Raven ship?! Meme sheep!

[sincere]

After having read the summary of the first part of the Tales of Vesperia novel with Raven's backstory, I... think I ship Raven/Sodia. In the game and in the novel Raven has compared her to Flynn (he said that Yuri and Flynn remind him of himself and Casey; since Raven and Yuri have a lot in common, I've always assumed that Flynn must remind him of her). This is still a decent comparison after reading the novel; they certainly have a lot of attitudes and conflicts in common.

But Casey seems very Sodialike, too. I thought so the moment she snapped at Duke for suggesting they flee the battlefield, because that's not what Commandant Alexei said; when they said things like she never made sarcastic commentary; when they commented on her strict unsmiling hostility towards young!Raven. Now I kind of want to fic Raven/Sodia.

Also, Casey was a captain? Awesome. Go go female captain.

Also, loved the Alexei we saw in this novel, it explains so much about why Flynn idolized him.



Doing a fun fandom meme because I've wanted to do it and cypher posted a version I haven't done yet. With some tweaking because I'm fussy:


Ask me about any character I know, and I will pick [at least] one most of the following and tell you:

(a) Three facts about them from my personal fanon.
(b) Two reasons they're amazing.
(c) Five things that I'd like to see happen to them.
(d) Three people that I might ship that character with and why.

Ask if you're in doubt about a fandom!

Comments

/pre-meme ramble

[sincere]

I definitely think that's in the cards -- although I have something kicking around in my headspace where Flynn tries to promote her, and she resigns from the knights, because she has not... dealt enough with her troubles to accept some big fancy promotion from the man who doesn't know she almost assassinated his best friend. I may now employ Raven in this fic and see how they bounce off each other.

I didn't really ship Raven with anyone either! I mean, there were tiny things I enjoyed the idea of -- like pairing him with Flynn and Estelle, for intellectual reasons, but not so much that I'd consider it really a ship. In the game he never connected enough with anyone but Yuri for me to feel like there was a good canon basis (although he also has a good number of scenes with Flynn in the PS3) and Yuri I've always felt is more of a "You remind me of me" coupled with occasional fatherly pride.

But -- unlike the party -- it's not like he ever had the opportunity to interact with Sodia, or give us a real impression of how he sees her. And with this feeling that Casey was a lot like her, I think it could be really interesting to see where that goes.