What's your opinion on it? I mean, is it TRU WUV like Zidane/Garnet seems to be? Or is it more... well, duty? Honor? More "I'm a rat, you're a rat, wooo"?

'Cos personally, I think Fratley is Freya's biggest weakness, and also her biggest flaw. I mean, even in the end there's a bittersweet tone to the whole relationship:

"...I love you, Freya."

(...Yet he still doesn't remember our past.)

Something about that always made me feel like it just wasn't going to last long. Or, if it did, it wasn't going to be a very close relationship... which, maybe, is what they need. Still.

Then again, if not Fratley, who else would Freya be with? There isn't anyone who could really... well, match her. Unless you wanted to go the femmeslash route and pair her with Beatrix; but then that leaves Steiner all alone! (Yeah, I know I SHOULD be going "OMG FREYA/AMARANT OTP LOLZ" but hey, let's not make me look like a total Amarant-pimper-outer.)

(we're like so slooow and I felt like posting)

Fratley was really an underdeveloped character and because of that I have trouble figuring out the relationship dynamic between him and Freya .

That's prabably why I Iike AmarantxFreya much better . I can imagine what their relationship would be like while with FreyaxFratley I just draw a blank .

Hell , depending on how someone writes Fratley the whole relationship dynamic changes accordingly . It doesn't help that the few personality traits of Fratley we get in game are not exactly flaws .

So I never really got attached to Fratley as a character and while I wanted for Freya to be happy , I never found myself rooting for the relationship.

To Devillish Kurumi: You've got a point with the whole memory thing . Before I finished the game I expected Square to pull something cheesy , like , declaring that after Necron is beaten and stuff , of course Fratley's memory has also conveniently returned ! -_-

So I was "WTF" when Freya suddenly didn't mind the whole memory loss thing , especially after it was first portrayed to be a great tragedy . It felt kind of forced and tacked on to me .

Of course what I imagined isn't really better ( and less orginal to boot ) but at least in that case I would have understood better why Freya was so happy although she angsted quite a lot about Fratley and his "little" problem .

Anyway , I hope no one missunderstands me . I don't hate Fratley with a fiery pashion because he is Freya's canon love intrest and therefore in the way of AxF but I don't care for him either .

Good fanfiction can make me like him but so far it has never lasted beyond a story I read . ( Although I really LOVED Guardian1's Fratley in Anam Cara ! )

Well that's all I've got to say . I'm looking forward to hear what the FratleyXFreya fans will say .

Oh , one last thing to Kurumi : What about ZidanexFreya ? They're good friends and we've broken up already one canon couple so another one won't matter,ne ? ^_-

I can see that pairing happening in certain situations, but truthfully? I think Zidane's not... Freya's style. He's too young and freewheeling compared to Freya, who's relatively calm and has a very defined sense of honor/loyalty/all that good stuff you learn at dragon knight school. Not to mention that I think, on principle, she wouldn't go after Zidane in accordance to Garnet's emotions. She doesn't seem like the kind to put her own feelings before others.

Which is why Amarant/Freya makes sense to me, I guess. Both of them have a difinitive moral code; both of them have honor (not the same KIND, but it still works); both of them kind of get how the world works - no false optimism in the face of death, etc etc.

Oh, and the fact that Freya could wrap Amarant around her claws in about two seconds.

Oh , I wasn't implying that Freya would go after Zidane ( of her own free will ) . It is obvious that she would be considerate of Garnet's feelings regerdless what she felt herself .

Still ,there's always the possibility of writting one-sided ZidanexFreya .

Heh, I guess I'm ranting so much about this pairing because the ff.net section for FF9 really needs some (pairing)variety ( and of course more AxF and goodfic in general ) .

"Which is why Amarant/Freya makes sense to me, I guess. Both of them have a difinitive moral code; both of them have honor (not the same KIND, but it still works); both of them kind of get how the world works - no false optimism in the face of death, etc etc.

Oh, and the fact that Freya could wrap Amarant around her claws in about two seconds."

You summed up perfectly why I love this pairing so much .

Ha! I love that.

Also, I totally want to write some AU Zidane/Freya fic - I really like the idea of the pairing. I just personally have trouble seeing it working with the game's storyline - Freya's too hung up on Fratley before the game's story, and it's hard for me to see Zidane go for anyone but Garnet after the game, so... yeah. That's why it would have to be AU. (When I say AU, though, I usually mean an alternate timeline in the same universe, not the sort of fic that asks, "What if Zidane was a jazz trombonist in a club in Detroit, and Freya was a flapper?" or whatnot.)

Unless, of course, you go the way Pyra did in her story on AFF.N.

(http://ff.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544175944 - warning, Amarant/Zidane, not on AFF.N for no reason, you know?)

What she did was change the ending slightly from being "OMG TRUU LUV HAPILY EVAR AFTER LOL" to "Let's be friends kthx." Which is actually plausible, if you think about it. It's because Garnet/Zidane is just so gosh-darned cute, we can't possibly consider any other pairing. I have to reach to pair the poor Genome up BEFORE the game, for god's sake - just because I know how badly Blank/Marcus/Random Boy/Random Girl will take it if they're in a relationship when Garnet comes by. Just look at how Blank ended up!

I am a huuuuuge fan of Freya/Fratley (you can tell from the amount of Fretley fics I write :P) and I don't really know why. I know Fratley isn't in the game much, buuuut....I like him. Bless his little forgetful brain. Plus I haven't really been very kean on the Fremerant relationship. ^^'

The thing is with FFIX the whole character endings were left open (such as we have no idea wether Vivi still lives or not, and what Zidane did in that period of time we thought he was dead :S)

So there's a lot of fanfic material to be done :D

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