Trabia Garden

Seeing Monoursa every time I come to the front page of my journal is starting to make me feel very uncomfortable, and so I am compelled to push it down with an entry. Unfortunately, this entry contains equally horrible speculation on what might happen in chapter four of Dangan Ronpa. But, you know, at least it's under a cut!

Spoilers up to yesterday's update of the Let's Play, update 72.


( Dangan Ronpa: it's essentially baseless prediction time! )


I've been worrying, inevitably, about how I would cope in Dangan Ronpa. Well, 'badly', of course, but more specifically than that. I say 'worrying' rather than 'wondering' because I actually find myself getting quite anxious about my inability to come up with a good plan for this scenario. Riona, you are highly unlikely to be locked in a school by a sadistic teddy bear that wants you to murder your peers. All else aside, why would Hope's Peak Academy select you? You're not a high-school student. Even if you were, what would your title be: Super High-school Level Ill-advised Pokémon Crossover Writer?

My first thought was that I'd probably just squirrel away as much food as I could and lock myself in my room. On further consideration, though, survival is about more than just not being murdered: it's also about being able to catch the killer when murders are committed. If the other captives don't know what you're like, if as far as they know you haven't formed any attachments to anyone else, you'll look suspicious. If they conclude that you're the murderer when you're not, everyone dies.

So I suppose the thing to do is to stay, as far as possible, in the company of at least two people you're reasonably confident won't try to kill you. I think Asahina and Chihiro are the ones I'd be quickest to trust. Anyone who wanted to murder you would have two options: kill you in so subtle a way that your companions wouldn't realise who did it, or kill all three of you. All of you become very inconvenient to target. (The 'at least two', of course, is in case you've misjudged one of your companions.)

I am definitely thinking too much about this.


I was just poking through my bookmarks, seeing whether I had anything to add to this entry for people who haven't yet fallen into the fabulous pit of despair that is Dangan Ronpa, and discovered that at some point I felt the need to bookmark a video in which the little round sheep of Final Fantasy XIII sit around and occasionally go 'baa'. The video is HD and thirty-five minutes long. All right, then.

I don't think the sheep video is really entry material. Sorry, people who aren't reading Dangan Ronpa: I've failed you.

I am fairly certain that the guy who plays Jake in the Mentalist episode 'Carnelian, Inc.' also plays Charles Westmoreland in Prison Break. Lisbon's actress, of course, plays Veronica in Prison Break. Sadly, whilst I absolutely love Lisbon and Westmoreland, I'm not terribly interested in Jake or Veronica, so I am having trouble coming up with stupid Prison Break/The Mentalist crossovers based on their shared actors. They can't possibly not be crossed over! They share two actors! SURELY THERE IS SOME SORT OF RULE ABOUT THIS.


( And more on The Mentalist. Thoughts on the episodes 'Carnelian, Inc.' and 'Russet Potatoes'. )


I really like that Jane says 'Thank you' whenever anyone does something for him. People are generally not polite enough in television land! (Of course, there's probably a touch of calculation about it, making people feel that their helpfulness is recognised and so making them subconsciously more inclined to be helpful in the future, but it's still an aspect of his behaviour that I like very much.)

The 'Writer's Block' question on the front page is asking me with which fictional character I would most like to go on a date. Right now, I suppose my answer would have to be 'the entire CBI'. The only scenario I can really envision for that is 'I'm a murder suspect in California and they arrest me', though, which would be sort of a rubbish date. Perhaps just Jane, then, and we can go to a restaurant and he can show off by reading my body language, and then I can give him a much-needed hug, which of course will have been my secret motive for the date all along. (He'll have worked out my 'secret motive' two minutes into it, of course, but he won't say anything.)

IT IS TIME TO SHARE EMBARRASSING OLD FANFICTION. I shall start us off by quoting a few paragraphs from the Final Fantasy X self-insertion I wrote a few chapters of between the ages of thirteen and fourteen. Please join in by sharing your own shame-inducing fanfiction in the comments, because otherwise I'm just going to hide in a corner for ever.

THE STORY SO FAR: Riona, who has an embarrassingly large crush on Tidus (ACTUAL QUOTE: She hit the ‘New Game’ button, and watched as the opening scene played out. She grinned to herself at the close-up of Tidus on the cliff. Wow, he was a bishounen (bolding of appalling fangirl Japanese-use mine)), has just woken up in Zanarkand at the beginning of Final Fantasy X, having been ~mysteriously transported~ into the game. Her reaction to this is essentially 'I've been sucked into the videogame I was playing? How peculiar. OH MAN I'D BETTER WARN DREAMY TIDUS ABOUT SIN.' (Come to think of it, I never did learn to write realistic reactions to clearly absurd events. But I like to think I'm at least a little better than 'Huh, I'm in Zanarkand. Wonder how that happened. Well, as I'm here, better go and warn a fictional character about the upcoming fictional disaster.')

Below the cut, you may see Riona's exceedingly smooth attempt at telling Tidus what is about to happen. I have made no changes to it, much though I'd like to.

( In Which Riona Makes A Fool Of Herself. And Overuses Ellipses. And 'Almost Melts', Apparently. )

SMOOTH. What worries me is that I can actually see myself behaving like this today.

(This is by no means the worst thing in my fanfiction folder - it's not even the worst part of this fic; later on you'll find the line 'Agony beyond anything I have ever felt!' used completely seriously, exclamation mark and all - but it's the worst I can actually bring myself to show you. WHY THE CRUSH ON TIDUS, SERIOUSLY.)