OTPs get me, too - I'm very erratic, sometimes (like One Piece) I won't have a pairing preference at all, sometimes I'll have pairs I enjoy more than others but won't be that picky (in Naruto I enjoy SasuNaru but accept others), and sometimes (GetBackers, Saiyuki) I'm psychotically OTP, will not touch alternative pairings because they depress me! So I can't accept Ban/Shido, not only because I like them just as rivals, and not only because Shido is the Lone Straight Man in GB, but because as far as I'm concerned the only way it could happen anyway were if Ginji (and Madoka) were dead.
I think the pairings that have *no chance* of turning into love, such as L & Light (man, I really gotta read DeathNote someday), are less rivals and more true enemies, completely on opposite sides. As I mentioned, I love the enemy relationship too, because it does have that same fundamental dependency, in that one is defining themselves by not being the other. Valjean and Javert, eternally pursuer and pursued, and Valjean in the end destroys Javert when he proves himself not the villain, and thus proves Javert to be. There's an innately destructive side to true enemies that rivals don't have.
And enemy!sex can be hot, but it's never going to be what one would call romance. It's never going to have the seme-uke power imbalance; if there's submission, it's never going to be willing submission.
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Date: 2005-07-01 09:39 am (UTC)I think the pairings that have *no chance* of turning into love, such as L & Light (man, I really gotta read DeathNote someday), are less rivals and more true enemies, completely on opposite sides. As I mentioned, I love the enemy relationship too, because it does have that same fundamental dependency, in that one is defining themselves by not being the other. Valjean and Javert, eternally pursuer and pursued, and Valjean in the end destroys Javert when he proves himself not the villain, and thus proves Javert to be. There's an innately destructive side to true enemies that rivals don't have.
And enemy!sex can be hot, but it's never going to be what one would call romance. It's never going to have the seme-uke power imbalance; if there's submission, it's never going to be willing submission.