Speaking of being unable to shut up about Neku and Joshua's relationship, I tried to explain that relationship to my housemate (who's never played The World Ends With You) shortly after finishing the game, because I had a lot of very strong feelings that I needed to express.
I hadn't anticipated that the explanation would take twenty minutes. It took ten minutes just to explain the game's concept and set the scene before Joshua even showed up. At the end of the twenty-minute rundown, my housemate just looked at me and pointed out that nothing I'd just said had made any sense.
I have no idea how you managed to get a good enough grasp on The World Ends With You to write fanfiction before you'd even played it (and good fanfiction, too! I've read the first couple of chapters of Of Skinny Behinds and Dresses, and it's really making me smile; you've got such a knack for characterisation and dialogue), because that game is ridiculously confusing. (But I love it so much!)
While I'm here, I suppose I'll answer a couple of points from your message on fanfiction.net, so we're not holding simultaneous conversations in two different places:
I suppose I just love the fact that he and Neku didn't immediately have hawt smex, like so many people make them. It annoys me to no end! I'm guessing you ship them?
I do indeed! Their relationship fascinates me endlessly; I love just about every possible interpretation of it, whether it's friendship or romance (in my head, their relationship mainly hovers in some weird undefined area in between). If they ever had sex, though, I imagine Joshua would be much more into the 'screwing with Neku's head' aspect than the physical screwing (this would probably be quite fun to read, and I'd be tempted to write some psychological warfare sex if I weren't so atrocious at writing anything remotely sexual). I have trouble imagining sex as an expression of love with those two.
(I recently discovered 'imagineyourotp' and 'imagineyuorotp' on tumblr. The former suggests ridiculously fluffy scenarios like 'Imagine person B of your OTP getting sick, and person A goes out of their way to leave work and when person A gets home, they cuddle with person B', none of which work for Joshua/Neku at all; the latter has parodies like 'Imagine Person A of your OTP stealing Person B's car and running them over with it', many of which work for Joshua/Neku surprisingly well.)
You also asked whether I was still into Doctor Who; I am still watching it, but I've never really been as strongly into it as I was during the Ninth Doctor's series. I do think Matt Smith's Doctor is excellent, though (and for some reason I wrote several thousand words last May about Canton Everett Delaware III, who appeared in exactly two episodes).
Sorry for rambling so much at you! I'm just thrilled to be able to talk about this game with someone who actually knows it.
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I hadn't anticipated that the explanation would take twenty minutes. It took ten minutes just to explain the game's concept and set the scene before Joshua even showed up. At the end of the twenty-minute rundown, my housemate just looked at me and pointed out that nothing I'd just said had made any sense.
I have no idea how you managed to get a good enough grasp on The World Ends With You to write fanfiction before you'd even played it (and good fanfiction, too! I've read the first couple of chapters of Of Skinny Behinds and Dresses, and it's really making me smile; you've got such a knack for characterisation and dialogue), because that game is ridiculously confusing. (But I love it so much!)
While I'm here, I suppose I'll answer a couple of points from your message on fanfiction.net, so we're not holding simultaneous conversations in two different places:
I suppose I just love the fact that he and Neku didn't immediately have hawt smex, like so many people make them. It annoys me to no end! I'm guessing you ship them?
I do indeed! Their relationship fascinates me endlessly; I love just about every possible interpretation of it, whether it's friendship or romance (in my head, their relationship mainly hovers in some weird undefined area in between). If they ever had sex, though, I imagine Joshua would be much more into the 'screwing with Neku's head' aspect than the physical screwing (this would probably be quite fun to read, and I'd be tempted to write some psychological warfare sex if I weren't so atrocious at writing anything remotely sexual). I have trouble imagining sex as an expression of love with those two.
(I recently discovered 'imagineyourotp' and 'imagineyuorotp' on tumblr. The former suggests ridiculously fluffy scenarios like 'Imagine person B of your OTP getting sick, and person A goes out of their way to leave work and when person A gets home, they cuddle with person B', none of which work for Joshua/Neku at all; the latter has parodies like 'Imagine Person A of your OTP stealing Person B's car and running them over with it', many of which work for Joshua/Neku surprisingly well.)
You also asked whether I was still into Doctor Who; I am still watching it, but I've never really been as strongly into it as I was during the Ninth Doctor's series. I do think Matt Smith's Doctor is excellent, though (and for some reason I wrote several thousand words last May about Canton Everett Delaware III, who appeared in exactly two episodes).
Sorry for rambling so much at you! I'm just thrilled to be able to talk about this game with someone who actually knows it.