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rionaleonhart) wrote2022-06-04 07:43 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2022-06-04 07:43 pm
Coming Home To Balamb Again.
I'm watching Tem play The Great Ace Attorney! We're very early in it - we're at the start of the second case and have just hit the first deduction sequence - but I'm enjoying it a lot.
I'm absolutely outraged that this game killed DrWatson Wilson in the first case and Kazuma in the second. You can't kill the boyfriends of both Ryunosuke and Sholmes immediately! Unless you want them to seek comfort in each other's arms, I suppose.
Both Tem and I shipped Ryunosuke and Kazuma very hard and were extremely unhappy when Kazuma was killed in the second case. Sholmes is not a satisfactory replacement boyfriend, although he is definitely hitting on us.
Also unhappy about Kazuma's fate: Zuko, our cat, who had a great time attacking Kazuma's bandana whenever he was on the screen. I've never been able to pinpoint a cat's favourite character with such certainty before.
I'm really puzzled by the question of what language the characters are speaking. It's canonically established that Ryunosuke can't speak English and Sholmes can't speak Japanese; how are they communicating? How does Ryunosuke converse with the Russian sailors? Is there an interpreter just offscreen? Did the interpreter commit this murder?
Wait, now that I double-check, Ryunosuke actually can understand the English spoken in the first case! It was a confusing decision to put it in an unreadable font; I suppose it was just to make it clear that Brett was speaking a different language from everyone else? I wonder if it was in plain English in the original Japanese version.
Frankly, making Ryunosuke sleep in the wardrobe on the ship is a tragic waste of an 'only one bed' scenario. Come on, let me believe he and Kazuma shared the bed at least sometimes. Maybe they tried sharing the bed for a few nights and then Ryunosuke insisted on sleeping in the wardrobe because he was having too many feelings.
On an unrelated note, I've been trying to write Squall/Zell, the first pairing I ever really shipped, and it's just impossible. Who's going to make the first move? Obviously not Squall. I can't picture Zell doing it either. It's hard to picture either of them even recognising any feelings they might have for each other, so I can't even write pining.
I used to be confused that Squall/Zell wasn't a bigger pairing, but it turns out it's physically impossible to write. I suppose that explains it.
Strictly speaking, I have written Squall/Zell once before - it was my first ever attempt at writing romance - but I was thirteen and it was dire. (It's only seven hundred words, but maybe I could do a miniature Old Fanfiction Book Club at some point.) Perhaps one day I'll manage to write something less terrible for these two; they deserve it!
I've been thinking a lot about Final Fantasy VIII lately. I've gone through so many fandoms over the years, but every so often my heart will fly back to this game; it's the single work of fiction that's most important to me and the one I'll always, always, always come back to. I've loved it for twenty years, and I'll love it for the rest of my life. These messed-up teenage mercenaries are a permanent part of me.
If you have something similar, I'd be interested to hear about it! What's the story your soul is anchored to?
I'm absolutely outraged that this game killed Dr
Both Tem and I shipped Ryunosuke and Kazuma very hard and were extremely unhappy when Kazuma was killed in the second case. Sholmes is not a satisfactory replacement boyfriend, although he is definitely hitting on us.
Also unhappy about Kazuma's fate: Zuko, our cat, who had a great time attacking Kazuma's bandana whenever he was on the screen. I've never been able to pinpoint a cat's favourite character with such certainty before.
I'm really puzzled by the question of what language the characters are speaking. It's canonically established that Ryunosuke can't speak English and Sholmes can't speak Japanese; how are they communicating? How does Ryunosuke converse with the Russian sailors? Is there an interpreter just offscreen? Did the interpreter commit this murder?
Wait, now that I double-check, Ryunosuke actually can understand the English spoken in the first case! It was a confusing decision to put it in an unreadable font; I suppose it was just to make it clear that Brett was speaking a different language from everyone else? I wonder if it was in plain English in the original Japanese version.
Frankly, making Ryunosuke sleep in the wardrobe on the ship is a tragic waste of an 'only one bed' scenario. Come on, let me believe he and Kazuma shared the bed at least sometimes. Maybe they tried sharing the bed for a few nights and then Ryunosuke insisted on sleeping in the wardrobe because he was having too many feelings.
On an unrelated note, I've been trying to write Squall/Zell, the first pairing I ever really shipped, and it's just impossible. Who's going to make the first move? Obviously not Squall. I can't picture Zell doing it either. It's hard to picture either of them even recognising any feelings they might have for each other, so I can't even write pining.
I used to be confused that Squall/Zell wasn't a bigger pairing, but it turns out it's physically impossible to write. I suppose that explains it.
Strictly speaking, I have written Squall/Zell once before - it was my first ever attempt at writing romance - but I was thirteen and it was dire. (It's only seven hundred words, but maybe I could do a miniature Old Fanfiction Book Club at some point.) Perhaps one day I'll manage to write something less terrible for these two; they deserve it!
I've been thinking a lot about Final Fantasy VIII lately. I've gone through so many fandoms over the years, but every so often my heart will fly back to this game; it's the single work of fiction that's most important to me and the one I'll always, always, always come back to. I've loved it for twenty years, and I'll love it for the rest of my life. These messed-up teenage mercenaries are a permanent part of me.
If you have something similar, I'd be interested to hear about it! What's the story your soul is anchored to?
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Story my soul is anchored to? That's a good question--I can think of a number of them, but I think it's Digimon, specifically the Adventure and 02 seasons.
It took me some thinking, but I think what's singles them out from the rest is they're not even my favorite works of fiction (they're not even my favorite seasons of the franchise--that's Tamers), but they're the ones I keep returning to one way or another, whether I've revisited them or just saw the phrase "Digimon" out in the wild. Childhood nostalgia undoubtedly plays an essential role in this, but they're also just fascinating seasons for the qualities and flaws that make them up (especially 02, what a fascinating mess that was) and how they would go on to inform and shape my tastes in fiction. They introduced me to the wonders of isekai, character growth, varieties of friendships and relationships in fiction, traumatized characters with mental health problems that make bad decisions, eldritch horror,
hot bondage angel/devil women,hurt/comfort, sickfic, tragic backstories, redemption arcs, and the wonderful, wonderful genre of "why am I enjoying seeing my favorite character suffer so much" (aka whump). They're my fandom equivalent of comfort food, and that's just as important as any other story I hold in high regard.no subject
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