Dream Within a Dream

The thing with an on-going fandom, especially with canon that comes out slowly is that sometimes people just can't wait for the full story. And when that happens, people start growing attached to the characters before they know everything that's happened, start building elaborate back stories for these characters that they don't really actually know will be revealed some decades down the line and then BAM!

Canon disagrees.

Things can get pretty hard to swallow.

I know, for this is one of the reasons why Tezuka/Atobe pairing has been my OTP yet I feel less and less desire to write for it. Canon just fucks with my perception of these characters too much.

But this isn't about Tenipuri. No, this is yet another FFVII rambling.

( Because characterization is difficult )

I've never really got cosplay until...

The Battle You Never Saw

Quotes:
-"What are you waiting for?" "My time gauge to go up." *ding!*
-"Anime convention...tentacle monsters...I don't wanna get raped!"
-"Miss...miss...miss..." "Oh c'mon!" *punch* "9,999 dead."

And of course, it's sequal The Battle You Never Saw 2.0

Quotes:
-"I superglued them on." "Why?!"
-"So, bought us a summer home."
-"What the hell are we going to do about food?!" *WARK*

*giggles*

FFVII Hey, Mickey!
FFVII Ouran
FFVII Nandemonai dance
Cloud goes to the convenience store
Birthday Cloud
Cloud Be Happy
FFVII Danjo
Crisis Core Lucky Star opening
Crisis Core Utena
FFVII Compilation Code Geass R2 ending
FFVII Compilation Baccano opening
FFVII Compilation Kodomo no Jikan
FFVII Heaven and Hell w/ guest stars
Dissidia Caramelldansen
Dissidia Build up with Protein

And now for something completely different:
Pikachu Dango

I feel like I'm bursting at the seams trying to organize the thoughts in my brain into some semblance of sane and it's not working. There's just too many different angles that I want to take and too many questions I want to tackle and there's no good way to start. So, instead of trying to organize things, I'm just going to start rambling and hope that I get somewhere.

Is Zack a bit character in the FFVII story?

( Answer: No. )

Who did Aerith like better?

( Answer: Zack. And yes, her name is spelled with a 'th' dammit! )

Stop hating on the hetero!

( No, really, stop it! )

Who's stronger, Zack or Angeal?

Answer: Zack defeats Angeal and all of his clones. Zack also defeats all of Genesis clones and sort of defeats Genesis-as-final-boss. In short, the only one who gave Zack problems was Sephiroth, so it's probably safe to say that Zack is pretty much one of the strongest characters in game.

Who's stronger, Zack or Cloud?

Answer: Cloud defeats Sephiroth, Zack lost to Sephiroth. I think this is self explanatory.

And then I realize this is slightly more complicated because fanboys over think things.

( Still Cloud. )

Edit: OMFG, there's over 28 pages of this debate in a single thread. Fanboy wankage breaks my brain.

Who do you like better, Zack or Cloud?

( Answer: Zack. I know this is not my usual MO. )

Zack x Cloud?

( Answer: Because. )

And that...concludes this rambling session. @_@

I'm of the opinion that most AMVs are crap and reuse the same few scenes way too much.

But it doesn't stop being sad every time! Bawl!

Too busy curling up and crying my eyes out, kthnxbai.

Edit:
Some of the best video editing I've seen yet. Not so fond of the song choice, but props to the manip power of video editing software.

Edit:
A happier AMV to fit with Zack's optimism.

Edit:
Bawl. Just bawl.

And a disturbingly interesting take on Neon Genesis Crisis Core. o.O

Edit:
Best use of "Eiyuu" in an FF7 AMV so far.

For my own reference, cutscenes of Crisis Core, which is basically like a really weird and choppy movie. *giggles*

( Oh Zack, you so adorable! And oh SquareEnix, you so fucking shiny! )

And my conclusion after two and a half hours of cut scenes later (WTF, this game is like painfully long, isn't it?) is basically this:

Zack gone through a shit ton of angst and somehow still managed to come out of the other end better adjusted than Cloud. Oh, and also, Aerith was pretty much pining for a dead man the entirety of FFVII and Cloud was basically living his life for three people by the time of Advent Children.

This franchise is seriously messed up.

Edit:

Some more yapping on FFVII overall impression.

( This story is making me sad and I can't believe I'm actually feeling sad for a video game. )

FFVII: Advent Children in 5 seconds

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!

*gasps*

Oh god, so much yes. *giggles pathetically*


And also, tennis is a bloody, violent, contact sport.

Read Right to Left - PoT Review Part 1
Read Right to Left - PoT Review Part 2

I die from laughing. Yes, objectively PoT was much, much suck and filled with horrible writing. Even the fans complain. But the over flowing amount of gay is just too much for a yaoi fangirl to pass up.