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fannish5: Name five characters who probably shouldn't try to be monogamous.

1) Cloud Strife (FFVII) - Who doesn't Cloud hook up with? I've read him convincingly paired with Zack, Aeris, Tifa, Sephiroth, Reno, Yuffie, Rufus, Vincent, Kadaj, and Jenova. And that's just a list from off the top of my head. Maybe it's because Cloud's personality can be interpreted so differently? Even in canon he goes through such extreme shifts in character. I can't settle on OTPs with him either, since he's so closely tied to so many characters. Pair him with Zak and Aeris and Sephiroth need to fit in there somewhere. Pair him with Tifa and again Aeris can't be excluded.

2) Harry Potter - Like Cloud, Harry can be interpreted in such vastly different ways. He can have great chemistry with practically anyone in the books: Ron, Ginny, Remus, Sirius, Snape, Luna, Draco, the twins, Neville... And even crack!pairings like Narcissa, Lucius, Bellatrix, and Voldemort work for me.

3) Auron (FFX) - Auron's a little different, at least in my mind. Unlike Cloud and Harry, who're the town bicycles, Auron doesn't really have sexual compatibility with a lot of characters. Hm, not sure if I can explain myself. I guess with Harry and Cloud, I'm willing to read and write stories where love is more loosely defined, or doesn't come into the picture at all. I always figured Auron as someone who falls in love slowly, but then with eternal devotion - In short, I can't picture him not being in love. Pairing him with Rikku doesn't make his love for Braska and Jecht fade.

4) Yagami Hikari (Digimon) - Hikari's another who I could never settle on a OTP with. I think she's equally in love with Takeru as she is with Miyako.

5) ...Um. Jecht? Uh. Is it painfully obvious that my fandoms are few and far between? So instead I will muse of sex vs. love. When I get emotional invested in a character, I want him/her to fall in love. In fact, in Love, with a capital L. It's the romantic in me and the romance novel fan in me: A happy ending needs a resolution that includes love. Anyway, so when I daydream about my favorite characters, I create little love stories for them. As much as I like Cloud and Harry, they've never been among my favorite characters, so I don't need to plan out a happy (monogamous) love life for them.