Talking About My Fandoms, Yuletide 2013 edition.

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I just wanted to babble on, and not in the DYW letter, which was plenty long as it was. Fandoms are in comments.

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Kamen Rider Kiva

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Kamen Rider Kiva:

I'll be the first to admit that Kiva has plotholes. Tons of plotholes. Enough plotholes to drown Tokyo. That being said, it is one of my favorite Kamen Rider series. A lot of it has to do with my fascination with the fact that the Fangire surely have some kind of society, but we never see it. We don't know if they're born Fangire or something happens to them.

The trio of Taiga, Wataru, and Mio interest me as well. Taiga has issues about his family that leave him clingy, especially when it comes to Wataru being like him. He doesn't want to lose the only family he has. I think he clings so stubbornly to Fangire ways because he was raised by Shima, who rather screwed things up magificently. Wataru grew up isolated, was raised by a Fangire and a Kivat, and somehow ended up less screwed up than Taiga. I'm not sure how, because we know very little about how things were for him. We don't know if there were any Fangire things that he assumed were human things because of his lack of knowledge. Heck, we don't know what physical effect being half Fangire had on him in his lifetime. And Mio? We know little about her except that she can't say no and can get stubborn in all the wrong places.She was woefully developed as a character and looking back, that really sucks.

I like my shiny pretty incest pairing, but on reflection, what I wan more and more is Mio having a backbone and doing something useful, damn it, instead of colliding with trees. I mean, there's a great setup, a group of people living among us for centuries, and we only know them as monsters of the week for the most part. I mean, do you cut yourself off if you fall in love with a human? How did Mio manage to date Wataru with that in mind?

This series just brings up more questions than it answers, and I know there will never be any answers, but I keep hoping anyway that I'll find them. Somehow.