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Jan. 31st, 2006 03:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tammaiyaSo today, I was totally social! I met up with Eugenie (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sanguia) in Civic at around one, miraculously managing not to miss the bus. (I fail at buses, okay.) We have an awesome time pimping around in Civic, swapping goodies, eating at a dubious noodle place for lunch, dropping by JBs to pick up blank cds for me and black dvds for her, and discuss the virtues of geek life. Eugenie had to split at 3, so I texted Leareth (god I'm glad I got my phone fixed over Christmas and can now text)-- she moved here last night, and I knew she was in the Civic area, so I was like "homg MEETING YEY!"
I will interrupt myself at this point to add that when I was leaving the house there were tradesmen, and I left one of the sliding doors unlocked and they set off the alarm. ^^; This pissed my mum off because she had to go home to turn it off, but as for the relevance of this tale: she took the dog with her back to Civic and put her in dad's office, so Leareth and I went to the office so she could meet my little poodle. Also, my dad. Who thought she was Japanese. I'm not quite sure why, though I did correct him on this. XD We hung in Civic for a while and went back to her temporary apartment, which was really nice and quite cool despite lack of aircon. We giggled over S&S doujin; I could translate most of it off-hand but there were a few kanji that tripped me up and obviously they were the ones that RECURRED. rah!
Um, also, Leareth, I actually left them at your place. Also I think I may have left my sunglasses. Hehe, oops. *loses at organisation, so totally*
So after THAT I was heading back across Civic to catch the bus when I realised I was missing my sunglasses and went to check the gelato place, on the way running into Katie, who'd just finished work and was working in home, since she is living in Civic now. (My sunglasses weren't there, btw, which is why I hope I left them at Leareth's.) That was really fun-- we caught up, and she very kindly and very awesomely offered me a lift home when my dad rang to see what my plans were. <3
Got home, talked to Ji and Becky on the net for a while, and then was like OMG OMG MARI AND SIS ARE HOME and called them and now I will see them tomorrow for the first time in like two months yay yay yay and get to see their hair, Mari totally wouldn't tell me what length sis cut hers to so it'll be a surprise, and just. YAY.
Back to the usual channel, I have a KHII icon now; I'm not sure whether I like it or not but I had fun bombarding it with special filters and adjusting the modes and whatnot. That's how I always make icons, which means it takes forever and I have trouble duplicating the effect, but it's fun and I generally like how it turns out. XD The text says, "I was adored once, too." which is a quote from Twelfth Night and was in fact not emo in its original context but is definitely emo here. >D Text down the bottom says "Roxas", because it fit better than Rocksas and looks like it will be the romanisation they'll go for. OH well. Ji says it's creepy the way Roxas stares at you. Heh.
Now, I try valiantly to reconstruct the KHII summary I STUPIDLY SAVED OVER. Agh.
So I totally lost this post after spending forever on it due to my own stupidity. SIGH. Anyway, let's see how much of this I can remember, hm? Don't worry, the wrong is all still perfectly intact. *g*
Ubiquitous Pete
On to Agrabah! When you first enter the city, you all recognise it and wonder where Aladdin is. Iago, having escaped from Jafar's lamp, flies up to you and is all "Repentance! Woe! Believe & forgive me plz!" (yey, I love Iago! And not just for his name. Because I totally didn't know jack about Othello when I first watched Aladdin. It has a lot to do with the fact that I used to watch the Aladdin series when I was younger. Which, okay. Disney sequels are lame, I know, but I really liked it. And non-evil!Iago is just so fun! And, uh... this is a really long, pointless and tangential parenthesis. Oops. XD) Sora is rather dubious about this, but then you get accosted by large numbers of Heartless and Iago helps you make a break for it, so you decide to give him a chance. You ask where Aladdin is, and Iago tells you he's at the Palace, so you head over there and run into Jasmine. She tells you Aladdin isn't around; recently he's been going into town a lot and she's worried about him, because he doesn't quite seem his usual cheerful self recently and she doesn't know what's wrong. (She's gorgeous as ever-- I adore Jasmine-- though her Japanese voice doesn't quite suit. It's a little too girly, if that makes any sense. Jasmine is a very strong-willed, self-sufficient young woman and her English voice reflects this, lower and smoother than most female voices.) Then she sees Iago and freaks, running off to warn people before Sora can tell her it's okay.
Anyhoo, back to Agrabah city. Abu runs past clutching a lamp, Aladdin chases after him with a driveby "HI SORA" and a short-arse merchant brings up the rear, shouting "STOP THIEF!".
Aaah, just like old times. Natsukashii, ne...
So Aladdin catches up to Abu and scolds him, making him give the lamp back to the merchant. Aladdin, by the way, is still dressed as a street rat. You have the usual catch up talk, yo, s'up, all that. You ask him why he's been down lately and spending so much time in town, and he wants to know who told you that. You tell him Jasmine, and that she's worried about him. Donald asks if he's got a girlfriend in town, nudge nudge wink wink, and I roll my eyes at Donald's incredible thickness.
Aladdin says no, but he's fallen in love with Jasmine. Aaw. Though this does prove that they're not actually together yet, which I suspected from Aladdin's attire.
He then tells you he's down because he misses Genie, who is on holidays enjoying his freedom, and that he goes to town to try and recapture the feeling of Genie's liveliness. Interesting stuff happens in town. Like, for example, meeting YOU.
He also wants to know what Iago is doing there. You're all like, repentance, yo, he seems sincere, and then we notice that Iago is totally freaking over something. That was Jafar's lamp! he squawks. Aladdin wants to know if he's sure, but Iago points out hell, he was trapped in it, he oughta know, so Iago will be dealt with later and for now we go to find the merchant.
...Who demands extortionist prices. SIGH. Aladdin says he doesn't want to ask the Palace for it because it's not his money and we can't say why we want it because we don't want everyone to panic. Iago suggests the Cave of Wonders, and Aladdin says if Iago leads them safely there and back, THEN he'll trust him. So it's back to the good ol' Cave o' Wonders, yay.
Right before you enter the Cave of Wonders area, you (you being the player, not Sora-tachi) see Pete running inside it. Then Sora-tachi follow suit unknowingly. It's a fairly uneventful journey down through the cave; there's a bit where there's a trap involving periodic waves and you have to make sure both you and Abu jump them (though Abu is more important), and this bash Heartless within a time limit thing which later becomes a minigame. After that last one, you end up in the treasure room, where Donald becomes unhealthily fascinated by that red jewel that causes all the trouble in the Aladdin movie. Hm, ominous. He doesn't get a chance to be an idiot about it, though, because Pete comes out of hiding and is all "Hah hah, suckers! *sics Heartless upon you*" and you have to worry about finishing them off and getting back to Agrabah to retrieve Jafar's lamp.
When you get there, though, you've been beaten to it by Pete. Doesn't sound like the merchant is too thrilled with this idea, though, because even though Pete has the cash he ends up nicking the lamp and running off with the merchant chasing after him in an amusing stereotypical cartoon way where they keep grabbing it back and forth-- "Give it back! *yoink*" "Got it! *yoinks and holds above head*" "It's mine!" "Sucked in!"
At this point Iago zooms through and grabs the lamp right from Pete's hand, and leads both Pete and merchant on a merry chase until they crash into the wall. Heh. He then spoils this, however, by crashing into the wall himself, and Pete grabs the lamp back.
Before he can do anything with it, though, Genie explodes back onto the scene with style, grabbing Pete in a massive bear hug and babbling on about how much he missed you, Al, he just had to come back to see you, sorry if he's interrupting anything with Jasmine, etc etc etc, not noticing that he's squeezing the life out of a very put upon Pete and that Aladdin is standing behind him going "Genie? Uh, Genie?" until finally Aladdin taps him on the shoulder.
Genie: Huh? ... AL! *lifts Aladdin up into a huge hug*
Meanwhile, I'm like... I DON'T WANT TO GO THERE. WHY DO YOU MAKE THIS SO HARD FOR ME? Stop being so gay! I don't WANT to ship you! I like Jasmine! Genie is blue! Agh so wrong! and go off to cry in a corner and scrub my brain out with soap.
Pete, gasping for breath and very cranky, summons up two big Heartless, one fire and one ice, and disappears off minus lamp. You beat up those, and then go ditch the lamp in a stone crypt. Siobhan mutters that this is so totally going to come back to bite us, but hey, no one asked ME. You then say goodbye to Jasmine and Genie (Aladdin is off somewhere). Iago is going to hang around because everyone has accepted his mending of his ways, but you have to go find Riku and Ou-sama, so you have to continue on. Abu and Aladdin run in, Abu with the red jewel. Everyone scolds Abu, especially Donald-- who gets that unhealthy gleam in his eyes and picks the jewel up, pretending to toss it away but hiding it behind his back. Abu kicks up a fuss, and Donald is all "Joking! Joking! *shifty look*"
The jewel turns into a keyhole; you seal it, get Genie as a summon, and go back to the worlds map.
Stop spamming my worlds map!
Before we return to our regular programming, we get a cutscene. We see Pluto in a dark place, maybe Traverse Town. Axel appears, Pluto wags his tail and tries to bound up to him, but Axel disappears through a darkness gate. There's a whistle; another gate appears, and Pluto runs through that. (Originally here was mostly joking exposition about Pluto being Axel's dog, but I since checked the Jiminy journals and Pluto is Mickey's dog.) Cut to Kairi on the beach-- now in her clothes from the opening, rather than her school uniform-- waiting for Sora and perhaps Riku. Axel reappears there and asks her if she wants to go to where Sora is, and tells her that he understands how she feels, because he has a friend he wants to see, too. I take a moment out to marvel at the sheer gay of Axel comparing his feelings for Roxas to Kairi's feelings for Sora and wibble, but moving on. Kairi proves that she's less of a dill than Riku and goes up in my esteem by not saying "Okay, Random And Suspicious Stranger, I Will Accept Your Quite Frankly Questionable Offer To Help Find My One True Love(s) In The Manner Of A Child Accepting Lifts From A Kidnapper/Rapist/Murderer!" which is essentially what Riku did, actually. *g* Pluto appears on the beach through another gate and Kairi makes a break for that with Pluto; it leads her to Twilight Town, falling through the wall of the Usual Place and land at the feet of a very bewildered Hyne-tachi.
Now, back to us. Halloween Town is still right where I left it, but now the Lion King appears on the map... and Twilight Town reappears. Omg! Yay! So I run around clearing minigames in Agrabah, Port Royale and the 100 Acre Wood, and then, being me, I of course head over to Twilight Town. Retrospectively maybe I ought to have cleared Halloween Town and the Pride Land first, but whatev.
We enter Twilight Town and the first thing that happens is Vivi running past screaming "It's an emergency! Please, Seifer is-- someone help-- in the open area--" and I, being the nice person I am, immediately go in search of some of the treasure chests I missed the first time round and THEN go help Seifer. XD He, Fuu and Rai are laid out surrounded by a new and particularly nasty species of Nobody. Here we go again. These are actually fairly tough to beat, but nevertheless. After you beat them, Number 7 of the XIII turns up-- Sykes. He asks you if you've seen a man called Axel, which is a great way to put Sora on the defensive, and tells you that you have to be careful of Axel. Sora points out that he has no reason to trust Sykes, because he's one of the XIII, just like Axel. Sykes informs you that unlike Axel, he and the rest of the XIII care about what happens to Sora. Sora says yeah, right, you don't even have hearts; Sykes says maybe not, but they do remember what it feels like to have a wounded heart. (Does he mean broken heart?) He tells you that Axel has gone renegade and is trying to turn Sora into a Heartless. I wibble over the fact that Axel loves Roxas enough to choose him over the XIII. Sykes calls up his darkness gate, and Sora makes as if to follow, but Sykes tells him not to try it if he doesn't want to end up like his little friend Riku. Both Sora and I are shellshocked and "EXPLAIN. NOW." about this but it's too late, Sykes is already gone.
Seifer then shoves the Struggle Battle Trophy into your hands (remember, the one with the materia that Roxas won way earlier?) because it goes to the strongest person in the Town-- somebody whooped Nobody arse, and it sure wasn't him. Pintz then runs up to Sora and asks him if he knows a girl named Kairi, to which Sora's response approximates to something along the lines of "ASDFLKJDFJ say WHAT?!" and Pintz tells you to meet them all outside the train station. I then proceed to spend a ridiculously long time trying to find all the treasure I missed (god damn, I think one was from Yen Sid's tower and I can't go back there!) and playing minigames. There are the 6 'part-time jobs' from earlier, struggle battles against Hyne, Setzer and Seifer, and a skateboarding game. Each of these has two requirements for a perfect clear-- one is to just clear it, and one is to clear it at a certain level. (On a side note, you have to beat Hyne 10 times to fight Setzer and beat Setzer 10 times to fight Seifer.) I managed to get a basic clear for all of them and a perfect clear for all except the three harder jobs. I am CONVINCED you need special abilities to clear those because the requirements for all three seem so ridiculously unrealistic otherwise.
So, after many hours of fun with minigames (hah), off to the train station. Sora wants to know how they know Kairi and if she's still there, and they tell him the full story leading off from when she appeared all of a sudden in the Usual Place. She told them how she was searching for Sora, and they told her to stay there and wait with them because Sora would definitely be back. Right then, though, Axel reappears. Pintz and Hyne try to rush him and run straight through; he grabs Kairi's wrist and drags her pretty much kicking and screaming through the gate and they disappear, Pluto following after. They apologise; Sora tells them to cheer up, he's the one who should be depressed. Before he can get his angst about losing both his true loves on good and proper, though, the trophy clatters to the ground and the materia (okay, orbs, you know what I mean) roll out. Everyone picks up the one they were originally given by Roxas, and Sora picks up the blue, holding it up to the light to watch it sparkle. There's a shot from behind of his silhouette and then for a moment he flickers and turns into Roxas. This isn't just gratuitous reminded that Sora-is-Roxas-is-Sora; Goofy and Donald are all whoa, man, what just happened? though Hyne-tachi don't seem to have noticed.
When we return to the worlds map, Chip and Dale go into spasms because Hollow Bastion is shrouded in darkness. Well, we know where our next destination is, then.
*incoherent squealing noises*
Initial observation upon entering Hollow Bastion, c/o Sora-tachi: there is an increase of Heartless.
Second observation: OMG. OMG. CLOUUUUUUUUUUUD.
(This puts paid once and for all to my theories of Roxas = Cloud, but I can’t say I’m surprised or even disappointed by this point, as I now like Roxas for himself.)
Yes, Cloud is there, back in a costume more reminiscent of his own instead of Vincent's (what was up with that, anyway?) and a half-trenchcoat/cape thing plus glove on one arm and over that shoulder, kind of like half Sephiroth's trenchcoat. Maybe an external manifestation of his darkness. Usual catch up jazz, blah blah, Cloud has decided to stick with the light and is on a journey to bring an end to his darkness. He asks you to tell him if you see a man named Sephiroth, who has silver hair and a long sword; he is the embodiment of Cloud's darkness, and Cloud is searching for him. Cloud tells you to be careful, and I unfortunately don't fully remember this, but he says something about Sephiroth being dangerous because he believes in the righteousness of the darkness and uses it like the light. Or something like that, I remember the bit about the righteousness of the dark. I vaguely recall there was maybe an implication that Sephiroth isn't himself, but that could just be wishful thinking playing tricks on my memory.
Aerith runs up at this point and asks what's going on. Cloud tells her he's going on a journey, and Aerith makes him promise to come back to Hollow Bastion. She says he'll be fine because his light is inside him and I get confused, because I totally thought Cloud's light was supposed to be a person. And, um, Aerith. I got that implication from KHI, anyway.
I missed a little due to dodgy memory, unfortunately, but that's the best I can do.
When you get to Merlin's house, Cid is typing ferociously at the keyboard of the computer with Yuffie leaning over his shoulder. They tell you Ansem's computer has been found, and that you should go to the entrance of the castle to find Leon.
On our way, we get accosted by three little faeries: Yuna. Rikku. Paine. (Although actually those last two names should have been romanised Ryukku and Pine. Pyne. Whatever, their English forms don’t match their Japanese pronunciation.) They’re the three maidens of something-or-other, the kanji is too small and complex to tell all the lines apart, and they then spend a while arguing over something and being generally incoherent. They seem to want Leon for some reason. We are mostly very confused and unenlightened by the time Pyne slaps a hand over Ryukku’s mouth and they all disappear with a ‘poof’!
Well, ignoring that little distraction. The entrance of the castle was previously closed off, but is now opened, so off we go; Aerith is there and tells you that the entrance is that way, and that Ou-sama is with Leon. Goofy and Donald spazz out about this; I can't remember if Sora has given up on Riku being with Mickey, but I'm pretty sure he says something about Riku, and is fairly down about Riku's continued absence. You go through a maze of tunnels to get to a room which we figure out is Ansem's study, from the portrait of him on the wall. No one is there, however, until Tifa comes in after us wearing her Advent Children/Dirge of Cerberus outfit. EE YAY.
She asks us if we've seen a man with spiky hair. Sora gets confused and fingers his own spiky hair, and Tifa laughs, saying no, more spiky. Clearly the whole trio is thick to not even think of Cloud, but whatev.
She then goes through the room bashing walls looking for secret passages until she gives up in disgust and leaves. Leon is suddenly there, and says to follow him to the computer room. He presses his hand to an area of the wall near where Tifa kicked and it disappears to reveal a passage, leading to a computer room.
We encounter a problem: the computer requires a password.
Great.
At this point Stitch runs up the wall and across the ceiling to fall onto the keyboard, and Donald goes all rah! and jumps up to catch him, mashing many keys in the process. The computer is not impressed, and informs you so. Sora, Donald and Goofy dematerialise suddenly and Leon freaks out.
We come to in a new world-- Space Paranoid, from the 80s sci-fi movie Tron.
My eyes, THEY BURN!
You are neon. Everything is neon. Oh god, ow, my eyes, it hurts, precious! They were already sore before! *weep*
So immediately upon arrival you get arrested and marched off by a guy named Sark, who gives you a nasty electric shock to prove who's in control here. He throws you into Pit Cell, where Tron is hanging out. Tron gives you the low-down, which I found vaguely confusing due both to the fact it was late at night and because I'd never seen the film. Um, and because it was in Japanese, but mostly because it was complicated.
Tron is a security programme. This world has been overtaken by MCP, the main computer, and Sark is MCP's second, basically. To get back to the real world we need to power up the terminal in the room with us, and to do that, we need to go power up the Energy Core in the Canyon, which requires us to power up the door that leads from our cell to said Canyon. Sora has a bright idea involving the keyblade (doesn't everything?) and whacks at the door so it drops energy orbs until the energy guage is full and we can open the door. We go off to find the Energy Core and power it up, which largely involves... well, whacking more things. These things are blocks that whizz around in a circle, but it's still essentially whacking things, and that is what we're good at, after all.
Once that's done, back to Pit Cell, where Tron sets up the terminal for us to leave. He asks us for a favour, and Sora agrees before he even knows what it is, which Tron seems to think is proof that Sora is a User. Anyway, the favour is that he wants you to find his User and ask him for the DTD password. You're all, yeah, sure, we needed to get the data anyway, who's your user?
Tron: Same as the system. Ansem.
Trio: *oh, shit! expressions*
Sora: ... Uh, ABOUT that...
Donald: *stomps on his foot* LEAVE IT TO US!
Cut to Sark and MCP. Sark wants Tron eradicated, but MCP can't because it doesn't have the password.
So we're back out of the computer and I am relieved for my eyes. We tell Leon what happened, and conclude that since Ansem is dead (*snort* shows what we know) we'll have to find the password some other way. Tifa at this point reappears and is like, oh, so this was here after all, I'll have to recheck the other room, and goes through a thorough search of Ansem's study. She takes the portrait off the wall; there's writing beneath it. She punches the wall to no avail, and gives up in disgust to look elsewhere, but you are more interested in the writing. Above the diagram, it reads D--- T--- D--- and between the acronym, in English, faded letters spell Door To Darkness.
You're puzzling over this when behind you, who should show up but... Ou-sama!
Donald leaps into Mickey's arms EXACTLY LIKE ELIZABETH DID TO WILL I FUCKING KID YOU NOT screaming "OU-SAMA!" and my mind goes to the Bad Place again. I CAN'T HELP IT. *cries* Why, Square. Why do you do this to me? Anyway, Goofy follows in a less concerning manner, and Sora hangs back a bit. Leon shows up in the other doorway. Mickey wants to know what's going on-- he seems really out of the loop, doesn't know you've beaten Ansem and all that. Anyway, he's like, "Door To Darkness... that's (Japanese)." and you're like, uh, yes. You tell him you need a password (paasuwaado, English rendered to fit Japanese speech patterns) and he's like "Password? What's that?" (All: .............) "OH, (Japanese)!"
Then he starts thoughtfully working through it: Door To Darkness... that was the Seven Princesses Of Heart. Jasmine, Belle...
Squall: *FACEPALM*
That's the password, so it's time for more Tron. Uuuuuuurgh my eyes. Donald doesn't want to go yet-- he wants to fill Mickey in on everything that's been happening, but Leon reminds you that you promised Tron and Mickey says he'll still be here when we get back, so Donald reluctantly agrees. Mickey gives Sora a new Drive, Master Form, which I haven't tried yet.
Back in the computer, we get accosted by MCP, who is all "BWAHA, YOU PLAY GAME NOW." It tells you that if you lose, you get erased. There's no way you'll win. And not playing? Not an option. I don't think I like this game very much.
Anyway, you get dropped in a maze on a motorbike thing, and this large Heartless blasts a hole in the wall. Sora realises that if he can get through that he can escape, so you zoom through the maze on your bike, attacking Heartless and swerving corners, until you're out. You end up back in Pit Cell, Tron slumped over in a not-so-good kind of way. He's like "what are you doing here, it's dangerous" but you tell him you've got the password, like you promised. You go up through the Canyon again to another room which I forget the name of with a computer in, and Tron types in the Princess's names. Before we can do anything, we get bombarded by another "game", which Tron says isn't a game and actually the last bastion of security. It involves thumping Heartless for energy orbs to a time limit. We're totally old hand at this by now.
Once that's done, Tron recharges himself, but the MCP is all "FWAHA I send a Danger Programme after you, bitches!" (virus?) and Tron is all, oh noez! I want to protect my User's city! So we rush up to the upper level, where there is another terminal, and the Virus comes to greet us.
Virus: Why do you forsake us, Tron?
Tron: ... *shrug*
Sora: *says something cheesy about friendship*
Tron: Yeah, that.
Virus: ... *attacks!*
Once we're done with that, Tron changes the password to the names of his friends, ie you, because he says he thinks that’s what his User would want. You’re like, uh, actually we have something to ‘fess up, and tell him the truth-- you didn’t get the password from Ansem, and actually Ansem is your enemy.
Tron: Actually, uh, Ansem is my enemy too. He created me, but he also created the MCP. I don’t understand it…
Me: Yeah, you’re telling me.
So, back out of the computer.
Leon tells you Mickey has gone to check the status of the town and will be back shortly and you tell him the new password, which he enters to get into the computer. He tells you you can use it and to be careful because it's delicate and then goes to do like Mickey. Sora types in "Kairi and Riku".
DATA ERROR: no files found.
He gives up in frustration now, because that is all he cares about, but Goofy types in first "Nobodies" and then "The XIII".
For both of them, we get DATA ERROR: files corrupt.
WTF DOES THAT MEAN?! we all want to know. Sora gets pissed and mashes the keyboard until the computer goes a little crazy and fronts up with a picture of a blond guy none of us recognise. We're all like who wha? when Mickey returns and from behind us is like, oh hey, it's Ansem.
Dot. Dot. Dot.
Donald: Ou-sama, have you forgotten what Ansem looks like?!
Sora: Ansem was in the portrait in the other room!
We drag him back into that room to show him what we mean. He's like, haha, yes, well actually, that's not Ansem.
Us: ... what.
[At some point my disc froze so I ended up reconstructing most of this from Jiminy's shoddy journal (seriously, he didn't even mention that thing with Cloud), but.]
Mickey: That's a Nobody born from a fake who stole Ansem's name and is now the leader of the XIII. The REAL Ansem is the blond guy, and he's the one I've been searching for.
Me: OW. THAT WAS MY BRAIN. Thanks Square, not like I needed it anyway!
And then, from what I gather, there is teh big 'splodey and we go to see what's happening. Only first I spend about an hour trying to perfect clear that bike game by killing 30 Heartless (on my first runthrough, I got 29. AGH.) until I realise it's easier to kill more before they crash into walls on the turns by charging rather than just attacking. And then I save and turn off, because it is late and my eyes hurt.
Next time: Sephiroth! More absolutely INSANE plot twists, to the point where KHII is reaching the FF7 level of brain break! And now, I sleep.
Thank you again for the goodies, Eugenie-- I've switched over to the FF piano collections now and I LOVE YOU AND THEM MADLY.
sanguia) in Civic at around one, miraculously managing not to miss the bus. (I fail at buses, okay.) We have an awesome time pimping around in Civic, swapping goodies, eating at a dubious noodle place for lunch, dropping by JBs to pick up blank cds for me and black dvds for her, and discuss the virtues of geek life. Eugenie had to split at 3, so I texted Leareth (god I'm glad I got my phone fixed over Christmas and can now text)-- she moved here last night, and I knew she was in the Civic area, so I was like "homg MEETING YEY!"I will interrupt myself at this point to add that when I was leaving the house there were tradesmen, and I left one of the sliding doors unlocked and they set off the alarm. ^^; This pissed my mum off because she had to go home to turn it off, but as for the relevance of this tale: she took the dog with her back to Civic and put her in dad's office, so Leareth and I went to the office so she could meet my little poodle. Also, my dad. Who thought she was Japanese. I'm not quite sure why, though I did correct him on this. XD We hung in Civic for a while and went back to her temporary apartment, which was really nice and quite cool despite lack of aircon. We giggled over S&S doujin; I could translate most of it off-hand but there were a few kanji that tripped me up and obviously they were the ones that RECURRED. rah!
Um, also, Leareth, I actually left them at your place. Also I think I may have left my sunglasses. Hehe, oops. *loses at organisation, so totally*
So after THAT I was heading back across Civic to catch the bus when I realised I was missing my sunglasses and went to check the gelato place, on the way running into Katie, who'd just finished work and was working in home, since she is living in Civic now. (My sunglasses weren't there, btw, which is why I hope I left them at Leareth's.) That was really fun-- we caught up, and she very kindly and very awesomely offered me a lift home when my dad rang to see what my plans were. <3
Got home, talked to Ji and Becky on the net for a while, and then was like OMG OMG MARI AND SIS ARE HOME and called them and now I will see them tomorrow for the first time in like two months yay yay yay and get to see their hair, Mari totally wouldn't tell me what length sis cut hers to so it'll be a surprise, and just. YAY.
Back to the usual channel, I have a KHII icon now; I'm not sure whether I like it or not but I had fun bombarding it with special filters and adjusting the modes and whatnot. That's how I always make icons, which means it takes forever and I have trouble duplicating the effect, but it's fun and I generally like how it turns out. XD The text says, "I was adored once, too." which is a quote from Twelfth Night and was in fact not emo in its original context but is definitely emo here. >D Text down the bottom says "Roxas", because it fit better than Rocksas and looks like it will be the romanisation they'll go for. OH well. Ji says it's creepy the way Roxas stares at you. Heh.
Now, I try valiantly to reconstruct the KHII summary I STUPIDLY SAVED OVER. Agh.
So I totally lost this post after spending forever on it due to my own stupidity. SIGH. Anyway, let's see how much of this I can remember, hm? Don't worry, the wrong is all still perfectly intact. *g*
Ubiquitous Pete
On to Agrabah! When you first enter the city, you all recognise it and wonder where Aladdin is. Iago, having escaped from Jafar's lamp, flies up to you and is all "Repentance! Woe! Believe & forgive me plz!" (yey, I love Iago! And not just for his name. Because I totally didn't know jack about Othello when I first watched Aladdin. It has a lot to do with the fact that I used to watch the Aladdin series when I was younger. Which, okay. Disney sequels are lame, I know, but I really liked it. And non-evil!Iago is just so fun! And, uh... this is a really long, pointless and tangential parenthesis. Oops. XD) Sora is rather dubious about this, but then you get accosted by large numbers of Heartless and Iago helps you make a break for it, so you decide to give him a chance. You ask where Aladdin is, and Iago tells you he's at the Palace, so you head over there and run into Jasmine. She tells you Aladdin isn't around; recently he's been going into town a lot and she's worried about him, because he doesn't quite seem his usual cheerful self recently and she doesn't know what's wrong. (She's gorgeous as ever-- I adore Jasmine-- though her Japanese voice doesn't quite suit. It's a little too girly, if that makes any sense. Jasmine is a very strong-willed, self-sufficient young woman and her English voice reflects this, lower and smoother than most female voices.) Then she sees Iago and freaks, running off to warn people before Sora can tell her it's okay.
Anyhoo, back to Agrabah city. Abu runs past clutching a lamp, Aladdin chases after him with a driveby "HI SORA" and a short-arse merchant brings up the rear, shouting "STOP THIEF!".
Aaah, just like old times. Natsukashii, ne...
So Aladdin catches up to Abu and scolds him, making him give the lamp back to the merchant. Aladdin, by the way, is still dressed as a street rat. You have the usual catch up talk, yo, s'up, all that. You ask him why he's been down lately and spending so much time in town, and he wants to know who told you that. You tell him Jasmine, and that she's worried about him. Donald asks if he's got a girlfriend in town, nudge nudge wink wink, and I roll my eyes at Donald's incredible thickness.
Aladdin says no, but he's fallen in love with Jasmine. Aaw. Though this does prove that they're not actually together yet, which I suspected from Aladdin's attire.
He then tells you he's down because he misses Genie, who is on holidays enjoying his freedom, and that he goes to town to try and recapture the feeling of Genie's liveliness. Interesting stuff happens in town. Like, for example, meeting YOU.
He also wants to know what Iago is doing there. You're all like, repentance, yo, he seems sincere, and then we notice that Iago is totally freaking over something. That was Jafar's lamp! he squawks. Aladdin wants to know if he's sure, but Iago points out hell, he was trapped in it, he oughta know, so Iago will be dealt with later and for now we go to find the merchant.
...Who demands extortionist prices. SIGH. Aladdin says he doesn't want to ask the Palace for it because it's not his money and we can't say why we want it because we don't want everyone to panic. Iago suggests the Cave of Wonders, and Aladdin says if Iago leads them safely there and back, THEN he'll trust him. So it's back to the good ol' Cave o' Wonders, yay.
Right before you enter the Cave of Wonders area, you (you being the player, not Sora-tachi) see Pete running inside it. Then Sora-tachi follow suit unknowingly. It's a fairly uneventful journey down through the cave; there's a bit where there's a trap involving periodic waves and you have to make sure both you and Abu jump them (though Abu is more important), and this bash Heartless within a time limit thing which later becomes a minigame. After that last one, you end up in the treasure room, where Donald becomes unhealthily fascinated by that red jewel that causes all the trouble in the Aladdin movie. Hm, ominous. He doesn't get a chance to be an idiot about it, though, because Pete comes out of hiding and is all "Hah hah, suckers! *sics Heartless upon you*" and you have to worry about finishing them off and getting back to Agrabah to retrieve Jafar's lamp.
When you get there, though, you've been beaten to it by Pete. Doesn't sound like the merchant is too thrilled with this idea, though, because even though Pete has the cash he ends up nicking the lamp and running off with the merchant chasing after him in an amusing stereotypical cartoon way where they keep grabbing it back and forth-- "Give it back! *yoink*" "Got it! *yoinks and holds above head*" "It's mine!" "Sucked in!"
At this point Iago zooms through and grabs the lamp right from Pete's hand, and leads both Pete and merchant on a merry chase until they crash into the wall. Heh. He then spoils this, however, by crashing into the wall himself, and Pete grabs the lamp back.
Before he can do anything with it, though, Genie explodes back onto the scene with style, grabbing Pete in a massive bear hug and babbling on about how much he missed you, Al, he just had to come back to see you, sorry if he's interrupting anything with Jasmine, etc etc etc, not noticing that he's squeezing the life out of a very put upon Pete and that Aladdin is standing behind him going "Genie? Uh, Genie?" until finally Aladdin taps him on the shoulder.
Genie: Huh? ... AL! *lifts Aladdin up into a huge hug*
Meanwhile, I'm like... I DON'T WANT TO GO THERE. WHY DO YOU MAKE THIS SO HARD FOR ME? Stop being so gay! I don't WANT to ship you! I like Jasmine! Genie is blue! Agh so wrong! and go off to cry in a corner and scrub my brain out with soap.
Pete, gasping for breath and very cranky, summons up two big Heartless, one fire and one ice, and disappears off minus lamp. You beat up those, and then go ditch the lamp in a stone crypt. Siobhan mutters that this is so totally going to come back to bite us, but hey, no one asked ME. You then say goodbye to Jasmine and Genie (Aladdin is off somewhere). Iago is going to hang around because everyone has accepted his mending of his ways, but you have to go find Riku and Ou-sama, so you have to continue on. Abu and Aladdin run in, Abu with the red jewel. Everyone scolds Abu, especially Donald-- who gets that unhealthy gleam in his eyes and picks the jewel up, pretending to toss it away but hiding it behind his back. Abu kicks up a fuss, and Donald is all "Joking! Joking! *shifty look*"
The jewel turns into a keyhole; you seal it, get Genie as a summon, and go back to the worlds map.
Stop spamming my worlds map!
Before we return to our regular programming, we get a cutscene. We see Pluto in a dark place, maybe Traverse Town. Axel appears, Pluto wags his tail and tries to bound up to him, but Axel disappears through a darkness gate. There's a whistle; another gate appears, and Pluto runs through that. (Originally here was mostly joking exposition about Pluto being Axel's dog, but I since checked the Jiminy journals and Pluto is Mickey's dog.) Cut to Kairi on the beach-- now in her clothes from the opening, rather than her school uniform-- waiting for Sora and perhaps Riku. Axel reappears there and asks her if she wants to go to where Sora is, and tells her that he understands how she feels, because he has a friend he wants to see, too. I take a moment out to marvel at the sheer gay of Axel comparing his feelings for Roxas to Kairi's feelings for Sora and wibble, but moving on. Kairi proves that she's less of a dill than Riku and goes up in my esteem by not saying "Okay, Random And Suspicious Stranger, I Will Accept Your Quite Frankly Questionable Offer To Help Find My One True Love(s) In The Manner Of A Child Accepting Lifts From A Kidnapper/Rapist/Murderer!" which is essentially what Riku did, actually. *g* Pluto appears on the beach through another gate and Kairi makes a break for that with Pluto; it leads her to Twilight Town, falling through the wall of the Usual Place and land at the feet of a very bewildered Hyne-tachi.
Now, back to us. Halloween Town is still right where I left it, but now the Lion King appears on the map... and Twilight Town reappears. Omg! Yay! So I run around clearing minigames in Agrabah, Port Royale and the 100 Acre Wood, and then, being me, I of course head over to Twilight Town. Retrospectively maybe I ought to have cleared Halloween Town and the Pride Land first, but whatev.
We enter Twilight Town and the first thing that happens is Vivi running past screaming "It's an emergency! Please, Seifer is-- someone help-- in the open area--" and I, being the nice person I am, immediately go in search of some of the treasure chests I missed the first time round and THEN go help Seifer. XD He, Fuu and Rai are laid out surrounded by a new and particularly nasty species of Nobody. Here we go again. These are actually fairly tough to beat, but nevertheless. After you beat them, Number 7 of the XIII turns up-- Sykes. He asks you if you've seen a man called Axel, which is a great way to put Sora on the defensive, and tells you that you have to be careful of Axel. Sora points out that he has no reason to trust Sykes, because he's one of the XIII, just like Axel. Sykes informs you that unlike Axel, he and the rest of the XIII care about what happens to Sora. Sora says yeah, right, you don't even have hearts; Sykes says maybe not, but they do remember what it feels like to have a wounded heart. (Does he mean broken heart?) He tells you that Axel has gone renegade and is trying to turn Sora into a Heartless. I wibble over the fact that Axel loves Roxas enough to choose him over the XIII. Sykes calls up his darkness gate, and Sora makes as if to follow, but Sykes tells him not to try it if he doesn't want to end up like his little friend Riku. Both Sora and I are shellshocked and "EXPLAIN. NOW." about this but it's too late, Sykes is already gone.
Seifer then shoves the Struggle Battle Trophy into your hands (remember, the one with the materia that Roxas won way earlier?) because it goes to the strongest person in the Town-- somebody whooped Nobody arse, and it sure wasn't him. Pintz then runs up to Sora and asks him if he knows a girl named Kairi, to which Sora's response approximates to something along the lines of "ASDFLKJDFJ say WHAT?!" and Pintz tells you to meet them all outside the train station. I then proceed to spend a ridiculously long time trying to find all the treasure I missed (god damn, I think one was from Yen Sid's tower and I can't go back there!) and playing minigames. There are the 6 'part-time jobs' from earlier, struggle battles against Hyne, Setzer and Seifer, and a skateboarding game. Each of these has two requirements for a perfect clear-- one is to just clear it, and one is to clear it at a certain level. (On a side note, you have to beat Hyne 10 times to fight Setzer and beat Setzer 10 times to fight Seifer.) I managed to get a basic clear for all of them and a perfect clear for all except the three harder jobs. I am CONVINCED you need special abilities to clear those because the requirements for all three seem so ridiculously unrealistic otherwise.
So, after many hours of fun with minigames (hah), off to the train station. Sora wants to know how they know Kairi and if she's still there, and they tell him the full story leading off from when she appeared all of a sudden in the Usual Place. She told them how she was searching for Sora, and they told her to stay there and wait with them because Sora would definitely be back. Right then, though, Axel reappears. Pintz and Hyne try to rush him and run straight through; he grabs Kairi's wrist and drags her pretty much kicking and screaming through the gate and they disappear, Pluto following after. They apologise; Sora tells them to cheer up, he's the one who should be depressed. Before he can get his angst about losing both his true loves on good and proper, though, the trophy clatters to the ground and the materia (okay, orbs, you know what I mean) roll out. Everyone picks up the one they were originally given by Roxas, and Sora picks up the blue, holding it up to the light to watch it sparkle. There's a shot from behind of his silhouette and then for a moment he flickers and turns into Roxas. This isn't just gratuitous reminded that Sora-is-Roxas-is-Sora; Goofy and Donald are all whoa, man, what just happened? though Hyne-tachi don't seem to have noticed.
When we return to the worlds map, Chip and Dale go into spasms because Hollow Bastion is shrouded in darkness. Well, we know where our next destination is, then.
*incoherent squealing noises*
Initial observation upon entering Hollow Bastion, c/o Sora-tachi: there is an increase of Heartless.
Second observation: OMG. OMG. CLOUUUUUUUUUUUD.
(This puts paid once and for all to my theories of Roxas = Cloud, but I can’t say I’m surprised or even disappointed by this point, as I now like Roxas for himself.)
Yes, Cloud is there, back in a costume more reminiscent of his own instead of Vincent's (what was up with that, anyway?) and a half-trenchcoat/cape thing plus glove on one arm and over that shoulder, kind of like half Sephiroth's trenchcoat. Maybe an external manifestation of his darkness. Usual catch up jazz, blah blah, Cloud has decided to stick with the light and is on a journey to bring an end to his darkness. He asks you to tell him if you see a man named Sephiroth, who has silver hair and a long sword; he is the embodiment of Cloud's darkness, and Cloud is searching for him. Cloud tells you to be careful, and I unfortunately don't fully remember this, but he says something about Sephiroth being dangerous because he believes in the righteousness of the darkness and uses it like the light. Or something like that, I remember the bit about the righteousness of the dark. I vaguely recall there was maybe an implication that Sephiroth isn't himself, but that could just be wishful thinking playing tricks on my memory.
Aerith runs up at this point and asks what's going on. Cloud tells her he's going on a journey, and Aerith makes him promise to come back to Hollow Bastion. She says he'll be fine because his light is inside him and I get confused, because I totally thought Cloud's light was supposed to be a person. And, um, Aerith. I got that implication from KHI, anyway.
I missed a little due to dodgy memory, unfortunately, but that's the best I can do.
When you get to Merlin's house, Cid is typing ferociously at the keyboard of the computer with Yuffie leaning over his shoulder. They tell you Ansem's computer has been found, and that you should go to the entrance of the castle to find Leon.
On our way, we get accosted by three little faeries: Yuna. Rikku. Paine. (Although actually those last two names should have been romanised Ryukku and Pine. Pyne. Whatever, their English forms don’t match their Japanese pronunciation.) They’re the three maidens of something-or-other, the kanji is too small and complex to tell all the lines apart, and they then spend a while arguing over something and being generally incoherent. They seem to want Leon for some reason. We are mostly very confused and unenlightened by the time Pyne slaps a hand over Ryukku’s mouth and they all disappear with a ‘poof’!
Well, ignoring that little distraction. The entrance of the castle was previously closed off, but is now opened, so off we go; Aerith is there and tells you that the entrance is that way, and that Ou-sama is with Leon. Goofy and Donald spazz out about this; I can't remember if Sora has given up on Riku being with Mickey, but I'm pretty sure he says something about Riku, and is fairly down about Riku's continued absence. You go through a maze of tunnels to get to a room which we figure out is Ansem's study, from the portrait of him on the wall. No one is there, however, until Tifa comes in after us wearing her Advent Children/Dirge of Cerberus outfit. EE YAY.
She asks us if we've seen a man with spiky hair. Sora gets confused and fingers his own spiky hair, and Tifa laughs, saying no, more spiky. Clearly the whole trio is thick to not even think of Cloud, but whatev.
She then goes through the room bashing walls looking for secret passages until she gives up in disgust and leaves. Leon is suddenly there, and says to follow him to the computer room. He presses his hand to an area of the wall near where Tifa kicked and it disappears to reveal a passage, leading to a computer room.
We encounter a problem: the computer requires a password.
Great.
At this point Stitch runs up the wall and across the ceiling to fall onto the keyboard, and Donald goes all rah! and jumps up to catch him, mashing many keys in the process. The computer is not impressed, and informs you so. Sora, Donald and Goofy dematerialise suddenly and Leon freaks out.
We come to in a new world-- Space Paranoid, from the 80s sci-fi movie Tron.
My eyes, THEY BURN!
You are neon. Everything is neon. Oh god, ow, my eyes, it hurts, precious! They were already sore before! *weep*
So immediately upon arrival you get arrested and marched off by a guy named Sark, who gives you a nasty electric shock to prove who's in control here. He throws you into Pit Cell, where Tron is hanging out. Tron gives you the low-down, which I found vaguely confusing due both to the fact it was late at night and because I'd never seen the film. Um, and because it was in Japanese, but mostly because it was complicated.
Tron is a security programme. This world has been overtaken by MCP, the main computer, and Sark is MCP's second, basically. To get back to the real world we need to power up the terminal in the room with us, and to do that, we need to go power up the Energy Core in the Canyon, which requires us to power up the door that leads from our cell to said Canyon. Sora has a bright idea involving the keyblade (doesn't everything?) and whacks at the door so it drops energy orbs until the energy guage is full and we can open the door. We go off to find the Energy Core and power it up, which largely involves... well, whacking more things. These things are blocks that whizz around in a circle, but it's still essentially whacking things, and that is what we're good at, after all.
Once that's done, back to Pit Cell, where Tron sets up the terminal for us to leave. He asks us for a favour, and Sora agrees before he even knows what it is, which Tron seems to think is proof that Sora is a User. Anyway, the favour is that he wants you to find his User and ask him for the DTD password. You're all, yeah, sure, we needed to get the data anyway, who's your user?
Tron: Same as the system. Ansem.
Trio: *oh, shit! expressions*
Sora: ... Uh, ABOUT that...
Donald: *stomps on his foot* LEAVE IT TO US!
Cut to Sark and MCP. Sark wants Tron eradicated, but MCP can't because it doesn't have the password.
So we're back out of the computer and I am relieved for my eyes. We tell Leon what happened, and conclude that since Ansem is dead (*snort* shows what we know) we'll have to find the password some other way. Tifa at this point reappears and is like, oh, so this was here after all, I'll have to recheck the other room, and goes through a thorough search of Ansem's study. She takes the portrait off the wall; there's writing beneath it. She punches the wall to no avail, and gives up in disgust to look elsewhere, but you are more interested in the writing. Above the diagram, it reads D--- T--- D--- and between the acronym, in English, faded letters spell Door To Darkness.
You're puzzling over this when behind you, who should show up but... Ou-sama!
Donald leaps into Mickey's arms EXACTLY LIKE ELIZABETH DID TO WILL I FUCKING KID YOU NOT screaming "OU-SAMA!" and my mind goes to the Bad Place again. I CAN'T HELP IT. *cries* Why, Square. Why do you do this to me? Anyway, Goofy follows in a less concerning manner, and Sora hangs back a bit. Leon shows up in the other doorway. Mickey wants to know what's going on-- he seems really out of the loop, doesn't know you've beaten Ansem and all that. Anyway, he's like, "Door To Darkness... that's (Japanese)." and you're like, uh, yes. You tell him you need a password (paasuwaado, English rendered to fit Japanese speech patterns) and he's like "Password? What's that?" (All: .............) "OH, (Japanese)!"
Then he starts thoughtfully working through it: Door To Darkness... that was the Seven Princesses Of Heart. Jasmine, Belle...
Squall: *FACEPALM*
That's the password, so it's time for more Tron. Uuuuuuurgh my eyes. Donald doesn't want to go yet-- he wants to fill Mickey in on everything that's been happening, but Leon reminds you that you promised Tron and Mickey says he'll still be here when we get back, so Donald reluctantly agrees. Mickey gives Sora a new Drive, Master Form, which I haven't tried yet.
Back in the computer, we get accosted by MCP, who is all "BWAHA, YOU PLAY GAME NOW." It tells you that if you lose, you get erased. There's no way you'll win. And not playing? Not an option. I don't think I like this game very much.
Anyway, you get dropped in a maze on a motorbike thing, and this large Heartless blasts a hole in the wall. Sora realises that if he can get through that he can escape, so you zoom through the maze on your bike, attacking Heartless and swerving corners, until you're out. You end up back in Pit Cell, Tron slumped over in a not-so-good kind of way. He's like "what are you doing here, it's dangerous" but you tell him you've got the password, like you promised. You go up through the Canyon again to another room which I forget the name of with a computer in, and Tron types in the Princess's names. Before we can do anything, we get bombarded by another "game", which Tron says isn't a game and actually the last bastion of security. It involves thumping Heartless for energy orbs to a time limit. We're totally old hand at this by now.
Once that's done, Tron recharges himself, but the MCP is all "FWAHA I send a Danger Programme after you, bitches!" (virus?) and Tron is all, oh noez! I want to protect my User's city! So we rush up to the upper level, where there is another terminal, and the Virus comes to greet us.
Virus: Why do you forsake us, Tron?
Tron: ... *shrug*
Sora: *says something cheesy about friendship*
Tron: Yeah, that.
Virus: ... *attacks!*
Once we're done with that, Tron changes the password to the names of his friends, ie you, because he says he thinks that’s what his User would want. You’re like, uh, actually we have something to ‘fess up, and tell him the truth-- you didn’t get the password from Ansem, and actually Ansem is your enemy.
Tron: Actually, uh, Ansem is my enemy too. He created me, but he also created the MCP. I don’t understand it…
Me: Yeah, you’re telling me.
So, back out of the computer.
Leon tells you Mickey has gone to check the status of the town and will be back shortly and you tell him the new password, which he enters to get into the computer. He tells you you can use it and to be careful because it's delicate and then goes to do like Mickey. Sora types in "Kairi and Riku".
DATA ERROR: no files found.
He gives up in frustration now, because that is all he cares about, but Goofy types in first "Nobodies" and then "The XIII".
For both of them, we get DATA ERROR: files corrupt.
WTF DOES THAT MEAN?! we all want to know. Sora gets pissed and mashes the keyboard until the computer goes a little crazy and fronts up with a picture of a blond guy none of us recognise. We're all like who wha? when Mickey returns and from behind us is like, oh hey, it's Ansem.
Dot. Dot. Dot.
Donald: Ou-sama, have you forgotten what Ansem looks like?!
Sora: Ansem was in the portrait in the other room!
We drag him back into that room to show him what we mean. He's like, haha, yes, well actually, that's not Ansem.
Us: ... what.
[At some point my disc froze so I ended up reconstructing most of this from Jiminy's shoddy journal (seriously, he didn't even mention that thing with Cloud), but.]
Mickey: That's a Nobody born from a fake who stole Ansem's name and is now the leader of the XIII. The REAL Ansem is the blond guy, and he's the one I've been searching for.
Me: OW. THAT WAS MY BRAIN. Thanks Square, not like I needed it anyway!
And then, from what I gather, there is teh big 'splodey and we go to see what's happening. Only first I spend about an hour trying to perfect clear that bike game by killing 30 Heartless (on my first runthrough, I got 29. AGH.) until I realise it's easier to kill more before they crash into walls on the turns by charging rather than just attacking. And then I save and turn off, because it is late and my eyes hurt.
Next time: Sephiroth! More absolutely INSANE plot twists, to the point where KHII is reaching the FF7 level of brain break! And now, I sleep.
Thank you again for the goodies, Eugenie-- I've switched over to the FF piano collections now and I LOVE YOU AND THEM MADLY.
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Date: 2006-01-30 09:43 pm (UTC)Damn, I'm jealous. Now I wanna be social. >_>
Wanna meet up sometime if you haven't used up all of your social energies, Siorina-sama?
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Date: 2006-02-01 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-31 12:18 am (UTC)....and what's with all these people thinking I'm Japanese? Even the JAPANESE thought I was Japanese when I was there O.o
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Date: 2006-02-01 04:58 am (UTC)... I don't know? And like, at least when you were in Japan there was SOME sort of basis for people thinking maybe you were Japanese. Don't know why my dad leapt to that conclusion. Maybe because I study Japanese? O.o;
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Date: 2006-01-31 12:56 am (UTC)D:
AHAHA I LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BY-THE-WAY. Mmmmm KHII.
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Date: 2006-02-01 05:09 am (UTC)O RLY? Yay, I'm glad someone other than me is getting use out of these things then! I was going to do them either way but it's nice to know you are enjoying them. ♥