About Seto Kaiba~

Just random thoughts that I'm having atm ^^

I'm not really sure what else to say on this end. I mean, I like the idea of Seto Kaiba--tough guy with money and superiority complex--he's nice on paper, very malleable for fanfiction, and it's supposedly just as easy to fit him together with Jounouchi Katsuya [I personally like it better when Katsuya is Jou's first name rather than last], but...very honestly, I don't like him very much.

If anyone reading this has also read my fanfiction, it's not difficult to see that I don't. Seto usually has an opposing role to the main character in a work--who is usually Mokuba XD--and I don't think it's difficult to see why. The idea of what Seto could be, I think, is much more romantic and idealistic than what he actually is. I mean, I bend personalities just as easily as the next authoress, but Seto's so rigid that even I feel uncomfortable making him out of character.

Usually, when this his happens with a character, I make the point of setting the character in situations that denote their personality, so that they don't seem as unyielding as usual--if a scenario calls for that sort of reaction, the reader is much less likely to question or think of the character of as harsh as they really are, because it seems reasonable by comparison. It's a dirty trick, I know, but it works.

With this in mind, I actually like reading stories where Kaiba's a bit more upbeat. Personally, however, I...can't write it. Kaiba being upbeat is something that seems horrendously wrong when I write despite the fact that I love it when other people do.

That's my primary reason for not having a lot of Kaiba/Jou stuff up. There's only so much Kaiba that I can handle in a fic because I feel he brings the mood down. samurai-ashes does a very good job of writing interesting stories that would involve Kaiba needing to be that way, and Jou deals with him in a realistic (but also rather depressing) way, but it's a very good combination and she writes good stories for them, nonetheless.

...sometimes, I just don't think I'm deep enough to write Kaiba/Jou, because my concepts for the couple just aren't deep enough.