A warning: There are more sports anime/manga examples in here than I thought. Maybe because I'm still in that hell that sports anime offers a lot of BL, so many BL ships... When the characters have little interest in romance but their own sport and persons involved in said sport (sometimes using rather a flowery language and singularly focus on them), I would question them. I mean sports anime depending on what they focus on have little focus on the love interests or even taking the time to develop them beyond simple crushes. Even Oofuri, written by a female, has a crush or two but somehow having the gayest moments in them. Even boys who like girls by having pornography or simply liking a girl prioritized their career like Kuramochi Youichi. Onoda Sakamichi has a crush on Kanzaki Miki I guess but even he loves competitive cycling where he makes loads of friends and there's little development. Cross Game and Major have great romances interwoven so I really wonder what's the point in having romantic interests if you don't do anything to develop them except showing some shy glances and maybe a subtle confession by texting. That is not romance when I am not invested in them; there are so little interactions when the girls didn't do a thing like Yoshikawa Haruno or they're oblivious like Kanzaki Miki. I'm invested in Free!'s hit romances because the boys who have the crushes do something while Gou/Kou is oblivious but it's still something developed. Sports anime/manga are exactly sports anime/manga and shounen, sometimes seinen and shoujo but wanting little romances added to it when you don't do anything at all felt forced; it feels more like an afterthought. There's one thing to have a casual relationship but another if you want them to actually get together and make babies. Sports anime/manga are hotbeds for having more BL than actual canonical het relationships if you don't do anything to develop the latter, allowing a lot of shippy moments for the former. Sorry for the little rant.
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| You're lookin' at your future job, boyo. |
I may perhaps explain this in my FFNet profile (which I eventually erased due to wanting to just make profile shorter) but this is an updated version. This is mainly for fun really since I'm still in MiyuSawa/MiSawa hell and reading loads of BL.
Okay, so...essentially it's basically CLAMPverse with Kingdom Hearts-eque thrown in. Okay, I got into KH first but I really love CLAMP to the point it's even in my username.
I would be best putting it in sections again.
Just to make it clear, it's an alternate universe...as far as I allow canon which I usually do...as long as canon make some good writing choices...then there will be alternate timelines. Although if there are world-traveling in media works like say Tsubasa Chronicles and Kingdom Hearts, then those remain canon.
Soulmates
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| You two are soulmates in my universe. You two are destined to fall in love in literally every world. If one of you are alone in the world where the other does not seem to exist, then you will remain single. That is a sad thought though because I literally want them to fall in love in every single universe, being the most shoujo couple out of the entirety of their own series, victimizing their friends and family with their lovey-dovey-ness. |
Like CLAMPverse's pairs as best described here, I will have soulmates. The link likewise would do about unrequited love pairs I have as well, both canonically and fanonically.
Shipping-wise depending on series, I tend to be a/have (with examples)
- a mono-shipper - I literally fell in love with MiSawa at their first meeting and there's no budging
- multi-shipper - I like Merlin X Arthur and Lancelot X Guinevere...where in-canon is just exasperating to just see. There is a reason why I love the Rumours-verse fanfic series.
- simply make a harem despite me not liking harems because I think it would make the romantic drama stop - OT3, OT# depending on the series and I tend to see most harem anime at least, even the reverse, for them to just well get them all even though I would certainly favor some couples then and there depending of course; I would put Glee in this category I guess, considering just how many love triangles involved and their love stories are either barely written like Klaine or tragically OOC for the sake of drama like Rachel's; Hell I don't even mind Yachi Hitoka with Hinata even though I like KageHina.
- soft spots - this is a maybe the ardent shipper in me. I really like Haikyuu's Tanaka Ryuunosuke X Shimizu Kiyoko; Daiya no Ace's Kuramochi Youichi X Aotsuki Wakana and Isashiki Jun X Fujiwara Takako; Free's Mikoshiba Seijuro X Gou/Kou Matsuoka (I am so sorry, Sea Otter-kun! You're a cutie, Momo, but I like your brother with her)
- gen - there are some series I don't ship any or just indifferent. In Marvel and DC, I don't ship often, preferring the canon couples and certain ships that caught me like Robin X Raven but other than that, nah. I don't even like Wonder Woman X Superman, seeing it and the Justice League more as a camaraderie.
Of course, since this is my universe, it would have pairings that I support. Even in media aimed at kids around 10-12 in America like the Percy Jackson series that have a canon gay couple (that people have the right to hate or be critical of due to how sudden and rushed the pairing was), shipping is subjective regardless. People have the full right to hate/dislike/loathe/criticize/etc. I mean I'm "meh" with RoChu and don't like FrUK from the Hetalia fandom but even then I don't even care; one part of me because HISTORY and the other because shipping is simply subjective therefore opinion.
Canon couples (which either I support/neutral/outright dislike depending on the pair of course) and the couples I support fervently would be soulmates.
Like what the link explains, these couples will fall in love regardless of their circumstances in each world. These feelings came from their heart and soul and these feelings remained unchanged no matter what world or circumstance. From Baby Steps, Maruo Eiichirou will always love Takasaki Natsu. In one world, instead of pro tennis players, they might run a ryokan or own a business much like Yukito and Touya & Arashi and Sorata.
Souls and Hearts are the same in all persons despite growing up in different circumstances thus different lives and personalities, yet the essence that what made them who they are still there in each and every incarnation regardless of amnesia or other circumstance. The Sawamura Eijun of one world will share the same heart and soul of all the other Sawamura Eijun's in other worlds for example. He might be dead not an old age but at 18 in one world and he might be a yakuza leader in another for example. Yes, these came from fanfics; one of them listed below and keep bringing up.
Unrequited love also came from the soul and heart. Like, say Chris Yuu Takigawa is in love with Sawamura Eijun who I already made soulmates with Miyuki Kazuya. Chris-senpai has an unrequited love for Sawamura Eijun in the same manner of Tomoyo Daidouji and Sakura Kinomoto. For a better example, I didn't really got onto the Asbel X Cheria bandwagon especially in the F arc so in the end Cheria suffered from unrequited love while Asbel's soulmate is Richard. The game never sold me on Asbel X Cheria - shippers can ship whatever they want to so this is just my own opinion; there is no right or wrong answer for a ship. Shipping doesn't even need canon to even board the ship - but instead it sold me on Asbel X Richard which is in some form a lighter and softer Suzaku X Lelouch in which the latter I ship happily. I mean I'm pretty much okay on Stahn X Rutee but I honestly prefer Stahn X Leon/Emilio. I love Mikleo X Sorey and Yuri X Estelle. I'm meh on Yuri X Flynn and Ristelle - I don't hate it nor do I like it either; basically it's okay in my opinion but I prefer something else and doesn't seem to tug my heart the way Mikleo X Sorey or Asbel X Richard did.
Yes, they will still love someone else (getting a partner, wife, husband, etc.) but as a soulmate soulmate kind of thing, they will always love their unrequited love. Sonomi and Nadeshiko, Tomoyo and Sakura are examples, particularly the former where Sonomi got married but still loves Nadeshiko. From my own verse, one of the unrequited loves I got, other than CLAMP, is the aforementioned Chris. He can love someone else (glances at Tanba Koichirou who also suffers from unrequited love for Chris) but it can never measure how much he loves Eijun.
Some people might have two or more soulmates, of course depending. Hikaru Shidou likes both Lantis and Eagle; while I prefer Lantis, I certainly don't mind Eagle. Since this is my universe, this can go with the OT# depending on what I like/neutral/indifferent/dislikes. Hmm. I certainly don't mind APH Hungary with either Austria or Prussia. On the other hand, I like APH Japan with Greece rather than Turkey. I am so sorry, Turkey...
Crushes and infatuations are just that. They aren't strong feelings that soulmates would have so it wouldn't be in every world; hell they might even crush on different people. A canonical crush like Sakura's crush on Yukito did not retain itself in Tsubasa...clones and originals.
Just the link I made earlier would best explained this section.
Worlds
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| Who knows maybe a character you know like Hinata Shouyou might be living as a commoner? Hell, even imagine Tanaka and Noya in the Hanshin Republic with their own Kudan. Imagine Yuu Chris Takigawa living in the Piffle World as a mechanic. |
There are many different worlds (which basically means accepted fanfics and the worlds featured in Tsubasa Chronicles and Kingdom Hearts) and maybe a few timelines because of decisions.
That last part... yeah, I mean I like Katekyo Hitman Reborn and everyone already pointed out the confusion and plot holes about the Future Arc but a sadistic side of mine wants to keep the timelines still alive one way or another just so I can see these people weep.
In one of my favorite fanfics The Trajectory of Laughter, there are two timelines, perhaps 3 if we count canon. In the original timeline, Seidou actually lost in the Fall Tournament against Yakushi and the school didn't go to Koshien until Sawamura's third year; Miyuki's Seikou injury became so severe he is unable to play baseball so during the course of two years, he fell in love with Sawamura which is a crucial point in taking that fatal surgery...he died at the tender age of 18.
So, Sawamura at that tragic timeline went back to canon and started a new timeline where he and Miyuki fell in love again (although it seems like Sawamura and Miyuki will always fall in love seeing that Sawamura still feels something for Miyuki even in his amnesiac state) and Miyuki finding the world is not so bad after all; Furuya going down a good path; the third-years at the time fought Sakurazawa and Inashiro and won, going to Koshien
And Sawamura essentially died also at the age of 18. In the epilogue, he reunited with Miyuki Kazuya in the afterlife.
We don't know what happened to the original timeline where I said before where Sawamura got the yips and the third-years never went to Koshien, where Miyuki died from surgery just so he can play with Sawamura again. In my mind, it likely still exists because of Miyuki and Sawamura of the timelines, while dead, still exists. That's an oxymoron there...
The original ending before PKSamurai changed it had Eijun returned to his original timeline before he went with the most natural ending (yes, this BL fanfic is written by a guy named Kenta). So, the first thought I had that timeline still exist, just that Eijun died. The fic did leave things open for interpretation after all.
I just like the thought of a hospitalized third-year Sawamura Eijun died in a coma from an unstable brain and broken heart syndrome reminiscent of how Miyuki Kazuya's mom died in her slumber. I honestly want to see everyone's reactions to a tragic shoujo romance where Miyuki-senpai took the high-risk surgery just to play with the love of his life and Sawamura unable to play baseball because you know he's dead, following the love of his life just like he followed him to Seidou and maybe even university judging from Eijun's remark that he was planning to attend college before he learned of Miyuki's death. I want them to see the signs that the two are so strongly attracted to each other to the point they are willing to give up baseball and potentially their lives just to be together. Where we see Seidou including Ota and Rei, the retired Kataoka, the Nagano group see the signs when the couple was still alive and wish them every happiness in the next life.
Where we see Aramaki, the first-year pitcher, become a new Ace, memorializing his deceased captain. Where we see everyone try to immortalize their memory in ways they can.
While in Tsubasa Chronicles, we see how the time travel works due to Mokona's ability to travel through time and space and Yuuko's ability to reincarnate the clones. Look at Shura/Shara and Clow/Acid Tokyo. The latter is incredibly spoilery.
What about Back to the Future? We see the Bad Timeline due to Old Biff's meddling with the Almanac; Mostly Good due to the strained relationship between Marty and Jennifer. Look at the great timelines where we see instead of a tired and strained Marty's mom and dad, we got happily married and well-off parents.
Most people like to imagine the really bad original timelines to stay alternately and I really like that for my sadistic pleasure. Really, I imagine them to be another plane of their own existence, existing with other really bad timelines where a lot of people in-universe will cry, typically with me drinking alcohol made of the tears.
Now that's out of the way.
The people.
Just like the captions said and the link in the previous section, there will be different versions of people in each and every world. Due to different world's circumstances, people will have different lives, different personalities, different bodies; at the core they are one and the same, sharing the same heart and soul.
Like, say Onoda Sakamichi from YowaPeda is a scientist instead of a competitive cyclist in one world. Maybe he grew up with an ambitious mind to study mermaids that exist there and have very supportive friends and family who study in the same field. Maybe Sohoku cyclists are with him too, studying the mermaids. However, all Onodas of the universe shares the same heart and soul. So if he ever meets his most precious person that invokes feelings that came from his own heart and soul, he will fall in love with that person in every world, requited or not.
I'm just rolling out any ideas. I commonly use fanfics, just the accepted ones that would mostly be featured (even the not-so-good ones in my opinion) would make it as one of the worlds.
You know the previous post I made about Alternate Universes, yeah, it's technically part of headcanon-verse, just that these worlds never intersect. Some people might be aware like how in Tsubasa, there are a lot of people who are aware of Yuuko Ichihara, the Dimensional Witch and all those other names she was gotten; there are active world travelers like our Tsubasa group, the vampire twins, and the vampire hunter brothers. Ironically, the latter two are soulmates in CLAMPverse. If you read Tokyo Babylon and X/1999, you know the originals.
So to sum up:
- A different plane of existence for timelines a la Katekyo Hitman Reborn
- In different worlds, there are different versions of people with the same soul and heart no matter what circumstances (different bodies, lives, personalities) they grew up
- There are soulmates where the strongest feeling from the heart, the soul will manifest in each and every alternate. Miyuki will always fall in love with Sawamura in each and every world for example because their feelings for each other are so strong and unchanging.
- If that most precious person is not with them (whether they have not met yet or they simply don't exist), they'll remain single.
Hahahahahaha... I know I'm beating a dead horse here but this movie is what BvS should've been. It really should've been this. It's tackling the same themes and ideas but coherent, properly motivated characters, and better written in almost every degree.
I have no idea what Marvel is doing right what DC is doing wrong. DC is panicking right now and they really should've done their own thing while Marvel does their thing. Look at Japan with their own Superhero crossovers (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, etc.). Granted they're Toei but still they having been doing their own crossovers for ages now and they know what they're doing. DC doesn't have to play the catch-up game when all the people wanted from the superhero genre are good ones. Look at the positively glowing reception for most of their movies, most not all.
I'll stop now. I said what I want to say before I will go on another rant.
