I kind of sympathize with Hope, because even though my mother didn't die, when she was close to it, I had to be the most annoying person on the hospital floor, from screaming-cry-fit to complaining and moaning about life and how crappy the staff was. So, I think empathize with him. Vanille's VA is actually Australian, but someone mentioned she is speaking with a different dialect, not the kind Fang speaks.
I guess it's a difference in how I deal with that sort of thing--when people in my sphere to whom I am very close are ill or at risk of dying I tend to internalize. I realize that's harder to get across in a video game, so it might just be the limitations of the medium, but it still sends me into a raging tizzy.
Oh, when I was 14 I was absolutely like that. I think part of my problem is that he reminds me of me when I was younger, and I have a very vehement reaction of DO NOT WANT to that. (I am epically intolerant of my younger self; I keep my college-era LJ entries around as something I can point to and be like "Hey self? NEVER DO THAT SHIT AGAIN. Seriously.") So uh. Yeah. Personal prejudices ahoy.
See, the thing I find fascinating about Celes--and to a lesser extent, Terra--is that they are utterly emotionally incompetent. Celes and Locke have ridiculously different emotional stumbling-blocks, and that's what fascinates me about them. Neither communicates well (at least not in an emotional context), and they both approach relationships incredibly differently. So for me writing about them is at least as much about stabbing interesting problems until they squeak, as it is having a romance. (Uh. My preferences in shipping tend to be like that. See also: I love Ashe/Balthier because it's a competition with them, and it mostly ends badly.) So that's my preference for relationships that don't work well. Um. Yeah. The inside of my head. Er.
I'm 27, and myself from age 17 to about 24 is a thing to be viewed with disgust and extreme prejudice. At which point I was busy attaching myself to Guys What Would Abuse Me (oberndorf was a dramatically notable exception to my pattern) and basically screwing up my head. Then whining about how
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Ashe/Balthier is so totally my FFXII ship. I can ship either of them with nearly anyone else (except that I flat refuse to countenance Vaan in anything except, you know, ignorance and horrible death and I'm sure it makes me a fanbrat and equally sure I just don't care), but they're the one I always come back to. Prrrr.
*prrrs and pets back*
I'm finding I have a harder time getting into games, these days. As much as I ended up really enjoying Dragon Age, I circled around it very warily much the same way I am doing with FFXIII. (This was partially related to the clusterfuck that was my computer fans deciding to all bugger off concurrently and the fact that the computer doesn't have, you know, an easy way of notifying me of this fact other than HI I SPLODE NOW which is, you know, not informative.) I'm hoping that I end up enjoying FF13 a lot; if nothing else I am convinced I'll have to like it more than I did 7, so that's something! :D
Vanille's VA is actually Australian, but someone mentioned she is speaking with a different dialect, not the kind Fang speaks.
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I'm finding I have a harder time getting into games, these days. As much as I ended up really enjoying Dragon Age, I circled around it very warily much the same way I am doing with FFXIII. (This was partially related to the clusterfuck that was my computer fans deciding to all bugger off concurrently and the fact that the computer doesn't have, you know, an easy way of notifying me of this fact other than HI I SPLODE NOW which is, you know, not informative.) I'm hoping that I end up enjoying FF13 a lot; if nothing else I am convinced I'll have to like it more than I did 7, so that's something! :D
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