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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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[feather-down.livejournal.com]

I choose the Priss. Yay!

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

Byakuya. Oooh. Byakuya. He's a funny one for me. I can distinctly remember disliking the guy. Or well, disliking his archetype: oh, look, another 'coldhearted insanely powerful big brother' type. Remember that chirachira? Me not liking Byakuya very much. This, of course, naturally meant I had to devote a stupidly long fanfic to him. Somehow, this made me like him. And now he's one of my favorites. (among, like, a thousand favorites I have in Bleach but anyway)

...I think what I like most about him is how...abrasive he is. I sort of suspect he doesn't care that much about people meeting his expectation so much as people fall over themselves to meet what their expectations of what his expectations are. Byakuya just tends to watch this boredly and do his own thing. He expects perfection, this is true. But he expects that as a default so there's no praise when it's met and caustic remarks when it's not--if that. He's used to disappointment. But people can be fools as they are wont to be, as long as his pride and his law is respected then for the most part? He just doesn't give a damn. Rukia's complexes, Renji's goals. All these things they set for themselves. Byakuya did little more than be there. Be this cold, distant thing that everyone strives for as an ideal: and an ideal he is. He's the leader of the Kuchiki family, he an expert swordsmen, not too shabby at Demon arts, he's well read, probably a skilled poet, probably owns about a fourth of Seireitei if not more, a Captain of the 13 divisions, probably the current representative of the collective nobility...but at the same time he's rude, sarcastic, cold, prefers to keep to himself and likely can't stand about 95% of all people he's forced to associate with by order of being. uh. all those damn things. Also he has stupid hair. Also his wife is dead and he has no heir, as far as we can tell. (unless, like, Hisana died in childirth or something which, yanno, WHO THE HELL KNOWS we've gotten no answer as to exactly what killed her) And as of the SS arc, he was going to watch his sister die. So yes, it actually kind of sucks to be him. Plus, he's an honorable character and bloody clever in a fight. I think the moment I truly liked him was at the end of his battle with Renji: when he throws his scarf over him, which to me showed a shocking amount of respect for a man he had, for all intent and purpose, just killed.

In short: he's a priss, but he's our priss, damnit!

[random-prophet.livejournal.com]

he has no heir, as far as we can tell.

but what about midnite raven kuchiki :(