Beyond This Morning.
Nov. 8th, 2012 09:13 amAfter seeing Aqua's storyline in Birth by Sleep, I think I might sort of be 'shipping Terra/Cinderella/Aqua. All right, then.
Aqua is such a prince. I'd like to see her meet Utena, actually. I also love the hell out of her character design, even though I've played so many Square games that symmetrical clothing looks strange to me.
Also, Aqua/Zack would be adorable. I was already sort of 'shipping it whilst thinking 'what are you doing, Riona, there is no basis for this at all, you're only thinking about this because he put his hands on her shoulders and spoke earnestly to her', and then Zack asked Aqua out and I was delighted.
It's also got some gloriously terrible potential pairing names. Aquack! Zacqua! A to Z!
I want Aqua to play big sister to the Destiny Islands trio forever, too. I GENERALLY WANT A LOT OF THINGS TO DO WITH AQUA.
I've actually started replaying the original Kingdom Hearts, for the first time in goodness knows how long. I've just finished the first visit to Traverse Town. Thoughts!
- I'd forgotten how long I always spend running around on Destiny Islands, levelling up until I can beat Riku. I'd also forgotten how frustrating that race against him was. Why are you so much better than me at everything, Riku?
- You hear Sora's mother calling him for dinner just before their world is plunged into darkness! What happened to his parents?
- The camera is worse than I remember, and I remember the camera being pretty dire.
- SORA SOUNDS SO YOUNG. HE SOUNDS SO YOUNG. SO YOUNG.
- I think I like the first game more than the second gameplay-wise (although Kingdom Hearts II smooths out some rough edges, I feel it also tones down the exploration element), but I do like that the Destiny Islands trio in the second game are all friends friends friends, whereas there's a lot of jealousy complicating things in the first. You wouldn't have got any of that 'who gets to share the destiny-binding fruit with Kairi?' business had the subject of the paopu come up in Kingdom Hearts II; all three of them would have shared it and thought nothing of it.
- I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW YOUNG SORA SOUNDS.
- Aerith says 'This is from Leon' and gives you an Elixir and Leon closes his eyes and turns his head away awkwardly! I had completely forgotten about that. Squall, you are so precious. (I had not forgotten how worried he was about the missing dalmatian puppies, bless him.)
In case you don't play Kingdom Hearts and would like to be able to follow my posts about it, here is a quick summary of the plot of every Kingdom Hearts game: DARKNESS LIGHT DAAAAARKNESS LIIIIIGHT HEARTS DARKNESS. Also half the characters end up in Sora's heart metaphorically and the other half are in there literally.
Aqua is such a prince. I'd like to see her meet Utena, actually. I also love the hell out of her character design, even though I've played so many Square games that symmetrical clothing looks strange to me.
Also, Aqua/Zack would be adorable. I was already sort of 'shipping it whilst thinking 'what are you doing, Riona, there is no basis for this at all, you're only thinking about this because he put his hands on her shoulders and spoke earnestly to her', and then Zack asked Aqua out and I was delighted.
It's also got some gloriously terrible potential pairing names. Aquack! Zacqua! A to Z!
I want Aqua to play big sister to the Destiny Islands trio forever, too. I GENERALLY WANT A LOT OF THINGS TO DO WITH AQUA.
I've actually started replaying the original Kingdom Hearts, for the first time in goodness knows how long. I've just finished the first visit to Traverse Town. Thoughts!
- I'd forgotten how long I always spend running around on Destiny Islands, levelling up until I can beat Riku. I'd also forgotten how frustrating that race against him was. Why are you so much better than me at everything, Riku?
- You hear Sora's mother calling him for dinner just before their world is plunged into darkness! What happened to his parents?
- The camera is worse than I remember, and I remember the camera being pretty dire.
- SORA SOUNDS SO YOUNG. HE SOUNDS SO YOUNG. SO YOUNG.
- I think I like the first game more than the second gameplay-wise (although Kingdom Hearts II smooths out some rough edges, I feel it also tones down the exploration element), but I do like that the Destiny Islands trio in the second game are all friends friends friends, whereas there's a lot of jealousy complicating things in the first. You wouldn't have got any of that 'who gets to share the destiny-binding fruit with Kairi?' business had the subject of the paopu come up in Kingdom Hearts II; all three of them would have shared it and thought nothing of it.
- I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW YOUNG SORA SOUNDS.
- Aerith says 'This is from Leon' and gives you an Elixir and Leon closes his eyes and turns his head away awkwardly! I had completely forgotten about that. Squall, you are so precious. (I had not forgotten how worried he was about the missing dalmatian puppies, bless him.)
In case you don't play Kingdom Hearts and would like to be able to follow my posts about it, here is a quick summary of the plot of every Kingdom Hearts game: DARKNESS LIGHT DAAAAARKNESS LIIIIIGHT HEARTS DARKNESS. Also half the characters end up in Sora's heart metaphorically and the other half are in there literally.
