Stealing this meme from littledarkvoice

[eliyes]

Give me a character (or ten) from any fandom you know I'm in, and I'll let you know:

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Comments

[krillia.livejournal.com]

Cancer Death Mask. You've got an icon of the gentleman, so you must have thoughts on him.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

It's probably fortunate no one was around to see the way I smiled when I read this. >} It felt pretty evil.

Yes. Yes, I have thoughts on Deathmask. I have thoughts on different versions of him, even, since I RP more than one of him. Give me a little while to see how much I can seperate my headcanon from my impressions of the character as presented in the source material. I'll get back to you.

[krillia.livejournal.com]

Feel free to go with some headcanon if you like. It's not like we see so much of the Gold Saints to be able to form opinions without them. Made setting a multi-part fic on them a total bitch

Deathmask

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

(To whom I occasionally refer as "Dimitri", but that's neither here nor there.)

* I don't know why I like him so much. (I basically adopted all the "assassin" Gold Saints, for some reason.) I think maybe it was the laugh, or the fact that his face is SOOPAR EXPRESSIVE. And the way he's kinda sulky at Asian Goldies when he wanted to kill the Bronze Saints is funny. Ruinin' his fun.

I do actually love the guy. Sure, he's clearly insane, and he's a mass-murderer, but he realised the error of his ways -- too late. He lived believing "might makes right", which, being as he's a superpowered warrior-priest rightfully expecting to fight in a potentially-humanity-destroying holy war before he was thirty, and was furthermore no doubt driven crazy by his extremely creepy powers, is an understandable position for him to have taken. And then he died, adn went to hell. After having a window to it his entire adult life. And he came back to save Athena and humanity. And died again, poor bastard.

* Er, none. In my headcanon, Deathmask really goes more for friends-with-occasional-benefits, and random hook-ups. Less of those now that he's gotten some therapy and started drinking a whole lot less. I bet you can guess his two main fuckbuddies! That's right, Aphrodite and Shura. Nearly always at Aphrodite's insitigation.

Also, he hooked up with Shiryuu at a party once, I think.

Also also, he's attracted to Aiacos, but he's not planning to do anything about it until Aiacos has a chance to get over some clear issues of his own.

* In my view, Deathmask's best friends are: Aphrodite, and then slightly differently Shura. He also has a weird sort of neighbourly friendship with Mu, post-death headcanon-wise, and also is a regular chess opponent of Kiki's. Plus, he gets along pretty well with those Spectres who elected to join Sanctuary once they found themselves kicked out of Erebus while Kore does some spring cleaning.

* *pause for laughter* Ahhh... Views on him vary widely depending on what country or continent the fans are from. I think his redemption/redeemability?

* I couldn't venture to say. Saint Seiya has a lot of shitty things happen to all the charaters, but their dealing with these adversities, whether they survive or end up trapped forever in stone or what, is why the story is powerful. So, yes, I have roleplayed for years thing that happen to Deathmask in a few incarnations for many years, but the series... I don't know that I should change anything before the end of the Hades arc, really?

Re: Deathmask

[krillia.livejournal.com]

Have to refer to his as SOMETHING. I found myself terribly self-conscious typing "Deathmask" all the time in fic. Probably why he only ever showed up in one, and I used his title as often as I could.

I can't say I ever really thought of Shura as anybody's fuckbuddy. He always seemed a bit too...single-minded for such things, to me. But then the Goldies are a confusing lot with a lot of blanks to fill in. The only people I ever outright disagreed with were the people who tried to say Aphrodite was a weak woobie. Weaklings do not become Gold Saints, and despite his weapon of choice the man was a pretty brutal assassin. Not a lot of woobie.

...sorry, tangent. Anyway, I love hearing people's opinions on the Goldies. They are so wildly different thanks to the lack of information from Kuramada, but always interesting nonetheless. Thanks for giving your opinion on DM. \(^-^)/

Re: Deathmask

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Shura... just needed an outlet now and then. Our Saint are all in therapy (and the therapist had to be so epic at her job to deal with that, post Holy War, that she ended up a Saint herself), and our Shura is a really complex guy with loads of issues, but things are improving. As for Aphrodite being weak, excuse me while I laugh myself breathless. *does so* My mom grew roses. They do really well if you fertilise them with bone and blood. They have nasty thorns. I may affectionally call him "the fishie", but I have never thought he was weak.

Hey, tangents about the Gold Saints are natural. X3 It is interesting to see everyone's different ideas, isn't it? ;3