Back from Lake George!
It was awesome, even though it rained on the last day (we just packed up and headed to an indoor arcade to ride bumper cars and play laser tag instead). BUT ANYWAY, I AM BACK NOW, and in a post-ish mood. So have a post! With some memes and stuff.
1. Late as usual with this (though only a day late, which actually isn't that bad for me XD), but Happy Birthday, windgoddess688!
2. Why oh whyyyy did I decide to finally catch up with the One Piece manga (I had stopped a few years ago shortly before the end of Thriller Bark, so I had a blast reading through the Impel Down and Marineford arcs) right when Oda is about to take a one-month break to prep for a timeskip? SOB SOB CRY. At least the timeskip in question sounds fucking awesome.
3. Meme! From smilypie:
Reply and I'll give you four fandoms. You then have to make an entry writing about your favorite character from each fandom, and why.
She gave me Avatar: The Last Airbender, Death Note, Durarara!!, and Fullmetal Alchemist.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
ZUKO. Oh, Zuko. Where to start with this kid? Well, first of all, he is an idiot; let us establish that here and now. He is, however, a very endearing idiot, as well as a very determined, caring, well-meaning, and astonishingly brave idiot. And he spent so much time throughout the first two-and-a-half seasons teeter-tottering between making the right and wrong decisions, and even though he KEPT MAKING THE WRONG ONES!!, I couldn't help but keep on rooting for him. It was clear that eventually he was going to realize whose side he was really meant to be on, and that once he did, there was an extremely high probability that he was going to be INCREDIBLY FUCKING AWESOME. And he was! BY GOSH, HE WAS.
Death Note
Yeah, Light is my favorite. In fact, I don't mind admitting that despite the fact that he was not only misguided but clearly insane, I was rooting for him the whole while. (Sorry, L. XD) The thing is, he's fascinating. He's so brilliant and yet so profoundly arrogant! He screws himself over right from the start with his need to prove to L that he's superior to him, and yet he's so fucking smart that despite his numerous screw-ups, he manages to pull out save after save in the tensest situations imaginable. And the plan he eventually concocts to take out L once and for all is one of the most elaborate and ingenious schemes I've ever read. Basically, he's my favorite because it's so much fun to read about him; there's so much suspense and it's never boring. At least for the first half of the series.
Durarara!!
I think this is actually the first time I've posted about DRRR!! in this journal, lol. But anyway, my favorite character is Kida, no contest. I LOVE THE DRRR!! CAST, especially the main trio and Celty (and Shinra! SHINRA WHY SO ADORABLE), but Kida won me over right from the start. He's kind of like Yamamoto on steroids; he's so charming and extroverted and EVERYONE IS MY FRIEND!!... except that unlike Yamamoto, he also has a hidden dark side not too far from the surface, where he's secretly burying all this trauma and guilt and insecurity. And he does an admirable job of trying to deal with it all himself, and doing his best to protect his friends from all of that as well (and I love him all the more for that), but at the end of the day he's still just a kid, and needless to say I spent a lot of time during the last third of the series battling the need to just REACH THROUGH THE SCREEN and take him home with me and feed him cookies and cuddle him. T_T
Fullmetal Alchemist
I love the entire FMA cast as well, but Edward is far and away my favorite. (HAHA AND SPEAKING OF CHARACTERS WHO HAVE PILES OF ANGST THAT THEY ATTEMPT TO STRUGGLE WITH ALL ON THEIR OWN...) Anyway, this probably isn't too much of a surprise, as he's very similar to Gokudera--tsundere, genius, glutton-for-punishment, etc. They have even been known to look alike! And you know, it's impossible not to like Ed. For all of his angry bitchery, he's a great kid. The kind you want to give headpats and noogies to. Maybe I should just kidnap him along with Kida.
4. And since the previous meme put me in a character ranting mood, have one more, from aroundight:
Give me a character from any fandom I know at least fairly well, and I will tell you:
A) My OTP
B) The runner up
C) The anti-ship
D) My unpopular fannish opinion on said character
E) One person he/she never fell in love with, and why
I love this kind of meme. Possibly too much. XD
5. I swear I didn't forget about the other meme I was also in the progress of doing! I'll resume that tomorrow, promise. I JUST COULDN'T RESIST THESE. I'M SORRY.