Meh, all I do is resign myself to never actually remembering the kanji and looking them up over and over again :b though I'm still surprised when I actually manage to identify most of them at all, or at least find guesses that kinda make sense.
Yamaguchirow has definitely warmed me up to K/K, but sometimes I still have indignant thoughts about the way Kenshin conducts his relationship with Kaoru in canon-- oh sure, he's punctiliously courteous and gentle with her all of the time, but in a way, that behavior is still a rigid sort of control he clamps down between them. He probably has at least a subconscious conviction that women who love him tend to die-- his mother (and sister(s), if any; Watsuki barely said anything about Kenshin's sibs except that he had some, who also died from the cholera epidemic), the slavers' girls, Tomoe-- but sheesh, did he ever actually tell Kaoru that she was the person who meant the most to him before he thought she was *dead*? Oh sure, she was the only person he said goodbye to when he left for Kyoto... but did he actually *say* anything meaningful to her that might've kept her from collapsing into a heap for the next week or two?
Whereas Enishi... yeah, he's a psychotic killer with serious issues, but the entire core of his character is built around expressing single-minded devotion for the woman he loves. He doesn't have any sense of egotism or selfishness beyond that-- *everything* he's ever done is to avenge Tomoe without wanting to keep anything for himself. If he could be weaned away from the memory of nee-san toward some other woman (and hey, why not Kaoru? he does associate her with Tomoe already for various reasons), yowzah.
(Although Tomoe probably never fed him anything resembling the results of the Kamiya Kitchen of Pain. Oog.)
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on 2006-09-26 01:49 am (UTC)Yamaguchirow has definitely warmed me up to K/K, but sometimes I still have indignant thoughts about the way Kenshin conducts his relationship with Kaoru in canon-- oh sure, he's punctiliously courteous and gentle with her all of the time, but in a way, that behavior is still a rigid sort of control he clamps down between them. He probably has at least a subconscious conviction that women who love him tend to die-- his mother (and sister(s), if any; Watsuki barely said anything about Kenshin's sibs except that he had some, who also died from the cholera epidemic), the slavers' girls, Tomoe-- but sheesh, did he ever actually tell Kaoru that she was the person who meant the most to him before he thought she was *dead*? Oh sure, she was the only person he said goodbye to when he left for Kyoto... but did he actually *say* anything meaningful to her that might've kept her from collapsing into a heap for the next week or two?
Whereas Enishi... yeah, he's a psychotic killer with serious issues, but the entire core of his character is built around expressing single-minded devotion for the woman he loves. He doesn't have any sense of egotism or selfishness beyond that-- *everything* he's ever done is to avenge Tomoe without wanting to keep anything for himself. If he could be weaned away from the memory of nee-san toward some other woman (and hey, why not Kaoru? he does associate her with Tomoe already for various reasons), yowzah.
(Although Tomoe probably never fed him anything resembling the results of the Kamiya Kitchen of Pain. Oog.)