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[moonsheen]

Since I am all about that 'one line posts with random meme' thing of late. Here goes! Comment with a pairing or character from a fandom I know and I will, like, totally talk about it and stuff.

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[beckingham.livejournal.com]

The awesome that is Rukia/Renji, perhaps? XD

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

...oh dear you've picked the long one.

Renji/Rukia? Where to start with Renji/Rukia? They're my series OTP. From the first few pages with them. O.T.friggin'P. It came up in a conversation with my AWESOME roommate pocky_slash the other day: two of the big kinks we both have with pairings? History and devotion. These two have it in spades. And with a fair bit of snark and bitchery to add in.

They manage to be utterly romantic, s'thing. Not in personality or interaction. Oh, no no, they're so incrediably unromantic it isn't even funny. They're two ambitious, well traveled, former alleybrats who are foul-tempered, foul-mouthed, violent, and often times utterly selfish. But even so there's such a wistfulness to what they have and have had I can't help but think they're maybe just a little bit canon. Cute pairing monnikers for the win. A Star and a Stray Dog!

...plus Renji's so...unabashedly doing everything for her. He's not a sop for it either--which is the problem I think, with the rare rare rare Renji/Rukia fic out there. Angsty piney sad crying dog is not. right. here. Renji's in love with her. I mean, that's pretty damn canon, I'd almost say. He's sickly in love with her. Knows it. But is a BIG SNARLY DOG ABOUT IT. Rukia might know it, might not. I'd say not, but not for the fact that nothing ever happened (Renji/Rukia long term messed up relationship? totally my not so secret kink), but for the fact Rukia's issues make it terribly hard for her to understand how ANYONE could care for her enough to lay down their life for her....whiiich comes to, what I think, is my favorite thing about their relationship: they know eachother better than they know themselves. Rukia knows how to push Renji's buttons to get him working again. Renji is the one who cuts to the heart of the absolute insecurity and guilt and pain that was eating her alive. "No one thinks as badly of you as you do." ...truer words were NEVER spoken to her. And the fact that she LISTENS to him....yeah. I don't see them as a tragic pairing at all. I think they're about two very old, very screwed up people who...are old and screwed up together. But they've a thing like that going for a long long time and I'd feel sad if they didn't still have eachother after they picked up the pieces of the chaos that the SS arc turned both their lives into.

...also, yanno, in Renji's intro my first thought was '...wow, Rukia's got a really. really pissy ex there."

She sure does.

[aidosaur.livejournal.com]

(Excellent, that was what I was going to ask for! XD ) Wonderfully said! Finally a reason to use my 197spoiler icon for the first time! :D

The most recent developments in the manga have made me go all smitten with them again. Just the beautiful 'partners in crime' relationship they have, they understand each other so perfectly and wordlessly. (Personally, I've been getting a strong 'Ichigo's abusive big brother and big sister' vibe from the two of them since 195.)

Thank you for talking about my OTP!

[beckingham.livejournal.com]

I'd have words for you, but - incoherent now by 'shipping love and such, yes. I will sum up then: agree and heartHEART you. If only someone could fully convince of Ichigo/Rukia like I am so convinced of Rukia/Renji. I guess I'll always be a Renji/Rukia fangirl. But who's complaining, anyway?