Essay: On Sexuality
THIS IS A COINCIDENCE I SWEAR TO GOD. I had just started this when I noticed Edward had put one up. ^^a Anyway, as far as camp goes, I have chosen to play Capell as bi with a strong-leaning-towards-girls, and here is where I'm going to explain why. I'm going to do my best to be succinct, but I fail at that at the best of times and I have a lot of
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More seriously -- good points! I think the unblessed/never-got-socialized angle is a really good thing to note, and possibly related to the lack of defensive homophobia: even if there are m/m relationships happening in the world somewhere, they're certainly not obvious; to know that something like that happens, you'd have to, well, know some people who could tell you, which Capell doesn't really (AT ALL) until the Liberation Force conscripts him. Even if there is homophobia (and you know I have no more interest in extrapolating that into the canon than you do), Capell probably didn't get a really good course in it ( ... )
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It's true! It does make a really good metaphor. I also don't believe the writers were that on the ball, but yeah. A lot of similarities.
The part that I left out, or possibly will have to be its own thing, is the "why I don't think Capell likes Aya as much as he says he does", which has a lot to do with that isolation. He has never had anyone who's shown interest in him (except Faina), and she does, as awful as it is. So he decides that he likes her, too, because that's awesome, somebody likes him, whee. It's not so much a preference as a lack of options, there.
And yes, he totally would. :B
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Capell's Stockholm Syndrome relationship with Aya is definitely worth a post of its own, yeah. ^^;
And she's a pretty girl! And a princess! So she's an important, attractive girl who is paying attention to him, even if it's sort of horrible attention a lot of the time. It's no wonder he's impressed at first glance! God knows plenty of real teenagers get themselves into crappy relationships because the other person makes them feel wanted/special, even when it's clearly a bad idea.
Poor Capell.
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Exactly. And she gets angry possessive over him too, which totally makes him feel wanted. When both Aya and Faina are around, they're competing over him, which only makes him feel more awesome.
And I want to essay on why Capell never sticks up for himself. Capell is just...made of essays, I guess. >->a
He's such a broken little wooblet.
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Why I don't have petting icons? T-this is the closest one but. *pets*
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...yeah I don't know, Kouryuu doesn't strike me as much of a comforter ;)
<3
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But considering my other character is Akabane... *peeeeeeeeeeeets the lonelyhuman*
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