Incidentally, you'll note that while my OTPs will vary between het and slash, not a single rivalship I've referenced is male-female.
You know, when you mentioned the seme/uke part throwing off the power balance earlier in this post, it flipped a light switch in my head and I went "Aha! That could be why I have next to no interest in rivalshipping anyone except Touda and Suzaku!" (From Yami no Matsuei.) They have a dynamic I find fascinating, and angersex between them, being het, would not make it come off as though one of them had "won". (Though I'm sure Suzaku would act as if she did anyhow. ;))
Other than that, I like the idea of rivals just being rivals, perhaps with occasional moments of UST or mockingly suggestive dialogue, but never going so far as to stop them from being rivals. (And now I'm thinking I need to read more Eroica.)
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Date: 2005-06-30 08:59 pm (UTC)You know, when you mentioned the seme/uke part throwing off the power balance earlier in this post, it flipped a light switch in my head and I went "Aha! That could be why I have next to no interest in rivalshipping anyone except Touda and Suzaku!" (From Yami no Matsuei.) They have a dynamic I find fascinating, and angersex between them, being het, would not make it come off as though one of them had "won". (Though I'm sure Suzaku would act as if she did anyhow. ;))
Other than that, I like the idea of rivals just being rivals, perhaps with occasional moments of UST or mockingly suggestive dialogue, but never going so far as to stop them from being rivals. (And now I'm thinking I need to read more Eroica.)