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ANY fandom? Luna Lovegood

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I cheat. I want Shikamaru also

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a. How serene-quirky she is. And her earrings.
b. NOT. ENOUGH. PAGE TIME.
c. ...only one? b-but... ;_; Draco. Or Ginny. Or Harry. Or Neville. Or Snape. Or the Weasley twins. Or Pansy Parkinson. Or Tonks. Or--
d. Giles from Buffy.

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wow, I hope she has a few years to grow up before some of those ships, particularly Giles, yeesh.

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a. How unmotivated he can be. In a shonen manga, there's value in that. Also, the 'girls have cooties' thing was cute, because he was all of thirteen and speaking like such an old man, and then Temari barged in and suddenly turned him thirteen again ("even scarier than Mum" <3)
b. His high-and-mighty streak. Which always was there, including pre-timeskip.
c. Easy, Temari. If you insist and Temari's unavalaible due to being dead, then I guess I'll take Chouji. If I must. If TemaShika happened before she died.
d. Faith, from Buffy again.

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Sure, why not? Though I never saw age as particulaly relevant to Luna - she's Luna. Mostly I think Giles/Luna interaction would be fun to watch. She'd fluster him off his feet.

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Ino! :D

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Neville.

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a. She's so girly. In all of every stereotyped ways. She's shallow and vain and catty and loud and manipulative and, frankly, a bitch. And that doesn't stop her from leaping in front of Sakura to protect her from the Sound-nins akljsdkljdk. (And she has such an obvious crush on Sakura.)

Your icon says it better than I do, actually.

b. NEEDS MOAR PAGE TIME. and possibly another mangaka to do it. Not that I don't like what Kishi's done with her for the most part (the infamous Kakuzu fight being one of the I am NOT HAPPEH with), but I don't think he'd be able to develop her really well out of that.

Oh, and also the "I wouldn't know, I'm a woman" comment. >_> I blame Kishimoto.

c. ~~Eternal heartbreak.~~ Er, I didn't write that aloud, did I? I meant Sakura, of course.Or she and Naruto can have the unrequited thing together while Sasuke and Sakura are off making the Uchiha family slightly less dysfunctional. Or, if we're speaking comedy/PWP/light stuff, pretty much every single Naruto character. Including those that do not have names. (Out of Naruto and potentially Lee, she's the only one I can see sexing Gaara up. On the Kazekage's desk. Oh yes. InoGaara. :3 And InoJiraiya. InoKiba. InoHiashi.)

d. ...You don't know Fire Emblem, do you? (strategy RPG on GameCube) Because I can see Ino with ~~every single character, but that's not the point~~ one character in particular, it'd be hilarious. Sexy, smirky raven-king that looks good in leather, loves money a lot, and is, when everything's said and done, kind of easy to manipulate by the people he's in love with. Also, he'd hit her pretty-o-meter hard. They could have a ~~threesome~~ ~~fourthsome~~ wild orgy with the people he's having tension-filled bickering and/or dramatic betrayals with.

Or there's this girl in another GameCube RPG. She's a ninja, has guilt issues liek woa, and is crushing on a boy who's completely oblivious (it's not helping that he's in platonic love with someone else.), I think they could relate to each other. She's also easily riled up. :3

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a. The quiet growth in the background.
b. There's not enough of him.
c. hmmm. Probably Luna, but more because I love them both and think it'd be awesome than because of their interactions book-wise. *wry smile*
d. Haruhi from Ouran Host Club.

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Sasuke :D

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Kabukins.

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Neeeeeji!

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a. The... the short version would be 'everything'.

b. I'm still askared of his lack of facial reactions during chapter 306. ;_;

c. Naruto, or Naruto and Sakura. (The Itachi thing, according to me, plays best when not directly acknowledged by either of the involved parties.)

d. Sheena from Tales of Symphonia. (She's a ninja girl who thinks she's responsible for half her village dying when she was ten because she couldn't control the Summon Spirit she was supposed to sign a pact with. She's loud and a tomboy and has a not-so-secret deathwish as well as a big crush on a boy who's utterly oblivious to it. Once you get past the optimistic, tough behaviour, she's a ball of raging angst and inferiority issues. She's also easily riled up and dislikes arrogant jerks.)

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a. The oddly cheeky thing he has going on with 'Orochimaru-sama'.
b. Kabuchimaru. D:
c. Orochimaru. >_> And Hinata, but mostly Orochimaru.
d. Kaname from Bleach. They wouldn't do anything, but discussion would be so interesting to watch.

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a. His growth as a person and a character. It makes me respect him a lot, and it's one thing I think Kishimoto did really well. His obsession with Hinata. How I have no difficulty at all believing he can still be very much an asshole.

b. Humiliating Hinata the way he did, more than trying to kill her. I can forgive him for losing it. I'm much less forgiving about coolly, purposely proceeding to reduce someone to shreds as if it were objective facts.

c. YOU KNOW, I CANNOT THINK OF ANYONE. NO, RLY. ...Yeah, Hinata. And he can have a crush on Naruto. And he and Ino can have a denial, in-love-with-someone-else thing, but that's because it's Ino (also, they break up pretty fast).

d. LUNA.

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DUDE. Luna and Neji-- together? In the same room, even?! And yet, I have a feeling her eerie calm could fluster him more than he would be comfortable with... don't you? ;)

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A WORLD of yes. That's exactly the reason I think it'd be so, so great. :DDDDDDD

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I don't play any games at all so I don't know who the characters you're talking about are, but from your description they sound like a great match. :D Also, she goes with everyone in her own canon. Ino is just that sexy and amazing. But... I like her best with Sakura. T_T ~~eternal heartbreak yes indeed~~

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that is an AU fic I want to read. Neji at Hogwarts, slowly edging away from Luna, unwilling to be the one to break the constant calm-offs that no one else is aware of.

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Kabuchimaru. D:

I see your D: and raise you a [8^O)

Orochimaru. >_> And Hinata, but mostly Orochimaru.

I was more able to ship him with Oro before the whole Kabumaru meltdown happened, but ever since the "I have no self without Orochimaru-sama" bit sprang into being (lol, and let me just show you the fifty or so chapters of your own making that seriously contradict that, Kishi) I can't do it because it makes Kabuto look like a complete idiot.

Before, when it was more like "Orochimaru and Kabuto are clear-headedly using each other to achieve their own goals"? Fine. Not so with this new "Orochimaru-sama was the center of my being" Kabuto. Didn't he learn anything from what happened with Kimimaro?

Kaname from Bleach. They wouldn't do anything, but discussion would be so interesting to watch.

Argh, Kaname is Tousen, right? I used to be very into Bleach, but that was before the current "let's almost completely rehash the Save Rukia/Soul Society arc but this time with Orihime!" thing started and has just kept on gooooing...and goooing...and gooing...with no end in sight. Yeah, those two would definitely be something special.

<.< Though, I almost think that Gin would be a better match for Kabuto, but so much conniving in one place would break the universe, so probably not.

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The problem with shipping OroKabu post-Kabuchimaru is that suddenly the ship doesn't look as sane as it did before. :/ But I take it with a grain of salt, I rationalise, and I manage to ~~push it under the rug~~ live with it.

After all, why not? If you admit Kabuto can feel lonely and depressed because Orochimaru's dead, I suppose it can work. Plus, as usual, we don't know how much of what he told Naruto was the truth. (I'm not putting any trust in that theory, because it didn't seem to be aimed that way, but it's a nice way to justify one's denial.)

Before, when it was more like "Orochimaru and Kabuto are clear-headedly using each other to achieve their own goals"?

I didn't see it quite like that, myself. It seemed to me that they had a friendly working relationship because/during which they'd found out their goals were the same. Or Kabuto was indeed saying the truth when he told Team Seven on the bridge that Orochimaru had convinced him to his way of thinking. *shrugs*

Yeah, Kaname = Tousen. I never got quite as much into Bleach as I did into Naruto, but I loved reading it, and then the Arrancar arc happened. And dragged on. And on. And on. And to say I used to complain about the never-ending fights of the Sasuke Retrieval mission, at least there we already knew and cared about the characters?

I thought It'd be interesting, since Tousen is so very much into justice and truth (I seem to remember); I never was interested in his character, but pitching Kabuto against him would be great.

I'd started typing about Gin at first, but they're... too similar to my tastes to make a ship. Interaction would be great, though. (Also, I'm not sure Kabuto would like someone so similar to him as well - smart, conniving, and second-in-command to a charismatic megalomaniac villain. They'd understand each other too well and playing on the other's weaknesses would be far less satisfying that playing on those of someone higher than him in the hierarchy.)

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After all, why not? If you admit Kabuto can feel lonely and depressed because Orochimaru's dead, I suppose it can work.

Well, it seemed to me like Kabuto was stating that he's always been lonely and alienated, without purpose or direction until Oro took him in ~~bullshit~~ and he was more upset that Oro's "death" left him without purpose again, rather than lamenting the man himself--I think I mentioned this before, but that was the only thing about Kabumaru I didn't totally hate, because it fit in with his surprisingly compassionate reaction to Oro taunting Tsunade about Dan and Nawaki's deaths: I figured he'd must have lost his own family that way. (Though, if he says as Kabumaru he never had a concept of family, then why did he get all shocked and sympathetic when he learned that all of Tsunade's was gone? ~~Because Kishimoto is a bad writer that can't keep his plotlines consistent that's why. -.-;;~~)

You have to admit, his comparing Orochimaru's effect on him to the Kyuubi's effect on Naruto--as something that gives great power while simultaneously ruining your life--is not exactly flattering and he not only said he was determined to surpass Oro, he was awfully damn pleased that he could feel the efforts his body was making to fight him off. If he really wanted Orochimaru back, he just had to sit back and let him respawn, no effort needed.

I didn't see it quite like that, myself. It seemed to me that they had a friendly working relationship because/during which they'd found out their goals were the same. Or Kabuto was indeed saying the truth when he told Team Seven on the bridge that Orochimaru had convinced him to his way of thinking. *shrugs*

<.< Going "tl:dr" again, but:

With the "mutually using each other", I'm running off stuff like Kabuto's 2nd databook profile--Kishimoto lays on the hints that Kabuto is out for himself pretty heavily, when he asks whether Kabuto cultivates his medical jutsu for himself or for Orochimaru and stating that "nothing like a relationship exists" between Kabuto and Orochimaru as Orochimaru is just using him to achieve his own goals and therefore Kabuto has no reason to follow Orochimaru...so is there another, darker reason for Kabuto to be with him?

There's other stuff too, like the title page caption for chapter 291, which all but outright states that Kabuto's got his own hidden agenda that even Orochimaru doesn't know about: "Beneath the obedient mask of the obliging servant lies a face with a never-ending smile. And lying deeper still, his true intentions remain unseen to all."

Of course, all this went straight out the window once Kabumaru was born. -.-;

There's also the issue of what exactly is (or should I say "was") Kabuto's goal? We know Oro's--to learn all the world's jutsu and become immortal while spreading a little terror, death and chaos along the way. Kabuto is a major participant in Oro's plans, that's for certain. However, he kept curiously failing to kill people he was supposed to kill (Shizune) healing and sparing people who were supposed to die as part of Oro's plans (Hinata and Kiba) and having these little flickers of disobedience that seemed to say that he wasn't totally in line with Orochimaru and his goals.

Plus, no matter how valuable he was, once Kabuto failed to be of use to Orochimaru or Orochimaru found someone better, Oro would have dumped his ass without a second thought or care, as Kimimaro's plotline proved. Kabuto seemed to have higher aspirations than just being another lackey for Oro to string along and then throw away once he decided he no longer needed him.

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