I only ever insult people's reading people's ability when it is obvious they don't read everything or just ignore it. Especially on an internet forum.
Thus, why you are seen as a brazen jerk by some. (Just so you know, I'm not serious about this, but I'm not joking about it either, in short I have no idea what intention I have, I think I'm typing but not sure. I don't even know what I'm doing.)
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Genuine understanding is an empathic art based on the integrity of the listener, any other method is folly.
No thank you.
I wonder what attracts us to certain pairings? What sort of character to we associate with each character? I truly cannot speak for others, my views of their essence being different.
That being said, I can try to express what essences I believe lie within certain characters. Nintendo characters are decidedly pure, with minimal convolution in the fiction in which they reside with few remaining internal consistencies.
Marth and Zelda were my perfect pair, this was for admittedly superficial reasons in my youth; I paused the camera at the right time once and had an epiphanic moment of 'how well they looked together'. I do not know at what age I became enchanted with romance, but I tell you it damaged me for the rest of my life. I mean what? Uh, what was I talking about? Oh, right. Pairings. When I played Marth as my main in Melee, my first encounter with him, I was enchanted with his tone, it seemed as if he was that sort of serious, focused individual. Intense. But witty. I liked that. When I played Zelda as my secondary, I felt a similar thing, a serious and focused persona, but her I had a past with, I felt the Ocarina of Time influence. She was an enchanting empath, enchanting in the way as a coy cuteness that is.
Needless to say I was an absolutely moronic low-grade imbecile. Go look at my oldest (posted) fanfiction that I posted in the creative minds section if cringing and breaking out into a cold sweat is your thing. I'm glad I deleted the one before that, and while it was worse writing wise, it was certainly more pure with their personality, being both shy and flighty pushed together by their companions, heavily influenced by the fanfictions I had read before then. Charming. Horrifying. I hate my last fanfiction because I made Sheik a crazy outgoing creature of suggestion (before I tried to edit out much of that to create Sheik as that sort of 'straight faced nin who can't read the mood' before giving up), and displayed Zelda in such a manner as a creature of main emotion, being the one to only expand on Marth's words, who was almost just a plot device, no, I can't say that, he was more like a somber man who can turn charming at will. I have committed great crimes against womanhood and manhood with my portrayal of these peoples.
Anyways, I experienced the philosophical shift and maturity that begins to follow in the wake of adolescence (Some of this being expressed in the most recent fanfiction). I refined and honed the principles I associated with the characters, and actually did a little research. Marth was no longer this cool guy, but he was a stoic man of action. He tried to reason out the world around him, to carefully poke out in hopefully the right ways with his interactions with others, to help guide them to understand themselves and grow the bonds between them, but it was not a conscious effort, and he was no emotional type, it flowed naturally from his Lordhood and protagonism. Zelda had returned to that oldest persona, but with much more meaning. She was more inwardly reflecting on the words placed before her, a wise woman who was an enchanting empath when she spoke, enchanting in the way of the genuine care and maturity she had, not some haughty attractiveness.
To make these actually work and be interesting in the fanfiction I'm now writing, I'm using the OoT timeline Zelda where Link died and failed to seal Ganon, and the Marth where Caeda died (no official timeline split, but (almost) anyone can die in FE forever! :O). /shamelessplugforsomethingthatsnotgoingtohaveeven10pagesforathousandyears. And this time, it's actually a coherent story with consistent explanation and actual
adventure being the main theme instead of that pseudo-adventure detective stupidity that was really just an excuse for romance I was going for last time. I hope.
Yes, I ship Marth and Zelda.
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