rionaleonhart | Unfortunately, I'm Not Actually Very Good At Combat.

I've bought a copy of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the DS, and I'm a little surprised by how fiercely I found myself loving it even before any real gameplay. I love the Kingdom Hearts universe! I could happily roll around in it for months. Which is just as well, because I get the Start and Power buttons on my DS confused and have accidentally forced myself to redo a mission twice already.

(YOU GET TO HANG OUT IN A ROOM AND TALK TO MEMBERS OF ORGANIZATION XIII AND ROXAS KEEPS AN ADORABLE DIARY AND IT'S AMAZING.

I still think that having fourteen members in Organization XIII is incredibly silly, though.)

...I WAS ALREADY LOVING IT, AND THEN LEXAEUS PUNCHED ROXAS IN THE FACE TO ACTIVATE HIS LIMIT BREAK.

THIS GAME IS THE BEST GAME EVER.

And I love that there was no ill feeling behind it; it was just a case of 'punching Roxas in the face is necessary at this juncture, so I suppose I'll punch Roxas in the face'. Lexaeus, you are my new favourite. (There's no ill feeling behind my adoration of the moment, either. I like Roxas a great deal, but that doesn't mean the facepunching wasn't the best.)

Also, the friendship between Axel and Roxas simultaneously warms and breaks my little heart. Particularly with Roxas trying to logically work out whether it exists.

Me and Axel went on a mission to Twilight Town. Afterwards, we went and had ice cream again up on the clock tower. He says friends do stuff like that. Or they laugh together. So does that mean me and him are friends?

Roxas, Roxas, Roxas, you are tearing at my soul.

In unrelated news: Chris Colfer won a Golden Globe for his role as Kurt on Glee, and watching the video very nearly made me cry. His castmates love him so much, and he delivers his speech whilst sounding as if he might burst into tears at any moment. My heart!

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Whenever I listen to people who are obviously very close to tears, when their voices are really teetering on the edge like his was, I automatically start welling up a bit as well.

So when there was a close-up of Jane Lynch smiling just before the anti(gay)-bullying shout out, I did shed a single tear. (She is so gorgeous when she is "out of character", or so to speak, isn't she?)

The bit that got me was Lea Michele wiping her eyes. They're all so happy for him! And, yes, his wavery voice is tugging very strongly at my heartstrings.

(I don't think I ever thanked you for my Christmas card! Thank you so much; it made me smile a huge amount.)

It was a beautiful moment, there is no doubt about that.

(You're welcome. It was a very random brainstorming sort of thing, written in five minutes while on the train. I don't think I managed to come up with anything remotely reasonable ;) Oh well, I'm very glad you enjoyed it.)

THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR HOW MUCH I WANT TO SQUISH CHRIS COLFER. His face when they announced it! And "I think I dropped my heart between Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, so if anyone picks that up, could they please give it back to me." NO. WORDS.

HE IS SO CUTE. I'm not sure I've ever wanted to hug an actor so much before.

That made me do a little cry!

I cannot blame you in the slightest. Bless him!

He is so adorable, omg, I don't even.

(My sister has all the Kingdom Hearts games. I've played through a bit of the first one, but I'm just woefully bad at video games.)

I was confused for a moment over whether you were talking about Roxas or Colfer. I think you meant the latter, but my reaction for either would be hearty agreement.

(The Kingdom Hearts games are really good. I COMMAND YOU TO MAGICALLY BECOME GOOD AT VIDEO GAMES SO YOU CAN PLAY THEM ALL.)

I was gonna buy it (being a big Kingdom Hearts fan) but I've heard from friends and people that it wasn't good so I saved my money for Birth by Sleep but now that you tell me that Lexaeus punched Roxas in the face, I have a sudden feeling to check the game out XD (I don't hate Roxas but that face punching sounds awesome :D (sorry Roxas ;p))

It's actually rather good! Or I'm enjoying it, at least, although my love for the entire Kingdom Hearts universe may be biasing me a bit. And you can probably get it fairly cheaply nowadays; I picked up a used copy in a shop for ten pounds.

Also, the friendship between Axel and Roxas simultaneously warms and breaks my little heart. Particularly with Roxas trying to logically work out whether it exists.

Me and Axel went on a mission to Twilight Town. Afterwards, we went and had ice cream again up on the clock tower. He says friends do stuff like that. Or they laugh together. So does that mean me and him are friends?

Roxas, Roxas, Roxas, you are tearing at my soul.

Aw, I have a ridiculous fondness for the whole "Wait, is it possible I have actual feelings and care about people? I thought people like me weren't capable of that!" thing.

(Also, someone needs to cross this over with Dexter. The main character's a guy with an x in his name who thinks he's incapable of love, and feels massive protective brotherly love for his sister!

Er, also Dexter needs a superhero AU. Basically, it needs more weird fic.)

Aw, I have a ridiculous fondness for the whole "Wait, is it possible I have actual feelings and care about people? I thought people like me weren't capable of that!" thing.

It's rather a delightful theme! Oh, Organization XIII, do you really need hearts?

It's all rather sad, because their hunt for hearts that possibly aren't really necessary to make them whole leads them to get killed in games set later.

BY A GUY CONTROLLED BY ME.

WAY TO MAKE ME FEEL AWFUL, 358/2 DAYS.

You killed them? Riona, how could you?

Oh well, at least Dexter escaped. Although he's actually a serial killer (albeit a serial killer who only kills other murderers), so you probably could have justified killing him.

Wait til you decide to flick through the diary on like day 100. EVERY DAY:

"Axel and I ate ice cream today." and variations XD

Now, just have to get you to get a PSP/Birth By Sleep. WORTH IT. Also, KH fandom are normally rather... hateful... of females and yet Aqua seems to have had a relatively good reception.

Please keep posting your thoughts!

They do eat a lot of ice cream, don't they? That can't be good for them.

It broke my heart when Axel was away at Castle Oblivion and Roxas still went up there to eat ice cream on his own. He hasn't realised that the crucial part of 'eating ice cream with a friend' isn't the ice cream, so he carries on with the ritual and feels empty and doesn't know why. Oh, Roxas.

I want someone to eat ice cream every day up on the clock tower with.

358/2 Days is a good game! I got stuck in Halloween Town and kind of stopped playing, but I did love it while I was actually able to win at it. xD The Axel-Roxas friendship is just brilliant, I remember flailing my hands around wildly for a bit multiple times during the course of their conversations.

Chris just looks like he's in such shock when they call his name! It's precious, my gosh. Oh Lea. Oh and the end dakjefhakejsghkh I am nearly in tears right now.

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I remember flailing my hands around wildly for a bit multiple times during the course of their conversations.

That's very much the reaction I have. They are so cute! So cute! (BUT NOT QUITE AS CUTE AS CHRIS COLFER.)

In utterly horrifying news, reading fandom_wank leads to the discovery of Glee vore artwork, if you've ever thought Glee needed added romantic eyeball-eating. Okay, you didn't, but apparently someone did.

The good news is, neither you nor I will ever be the most twisted people in fandom.

Unfortunately, I'm Not Actually Very Good At Combat.

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