for each other.

Us SephXCloud shippers might have a pairing based purely on crack, yes, but most other pairings aren't much better. And do we need any more logic, when they look so good together? And to combat the whole canon one killed the other, one set the other's hometown on fire stuff, that's what AU is for.

#20 Jul 19th 2007, 6:44am
Wild Fantasy
I know they look good together, but is that what the romance is based upon?

Yep, I like AUs cuz they open up bigger possibilities and just let you go haywire with the Cloth pairing. :)

I know other pairs aren't much better. Like, people pairing up Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz with each other. It's just sick. :(

#21 Jul 19th 2007, 9:21am
Bloz
that IS nasty. brother incest is not cool
#22 Jul 19th 2007, 9:51am
lacyrelic
Personally, Cloud/Reno is my OTP. I also like Reno/Cloud (every good fic I've read has had Zack/Cloud in the background). I really don't know why I like this pairing. REno is complex (a living oxymoron. I mean a happy-go-lucky assasin) and Cloud is not (wah my (boy)friend died, wah my (girl)friend died this has caused me to be a moody sob to everyone including my best friend who has to have back problems whom I never give the time of day to even if she was naked and on fire in front of me. COme on, he has to be gay).

Zack/Cloud is okay (especially since a lot the Cloud/Reno's have this pairing on the side). Its just that I just can't see Zack moving from the flower girl to being a fruit(no flack please).

I can understand the appeal of Sephie/Cloud. I mean, you have the whole teacher-student thing going on (*GEneral, sir. I can't seem to get the maneuver right* -Well, Strife, then we will practice it all night long until you get it right) but really how much of a masochist is Cloud to be in love with a man straight through him (But hunnybunch, I missed all your vital organs. All right I promise not to torch your mom next time I see her).

And the brothers. I hate, Hate, HATE incest (and pedo I found a Cloud/Denzel. Escuse me while I go throw up) Listen, there are more than enough characters to pair each bother up with someone so that they won't have to get each other "special hugs goodnight."

I have read a good Vincent/Yazoo but it needed a dubious consent warning (you the scenerio I don't want you but could you please put your mouth a little lower) I loved all the angst that was with the story (he pretended he didn't like it rough(. YOu know what I need to go find that story.

PS: I apologize for my ramblings. I had more to say (I actually wrote it but then i erased it all)but my mind is getting sleepy and when that happens my mind does terrible things. I'll finish rambling tomorrow.

#23 Jul 19th 2007, 9:12pm
Miso Ramen-sama

Hey, is it called "Family?" That's a SephxCloud fic..or I think that's the correct name. Anyway! Omg. It's so awesome, but then they brought up VincentxCid....

DDDD;

#24 Jan 16th, 10:31am
scarlettHuntress

I hate that fic.... -___-. No matter that the characters are butchered all to hell and not even in a way that's halfway enjoyable (For instance Sephcounttheways' undeniably OOC but completely epic fic 'Blonde Ambition'), but the entire premise is messed up and there are multiple flaws.

#25 Jan 17th, 2:27am
Hidan'sLoverForever81995

i like alot of Yaoi and that includes incest infeact some of my fave oairings are incest ones, but there are somones i dont like, i dont like seph and vincent becouse i think there father and spn but im really up for anything.

#26 Mar 27th, 9:17pm
scarlettHuntress

i like alot of Yaoi and that includes incest infeact some of my fave oairings are incest ones, but there are somones i dont like, i dont like seph and vincent becouse i think there father and spn but im really up for anything.

Ok, no offence because it's nice that there's finally activity in the forum, but will it really kill you to just give your post a one-over and try to captilize your 'I's and get some spelling right? Any good browser has a built in spellcheck, anyway.

#27 Mar 27th, 10:01pm
thisaccountisdone

Don't you hate it when writers come up with the crummiest couple ever?

The pairing doesn't make the story, though. If it's a well-written fic, why should the pairing matter? I do admit, I have favorite pairings and certainly put stories with those pairings first, don't get me wrong on that. But if the fic was amazing but had a pairing you didn't like, you wouldn't read it? This happened to me today, actually. In the Resident Evil fandom, though. I'm not particularly a fan of Leon/Claire OR Ada/Wesker, but I kept going because the story was great. I've rambled, sorry.

I don't like yaoi unless the characters are so definetly (you can guess right?) that there is no question of their preference!? It Just really ticks me off when people mash around the character's personalities and the way they think so much!

Everyone views things differently, though. What I believe the characters personalities are, are completely different from what you think. OOC-ness ** me off, though. That's just sad.

lol, i don't think a lot will agree with me, but for me, there IS no bad FFVII yaoi pairing. there are just badly and brilliantly written yaoi FFVII fics.

I absolutely agree .. Any pairing has the potential to be great.

I beg YOUR pardon? You like incest? :0

I don't mind it, to be honest. In fanfiction/Original fiction ONLY! Seriously, I think it's disgusting in real life.

Ok, no offence because it's nice that there's finally activity in the forum, but will it really kill you to just give your post a one-over and try to captilize your 'I's and get some spelling right? Any good browser has a built in spellcheck, anyway.

I was gonna say the same thing .. It wouldn't hurt, seriously. Fanfiction.net has a spellcheck, there's no need to spell like a grade one student.

I like slash. My favorite pairing is probably Reno/Rufus or Reno/Vincent. I'm a Reno fangirl.

#28 Jun 27th, 4:51pm
scarlettHuntress

The pairing doesn't make the story, though. If it's a well-written fic, why should the pairing matter? I do admit, I have favorite pairings and certainly put stories with those pairings first, don't get me wrong on that. But if the fic was amazing but had a pairing you didn't like, you wouldn't read it? This happened to me today, actually. In the Resident Evil fandom, though. I'm not particularly a fan of Leon/Claire OR Ada/Wesker, but I kept going because the story was great. I've rambled, sorry.

I really am a firm believer that even though a lot of people have their OTPS and favourite couples, a good writer should be able to convince a reader of any pairing (as long as the reader doesn't dismiss the fic outright with a 'pfft, aXb will never happen!'). For that reason, I have read a large number of crack fics that had the most out there pairings that somehow worked perfectly, thanks to the writers' skill.

Whoo, I thought the forums were dead.

#29 Jun 27th, 10:13pm
Miso Ramen-sama

It's not that I HATE some of the pairings, per say. I LOVE yaoi. I even got my friend addicted to it and SHE didn't like it. o.O

But the fact is some people bring in so much OOCness of the characters' beings and crap, making them unenjoyable. But I wouldn't just abandon a story if there was a couple I didn't excatly LIKE. (unless there were numerous amount of misspelling and grammar errors, etc, cuz trust me, there ARE a lot out there.)

The plot might be even more so interesting that probably later you wouldn't really mind the unlikely couple. But I will admit, though, that the thought of Vincent x Cid sometimes makes me uncomfortable. Doesn't mean I don't like the two, however. FFVII is a fanfic archive that I could never abandon.

And incest? Forgive me, especially those who enjoy it whether it be fanfics or not, but I just don't appreciate whenever I see Itachi x Sasuke. Even real life disgusts me. I won't try to change your minds, cuz I know I won't. You may continue enjoying it for all I care. I'm just stating my opinion on the matter, anyway.

#30 Jul 01st, 8:31pm
scarlettHuntress

You will get OOC in every fandom and pairing. That's a matter of writer's skill, not the pairing itself. The most talented writer can make anything sound perfectly natural.

#31 Jul 01st, 10:36pm
ABNORMAL2110

I really am a firm believer that even though a lot of people have their OTPS and favourite couples, a good writer should be able to convince a reader of any pairing (as long as the reader doesn't dismiss the fic outright with a 'pfft, aXb will never happen!'). For that reason, I have read a large number of crack fics that had the most out there pairings that somehow worked perfectly, thanks to the writers' skill.

Yep! Any pairing could work out if it's written well enough! I've read this CidxSephiroth fic(odd pairing, I know), and it's really, REALLY, good. It's a bit of an AU, but it's strangely in character.

Though, certain people prefer certain pairings mainly because they like the interactions of a certain character in said pairings. I tend to lean in the pairings that has atleast one non-bishounen male(ie. Cid, Loz, or Barret, but especially Cid, cause he's awesome that way). I mean, some people like Reno pairings because they like to read about Reno's interaction with other characters, some like Sephiroth pairings because they like to read about Sephiroth's interaction, etc.

I think the whole "favourite pairings" thing depends on the characters you like to read about.

But that's merely my opinion...

#32 Jul 17th, 12:21am
thisaccountisdone

I mean, some people like Reno pairings because they like to read about Reno's interaction with other characters, some like Sephiroth pairings because they like to read about Sephiroth's interaction, etc.

I agree with you. I mostly look for Yuffie stories because she's my favorite character. But if the story is well-written with beliavable characters, the pairings/main character shouldn't decide whether or not you read the story. Like if I were to come across a Cleno where the characters were in character, the story had a decent plot and great spelling/grammar, I'd read it despite the fact that I don't think Cloud is gay in the slighest. Sadly, I haven't found one.

#33 Jul 17th, 1:47pm
ABNORMAL2110

Hee hee. For some reason, I think Cloud is pret-ty gay. I mean, he had two fine(very fine) women throwing themselves at him, and all he could think about is Sephiroth, Sephiroth, Sephiroth...and he doesn't realise it until one of'em dies.

Other than that, I can't really tell what's his character like...

He had a different attitude in FF7 than he did in AC and DoC, so it's pretty confusing for me...

#34 Jul 21st, 3:12am
Stellar-Kill

Ah, Cloudy-boy.. He's actually a complex creation. Which is why I love him. x3 FFVII Cloud and AC, Before Crisis and DoC Cloud have one thing in common though. Emo-ness. haha. But yeah its only natural that his character develops over time. Personally, I think the older he has gotten the cooler he has gotten. With the shades in AC.. Zomg.. -drools- I hafs a crush on him, sowwie. xD

#35 Sep 27th, 3:41pm

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