Wednesday, September 4, 2013

WHOOPS IT'S BEEN AGES SINCE I LAST UPDATED (ch165)

My bad

As I said in the chapter, I was staying with magik, and thing's got a little hectic. I mean, I suppose I had plenty of time to upload a chapter, but it kept slipping my mind. And by the time I remembered, I was on a writing/feel venting binge and it seemed like a really really really bad idea to interrupt it

And then I was at a con.

Maybe I'll upload pictures from the con?? At least of my cosplays. (I did Aerith, Len, and a steampunk Link.) I don't think I have any pictures that don't include magik and our friend, tho, so I'll have to ask if it's cool with them. (And at that point I'm only positive I have pics of the steampunk Zelda where it's just us... haha.... I'm sure someone on facebook has photos)

ANYHOO!

I'd share a video or something, but actually, I'm gonna direct you to what has become my new favorite thing and that is FANMIXES ON 8TRACKS WHOA




(Handy link to the fanmix)

This is a Sora fanmix! And it is one of my favorites! Of course it's canon!Sora, which I probs have to specify because canon!Sora and my!Sora are a little different personality wise. Ha.

Anyway, I hope the embed worked, if it didn't, just click the handy link and that'll take you to the page and you can listen there. Yeah.

ANYWAY CHAPTER TIME



(and, per usual, I'm just gonna copy-paste my notes. Sooner or later I'll stop telling y'all that)

Yeah Riku’s totally reading the Cimorene books eheh (the "Enchanted Forest Chronicles" or "Dealing with Dragons" and the rest of the series, if that helps)

As for why Riku’s reading Dealing with Dragons—well, I wanted a book that could reasonably be on Aerith’s shelf and that he’d pick up. The books are definitely something I see Aerith—or maybe Yuffie—enjoying, and they were published back in the 1990s, which means they’re all set to be on that shelf. (I couldn’t have newer books, seeing as Hollow Bastion was plunged into darkness and remained that way for three/four years, so anything after the year 2006ish was shot—the series takes place in 2010. Sorta)

The tall bookshelf is a collection of all the books they’ve salvaged from their homes. So Aerith’s medical books and then Cid’s manuals and then Leon’s got some books and maybe Yuffie has a few kids books she’s holding onto for nostalgia’s sake. So, that tall bookshelf was probably bought/built after rediscovering Hollow Bastion and Aerith’s house. Yeah.

Riku no I don’t want you picking up a Rubik’s cube

IS IT CHEESY THAT RIKU JUST FOUND A PICTURE OF AERITH AND ZACK?? Y’KNOW I REALLY DON’T CARE AT THIS POINT

Apparently I’m using the term photo and not picture okay

Aerith and Zack wouldn't be much older than Riku in the picture. At oldest, they're 19, but I'm fairly certain they're not even that old. More like 17? They met when they were 16 ish, right? Did I ever give you guys a handy agesheet?? I should...

No see the story behind the picture? Zack and Aerith were posing just normally—Zack with his arm around Aerith though, of course. Then Zack moved at the last second; he either tripped or someone pushed him or he was just trying to be silly. So, y’know, he about knocked Aerith over and Aerith’s like “really Zack?? Was that really necessary?” but it’s not like she minded that much because she loves him so

I’M MAKING MYSELF SAD

WAIT MAYBE RIKU’S READING THE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON—WAIT NO. no those aren’t old enough. The Cimorene books are really really old so it’s possible Aerith has them, while the How to Train Your Dragon books are fairly new…

Idk if it’s going to make it in but, Riku has trouble with books because sitting still. (it did make it in.) Which is why he doesn’t read a whole lot, but he survived here by pacing with the book while he was reading. However, you can only pull that off with so many books. Probably. (Plus if the book isn’t interesting within the first five pages he’ll give up. He only didn’t here because he was determined to see what Sora was going on about and there wasn’t much better to do—plus I think the first five pages of this book are good? Maaaybe? Idk I think it focuses on Linderwall but I think Riku just kept reading because he had nothing better to do)

He was gonna read all the way to the third book, but then I decided the parallels between Mendanbar and Cimorene in the second book could provide food for thought for him—comparing them to him and Namine (or maybe Sora and Kairi, idk if he’s comfortable to think of Namine quite in that way) also Telemain is like Vexen and maybe Morwen reminds him of someone but yeah I think the second book would provide better things for him to think about if I wanted to touch on that which I might idk BUT I’D RATHER HAVE THE OPTION OPEN THAN HAVE TO GO BACK AND CHANGE IT

Plus those books take me 2/3 hours to read apiece and even if Riku’s a quicker reader than me I’m sure it took him a bit to get into it because he was trying to sit still and anyway he has maybe three hours before Aerith’s up so—idk actually if it’s been five hours and they ate dinner at 6 ish then it’s actually 11 but?? Uhm?? Idk in my head it’s 1-3 in the morning idk


OKAY WHY NOT LET’S JUST DO THE TREASURE CHEST THING NOW I DON’T SEE A PROBLEM

I’VE NEVER SPECIFICIALLY STATED SORA HAD ANY CLUE THAT HE COULD BE COLLECTING TREASURE CHESTS SOOOOOOO

There is literally no purpose to this treasure chest scene besides being amusing AND I COULDN’T CARE LESS

Whoa there Roxas not Riku whoops

Yeah Riku’s a little—ROXAS ROXAS IS A LITTLE POOP OH MY GOSH

(if it wasn't clear, I kept typing Riku instead of Roxas)

Whoops Roxas should be holding his Keyblade eheheh I’m not sure if I care enough—NO I DO SSHHH
I’M TOO LAZY TO CHANGE IT THOUGH
UGH
I’LL JUST HAVE HIM SUMMON IT AGAIN IDK

I was going to have Roxas summon his Keyblade before Sora attacked him but then I thought no he’d block Sora’s attack out of habit the purpose of this is that Sora tries out the attack

WAIT ROXAS HOW DID YOU BLOCK YOU DIDN’T HAVE YOUR KEYBLADE—

ROXAS

I think sliding dash is an attack Ven actually uses but???
(also I don’t think there’s a combo at the end UGH but you use it and get close to the enemy and then you’re just WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP TAKE THAT COMBO SUCKA)

This chapter might’ve been filler OH WELL
Idk part of this is write what you want to write because it’s fanfic so, while, yeah, it’s unnecessary, I WANTED THE TREASURE CHEST SCENE AND THE BOOK SCENE PROVIDED TRANSITION
So yeah I wrote ‘em
Even if it’s filler


No but really Riku’s only reading these books because he was like “okay Sora’s into this sort of thing what’s the fuss about” and he was bored and had nothing better to do so

Aerith is cleaning?? Idk what she does all day I know Yuffie sort of just keeps herself occupied through whatever means she can and sometimes she helps Aerith because that’s what she does but idk what Aerith’s doing now. Maybe dishes? You really should do those every day/every other day

Eheheh is that a gut feeling that something’s wrong with Namine?

Okay Yuffie is not helping Aerith with the dishes because Aerith does those by herself for some reason—I think it has something to do with Zack

Look Riku just describe teenage life in one sentence (if you focus on fictional characters you can’t worry about your own problems)

Riku really you’re as bad as Colin

Yuffie likes helping Aerith out so

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