I'll take it as somewhat of a compliment. It didn't require as much work as you imagined because there was a recent discussion on OCs (which I initiated) on a HP fanfiction site with most of the same points made.lilac310 wrote:
whew...for a second there, I felt as though I was reading a literary analysis essay ...the ones that I loathe so much in English class esp. if the said "literature" just downright sucks (meant as somewhat of a compliment since that kind of stuff takes quite a while to write; thus, no offense intended)
I agree with you about the literary analysis essays. However, my often pedantic style springs not from reading too many literary analyses, but from generating too many reports which aren't taken seriously unless I make them sufficiently tedious. I was traumatized when my senior research thesis on photo-acoustic infrared spectroscopy (it was more fun than it sounds, I got to play with lasers) was rejected twice purely because I first entitled it "What I did on my summer vacation" and then I tried "A study in infrascarlet". I finally gave in and submitted it with an appropriately boring title.
In real life, I'm an avid punster who was once threatened with expulsion from a country after making too many bad puns to the first secretary of the US embassy during a meeting. The fact that I had also finagled the economics attache into buying six packs of Dr Pepper for me from the embassy comissary may also have influenced him even though it was the only place in the country I could find that sold Dr Pepper.
See the difference? Though I (by far) identify with Relena the best of all the GW women, this enables me to get a full perspective of Gundam Wing pairings. Full appreciation of all the characters, and their romantic possibilities. No limit to the madness, whahaha! *cough*
Not to mention Zechs would have the infiltrator castrated.
That's my take on alt pairings.
