infinity zone

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*mind explodes with possibilities of Yuber and Pesmerga's existences*

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Of course, I'm probably wrong, considering I've barely started the game. And with the nature of the game throwing so much of the series out the window, I probably shouldn't be getting wild AU ideas.

Oh wait. The Million Worlds/Infinity always gave me wild AU ideas.

Also, yay for making my long-lived fanfic idea of a Suikoden-inspired The One plot plausible, Tierkreis.

But gods, get off the crack, nameless hero. You're talking faster than the text appears on the screen.

Randomly, the names I gave of each of my Suikoden heroes during my initial playthroughs:
Suikoden: Silas McDohl
Suikoden II: Kotaro, son of Genkaku
Suikoden III: Ayuta, the Flame Champion
Suikoden IV: Roan
Suikoden V: Osiris Falenas
Suikoden Tierkreis: Daze

A: People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.

B: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that Don't tag who tagged you.

( Since I was tagged by Suzu... )

And I'm doing this other one because it looked fun...

From your current fandoms, make a list of 6 pairings you love, 6 pairings you dislike or could care less about, 6 pairings you used to like but have lost touch with, and 6 pairings you're curious about! You don't need to stick with only canon pairings, but please make sure the characters are from the same canon!

Then feel free to explain them, or ask your friends to pick which ones they would like to hear your views on or just put this up to share with all!

( Suikoden )

( Tales of Legendia )

( Luceti )

Since I've never talked about it, some belated stuff...

Valentine's Day event @ Luceti: Walter/Leon. Sephiroth/Albert. Reno/Ruto. Yes. Hilarious, hot, and snarky. I'm glad that people started shipping them right after that event -- there's nothing that I find more flattering in RP than playing characters well enough to get people to stalk them. ^^ Even though I think my Reno is sub-par. *winces*

ToDR: I need to get back involved here, at least a little. :|; I guess it doesn't help that my Tales muses are currently few and quiet. Oddly enough, my most recent activity was a fail thread with a Casey RPer. *winces again* Ugh, I shouldn't be RPing Yeager at all.

Travian: So I've gotten roped into playing the leader of a top 10 alliance while the leader is busy IRL. I don't like it; I hate doing all of this IGMing and looking up players who try to apply into the alliance. Hopefully I won't have to deal with applications now that I'm in talks with a small group who Wow together and want to be in a Travian alliance together. I'm really understating the amount of stress this game is giving me. :|;;

LORD: I've been playing it again! I don't really ... know why, but I felt like getting into it. I think this is the most I've stayed with a single character. Pfft. Maybe I'll get to change classes and soon.

Caesar: I'm such a weirdo when it comes to RPing Albert and Caesar. I love the interactions, and I'm sad to lose another Caesar to interact with. :( Oh well. It's okay. Albert's got some great interactions over in Luceti. I can't wait until he gets to talk to Genis in-depth about Raine's ... issues.

Real life: ...Really, not exciting at all and for once, I'm glad about it. I spent three weeks with my parents, and now I'm back at the apartment with my brothers. I think we're going to get snow this weekend? And I believe we're also going to go snowboarding.

daathic: Night Kukki!
griffins has entered the room.
daathic: :o
shokora_kukki: ...
daathic: Just as Kukki's leaving. :|;
greyangel: [ddy
shokora_kukki: :\
greyangel: ;fft
daathic: ...
shokora_kukki: ...
greyangel: q\EEFH
daathic: ......
greyangel: stupid keapy
greyangel: keyes
shokora_kukki: ........
greyangel: THER
greyangel: ... oh its only 4
shokora_kukki: Athena, LJ that.
daathic: Yes, ma'am. :|;
greyangel: ...
shokora_kukki: Now, I'm gonna sleep. :|

Fffff... Probably old news to some people, but Advent Children Complete? Hell yeah, Rude with a bazooka! It's nice to see Tseng a little more too, but Rude with a bazooka. Reno and Rude being completely badass in the helicopter. Maybe it's a good thing I never got the original Advent Children movie. :| I want this.

In other news... Hmmm. I've got almost all of my papers to do my taxes; just waiting for the paperwork for my bank CD. I never want to take the time to actually do them, even though they've been relatively simple because I've just been working one job. I guess last year was the first time I collected from two W2s, moving from school research to my internship. And now, for 2008, I moved from my internship to my contractor work. And I'm still wondering if I'm going to end up owing taxes just because those two tax brackets may be totally different. I don't know how the firm projects how much a contractor makes in a year when projects may pay different rates. I guess they may still have a bracket for a "junior grade technical editor" and work off of that. Blah blah blah...

Spending this week at my parents' house; got a doctor's appointment in the middle of the week, so I need to stay in town for it. Little sister doesn't have school tomorrow/today, so we'll just hang out while I'm not working. I'll probably end up avoiding watching her play Persona 3; she's near the end already, and I kinda want to watch the ending for myself. :|;;

I started up on a S5 on Travian earlier this week with some veterans from other servers. I've got six alliance and confederacy members in my 7x7, and they've cleared all of the surrounding villages, so I can farm without losing troops. I'm psyched that the alliance I'm in is ranked first on the server; I've never been an alliance that's dominated a server before, so it's awesome to see how real players coordinate attacks. I've also got the leader's ear because we met on another server on an alliance that is struggling along; he liked my levelheadedness and playing style, so he invited me to join him while he gathered other players he's played with. He'd told me before that he had successfully led strong alliances on other servers, but holy crap, rank 1 blows my mind. And I'm the alliance diplomat, so I get to negotiate nonaggression pacts (NAPs) and confederation deals.

Some of the sadder application attempts I received yesterday (read from bottom up):

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Athena wrote:

Sorry man, come back when you learn to make complete sentences.
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quebecois wrote:

hey men plzzz y resting a place with me in this aliance


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Athena wrote:

Sorry, but no. Come back when you've learned some tact and have a better alliance.
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bigfoot42_ wrote:

can we make conferations plz


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So I'm basically the alliance strategist, telling all of these peons "Hell no, we don't need you or your alliance -- you're dead weight in our total quadrant takeover" (but always more eloquently written). I feel like a damn Silverberg.

Got more Suikoden III doujinshi yesterday: Siren, Shagadelic Soul, and 本日さよなら日和. Looks like Siren is set in the Lotus world ... or maybe some sort of dream, since it's so surreal. Like teenage Albert talking to another [weaker] version of him and smiling as it is dragged into the water by a sea of hands. Then teen Albert talks to little Caesar, who is splashing around in the lotus water...

Shagadelic Soul's got cracky Destroyers stuff and some young Percival and Borus ... as well as Salome looking disturbingly like Piccolo (DBZ)... Then 本日さよなら日和 ... has Caesar finding a dead dog(?) in a bush and talking to Albert (said conversation ends up upsetting Caesar a lot), and Yuber and Albert talking as Albert bleeds to death in a battlefield.

Awesome. I love not being able to read kanji.

( Other doujinshi I have. ...Mostly about the Silverberg brothers. )

So. Months upon months ago, I was obsessing over Fire Emblem 10 and Suikoden. And one day, I got bored and started imagining a storyline where people ended up in the Fire Emblem 9/10 world of Tellius and inexplicably became Laguz.

...Yeah, that's right. Some Suikoden people would have the ability to transform into birds, dragons, or beasts. It was a weird train of thought. :|;

I dug up a pair of dice and set up a random system to figure out who would become what tribe and race. And then I took my favorite characters and rolled the dice. >_>

Laguz Breakdown

Two dice: Tribe, Race
Tribe: 1 & 4 = Beast, 2 & 5 = Bird, 3 & 6 = Dragon

Race: Beast 1 & 4 = Cat, 2 & 5 = Tiger, 3 & 6 = Lion
Bird 1 & 4 = Hawk, 2 & 5 = Heron, 3 & 6 = Crow
Dragon 1 & 4 = Red Dragon, 2 & 5 = White Dragon, 3 & 6 = Black Dragon

( Chris: (2,5) Bird, Heron )

...Yes, I am weird. And totally going to sleep now.

I'm having a ridiculous amount of fun just making icons of Yuber even if they're simple as heck. And I get to traumatize Albert at the same time. Whoo hoo!

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 52
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 119
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: No need (thank you, Sapph!)
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: ...Not really? Probably that I'm startlingly bland?
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Suikoden [III]
AND THE SECOND MOST: Tales [of Legendia]
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Walter/Shirley and Albert/Caesar :|;;
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Yes.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: ...Yes.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: ...No.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Okay as long as they are funny.

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I was running around most of yesterday getting things ready for our annual family Christmas party. I like how the parties have slowly become less of a glamorous affair each year; no Chinese-dressed theme or anything silly like that this year.

I'll make a list of things I received this Christmas and add it to this entry later on. I've just got a few things, but I'm happy with them. ♥

For our secret Santa gift exchange, I got my cousin Nintendo T-shirts and a Prinny. You know you got them something good when they're already joking about scenarios where they can show off the T-shirt (it's a black shirt with a purple poison mushroom and the words Game Over on it).

I'm worried about the weather, though. We've thankfully had clear weather for the last three days, but it's currently snowing outside. And my parents and sister have to head home today, since my mom has to work on Friday. I hope they'll figure something out...

And now I'm going back to bed. Need more sleep.

( The list of presents )