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 my life was screwed up. dslfkjklj. Self. What.
I pinged on Celes when I was 12, and even though I do see a lot of the problems you argued in your essay a while back, I perceive a lot of them differently or at differing levels of severity. Maybe it's that I haven't shed my rose-coloured glasses for the game yet, or it might just be preferences. XD
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
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 my life was screwed up. dslfkjklj. Self. What.
I pinged on Celes when I was 12, and even though I do see a lot of the problems you argued in your essay a while back, I perceive a lot of them differently or at differing levels of severity. Maybe it's that I haven't shed my rose-coloured glasses for the game yet, or it might just be preferences. XD
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*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
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