For Sess/San I've read a couple of attempts that were enjoyable reads but they both rely on slight twists to the charcters to pull it off, what I think of as a "gimme". That is something that author asks you to accept for the sake of the story to come that wouldn't actually work with the characters in canon.
For instance in "The Youkai and the Exterminator" by Wheezambu GIVEN THAT the painfully shy about such things Sango would agree to sex with someone to pay off a debt of honor, and GIVEN THAT Sess might be curious as to what it might be like with a human, THEN what follows after is an interesting take on what a relationship between them might work out as but it's definately in an AU of it's own where those two are not quite the same people as they are in canon.
Most stories that pair her with someone else without killing Miroku have her breaking things off with Miroku over his womanizing. He hasn't done more than flirt a little with another woman since he asked her to marry him when everything is over so that doesn't hold up. Sango didn't even really want to fall for Miroku but now that she has I can't see her turning to someone else as long as he is alive.
If he died and she survived I can't see her turning to a former enemy for comfort without some sort of novel length build up to it along the lines of "Tales of the House of the Moon". It would be a long time, probably years before she would even consider someone else. Which is something else I liked in "Sunsets"; it took at least two years before Miroku and Kagome get together even though they are close friends and in daily contact. Grief takes time.
I may check out Forthrightly at some point. Right now I'm having a hard time keeping up with the forums and blogs I'm currently reading.
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Date: 2006-12-17 03:31 pm (UTC)For instance in "The Youkai and the Exterminator" by Wheezambu GIVEN THAT the painfully shy about such things Sango would agree to sex with someone to pay off a debt of honor, and GIVEN THAT Sess might be curious as to what it might be like with a human, THEN what follows after is an interesting take on what a relationship between them might work out as but it's definately in an AU of it's own where those two are not quite the same people as they are in canon.
Most stories that pair her with someone else without killing Miroku have her breaking things off with Miroku over his womanizing. He hasn't done more than flirt a little with another woman since he asked her to marry him when everything is over so that doesn't hold up. Sango didn't even really want to fall for Miroku but now that she has I can't see her turning to someone else as long as he is alive.
If he died and she survived I can't see her turning to a former enemy for comfort without some sort of novel length build up to it along the lines of "Tales of the House of the Moon". It would be a long time, probably years before she would even consider someone else. Which is something else I liked in "Sunsets"; it took at least two years before Miroku and Kagome get together even though they are close friends and in daily contact. Grief takes time.
I may check out Forthrightly at some point. Right now I'm having a hard time keeping up with the forums and blogs I'm currently reading.