Considering how many characters we've already seen who can walk in dreams, it wouldn't be surprising at all if Hana came across some of them.

1. The first character I fell in love with: Well, I began to take more interest in CCS after I saw a doujinshi image of Sakura in a collage made by an older student while I was in elementary school--I had seen some episodes of Cardcaptors before then, but I didn't care that much about it. I liked her as soon as I saw her.

I liked Clow when I first heard about him, too, but it took me a while to find out what he looked like.

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do: Tomoyo.

3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: I wrote this before, but I don't understand why certain people like Xiaolang so much. Not the people who just consider him to be their favorite character, but the people who want to marry him.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates: I'm very fond of the Mirror Card (of all the Clow Cards--they're too often ignored!), who's often disliked by Touya/Yukito fans because the moronic Touya/heterosexuality fans try to paint her as Touya's love interest.

5. The character I would shag anytime: ...

6. The character I'd want to be like: Tomoyo, because of her great inner strength.

7. The character I'd slap: There aren't very many slappable characters in CCS.

8. A pairing that I love: It's not a pairing, per se, but I love the relationship between Sakura and Tomoyo.

9. A pairing that I despise: Anything that blatantly contradicts canon. Also Clow/Yue, since--even though I know Yue's feelings for Clow were romantic--I can't imagine Clow loving Yue in any other way than a father loving his child. (If you're reading this, JL, I'm sorry!)

10. Favorite character: Clow.

11. What my five favorite things about the fandom are: Surprisingly, there isn't a lot. But, like the TRC fandom, there are several people with wonderful senses of humor, and there's some good (http://www10.plala.or.jp/CNG/) fanart (http://kagomeuta.web.fc2.com/f.html) out there. (http://qed-777.html.tv/index.html)

12. What my five least favorite things about the fandom are: The way Sakura gets treated. I can't tell you how many illustrations I've seen with Sakura depicted as unintelligent, generically "cute," and dependent on Xiaolang. Actually, Xiaolang and Clow often have their characterization distorted, too, but not to such a great extent.

On that note, I'm also disturbed by the fact that sexually explicit images of the characters exist.

The fans who almost worship Sakura and Xiaolang's relationship annoy me, as well--it's charming, and they're well-suited to each other, but their union isn't going to bring about the Second Coming or anything like that!

Also, the fandom as a whole doesn't seem very inventive--I've seen little by way of interesting or thought-provoking material that interpreted CCS in a different way or tried to explore the characters more thoroughly.

Finally: the minor characters don't get enough love.

13. Who my five favorite characters are: Clow, Sakura, Tomoyo, Touya, and Meiling.

14. Who my five least favorite characters are: I'm not too fond of Nadeshiko.

15. What my five favorite pairings are: Tomoyo/Sakura, Eriol/Kaho, Sakura, Kero, Yue, and the Cards' relationship, Chiharu/Yamazaki, and Sakura/Xiaolang (when it's portrayed the way it should be).

16. What my five least favorite pairings are: Clow/Yue, Eriol/Tomoyo, Eriol/Xiaolang, and just about anything that defies canon.

17. Which character I'm most like: I think I would be closest to Rika, but I'm similar to Touya in some ways.

18. What my deep, dark fandom secret is: There's this one episode in the anime where, when Sakura is sick, Nadeshiko's ghost checks up on her. I saw the scene on television where Nadeshiko places her hand on Sakura's forehead, and as I didn't know about Nadeshiko then (I had just started watching Cardcaptors)...I thought the hand belonged to Clow's ghost.

Yeah, that delicate-looking hand with the ring and the frilly sleeve. X|