Well, like I said, the type of characters I most often identify with ARE guys...I just don't see how identify them leads to slash, unles there's just an inherent appeal to you. To stick with the two I listed earlier, I actually have, in the past, been tempted to ship Ishida with Orihime and Rukia, but Orihime(one sided as it is) is pretty blatant in her utter adoration of Ichigo, and Rukia...well...Rukia's one of the ones that I think may as well be asexual for all the indications she's given in canon(plus, if I DID ship Rukia with anyone, it'd probably be Renji, because he's also blatant in his adoration) so I never reached the point of shipping. The two characters in Bleach I find the most attractive(and the type I go for, crushwise) are Renji and Ichigo, but I feel no desire to ship Ishida with either one, even though many of his non-we-are-enemies-scenes are painfully familiar if you switch the gender and remove all the supernatural. With Shinrei...well, honestly, he's so straightlaced the idea of slash would probably break his brain, and all the nice girls I like are taken, and Okuni would literally eat him alive. Plus, he needs time to get over the zombie. But the short version is...identifying with a male has never made me want to ship him with a guy I found hot/was my favorite.
But like I said...I think it boils down to whether or not there's an innate appeal of guy/guy to you...if there is, then then yeah, guy you identify with + hottest guy around= gold. But if there isn't, then you just aren't going to get it.
As far as Gojyo/Hakkai/Yaone goes...well, you know what I ship in Saiyuki, but ignoring that...
I essentially view Hakkai/Gojyo as "pretty much canon, but never going to happen." On Hakkai's front, it's kinda like Yukimura...there was the One Love and there will never really be Another...I mean, becoming a mass murderer(and a demon in the process) to save your sister/girlfriend just to have her kill herself in front of you would turn a person off romance for life. As far as Hakkai/Yaone goes...I think he is drawn to her, but much of what initially drew him to her were things that reminded him of Kanon, and he likes and respects Yaone too much as an individual to ever use her as any sort of replacement.
As far as Gojyo goes...well, despite his extreme perviness(or maybe because of it) I don't see him ever entering into a sexual or romantic(because there is a difference) with anyone he actually cared about. He has sex, I think, because he craves and needs human contact, but also because there's a degree of a lack of self worth, and I think that he actually views sex itself as something of a disgusting act. After all, the thing he most identifies sex with is his older brother sleeping with his mother, with her calling out the father's name, to keep her from beating Gojyo to death. I think sex is a physical act to him, and one he finds pleasure in, but that's also connected to selfdisgusting and wrongness for him. His deepest relationships are, I think, always going to be the ones that it will never enter into, because it has negative emotional connections for him, and bringing someone he cared about into a relationship like that would, I think, "dirty" them for him.
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But like I said...I think it boils down to whether or not there's an innate appeal of guy/guy to you...if there is, then then yeah, guy you identify with + hottest guy around= gold. But if there isn't, then you just aren't going to get it.
As far as Gojyo/Hakkai/Yaone goes...well, you know what I ship in Saiyuki, but ignoring that...
I essentially view Hakkai/Gojyo as "pretty much canon, but never going to happen." On Hakkai's front, it's kinda like Yukimura...there was the One Love and there will never really be Another...I mean, becoming a mass murderer(and a demon in the process) to save your sister/girlfriend just to have her kill herself in front of you would turn a person off romance for life. As far as Hakkai/Yaone goes...I think he is drawn to her, but much of what initially drew him to her were things that reminded him of Kanon, and he likes and respects Yaone too much as an individual to ever use her as any sort of replacement.
As far as Gojyo goes...well, despite his extreme perviness(or maybe because of it) I don't see him ever entering into a sexual or romantic(because there is a difference) with anyone he actually cared about. He has sex, I think, because he craves and needs human contact, but also because there's a degree of a lack of self worth, and I think that he actually views sex itself as something of a disgusting act. After all, the thing he most identifies sex with is his older brother sleeping with his mother, with her calling out the father's name, to keep her from beating Gojyo to death. I think sex is a physical act to him, and one he finds pleasure in, but that's also connected to selfdisgusting and wrongness for him. His deepest relationships are, I think, always going to be the ones that it will never enter into, because it has negative emotional connections for him, and bringing someone he cared about into a relationship like that would, I think, "dirty" them for him.