I was just reading Liv's Let's Play Final Fantasy VIII, which has some spot-on comments about (a) every character's failure to grow up and (b) the game's reticence to show them growing up and reacting to what's happening ( Read more... )

We've got a lot of vaguely European armor, weapons and fighting styles in Final Fantasy and other JPRGs, but there's also ubiquitous Ninjas, Samurai, and fighting monks who exhibit fantasy variations of eastern hand to hand styles ( Read more... )

How on earth had I missed 
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No, really.

My Mom spoke briefly with Vayne Solidor yesterday.

Apparently he's currently doing a bang-up job as Richard the III and Oberon.

She did not, however, call him out for the murder of King Raminas. I am disappointed.

Whoever wrote the program for the Utah Shakespeare Festival has trouble with Roman numerals. It said he voiced Vayne Solidor in ( Read more... )

Reading Ellnyx's A Sense of Commitment, I finally realized something about Reddas which had until now escaped me. Probably all of you had already thought of this, but...

( Spoilers up to the Pharos in FFXiI )

I think the vidder picked the song for the sound of it, without entirely considering its disturbing message-- one I don't think Fran and Balthier would endorse. Nonetheless, while I find the lyrics a little distracting, I love this video for capturing what I most liked in FFXII: Byzantine politics, acknowledgement that Ashe's "crusade" is ( Read more... )

I think the localization team for XII deserves some sort of literary award--oh my GODS the language, the language in that game.

I'm wondering what they were working from, that they churned out lines like, "And so I sue for peace to stop short war and ease their suffering," or "Yet at a trice he goes bounding off for you!" for one of the bounty ( Read more... )

These were posted for various comms and challenges semi-recently, and I didn't get around to X-posting 'em here.

1. " Just Friends" -- FFXII, Balthier/Fran (sorta), T, double drabble on ff_fortnightly . Prompt: "Friendship"
2. " Futility" - FFX, Auron/Lulu, PG, 100-word drabble on pyre_flies . Prompt: "Anything/Nothing"
3. " Under Her Wing" -- FFX, Lulu/Rikku (kinda), PG, ( Read more... )

Title: Kindling
Fandom: FFXII
Characters: Fran, Penelo
Rating: G
Words: 300
For: owlmoose
A/N: I respect the pure drabble-form, but lately my 100-word drabbles have been too much plot in small space. So, flashfic.

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I started to reply to this nice little Fran/Balthier drabble by heaven_monument.

Then I got the urge to make an FFXII icon, since I didn't have one.

Then I was going to change the userpic on my last LJ post to the new icon.

Then I noticed something when I viewed the entry on its own page, in conjunction with my LJ's header:


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