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rionaleonhart) wrote2017-03-03 01:27 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2017-03-03 01:27 pm
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What Does 'Junction Magic' Mean? I'm Sure It's Not Important.
alwaysbeenasmiler asked this question, and I thought it was interesting, so I've stolen it to ask here: who was your first favourite fictional character? Who was the first character you really loved? Is there a story behind that love?I won't go into too much detail because I've talked about this before, but Squall Leonhart of Final Fantasy VIII was the first character I really connected with. I was an insular, awkward, confused thirteen-year-old, bad at interaction, bad at reading people, and suddenly I found I wasn't alone in any of that; here was a guy who was just like me, only he had a cool gun-sword and fought dinosaurs. I was so excited.
It's a good thing I loved Squall so much, because I was terrible at playing Final Fantasy VIII, and he was the reason I happily persevered with it.
Unsurprisingly, I hate the popular theory that Squall died at the end of Disc 1 and the other three discs were ~just a dream~. It's not interesting; it just makes most of the game feel like a waste of time! Also, Squall is my favourite, so he's alive. Solid reasoning, I think you'll find.
My preferred answer to the question 'why does Squall wake up without a wound after being impaled?' is 'Seifer begs Edea to save him. NOT THAT SEIFER CARES OR ANYTHING. Obviously he just wants Squall to live so they can interrogate him. Obviously. Edea is so amused by this that she heals Squall.'
I'd forgotten how messed up the Second Hand of Time arc in DN Angel is. A young woman is reunited at last with her lost love! Her lost love is a sword that romantically impales her through the chest. DN Angel, you seemed to be a romantic comedy when you started out.
I always resented the fact that the Second Hand of Time arc went 'oh, it's a school play! Satoshi and Daisuke have been cast as the romantic leads! Oh, no, wait: we've set up this classic slashfic premise, but now Daisuke's out of action and Dark has to pretend to be him, so you don't actually get Satoshi and Daisuke acting out romantic scenes together.' But, on this reread, I will concede that Satoshi and Dark trying to get through a romantic scene when they loathe each other is pretty hilarious.
(Speaking of classic slashfic premises: the manga is better than the anime in many ways, but the anime does has an episode where Satoshi and Daisuke are locked in a freezer and have to huddle for warmth.)
It's only just occurred to me that we say dial to mean 'enter a person's number on a telephone' because of the dial on rotary phones. What an odd linguistic fossil.
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I don't know why this makes me so happy.
Specifically, her lost love is a sword. He was a man, but - er, okay, this is a bit complicated.
- Elliot and Freedert are in love! Hooray!
- Secretly, their best friend Kyle is also in love with Freedert.
- Elliot goes off to war.
- Kyle prays to the Goddess of Time, 'Take away all the time Elliot has left!'
- Elliot dies on the battlefield.
- Freedert prays to the Goddess of Time, 'Give all the time I have left to Elliot!'
- Freedert dies; Elliot comes back to life.
- Elliot goes, 'GODDESS OF TIME, GIVE ALL MY TIME TO FREEDERT' and thrusts a sword through his own chest
- the Goddess of Time goes 'what the fuck, you told me to give her all your time and then ended that time by stabbing yourself, what am I supposed to do with this'
- the Goddess of Time, unable to bring Freedert back to life on account of Elliot's daft move, instead... preserves Freedert's soul in a painting??
- Elliot becomes a sword???
- eventually Elliot the sword is dropped into the painting and romantically pierces Freedert's heart????
- Daisuke, who made friends with Freedert (...inside the painting) and then saw her (literally) impaled by her sword-boyfriend, is permanently traumatised.
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Wow, that is some epic angst! And I kind of feel bad for the Goddess of Time. She's getting all of these contradictory orders, and she gets so muddled the best she can do is "Fine, you're a sword, you're a painting, neither of you are exactly dead, I hope this works."
If Elliot hadn't stabbed himself, would he and Freedert have been caught in an endless loop of "Give all my time to him! Give all my time to her! Give all my time to him!"?
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That's a strangely fascinating idea, actually. Eventually, Elliot wakes up and sees a note: Look, this is silly. At least live for a day before you pass the time back to me. They settle into a pattern: they both live, but only on alternating days, and they can only communicate with each other through writing.
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And yeah, it would be fascinating. Both for the angst and drama ("We can never be together!") and for the wacky misunderstandings ("...yes, that is my boyfriend's dead body. Would you believe me if I told you he'd be okay tomorrow?")
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WRITE IT.