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[freeradical9]

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You scored as The Breaker SEME You are the most imaginative, helpful, and strong-hearted SEME out there. You can be quiet and helpful at the same time which is a rarity. You're good at listening to others and you don't deny their ideas. One thing you can't stand is seeing someone sad, crying, or otherwise unhappy. Those who think you're shy aren't always the most right but it's true you don't need to talk much unless you have something important to say. You would be paired with the Sorrowful UKE because everyone needs a shoulder to cry on and you're just the guy/gal for the job. It's best to avoid the Homicidal SEME but even if you do that it's easy for someone as calm and helpful as you to get mixed up in the schemes of the certain Devilish UKE. You are truly best placed with the Gentle SEME as a buddy. For my last info, I have to say that you really don't mind and will go with the flow - whatever your partner is into is fine by you but considering who you're best matched with I'd say that they'd be too scared to do anything out of the ordinary. Give them a little nudge to let 'em know it's alright, okay? The Breaker SEME 80% The Optimistic UKE 75% The Gentle SEME 75% The Sorrowful UKE 65% The Devilish UKE 30% The Homicidal SEME 20%

Okay, yes. I guess after taking a Myers-Briggs type indicator test recently, it fits. But...seme? Hmm. A bit ironic, actually, since I was just pondering the other day the quandary of why I seem to write so much 85 when 58 makes more sense to me in light of canon interactions. Still, switching is good.

Strange.

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[freeradical9.livejournal.com]

I'd agree with Hakkai being a control freak, and especially agree with the bit about topping from the bottom. The part that makes me wonder about canon 85 is that, although Hakkai definitely has control issues, I don't think he really likes to be in charge. (Kind of related to Tenpou, who is a Marshal but doesn't like to give orders).

Hakkai *always* deferrs to Sanzo, even when he doesn't like it. When Gojyo goes after Kami-sama, Hakkai is pissed, but he follows Sanzo until Sanzo decides that they need to turn around. Also (reading lots into body language) when Sanzo leaves the rest of the ikkou and they're walking in the desert, I find it interesting that it's Gojyo who is physically in the lead of their little group. During the time Sanzo's gone, Hakkai makes lots of suggestions and practical observations, but I don't think he makes any decisions for the party as a whole.

IMHO, I don't think canon Hakkai likes publicly making choices for others; I think he prefers to manipulate others into making the choices for him.

(Of course, AU Hakkai is another matter entirely, because then one can dial down his need not to give orders, and dial up the other traits that would lead to the seme role) ^_^

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[avierra.livejournal.com]

Hakkai *always* deferrs to Sanzo, even when he doesn't like it. When Gojyo goes after Kami-sama, Hakkai is pissed, but he follows Sanzo until Sanzo decides that they need to turn around. Also (reading lots into body language) when Sanzo leaves the rest of the ikkou and they're walking in the desert, I find it interesting that it's Gojyo who is physically in the lead of their little group. During the time Sanzo's gone, Hakkai makes lots of suggestions and practical observations, but I don't think he makes any decisions for the party as a whole.

Yeah, I very much got the impression during their Sanzo-less journey that leadership was a joint responsibility between Gojyo and Hakkai. But you are right, that whole thing was very much a relfection of Kenren and Tempou, with Tempou explaining what had to be done, and Kenren making sure it got done the way Tempou wanted.

As for Sanzo and Hakkai... I am not sure Hakkai is capable of going up against Sanzo, whether out of inclination or a sense of gratitude or whatever. I think he gets Gojyo to do his dirty work for him on that front. Hrmmm. An excellent example is the Kami-sama mah-jong game where Hakkai give Gojyo The Look of Doom to make him play the damn game, and then Gojyo in turn forces Sanzo to play. (Btw, I love Hakkai's Look of Doom, and how it INSTANTLY brings about the desired behavior. I wish I had one of those ;_; )

So, back to G&H, you think that Hakkai would let Gojyo think he was in charge, while totally controlling things? I can see that, actually.

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[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I think the Sanzo/Hakkai thing is not just simple gratitude, but flat out obligation, service and knowledge of an unpayable debt. Gojyo saved his physical life, but Sanzo in arguing his case before the Sanbutshin has given him a chance at redeeming his soul. And with Sanzo as sort of his spiritual parole officer, more or less, there's a hierarchical relationship that you don't have with the debt of gratitude towards Gojyo. They're bound together by a higher authority, while the association with Gojyo is just a personal matter that could be ended at will. It's very telling that Sanzo used the talk of a classical "bite off his tongue" suicide to express the depths of Hakkai's loyalty -- it couches the relationship in a rather feudal air which makes the serious depth of it all very apparent.

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[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...and with Tenpou at least, it's not as if he necessarily has some of the false humility, struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy and harmlessness, etc. that Hakkai has going for him. I sometimes feel like he's playing up the absent-minded eccentric academic thing a little bit, so people will be more likely to write him off without remembering how razor-sharp his mind is. And in the field ops settings, the not giving orders doesn't seem like he's necessarily uncomfortable with power itself, but he doesn't perhaps like to have to rely on others, or put others at risk.

Sanzo is maybe a little bit of a special case, since Hakkai is tied to him in such a web of giri; Sanzo is most definitely In Charge and Hakkai is bound in the role of the loyal retainer...