From:        Chan Wei Lik, weimin@pl.jaring.my

From: 	Travis Butler[SMTP:tbutler@tfs.net]

Given Belldandy's general innocence, I have a great deal of 

trouble accepting her in a lemon, though I probably wouldn't have the 
same problem with Urd. Keiichi falls somewhere in between; depends on how 
it's handled. (He's had his share of impure thoughts... though given his 
resistance when Urd tried to seduce him, I'd have to see some reason why 
he'd acquiesce in this case.)<<

Really! What if it's between Belldandy and Keiichi, that's quite possible 
to me, and acceptable too. Besides, who else is she likely to make out 
with anyway? She has her innocence, but she's mature already. 

She might be mature, but in everything I've seen (admittedly, right now 
that's just the OAVs and the Dark Horse translations, plus what I've been 
able to puzzle out from Vol. 11 w/o translations) she doesn't seem to 
have any sign of even the slightest hentai interest; remember the episode 
when Aoshima played peeping tom, and she didn't seem to have the 
slightest idea that being seen nude was "naughty?" There's no sign in her 
character that she'd ever take the initiative in something like this.

Keiichi, as I said, has his share of hentai impulses... but he's too shy 
(or nice, or inhibited, or... take your pick) to act on them. Look at 
what happens when Urd first shows up -- she practically has to frog-march 
him into doing anything, in both the manga and the OAV. When she tries to 
seduce him in the manga, he resists the first time. The second time, he 
only complies because Urd convinces him that it's needed for Belldandy... 
and even then, he's hesitant, and has to keep trying to convince himself. 
Also, from what I've been able to puzzle out from the artwork in Vol. 11, 
Peorth tries to seduce him, and he refuses. I don't think there's any way 
*he's* going to take the initiative, either.

It gets back to what I said about characters. When the canon material of 
a series establishes a personality for a character, I expect the 
character to stick to that personality in a fanfic... unless the changes 
are a natural extension of the personality, or unless the author gives a 
convincing reason for the difference. The AMG canon material I've seen 
has established that neither Keiichi nor Belldandy will take the 
initiative, and neither one has shown any signs that they'll change... 
The only way I could see something lemony happening between them would be 
if some external force intervened -- and given the way Fujishima has 
consistently avoided anything more than teases, it'd have to be a pretty 
darned convincing external force to get me to believe it.

In case you 
didn't know, there _are_ lemons involving Keiichi and Belldandy out there 
already. Good ones too, so I'm told.

I've seen a couple of them, and I didn't find them even remotely 
convincing.

people like the series they like, 

you write in a series you like, and people who don't like the series you 
like aren't likely to like your fanfics.<<

Try saying that fast five times!

Nope. *I* wrote it. *You* get to say it. ^_^



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