Feb 28 2008
It’s all Shizuru’s fault
I simultaneously thank (and blame) Mai-HiME for luring me into the world of shoujo-ai (”girls love”/femslash/whatever-you-want-to-call-it) fan-fiction. Loads of pretty girls + magical powers + subtext + one dirty-minded 27-year-old = Hilarity Ensuing. It helps that there’s an actual lesbian character in canon (Shizuru, though at the point I am in the series, she isn’t quite as open about it as Bleach’s Chizuru). Surprisingly, she’s not the one character who’s the focus of my “pairing du jour”, but according to FanFiction.net, she’s practically the focus of everyone else’s. That honor would go to Mai and Natsuki, two of the main characters. What can I say? I like a challenge. Plus, they both have pretty good chemistry when they’re on screen, so…why the heck not? :heart:
Sadly, it’s very hard to find good fiction on these two at FF.net, since the search engine doesn’t recognize the slash (”/”), leading me to find completely unrelated pairings (and I really don’t like using “cutesy” portmanteau couple names, which this fandom and Avatar are completely nuts about). I find this little omission completely absurd, since most of fanfiction is “all about the slash” (bad pun very much intended). As I’ve already written 19 chapters of a planned 30 in a story for this pairing, I’ve been inspired to do even more in this category.
Next up: Sakura and Karin from Street Fighter, inspired partially after reading this story written a long time ago by someone named Kaiser Ryouga II. Say what? Rivalshipping? Happens all the time in Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! I’m a sucker for these two…rivals on the battlefield, and friends off it.
That’s not to say that I don’t have other non-femslashy projects waiting in the wings. I have this little Dark Cloud 2 Max/Monica friendship fic that I sat aside once I started working on my Mai/Natsuki story, and I might later do a little something revolving around Read or Die’s Yomiko/Donnie relationship, which is pretty much central to her character. I plan to get all of these projects off the backburner before the end of the year.
That’s all I have today. Oh, wait…a link to the Mai/Natsuki story:
Table of Contents on my LJ
Cheers!
