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So. Been a while.

So. Life. I am currently off for the summer. I tried to get a job, but the one I was really going for – got a second interview and everything! – hasn’t called me back which is kind of disheartening, you know? So for now I’m mucking about, reading, and fighting utter boredom.

Currently reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. It is a strange book, with many headtilting “huh” moments. Also incesty bits possibly but that depends on whether or not I’m right about the Brother In Law. (Who is kind of fascinating but also a little bit terrifying.)

Beat Kingdom Hearts 1 last night, after many hours of item finding for the Ultimate Weapon. (Why are so many items found in motherfucking Atlantica?) I also got all 99 puppies for the first time ever, which was fucking adorable.

In possession of Re:COM, but Sora’s voice actor is different and that threw me something awful.

Parents are on a trip for mother’s birthday. Thus I am home alone dogsitting. This isn’t really helping the boredom.

And now, a random drabblet that I threw out at 1 am last night after beating KH1. It’s sparse but kind of cute and I’m refusing to care, so here it is. Set after the end of the game.

“Home”

Cloud twitched, unsure of why he agreed to come anyway –

“Hey! I found the idiot!” Cid yelled as he opened the library door. “Who wants to smack him first?”

But Yuffie’s eyes glowed with something like happy tears and Aeris had that soft happy look he’d almost forgotten and even Leon looked glad to see him –

-and when Aeris lightly whapped him asking, “Will you stay this time?” he couldn’t do anything but nod.

Not gonna lie, Cid's line makes that for me.

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Har and aww regarding fic.

I have never gotten the 99 puppies!

And yeah, hearing Hayley Joel Osmont voicing Sora at age 13 (he was wee for the first game!) makes Re:CoM whiplash-y considering that now he's like 20 and his voice has dropped accordingly!

Cloud is a silly little bugger who doesn't know what to do with people who care about him. Hitting him is the only way he'll learn.

I am a lazy gamer and thus used a guide (gamefaqs = friend) but I did rescue all the puppies. They sort of swarmed Sora and licked him and it was pretty freaking cute.

Oh, is that was happened? It was whiplashy indeed. I'll play it eventually but Gah, Sora sounded wrong.

Well, obviously violence is the only way to prove affection. He doesn't speak people.

Pff, gamefaqs is everybody's friend. Sadly, even with gamefaqs I never bothered to fetch them all. Suffer for my laziness, Pongo and Perdita! ...and puppies left to rot in chests scattered across the worlds.

Yep--remember when the original KH came out and when Re:CoM came out--that's a lot of gap years!

*nod nod* Even Leon is better at it than he is, and that's saying something.

Yeah, one of them was in Aladdin's house. We don't know why. Because you'd think he'd hear them yelping and let them out. We were wondering if he was planning on eating them. (How did they get in boxes anyway?)

I'm honestly starting to consider just muting it whenever someone starts to talk, because it turns out that I kind of hate the voice actors in KH2. (Which I am also playing for the first time in years.) Between Aerith's monotone and Xigbar's surfer boy/pot head accent (in what universe did that make sense?) I'm tempted to punch things.

Well, to be fair Leon has slightly fewer voices in his head, which probably do run interference, even if it's just running commentary on how tight Tifa's shirt looks today.

Well, movie canon does say that Al's been known to go hungry before... Presumably some evil villain put them in boxes and scattered them across the worlds. Just, yanno, for lulz.

That could work, though I'll confess that I kind of like Xigbar's speaking style just because it totally clashes with his appearance and role in the story. (BBS backstory, you are a friggin' goldmine.)

Mind, we don't really know how many voices KH!Cloud has in his head, though I keep trying to figure out some way for the original canons to fit into KH. And yeah, the Zack!Voice is probably kind of troublesome, though it would be hilarious to listen to. "...so, are you and Sephiroth like stalking each other now?" "...." "You know, if you want to sleep with him-" "THAT IS NOT THAT THIS IS ABOUT." "....was just going to say I'm pretty sure he's hitting on you half the time." "...!!!!" "Trust me. I'm good at translating from Sephiroth into Human." "...if I could hit you I would."

Probably Maleficent. She'd totally shove puppies into boxes. And cackle while she was doing it. She was probably trying to test Schrodinger's theories only with adorable puppies rather than a single cat. Gotta have repeatable experiments in science, you know. (Yes, I know that's not what the whole Cat-in-a-box was about. I suspect she wouldn't care.) Or maybe teh cute is poison to her, so she had to get them away. (Except one of the boxes is like right next to the Hollow Bastion keyhole...)

I am still pspless and thus bbsless *needs to steal both, perhaps* And while it has given birth to the amusing fanon of Xigbar moonlighting as a drug dealer, it still kind of grates on my nerves.

Since it's a Cloud I'm going to default assume a.) Sephiroth and b.) likely Zack, given that teasing hint at the end of BBS. (Why you not tell us what happen, Nomura?!)

But yes. That conversation. It would happen. About once a day. And Sephiroth does not hit on Cloud half the time, Sephiroth hits on Cloud all the time. (Advent Children? Flirtation. Both Dissidia games? BLANTANT HOMO-EROTICISM. KH? Flirtation/foreplay.)

I can buy that. Well, the bit about them in boxes, anyway. Or there's a Cruella DeVille in this universe and instead of skinning them she locked them away to... do a thing. Probably a darkness-related thing.

BBS is fabulous. The story's amazing, the whole thing is fully voice-acted, the gameplay is super-fluid, the characters are awesome... <3

Yeah, there's bound to be Sephiroth in his head and probably Zack. I'd say there's an Aeris in his head but she's not dead in this canon so who knows. (Then again, at least one of my friends argues that Vincent, Barrett and all the rest *are* dead, due to the fact that Cloud in KH1 seems to be wearing bits of their clothing in tribute. And that's not counting the people who died when Radient Garden fell. So god knows how many dead people Cloud has in his head by now.)

And Zack is watching going, "OH GOD WOULD YOU TWO JUST FUCK ALREADY. STOP DESTROYING MIDGARAND EVERYWHERE ELSE IN YOUR SEXUAL FRUSTRATION AND BONE EACH OTHER." I think the line I always remember from KH2 is the whole, "Cloud is coming to kill you." "Oh, he misses me!" exchange. (And damn, I really need a psp now...)

...she locked them into boxes for storage so that... Pongo and Perdita would have more puppies in their grief and then repeat for infinite puppies. Or she was worried that keeping too many of them in one place would allow them to work together an escape. (Presumably the chests are like... statis pods. Tiny ones.)

...plz be not taunting my lack-of-BBS-ness.

Aerith might poke at his brains from afar every once in a while, in a kind of "Are you still alive out there? Come home soon~ <3" kind of way.

I've heard that theory before, and I can kind of buy it re:Vincent since Cloud essentially stole half of his wardrobe, but I'm not sure about the rest of 'em. Plus he has that being stalked by Tifa thing going on, although she seems to be pretty bad at finding him... but then again he's pretty bad at finding Sephiroth considering that Sora has to play messenger-boy, and--and KH is the eternal story of people running around after each other and constantly missing.

Zack would be willing to rent the hotel room, buy the lube, and make sure there's enough bedspace to accommodate all of Seph's feathers, I'm pretty sure. Because he's just that fed up with it.

Yeah, if you look at FFVII canon proper it's all Cloud chasing Seph, but anything other than that and it's this weird yoyo effect.

Honestly, I can buy it, given how effed-up canon is. Which then leads into the question of what exactly stopped her from making good on her plan--who offed Cruella DeVille?

Psst, all the cutscenes are on Youtube... and since the non-gameplay parts of the game are all cutscenes...

Possibly, yes. Assuming that the Cetraness has remained. It may well have. (Why isn't she one of the Princesses? She serves the same purpose in the original canon... and besides, fuck Alice.) Then again, the brain-poking ability is kind of inherently Aerith, so.

Friend objects that Barret's stuff is there, just harder to see. I personally have not looked. (She also points out that Marlene is starting to get depressing by her absence, which I'm inclined to agree with.) And yes, what happened to the Sephy-Radar? Perhaps it got broken. ...I kind of like that description, yes. Riku and Sora missed each other at COM by how much?

....and possibly ask to join in. (Aerith would want to watch. And then mention the Dress Incident.) And besides, someone would have to confiscate the swords to make sure they don't "accidentally" start killing each other.

And a certain amount of tempting by Sephiroth. The Midgar Zolom impaled on a tree was just a little love note so that Cloud didn't forget.

...Hm. Maleficent killed her for having a sillier coat than she did? Or maybe the heartless got her first - from what I remember, DeVille was one of the more unstable villains.

....*tempted* Hm. I will have to investigate.....

Well, Seph's got his feathers, Cloud's got his buckets of crazy, Tifa's still a stalker and Yuffie's still hyper, so... (Presumably because the Princess are all Disney folk. And Kairi because plot.)

Where would it be? The armor or that arm-mesh thing? (--yes. Yes she is. Tiny little heartless somewhere, or just a tiny little corpse, I wonder?) It either got broken or received a fuzzy signal--he knew Seph was there somewhere, just not the exact location. Presumably in CoM by either a couple of days, or, more depressingly, a couple of hours. Because their lives just suck that badly.

Join in or at least film/take pictures. (Pff, Aerith's the one who will have brought them there without killing each other.)

There's a difference between those little bits of flirting and the dialogue that was written by a yaoi fangirl which makes up the majority of Seph's lines in any of the non-original games save perhaps CC.

Actually, the heartless getting her would make perfect sense. So unless Sora did save all of those puppies they'd just rot there forever.

It is totally fun~!

True, true. She probably has some degree of Cetraness. Wouldn't be her without it. (Or my dorky "I will fit the original canons in somehow damn it" theory is right, and she was a Princess of the original ff7 world.)

Yes, I believe so - and if Marlene is gone, whether Heartless or otherwise, what state do you think Barret's going to be in? (Oh god, now I have the mental image of Barrett and Marlene being surrounded by heartless and it's hopeless and oh god that's the most depressing I've thought in a while.) Yeah, might have been a fuzzy signal - all the resudual darkness around the Bastion confusing things, maybe?

I'm pretty sure he'd have to join in, because while they'd both be willing to molest him they would not be willing to allow photos to exist that might possibly end up in the hands of Yuffie. (True, that. She's probably sick of it too, because all that jenova-rage around is bound to give her a headache.)

Hah, this is true. Sephiroth is basically fangirl bait, at the best of time, but the expanded universe just makes it so much worse.

Soooo. You killed puppies then. Hope you're proud of yourself. (I'm sure Leon went and got them himself, eventually. If he had time.)

....will play through kh2, and then we will see.

I can totally buy that she was--did they wind up calling it Gaia?--'s princess. Because yeah, she totes would be.

Also a heartless! Or a nobody. I think he'd be strong enough to leave a nobody behind too, probably. (That's terrible. Someone should draw it. Because angst.) Hmm, probably. The place was a seething hive of heartless not too long ago, and during the siege too... really, there's so much unexplained backstory considering that KH!Seph doesn't really do anything particularly evil except pull Cloud's pigtails...

You know, I'm honestly not sure Sephiroth would care. Just 'cause. Cloud, yes. (I loveloveLOVE that you can get the "Honey Charm" set of armor in the first Dissidia by beating Chaos with Cloud. Weapon of: Sexy Cologne! Armor of: Silky Dress! Headgear of: Blonde Wig! Arm-gear of: Membership Card! And the characters that can equip it are all of the girls, Cloud, and Kefka.)

Yes. Yes it does. I mean, not that I mind, because it is hysterically funny and all, but.

Yep. Killed all of the puppies. Alllllll of them.

*entices*

Fanon has established it as Gaia, but I'm not sure if the canon has. (It's a strange canon anyway.)

Yeah. Though nobody!Barret would also be kind of depressing... (And yes. Or write it. Except I'm not really interested in going into heartbreak alley at the moment.) This is ture. Really, besides the whole Well He's Obviously Evil aura that Seph has, he's not actually done much beside sort of float. It's one of the instances where I feel like the original canon *has* to come into play, because there's no explanation for the hate otherwise.

Sephiroth wouldn't care, perhaps. Cloud would be kind of appalled, but he would be appalled by the whole situation. (I saw a fic where Cloud wore that and was molested by Everyone. Just a moment.... you've probably already seen it, but:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5488282/1/bAllure_b_of_bHoney_b )

Magus from Chrono Trigger might be more Fangirl Bait, but he's lacking on the yaoi-fangirl-baiting... Hm.

You horrible person you. They haunt your sleeeeep.

Let me finish kh2 first! One game at a time!

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