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.

by Kimika 

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!

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

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by VanEvil

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!