Another meme~

Comment and I'll give you three fandoms, for which you must answer these:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

trinfortune gave me Gundam 00, Fruits Basket, and Narutaru.

( Answers under here )

Five DOs cleared in Dissidia! Right now I'm on the fourth level of Bartz's, the fifth level of Terra, the second of Lighty's, and I'll be starting Tidus's next. Yeah, Onion Knight is last. I haven't even tried playing as him yet, because quite frankly, I don't like him. I've also poked a bit at Shade Impulse, and I've reached the third level in the first chapter while playing as Cecil. Speaking of whom, I still seem to be maining him, with maybe Zidane as my secondary, although I find Firion quite fun to use too.

Nicked from thumbs:

Name a fandom and I'll tell you 3 pairings I love, 2 pairings I consider shipping, and 1 pairing I hate.

And now, considering it's coming up to 2am over here, I ought to be in bed.

I was dicking around looking at the Final Fantasy doujinshi on Toranoana, and when I clicked on one of the sample pages, I managed to misread Squall's name as "School".

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I-it's an easier mistake than you might think! Here's his name in Japanese:

スコール

For those who can't read katakana, that's pronounced "sukooru". C'mon, isn't it a little tempting to read it as "school"? >______>

Maybe not, I guess. Anyway, I beat Kefka with Zidane, and so I've made some decent headway in both his and School's Squall's DOs. I might make a start on Terra's next, even though her DO is supposed to be one of the hardest...

So I've been playing Dissidia: Final Fantasy lately. I got it for about half its RRP, and it wasn't even a used copy; I guess the price got cut pretty quickly for some reason, at least in GAME.

I seem to be maining Cecil right now, though I haven't tried using everyone yet and I'm far from a skilled fighter; I feel like a bit of a scrub with Cecil because I mostly stay in his embarrassingly pretty paladin form for the sake of his speedy bravery attacks. >> Well, in any case, I've beaten Destiny Odyssey with him and Cloud (though I've still got plenty of stuff for the both of them to do, what with their stories only being about 65% finished) and now I've decided to concentrate on Zidane's and Squall's DOs.

Kefka's giving me despair in Zidane's DO right now. I've done a fair few runs in Arcade Mode beforehand, and Kefka's definitely one of the toughest opponents for me. It might just be that I haven't got his patterns down, having only encountered him in Arcade or as a mannequin a couple of times... or perhaps it was my own fault for forgetting to give Zidane a piece of equipment I'd only just found at the time. Anyway, that clown's being a bastard.

I also wish I could have an easier time with fighting Onion Knight, but I guess he's more annoying than tricky, at the end of the day.

Well, let's see how I fare.

The odd thing is, I have had things I could've written about, but they keep slipping my mind whenever I hop onto the computer. Silly me.

Anyway... happy Hallowe'en, guys. We've had more trick-or-treaters come round tonight than we ever did at our old place; now we're running out of sweets to give them. XD

I was thinking of making a Hallowe'en spam post as my way of celebrating, but... well, I'm not sure if it would be a much fun as I thought. Still, if anyone wants to make this post the Hallowe'en spam post anyway, feel free! Given the time of year, nightmare fuel is both welcome and encouraged - just make sure it's not exploding heads or something.

Finally, on an exceedingly random note: After seeing another fanart of Regene dressed as Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist, a few more clothing switches for Romi Paku-voiced characters crept into my brain, and I have this sudden wish to see fanart of Switzerland (as in the Hetalia character, of course) dressed as an Innovator. The mental image of it is just too funny. XD *shot in the face*

I HAS INTERNET AGAIN.

I'm still going to be quite busy since there's still a lot to sort out in the new house, but even so, no more hiatus~.

Now to try catching up with a fortnight's worth of stuff I've missed. >>;

I'm sorry it has to be another meme, but the only other thing I could write about is flocked RL bitchery, and I never like to dwell on annoying RL issues long enough to write journal entries about them. ~.~ (Yeah, I know I sometimes write a few paragraphs on fandom stuff that pisses me off, but fandom annoyances and RL annoyances are completely different ball games to me.)

Anyway, here's the meme, taken from forever_alone:

Pick a fictional character from a fandom I know and I'll answer the following questions to the best of my abilities.

1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her. Likewise if you dislike the character.
2) Is he/she important to the general plot?
3) Can you relate to this character at all? Do they grip you emotionally?
4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?
5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by their relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)
6) Is there anything about the character you would change?
7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how do you see yourself interacting with him/her? (Would you get along well? Fall in love with? Dislike? Friendly rivalry? etc etc)
8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?
9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about (if you dislike) to someone whose new to the fandom?
10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?

Maybe I should try doing a bit of writing practice so I can finally get those grab bag drabbles done... though I think part of my problem with those is that I'm just plain not used to doing crossovers. >>; (Well, one of them isn't a crossover, so I have a bit less excuse for taking so long with it, but whatever.)

I think this has the potential to be hilarious.

Haven't been feeling all that today. Here, have a Pokemon dump.

Geez, August sure came and went quickly. @.@ It was a pretty crummy August, but even so.

There's been a lot of stuff going on with my life, but it's the sort of thing I'd rather put in a flocked entry - and even then, it's so much that I'd be taking my sweet time writing it all up.

For now, in not!RL news, I started playing Tales of Vesperia again and got murdered by the very same boss (in Ehmead Hills) I was stuck on before. How irritating.

About the grab bag meme, I mean. I will be doing those drabbles eventually - it's just that my brother being home doesn't do my writing muse a lot of favours. D:

I'm sure I had other stuff I wanted to write about, but it's slipping my mind.

SCYTHER EGG GET!!

Oh hey, LJ's back to normal for me... for now, at least. I basically couldn't access it at all for most of yesterday, which was irritating to say the least (half of my connection to fandom is here! T.T) so I'm glad to be able to actually use the bloody site.

Didn't really help that I had some stresses/annoyances going on as well - namely, I was supposed to have a driving test this morning, which I was worrying about last night, but then it... didn't even happen, because there was no examiner. (and right when I was starting to relax and feel more confident with my driving, too!) While I am getting a refund and a rebooking for it, it still made me think I'd rather have failed. ~.~;

With that griping out of the way... there's a meme going around that I like the look of, so let's do a meme:

grab bag meme
~ give me a scenario of any kind ( ex: 'falling out of a window', 'robbing a bank', etc ).
~ give me a number 1-20.
~ depending on what's chosen, I will write that scene with the character listed under that number. ( all characters have been randomly numbered ).
~ if you feel a scene should have more than one character from the list, add up to at least 2 extra numbers. ( ex: 'video game, 12 vs 4', 'baking a cake, 7 & 8 & 9', etc ).
~ might not write them, but I'll share them, etc.

Aaaaaaand last but not least, I've finally caught the Hetalia bug. God help me. >>;

LJ's been quite a sod to me for the last few days. Since Friday, it's been wavering from okay to treacle-like to practically unusable, which is... pretty irksome, needless to say.

The ironic thing is, when I first noticed the problem, I went to the LJ status report and saw that they'd apparantly just did some fixing around to resolve slowdown issues!

Has anyone else been getting crap like this, or does the site just hate me in particular? D:

I can't believe what I managed to do in SO1 today.

( Probably counts as spoilers - mentions the postgame and a certain boss )

On a loosely related note, Ioshua's "enraged" sprite is rather scary. It's the first time I've noticed that angry sprites do more than turn the characters' faces red, because his wings are all outstretched and practically standing on end when he's still. Well, it just gives people another incentive to not mess with Erys. ^^;

HELLO~ to the new friends I made on the small fandoms meme! I'm not really sure what I can say about myself that isn't already on my profile, but do make yourselves at home anyway.

Oh, yeah, there's one thing: Fandom babble (which makes up most of my journal) is public for now, unless it's ranting about specific fandom habits that get on my nerves; stuff about my actual life gets flocked, except for really general things like whining about the weather.

I'm in the middle of making up a masterlist of all the fandoms I'm in and all the anime/manga/games I like, so I'll get that done as soon as I can, just so people can have a nice easy look at my tastes in things. ^^;

As many of my more recent entries will suggest, I'm on a huge Star Ocean kick at the moment; I'm playing through SO4 and about to start a Rena game in SO2 (I'm stuck on a boss in my Claude game and would rather do more interesting things than just grinding levels >>), and I'm going to give the final boss in my second SO1 playthrough a smacking and see how far I can get in the bonus dungeon. In other words, expect quite a few more entries relating to SO games.

I... don't know what else I ought to bring up, so I'll just leave it here. >>

I've just got to the most bloody obnoxious battle ever in SO4!

( Possibly spoilery, definitely whiny. Those who've played the game might be able to guess where this is going... )

At least this planet has pretty music now. That and the sunset are about all it has going for it at the moment. ~.~

I just realised something about Meracle and Sarah: if it wasn't for the whole "Meracle wants to eat Sarah" thing, I'd ship it fairly hard. I mean, I even just spoke to an NPC (a hungry lesser fellpool, to be fair) where Meracle was all "Sarah's MINE, got it?". Her idea of dinner, of course, but if that could be gotten around...

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SOMEONE PLEASE STOP ME!! D:

I've just had Sarah join my party (though I'm taking one or two detours before getting on with the plot) and I think she's my favourite character now. Do I have a thing for dippy girls now? >> But she's adorable! Also, when she casts Wind Blade: "I'm going to cut you to pieces~!" Haha, this girl's related to Erys alright. XD

And because I haven't posted my Pokeymans for a while:



Murkrow~ ♥

SO4's version of the Purgatorium is another dungeon that could do with at least one more savepoint.

That said, the statue-and-urn puzzles seem to take up most of the time I'm in there, and the place isn't too bad for backtracking to the entrance and back to where I last got to once I've unlocked a few doors. Makes it a bit more forgivable than the bloody Cardianon ship, in that respect.

ETA: Okay, so at the point I'd reached when I first made this entry, there wasn't very much dungeon left to go. ^^; The boss was really freakin' hard, though.

I haven't had this much of an urge to jump into a game and hit the protagonist since Kalas from Baten Kaitos, and that is really saying something.

( Spoilers referenced, but I haven't got much further, so... )

For better or worse, my current beef with Edge is making me appreciate Fayt more. Yeah, Fayt was really annoying at times, but at least he was capable of making smart decisions (like using a planet's own resources to help them) and not taking his wangst out on innocent bystanders.