This was a fantastic essay. I always enjoy when you or Shadow write these things, it just tickles my fancy. <3 Then again, I enjoy when you write ANYTHING.
Like ninjatrauma, I do enjoy a rivalry, but romance kills me faster. I am such a sucker for love. I am also a HUGE sucker for your gen, but we are all aware of that. I adore the dynamic between Goku and Vejiita, but my original OTP was V/B. (When I was in fifth grade I wrote all kinds of fanfiction for it XD). I could not see slash between them, mostly because fighting > sex for Vejiita anyway.
With Zoro/Sanji, I can see them being caring and careful with eachother at times, when the situation is down to the bare bones (like in Jess's recent H/C drabble, literally), but then again that may be because they already harbor intense love for one another, just as all the nakama do for all the other nakama. When those two openly express that caring, it can often be more poignant than if it, were, say, Luffy and Usopp, because Zoro and Sanji are both so proud and are, in fact, some kind of rivals. I find it interesting that you said Zoro lives for the fight while Sanji doesn't, because I had never thought of it that way. This may be why many consider Sanji more the "woman" or uke in the relationship, but for me, something like that in writing turns me off intensely. If someone's writing Z/S to please yours truly, they still give Sanji his very active emotions, his charm, and his slight silliness and girlyness, but they also recognize that Sanji is a young man, a proud young man, who is in fact very masculine, strong, and stubborn. Seme!Sanji may possibly be one of the hottest things in the universe, next to Gojyo simply existing. Zoro is commonly considered to be stronger and a superior fighter to Sanji, which saddens me because I don't agree, but this can become an outlet for a new kind of victory for him: a win in the bedroom. Sanji seems to me like he would be infinitely more talented in the ways of the flesh than simple, unsensual Zoro, who would go straight for the big O, do not stop, do not collect 200 beri.
The situation could be turned around to be very erotic with them while still keeping Sanji in the uke position. Gays often say that the bottom is the true position of control, and the element of surprise could be turned on Zoro when he insists on taking top but becomes dominated by Sanji anyway.
The third turn-on option for me applies to Sanjixthe whole crew. It seems to me (although perhaps I look WAY too deeply into these people's characters...) that it makes Sanji incredibly happy to serve. He finds immense joy in feeding the hungry, attending the needy, guarding the unsafe, defending the helpless. He likes to feel useful, he likes to feel needed, because he himself is emotionally needy. When this translates to sex, it can be turned into almost a submissive role as opposed to an uke role (I find them to be completely different). Living to serve his partner, he worships his or her body, minimizing his own pleasure and maximizing his partner's. When it comes to penetration, it will be whatever they prefer. This treatment would probably be reserved to those he admires, respects, cares about, because to Sanji, everyone close to him is a huge role-model (especially women). I am entranced by Dom/Sub, it's incredibly erotic to me, so maybe this whole thing is just me. o_O
Alrighty, so that turned into a Sexuality of Sanji lecture. Back to the original subject.
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Date: 2005-07-01 11:28 am (UTC)Like
With Zoro/Sanji, I can see them being caring and careful with eachother at times, when the situation is down to the bare bones (like in Jess's recent H/C drabble, literally), but then again that may be because they already harbor intense love for one another, just as all the nakama do for all the other nakama. When those two openly express that caring, it can often be more poignant than if it, were, say, Luffy and Usopp, because Zoro and Sanji are both so proud and are, in fact, some kind of rivals. I find it interesting that you said Zoro lives for the fight while Sanji doesn't, because I had never thought of it that way. This may be why many consider Sanji more the "woman" or uke in the relationship, but for me, something like that in writing turns me off intensely. If someone's writing Z/S to please yours truly, they still give Sanji his very active emotions, his charm, and his slight silliness and girlyness, but they also recognize that Sanji is a young man, a proud young man, who is in fact very masculine, strong, and stubborn. Seme!Sanji may possibly be one of the hottest things in the universe, next to Gojyo simply existing. Zoro is commonly considered to be stronger and a superior fighter to Sanji, which saddens me because I don't agree, but this can become an outlet for a new kind of victory for him: a win in the bedroom. Sanji seems to me like he would be infinitely more talented in the ways of the flesh than simple, unsensual Zoro, who would go straight for the big O, do not stop, do not collect 200 beri.
The situation could be turned around to be very erotic with them while still keeping Sanji in the uke position. Gays often say that the bottom is the true position of control, and the element of surprise could be turned on Zoro when he insists on taking top but becomes dominated by Sanji anyway.
The third turn-on option for me applies to Sanjixthe whole crew. It seems to me (although perhaps I look WAY too deeply into these people's characters...) that it makes Sanji incredibly happy to serve. He finds immense joy in feeding the hungry, attending the needy, guarding the unsafe, defending the helpless. He likes to feel useful, he likes to feel needed, because he himself is emotionally needy. When this translates to sex, it can be turned into almost a submissive role as opposed to an uke role (I find them to be completely different). Living to serve his partner, he worships his or her body, minimizing his own pleasure and maximizing his partner's. When it comes to penetration, it will be whatever they prefer. This treatment would probably be reserved to those he admires, respects, cares about, because to Sanji, everyone close to him is a huge role-model (especially women). I am entranced by Dom/Sub, it's incredibly erotic to me, so maybe this whole thing is just me. o_O
Alrighty, so that turned into a Sexuality of Sanji lecture. Back to the original subject.