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What do you know, high school came in handy. (plea for help at the bottom!)
So, I've developed yet another fandom with yet another relationship that NO ONE will ever write about and that nobody even draws. This is pretty distressing, seeing as this is the case in ALL MY FANDOMS EVER AFKJLSDGJSFDIBGMCVNW$EOGTH@#QJWJSGKALGNSDIGN.
Ahem.
I promise this post has something to do with high school coming in handy.
The fandom, by the way, is Tales of Symphonia. Which was supposed to be, you know. A pretty large/active fandom. This was a total lie.
The relationship is, uh. Very spoilery. And, surprisingly (knowing me), not gay. I just like the general relationship between the two. Who, uh, happen to be Kratos and Lloyd. Now, Kratos is supposed to be the most popular character in the game, and Lloyd is not as annoying as some main RPG heroes can be (I liked him!).
But is there fic?
No.
Is there art?
NO.
There isn't even art.
Desperate for some nice fluffy art, I've been searching EVERYWHERE. Deviantart, y!Gallery, Elfwood, Sheezyart, Fanart Central, Japanese sites. Finally, during today's lunch break at work, I gave up and googled it -- and got some results! Most of them, however, seemed to be reposts of images from other sites on a French blog.
I waffled around a little bit, and then decided to pull out my dusty French, shake it out, and take it for a walk.
I managed to explain my situation and ask where the blogger got those pictures. And I think I even did so passably well.
Ha! I wish I'd been looking for gay porn. Then I could truthfully say that the first time I ever used French since I took it in high school was to ask for gay porn. Damn.
PS: If any of y'all on my flist happen to know where I can find quality ToS fanworks OF ANY KIND, please make with the spilling. Oh pretty, pretty please. I'll, uh! Draw you things! Gimme?
Ahem.
I promise this post has something to do with high school coming in handy.
The fandom, by the way, is Tales of Symphonia. Which was supposed to be, you know. A pretty large/active fandom. This was a total lie.
The relationship is, uh. Very spoilery. And, surprisingly (knowing me), not gay. I just like the general relationship between the two. Who, uh, happen to be Kratos and Lloyd. Now, Kratos is supposed to be the most popular character in the game, and Lloyd is not as annoying as some main RPG heroes can be (I liked him!).
But is there fic?
No.
Is there art?
NO.
There isn't even art.
Desperate for some nice fluffy art, I've been searching EVERYWHERE. Deviantart, y!Gallery, Elfwood, Sheezyart, Fanart Central, Japanese sites. Finally, during today's lunch break at work, I gave up and googled it -- and got some results! Most of them, however, seemed to be reposts of images from other sites on a French blog.
I waffled around a little bit, and then decided to pull out my dusty French, shake it out, and take it for a walk.
I managed to explain my situation and ask where the blogger got those pictures. And I think I even did so passably well.
Ha! I wish I'd been looking for gay porn. Then I could truthfully say that the first time I ever used French since I took it in high school was to ask for gay porn. Damn.
PS: If any of y'all on my flist happen to know where I can find quality ToS fanworks OF ANY KIND, please make with the spilling. Oh pretty, pretty please. I'll, uh! Draw you things! Gimme?
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Hrm- I'm halfways glad the Kratos/Lloyd slash fandom disappeared. They were really annoying because they didn't like to be honest about the fact that they liked an incest pairing. They would always write all these essays about sociological factors that would make parent/child sex "okay" and "normal" and "not like incest" at all when really, they just all shipped it because they didn't realize that they were father and son and Zelos hadn't been introduced yet (not the the Zelos/Lloyd fandom is much better *SIGH*).
I don't know if Regal/Presea is still difficult to find, but about two years ago when Dawn and I first played the game there was nothing out there. In fact, most people found it DISGUSTING and claimed it was pedophilia while shipping away Presea/Genis which, uh. Yeah. I think I actually wrote some of the first, if not the first, Regal/Presea fics in the English fandom *that's* how scarce it was. I think there's more of it out there now although I can't attest to it's quality.
The characters are Connor Hawke (http://variable.nine-tales.net/avatars/DC/connor.jpg) and Eddie Fyres (http://variable.nine-tales.net/avatars/DC/eddie2.jpg). They have such an awesome (http://variable.nine-tales.net/imagrey/scans_daily/Ollie/connor%20and%20eddie/sympathy1.jpg) relationship (http://variable.nine-tales.net/imagrey/scans_daily/Ollie/connor%20and%20eddie/sympathy2.jpg) full of adorable, affectionate snark (http://variable.nine-tales.net/imagrey/scans_daily/Ollie/connor%20and%20eddie/Green%20Arrow%20%23112%20-03.jpg) and synchronized ass-kicking and they, like, live together and travel the world together and professional, chain-smoking, dirty-mouthed Eddie went to LIVE IN A MONASTERY for Connor because their love is so true. ♥ ♥ ♥ It's not that their explicitly slashy- it's just that they're not quite like father and son and not quite like mentor and student and not quite like BFF and almost but not really like an odd-couple, buddy cop movie. That many not quites always makes the slash-sirens in my brain go off like woah. Plus, they have random moments like this (http://variable.nine-tales.net/imagrey/scans_daily/Ollie/connor%20and%20eddie/machine.jpg). :P
The fact that this pairing doesn't exist in the fandom could probably be attributed to the fact that they're kind of obscure. Except that the (Green) Arrow family have nearly as much fic as the BATS despite being markedly less popular and Connor himself is a fandom darling. He's also one half of one of the most popular slash pairings in the fandom- Connor/Kyle (Green Lantern IV. Connor and Kyle have worked together in less than ten comics, but Eddie appeared in almost every single issue of Connor's series. It's just baffling considering the DC fandom's propensity for slashing everything that moves and isn't Guy Gardner.
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Ahahahaha. Ha. ^___^;;
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typing too fast, lulz typos.
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Kratos/Lloyd slash could be very interesting, but it's one of those things that has to be done just right for me to buy it. Maybe I'm glad the fandom died down; it sounded pretty stupid -_-
Regal/Presea's got a lot of possibilities. The pedophilia-crying crowd's ridiculous, though -- she's almost as old as he is, and, uh, almost two decades older than Genis. Fandom, this is why I don't venture out and interact with you more. I hear ya, though, on the scarcity thing -- my absolute One Piece OTP is Franky/Iceburg, and I usually can't pick just one pairing to like best. But when I got into OP fandom there was just NOTHING on them in English, not anywhere. I guess I ended up writing the first of that, too! There's definitely more out there now as people have caught up, thank god.
HAY NOW, that looks pretty awesome! I keep wanting to seriously get into Western comics, but I'm seriously intimidated by the sheer size and... confusingness of the canon. All the retconning and canon AUs and spinoff series and... I just don't know where to start! I like the bits you showed me, though -- sounds right up my alley XD.