Chapter commentary for ch197

Guess what I forgot to do again? That's right. Convert the Joseph and 29 feels from ch195 to story format. Ahhhhhh

BUT!!! Instead of playlist this time I'm going to bring something important to note!

VIDEO GAME SOUNDTRACK 100% FREE DOWNLOADS YOOOOOOOOO

Paper Mario music (all games but Sticker Star)

And then a longer list of various VGM to download

Important soundtracks to note:

• Luigi's Mansion
• Pokemon XY (which I know a lot of people want)
• Super Mario 3D World big band performance WOW it's good and I haven't played the game
• Super Smash Bros Melee: Smashing... Live! AND TRUST ME YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD THIS IT IS SOOOOO GOOOODDDDDDDDD

I am about 99.99999% positive these are virus free. I didn't download all of them, but I definitely downloaded one soundtrack from each source and if one soundtrack didn't have a virus why would any of the others, y'know?

OH BUT YOU WILL NEED A RAR EXTRACTOR hangon

This is the one I own, but CNET is also offering one and it sounds just fine

BUT YEAH I THOUGHT THIS WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE. VIDEO GAME MUSIC. FREE. THAT YOU NORMALLY CAN'T ACCESS BECAUSE IT'S ONLY AVAILABLE IN JAPAN. AND ALSO FREE.

Anyhoo chapter time now yowza

Read it!

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I see people giving the whole “Kairi being pure” a bad rap like

I mean I guess I get the whole mentality that girls are perfect and maidens and pure and junk is a little harmful and we’d probably be better without it

It doesn’t mean

That Kairi can’t be BA

Ven can still be BA can’t he? He’s pure light

Why does that make a difference in Kairi??? just because she’s a girl??

Besides I’d really love to see Kairi—a pure princess—do some serious ass kicking and other shit because it’s like “oh look at me your perceptions of me and being ‘pure’ are completely screwed just because I’m pure doesn’t mean I’m perfect”

Or something

Idk I’d be much more impressed if she did some BA shit while being pure light than having Nomura come up and be like “nvm she actually has darkness” because that’s another fucking retcon in this series like what the hell can you stop?

(also in various Zelda games Zelda is a pure maiden whatever and she still gets shit done why should it hold Kairi back like really)

HE LITERALLY TOOK VEN’S BATTLE STANCE THO

Roxas is literally 100% Ven right now what the heckie. Rubbing his hands together. Even the laughing “oh who am I kidding” and thEN HE GOES AND WINGBLADES SO UH

Kairi needs to meet Cole. Uh.

(Tbh I should put her and Cole and Ven in a room and just watch they are three completely different outlets of "pure light" it'd be interesting)

THIS ACTUALLY CAME TO MIND THO BECAUSE I HAD COLE TEACHING VEN LIGHT ATTACKS AND VICE VERSA AND THEORETICALLY IF I GO THROUGH WITH THE NOTAFIC CROSSOVER THAT'LL END UP IN BOOK4.5 BUT I MAY NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT. I'm on the fence.

“that drained you quite a bit, didn’t it?” he can totes see her HP

This is wingblade but theoretically he could do something like this with Xaldin’s moveset? Or aNy mOvESET?? JUST WITH LIGHT INSTEAD OF A WEAPON??

GDDDDDDDDDDDD HE PROBALBY COULD

I remember I thought of this because Wingblade's finisher and then Xaldin's finisher are the same. Six blades/lances hitting the ground around you then OW A LOT OF DAMAGE basically 

He could basically do this with everyone's moveset. Knives made of light. Shield of light. Chakrams made of light? I COULD KEEP GOING HE COULD DO IT WITH EVERYTHING HONESTLY I wonnderrrrr if he tries it on Xemnas like I don't think he ever sees Xemnas fight but Imagine Roxas with Xemnas's attacks like that finisher in kh2 that basically kills you where he does the spinny thing like he's a wheel I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT I PROMISE

Oh gosh but Roxas shows her the stance again because that's how he learns he learns through imitation. If he sees it he can do it and it doesn't entirely occur to him that other people learn differently--he largely goes over to fix Kairi out of annoyance

I wonder what Tifa’s thinking as she’s watching

I wonder if she’s snorting under her breath and having a really hard time covering it up

I literally did that just so I could get them close and awkward which is literally why anyone does that ever. I’ve never seen someone legit pull this for real and not do it “for real” as a plot excuse to get them close and personal

(See: Avatar the Last Airbender and the Octopus Stance which is sort of where I got this idea heh)

Tbh Roxas's pointer "you need a wider stance" was also taken from Avatar. At least I'm comfortable knowing they did their research.

Roxas is really reminding me of Ven rn

(He's being really laid back and that's definitely Ven)

Aaahhhhhhhh and it’s just a cute little line up. Ending with that beach date thing.

Just the tension between them and familiarity with each other because he’s like Sora and she’s like Xion and so it’s just

There

Sexual tension

She basically asked him out on a date

It’s perf