Beyond This Morning.

[rionaleonhart]

After 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.

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[kadrin]

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.

Shouldn't someone say something about unlocking something somewhere in there? Apart from that, that was TOO accurate. Spoilers, Riona.

[yumiboo.livejournal.com]

I think I might sort of be 'shipping Terra/Cinderella/Aqua. All right, then.
Yeah, this game does that to you. I'll be honest, because I played as Aqua first, she was my favourite character. I mean, I spent most of the time when I was playing as her cartwheeling everywhere. SHE CAN CARTWHEEL! IT WAS AWESOME (though I did the same thing when I was young and I played a game called Spyro The Dragon - there was a charge attack, but the I quickly figured out that this was the best way to get everywhere)!

Also Zack/Aqua! That was my favourite part of the game! That made me laugh for days. I'm going to go with their ship name being A-Z because, well, why not? XD

I GENERALLY WANT A LOT OF THINGS TO DO WITH AQUA.
I generally want Aqua to have hugs. Also, aaahhh, the original K.H! And that is a pretty accurate summary of Kingdom Hearts I've ever read. But shouldn't JEALOUSY be in there a little bit?

[tabimendou.livejournal.com]

Man, I just got finished with Kingdom Hearts not too long ago - one of those things I've been meaning to play since like... I was a teenager, but only just got to now;;. The camera in KH1 is my worst enemy, I swear OH GOD THAT THING IS TERRIBLE. I was really angry with the game mechanics for quite a long time, but once you unlock more gliding/jumping things, it got better for me. I fell off so many damn platforms and missed so many jumps in Monstro though, ughghghghhg it was like three worlds all after one another with pits and tricky jumps and fffffffffffffff

I started KH2 but despite it already having sorted out a lot of the camera/control issues I had, I haven't played much of it - I guess because I'm still being Roxas right at the start, but it seems very "walk three paces CUTSCENE CUTSCENE CUTSCENE walk over here CUTSCENE CUTSCENE CUTSCENE" and I'm just like. Let me play the game already :[

When I played KH1 I was determined not to get hung up on like, getting all the Dalmations, Trinity Marks etc, but I went back and got all the Dalmations anyway, because. I couldn't just leave them there :

[dev-chieftain.livejournal.com]

This is the most delightful post I've read all day, also YES Aqua and Zack and their CUTE EXUBERANCE!!!!