You explained one little detail I'd never gotten around to-- that Ashura really was punished by having no gender. I thought he/she was actually male and just referred as androgynous... because of CLAMP's affinity for androgynity -(lol?) Not that this changes that fact at all. ^^
Omg, but I fell in love with them the same way! I decided, that as a CLAMP fangirl, I needed to read all their works. And I was kind of confused at what the dynamics were between Yasha and Ashura, because as you said, it's ... out of the norm. But I thought they were SO ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE. I just about melted at the scenes of them sleeping together. I love parent/children sentiments, and so... yeah, they won me over. And then it was complete squeal material to see then in TRC because it officially declared them canon as RGVeda couldn't (in the physical way) because of age/parentlydynamics/setting. You know, like, you can say Yuki and Touya are canon... but until they actually kiss, someone could argue that they're just extremely close friends.
Anyway, wonderful manifesto ^_^ Major props for doing this with such a lovely underappreciated couple!
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Date: 2007-05-15 11:33 pm (UTC)Omg, but I fell in love with them the same way! I decided, that as a CLAMP fangirl, I needed to read all their works. And I was kind of confused at what the dynamics were between Yasha and Ashura, because as you said, it's ... out of the norm. But I thought they were SO ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE. I just about melted at the scenes of them sleeping together. I love parent/children sentiments, and so... yeah, they won me over. And then it was complete squeal material to see then in TRC because it officially declared them canon as RGVeda couldn't (in the physical way) because of age/parentlydynamics/setting. You know, like, you can say Yuki and Touya are canon... but until they actually kiss, someone could argue that they're just extremely close friends.
Anyway, wonderful manifesto ^_^ Major props for doing this with such a lovely underappreciated couple!