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Yes, in that Nymphadora piece of yours, for example. Which I think I forgot to review. /slaps self. Bad me.

I'm not a major fan of the exclusively top/bottom relationships within fandoms. For some characters it works, but for most, it wouldn't. It really depends of their personalities and the society or culture they revolve around, and then how they'd react to it... And most would agree on being versatile. It's insane how some people are willing to take some characters very OOC to keep with the top/bottom idea. That totally throws me off. I know not everyone's familiar with Final Fantasy 4, but Kain Highwind and Cecil Harvey are a pretty common pairing. Cecil's more feminine, look-wise - but his personality more or less matches it. He's gentle, true... but for hell's sake, he's not a crying bottom. He's more likely to fight for dominance. If you're going to make him exclusively bottom, at least, go for the D/s relationship based on how it allows him to relieve the stress he's under (ruling a heavily militarized country, the medieval society they live in, etc), while this gives Kain the feeling of having even more power (mounting the king... out of everyone in the world...). At least something that won't make them OOC. Please. I'll admit, I like height differences. Small bottom / tall top. I dig it. But I won't do it if it clashes with characters' personalities. That's for fandoms anyways, because when it comes to original characters... Then again, it depends of the culture they live in. In my original story, both guys are pretty tall (6'2 and 6'4). They have roughly the same build too. They're both warriors. Homosexuality wasn't unheard of, and it wasn't much of a big deal - as long as you were the top, because it meant you were powerful enough to mount another guy, therefore powerful enough in combat. Now the bottom was thought of to be less manly, and more at risk of being "defeated" on the battlefield. So my "bottom" is an over-aggressive swordsman because he's constantly trying to prove his prowess in combat... because his "top" loves the power of mounting another guy and won't give it up easily. Over time, it'll become the main source of frustration. (But I'm nice, I'll have them work it out).

Word. The idea that one character is less dominant because he or she is penetrated during sex is just plain wrong. That said, it's an opinion that you can work into your fics if one of your characters is defensively homophobic, and refuses to try being the recipient partner because they see that as being less "manly".

As a reader, I much prefer the characters I'm reading to have DEPTH. If they have no emotions, and no reactions, they're wooden and not terribly believable

I prefer my characters to switch roles, and none of my characters is exclusively a top or bottom. You're absolutely right in it being both unrealistic and outright boring. I couldn't enjoy just one position for the rest of my life, so why would I write that? And emotional depth is what makes a character memorable. Men feel emotion, although certain societies expect men to pretend that they don't. Granted, I draw the line at the ever-sobbing perennial bottom (if I cried every time I had sex, I'd worry!), but I applaud you for letting your male characters show emotion. As far as the little whiners who want their uke/seme pairings that never vary, I say let them read a good boy-love manga since I'm quite sure they need pretty pictures to get the point of what they're reading anyway.