Trabia Garden

Surprise: I'm still capable of making entries about things that aren't Kingdom Hearts! I've now watched the Buffy episodes 'What's My Line?' and 'Ted'.

Angel breaks into Buffy's room to hold her soft toys? This is incredible.

I love that Angel, having been dragged from his cage (there seem to be a lot of convenient cages around Sunnydale) and handed over to Spike, has his shirt open for absolutely no reason.

There were some horrible fanfiction scenarios springing to mind when Spike and Drusilla had Angel captive, and I want all of them. For a moment I really thought that Spike and Drusilla were going to bang while Angel was tied up in the corner of the room.

Buffy and Kendra constantly clashing is fun. And Buffy is envious of how Kendra and Giles are sparking off each other!

I had not previously identified any sort of Xander/Cordelia direction in the show and was very confused when they started making out. (Buffy and Kendra, meanwhile, have a load of sexual tension and yet tragically fail to resolve it.)

Huh. I evidently misread the earlier scene between Spike and Drusilla; I thought she was asking whether she could toy sexually with Angel and he was going 'oh, fine, I suppose,' but Spike is later furious at the suggestion that it may have been sexual.

'You're having parental issues! You're having parental issues! ...what? Sigmund Freud would have said the same thing.' I don't always get along with you, Xander, but you do have some great lines.

Buffy finishing Joyce's 'it's not exactly like men beat down the door when you're a single parent' line, with the implication that this is something she hears a lot from her mother, is an upsetting detail. Poor Buffy.

'Ted' is such a horrifying episode, on so many levels. I was spoiled for the staircase event, but I wasn't prepared for how powerfully awful it was to watch.

I feel that in some ways 'Ted' took the easy way out; the first half was such a visceral story of human horror, and then it was resolved with 'oh, actually it was a different type of horror all along and Buffy hasn't crossed a moral line.' The repercussions could have been so interesting! But the first half was still very, very strong.


Switching topics entirely: oh, wow, nothing else in Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia or indeed any videogame will ever beat the revelation that Laguna, on account of his short-lived acting career, is Seifer's hero. Laguna is the reason Seifer started using a gunblade. This is incredible. I'm so happy.

Looking back at the scene of Laguna filming in Final Fantasy VIII: Seifer took his fighting stance from Laguna's performance! My heart is exploding.

Final Fantasy VIII is my most beloved game in the world, and it's so magical to learn this detail about it now, seventeen years after I played it for the first time. Seifer's so determined to be cool! Laguna is such a loser! And he was Seifer's inspiration! I love both of these useless characters.

Pokémon Go was the only mobile game I'd previously played, but jecca_mehlota mentioned Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, and I thought I'd check it out. It's not that heavy on the story - it's designed to be consumed in small bursts, so both cutscenes and battles are brief - but it does have some cute interactions between assorted Final Fantasy characters, and characters from different Final Fantasy games interacting is something I have a huge weakness for. Here are some things I've liked:

- Cloud reminds Sazh of Lightning. 'Looks like other worlds also have their fair share of strongheaded soldiers who take on way too much alone.'

- Hope giving Vivi reassurance and courage and then being taken aback when Vivi says 'thanks, mister!' (Hope, being fourteen, probably isn't used to being called 'mister'; Vivi, being nine, probably doesn't think anything of addressing him that way.)

- Vaan running up to go HEY YOU GUYS HAVE A REALLY COOL AIRSHIP and Sazh going 'finally someone gets it!'

- 'I don't like the look of you. You remind me too much of... someone I know,' Seifer says to Cloud.

- SEIFER WANTS TO BE YUNA'S KNIGHT. You should have been born in the Final Fantasy X universe, Seifer; being a guardian would really suit you! Well, I mean, you'd like the idea of it. You wouldn't necessarily be good at it. But you'd like the idea.

- Everyone goes 'hey, Seifer, come with us and save the world' and Seifer goes 'no, screw you, I'm going on ahead of you and I'm going to save the world first.' Seifer's the worst and I love him.

- Zidane: (speaking of Yuffie) Must've been hard to work with someone as flighty and brash as her.
Cloud: Yeah. She's just like you.

A story detail I found interesting: they come across ruins and assume people had to have lived here at some point, and Mog explains that, no, this world was constructed based on their various worlds, so these ruins were just... built as ruins, without history behind them. There's something fascinatingly creepy about that.


The Kingdom Hearts Let's Play we've been watching as a household has just hit 358/2 Days, and my housemates can't get over the fact that every member of Organization XIII seems to be flirting non-stop with Roxas.

Ginger: It's not helping that the 'dialogue advancement' icon is a literal fucking heart.
Axel: (to Roxas) You have to look around. Sometimes what you're after is sitting right under your nose.
Rei and Ginger: OH COME ON.

Rei, who is gay and always on the lookout for queer fiction, is increasingly outraged that the Kingdom Hearts series is not considered a staple of gay culture. 'Nobody ever told me how gay these games are! You've all failed me!'