So I seem to have this little habit of falling madly in love with fictional characters…
My first love was Dark Heart and we met when I was 4 years old after watching the Care Bears Movie II. I swore I was going to marry him and devised a plan to free the love of my life by smashing the TV screen – thankfully, this plan never cam to fruition.
Alas, I few years later, my love for Dark Heart waned when I met another character. Darkness (actually played by Tim Curry) from the 1985 fantasy movie “Legend”. It seemed I was doomed to have a thing for bad boys – especially the one’s who wore a lot of red.
However, I turned out to be fickle. While I swore my undying love to Darkness, there was another strangers of foreboding evil lurking around my interests. When I was 16, I got my hands on a PlayStation and a copy of Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy VII, where I met Sephiroth. There was no going back. A tall, brooding figure, dressed in leather, hell-bent of the destruction of of the world!! Oh, such a dream. I spend countless of sleepless night re-playing the scene where he walks into flaming ruins of Nibelheim, before facing his past at the reactor. I printed hundred of pictures of his fully-rendered polygonal face to plastered my bedroom walls. And I never blamed him for killing Aerith – she was kind of a whiny nut-case and her point structure sucked anyway. I was obsessed…taken. It was rapture.
I’ve never quite gotten over Dark Heart, Darkness, or Sephiroth. Needless to say – much to the dismay of a few boyfriends of the flesh-and-bone commodity.
I am now thoroughly obsessed with slash fiction.
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