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!

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[sincere]

(a) 3 headcanon facts
1... When Yuri left the knights, Flynn encouraged Repede to go with him. He wanted to know someone was looking after him. But it made it harder for him, essentially losing his best friend and his dog in one fell swoop, and he was pretty miserable (and more than a little angry) for a while.

2... Flynn has been chased by women all his life, but he has never, ever taken advantage of this. He's not a virgin, and he can recognize when he's being hit on (if it's heavy-handed enough), but his relatively few dalliances have been initiated by him.

3... The Flynn who lived in the Lower Quarter was a little less polite, a little less mannerly, and a lot less restrained. He acted on impulse at least as often as Yuri, threw himself into fights headfirst, and although still prone to worrying ("Are you alright, Yuri?") was also a little bit of a braggart. He also smiled and laughed more.


(b) 2 awesome things about him
1... Only two things?! Then I would like my entire first thing to be scenes from the game. Like the jailbreak. And the magistrate's palace. And the merfish story.

2... He's so -- complicated, but in this clear and pure way. He's both a stern and upright leader, and a moe fluffmonster. He's not "Lawful Stupid", to copy a phrase from rainfall; he respects the laws deeply, but he is more than willing to work around them and make use of Yuri's chaotic good if he feels cornered, and he agonizes over it but is capable of reconciling Yuri's extremism with something as fluffy as "I'll change the world so you never have to do terrible things again."


(c) 5 things that should happen to him
1... He should find that unfamiliar scar on Yuri's abdomen and wonder where it came from.
2... He should be completely taken aback by Ioder in really any way, shape, or form. Surprise romantic advice? Secret evil plotting? Unexpected personal revelations?
3... He should end up wearing cat ears some form of ears for Yuri to react to. ♥
4... Someone should actually get around to telling him -- about his cooking. How he's managed to go all this time without anyone ever telling him to stay out of the kitchen... Yuri in particular is guilty of enabling him by remaining silent.
5... I need Flynn to get drunk. I want to know what kind of drunk he is. X3


(d) 3 ships
1... Yuri, of course. His relationship with Yuri, friendly or otherwise, is one of the biggest selling points of this game for me. Flynn's admiration for Yuri that Yuri doesn't think he's worthy of, and Yuri's admiration for Flynn that Flynn doesn't even really seem to notice. I was completely sold on this pairing from the jailbreak in Dahngrest, their complete and unspoken understanding of each other. Furthermore, I think that Flynn's feelings for Yuri are 95% canon.

2... Alexei. As one-sided hero worship, mostly. But Alexei is everything that Flynn wants to be, is the original "commoner revolutionizing the system", is the one who made it possible for people like Flynn to come after him. Flynn's naked admiration of him is obvious in their very few interactions, and with all of Flynn's expanded "I still can't believe it, I want this to have been a misunderstanding" and flinching when Alexei speaks to him directly at Zaude about how the Empire is too corrupt to be saved -- I can't help but feel like there was a crush there that gave him a certain weakness for Alexei. And if there was anything to this ship, I'm sure it would be twisted, and that is always fun.

3... Estelle. Partly because of how they would rot my teeth in the best possible way, they would just be completely adorable together. I saw a quasi-official relationship chart where Flynn and Estelle had a mutual "worries about" arrow. How cute is that?? But they're definitely not up there with the other two on this list; they have virtually the same dynamic as friends.

[rainfall]

THE MERFISH STORY OMG.

I want to RP like all five of those things with you. fffft.

And, yeah. Alexei/Flynn would be a great pairing for terrible, terrible porn.

Also I agree on Estelle. idk what it is about them but they are so cute. I think I was even MORE sold on it when it turned out that all they talked about for 2 to 3 years was Yuri.

...It's funny, I think I may have more active het ships for Vesperia by virtue of it -- not having any canon ones. I like subtext better. ;; So Yuri/Judith is like. Nngh. I like it a lot.