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why do i love fuu so much? well, let me count the ways! this is a bit long~ it explains things that i love about fuu and how fuu and i got to where we are today.

i had heard of rayearth prior to reading the first manga. i had seen a lot of links to it on the anipike and i'd even seen some pictures in anime galleries. then in october of 2000, a kid in my art class named justin lent me the first manga volume of MKR, and i was immediately hooked. i ran out the next day to our local suncoast and bought a sub of the first video and fell in love with the series. over time i aquired all 49 episodes of the anime and 6 manga volumes (the first being "borrowed" from my boyfriend at the time~ heehee). three years later, i am still an avid MKR fan, and it's my favorite anime/manga series.

after watching the first four episodes a few times, i knew that i would have a favorite of the three knights. i didn't know who it would be, but somehow i knew i would fall in love with one of the loveable characters. eventually, i realized miss fuu was my favorite. then i had to sit down and try and figure out why! XD

after much thought, i came up with many reasons why i loved fuu so much. some are pretty silly and petty, and some are real reasons to like a character. ^_- in any case, i don't care if anyone thinks they're stupid reasons to like a character~ they're good enough for me!

first, the petty reasons. fuu has always been beautiful in my eyes. she has a natural beauty that's very modest and soft; she carries it as if she doesn't realize it's there~ indeed, she doesn't. it's one of those beauties that not everyone notices, the kind that's much more valuable than the kind that gets whistles. she's so very sweet and cute, with her delicate, gentle voice and that kawaii blush. *^.^* i prefer long hair on female characters, but she makes those short curls very endearing~ one can see how ferio's nuts about her.

yeah, and she has ferio! *envy* their relationship is so unselfish and pure and cute~ i would never wish either of them with a different mate. it would just be wrong.

at the time i began getting into rayearth, i was also very much like fuu. she had a cute smile, but her eyes were so often sad, like she held something painful deep down inside. she wasn't depressed, but a bit on the melancholy side. at the time, i was often pretty gloomy myself~ not depressed, per se, just... well, like fuu, melancholy quite often. i could relate with her self-confidence but lack of self-esteem and self-worth. she was such a wonderful girl, but she had such sad, pensive eyes. i connected with fuu's character right away and my approval of the character grew into an admiration and a sisterly love.

fuu is very smart~ not just book-smart, but she's perceptive, alert, resourceful, clever, and thoughtful. she is quick on her feet and also weighs multiple sides of a situation before coming to a conclusion or taking action. she usually tries to not let her personal feelings get in the way of serious decisions, although she's been known to do reckless things, especially concerning hikaru, umi and/or ferio.

i "got to know" fuu (specifically my personal perception of her) through writing fanfiction featuring her. i've gotten bored with writing anything else if it's not rayearth, specifically fuu-chan, because i love the characters so much~ CLAMP always makes such wonderful, deep characters that are fun to explore through writing. ^_^

you very well may be wondering how a character can mean so much to me, how i can "love" a made-up person this way. i'm not alone. many people have characters that mean something to them, whether it be their own creation, their persona in a theater show, or a manga character. i know fuu is not a real person, i'm not stupid. ^^ to my heart, however, the character of hououji fuu is a very real concept, a kind of person that i admire and want to be like in so many ways. i see myself in her in various aspects, and that touches me.