Catchin' up on Memes
Day 5. Game Character You Are Most Like
This is Rita from Tales of Vesperia and I have been told by a lot of people who have played the game that she is a lot like me if I happened to be a huge lesbian. She's intelligent, bizarre, arrogant, well-known and possessed of oftentimes poor social graces thanks to her overbearing personality. It's a pretty fair assessment and I gotta admit, in terms of character design and colour motif, she's kind of got a "me" thing going on. Rita is sort of a toned-down version of an archetype that I feel quite personally attuned to-
Featured above: Anise Tatlin of Tales of the Abyss, Lemina Ausa of Lunar: Eternal Blue and Precis Neumann of Star Ocean: The Second Story
- you know this character. She's that precocious, obnoxious girl you get in your party near the end of recruitment. She's a back row fighter- sometimes a mage, but more often than not using something weird like a robot arm or a giant stuffed animal. She has peculiar values and foggy morals and is made of equal parts endearing and aggravating. Of course, real people are too complex to be broken down into stereotypes like this, but I figure if someone ever made a JRPG out of real life, I would be exactly this character down to the ribbons in my hair.
Day 6. Most Annoying Character
Like, just everyone in this game, okay.
I am going to name on one hand every character I actually like in Final Fantasy VIII.
Squall. Seifer. Cid and Edea. Raijin and Fujin. Laguna and his bros.
Okay, well, maybe that took two hands but still, that's pretty much everyone in the main party that I can't stand. Selphie and Irvine are tolerable as well but neither of them receive enough character development to be truly endearing.
THAT BEING SAID- I do not actually hate FFVIII. I've been harsh on it in the past for its sub-par cast, weird third disc and overall failure in plot experiment and execution, however I love the Junction system (in theory; fighting is a pain in that game), I love the atmosphere and the design and the grand romantic ideals (as in Seifer's definition of romance, not Rinoa's) and even the weird parts of the storytelling that DID work.
But seriously. Annoying. Fucking. Characters.
Day 7. Favourite Video Game Couple
I can't
even
find a picture of them
D: D: D:
Anyways this is Nash and Mia. They're two of the core cast members in Lunar: The Silver Star Story/Complete, better known as, I dunno, like the best archetypal 2D fantasy JRPG ever made okay. Lunar is a love story full of smaller love stories within the context of a greater love story. The game actually pairs up the entire main cast and somehow doesn't manage to feel cheesy- each of the main three relationships is given ample and believable development, however Nash/Mia has always been my favourite because it's the most subtly complicated of the bunch. Sure, they don't bicker all the time like Kyle and Jessica and they don't have destiny and an Evil Emperor keeping them apart like Alex and Luna, but Nash and Mia both have some internal complexities that makes them an interesting dynamic. Mia is shy and wilting, but ultimately a strong person. Nash is brash and arrogant, but ultimately weak willed and cowardly. His nerd-crush on her is apparent from the beginning, but despite the fact Mia seems to be about the only person in the world who actually enjoys his company, it still takes about twenty hours of gameplay to discern how she actually feels about him after he [SPOILER] [SPOILERS] because he's an idiot and then [SPOILER] [SPOILER] in the silliest boss fight ever featured in a situation worthy of gravitas.
Also, omg these adorable cosplayers ahhhh
Day 1 - Very first video game. - Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles (the horrible one)
Day 2 - Your favorite character. - Solid Snake
Day 3 - A game that is underrated. - Final Fantasy X/Heart of Darkness
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game. - Bust a Groove/2
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were). - Annoying Little Girl Characters
Day 6 - Most annoying character. - The Entire Cast of FFVIII
Day 7 - Favorite game couple. - Mia and Nash - Lunar: The Silver Star Story/Complete
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
Day 5. The Pairing With the Least Chemisty
I say "Least Chemisty" because the whole joke with Brock and Doc Venture is that the show could imply they're gay more often than it does because with the whole "worst father in the world" and "bad ass secret agent mother" family unit thing they've got going on, there's lots of odd-couple comedy potential there, but it doesn't. The two of them are very straight in their very opposite ways and shipping them is kind of missing the joke. I don't even know if this technically counts for the meme because "ship" tends to imply some sort of fandom activity and Adult Comedy Cartoon fanfic is something I have always been pretty "......... rly?" about.
But I mean. C'mon.
"Brock, hold me."
"No."
For those of you who have no idea what the hell this show is, it is called The Venture Bros. and it is the best show ever go watch it immediately.
Day 6. The Best Kiss
I don't even give a crap about stuff like this, so just take a super intense scene from Oz and the greatest love story ever told. There's a kiss in it.
Day 7. The Most Heartbreaking Scene
Baaaw baaaw Wolfwood's death in the anime is pretty sad too. But this is a pairing meme and I don't ship Vash/Wolfwood in the anime.
BUT THE MANGA
OH THE MANGA
Everything about the process of Wolfwood's death in the manga is like eighteen fucking garden instruments in the heart. From the way he dies protecting the Orphanage where he grew up ("Everything you love is going to be turned to ash, Nicholas."), to fighting his old friend Livio, to the fact that he feels resigned to die locked in violence even though he doesn't want to and then Vash shows up in that way he does (intentionally framed as religious)-
- and then they snark and bicker like old times and you think that everything might be okay even though we just saw the rest of that goddamn fight and we know it's not going to be-
- and then they have a drink together because they know it's not going to be okay-
- AND THEN THE LAST GODDAMN THING WOLFWOOD ASKS BEFORE HE DIES IS FOR VASH TO JUST SMILE.
I actually like how this was phrased better in the old scanlation I used to have: "C'mon, Spikey, smile. You always look better when you smile." and then, "I'm sorry I said your smile was empty. It's beautiful." This one's a little more starkly literal than interpretively literal.
AND VASH DOESN'T SMILE.
AND IS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN AFTER THIS HAPPENS.
DLKHDSKJHFSDKJFHKJDSHFKDSHFKDSHFKSHFK
TRIGUN WHY
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship? - FShepard/Garrus (Mass Effect)
Day 02 - What was your very first ship? - Sonic/Sally (Sonic SATAM/Archie Comics)<
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now? - Thrall/Jaina (Warcraft)
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry? - Kurogane/Fye (TSUBABA Reservoir Chronicle)
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry? - Brock/Doc Venture (Venture Brothers)
Day 06 - The best kiss? - Toby/Keller (Oz)
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene? - Vash/Wolfwood (Trigun: MAXIMUM)
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ev
This is Rita from Tales of Vesperia and I have been told by a lot of people who have played the game that she is a lot like me if I happened to be a huge lesbian. She's intelligent, bizarre, arrogant, well-known and possessed of oftentimes poor social graces thanks to her overbearing personality. It's a pretty fair assessment and I gotta admit, in terms of character design and colour motif, she's kind of got a "me" thing going on. Rita is sort of a toned-down version of an archetype that I feel quite personally attuned to-
Featured above: Anise Tatlin of Tales of the Abyss, Lemina Ausa of Lunar: Eternal Blue and Precis Neumann of Star Ocean: The Second Story
- you know this character. She's that precocious, obnoxious girl you get in your party near the end of recruitment. She's a back row fighter- sometimes a mage, but more often than not using something weird like a robot arm or a giant stuffed animal. She has peculiar values and foggy morals and is made of equal parts endearing and aggravating. Of course, real people are too complex to be broken down into stereotypes like this, but I figure if someone ever made a JRPG out of real life, I would be exactly this character down to the ribbons in my hair.
Day 6. Most Annoying Character
Click to viewLike, just everyone in this game, okay.
I am going to name on one hand every character I actually like in Final Fantasy VIII.
Squall. Seifer. Cid and Edea. Raijin and Fujin. Laguna and his bros.
Okay, well, maybe that took two hands but still, that's pretty much everyone in the main party that I can't stand. Selphie and Irvine are tolerable as well but neither of them receive enough character development to be truly endearing.
THAT BEING SAID- I do not actually hate FFVIII. I've been harsh on it in the past for its sub-par cast, weird third disc and overall failure in plot experiment and execution, however I love the Junction system (in theory; fighting is a pain in that game), I love the atmosphere and the design and the grand romantic ideals (as in Seifer's definition of romance, not Rinoa's) and even the weird parts of the storytelling that DID work.
But seriously. Annoying. Fucking. Characters.
Day 7. Favourite Video Game Couple
I can't
even
find a picture of them
D: D: D:
Anyways this is Nash and Mia. They're two of the core cast members in Lunar: The Silver Star Story/Complete, better known as, I dunno, like the best archetypal 2D fantasy JRPG ever made okay. Lunar is a love story full of smaller love stories within the context of a greater love story. The game actually pairs up the entire main cast and somehow doesn't manage to feel cheesy- each of the main three relationships is given ample and believable development, however Nash/Mia has always been my favourite because it's the most subtly complicated of the bunch. Sure, they don't bicker all the time like Kyle and Jessica and they don't have destiny and an Evil Emperor keeping them apart like Alex and Luna, but Nash and Mia both have some internal complexities that makes them an interesting dynamic. Mia is shy and wilting, but ultimately a strong person. Nash is brash and arrogant, but ultimately weak willed and cowardly. His nerd-crush on her is apparent from the beginning, but despite the fact Mia seems to be about the only person in the world who actually enjoys his company, it still takes about twenty hours of gameplay to discern how she actually feels about him after he [SPOILER] [SPOILERS] because he's an idiot and then [SPOILER] [SPOILER] in the silliest boss fight ever featured in a situation worthy of gravitas.
Also, omg these adorable cosplayers ahhhh
Day 1 - Very first video game. - Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles (the horrible one)
Day 2 - Your favorite character. - Solid Snake
Day 3 - A game that is underrated. - Final Fantasy X/Heart of Darkness
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game. - Bust a Groove/2
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were). - Annoying Little Girl Characters
Day 6 - Most annoying character. - The Entire Cast of FFVIII
Day 7 - Favorite game couple. - Mia and Nash - Lunar: The Silver Star Story/Complete
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
Day 5. The Pairing With the Least Chemisty
I say "Least Chemisty" because the whole joke with Brock and Doc Venture is that the show could imply they're gay more often than it does because with the whole "worst father in the world" and "bad ass secret agent mother" family unit thing they've got going on, there's lots of odd-couple comedy potential there, but it doesn't. The two of them are very straight in their very opposite ways and shipping them is kind of missing the joke. I don't even know if this technically counts for the meme because "ship" tends to imply some sort of fandom activity and Adult Comedy Cartoon fanfic is something I have always been pretty "......... rly?" about.
But I mean. C'mon.
"Brock, hold me."
"No."
For those of you who have no idea what the hell this show is, it is called The Venture Bros. and it is the best show ever go watch it immediately.
Day 6. The Best Kiss
I don't even give a crap about stuff like this, so just take a super intense scene from Oz and the greatest love story ever told. There's a kiss in it.
Day 7. The Most Heartbreaking Scene
Baaaw baaaw Wolfwood's death in the anime is pretty sad too. But this is a pairing meme and I don't ship Vash/Wolfwood in the anime.
BUT THE MANGA
OH THE MANGA
Everything about the process of Wolfwood's death in the manga is like eighteen fucking garden instruments in the heart. From the way he dies protecting the Orphanage where he grew up ("Everything you love is going to be turned to ash, Nicholas."), to fighting his old friend Livio, to the fact that he feels resigned to die locked in violence even though he doesn't want to and then Vash shows up in that way he does (intentionally framed as religious)-
- and then they snark and bicker like old times and you think that everything might be okay even though we just saw the rest of that goddamn fight and we know it's not going to be-
- and then they have a drink together because they know it's not going to be okay-
- AND THEN THE LAST GODDAMN THING WOLFWOOD ASKS BEFORE HE DIES IS FOR VASH TO JUST SMILE.
I actually like how this was phrased better in the old scanlation I used to have: "C'mon, Spikey, smile. You always look better when you smile." and then, "I'm sorry I said your smile was empty. It's beautiful." This one's a little more starkly literal than interpretively literal.
AND VASH DOESN'T SMILE.
AND IS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN AFTER THIS HAPPENS.
DLKHDSKJHFSDKJFHKJDSHFKDSHFKDSHFKSHFK
TRIGUN WHY
Day 01 - What is your current favorite ship? - FShepard/Garrus (Mass Effect)
Day 02 - What was your very first ship? - Sonic/Sally (Sonic SATAM/Archie Comics)<
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now? - Thrall/Jaina (Warcraft)
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry? - Kurogane/Fye (TSUBABA Reservoir Chronicle)
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry? - Brock/Doc Venture (Venture Brothers)
Day 06 - The best kiss? - Toby/Keller (Oz)
Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene? - Vash/Wolfwood (Trigun: MAXIMUM)
Day 08 - The pairing with the most baggage?
Day 09 - The most believable relationship?
Day 10 - Why aren't these two married in real life?
Day 11 - What is your dream pairing?
Day 12 - Who had the best wedding?
Day 13 - What is your favorite television pairing?
Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?
Day 15 - What is your favorite real life pairing?
Day 16 - What is the absolute worst pairing?
Day 17 - A pairing you thought would never work out, but did?
Day 18 - What is the cutest pairing?
Day 19 - A pairing you've rooted for since the beginning?
Day 20 - The "can't stand the sexual tension anymore" pairing?
Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?
Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Day 23 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out great?
Day 24 - A crazy love triangle/quadrilateral that worked out badly?
Day 25 - A pairing that was/would-be adorable, but could never work out?
Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Day 28 - A pairing that you will never understand?
Day 29 - What ship had the best proposal?
Day 30 - Your favorite ship forever and ever and ev