I'd say we're well and truly stuck with Mary Sues in the Weiss fandom (and probably in Saiyuki as well - gah). Any show where the recurring characters tend toward the young, attractive and male, none of whom are exactly overburdened with canonical romantic entanglements, is going to have 'em coming and coming and coming like evil space aliens until all the sane fangirls out there want to beat their heads against their desktops and do so HARD.

(If you want to see my Weiss-brand Mary Sue Litmus Test, by the way, it's here (http://www.palemovies.com/marysue/). Okay, blatant plug requirements met...)

Perhaps Aya does make it easy for them to come and shatter his little world, but why the same should hold true for Omi I don't know. Omi and Romantic just don't quite sit right together if you ask me. He and Ken both, actually - they both have to be browbeaten into dating and it's amusing. I love the Weiss boys. I must admit to a fondness for Schwarz, too, but it's partly because they're so gleefully evil. If they stopped being evil, they wouldn't be as fun.

(Schuldich needs to be smacked in the face for being a complete bastard, but he's just so good at it!)

I wish he'd taken all Sakura's organs at once personally, then we'd have been spared her joyous moping presence (no, I don't like Sakura). And then there's the thing about Masafumi wanting to be God (ep 9, I think). How does turning yourself into a baboon equate with deity in any way? Why does he start killing Schreient and how come they don't actually die even though they should? Why does the house burn down? Is the fight scene uncomfortably like something out of tentacle hentai? The world may never know (well, actually the answer to the last question is yes, but the point stands).

Confession time: I liked the ep with Ken and Yuriko, pointless or no. It had Ken in.

Oh, God, that bit. I love that. It's a pure and classic Ken moment, though probably not the right time to start an argument. Or for Youji to pat his head, all things considered (I must admit to loving it when Ken, like the medical genius he is, points out that if they get killed that's it. No, really, Ken?). I adore the way he interacts with Youji, it's just so funny. If it's possible to have friendly arguments that's what they do, and frequently. I'm sure Youji only does half the things he does because he's trying to wind Ken up.

I think one of the things that helps Weiss fic along is that the premise is good, not to mention infinitely sustainable and that the cast are good (to say nothing of infinitely slashable) but don't have too much revealed about them. Which is really all you need for decent fanfic.

... now if only we could spork the Mary Sues before they started, we'd be all set.