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The angst!
Jul. 9th, 2007 10:35 pmThe last few days, I've been doing an RP with Lizzie where Zack was revived right before the statue crisis. It's very intense and sad, as he is determined to believe Sephiroth is still alive even though he doesn't know it, and Cloud is determined to believe just the opposite, and is being bitter and hateful towards Sephiroth. Since I'm playing Zack in that version, I got the idea of wondering what it would be like to play off of Zack in that scenario.
So I presented the idea to Lisa and we started an RP with a similar premise. Zack, and Aerith, and now Tifa, are all trying to talk to Cloud, and of course, he doesn't want to listen right now. Eventually Zack's going to be pushed too far and snap at Cloud. That's going to be intense.
Both of them should probably be involved in finding the solution to the problem, though I'm not sure yet what it shall be. XD I was thinking today of the various ways the problem has been corrected.
- Healing water (in the actual fic)
- Yuffie melting down materia to turn it into a substance like the healing water (in the RP with Marta)
- Set, the Egyptian god, releases him (in the RP with Aubrie)
- A gem with healing properties that shatters the stone (in the RP with Lizzie, and also used to free the Alternate Sephiroth in the RP with Aubrie)
We went to the Scottish festival on Friday and Saturday. It was cool. X3 We went around to the various vendors on Friday. There were a couple with Celtic jewelry, and two or three with swords, and some clothing shops, including one with a gorgeous velvet purple scarf/shawl thing. Then there was a knick-knack shop, and there were some cute little bear plushies there with plaid pawpads.
They're maybe about six or seven inches, and there's a girl and a boy. The girl has a red velvet dress, and the boy has a white sweater with red white and blue trim and a plaid bowtie. They're kinda Christmasy, as well as reminding me of the festival. They were two dollars each, so I got to get them as souveniers on Saturday. I only saw the girl on Friday night, and Mom was hoping she and Dad could get it for me the next day, and when we went then, we found the boy bear too. I think of them as brother and sister bears, but I can't think of brother and sister names, because the first thing that popped into my head was Cloud and Aerith.
They were out of Scottish food on Friday night, so I got a hot dog with mustard and ketsup and relish, as well as a piece of Kraft cheese, a bag of Cheetos, some ice water, and an oatmeal creme sandwich cookie. X3 It's been so long since I had those.
On Saturday I got a Scotch egg (which was a hardboiled egg with sausage all around it) and a Trifle (which was a dessert with some kind of cake thing mixed with big raspberries and vanilla pudding, topped off with whipped cream). X3 I also got some Haggis, which was good.
The Kindred Voices group was performing again, but we only got to catch a little bit of their show this year. They have a new album out, which is a Christmas one that was released last holiday season. I decided to buy that, and then I talked to the two girls who sing the vocals and mentioned I was there and saw their show last year. They asked if I had their first album too, and I said I hadn't been able to get that one yet. And they just gave it to me free! ^^
(I ended up listening to both of them when I got home, even the Christmas one. XD I didn't want to wait four months just to be able to hear it! It was awesome, too. There's a real Celtic feel to the way they did the songs.)
It's always such a fun event. X3 I wish it would run longer on Saturday. They have the closing ceremonies around four. I was wondering to myself why they didn't let it run longer, and then it occurred to me that maybe it was because they wanted to be able to have everything cleaned up and such before midnight when it would be Sunday. (It's a fairly religious area down here.)
I've been working on fics more, as well. I got the follow-up to Deep Silence Complete done, and I love how it turned out, especially when Cloud confronts Sephiroth. X3
Writing for KH Sephiroth is a lot of fun. I love writing for them both, but I seem to write more for KH Seph, while FF7 Seph is the one I generally role-play. Kidswingshot mentioned that KH Sephiroth is portrayed as a dark or anti-hero in my fics, and I quite like that description. He's so prideful, even moreso I think than the way I write FF7 Seph. They're both that way, and yet it just seems like the KH Seph shows it more. He's very spiteful, too. And he's still capable of falling into hatred, though I think FF7 Seph would be too, if he was put through the same thing that happened to KH Seph in Bleed at My Feet.
On the other hand, KH Seph has a certain weariness after everything he's done in the past and what he suffered as the consequence for losing himself and blindly killing people in the opposing land, whether they had hurt his people or not. (But he still believes that the ones who hurt his people deserved death.) And he seems sometimes that he's more relaxed than his counterpart. Both of them have that weariness, and both have a very dark/morbid sense of humor. XD KH Seph's sarcasm is probably the only thing even vaguely amusing in Deep Silence Complete. And of course, there's the pessimism.
KH Seph still has some spark of duty left towards the people of Hollow Bastion, even though as he says, they've turned their back on him. And he wonders why he should do anything for them. They seem to have forgotten the Sephiroth who led their armies, and died trying to bring them victory. He doesn't like that at all, nor does he appreciate being thought of as a monster just because of his wings.
Of course both Sephs have soft spots for the respective Zacks, and the Zacks seem to be the only ones who really understand them. Sephiroth and Zack's banter is one of the most enjoyable things to write. X3 With Zack, Sephiroth seems to allow a different side of himself to show, a more contented side. And Zack seems to be able to get Sephiroth to talk about things at times, though he doesn't pry when he sees Sephiroth doesn't want to say anything.
I think I write FF7 Seph as more subdued at times, because he's still trying to get used to being alive again/being sane/coming to grips with everything he did. (Whereas KH Seph is used to being alive again and he never went insane, though I'm not sure if he has fully come to grips with what he did.) But then other times FF7 Seph's bitterness flares up, like when he fought Cloud on the roof. X3 And by the end of S&M, he seems to be settling better into his life and has bursts of arrogance and dark humor. I don't think I've written for him too much post-S&M, and it's hard to pinpoint exactly how I write him differently from his counterpart, yet I know I do. XD;
**ponders more.**
So I presented the idea to Lisa and we started an RP with a similar premise. Zack, and Aerith, and now Tifa, are all trying to talk to Cloud, and of course, he doesn't want to listen right now. Eventually Zack's going to be pushed too far and snap at Cloud. That's going to be intense.
Both of them should probably be involved in finding the solution to the problem, though I'm not sure yet what it shall be. XD I was thinking today of the various ways the problem has been corrected.
- Healing water (in the actual fic)
- Yuffie melting down materia to turn it into a substance like the healing water (in the RP with Marta)
- Set, the Egyptian god, releases him (in the RP with Aubrie)
- A gem with healing properties that shatters the stone (in the RP with Lizzie, and also used to free the Alternate Sephiroth in the RP with Aubrie)
We went to the Scottish festival on Friday and Saturday. It was cool. X3 We went around to the various vendors on Friday. There were a couple with Celtic jewelry, and two or three with swords, and some clothing shops, including one with a gorgeous velvet purple scarf/shawl thing. Then there was a knick-knack shop, and there were some cute little bear plushies there with plaid pawpads.
They're maybe about six or seven inches, and there's a girl and a boy. The girl has a red velvet dress, and the boy has a white sweater with red white and blue trim and a plaid bowtie. They're kinda Christmasy, as well as reminding me of the festival. They were two dollars each, so I got to get them as souveniers on Saturday. I only saw the girl on Friday night, and Mom was hoping she and Dad could get it for me the next day, and when we went then, we found the boy bear too. I think of them as brother and sister bears, but I can't think of brother and sister names, because the first thing that popped into my head was Cloud and Aerith.
They were out of Scottish food on Friday night, so I got a hot dog with mustard and ketsup and relish, as well as a piece of Kraft cheese, a bag of Cheetos, some ice water, and an oatmeal creme sandwich cookie. X3 It's been so long since I had those.
On Saturday I got a Scotch egg (which was a hardboiled egg with sausage all around it) and a Trifle (which was a dessert with some kind of cake thing mixed with big raspberries and vanilla pudding, topped off with whipped cream). X3 I also got some Haggis, which was good.
The Kindred Voices group was performing again, but we only got to catch a little bit of their show this year. They have a new album out, which is a Christmas one that was released last holiday season. I decided to buy that, and then I talked to the two girls who sing the vocals and mentioned I was there and saw their show last year. They asked if I had their first album too, and I said I hadn't been able to get that one yet. And they just gave it to me free! ^^
(I ended up listening to both of them when I got home, even the Christmas one. XD I didn't want to wait four months just to be able to hear it! It was awesome, too. There's a real Celtic feel to the way they did the songs.)
It's always such a fun event. X3 I wish it would run longer on Saturday. They have the closing ceremonies around four. I was wondering to myself why they didn't let it run longer, and then it occurred to me that maybe it was because they wanted to be able to have everything cleaned up and such before midnight when it would be Sunday. (It's a fairly religious area down here.)
I've been working on fics more, as well. I got the follow-up to Deep Silence Complete done, and I love how it turned out, especially when Cloud confronts Sephiroth. X3
Writing for KH Sephiroth is a lot of fun. I love writing for them both, but I seem to write more for KH Seph, while FF7 Seph is the one I generally role-play. Kidswingshot mentioned that KH Sephiroth is portrayed as a dark or anti-hero in my fics, and I quite like that description. He's so prideful, even moreso I think than the way I write FF7 Seph. They're both that way, and yet it just seems like the KH Seph shows it more. He's very spiteful, too. And he's still capable of falling into hatred, though I think FF7 Seph would be too, if he was put through the same thing that happened to KH Seph in Bleed at My Feet.
On the other hand, KH Seph has a certain weariness after everything he's done in the past and what he suffered as the consequence for losing himself and blindly killing people in the opposing land, whether they had hurt his people or not. (But he still believes that the ones who hurt his people deserved death.) And he seems sometimes that he's more relaxed than his counterpart. Both of them have that weariness, and both have a very dark/morbid sense of humor. XD KH Seph's sarcasm is probably the only thing even vaguely amusing in Deep Silence Complete. And of course, there's the pessimism.
KH Seph still has some spark of duty left towards the people of Hollow Bastion, even though as he says, they've turned their back on him. And he wonders why he should do anything for them. They seem to have forgotten the Sephiroth who led their armies, and died trying to bring them victory. He doesn't like that at all, nor does he appreciate being thought of as a monster just because of his wings.
Of course both Sephs have soft spots for the respective Zacks, and the Zacks seem to be the only ones who really understand them. Sephiroth and Zack's banter is one of the most enjoyable things to write. X3 With Zack, Sephiroth seems to allow a different side of himself to show, a more contented side. And Zack seems to be able to get Sephiroth to talk about things at times, though he doesn't pry when he sees Sephiroth doesn't want to say anything.
I think I write FF7 Seph as more subdued at times, because he's still trying to get used to being alive again/being sane/coming to grips with everything he did. (Whereas KH Seph is used to being alive again and he never went insane, though I'm not sure if he has fully come to grips with what he did.) But then other times FF7 Seph's bitterness flares up, like when he fought Cloud on the roof. X3 And by the end of S&M, he seems to be settling better into his life and has bursts of arrogance and dark humor. I don't think I've written for him too much post-S&M, and it's hard to pinpoint exactly how I write him differently from his counterpart, yet I know I do. XD;
**ponders more.**
