How did I end up here?
HOW DID I END UP HERE?!?!?
It's the end. The END.
I mean, I knew this was coming. I knew I was going to end it with a wedding. I've known that for five years. Okay, maybe four.
BUT I PLANNED THIS OUT FOUR YEARS AGO.
I knew, that the end of everything, I would end it with a wedding. And that Xigbar would crash it. But that was all I knew. Rar and I joked about it. Because after AtP, when Xigbar was still alive, I joked that he'd come back and crash the wedding at the end of the next one.
Because I'd only ever planned on writing two.
Look at me now, I've written four. Five if you include Can't Escape. (I don't count Plan Beta as anything but drabbles and fun experiments in plot.)
When I sat down and outlined Remnants, when I had a pretty solid idea of who my main enemies were (how Xehanort was back, what was going on with Larxene and Marluxia, what Xigbar was up to), I planned it out through the end. Yeah, I changed out a couple of worlds here and there, electing to include Corona and Arendelle instead of recycling Atlantica and Beast's Castle. But I knew there'd be a wedding.
Initially, and I might have said this before, but I might not have, it was supposed to be Donald and Daisy's wedding. Because they were the only couple who I figured would be getting married. (I hadn't really considered much about the FF characters. I had always entertained the thought of continuing on and writing FF7 as if the KH characters might be a part. But that got scrapped sometime when I was writing the prequel and struggled to rewrite FF8 and KH1-2 and make them interesting.)
For the record, I changed the wedding-to-be-crashed to Aerith and Zack's wedding about when I realized Zack was going to propose to Aerith. I liked the way it was going to flow. Let's see, do I still have the original conversation with rar...
Oh look, I do! And it involves Cloud/Hades stuff as well. Bonus!
rar: i feel like us discussing potential Cloud and Hades ideas requires something more in depth than tumblr, so I'm messaging you
magik: probably
rar: I mean i still replied to you on tumblr but idk if we need to go more in depth
rar: anyway i'm cool with you using the idea {for Hades to send hellhounds after Cloud}
magik: woo! i just think... hades is the type to hold a grudge and Cloud did blow him off
rar: yeah exactly
magik: and now that Hades doesn't have Maleficent in his hair and pretty soon, he won't have Disney Castle, either
rar: yup
magik: and especially if Cloud shows back up in Olympus, Hades will be reminded of his grudge
rar: yuuuuuuuuup especially since he's LOOKING for like something to do or someone to use now that his plans have failed, right?
magik: yeah. i am loving this Cloud arc that i'm putting together. Cloud'll have to deal with Heartless and hell-hounds
rar: oh yeah
magik: because while Hades may be bound to Olympus, his hell-hounds won't be
rar: nooope they won't
So that's that... and here's some stuff as to other characters that were getting included
magik: and of course, i'm going to incorporate Denzel here pretty soon
rar: OOH!
magik: which may have nothing to do with the hell-hounds
rar: of course
magik: and i may have to drag vincent in because i love this line i just got: "These ones aren't too bad, some of them have three heads." "A three headed dog needs a three barrelled gun"
rar: that's perf, you may have to drag vincent in... just for that
magik: yeah
And now for the wedding part:
magik: i'm contemplating Zerith disappearing for a bit
rar: ye?
magik: and then coming back and they've actually eloped... and everyone's all like...
rar: AHA
magik: "And I wasn't invited?"
rar: man I feel like Aerith would've wanted a ceremony tho... tho maybe not? mabye she is the kind of person who'd wanna not make a big deal out of it?
magik: i think that's exactly it. though at the same time... UGGGG everyone's just geting married at the same time!!! aslgdkasdgh;
rar: IDK??? WHAT TO DO
magik: what if... i could replace donald and daisy's wedding for Zack and Aerith's....
rar: you could maybe do that
magik: their wedding was technically a place-holder... i just needed a huge ceremony...
rar: mmm
magik: the thing with donald/daisy was that i wasn't going to write the ceremony... just the reception... i could do that still with zerith
rar: you could
magik: aerith would alternate between wanting everyone in the ceremony and thus she'd have no one in the audience
rar: she would
magik: or only having one person in the ceremony so that there could be an audience... and zack's just like "I don't care, I could marry you on the moon with one witness and the justice and i'd be happy"
rar: he would
magik: hmm... if i did that... and xiggy crashed it i... heh... if he actually showed up during the ceremony... i think Aerith herself would murder him
rar: uhoh... that's not a good thing?
magik: it's amusing
rar: but probably not good for your plot
magik: honestly... it's like having your riku murder larxene... just so long as there's a remnant left to vessel or not to vessel sora, i'm good
Ima pause there for a second... This was EARLY in the planning stages. I was still writing the Disney Castle sequence. Pretty sure Rar was still working on Dead Inside. We hadn't begun to write the Larxene Sequence. Rar also didn't know all of my plot yet, as you'll soon see....
magik: honestly tho, i think xiggy would just sit in the back because "why would i want to interrupt a show like that?" {which got changed to: "Snuck in quietly and didn't want to ruin the show. Good show, by the way! Wouldn't interrupt that for the Worlds!"}
rar: that's good. and he probably would. (everyone would notice tho) also you're norting Sora???
magik: he could cloak himself. idk about norting him yet
rar: oh you did say "to not or not vessel"
magik: maybe there's a way xigbar could mask the smell of darkness that lingers
rar: (I missed it) yeah maybe?? he'd probably have to... tho i think canon says the org cloaks help hide your "scent" in general but whether or not that's true
magik: darn Riku and his sense of smell
rar: yeah unfortunately i can't remember if--oh yeah it wouldn't work... he definitely says "you reek of darkness" to one of the Org members (i think Vexen ha) and they were wearing the cloak so... the cloak wouldn't do it
magik: he'd have to have a special cloak
rar: yeah
magik: or something like it... some sort of spell he bought off the blackmarket labelled with "protection" so it would end up blending with the ones that Aerith and Rinoa throw up
I realize now that Xigbar totally still managed to sneak in and see the wedding and no one noticed him. Probably because everyone was too distracted. But I was still in the planning stages at the time of this conversation. I also will mention that at this point, I was still anticipating that the wedding would happen and then I'd nort Sora (assuming I norted Sora, which I did end up doing obviously). Because the plan was: wedding, Xigbar fight, Xehanort fight where Sora gets Norted. I changed it to Sora getting Norted beforehand, then six months later wedding, Xigbar warning, and Xehanort fight.
magik: Rinoa: "you're the bride, stahp!" Aerith: I'm not letting anything happen to my wedding!"
rar: yeah this could work
magik: but anyway... i think i like this idea
I'm actually gonna stop talking/ranting/reposting convos at the moment. This post is getting long and I have more to say about the wedding that's gonna take more than one post apparently. I'll come back tomorrow and post more, yeah?
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Sunday, December 14, 2014
The World that Never Was (Chapters 18-24)
Darn, broke the 8 chapter an arc thing. (It wasn't going to last anyway.)
The World That Never Was arc was to wrap up a few more things started in Betwixt and Between (and referenced in Can't Escape) that (again) didn't get finished. Mostly it was the large amount of darkness that was running rampant around, and the fact that TWTNW also had a DCP running. That Larxene managed to stop. Go her. Except, don't root for her.
Plus, I had to have somewhere that Larxene and Marluxia had been camping out that no one's noticed. And they're still around and need to be dealt with. Unlike Luxord and Demyx, who have basically turned good and can just continue doing what they're doing.
Organization XIII roll-call!
-Xemnas (Xehanort): Oh look, blasted little Remnants running around.
-Xigbar: Location unknown
-Xaldin: Deceased as of the Badlands in AtP by Sora's hand
-Vexen: MIA--currently running around rar's universe
-Lexaeus: Killed by Xehanort in Hollow Bastion when the Org had control of the castle
-Zexion (Ienzo): Running a shop in Hollow Bastion town
-Saix: Ruined by his own darkness (not helped by Xehanort's) at the end of AtP in Castle Oblivion
-Axel: With Roxas and Xion. Get it memorized.
-Demyx (The Great Demetrius): Running around doing concerts on his sitar
-Luxord: He's Demyx's manager
-Marluxia: Causing trouble
-Larxene: Causing trouble
-Roxas: Does this even count?
-Xion: See above.
Meanwhile, Aqua, Terra, and Ven are trying to track down pieces of Xehanort's past. Starting in Castle Oblivion clearly wasn't a bad idea. Especially because Aqua at this point knows that it was once the Land of Departure and it's a pretty safe bet that even if I didn't write it in (I can't find it, but I'm also not looking terribly hard) that she told Terra and Ven that they're walking around their home. Oh wait, she did. Because Ven wouldn't be asking about their rooms otherwise. This particular mission is them getting the remainder of the journals. And then determining that they need to go to TWTNW because Terra thinks he can get into Xemnas' bedroom.
And them of course they run into a Remnant. But the Remnant didn't bother them. (This won't be the first time that the Remnant's like... eh, I'll bother you later.) He wants to be ready to make a vessel. And when he ran into the three of them, he really was just messing with them. And trying to plant seeds of hopelessness. Because those are important.
Besides, then he went to go and try and make a vessel out of Roxas. Not that that worked. Roxas was a little winded, but no major damage was done.
Meanwhile, Cloud and Tifa are in Midgar, getting maintenance done on Cloud's bike. I love the whole scene of Cloud and Tifa in the diner. With Zack calling them and everything. And then they find Denzel. Because I wanted so bad to include Denzel (I hinted to it in the Prequel.) And I just love how Cloud and Tifa just pick Denzel up and are like "nope, keeping you." I kind of modeled it after how Cloud finds Denzel in Advent Children, but obviously this isn't Aerith's church (Aerith doesn't really have a church in KH canon, the one in Traverse Town is probably the closest, but hey.)
Then we've got the journals. In which Xigbar's journal is actually the most useful. Because he's the one that remembers everything. I believe that Xehanort's brain is a bit holey. But Xehanort was really good at starting to make clones. He was super successful with Xigbar and Saix--especially after Saix was marked as a recursant.
And then we get Cloud and Tifa returning to Hollow Bastion with Denzel and everyone being like "no one wants to call Aerith, so let's deal with this without her here because she needs a vacation gosh darnit" But it's cool, they managed. Plus, because it's mako-poisoning, Aerith actually has less experience with that because she didn't grow up anywhere near Shinra. Cloud, Tifa, and Zack did. Fun fact.
Things I'm super okay with:
-Xion flipping the lights on and off in the gummi ship to wake people up
-How everyone wakes everyone up in general
-Riku's fierce protectiveness of Namine regarding Larxene
-Xion knowing how to break into nearly everyone's rooms
-Demyx's door
-Finding Larxene's journal in a book about torture
-Roxas showing off against Neoshadows
-Xion and Roxas using each other's Keyblades periodically
-Axel saying that Xehanort was rude for going after Roxas' heart
-The FF7 Character's interactions with each other.
-Xigbar realizing that he's part Xehanort
-Saix's behavior after being marked as a recursant
The World That Never Was arc was to wrap up a few more things started in Betwixt and Between (and referenced in Can't Escape) that (again) didn't get finished. Mostly it was the large amount of darkness that was running rampant around, and the fact that TWTNW also had a DCP running. That Larxene managed to stop. Go her. Except, don't root for her.
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Organization XIII roll-call!
-Xemnas (Xehanort): Oh look, blasted little Remnants running around.
-Xigbar: Location unknown
-Xaldin: Deceased as of the Badlands in AtP by Sora's hand
-Vexen: MIA--currently running around rar's universe
-Lexaeus: Killed by Xehanort in Hollow Bastion when the Org had control of the castle
-Zexion (Ienzo): Running a shop in Hollow Bastion town
-Saix: Ruined by his own darkness (not helped by Xehanort's) at the end of AtP in Castle Oblivion
-Axel: With Roxas and Xion. Get it memorized.
-Demyx (The Great Demetrius): Running around doing concerts on his sitar
-Luxord: He's Demyx's manager
-Marluxia: Causing trouble
-Larxene: Causing trouble
-Roxas: Does this even count?
-Xion: See above.
Meanwhile, Aqua, Terra, and Ven are trying to track down pieces of Xehanort's past. Starting in Castle Oblivion clearly wasn't a bad idea. Especially because Aqua at this point knows that it was once the Land of Departure and it's a pretty safe bet that even if I didn't write it in (I can't find it, but I'm also not looking terribly hard) that she told Terra and Ven that they're walking around their home. Oh wait, she did. Because Ven wouldn't be asking about their rooms otherwise. This particular mission is them getting the remainder of the journals. And then determining that they need to go to TWTNW because Terra thinks he can get into Xemnas' bedroom.
And them of course they run into a Remnant. But the Remnant didn't bother them. (This won't be the first time that the Remnant's like... eh, I'll bother you later.) He wants to be ready to make a vessel. And when he ran into the three of them, he really was just messing with them. And trying to plant seeds of hopelessness. Because those are important.
Besides, then he went to go and try and make a vessel out of Roxas. Not that that worked. Roxas was a little winded, but no major damage was done.
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| from Advent Children Compete |
Then we've got the journals. In which Xigbar's journal is actually the most useful. Because he's the one that remembers everything. I believe that Xehanort's brain is a bit holey. But Xehanort was really good at starting to make clones. He was super successful with Xigbar and Saix--especially after Saix was marked as a recursant.
And then we get Cloud and Tifa returning to Hollow Bastion with Denzel and everyone being like "no one wants to call Aerith, so let's deal with this without her here because she needs a vacation gosh darnit" But it's cool, they managed. Plus, because it's mako-poisoning, Aerith actually has less experience with that because she didn't grow up anywhere near Shinra. Cloud, Tifa, and Zack did. Fun fact.
Things I'm super okay with:
-Xion flipping the lights on and off in the gummi ship to wake people up
-How everyone wakes everyone up in general
-Riku's fierce protectiveness of Namine regarding Larxene
-Xion knowing how to break into nearly everyone's rooms
-Demyx's door
-Finding Larxene's journal in a book about torture
-Roxas showing off against Neoshadows
-Xion and Roxas using each other's Keyblades periodically
-Axel saying that Xehanort was rude for going after Roxas' heart
-The FF7 Character's interactions with each other.
-Xigbar realizing that he's part Xehanort
-Saix's behavior after being marked as a recursant
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Overall Post about the Prequel
Yeah, I know, no one's seen me in nearly a year. Because my life got really crazy this time last year only beginning with my last semester college and deciding to move across the country after graduation. So, what ended up happening, is I didn't do posts for the last third of the Prequel.
But these are my thoughts (six months after officially completing it.)
The Prequel was actually really fun to write. I wish I had as much time as rar has to make character pages and all that stuff for all of her characters. But I don't have the time. (So enough of your lamenting magik, get on with it!) So yeah, the Prequel was really fun to write. It was fun getting to play with the cast as they grew up and became the characters they are in AtP etc. The Prequel made me really get a handle on the Squinoa and Zerith relationships for sure. It also made me fall in love with Shera and really have an idea of how Sephiroth was related to Cloud.
The last chapter (or epilogue) of the Prequel that I posted back in June is (as you've probably already noticed) nearly the same as the first chapter (or prologue) of Remnants. That was intentional and not because I was being lazy. I wanted there to be a very specific tie between the two. It brings together the FF and KH casts beautifully. Leon, Aerith, Yuffie, Kairi, and Axel are all looking over a place that all of them had called home at one point or another (intentional.) Not that the latter two refer to it as home anymore. But Kairi and Axel still want to help restore Hollow Bastion just as much as the others.
The chapter was short and a preview of what was to come, the giant battle of Hollow Bastion that I'd been hinting at since Betwixt and Between but had yet to follow through with. And I also got in a cute line of Leon telling Aerith that she needs to sleep. Like the brother he is to her. *snickers*
I think those are all my thoughts at the moment. I hope everyone is having a great time of year! I know this time of year can be stressful to students. So, hang in there!
I'll have a few more posts over the next few weeks and as I finish up Remnants. I won't do a post every chapter, but every major World I suppose.
Have a good day everyone!
But these are my thoughts (six months after officially completing it.)
The Prequel was actually really fun to write. I wish I had as much time as rar has to make character pages and all that stuff for all of her characters. But I don't have the time. (So enough of your lamenting magik, get on with it!) So yeah, the Prequel was really fun to write. It was fun getting to play with the cast as they grew up and became the characters they are in AtP etc. The Prequel made me really get a handle on the Squinoa and Zerith relationships for sure. It also made me fall in love with Shera and really have an idea of how Sephiroth was related to Cloud.
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| cosplay by CanisPanthera on dA |
The chapter was short and a preview of what was to come, the giant battle of Hollow Bastion that I'd been hinting at since Betwixt and Between but had yet to follow through with. And I also got in a cute line of Leon telling Aerith that she needs to sleep. Like the brother he is to her. *snickers*
I think those are all my thoughts at the moment. I hope everyone is having a great time of year! I know this time of year can be stressful to students. So, hang in there!
I'll have a few more posts over the next few weeks and as I finish up Remnants. I won't do a post every chapter, but every major World I suppose.
Have a good day everyone!
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Zack and Cloud (Prequel Ch49)
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Wow, my original outline for this is completely unhelpful for this. Literally, it's like "they're both loners who want to travel" "Zack remembers Aerith telling him to find a travelling buddy" "Cloud agrees hoping that a buddy will keep his darkness in check"
Which, while yes, all of those things happen... my original notes are super unhelpful.
Writing the chapter itself was very fun. I love these two goofballs.
I was having a conniption a while ago because Zack and Cloud hadn't met each other yet... but now they have! And I felt like throwing in all the Crisis Core references that I could as I wrote it. The bit where Cloud saves Zack from a monster (granted, he does this with a gun in the game) is something I'm fairly certain comes from the DMW. But the scene technically happens in Modeoheim. The scene where Cloud lacks money (munny) and Zack agrees to cover originates from a similar scene in Junon (except in that scene in the game, Cloud is also super airsick. Good thing he gets over that.) And then the third one, where they're talking about being country boys, that comes from the Modeoheim trip, too. But yeah, all the brotp Zack/Cloud feels.
Plus, Cloud's just giving me feels because he's freaking haunted right now and it's all the darkness' fault. Sigh. I could say it's Xehanort's fault... but that is a very very indirect thing. Heheh.
But yeah, now they can be friends and it's awesome!!
Okay, now for some more teaser quotes because I super like doing that at the moment:
"Why would you bring me here? Why would you ever bring me back here?"
"It's all Shinra's fault, too!"
"Hey, that's my sword."
"Does he have super strength or something?"
"Writing to Zack?"
"No. Rinoa."
"Uh..."
"I wrote a letter to Zack this morning ... Now I'm writing a letter to Rinoa. You said that I could."
"Well, yeah, I just..."
"You writing one too?"
"Yeah..."
"Rinoa should be happy she's getting so much mail!"
And because of my obsession with VOCALOID videos...
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Wow, my original outline for this is completely unhelpful for this. Literally, it's like "they're both loners who want to travel" "Zack remembers Aerith telling him to find a travelling buddy" "Cloud agrees hoping that a buddy will keep his darkness in check"
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Writing the chapter itself was very fun. I love these two goofballs.
I was having a conniption a while ago because Zack and Cloud hadn't met each other yet... but now they have! And I felt like throwing in all the Crisis Core references that I could as I wrote it. The bit where Cloud saves Zack from a monster (granted, he does this with a gun in the game) is something I'm fairly certain comes from the DMW. But the scene technically happens in Modeoheim. The scene where Cloud lacks money (munny) and Zack agrees to cover originates from a similar scene in Junon (except in that scene in the game, Cloud is also super airsick. Good thing he gets over that.) And then the third one, where they're talking about being country boys, that comes from the Modeoheim trip, too. But yeah, all the brotp Zack/Cloud feels.
Plus, Cloud's just giving me feels because he's freaking haunted right now and it's all the darkness' fault. Sigh. I could say it's Xehanort's fault... but that is a very very indirect thing. Heheh.
But yeah, now they can be friends and it's awesome!!
Okay, now for some more teaser quotes because I super like doing that at the moment:
"Why would you bring me here? Why would you ever bring me back here?"
"It's all Shinra's fault, too!"
"Hey, that's my sword."
"Does he have super strength or something?"
"Writing to Zack?"
"No. Rinoa."
"Uh..."
"I wrote a letter to Zack this morning ... Now I'm writing a letter to Rinoa. You said that I could."
"Well, yeah, I just..."
"You writing one too?"
"Yeah..."
"Rinoa should be happy she's getting so much mail!"
And because of my obsession with VOCALOID videos...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Time Slipping Away (prequel ch43)
Excuse me while I set my feels aside from what I was writing to deal with the chapter that I posted yesterday. The only thing similar is the darkness, and that's an overarching theme. Heheh.
Chapter
No tumbl for this one guys. It just didn't happen. Everything moved so fast and I kept switching POVs to get the full story surrounding it. Plus, I repeated a few things to get all the viewpoints and... yeah...
The only thing that would have gotten tumbld would have been my feels on Rinoa's hysteric breakdown.
But let me back up for a second.
Anyone notice how where they are keeps changing in relationship to time? (End of Time, Time Compression, Sliver in the End of Time, Present Time) This motif will continue in the next chapter of this arc. Yup yup. I thought I was being clever.
Also, Rinoa basically stabs you in a knife with her feels. But that's not before Leon wrings your feels out because he's started to forget Rinoa. Which is totally something that happens in the ending video in the game. I just abbreviated it. Honestly, reading it over again, I think it makes it scarier, because it seems so sudden. He's forgotten someone very important to him. And he is stuck on a sliver of time, and he's got nowhere to go.
And then Rinoa (understandably) starts raving. It doesn't matter what Quistis or Edea tells her, she's not going to accept the fact that Leon could be gone. And when Quistis reminds her that the journey they took was bound to claim at least someone, Rinoa goes on about how she was the one it was supposed to have claimed, not anybody else, especially not Squall. KKBeckett puts it accurately when she says "oh my feels." Because "ugh feels!"
It kind of just blows my mind when I think about how someone could come to terms with their own death before they can come to terms with others. I mean, I am aware that it happens. But, all the same... yeah... special things, really.
As it is, I shan't say anything about where this is going. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Those of you who have read All the Pieces are lucky. Not because you know how it ends, but because you know that it ends. (If that makes sense muahahaha!).
So, other than that, I don't have anything to say. Most everything I have to say comes with the next chapter of this arc. So... I shall leave you with a video and bid you a nice day!
I love the animation done on this one by mike-inel.
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No tumbl for this one guys. It just didn't happen. Everything moved so fast and I kept switching POVs to get the full story surrounding it. Plus, I repeated a few things to get all the viewpoints and... yeah...
The only thing that would have gotten tumbld would have been my feels on Rinoa's hysteric breakdown.
But let me back up for a second.
Anyone notice how where they are keeps changing in relationship to time? (End of Time, Time Compression, Sliver in the End of Time, Present Time) This motif will continue in the next chapter of this arc. Yup yup. I thought I was being clever.
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| cosplay by leonhart cosplay |
And then Rinoa (understandably) starts raving. It doesn't matter what Quistis or Edea tells her, she's not going to accept the fact that Leon could be gone. And when Quistis reminds her that the journey they took was bound to claim at least someone, Rinoa goes on about how she was the one it was supposed to have claimed, not anybody else, especially not Squall. KKBeckett puts it accurately when she says "oh my feels." Because "ugh feels!"
It kind of just blows my mind when I think about how someone could come to terms with their own death before they can come to terms with others. I mean, I am aware that it happens. But, all the same... yeah... special things, really.
As it is, I shan't say anything about where this is going. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Those of you who have read All the Pieces are lucky. Not because you know how it ends, but because you know that it ends. (If that makes sense muahahaha!).
So, other than that, I don't have anything to say. Most everything I have to say comes with the next chapter of this arc. So... I shall leave you with a video and bid you a nice day!
I love the animation done on this one by mike-inel.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Epic Blog Title for the Chapter, Yeah? (ch 41)
Clearly I don't feel like being too imaginative on that one. :P
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Dude... writing a blog when you're distracted is actually super hard. Meh. Anyway. So, in short, yay! Rinoa's possessed again and Leon has to save her, again. (I'm awful, I know.)
Originally, before I determined that Ultimecia's consciousness would fight back, it was actually just going to be a darkness-consumed Rinoa, because Ultimecia's magic was so infused with darkness that it ended up in Rinoa. But then, when I determined that Adel was going to possess Rinoa, it occurred to me that if Adel could do that, Ultimecia could/would as well.
And so here we are.
Poor Leon. And the Cures don't do any good because darkness. (It's a well-known fact in mine and rar's universes that Cures just don't work when there's too much darkness... see... haha... *sobs* ... Zack's death...)
Potions, however, work! Rar and I had a whole conversation on this, how potions just help the body heal, and the body doesn't want the darkness there, so it pushes the darkness out. As opposed to Cures, which are magic and just fix things... but the darkness can cancel them out. I mean, if there's only a little darkness, say, one dark bullet from Xigbar, it won't be a problem. But completely darkness-infused wounds, or a darkness-raging person... yeah, no, a Cure's not gonna work at all. Even if it's a Curasa.
Anyway, but Leon's gonna battle until someone dies (and hopefully it's Ultimecia.) Because Leon loves Rinoa and he admits this now. And Quistis isn't going to go down without a fight, either. So that was pretty fun to write.
I think, if I were to pick two favorite parts battle-wise, is when Quistis has Reflect on herself and it goes to Rinoa and Quistis just swears because she WARNED Leon about it, but then forgot it herself. And then the second is when Leon pulls the mega-potion out of his pocket and thanks Aerith and it works on Rinoa because Leon considers her an ally.
I'm also super a fan of the imagery of Leon holding Rinoa down, forcing her to get healed even though the battle is far from over. It's the tragedy-lover in me. I did the same thing in RE5 when you have to fight Jill when she's possessed. Yup. I'm a weirdo.
But, yeah, I think that's all I have to say on that note.
Have a completely unrelated video!
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Dude... writing a blog when you're distracted is actually super hard. Meh. Anyway. So, in short, yay! Rinoa's possessed again and Leon has to save her, again. (I'm awful, I know.)
Originally, before I determined that Ultimecia's consciousness would fight back, it was actually just going to be a darkness-consumed Rinoa, because Ultimecia's magic was so infused with darkness that it ended up in Rinoa. But then, when I determined that Adel was going to possess Rinoa, it occurred to me that if Adel could do that, Ultimecia could/would as well.
And so here we are.
Poor Leon. And the Cures don't do any good because darkness. (It's a well-known fact in mine and rar's universes that Cures just don't work when there's too much darkness... see... haha... *sobs* ... Zack's death...)
Potions, however, work! Rar and I had a whole conversation on this, how potions just help the body heal, and the body doesn't want the darkness there, so it pushes the darkness out. As opposed to Cures, which are magic and just fix things... but the darkness can cancel them out. I mean, if there's only a little darkness, say, one dark bullet from Xigbar, it won't be a problem. But completely darkness-infused wounds, or a darkness-raging person... yeah, no, a Cure's not gonna work at all. Even if it's a Curasa.
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I think, if I were to pick two favorite parts battle-wise, is when Quistis has Reflect on herself and it goes to Rinoa and Quistis just swears because she WARNED Leon about it, but then forgot it herself. And then the second is when Leon pulls the mega-potion out of his pocket and thanks Aerith and it works on Rinoa because Leon considers her an ally.
I'm also super a fan of the imagery of Leon holding Rinoa down, forcing her to get healed even though the battle is far from over. It's the tragedy-lover in me. I did the same thing in RE5 when you have to fight Jill when she's possessed. Yup. I'm a weirdo.
But, yeah, I think that's all I have to say on that note.
Have a completely unrelated video!
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Vincent's Magical Cloak (Prequel ch40)
Vincent probably hates me right now. His tag for me on tumblr is Vincent the Vampire. Heheh.
Link to the chapter
Link to the tumbl
Anyway, this chapter marks the beginning of Zack's healing, slash the end of the current giant feels fest that we were on. I say current, because I can almost promise you that there will be more fests of feels.
Anyway, I'm not quite sure when I decided that Tifa's father was just going to be this absent, uncaring, backwards-ish figure, that just sort of happened. According to everything I remember from the game/what I've read on the wiki, mostly he just didn't want Tifa hanging out with Cloud because he blamed Cloud for Tifa getting hurt on Mt. Nibel. I don't think he had any other fault than that. However, once I started writing him, he ended up being someone who didn't want Tifa to fight, partially because he doesn't want her to get hurt and partially because he doesn't think girls should fight. He also doesn't feel like it's proper for girls to go out on adventures so.... But Tifa had to drag him home for dinner to tell him she was leaving. Yeah...
It does go into my vast-array of parent portrayals, however. Like, Kairi's biological parents are just legit gone and her grandmother died, but she doesn't remember her real parents so her adopted ones on Destiny Islands are just her real parents. And they're kind and accepting, supportive people. Sora's parents are a bit spacey, I feel, but they love their son. Riku's dad's a dead-beat goner, but his mother sure stepped up to the plate and filled the role of amazing single parent.
Not sure where Aerith's dad ended up... did I declare him dead? I don't think he would have left... he probably passed away. Aerith's mom didn't survive Radiant Garden's plunge-- but she was a lovely woman before then! Leon's mom died in childbirth and his dad's a bit of an absentminded dude with a big sense of wanderlust. (He's at least redeemed himself.) Cloud's dad is dead but his mom is supportive (uh-oh, I seem to have a lot of supportive mom's... actually, Sora's mom's a worry-wort and his dad's the carefree one, still though...) I think it's 'cause Riku's mom is just going to support Riku to the ends of the earth anyway, Aerith's mom was just knowledgeable and nice and Cloud's mom was like, "go do your thing, have some food!" (Very much like Aerith, actually...) And then there's Tifa's dad, who wants to constrain her, but can't because Tifa's too darn stubborn. Oh, and then there's Zack's parents: his mother is a huge Zerith shipper and just wants Zack and Aerith to settle down somewhere and then there's Zack's dad who's totes supportive of his son going out and killing things. And then Rinoa's dad is (oh eff... maybe I'm not so diverse as I thought...) because Rinoa's dad is somewhat like Tifa's dad in the manner of controlling and her mother's dead so nothing can be done about that. However, Squeenix set me up for some of this stuff... So... yeah...
Anyway, rar and I spent like, half a morning discussing how long it would take to legit walk from one place to another, trying to extrapolate miles and terrain and whatnot. It involved quite the map search of FFVII. This was about when I was beating Crisis Core, too, so I was actually calculating things as it was ('cause Zack and Cloud on a motorcycle and all.)
But anyway, let's talk about Vincent for a bit, shall we? I have a lovely picture of him! (Excellent cosplay, actually).
I didn't actually include Vincent in the original outline. It was only when one of my readers asked if I was going to include him that I even thought about a cameo. And I figured this would be a great opportunity. Because, why the heck not? Tifa can totes meet him on the road. (I'm sorry, my roommate says 'totes' a lot and I appear to have picked it up.) But yeah, Vincent and his magical cloak are totally on the job for helping. I've also determined that Vincent's cloak can take him from World-to-World if he so chooses. Tifa's off-World transportation will come later.
And yeah, Vincent met Zack shortly after Zack left Gongaga, I feel. Before Genesis interfered, that's for sure. But Vincent never actually spoke with Zack, because Zack (like usual) was on his way somewhere and wasn't really stopping. And it is just amusing that Tifa runs into him later. (Though, her running into Zack and Aerith in Gongaga was certainly more planned than her running into Vincent.)
Excuse me while I be weirded out for a minute that Zack and Cloud haven't met yet. Okay. The minute is over.
I think that's all... so... yeah!
Link to the chapter
Link to the tumbl
Anyway, this chapter marks the beginning of Zack's healing, slash the end of the current giant feels fest that we were on. I say current, because I can almost promise you that there will be more fests of feels.
Anyway, I'm not quite sure when I decided that Tifa's father was just going to be this absent, uncaring, backwards-ish figure, that just sort of happened. According to everything I remember from the game/what I've read on the wiki, mostly he just didn't want Tifa hanging out with Cloud because he blamed Cloud for Tifa getting hurt on Mt. Nibel. I don't think he had any other fault than that. However, once I started writing him, he ended up being someone who didn't want Tifa to fight, partially because he doesn't want her to get hurt and partially because he doesn't think girls should fight. He also doesn't feel like it's proper for girls to go out on adventures so.... But Tifa had to drag him home for dinner to tell him she was leaving. Yeah...
It does go into my vast-array of parent portrayals, however. Like, Kairi's biological parents are just legit gone and her grandmother died, but she doesn't remember her real parents so her adopted ones on Destiny Islands are just her real parents. And they're kind and accepting, supportive people. Sora's parents are a bit spacey, I feel, but they love their son. Riku's dad's a dead-beat goner, but his mother sure stepped up to the plate and filled the role of amazing single parent.
Not sure where Aerith's dad ended up... did I declare him dead? I don't think he would have left... he probably passed away. Aerith's mom didn't survive Radiant Garden's plunge-- but she was a lovely woman before then! Leon's mom died in childbirth and his dad's a bit of an absentminded dude with a big sense of wanderlust. (He's at least redeemed himself.) Cloud's dad is dead but his mom is supportive (uh-oh, I seem to have a lot of supportive mom's... actually, Sora's mom's a worry-wort and his dad's the carefree one, still though...) I think it's 'cause Riku's mom is just going to support Riku to the ends of the earth anyway, Aerith's mom was just knowledgeable and nice and Cloud's mom was like, "go do your thing, have some food!" (Very much like Aerith, actually...) And then there's Tifa's dad, who wants to constrain her, but can't because Tifa's too darn stubborn. Oh, and then there's Zack's parents: his mother is a huge Zerith shipper and just wants Zack and Aerith to settle down somewhere and then there's Zack's dad who's totes supportive of his son going out and killing things. And then Rinoa's dad is (oh eff... maybe I'm not so diverse as I thought...) because Rinoa's dad is somewhat like Tifa's dad in the manner of controlling and her mother's dead so nothing can be done about that. However, Squeenix set me up for some of this stuff... So... yeah...
Anyway, rar and I spent like, half a morning discussing how long it would take to legit walk from one place to another, trying to extrapolate miles and terrain and whatnot. It involved quite the map search of FFVII. This was about when I was beating Crisis Core, too, so I was actually calculating things as it was ('cause Zack and Cloud on a motorcycle and all.)
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I didn't actually include Vincent in the original outline. It was only when one of my readers asked if I was going to include him that I even thought about a cameo. And I figured this would be a great opportunity. Because, why the heck not? Tifa can totes meet him on the road. (I'm sorry, my roommate says 'totes' a lot and I appear to have picked it up.) But yeah, Vincent and his magical cloak are totally on the job for helping. I've also determined that Vincent's cloak can take him from World-to-World if he so chooses. Tifa's off-World transportation will come later.
And yeah, Vincent met Zack shortly after Zack left Gongaga, I feel. Before Genesis interfered, that's for sure. But Vincent never actually spoke with Zack, because Zack (like usual) was on his way somewhere and wasn't really stopping. And it is just amusing that Tifa runs into him later. (Though, her running into Zack and Aerith in Gongaga was certainly more planned than her running into Vincent.)
Excuse me while I be weirded out for a minute that Zack and Cloud haven't met yet. Okay. The minute is over.
I think that's all... so... yeah!
Monday, October 14, 2013
She wants Time Kompression (ch39)
Or something like that :P
So, HUGE update! 2.5 was released! Anyone super excited? I probably watched the trailer four times this morning on tumblr alone (as in, every single time it showed up on my dash) and then I think I watched it again on FB. Anyway... *dances excitedly*
Anyway, link to chapter 39
Link to the tumbl
So this chapter actually got written after I'd loaded up FFVIII and played that last battle again. Because, why not. T'was fun. That, and I watched two different playthroughs to get more ideas than just what I do. Because, seriously, I'm not writing Irvine or Selphie, and only some of their stuff gets transferred over to what I was doing with Edea and Laguna. And my solution with Rinoa is to stick her in her limit break and then just keep her healed. Then she just chain-casts. There's no strategy. And Rinoa in my fic would have strategy. So... yeah...
Ultimecia's a pretty fun boss battle, honestly. I found it incredibly easy the first time I played it (though, I'd had so much else go wrong with my game that I guess it just didn't quite match up to the suspense I'd gotten waiting for a functional third disk.) All the same, it's a pretty decent battle, though the storyline of 8 is all over the place, don't get me wrong. I think my stuff makes more sense lol.
Sorry for those of you reading the first posting of that chapter, I had missing words and stuff. Clearly I need to proofread better. I think it's all fixed now. If not, lemme know, I'll probably fix them
Again, I kinda feel bad for all the crap I put Rinoa through. This is the second time she's possessed. And Ultimecia's a stronger consciousness. And... yeah... I just... but... *shrug*. Rinoa is the one who just gets all the Sorceress powers in my story. Heheh...
And, yes, I did reference Shad. Don't even ask me why. I found it amusing and thus kept it.
Huh... is that really all I have to say about this chapter? I think it is. I mean, it's just a boss battle. The more interesting stuff will come in later chapters. O...kay... then.
Well, then in that case... anyone wondering what happens next will have to wait a couple of chapters. (I say two because the next chapter involves someone who is not these characters. You'll see!
As usual, have a video:
Oh! before I do that! I found other things to say... I think I've already attached Rolling Girl to Rinoa. Well, here, have another version of Rolling Girl (a really excellent cover if I do say so myself). A lot of my feels relate to rar's feels on this one (not the first time I've said this) but... yeah... enjoy!
So, HUGE update! 2.5 was released! Anyone super excited? I probably watched the trailer four times this morning on tumblr alone (as in, every single time it showed up on my dash) and then I think I watched it again on FB. Anyway... *dances excitedly*
Anyway, link to chapter 39
Link to the tumbl
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Ultimecia's a pretty fun boss battle, honestly. I found it incredibly easy the first time I played it (though, I'd had so much else go wrong with my game that I guess it just didn't quite match up to the suspense I'd gotten waiting for a functional third disk.) All the same, it's a pretty decent battle, though the storyline of 8 is all over the place, don't get me wrong. I think my stuff makes more sense lol.
Sorry for those of you reading the first posting of that chapter, I had missing words and stuff. Clearly I need to proofread better. I think it's all fixed now. If not, lemme know, I'll probably fix them
Again, I kinda feel bad for all the crap I put Rinoa through. This is the second time she's possessed. And Ultimecia's a stronger consciousness. And... yeah... I just... but... *shrug*. Rinoa is the one who just gets all the Sorceress powers in my story. Heheh...
And, yes, I did reference Shad. Don't even ask me why. I found it amusing and thus kept it.
Huh... is that really all I have to say about this chapter? I think it is. I mean, it's just a boss battle. The more interesting stuff will come in later chapters. O...kay... then.
Well, then in that case... anyone wondering what happens next will have to wait a couple of chapters. (I say two because the next chapter involves someone who is not these characters. You'll see!
As usual, have a video:
Oh! before I do that! I found other things to say... I think I've already attached Rolling Girl to Rinoa. Well, here, have another version of Rolling Girl (a really excellent cover if I do say so myself). A lot of my feels relate to rar's feels on this one (not the first time I've said this) but... yeah... enjoy!
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Squinoa, just get together already (ch35)
Eh, I can't really berate them too much, Rinoa burst into tears when Leon told her he loved her.
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/35/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
No tumbl for this one, sorry guys.
Anyway, so I knew from the beginning that Rinoa would, at some point, think that Leon loved Aerith the entire time and it would come out and she'd be upset and yadda yadda. But as I was writing this, I realized how ridiculous that sounded.
However, what's not so ridiculous, is that Rinoa's got other issues, like, the fact that she's been possessed and feels that everyone hates her and she's only useful up until Ultimecia's gone and...
Yeah, all that stuff.
And it just pains her to think that maybe Leon doesn't love her anyway... but he does. And when he tells her that, she basically just bursts into tears. I think it a completely normal reaction. Mostly, I was just trying to keep the two of them from being ridiculous.
But yeah, this is also where Leon admits that he finally loves Rinoa. And the Squinoa shippers all cheer. Yes, Rinoa's being ridiculously emotional, but it's completely legit, because she's been through a lot and from her perspective, she feels that she's a walking timebomb. At the moment, she is, but they're going to fix that.
I think that's all I have to say, actually. This arc isn't as feelsy as the Zack one, mostly because Angeal's death is full of feels.
So, um, yeah.
Have a video:
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/35/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
No tumbl for this one, sorry guys.
Anyway, so I knew from the beginning that Rinoa would, at some point, think that Leon loved Aerith the entire time and it would come out and she'd be upset and yadda yadda. But as I was writing this, I realized how ridiculous that sounded.
However, what's not so ridiculous, is that Rinoa's got other issues, like, the fact that she's been possessed and feels that everyone hates her and she's only useful up until Ultimecia's gone and...
Yeah, all that stuff.
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But yeah, this is also where Leon admits that he finally loves Rinoa. And the Squinoa shippers all cheer. Yes, Rinoa's being ridiculously emotional, but it's completely legit, because she's been through a lot and from her perspective, she feels that she's a walking timebomb. At the moment, she is, but they're going to fix that.
I think that's all I have to say, actually. This arc isn't as feelsy as the Zack one, mostly because Angeal's death is full of feels.
So, um, yeah.
Have a video:
Friday, October 4, 2013
ALL MY FEELS (ch34)
I can't come up with a better chapter title. But this is feelsy. Like, I cried through this whole sequence in the game, and then I knew Zack would have nightmares, and Aerith would be healing him and...
I should slow down.
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/34/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch34/chrono
So, slowing down a little, I do a lot of POV switches in this chapter, unlike how I usually do it, mostly because these aren't separate scenes, they're all one scene that require different POVs. I think originally I wanted it all in Aerith's, but I realized the impracticality of that, so I ended up having a bit with Cid and a bit with Zack as well.
So first there's the repeat, with Aerith finding Zack and realizing that he's injured. She's also piecing together possible situations of what happened, which I alluded to in the last blog, but here it is, actually happening. And she just feels so awful and wants to ask all the questions, but she doesn't because Zack's crying and that's never a good thing. Plus, she should heal Zack because he's not in great shape. Everything else, at that point, can wait.
And she's mentally calculating just how much healing she's going to have to do and where Zack should sleep and well, shoot, she might as well just put him in her own bed and then worry about everything else later. And Yuffie should just go sleep in Leon's bed because Yuffie should NOT be watching a healing. And Aerith also wants to give Zack privacy.
And that poor hotel owner I think has learned not to ask questions by now.
Also, I'm listening to the Crisis Core soundtrack as I write this... because, apparently, I need more feels.
Moving on, though, we've got Cid's portion of the chapter, which does have some humor in it, grim humor, but humor all the same. Cid is the one to draw the connection between Zack and Aerith to Laguna and Raine, because Raine was the healer before Aerith's mom, who was the healer before Aerith in Cid's eyes. Cid's also the one landed with keeping Yuffie out of the room. And while he doesn't want to argue with Yuffie, he knows Aerith can't right then, so he's going to have to. And though it doesn't happen in-scene, he does somehow manage to get Yuffie out of the room.
And then we're back to Aerith with the healing. She uses nearly her entire stock. She'll be making a shopping trip in the morning after that one. This is also where Zack tells her exactly what happened. And while she's totally cool with him waiting and telling her when he's ready, Zack needs to tell her what happened now or his brain is going to explode with the information. So he tells her and she feels awful on so many accounts. And there's absolutely nothing she can do but be there for Zack.
This is a HUGE development for their characters. Yes, Zerith is probably one of my most happy-go-lucky couples in the grand scheme of things. However, Zack's loss of Angeal makes the two of them realize just who they are to each other. Because, this is also where Zack's nightmares begin and Aerith is bound and determined to keep them away.
(Which of course, made me go all A:LGHSDG:KLHDSG over it because Riku tells the same thing to Sora in canon. Ugh.)
And then there's Angeal's letter to Zack, which he delivered to Aerith some number of chapters ago (I wanna say it was about five). Aerith never read the note herself, but she knew that this is what Angeal meant by she'd know when to give it to Zack. And that's what she did. And all Angeal wants is for Zack to live on, and be good to Aerith and let Aerith protect him as much as he wants to protect her. Because Angeal is the biggest Zerith shipper ever, I swear.
Aerith's the biggest Squinoa shipper, it's cool. (And I don't think they're official yet, heheh....)
So let's do some review responses:
archsage: Thank you very much! I'm glad I have Angeal's character down. I know you were hoping that he would live... but I wanted to stay true to the story in this instance. And a part of who Zack is is living through the death of Angeal.
KKBeckett:
No, it's not bad at all that you're laughing. I'd say I put in the humor there on purpose, but I really didn't. That's really just what Cid does. He's bitter but slightly humorous. But yes, that was muscle and I agree with your cringing. But... *hands you cookie* hopefully it'll help with the feels.
And, to finish off today's feels-fest:
(I'd recommend going to YouTube and clicking on the higher quality video, honestly.)
Stay tuned for more feels tomorrow! (Heheh.)
I should slow down.
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/34/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch34/chrono
So, slowing down a little, I do a lot of POV switches in this chapter, unlike how I usually do it, mostly because these aren't separate scenes, they're all one scene that require different POVs. I think originally I wanted it all in Aerith's, but I realized the impracticality of that, so I ended up having a bit with Cid and a bit with Zack as well.
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And she's mentally calculating just how much healing she's going to have to do and where Zack should sleep and well, shoot, she might as well just put him in her own bed and then worry about everything else later. And Yuffie should just go sleep in Leon's bed because Yuffie should NOT be watching a healing. And Aerith also wants to give Zack privacy.
And that poor hotel owner I think has learned not to ask questions by now.
Also, I'm listening to the Crisis Core soundtrack as I write this... because, apparently, I need more feels.
Moving on, though, we've got Cid's portion of the chapter, which does have some humor in it, grim humor, but humor all the same. Cid is the one to draw the connection between Zack and Aerith to Laguna and Raine, because Raine was the healer before Aerith's mom, who was the healer before Aerith in Cid's eyes. Cid's also the one landed with keeping Yuffie out of the room. And while he doesn't want to argue with Yuffie, he knows Aerith can't right then, so he's going to have to. And though it doesn't happen in-scene, he does somehow manage to get Yuffie out of the room.
And then we're back to Aerith with the healing. She uses nearly her entire stock. She'll be making a shopping trip in the morning after that one. This is also where Zack tells her exactly what happened. And while she's totally cool with him waiting and telling her when he's ready, Zack needs to tell her what happened now or his brain is going to explode with the information. So he tells her and she feels awful on so many accounts. And there's absolutely nothing she can do but be there for Zack.
This is a HUGE development for their characters. Yes, Zerith is probably one of my most happy-go-lucky couples in the grand scheme of things. However, Zack's loss of Angeal makes the two of them realize just who they are to each other. Because, this is also where Zack's nightmares begin and Aerith is bound and determined to keep them away.
(Which of course, made me go all A:LGHSDG:KLHDSG over it because Riku tells the same thing to Sora in canon. Ugh.)
And then there's Angeal's letter to Zack, which he delivered to Aerith some number of chapters ago (I wanna say it was about five). Aerith never read the note herself, but she knew that this is what Angeal meant by she'd know when to give it to Zack. And that's what she did. And all Angeal wants is for Zack to live on, and be good to Aerith and let Aerith protect him as much as he wants to protect her. Because Angeal is the biggest Zerith shipper ever, I swear.
Aerith's the biggest Squinoa shipper, it's cool. (And I don't think they're official yet, heheh....)
So let's do some review responses:
archsage: Thank you very much! I'm glad I have Angeal's character down. I know you were hoping that he would live... but I wanted to stay true to the story in this instance. And a part of who Zack is is living through the death of Angeal.
KKBeckett:
No, it's not bad at all that you're laughing. I'd say I put in the humor there on purpose, but I really didn't. That's really just what Cid does. He's bitter but slightly humorous. But yes, that was muscle and I agree with your cringing. But... *hands you cookie* hopefully it'll help with the feels.
And, to finish off today's feels-fest:
Stay tuned for more feels tomorrow! (Heheh.)
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Fight Against Angeal (ch33)
AKA FEELSY CHAPTER NUMBER TWO IN A ROW
Link to chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/33/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch33/chrono
I wrote this chapter while simultaneously watching the scenes of Zack's fight(s) with Angeal repeatedly. I'd already passed that point in the game about a week prior and basically just called on those feels, plus the feels of me WATCHING THE PLAYTHROUGH OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Rar probably thought I was crazy. When I wasn't watching the videos, I was blaring the Crisis Core soundtrack. It was one of the scenes that literally requires I use headphones lest I drive everyone else bonkers with the constant sound-switching.
Clearly, this chapter is feels inducing. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I find the scene in Crisis Core to be so full of feels (granted, a lot of Crisis Core is more like Crisis Cries, as rar puts it). All the same, this was definitely one of the more emotional scenes. We've broken through Zack's core and it just makes you tear up a little.
Yes, I modified it a little bit. I'd already sped up Angeal's degradation with the serum, which basically meant that Angeal's degrading cells tried to meld with the Heartless, which meant that Angeal lost hope, thinking he truly was a monster. The only foreseeable way out of it as far as he was concerned was death and death by Zack was more honorable.
Meanwhile, poor Zack is still convinced that Angeal is not a monster, even when Angeal's half-Heartless. Yes, Zack does lose faith in Angeal's honor, but that becomes a moot point by the end of the battle. The Angeal that Zack will remember will be quite an honorable man indeed, despite everything that happened.
Naturally, the battle leaves Zack more emotionally damaged than physically damaged, though Aerith will have quite the healing job to do. But before I get too much into that, since that's next chapter, I'll just move on. Spoilers and such.
So, KKBeckett, to respond more to your review a couple of chapters ago, Zack had everything he needed in his stock up until this battle. He ran out of magic and had no ethers. He had a crapton of remedies equipped (mostly because that's all I was using at the time and I based his stock sort of off of my stock, and I was using remedies because I kept getting poisoned) and thus no ethers. Granted, he still won the battle, but is it really winning when you lose a friend in the process? We'll get to Zack's injuries more next chapter.
But yeah, Aerith at the end is mostly just like "I'll heal you now and we'll get to the talking later", because that's what Aerith does. Heal now, questions later. Though, I think there's a part of her who knows what happened. Zack showing up with Angeal's sword, Angeal not around? All that stuff. Yeah, she knows Angeal's dead. What she doesn't know is how. And that's a good portion of the gut-wrenching feels.
And then there's the fact that Zack realizes his sword is still in Olympus and more feels!
So, yes, very feels-inducing chapter. I'm surprised I'm not a puddle of feels at the moment.
Review Responses:
KKBeckett: I'm... uh... sorry? About the feels? I suppose? Maybe... I can't help that rar's giving you feels, either. Based on the fact that you've got Zerith feels, I have an idea of what chapter she just sent you. I'm sorry, heh...
archsage: Yeah, when Phil's at a loss, there's a problem. In my head, Phil is very much doing the thing when Meg died in the movie. Except, unlike Hercules, who's a god and can go get her soul from the Underworld, Zack has no such ability. Nor, do I think, would he want to go get Angeal, because Angeal wanted to go out. Bringing Angeal back would devalue his death. Meg's death was not supposed to happen and Hercules righted it. Anyway! Enough of that philosophy.
Huh, Terra and Riku, though? I don't particularly imagine that happening in my story. I want Terra to live! But it is an interesting image, I will give you that.
And no, nope. Nothing's going to quiet down for a few chapters yet. We're on quite the ride right now!
Um, so yeah, this video is appropriate:
Link to chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/33/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch33/chrono
I wrote this chapter while simultaneously watching the scenes of Zack's fight(s) with Angeal repeatedly. I'd already passed that point in the game about a week prior and basically just called on those feels, plus the feels of me WATCHING THE PLAYTHROUGH OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Rar probably thought I was crazy. When I wasn't watching the videos, I was blaring the Crisis Core soundtrack. It was one of the scenes that literally requires I use headphones lest I drive everyone else bonkers with the constant sound-switching.
Clearly, this chapter is feels inducing. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I find the scene in Crisis Core to be so full of feels (granted, a lot of Crisis Core is more like Crisis Cries, as rar puts it). All the same, this was definitely one of the more emotional scenes. We've broken through Zack's core and it just makes you tear up a little.
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Meanwhile, poor Zack is still convinced that Angeal is not a monster, even when Angeal's half-Heartless. Yes, Zack does lose faith in Angeal's honor, but that becomes a moot point by the end of the battle. The Angeal that Zack will remember will be quite an honorable man indeed, despite everything that happened.
Naturally, the battle leaves Zack more emotionally damaged than physically damaged, though Aerith will have quite the healing job to do. But before I get too much into that, since that's next chapter, I'll just move on. Spoilers and such.
So, KKBeckett, to respond more to your review a couple of chapters ago, Zack had everything he needed in his stock up until this battle. He ran out of magic and had no ethers. He had a crapton of remedies equipped (mostly because that's all I was using at the time and I based his stock sort of off of my stock, and I was using remedies because I kept getting poisoned) and thus no ethers. Granted, he still won the battle, but is it really winning when you lose a friend in the process? We'll get to Zack's injuries more next chapter.
But yeah, Aerith at the end is mostly just like "I'll heal you now and we'll get to the talking later", because that's what Aerith does. Heal now, questions later. Though, I think there's a part of her who knows what happened. Zack showing up with Angeal's sword, Angeal not around? All that stuff. Yeah, she knows Angeal's dead. What she doesn't know is how. And that's a good portion of the gut-wrenching feels.
And then there's the fact that Zack realizes his sword is still in Olympus and more feels!
So, yes, very feels-inducing chapter. I'm surprised I'm not a puddle of feels at the moment.
Review Responses:
KKBeckett: I'm... uh... sorry? About the feels? I suppose? Maybe... I can't help that rar's giving you feels, either. Based on the fact that you've got Zerith feels, I have an idea of what chapter she just sent you. I'm sorry, heh...
archsage: Yeah, when Phil's at a loss, there's a problem. In my head, Phil is very much doing the thing when Meg died in the movie. Except, unlike Hercules, who's a god and can go get her soul from the Underworld, Zack has no such ability. Nor, do I think, would he want to go get Angeal, because Angeal wanted to go out. Bringing Angeal back would devalue his death. Meg's death was not supposed to happen and Hercules righted it. Anyway! Enough of that philosophy.
Huh, Terra and Riku, though? I don't particularly imagine that happening in my story. I want Terra to live! But it is an interesting image, I will give you that.
And no, nope. Nothing's going to quiet down for a few chapters yet. We're on quite the ride right now!
Um, so yeah, this video is appropriate:
Monday, September 30, 2013
Fight for Rinoa's Confidence (ch32)
AKA, the chapter I had a crapton of feels about.
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/32/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch32/chrono
(A lot of my feels were there.)
Anyway, have a slightly related picture of Rinoa and Squall, yes, they're on the Ragnarok, but this picture, okay? Where he's holding her and all... yeah...
So, yeah, I had a ton of feels in this chapter and some of them were not okay.
Rinoa was just a bucket of feels and so was Squall, but he's trying to hide them because he's Squall and that's what he does and just... ugh!
But Rinoa's having the... "I know Adel's dead but I just can't quite believe it yet and everyone must think I'm dangerous and I would have been better off frozen, do you seriously care about me enough to rescue me and oh my gosh I was possessed I just feel gross and icky and no one likes me now and I should just go get frozen because that's what's best for everyone and..."
And Squall's like... "I have to know Adel's gone but there's a part of me that doesn't care because I think I love you but if love isn't the right word than I'm not quite sure what is, but I've realized I don't want to live without you so I think you're stuck with me and oh dear, why are you crying?"
BUT HE FLIPPING SLAMS ON THE BRAKES AND THEN HE HOLDS HER AND OH MY FEELS.
Sorry, for subjecting you to that. I have feels, I'm sorry.
Is there anything I want to say that isn't deep fried and covered in feels? Nope, not really. My outline basically says that Squall goes and gets Rinoa and then they come back and talk about how they're going to go after Ultimecia. The feels came later.
Though I have a completely different set of feels for the second half. The second half is "Gosh, Headmaster Cid, why are you such a presumptuous jerk?" I like, did not mean to write him that way, and I know he must have some redeeming qualities because he IS Edea's Knight, but... like... he's so presuming. *rolls eyes* But then Quistis and Edea make up for it because they're both willing to take on Ultimecia's powers if it makes it easier for Rinoa and Rinoa is kind of shocked because she didn't expect that from them. Mostly because she's having self-confidence issues. Those will get solved later.
Um, so Review Responses:
KKBeckett: Um, maybe it was a reference to Aladdin? I guess it was. There's no itty bitty living space involved though. But Rinoa practically has phenomenal cosmic powers, so... And basically, the rest of that is my feels in general. Quistis is awesome and Rinoa needs a confidence boost. Yep.
Have an oddly appropriate VOCALOID Video:
I have feels about this song, too. They are similar to rar's feels. Anywho, have a nice day!
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/32/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch32/chrono
(A lot of my feels were there.)
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So, yeah, I had a ton of feels in this chapter and some of them were not okay.
Rinoa was just a bucket of feels and so was Squall, but he's trying to hide them because he's Squall and that's what he does and just... ugh!
But Rinoa's having the... "I know Adel's dead but I just can't quite believe it yet and everyone must think I'm dangerous and I would have been better off frozen, do you seriously care about me enough to rescue me and oh my gosh I was possessed I just feel gross and icky and no one likes me now and I should just go get frozen because that's what's best for everyone and..."
And Squall's like... "I have to know Adel's gone but there's a part of me that doesn't care because I think I love you but if love isn't the right word than I'm not quite sure what is, but I've realized I don't want to live without you so I think you're stuck with me and oh dear, why are you crying?"
BUT HE FLIPPING SLAMS ON THE BRAKES AND THEN HE HOLDS HER AND OH MY FEELS.
Sorry, for subjecting you to that. I have feels, I'm sorry.
Is there anything I want to say that isn't deep fried and covered in feels? Nope, not really. My outline basically says that Squall goes and gets Rinoa and then they come back and talk about how they're going to go after Ultimecia. The feels came later.
Though I have a completely different set of feels for the second half. The second half is "Gosh, Headmaster Cid, why are you such a presumptuous jerk?" I like, did not mean to write him that way, and I know he must have some redeeming qualities because he IS Edea's Knight, but... like... he's so presuming. *rolls eyes* But then Quistis and Edea make up for it because they're both willing to take on Ultimecia's powers if it makes it easier for Rinoa and Rinoa is kind of shocked because she didn't expect that from them. Mostly because she's having self-confidence issues. Those will get solved later.
Um, so Review Responses:
KKBeckett: Um, maybe it was a reference to Aladdin? I guess it was. There's no itty bitty living space involved though. But Rinoa practically has phenomenal cosmic powers, so... And basically, the rest of that is my feels in general. Quistis is awesome and Rinoa needs a confidence boost. Yep.
Have an oddly appropriate VOCALOID Video:
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Fight Against Larxene (ch31)
Because yup, that definitely happened.
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/31/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the livetumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch31/chrono
So, somewhere along the lines, I decided I wanted to include a chapter that had pre-Organization Larxene (I guess Arlene?). Mostly because I happen to like the canon where the Organization is just WAITING for her to turn into a Nobody because she has so much potential. But she's doing pretty good as a Somebody. So good, that she landed herself the second-to-last spot in one of the Olympus cups.
I thought about Xigbar being the last person in the cup, because he's keeping an eye on her, but then I figured that would be too much, so I cut Xigbar and threw in a Guard Armor, because it didn't really matter anyway, because that's the battle Angeal comes and helps with. (Which is why Larxene wasn't last.)
So anyway, I started writing backstories and stuff for her and it was not okay. I'm not even sure how she wormed her way into the story at all (as the livetumbl will attest to.)
All I had originally planned was Zack looking for Angeal and he winds up in Olympus Coliseum because that's where Angeal's gonna be and Phil ends up forcing Zack through a cup because that's what Phil does. That's all I knew. But then all the Heartless battles would get boring and monotonous, and then Larxene happened.
Fun fact, Zack saying "bitter taste" upon finding Angeal missing and his mother recently having passed away is a direct reference to Axel saying the exact same thing after the final battle in All the Pieces and Saix dying. I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I definitely realized it after the fact and figured I'd make mention of it here.
Another fun fact, what Zack's got equipped is the exact same thing that I had equipped when I was going through Crisis Core as I was simultaneously writing this chapter/playing the game.
Also, rar went through some cups in Olympus in KH1 to help me determine just how easy certain Heartless would be for Zack. It was pretty amusing and fun.
The Crisis Core soundtrack was super helpful for me when I was writing this chapter. It's super handy for just about the next several chapters I write with Zack (having all of them written, I can say this with utmost confidence.) You'll hear more about it, I'm sure. Or you won't, 'cause I'll have forgotten.
Also, Zack was giving me feels prematurely and it was not okay.
Review Responses:
So Zack has exactly what he needs... for now. At the moment, at least. And yes, yes, that is Larxene. Most definitely. I don't know how, it just happened.
Have a very Zack-related video! (for some reason, it won't let me embed it, but Tto12 is awesome (so is ARS), so you should click on it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbai1xKfLSg
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/31/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the livetumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch31/chrono
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I thought about Xigbar being the last person in the cup, because he's keeping an eye on her, but then I figured that would be too much, so I cut Xigbar and threw in a Guard Armor, because it didn't really matter anyway, because that's the battle Angeal comes and helps with. (Which is why Larxene wasn't last.)
So anyway, I started writing backstories and stuff for her and it was not okay. I'm not even sure how she wormed her way into the story at all (as the livetumbl will attest to.)
All I had originally planned was Zack looking for Angeal and he winds up in Olympus Coliseum because that's where Angeal's gonna be and Phil ends up forcing Zack through a cup because that's what Phil does. That's all I knew. But then all the Heartless battles would get boring and monotonous, and then Larxene happened.
Fun fact, Zack saying "bitter taste" upon finding Angeal missing and his mother recently having passed away is a direct reference to Axel saying the exact same thing after the final battle in All the Pieces and Saix dying. I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I definitely realized it after the fact and figured I'd make mention of it here.
Another fun fact, what Zack's got equipped is the exact same thing that I had equipped when I was going through Crisis Core as I was simultaneously writing this chapter/playing the game.
Also, rar went through some cups in Olympus in KH1 to help me determine just how easy certain Heartless would be for Zack. It was pretty amusing and fun.
The Crisis Core soundtrack was super helpful for me when I was writing this chapter. It's super handy for just about the next several chapters I write with Zack (having all of them written, I can say this with utmost confidence.) You'll hear more about it, I'm sure. Or you won't, 'cause I'll have forgotten.
Also, Zack was giving me feels prematurely and it was not okay.
Review Responses:
So Zack has exactly what he needs... for now. At the moment, at least. And yes, yes, that is Larxene. Most definitely. I don't know how, it just happened.
Have a very Zack-related video! (for some reason, it won't let me embed it, but Tto12 is awesome (so is ARS), so you should click on it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbai1xKfLSg
Friday, September 27, 2013
Fight Against Adel in Rinoa (ch30)
Link to the Chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/30/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the livetumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch30/chrono
So, this is the chapter where Leon finally decides that he's going to go after Rinoa. Goodness, that took some persuading. (Actually, it really didn't. Edea basically just had to tell him what he needed to do.) Anyway.
Literally, this is what I had written in my outline:
Leon, Zell, and Quistis were forced to go back to Balamb without Rinoa, but with Laguna. Despite everything Laguna said, there was no retrieving Rinoa. After agonizing about this for a while, Leon takes it upon himself to go rescue Rinoa. He realizes that he cares about her a lot, maybe even to the point of love. Edea coaches him a bit about Sorceress Knights and he goes off to rescue her. On the way, he realizes that he loves her. He brings Rinoa back to herself and she gets the two sets of Sorceress powers under control.
Yeah, so that happened.
Well, it kind of happened like that. That particular portion of the outline hadn't been updated since I decided
that Adel's consciousness wasn't going to die yet. Originally, Rinoa just lost control of the second set of powers, rather than Adel having anything to do with it. But, aside from that modification.
What I do wish I had done, was maybe make the fight against Adel take a little longer. Reading through it again, I feel like I shortened it by too much to keep it in a chapter length. I don't know. Anyone else have any thoughts on that?
Despite that, I'm glad I included the Adel conscious in favor of Rinoa just losing control. It make Rinoa the only girl who gets possessed, sure, but that's one girl out of a load of boys who have trouble with "shadows" (e.g. Rar's Sora, Riku and Cloud (and kind of Zack).) *not spoilers because of AtP and BB*
Though, it does make this sequence a little bit darker than originally planned. Whoopsies.
Then, to piggy-back off of what the livetumbl has going on... I *love* the sarcasm that Leon's got going on. "I'm going to go visit it as a tourist attraction--no, I'm going to try and rescue her, you dumbwit!" The second half of that post refers to Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Because sarcasm, that's original.
Then, in those last moments, he's just so mushy. And he's never been more grateful that Rinoa's always called him 'Squall' in his life. I made sure that Adel always referred to him as 'boy', and it's not until Rinoa's truly herself again that she calls him 'Squall.' Heheh.
So, yeah. That's all I have to say.
Link to the livetumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch30/chrono
So, this is the chapter where Leon finally decides that he's going to go after Rinoa. Goodness, that took some persuading. (Actually, it really didn't. Edea basically just had to tell him what he needed to do.) Anyway.
Literally, this is what I had written in my outline:
Leon, Zell, and Quistis were forced to go back to Balamb without Rinoa, but with Laguna. Despite everything Laguna said, there was no retrieving Rinoa. After agonizing about this for a while, Leon takes it upon himself to go rescue Rinoa. He realizes that he cares about her a lot, maybe even to the point of love. Edea coaches him a bit about Sorceress Knights and he goes off to rescue her. On the way, he realizes that he loves her. He brings Rinoa back to herself and she gets the two sets of Sorceress powers under control.
Yeah, so that happened.
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that Adel's consciousness wasn't going to die yet. Originally, Rinoa just lost control of the second set of powers, rather than Adel having anything to do with it. But, aside from that modification.
What I do wish I had done, was maybe make the fight against Adel take a little longer. Reading through it again, I feel like I shortened it by too much to keep it in a chapter length. I don't know. Anyone else have any thoughts on that?
Despite that, I'm glad I included the Adel conscious in favor of Rinoa just losing control. It make Rinoa the only girl who gets possessed, sure, but that's one girl out of a load of boys who have trouble with "shadows" (e.g. Rar's Sora, Riku and Cloud (and kind of Zack).) *not spoilers because of AtP and BB*
Though, it does make this sequence a little bit darker than originally planned. Whoopsies.
Then, to piggy-back off of what the livetumbl has going on... I *love* the sarcasm that Leon's got going on. "I'm going to go visit it as a tourist attraction--no, I'm going to try and rescue her, you dumbwit!" The second half of that post refers to Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Because sarcasm, that's original.
Then, in those last moments, he's just so mushy. And he's never been more grateful that Rinoa's always called him 'Squall' in his life. I made sure that Adel always referred to him as 'boy', and it's not until Rinoa's truly herself again that she calls him 'Squall.' Heheh.
So, yeah. That's all I have to say.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Fights Against Various Things with Various Shapes and Sizes (28)
Long title is long. I don't even know.
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/28/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the livetumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch28/chrono
So, these snippets were only loosely plotted out. I knew that the Aerith/Zack/Angeal section was going to be short because writing a whole chapter on them researching would be boring to read after a while unless I had them run into someone and I like the idea of them going in and out with no one noticing.
Leon being restless at Balamb Garden is also a short sort of thing, considering he's just going to go gallivanting off to go rescue her in the next chapter or two and that's a whole sequence.
The Rinoa sequence got abridged because I needed to include the snippet with Cloud. But it worked out, honestly, in my opinion.
And then there's Sora, Riku, and Kairi, who never have long chapters, just snippets. And that's cool.
(I am aware that picture has nothing to do with the chapter, but I love this debate. One of these days, I will write Sora and Riku in Christmas town.)
I feel really bad for Zack, I'm shattering his world around him, and while it's hardly different than what happens to him in the game, it's still sad to watch.
Leon's just being adamant about going and rescuing Rinoa, which is good, because he needs to. (And admit he loves her while he's at it.)
Rinoa's sequence, on the other hand, got super dark super fast. I wasn't aware she was going to start ramming herself into walls in an attempt to beat Adel out of her. When I wrote that I was literally like... Rinoa... what are you doing?!?!?!? Yeah. I wasn't expecting that.
And poor Cloud. He literally has the worst luck. And he's just in the Realm of Darkness, walking, and it's rather saddening.
I determined that Riku's dad went missing sometime before he was eight. I'm not sure how far before, but based on how Sora assumed Wakka was teasing him, it might have been recently. Maybe not. No real telling.
Review Responses:
KKBeckett: Yes, Angeal needs to stop thinking that he's a monster. Ugh. It's annoying. And yeah, Leon should admit that soon. Should being the operative word. Rinoa's doing exactly what you think she's doing and it's not okay. Yes, poor Cloud. And yeah... Riku... just... don't punch people. But... yeah...
Also, I'm obsessed with this song at the moment. Heh.
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/28/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the livetumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch28/chrono
So, these snippets were only loosely plotted out. I knew that the Aerith/Zack/Angeal section was going to be short because writing a whole chapter on them researching would be boring to read after a while unless I had them run into someone and I like the idea of them going in and out with no one noticing.
Leon being restless at Balamb Garden is also a short sort of thing, considering he's just going to go gallivanting off to go rescue her in the next chapter or two and that's a whole sequence.
The Rinoa sequence got abridged because I needed to include the snippet with Cloud. But it worked out, honestly, in my opinion.
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(I am aware that picture has nothing to do with the chapter, but I love this debate. One of these days, I will write Sora and Riku in Christmas town.)
I feel really bad for Zack, I'm shattering his world around him, and while it's hardly different than what happens to him in the game, it's still sad to watch.
Leon's just being adamant about going and rescuing Rinoa, which is good, because he needs to. (And admit he loves her while he's at it.)
Rinoa's sequence, on the other hand, got super dark super fast. I wasn't aware she was going to start ramming herself into walls in an attempt to beat Adel out of her. When I wrote that I was literally like... Rinoa... what are you doing?!?!?!? Yeah. I wasn't expecting that.
And poor Cloud. He literally has the worst luck. And he's just in the Realm of Darkness, walking, and it's rather saddening.
I determined that Riku's dad went missing sometime before he was eight. I'm not sure how far before, but based on how Sora assumed Wakka was teasing him, it might have been recently. Maybe not. No real telling.
Review Responses:
KKBeckett: Yes, Angeal needs to stop thinking that he's a monster. Ugh. It's annoying. And yeah, Leon should admit that soon. Should being the operative word. Rinoa's doing exactly what you think she's doing and it's not okay. Yes, poor Cloud. And yeah... Riku... just... don't punch people. But... yeah...
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Letters Between Aerith, Leon, and Cid (27)
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/27/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the live tumbl (it was live): http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch27/chrono
So, I'm not quite sure what gave me the idea to do letters, but I fell in love with it as soon as I wrote them out. I think it was because I knew that the characters were writing letters back and forth to each other, so why not exemplify that? As the liveblog said, I'm using them to almost summarize things that would take longer scenes to work out otherwise, but I still get a great bit of emotion, because I'm actually in these characters heads.
Yes, this time around, there was a lot of summary involved, but I think that'll change in the future. I'm intending to write a lot more letters between the characters as the story progresses.
And, since I can't really find a good picture of letters, have an awesome cosplay of Cid!
I think this is the first point in which Aerith's initial worry about Zack starts to show. Because, honestly, she's just sitting off to the side as she's watching Zack cope with both the fact that he killed someone and the fact that his friend is dying. This is also where Aerith vows to do whatever she can to help Zack. Because that's who Aerith is. Also, Aerith's been writing letters for a long while. She writes to Zack because she loves him, and Leon because she loves him--but in a different way. She just wants Leon to come home, and at the same time, she wants Leon to follow his heart (especially where Rinoa is involved.) Aerith's a huge Squinoa shipper.
Leon, of course, responds to every letter Aerith sends, when he gets the chance to, anyway. He's busy killing Sorceresses! Well, sort of. Aerith ends up being the first person he admits to that he might actually like Rinoa. Of course, he hasn't quite admitted it yet, but he's gotten really close. (While he's doing that, he's being super adorable and it's just so feels-inducing.) Meanwhile, he's also struggling with his feelings towards his father, and he just wants some answers, which is why he reaches out to Cid.
Cid, of course, never writes letters. He only wrote one because Leon wanted a response and Aerith pestered him to do it. This particular letter of Cid's gave me so many feels and it was not okay! Because Cid is a father figure to Leon, it's just not the most obvious relationship in the worlds. But Cid really does want the best for Leon, as a weird mixture of an older-brother-father-figure-ish-thing. The age difference is something I haven't quite figured out, but, all the same, ugh, Cid, feels!
I really love how the different styles showed up. I think I really pulled that off. Aerith's very detailed in her letters. She wants to let the people she's writing to know exactly what's going on. But, outside of that, the letters become a place where she ends up voicing her most inner thoughts.
Leon, on the other hand, doesn't really have a logical order to his letters. They're very stream of consciousness, because he's still trying to figure everything out as he's writing it. The letter writing is a way that he organizes his thoughts, which ends up making the letters unorganized. However, for the things he does know and has figured out, he ends up being very brief, because why waste the time otherwise?
Cid's style is a lot how Cid just talks. In this particular letter, he was telling a story, so I can't really narrow down if all of his letters are/would be like this. All the same, he doesn't write letters often, so, he probably has a lot to say (even if it's only one one particular subject) when he does write letters.
Anywho, that's all I have to say. This vid is awesome.
Link to the live tumbl (it was live): http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch27/chrono
So, I'm not quite sure what gave me the idea to do letters, but I fell in love with it as soon as I wrote them out. I think it was because I knew that the characters were writing letters back and forth to each other, so why not exemplify that? As the liveblog said, I'm using them to almost summarize things that would take longer scenes to work out otherwise, but I still get a great bit of emotion, because I'm actually in these characters heads.
Yes, this time around, there was a lot of summary involved, but I think that'll change in the future. I'm intending to write a lot more letters between the characters as the story progresses.
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I think this is the first point in which Aerith's initial worry about Zack starts to show. Because, honestly, she's just sitting off to the side as she's watching Zack cope with both the fact that he killed someone and the fact that his friend is dying. This is also where Aerith vows to do whatever she can to help Zack. Because that's who Aerith is. Also, Aerith's been writing letters for a long while. She writes to Zack because she loves him, and Leon because she loves him--but in a different way. She just wants Leon to come home, and at the same time, she wants Leon to follow his heart (especially where Rinoa is involved.) Aerith's a huge Squinoa shipper.
Leon, of course, responds to every letter Aerith sends, when he gets the chance to, anyway. He's busy killing Sorceresses! Well, sort of. Aerith ends up being the first person he admits to that he might actually like Rinoa. Of course, he hasn't quite admitted it yet, but he's gotten really close. (While he's doing that, he's being super adorable and it's just so feels-inducing.) Meanwhile, he's also struggling with his feelings towards his father, and he just wants some answers, which is why he reaches out to Cid.
Cid, of course, never writes letters. He only wrote one because Leon wanted a response and Aerith pestered him to do it. This particular letter of Cid's gave me so many feels and it was not okay! Because Cid is a father figure to Leon, it's just not the most obvious relationship in the worlds. But Cid really does want the best for Leon, as a weird mixture of an older-brother-father-figure-ish-thing. The age difference is something I haven't quite figured out, but, all the same, ugh, Cid, feels!
I really love how the different styles showed up. I think I really pulled that off. Aerith's very detailed in her letters. She wants to let the people she's writing to know exactly what's going on. But, outside of that, the letters become a place where she ends up voicing her most inner thoughts.
Leon, on the other hand, doesn't really have a logical order to his letters. They're very stream of consciousness, because he's still trying to figure everything out as he's writing it. The letter writing is a way that he organizes his thoughts, which ends up making the letters unorganized. However, for the things he does know and has figured out, he ends up being very brief, because why waste the time otherwise?
Cid's style is a lot how Cid just talks. In this particular letter, he was telling a story, so I can't really narrow down if all of his letters are/would be like this. All the same, he doesn't write letters often, so, he probably has a lot to say (even if it's only one one particular subject) when he does write letters.
Anywho, that's all I have to say. This vid is awesome.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Rinoa's Inner Fight (26)
Well, I'm not behind on homework anymore. But I'm certainly not ahead either. Oi.
Anyway, link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/26/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch26/chrono/
So, once again, I've got a chapter that's split up into four sections. The FFVIII arc takes up half of it, then I have Denzel's birth slid in as well as the ending sequence involving Lea and Isa (now Axel and Saix.)
I do feel bad for Zell, because he's kind of just standing there awkwardly while everyone else figures out their next move. Laguna's super apologetic after what happened and he wants to make it up to Leon and Leon's just like "go away, I never liked you anyway."
So, this is where I start being super mean to Rinoa though. Originally, Ultimecia was supposed to come and absorb Adel's powers before Rinoa could get to them. This would then of course spurn a ton of "oh crap, we have to kill her before she kills us all now!" But as I was writing, I got to thinking that I liked the idea of Adel trying to make Rinoa a vessel again. I thought "oh crap, that's mean", but I just couldn't resist! Once I had it worked out, I was super in love with the idea, so it stuck. It spawned this in my outline:
"Before they even leave Esthar, Rinoa suddenly loses control of the second set of Sorceress' powers. Adel's consciousness overpowers her and Rinoa is essentially possessed by Adel. She starts destroying Esthar. Esthar police come and lock Rinoa up in the containment facility."
So, yup, that happened.
Outside of that, I decided to give the chapter with Denzel's birth as a marker for where we are in the timeline, more than anything else.
Same thing goes for Lea and Isa. Though, they have a little bit more plot involved. This marks when they're found by the organization, specifically Xigbar. I also tried to show Lea's apprehension about the whole thing. Lea and Isa's friendship is still intact though, at this point. For now, at least.
Anyway, let's do review responses.
archsage from chapter 25: Yes. Oh dear is right.
From chapter 26: I'm glad you're finding things to be getting more and more interesting. To answer your question about locations of other people: Marlene isn't born yet, Vincent and the others are around. (I know, so specific, huh?) Other than that, no, I haven't read that particular fic, maybe I will when I get a chance.
KKBeckett: Yes, Leon would really like it if Laguna stopped helping. Not that that's going to happen anytime soon. And, yeah, Axel's a little over it all.
Anyway, this video is just for fun and giggles. There was a post on tumblr that highlighted the piece of music (one that my cello teacher had hanging on her wall for laughs). My friend (who doesn't play music) was talking about how that should be possible. But... it's not. It's just... not. Not for one person playing everything.
Anyway, link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/26/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch26/chrono/
So, once again, I've got a chapter that's split up into four sections. The FFVIII arc takes up half of it, then I have Denzel's birth slid in as well as the ending sequence involving Lea and Isa (now Axel and Saix.)
I do feel bad for Zell, because he's kind of just standing there awkwardly while everyone else figures out their next move. Laguna's super apologetic after what happened and he wants to make it up to Leon and Leon's just like "go away, I never liked you anyway."
So, this is where I start being super mean to Rinoa though. Originally, Ultimecia was supposed to come and absorb Adel's powers before Rinoa could get to them. This would then of course spurn a ton of "oh crap, we have to kill her before she kills us all now!" But as I was writing, I got to thinking that I liked the idea of Adel trying to make Rinoa a vessel again. I thought "oh crap, that's mean", but I just couldn't resist! Once I had it worked out, I was super in love with the idea, so it stuck. It spawned this in my outline:
"Before they even leave Esthar, Rinoa suddenly loses control of the second set of Sorceress' powers. Adel's consciousness overpowers her and Rinoa is essentially possessed by Adel. She starts destroying Esthar. Esthar police come and lock Rinoa up in the containment facility."
So, yup, that happened.
Outside of that, I decided to give the chapter with Denzel's birth as a marker for where we are in the timeline, more than anything else.
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Anyway, let's do review responses.
archsage from chapter 25: Yes. Oh dear is right.
From chapter 26: I'm glad you're finding things to be getting more and more interesting. To answer your question about locations of other people: Marlene isn't born yet, Vincent and the others are around. (I know, so specific, huh?) Other than that, no, I haven't read that particular fic, maybe I will when I get a chance.
KKBeckett: Yes, Leon would really like it if Laguna stopped helping. Not that that's going to happen anytime soon. And, yeah, Axel's a little over it all.
Anyway, this video is just for fun and giggles. There was a post on tumblr that highlighted the piece of music (one that my cello teacher had hanging on her wall for laughs). My friend (who doesn't play music) was talking about how that should be possible. But... it's not. It's just... not. Not for one person playing everything.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The Final Fight Against Genesis (25)
Link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/25/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch25/chrono
If you look at the timestamps on those, it's because one is a liveblog, and the other is more thoughts that I added later. Heh.
So, anyway, I could give you a beautiful epic picture of Zack fighting Genesis. However, I'm going to give you this photo instead:
Photo put up by ~Rinoafox on dA. Because while, yes, it has absolutely nothing to do with the chapter, it's absolutely hilarious. Because, seriously. Hojo. Go die.
Anyway, moving on.
I outlined absolutely nothing for this chapter. I just knew there would be a final confrontation with Genesis. At the time when I was writing this, I had yet to actually beat Crisis Core, so I went and watched the final battle on YouTube because it wasn't like I was spoiling myself, I knew what happened anyway after watching rar play it. (Why did I just try to type "R" and leave it at that? Rar is not a dead Replica...) Okay then. Moving on.
Of course, as soon as I'm done writing this chapter, I go up against Genesis anyway (not the final battle, but the one you have in between the battle in Modeoheim and Banora. Anyone remember what I'm talking about? I forget. It happened in a cave of sorts. Oi.)
Anyway, the syringe with the boosted degradation, not entirely sure where that came from. It just happened. So... yeah.
But no, the parallels between Axel/Saix and Angeal/Genesis were NOT OKAY ON SO MANY LEVELS. MY GOSH. UGH. CAN YOU...? CAN YOU NOT?!?
If you want to know specifically the Axel/Saix feels I'm having, go read the last few chapters of All the Pieces. Actually, I'm referring specifically to chapters 88 and 89.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6772185/88/All-the-Pieces-Lie-Where-they-Fell
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6772185/89/All-the-Pieces-Lie-Where-they-Fell
Yeah.... those chapters. Ugh. Feels. Not okay guys, seriously.
I'm trying to remember what Zack was having a problem with... I think it had something to do with not striking Genesis when he's down, or perhaps just killing Genesis in general. Zack was trying to be honorable and it was like, no, Zack... you need to kill him. You can't save him. THINK OF AERITH.
Anyway, that's pretty much all I have to say about that for now.
Review Responses: (I may just have a lot here)
KKBeckett: Oh, don't mind Genesis, he's only trying to bring about Angeal's demise. But yeah, Angeal's okay for the moment. Zack... well... we'll get to that.
MoonlightStar: (chapters 1-16):
I shall respond to the questions that don't get answered later so I don't spoil you.
So, yes, Yuffie's a lot younger than Leon. I won't be shipping the two. I tend not to ship across game. Just as a personal thing.
Rinoa will eventually meet Zack. They don't tend to speak a whole ton, now that I think about that. Huh. Food for my own thoughts.
Anyway, you okay? You appear to be having a lot of feels.
And that's that for now. Have a video! (Because I can't think of anything else right now, have one of my current obsessions:)
Link to tumbl: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch25/chrono
If you look at the timestamps on those, it's because one is a liveblog, and the other is more thoughts that I added later. Heh.
So, anyway, I could give you a beautiful epic picture of Zack fighting Genesis. However, I'm going to give you this photo instead:
Photo put up by ~Rinoafox on dA. Because while, yes, it has absolutely nothing to do with the chapter, it's absolutely hilarious. Because, seriously. Hojo. Go die.
Anyway, moving on.
I outlined absolutely nothing for this chapter. I just knew there would be a final confrontation with Genesis. At the time when I was writing this, I had yet to actually beat Crisis Core, so I went and watched the final battle on YouTube because it wasn't like I was spoiling myself, I knew what happened anyway after watching rar play it. (Why did I just try to type "R" and leave it at that? Rar is not a dead Replica...) Okay then. Moving on.
Of course, as soon as I'm done writing this chapter, I go up against Genesis anyway (not the final battle, but the one you have in between the battle in Modeoheim and Banora. Anyone remember what I'm talking about? I forget. It happened in a cave of sorts. Oi.)
Anyway, the syringe with the boosted degradation, not entirely sure where that came from. It just happened. So... yeah.
But no, the parallels between Axel/Saix and Angeal/Genesis were NOT OKAY ON SO MANY LEVELS. MY GOSH. UGH. CAN YOU...? CAN YOU NOT?!?
If you want to know specifically the Axel/Saix feels I'm having, go read the last few chapters of All the Pieces. Actually, I'm referring specifically to chapters 88 and 89.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6772185/88/All-the-Pieces-Lie-Where-they-Fell
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6772185/89/All-the-Pieces-Lie-Where-they-Fell
Yeah.... those chapters. Ugh. Feels. Not okay guys, seriously.
I'm trying to remember what Zack was having a problem with... I think it had something to do with not striking Genesis when he's down, or perhaps just killing Genesis in general. Zack was trying to be honorable and it was like, no, Zack... you need to kill him. You can't save him. THINK OF AERITH.
Anyway, that's pretty much all I have to say about that for now.
Review Responses: (I may just have a lot here)
KKBeckett: Oh, don't mind Genesis, he's only trying to bring about Angeal's demise. But yeah, Angeal's okay for the moment. Zack... well... we'll get to that.
MoonlightStar: (chapters 1-16):
I shall respond to the questions that don't get answered later so I don't spoil you.
So, yes, Yuffie's a lot younger than Leon. I won't be shipping the two. I tend not to ship across game. Just as a personal thing.
Rinoa will eventually meet Zack. They don't tend to speak a whole ton, now that I think about that. Huh. Food for my own thoughts.
Anyway, you okay? You appear to be having a lot of feels.
And that's that for now. Have a video! (Because I can't think of anything else right now, have one of my current obsessions:)
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Stories about Fights (24)
Or something lame like that.
I'm actually super sorry that I haven't been posting/updating the blog. I literally don't have time and it's not cool. Stupid school. I mean, I get it... I need it... but... ugh.
Link to the chapter (just in case you've all forgotten which one i'm referring to): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/24/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the livetumbl (which I filled in earlier this evening in my abundant spare time (don't let it fool you, I actually didn't have any, I was doing that while I was eating dinner)): http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch24/chrono
I'll admit, the picture on the left technically depicts events that have yet to occur, but this is the chapter where the picture fits best. And when I stumbled across that picture (while looking for OTHER pictures, I fell in love with it instantly. Heh.) I just love Squall's face.
So anyway, I knew all along that Rinoa was going to be the one to recognize Laguna as her mother's mercenary, considering she's the only person in the room who can actually make THAT connection. Squall, however, gets to realize that the man in front of him is actually his father. And he's not super happy about it. I mean, think about it, your father figure disappeared before you were even born and now you're finding him 18 years later? Yeah. No. Thanks for nothing, dad.
However, this is also the chapter that features Laguna's story. So, my story in a story. It's similar to Laguna's story in FFVIII, just with the addition of extra Worlds, really. I realize now, looking back on it, that it's completely dumb for him NOT to have finished that letter, but... Laguna's a very emotional man and in his grief, he simply didn't finish it. Or something like that. Because, that's what had to happen. I swear, this is FFVIII's doing, not mine. I'll continue on with Laguna's sob story in a couple of chapters (when I get the chance) mostly because that's when the rest of this goes down.
Quick Review Response, Kiros and Ward will likely not be making an appearance. They may make a cameo much later in the story, but I make no promises. I've got a ton of characters to deal with already. Heh.
Anyway, have another Vocaloid video: (I'm in a mood)
I'm actually super sorry that I haven't been posting/updating the blog. I literally don't have time and it's not cool. Stupid school. I mean, I get it... I need it... but... ugh.
Link to the chapter (just in case you've all forgotten which one i'm referring to): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/24/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the livetumbl (which I filled in earlier this evening in my abundant spare time (don't let it fool you, I actually didn't have any, I was doing that while I was eating dinner)): http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch24/chrono
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| by `Ahr0 on dA |
So anyway, I knew all along that Rinoa was going to be the one to recognize Laguna as her mother's mercenary, considering she's the only person in the room who can actually make THAT connection. Squall, however, gets to realize that the man in front of him is actually his father. And he's not super happy about it. I mean, think about it, your father figure disappeared before you were even born and now you're finding him 18 years later? Yeah. No. Thanks for nothing, dad.
However, this is also the chapter that features Laguna's story. So, my story in a story. It's similar to Laguna's story in FFVIII, just with the addition of extra Worlds, really. I realize now, looking back on it, that it's completely dumb for him NOT to have finished that letter, but... Laguna's a very emotional man and in his grief, he simply didn't finish it. Or something like that. Because, that's what had to happen. I swear, this is FFVIII's doing, not mine. I'll continue on with Laguna's sob story in a couple of chapters (when I get the chance) mostly because that's when the rest of this goes down.
Quick Review Response, Kiros and Ward will likely not be making an appearance. They may make a cameo much later in the story, but I make no promises. I've got a ton of characters to deal with already. Heh.
Anyway, have another Vocaloid video: (I'm in a mood)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Quiet after the Fight (23)
(So, going with the fight theme, despite there not really being a fight in this chapter, I got lucky there was a fight earlier in Traverse Town. (Obviously, I don't plan the blog titles as I'm writing the chapters.) However, 'fighting' is a very prevalent theme in this current section of chapters.)
Convenient link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/23/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the very not exciting livetumbl for this chapter: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch23
Basically, the only thing that I liveblogged was that I hit 50K. (Officially novel length!) And the Zerith chapter is just so adorable that I didn't blog anything about it because I was too busy dying of cuteness.
So... yeah.
Basically, I wasn't really sure initially what was going to go on in this chapter, I just knew that Zack would be visiting (as he does occasionally) and he and Aerith would go do something. I also made reference to the fact that they write, because all throughout this, the two of them are writing. Aerith is also keeping in contact with Leon. So, yeah.
But somewhere in there, the Zerith feels took over and it was adorable.
This also marks the point at which Zack occasionally takes Aerith out for an afternoon or an evening and shows her exciting or pretty sights. He's usually pretty good about not taking her places where Heartless will ruin their plans.
I also mention here that Zack shows up in Fifth District. In the future, he'll start showing up right outside the hotel again. It becomes a habit. See if you can spot why. (Look in future chapters, or start guessing, I'm game for guessing!)
So, um, yeah, let's do Review Responses.
From SpiritDreamWarriors: Yes! Zack and Aerith are adorably romantic! However, I can't tell you what happened to Cloud just yet. You'll see in upcoming chapters.
From archsage: I will admit outright that writing for Yuffie is hard. She's just at an odd age that isn't full of the childlike innocence that we got in Kairi, but she's also not old enough to be a reliable narrator. I will get a Yuffie chapter in here eventually, however, promise!
From KKBeckett: No, Genesis is not responsible for the darkness. Ansem is. No one recognizes it yet, however. Yes, those are Emblem Heartless. They're a thing now! And, Zack and Aerith ended up on the shores above Atlantica (aka, Prince Eric's castle.)
For your other comment, I'm going to go on a little bit of a spew about...
It's so weird to me that Leon's gone for as long as he is! I never intended him to be gone for so long, but to properly incorporate the FFVIII arc, it got stretched out over a span of a couple of years. Which means Leon is absent from Traverse Town for a couple of years. It is WEIRD. Let me tell you. What's also weird, is that Zack and Cloud haven't met yet. I mean, I took individual plot lines from Crisis Core and put them in a completely different order... but Zack hasn't met Cloud yet and that's ALSO weird to me. (I may have several other conniptions about this later, just wait.)
But for now, that's all. Have a video! (This is not the one I had next in my blog video queue, but it's quite the gem...)
Convenient link to the chapter: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9446325/23/What-s-all-Gone-on-Before
Link to the very not exciting livetumbl for this chapter: http://magiksbrain.tumblr.com/tagged/ch23
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| by ~bunbun-da-bunni on dA |
So... yeah.
Basically, I wasn't really sure initially what was going to go on in this chapter, I just knew that Zack would be visiting (as he does occasionally) and he and Aerith would go do something. I also made reference to the fact that they write, because all throughout this, the two of them are writing. Aerith is also keeping in contact with Leon. So, yeah.
But somewhere in there, the Zerith feels took over and it was adorable.
This also marks the point at which Zack occasionally takes Aerith out for an afternoon or an evening and shows her exciting or pretty sights. He's usually pretty good about not taking her places where Heartless will ruin their plans.
I also mention here that Zack shows up in Fifth District. In the future, he'll start showing up right outside the hotel again. It becomes a habit. See if you can spot why. (Look in future chapters, or start guessing, I'm game for guessing!)
So, um, yeah, let's do Review Responses.
From SpiritDreamWarriors: Yes! Zack and Aerith are adorably romantic! However, I can't tell you what happened to Cloud just yet. You'll see in upcoming chapters.
From archsage: I will admit outright that writing for Yuffie is hard. She's just at an odd age that isn't full of the childlike innocence that we got in Kairi, but she's also not old enough to be a reliable narrator. I will get a Yuffie chapter in here eventually, however, promise!
From KKBeckett: No, Genesis is not responsible for the darkness. Ansem is. No one recognizes it yet, however. Yes, those are Emblem Heartless. They're a thing now! And, Zack and Aerith ended up on the shores above Atlantica (aka, Prince Eric's castle.)
For your other comment, I'm going to go on a little bit of a spew about...
It's so weird to me that Leon's gone for as long as he is! I never intended him to be gone for so long, but to properly incorporate the FFVIII arc, it got stretched out over a span of a couple of years. Which means Leon is absent from Traverse Town for a couple of years. It is WEIRD. Let me tell you. What's also weird, is that Zack and Cloud haven't met yet. I mean, I took individual plot lines from Crisis Core and put them in a completely different order... but Zack hasn't met Cloud yet and that's ALSO weird to me. (I may have several other conniptions about this later, just wait.)
But for now, that's all. Have a video! (This is not the one I had next in my blog video queue, but it's quite the gem...)
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