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More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! I have now completed the route full of bees.

( Notes on The Hundred Line. )

Nineteen endings down; eighty-one to go! We have been playing this game for ninety hours.

More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! Just finished day forty-seven of a route that involves a surprising quantity of bees.

I think, when we're getting ready for battle, we should allow Yugamu to stab everyone with their Infusers. I think he would really enjoy that. A nice little treat for him.

( Notes on The Hundred Line. )

Out-of-context The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy:

Yugamu: Don't worry about that. I'm really good at ramming stuff in holes that look like they'd be too small to fit.

This game is so weird and horny. I'm having a blast.

More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! There is so much plot happening right now. I've finished the Eva route, and I'm currently on the route in which Shouma calls us all to the classroom we originally woke up in in order to talk about his memories.

( Notes on The Hundred Line. )

The experience of playing The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy feels a lot like playing a game, going 'well, I enjoyed that, but I feel there was more to be explored,' and then heading to AO3 and reading every fic that's been written for it. It's absolutely bizarre. I'm really enjoying it.

More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! I've finished the cult route and taken a brief detour back to the Coming-of-Age route.

Heads-up: this entry mentions (fictional) consent issues, to put it mildly.

( Notes on The Hundred Line. )

I can't believe how much of this game there is. There are a hundred endings, apparently. Having played for fifty hours, we've seen six of them.

More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! I've finished the Coming-of-Age: Bittersweet Youth route, and I'm currently on day thirty-five of a route that, uh. Well, a route that involves a lot of use of the word 'pheromones'.

( Notes on The Hundred Line. )

Kurara: Don't you dare just sit in your rooms and jack off!
Takumi: Who would even do that?

What are you talking about, Takumi? You're all a bunch of teenage perverts. One member of the team canonically fucks her own sword on a regular basis.

There's some very striking dialogue in this game. I made this note during a scene that included the lines 'Stop trying to look all cool, you dickless virgin!' and 'I'll shove my hand so far up her ass her back teeth will clatter!'

More of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! At this point it's getting hard to describe exactly where I am in this game. I'm in day fifty-five of a route that involves training at the beach.

( Notes on The Hundred Line. )

I love the kids' different priorities when they're told they'll get plenty of money after the war.

Tsubasa: Then can I build a brand-new workshop for my grandpa and me?
Sirei: Of course!
Darumi: Can I shut a bunch of kids in an abandoned building and force them to play a killing game?
Sirei: Sure, why the heck not?

I maxed out my bond with Yugamu. It's a shame Takumi doesn't speak in the bonding scenes; they'd be more fun with his reactions! Also, it's always such a disappointment when I max out a bond with someone in a Danganronpa-esque game and do not receive that character's underpants.

(After lamenting the lack of underpants, I commented, 'Although he wants to murder us, I suppose, which is equally intimate.'

'He could kill us and take our underpants,' Tem said, consolingly.)

I've finished the hundred days of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy and hit the credits!

( Spoilers up to day 100 of The Hundred Line. )

Riona: Is there anything in particular you think I should include in my Dreamwidth post about The Hundred Line?
Rei: It's a weird game. Riona is going to write a lot of weird sad orgies about it.
Riona: I think that's already implied in what I've written.

sholio is hosting a commentfic promptfest! If you're in a fanfiction mood, you should run over to post some prompts or write some fills. It's only just started, but I'm watching it with interest.

In other news, I'm still playing The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy! I'm up to day... eighty-six, I think? In the ranks of the stupid videogames I've played in the legacy of Danganronpa, it's not top-tier, but it's a solid contender; I'd put it around the level of Zanki Zero, below Master Detective Archives/AI: The Somnium Files and well above World's End Club.

I enjoy how much murderflirting Yugamu does. Constantly feeling his classmates out, trying to determine whether they'd be up for killing each other romantically. This guy really wants to find his kismesis.

Yugamu: You can't just throw your life away with the first murderer who takes an interest in you. Those one-night stabs may seem exciting, but there's so much more meaning in a committed relationship - one where you let your bloodlust grow over time. Trust me, your death has value. You need to treat it with respect.
Takemaru: Gotta hand it to ya: if ya take out all the serial killer crap, that almost sounds like good advice.

Yugamu and Darumi are definitely going to end up locked in a constant cycle of kinkily murdering each other and being revived.

Maybe that would cheer Darumi up, at least. Tem and I are very worried about Darumi. Her mental health is clearly an absolute wreck, but everyone just uncomfortably ignores all the alarming things she says because she's so creepy.

'Oh, man, they might have been despicable bastards, but they fought their way through so much hardship together!' Takemaru says, in tears, summing up my attitude to fictional characters.

I find myself wholly unsurprised that this game, which takes place over a hundred days, makes a point of celebrating day 69.

Riona: The Commander still has Ima.
Tem: It's an Imergency.

Congratulations to The Hundred Line for being the only game I've ever played that uses the word 'twincest' in dialogue.

I like how easy Yugamu is to get presents for. What's Murder Boy going to want? A scalpel, a ball gag and an iron maiden, obviously.

I'm on day thirty-three of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy!

The Hundred Line, a videogame from the people behind Danganronpa and Zero Escape, is a new addition to one of my favourite genres: a group of strangers are confined together in a high-stress situation and have a terrible time. In this case, a bunch of teenagers are abducted from their safe, enclosed city and forced to fight a war against monsters for reasons they don't entirely understand.

I played the demo, decided I wanted more of this nonsense and picked it up as soon as it released. I love a story that is both emotionally intense and absolutely stupid. It's not as strong as the Danganronpa series (I miss the murder mysteries!), but it scratches a similar ridiculous itch.

Takumi is very much in the Danganronpa protagonist mould of 'very ordinary, even a little bland; finds all his weird companions kind of overwhelming, but ultimately just wants to get along with everyone', and for some reason it really works for me every time. I don't love him in the way I love the Danganronpa protagonists, but there's time!

I'm not that attached to any of the characters yet, come to think of it, although some of them definitely have potential. Darumi's fun; she has a lot of great lines. Takemaru has a short temper and a good heart, which is a combination I have a huge weakness for. I'm eyeing the Incest Twins with some interest, given my passion for The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. Eito has an interesting relationship with Takumi. (The moment we saw Eito, Tem declared that he was going to be the protagonist's boyfriend, and I'm impressed by xyr prescience!)

Takumi named all the fish in the cafeteria fish tank, which is pretty endearing, although it seems weird to name a fish 'Fishy' when there are also other fish around. What makes this specific fish fishier than its companions?

Tem and I found ourselves exclaiming 'WHAT IS GOING ON? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?' at the screen while Takumi was trying to persuade Tsubasa to fight.

Tsubasa: I can't fight those terrible monsters because I throw up whenever I'm nervous.
Takumi: I've made you a fashionable sick bag! Surely this completely solves your problem. Surely being unable to control your body in battle doesn't cause you any concerns other than making the battlefield untidy.
Tsubasa: But everyone will make fun of me if I'm sick in front of them!
Takumi: I'LL PUKE TOO, THEN THEY'LL HAVE TO MAKE FUN OF ME AS WELL, I'LL DO IT RIGHT NOW IF YOU WANT

And then they stared directly into each other's eyes, in silence, for two full minutes.

And that's how you persuade someone to fight in a war, apparently.

Yugamu keeps saying things like 'I can't stand staining my hands with meaningless kills. I'd prefer to murder someone I love' and 'Murder's supposed to be a private, intimate experience.' This guy is all of my fanfiction.

I can't believe this game includes two different characters who are incredibly horny for murder. This is such a personal attack on me.

Tsubasa: Are they wearing Class Armour?
Riona: I'll be honest: if I saw a girl with a giant green tomato over her entire head, I would not notice that she was wearing Class Armour.
Tem: I would. I notice the clothes people are wearing, especially if I'm wearing the same thing. I'd go, 'Oh, this is embarrassing.'
Riona: 'We've turned up to the war in the same outfit.'
Tem: 'One of us is going to have to go home and change.'

Yugamu canonically goes speed dating, and that would be a sight to behold. 'Hey, want to end up locked in an intimate dance of trying to murder each other?'

(Light Yagami, on the other side of the table, internally: ...maybe?)

Tem and I have been replaying AI: nirvanA Initiative. This entry starts out just trying to discuss the game and rapidly descends into a hideous conversational nightmare. I'm very sorry.

I hate Lien and Kizuna's romance even more than I remember, and I remember really hating it. Lien sees Kizuna in a restaurant, decides he's in love with her without knowing anything about her, and asks her to marry him. She says no. He stalks her and hassles her, despite being repeatedly turned down, until she eventually gives in and agrees to date him. The game somehow expects us to root for their relationship and think they're cute??

Outrageous that Ryuki gets tied up by the killer, and yet we don't get to see him tied up. This is such a horny game! How could it miss this opportunity?

Tama: It's my dream to do it on a sofa.
Riona: That seems like a very achievable dream.
Tem: Well, not if you're an eyeball.

And now the hideous conversational nightmare begins. (For anyone who has not played this game and wants context: Tama is Ryuki's artificially intelligent and extremely horny synthetic eyeball. You may feel you need more context than this. You're not getting it.)

( The Great Eyeball Sex Debate of 2025. )

I suppose Tama's also capable of having sofa sex in someone else's dream. But, slightly tragically, not with Ryuki, or at least not with the actual living Ryuki (as opposed to someone else's dream of Ryuki); Ryuki doesn't have a physical presence when they enter people's dreams together.

Maybe Tama can be present in Ryuki's dreams when he's sleeping, though? I don't think it ever comes up.

Anyway! Regardless of the mechanics, Ryuki is definitely in a relationship with his own eyeball, and it's... weirdly cute sometimes?

I've now watched the latest episode of Severance! Here's a whole lot of rambling speculation and theorising.

( Notes on Severance episode 2.02. )

Riona: I need more ideas for Severance fanfiction.
Ginger: You should write a fic where Ms Cobel is banging Mark, and then it turns out to be a fantasy she's having while she's wanking.
Riona: That seems cowardly. I should write about her actually banging Mark.
Rei: You should write a fic where Ms Cobel is banging Mark, and then it turns out to be a fantasy she's having while she's wanking, and then that turns out to be a fantasy he's having while he's wanking.
Riona: I should write a fic where Ms Cobel is wanking, and then it turns out to be a fantasy she's having while she's banging Mark.

In conclusion, maybe it's actually best if I don't have more ideas for Severance fanfiction.

Karaoke! At an actual karaoke place, this time, meaning we were largely limited to actual hits rather than the obscure nonsense we tend to sing at home.

I arrived a few minutes after the starting time, so the others had already gone in. I didn't know the surname of the person who'd booked the room, so I told the receptionist, 'I'm looking for a group of millennials with interesting hair.'

'You're in room seven,' he said, sagely.

For my first song, Rei and I performed 'Scream' from High School Musical 3, with all the intensity we could manage. It was swiftly followed by another guest's pick of 'The Emptiness Machine' by Linkin Park, which really brought home how thematically similar 'Scream' is to a Linkin Park song.

Tem wasn't able to come along, alas, but asked us to perform 'Livin' on a Prayer' in xyr honour; Rei and I dutifully belted it out. It was fun! Very difficult song to sing without dramatic arm motions. We did not manage to resist the dramatic arm motions.

I also fell prey to the temptation to gesture dramatically when joining in on another guest's pick of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' later on. At one point, during this song, I turned and saw that all the people in the room had turned on their phone torches and were waving them in time to the music.

(NB: when I say 'all the people in the room', I mean about five people, but please feel free to envision me bringing the house down in front of a massive crowd if you'd like.)

My other performances:

- 'Teenage Dirtbag' was another person's pick, but it was one I'd been thinking about singing myself, so I took the second microphone. The whole room sang along with gusto.

- When I'd warmed up enough to get overambitious, I attempted 'All the Things She Said' by TATU and 'Savior' by Rise Against. Both very fun; both very challenging!

- I did 'Dreams' by the Corrs. One member of the party, not having realised it was a cover rather than the Fleetwood Mac original, expressed confusion at this 'dance remix'.

- As a favour to my twelve-year-old self, I performed 'Hunter' by Dido, a song I loved when I was a kid. In my head, I'd tied it to my childhood dragon obsession; a friend of mine told me that the music video featured a dragon, and I didn't realise until I was an adult and actually watched the video that this was an outrageous lie. I was sure other people would know this one, but apparently not, so I ended up doing an unanticipated solo!

- I correctly judged that most of the room would know 'Immortals' by Fall Out Boy. Everyone sang along with this one; it was fun!

- A guest who'd gone to the loo came back into the room during my performance of 'How You Remind Me' by Nickelback and said, 'Oh, this song,' damningly. Another person also expressed unhappiness when I chose this song for home karaoke earlier in the year. Karaoke is not a place for taste. Every time this song gets a disparaging comment, I'm just going to perform it again, louder.

And a few notes from performances by other people:

- We all ended up on our feet, doing ridiculous synchronised backing dancing, during a solo perfomance of 'Lay All Your Love on Me' by ABBA. Great fun.

- I forced Rei to sing 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' by Panic! at the Disco because they'd recently read a songfic based on it and were cursed to be unable to take it seriously. 'I'm going to murder you,' Rei informed me, as I handed them the microphone.

- The people singing 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash also struggled to take it seriously, and it was very funny to see them losing it laughing while attempting the very sombre lyrics.

- The songs everyone could join in on were a real blast. 'Rasputin' immediately followed by 'Stacy's Mom': an incredible combination. I also enjoyed everyone singing passionately on the chorus of 'Iris' by the Goo Goo Girls.

- 'Maybe I should add this to my Bill/Dipper playlist,' Rei commented to me during 'Murder on the Dancefloor' by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Shortly afterwards, they spotted me making notes for this entry and expressed concern that I was going to expose their Billdip playlist plans. I was actually just noting that most of the room ended up on their feet and dancing during the song, but, because I was so amused by Rei's reaction, I'm now also telling you that it's going onto their Bill/Dipper playlist.

Oh, I should probably mention: as you may or may not remember, six years ago, I posted an entry containing mini-reviews of more or less every game I'd ever played. I've continued to update it as I've played new things over the years, but I've never actually mentioned the fact that I was updating it anywhere!

Take a look if you'd like to know my brief thoughts on a specific game, or if you're wondering whether I've played something in particular. (Or if, for some reason, you actually want to read my thoughts on all 240-odd videogames I have played over my lifetime, you can do that as well.)

Speaking of my videogame opinions, a conversation I had with my sister-in-law over the weekend:

Sister-in-law: What have you been playing lately?
Riona: I've just finished The Coffin of Andy and Leyley! It's about the relationship between two siblings.
Sister-in-law: Oh, cute!
Riona: It's not very cute. They're locked in their home together and starving. They're incredibly codependent. They go on a bit of a murder-and-cannibalism spree. They're weirdly incestuous. I really enjoyed it.
Sister-in-law: (laughs) Of course you did.
Riona: You know, when I posted about it online, multiple people said the same thing. 'Oh, of course you'd enjoy the cannibalism and incest game. I should have recommended you the cannibalism and incest game.'
Sister-in-law: You've got a brand, and I'm afraid this might be it.

It's nice to know I have exactly the same reputation offline that I do on here. Strongly reminded of the time I was having a meal with friends, and they were all talking about how terrible Reylo was. 'I like Reylo,' I announced, and Ginger buried their head in their hands and said, 'Oh, God, of course you do.'

By popular demand, here's another entry on Metaphor: ReFantazio! (When I say 'popular demand', I mean that

necrophilia told me to post this. It takes very little pressure to get me to talk about videogames.)

We're just about to leave Virga Island. No real plot spoilers below the cut, but you might want to avoid this entry if you don't want to know which characters have joined your party by this point.

( Notes on Metaphor: ReFantazio. )

I'm still absolutely loving this game. I hadn't even heard of it before the demo came out; it's been such a great surprise!

I was not at all psychologically prepared for how weird the release of the Silent Hill 2 remake would be.

The original Silent Hill 2 permanently rewired my psyche when I was sixteen. It's responsible for half my taste in fiction. So many of the characters I love, so many of the things I've written, they can all be traced back to James Sunderland. I have been insane about this specific fictional character for twenty years.

And suddenly he's everywhere! Suddenly everyone is talking about this character who was wildly, catastrophically formative for me!

I haven't played the remake yet, so I don't know whether it will click for me! Whether it does or not, though, it's great to see a brand new generation of gamers falling into the pit I've lived in for so long. Welcome to the world of Being Weird About James Sunderland. Here's to the next twenty years.

This morning, I saw that

hamsterwoman had posted a collection of character-specific meme questions, and this seemed like a great opportunity to express some of the feelings I have about this disaster of a fictional man.

There are full-game spoilers for Silent Hill 2 below the cut. As I haven't played the remake, I'm speaking about the James of the original game; I'll be interested to learn how similar or different the remake James feels!

( Spoilers for Silent Hill 2. )

Tem, Ginger and I have been watching a Let's Play of the first Silent Hill game. After the awkwardly voiced first conversation between Harry and Dahlia:

Riona: You see, my big concern about the Silent Hill 2 remake is...
Tem: ...what if the voice acting is too good?
Riona: Exactly! It won't be the same with actual professional voice actors.
Tem: These characters aren't supposed to be voiced by people who know what they're doing!
Riona: The awkward voice acting between James and Angela really gets across the fact that these characters are trying to have a conversation while barely being capable of registering the fact that anyone else exists. Their interactions feel deeply weird, and they should, because these characters are not normal.
(pause)
Riona: And I realise I'm being the worst sort of fan here. Trying to explain why a game's shortcomings are actually good and important. I got so annoyed with people going 'have you considered it's actually a good thing you can't pause in Bloodborne?'

The 'Could I be housemates with this character?' question reminded me of a Tumblr post I saw a few weeks ago. It said, paraphrased, 'Think of a fictional character. You now live with them, in their living situation, for the rest of your life. How are you doing?'

Very unfortunately, my first thought was Light Yagami of Death Note.

There are technically worse people to live with. Light would be tidy, he'd be polite on the surface, he'd be absent most of the time, and he wouldn't try to hit on me. But our cohabitation would be inconvenient for him, so I’d die in a mysterious accident the moment he thought he could get away with it, if Misa didn’t kill me first.

Tem and I have finished our replay of Master Detective Archives: Rain Code! Here are some more of our stupid conversations while playing, this time with full-game spoilers.

( Spoilers for Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. )

Having taken some time to consider the question of whether I ship Yuma and Shinigami, I have concluded that I prefer them as friends, but they're friends who have sex, obviously.

The ending hints very heavily at a sequel, and I really hope they make one; I'd love to play another of these games.

I'm enjoying looking through everyone's responses to the 'mistakes you noticed after posting fanfiction' poll! Please continue to share your shame so I can feel less alone.

I've just realised I should really have included a 'forgetting crucial worldbuilding details' option. I fell prey to this twice recently, when writing for In Stars and Time!

My first mistake: I needed to name a location in Vaugarde. Vaugarde is fantasy France, so I wanted something that sounded appropriately French. In the NaNo I wrote when I was sixteen, there was a location called the Endless Plains, so I named the place in the fic the Toujours Plains as a little nod to that; 'toujours' means 'always' or 'forever'.

A week later, I suddenly remembered that Vaugarde worships the concept of change. The idea of endlessness, of changelessness, of remaining the same: that's anathema. Why would a society like that name a place after the concept of forever? Does everyone in Vaugarde just really hate these goddamn plains?

My second mistake: I described the sky as 'a brilliant, vibrant mid-afternoon blue'. This is fine! Until you remember that In Stars and Time is set in a world where nobody can see colour. A reader pointed this one out, and I was mortified.

Tem and I are nearing the end of our Master Detective Archives: Rain Code replay. Here are some more notes from our adventures with this silly game.

Shinigami: I don't smell any corpses. I thought there'd be some around here.
Yuma: Of course not!
Tem: Of corpse not.

One of Yuma's voice clips is just 'what do??' and it's extremely funny.

Having taken a wrong turn, I was cornered by Guillaume and the Peacekeepers. 'Let's dunk his head in the river and suck the water out through his ass,' Guillaume proposed: a colourful threat that I am recording mainly so I won't be the only one haunted by the mental image.

When Yuma is arrested and panicking:

Yuma: Shinigami, what do I do?
Shinigami: I must admit, seeing you so pitiful is nice. I'm gonna stare at you for a while.
Riona: Shinigami truly speaks for us all.

In Danganronpa, if you max out your relationship with a character, you receive that character's underpants. A part of me is now conditioned to expect underpants whenever I bond with characters in other games.

Shinigami: Master, you and Yakou have formed the ultimate bond together.
Riona: Well, where are his fucking underpants, then?

The rest of my notes are spoilery, so I'll share those once we've finished this replay!

Tem and I have been replaying Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. This game is extremely silly and horny, it's filled with characters named things like 'Zilch Alexander' and 'Yomi Hellsmile', and we act like idiots when we play it, which I feel is very much the way it was meant to be played.

Yuma: I'm Yuma Kokohead!
(The name 'Yuma Kokohead' zooms past Yuma in large letters, in slow motion.)
Tem: That's what happened to me when I changed my name.
Riona: To Yuma Kokohead.
Tem: Yes. Legally, in this country, if you change your name, it has to be to Yuma Kokohead.

One of the characters is named Pucci, pronounced 'Poochie'.

Pucci: Names are meaningless.
Riona: If I were called Poochie, I would probably also convince myself that names were meaningless.
Tem: I'd probably just change my name.
Riona and Tem: To Yuma Kokohead.

Zange: I'm Zange Eraser.
Riona: Oh, no, he's going to erase all our Zanges!

Yuma is so endearing. I love that his defining quality as a character is being a sub. He has a big crush on everyone he works with, and it's great.

We-as-Yuma gained some Detective Points, or DP.

Riona: I don't remember why we want DP.
(pause)
Tem: I mean...

Culprit: Your investigation isn't worth shit!
Tem: Well, that's not very nice.
Riona: Yuma's a good boy!
Tem: Yuma's a good boy! Don't be mean to him! Look at his little face; he's so keen.

At the end of every Mystery Labyrinth, Shinigami grows to enormous size and engulfs Yuma's head in her mouth, because this game likes to cram as many fetishes as it can get away with into every moment.

Tem: I don't know how to say this in a way you're not going to make fun of me for. (pause) But, if I could grow to fifty feet tall, I would also put people in my mouth. I wouldn't eat them, but I think it would be funny to threaten to eat them. This is not a sex thing, I want to clarify.
(I listen in silence, nod, and pick up my phone so I can write down what Tem just said for this journal entry.)
Tem: Yes, I thought you would do that. I'm vulnerable in front of you, and what do I get in return? Mockery.

(EDIT: Tem just stormed into my room and declared, 'I showed that exchange to Rei, and Rei agrees with me. Rei says this is your tall person privilege again.'

For context, Rei and Tem are each barely over five feet tall. It's possible that, at the towering height of 5'8", I cannot fully appreciate the appeal of growing to fifty feet.)

Tem has been showing me Star Trek: Deep Space 9! I have very little prior experience of Star Trek - I'd only previously seen a handful of original series episodes and the 2009 film - so this is an interesting experience.

I'm not currently experiencing any desire to jump into the DS9 fandom, but I am enjoying the show. We're in early season five; we've just seen 'Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places'. Here are some scattered thoughts:

- This show feels surprisingly contemporary! There are a few entertaining details, e.g. the fact that every document appears to be on a separate electronic tablet (very much in the vein of Red Dwarf's 'VHS tapes are triangular now, because it's the future!'), but it rarely feels dated. It also feels a lot more intentionally homoerotic than I tend to expect of shows from the nineties!

- Sisko is probably my favourite character. I really like his relationship with Jake, and how much he cares for his crew, and the insubordinate streak he has to keep carefully masked with surface courtesy in his position as the station's commander.

- I really enjoy the friendship between Sisko and Dax, but also I sort of ship them a little, largely because introducing a romantic or sexual element to their dynamic would be so deeply weird for Sisko. I just like it when characters are unsettled and confused by their own feelings!

- Nobody on this space station knows how to stand a normal distance from each other. This was also an issue on Lost, come to think of it: whenever two characters are in the same shot, it feels like they're about to make out. I say 'issue', but in fact I am absolutely not complaining.

- We started this watchthrough when I was very much in Death Note mode, so it was weird to learn that DS9 includes a character called Kira! Both DS9 Kira and Death Note Kira are strong believers in solving problems through the power of murder, too. ('Kira is so violent,' Tem commented, 'and she thinks that's morally bad of her, whereas I think it's morally cool of her.')

- I find it very funny that everyone's into Kira. Kira may not be the protagonist of the show itself, but she's the protagonist of a dating sim going on off to the side. Has anyone made a dating sim in which you play as Kira Nerys? Someone should.

If I played the hypothetical Kira dating sim, incidentally, I'd be most interested in pursuing the Odo route (Odo's crush on her is very sad and sweet), the Gul Dukat route (their 'mutual hostility, but also Dukat is really into her' dynamic is incredible), and the O'Brien threesome route.

- I'm going to linger on the subject of a Kira/Miles/Keiko threesome, because Kira being pregnant with Miles and Keiko's child is the storyline that finally made me go 'okay, I have to write an entry about this show now'. The show dealing with the real-life pregnancy of Kira's actor by transferring Miles and Keiko's foetus into Kira's womb: insane, incredible, I could never come up with such a stroke of genius. And then Kira moves into the O'Briens' quarters!

- I mentioned earlier that I love characters being unsettled and confused by their own feelings, and 'Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places' was iiiiiincredible for that. Miles and Kira having weird feelings about each other in their already very weird 'cohabiting while she's carrying his child' situation absolutely delighted me. Perfect episode.

Tem: DS9 is the Star Trek where I'd be least surprised to learn that all the main characters had had an orgy.
Ginger: Sisko doesn't seem as horny as the others.
Riona: But he'd still be part of the orgy, I think. He wouldn't cry if he missed out on it, in the way Bashir would, but he'd be up for getting involved.
Ginger: Oh, wow, Bashir would be heartbroken. You should write the fic where everyone except Bashir has an orgy, and then Bashir finds out.
Tem: No! That would be so sad! You can only write it if it ends with everyone making up for it with a gangbang focused on Bashir.

Rei wandered into the room while Tem and I were playing Final Fantasy XIII. I was attacked by a pack of Gorgonopsids.

Rei: Wow. That is a bodacious monster. Thicc. Who decided to give it such a curvaceous butt?
(Rei continues in this vein until the Gorgonopsids take me down and I get a game over.)
Riona: They killed me. It's because you wouldn't stop talking about their butts.

Rei was unsympathetic, by which I mean they laughed at me for a full thirty seconds.

Shortly afterwards, we spotted an Adamantoise.

Tem: Oh, that's a big boy! A friend?
Riona: It'll have to be our friend, because I'm definitely not strong enough to fight it.
Rei: Hold still so I can get a look at its butt.
(I oblige.)
Rei: Hmm. It doesn't really have an impressive ass.
Riona: It definitely has a substantial ass.
Rei: Well, yeah, but just having a big ass because you're a big thing doesn't mean you have a big ass, you know?

While I nervously tried to avoid the nearby Behemoths:

Rei: Let me see their butts.
Riona: It's foggy. And, if I get too close, they'll kill me.
Rei: How am I supposed to rate the asses of the monsters if you won't let me see the monsters' asses?

We came across a couple of the little round sheep. I pointed them out to Tem, who was suitably delighted; xe loves the sheep of Final Fantasy XIII, as xe should, because they're adorable. Unfortunately, it turned out that even non-monsters weren't safe from Rei's rating system.

Rei: Those don't have butts. Or, rather, they're all butt.
Tem: You're being mean to my friends.

Just before posting this entry, I paid a visit to Tem's room.

Riona: Tem! Would you like to express any thoughts on Final Fantasy XIII, so my entry about it isn't just Rei's posterior rating system?
Tem: I like the sheep.
Riona: Thank you. I knew I could count on you.
Tem: But not for butt-related reasons. I want that to be clear.
Riona: Got it. I'll be sure to clarify.
Tem: I have a pure and innocent love for them. The sort of love a mother might have.

As I descended the stairs to finish writing this, Tem shouted 'TELL YOUR FRIENDS' after me.

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