tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33283748008148983042024-03-13T05:32:57.156-07:00I Read Fanfics To Make Myself Feel BetterA blog dedicated to commenting on fanfiction in a (hopefully) humorous manner, and offer a bit of criticism. And spout my opinions on how to write while also being a terrible writer.Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-32610711556413325592021-04-07T15:37:00.000-07:002021-04-07T15:37:03.499-07:00I'm So Lost I Don't Even Have Time To Complain About a Male OC Hanging Around With The All-Female Cast<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Love Live is a pretty okay anime attached to some decent songs, starring a group of nine girls becoming school idols for school-related reasons. Also vague yuri undertones. But I feel like there's something missing from these slice-of-life shows that exist to sell CD's. Something a bit... grittier... maybe more magical in nature? Luckily, a kind soul has it covered. <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13811241/1/Love-Live-School-Idol-Project-The-Chaotic-Rider">Love Live School Idol Project - The Chaotic Rider</a> by Blackblur143, tells us this;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">Darion Arisaka living normal life has intense hardships and also struggled a lot in his life especially when transferring to Otonokizawa High slight of miracle occurred. Darion also receives the gift of a unique spirit of vengeance himself Rath of Pride...This is their story and we will learn more about what to come to the present...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Which should be all you need to know about the premise of this story, really. That said, I suppose I do have a question or two. Like, what is a slight of miracle? What's this about a spirit of vengeance? What is a <strike>W</strike>rath of Pride? I, uh, guess I'll just have to read and find out.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">I started off viewing the old Tokyo...been a year since I been here I wonder how are they are doing...It was something else over there in America</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If that sentence makes no sense to you, worry not, I'm clueless as to what's going on, too. It's the first sentence of the story (not counting a POV indicator and something about a captain's ship) and it has established that... uh...well, that a year has passed for this guy.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">I was struggling but it was alright after all facing Leon...and losing him to a martial arts tournament over there causing us to be in a draw between us heh he's sure improved hmm...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I guess Leon sure did improve, beating you in a fight, thus leading to a draw...?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"Hmm?" I asked looking at my phone "...Look over the bridge...?" I asked reading a message from Umi saw her with Honoka and Kotori "...Well then," I said smirked as our ride slowly heading off to their location port as I had my eyes closed meditating for a bit feeling understanding of the past...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Oh hey, Love Live characters! Forgot what setting this was supposed to be in, there. Also how does one feel an understanding of the past? Can I learn this ability, it feels like a required skill for this story.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">-Flashback time to... childhood in general I suppose!-</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">I was running off in the park annoyed "Why does she keep following me!?" I yelled annoyed looked at Honoka growled "Darion!" Honoka yelled, "What do you want Honoka?!" I yelled annoyed "Let's be friends!" Honoka yelled, "No why should I!?" I yelled</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I feel like there's a lot of annoyed yelling going on. Is anyone else seeing all the annoyed yelling?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"> "I don't want you to endure the pain alone!" Honoka yelled "...?" I asked confused</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">How does that constitute an actual question, I queried baffled.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"...I WON'T LET YOU DO THIS DARION!" Honoka yelled stared at me as I growled looking away till felt her hug from behind as I was shocked eyes widened for a bit...</span></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What's with this Darion fellow constantly growling? Feels a wee bit rude.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">-Let's ignore Kotori and Umi showing up so we can skip to middle school-</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"Like you care Kotori-san now let me continue working," I said practicing alone "...FINE IF YOU WANT TO GET YOURSELF KILLED THEN I DON'T CARE!" Kotori yelled throwing her necklace into the trash</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">uh shit did i skip too far the hell is this all about</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Seriously though, this comes immediately after the scene shifts to 'middle school'. The lack of context is not helpful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">"I WANT THE DARION-KUN I ADMIRE BACK CAUSE YOUR NOT HIM AND BEING IDIOT! I HATE YOU DARION-KUN!" Kotori yelled </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">*SLAPPPEDD*</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and took off running away as I groaned clutching my cheek </span><em style="background-color: white;">(K-Kotori strike me in the face!?)</em><span style="background-color: white;"> I thought shocked</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I'd be shocked too if you could make this girl slap you in anger:</span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.951381807.6721/flat,800x800,075,f.u2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="704" height="200" src="https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.951381807.6721/flat,800x800,075,f.u2.jpg" width="196" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">"YOUR NOT HIM AND BEING IDIOT! I HATE YOU DARION-KUN!"</span>"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"...As much you don't like it Darion but who been there for you most of the time when Honoka and Umi were busy?" Terios asked stared at me as I was silent </span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Oh, hello, didn't see you there. Who the hell are you? Terios isn't getting an explanation, are they?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"...She's not wrong your not training all your doing is setting yourself up into failure" Terios said as I clenched my fist a little glaring down...</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">What is he even training for please tell me I don't understand.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"KOTORIIIII!" I yelled enraged trying to catch her as Chaotic Nightwatcher she gasped as I dashed tackled her turned crashed down on the hard floor as laughed "YOU LOST CHAOTIC NIGHTWATCHERRR!" yelled as I glared down "HOW ABOUT YOU ROTT IN HELL!" I yelled spinning firing a giant green beam of light eradicating Spiligton into ashes burned away...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I... uh... that combination words comes immediately after that previous sentence. I am so, so lost and maybe a little scared now. How do I even begin to parse this event? Darion is now this 'Chaotic Nightwatcher' person... shoving Kotori away from... I guess Spiligton? Spiligton wanted to kill Kotori for some reason? Also magic happens.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Seriously what did I just read?!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">-And so... <i>sigh</i>. Chaotic Nightwatcher flies Kotori off to wherever Honoka and Umi are-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">flew off looking for Honoka and Umi landed to them then glared up at the machine glowing "...Someone has to stop it" I said sweatdrop</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">????????????????????????????????</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"You will never make it!" Honoka yelled "I gotta try," I said smirked floated up weakly "NIGHTWATCHERRR!" Umi yelled as I got blasted getting fired on...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Uh I guess that's a shame for him but seriously what the fuck is going on.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">I was weakened out of my suit trying to shut down the machine throwing a mini energy sphere inside of it as Kotori raced over with Umi and Barry "H-Hang on Darion!" Barry yelled</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">AND WHO IN THE NAME OF SNOW HALATION IS BARRY</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"Agh..." I said as we all got out of time... "I'm sorry Kotori...looks like Chaotic Nightwatcher passed on..."</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So the absolutely nothing I have been able to discern is that Darion is a... I hesitate to call him a superhero, but y'know. His identity is a secret, and I guess he had a special suit to hide it, but now he's out of the suit... after being blasted by this random machine... right in front of everyone else. Did they not notice him falling out or something?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"...D-Darion!?" Honoka yelled "...Heh...I took too much damage..." I said tiredly "D-Darion-kun don't leave us!" Kotori yelled "...I-I'm so sorry! I forgive you don't leave me too!" Kotori yelled "...DARIONNNNN!" Umi yelled as silence engulfed the area...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And with that... er, emotional finish, we move forward another year. But still within the realm of a flashback. I think. Why is this even a flashback when there's so many jumps in time anyway?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"...WHA?!" I yelled sweatdrop looked at Kotori "...Uhh, you okay Kotori-chan?" I asked sweatdrop "Memory wipe!?" Umi yelled </span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Can everyone please stop yelling sweatdrop you're all right next to each other sweatdrop.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"Are you always so loud?" I asked looked at Honoka sweatdrop</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I like this line because in this whole paragraph, which started with the above sentence and then had this Barry guy exposit that Darionj now has amnesia, Honoka has yet to say a word.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><em style="background-color: white;"></em></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><em style="background-color: white;">(Darion?)</em><span style="background-color: white;"> Terios thought</span><em style="background-color: white;"> (Yes Terios?)</em><span style="background-color: white;"> I thought sweatdrop then </span><em style="background-color: white;">(Focus and let your mind feel the energy flowing inside of you)</em><span style="background-color: white;"> Terios thought as I was confused but did what he says when I'm alone at night...</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This amnesia just so happens to wipe his memories of the girls - the characters we actually know - but he still seems to remember Terios, who as far as I can tell is just a voice in his head? I'm starting to think this has no business being a Love Live fanfiction at all.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"...Arrgghhh," I said groaning in pain but stared at myself confused "Ah shit Kotori and everyone!" I muttered, "Yeah I'm moving away...for a year damn it..." I said annoyed as time goes on...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Oddly specific amount of time. Why move away at all? Aren't you <i>always</i> annoyed as time goes on?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">-And then I guess he fights with this Leon guy over and over until the present day. I sure am glad we get to learn about all these wonderful OC's. Anyways, he disembarks from the boat I guess he was riding on-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">as I nodded looked at Honoka running towards me "D-Darry-kun!" Honoka yelled "OW! J-Jeez...Demanding Queen still same as ever eh?" I asked "...I hate you" Honoka said hugging "...Yep" I said sighed but smirked</span></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Awkward reunions are awkward. I'll skip over most of this paragraph, but I must ask how they knew to meet when he's had zero contact with them all year? Umi even knew when to message him as he was travelling on that boat and everything.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"> "...Darion...you baka...</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">IF ONLY ENGLISH HAD A WORD THAT WAS EQUIVALENT TO THIS STRANGE ENIGMATIC EXPRESSION UNIQUE ONLY TO JAPAN</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And then they have a big group hug. By the way, Barry's there again. Why does he keep suddenly popping up in the middle of scenes and pretending he was always present?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: arial;">*AT NIGHT*</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Darion are you ready?" Terios asked as I adjusted my gloves "Yeah what's in our pay raise this time?" I asked smirked looking around the city as red icons popped on my screen</span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What's in your... wha? Do you even understand what a pay raise is?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;">"...Well since we been gone for a year not many big things happened though there are some yakuza and gangs that need to be clean up" Terios said "Well then let's get to work" I said jump down glowing red and took off on a motorcycle glaring down...</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well have fun fighting crime, Batman. I'll, uh... go back to watching a show about a group of girls singing songs and doing school stuff, I guess.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, that's the end of that chapter, and... hoo boy. I feel like the issues are glaringly obvious here, but let me just ask one question. Why oh why do these fanfics always choose the most unfitting settings for their strange high fantasy things? Of all the anime in the world, you thought <i>Love Live</i> was the one that needed some super-powered vigilante MC that fights giant machines, unseen villains, and... according to what I skimmed and saw, human traffickers?! It's... it's okay to write original fiction, you don't have to jam this square peg into a brick wall. Trust me, as a bad writer that tries to shoehorn needlessly dark elements into light-hearted scenarios, some elements just do not mix.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; max-height: 999999px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Nico Nico Nii~</span></p>Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-68844006629789214722020-05-12T17:29:00.000-07:002020-05-12T17:29:27.699-07:00Pokemon Ruination: See, I Can Write Terrible Fanfiction Too!So how have you guys been enjoying your Quarantine? With all this having to stay indoors, interacting with others as little as possible, I gotta say... life for me's been pretty normal! Still procrastinating away on actually writing my own stories, and these days I'm not even reading much of other people's fanfiction. What to do?<div><br /></div><div>Why, read my <i>own</i> fanfiction, of course!</div><div><br /></div><div>It'll be a challenge, mostly because my stuff is written so utterly blandly that it's a struggle to make fun of anything, but hey, I can at least try and remember the thought processes behind my creative decisions, right? As for what to comment on... well, given how utterly perfect and wonderful the stories on my <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/~writerroxas" target="_blank">fanfiction.net account</a> are, it's <i>obviously</i> impossible to make fun of those. Nah, I'll need to dig deeper, to the days before I wrote such amazing plotlines as 'what if Wriggle actually liked getting punched by an older woman" and "what if some grimderp idiot wanted to blow up Gensokyo because why not".</div><div><br /></div><div>...Holy shit that was me after <i>improving</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>-----</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=221578" target="_blank">Pokemon: Ruination</a>, written by yours truly, is a Pokemon fanfic in which... Missingno appears. It's... bad. really bad. No need to mince words, I can take it. How does Missingno appear? Stupidity. What does it do? Be a terrible creepypasta wannabe. Why did I think this was a good idea? Because I was not a smart person. Not like today, where I'm pretty godly at everything I do, of course.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>No story summary, because... I dunno, the title tells you everything you need to know? At any rate, here's the first chapter... chapter 0. In which a trainer is running to Cinnabar Island's Pokemon Centre amidst torrential rain.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"My, it's really coming down," Nurse Joy commented in a conversational manner to the trainer.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Yeah." The trainer sighed. From his tone, he wasn't in the best of spirits. Joy picked up on his mood.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"So, how'd your gym battle go?" she asked with a bright smile, although she knew the answer.</span></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>So Joy can tell this guy isn't happy and cheerfully asks him how badly he got his ass kicked by the local gym leader. Deliberately characterising Joy as a sadistic monster that enjoys the suffering of trainers, or writing so inept that characterisation changes between sentences? I will let you decide.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Oh dear, well I'm sure you'll do better next time!" Joy encouraged, taking his offered Pokeballs. Her Pokemon Assistant, Chansey, was preparing a machine behind her. This Machine rejuvenated tired Pokemon nearly instantly.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Placing the trainers five Pokeballs inside the machine, she switched it on. The Pokeballs flashed momentarily with the Lightning outside.</span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>You will probably find that most of the writing is... incredibly bland. Like, unbelievably bland. Blander than the last pitch you heard for an isekai story gimmick. Writing so bland it makes Twilight jokes seem funny and topical to make in 2020. What I'm getting at is that this story is really bad and boring.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Just train some more. Blaine is strong, but I'm sure you have the potential to win!" Joy encouraged some more.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thunder crackled outside as the boy accepted his Pokemon. "Yeah, I'm sure I will."</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Honestly, if you can't beat a gym leader that uses a Super Potion on a Pokemon with full health, you maybe deserve to have a nurse rub it in your nose a little.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With a smile, Nurse Joy turned and entered a room behind her. The room was used for Pokemon who couldn't be healed by the machine, and it was time to check up an Ivysaur that had nearly drowned yesterday.</span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>The magical machine capable of resuscitating unconscious Pokemon, thawing them without issue, healing 3rd degree burns and whatever else happens in their constant battling, can't deal with water inhalation. Sucks for you if a Blastoise took aim for your precious Sandshrew, ain't no way it's getting a quick heal.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The trainer now turned to his right, and walked towards a PC. Placing his Pokeballs on a table, except one, he logged onto the PC. He started up the Storage Program.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"You cost me that match." The trainer muttered, remembering the two on two battle he had with Blaine. Blaine's Rapidash was taken out by Dugtrio, but then his Magmar took it down. His hopes ran on the Porygon he recently caught. He was told it was a Powerful Pokemon, but Magmar took it down quicker than Dugtrio. Completely useless.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I know the Gen 1 games might as well be the Hard Mode for the series in general, but at some point you really should take responsibility for not bothering to train a Pokemon at all before taking on an expert at battling.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Placing the Pokeball on a special teleporter, he clicked 'Deposit'. Never again would he use such a weakling. It would stay in there until he could trade it or something.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Just as the Pokeball containing Porygon was being transferred, thunder struck the Centre's antennae. The signal for the computer messed up, powering down mid transfer.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>That moment when your Pokemon Deposit system runs on Link Cable rules. Enjoy your cloned Porygon, random trainer!</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The trainer was gripped with fear. What happened? Did the Pokemon make it to his box? Was it all right?</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">'Wait, why do I care?' he wondered. He hated the weak thing. At least this way, it wasn't wasting space.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>"Oh no, did I just accidentally kill an innocent animal... program... sentient creature? Wait, why should I care, I already watched it get the shit kicked out of it by a creature made entirely of fire and ducklips."</div><div><br /></div><div>-The power is restored-</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The screen showed something peculiar. It was... a scrambled mess of pinkish red pixels from the look of it. The graphics card must have been damaged. But what about his Box?</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The trainer was about to try and access his box when suddenly, a garbled noise came from the computer. The trainer freaked out and jumped back. The noise continued, screeching a horrible cry. It was like someone jumbled up notes on an 8-bit music player.</span></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>You thought it was a mere Pokemon fanfic, but little did you realise that it was a creepypasta all along!</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>Finally, it stopped, and the trainer could lower his hands from his ears. What the hell was that? Maybe he should get Nurse Joy...</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>What is she supposed to do, whack the PC until it stops screaming 8-bit gibberish or whatever?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The pinkish red jumble of pixels flickered. It seemed to move closer to the screen. Was it... Was it looking at him? Could it see? What the hell was it?!</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The trainer stepped back uneasily. He cleared his throat, trying to call Nurse Joy, but this computer was freaking him out.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Ten years later and I still have no idea how one is supposed to discern if a jumble of pixels is looking at you. But, uh... doesn't it sure sound <i>spooooooooooky</i> to suggest it?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Suddenly, the screen smashed, glass flying outward. the trainer yelled and covered his face with his arms. Luckily, the glass missed him, but smoke was coming from the computer. More thunder and lightning crashed overhead as the rain pelted the island.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"What happened? Are you okay, Jerry?!" Joy shouted, running to the counter in alarm.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The trainer, Jerry, stood where he was, looking at the smoke blowing computer. He couldn't see anything through it. He could see Joy running towards him, yelling if he was okay.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>This is definitely the most natural way to introduce the guy's name before he gets eaten by a glitch, yep. Can't have the cause of the plot be completely nameless, can we? We need to know Jerry's name because how else are we supposed to tell him apart from the other... let's say he's a Youngster. </div><div><br /></div><div><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Oh no, the computer!" She gasped as he reached Jerry's side. "How did that-"</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">They both froze when something emerged from the smoke. It was... Inhuman. Not even a Pokemon. It was... was...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Wires. Lots of wires. And glass, there should be plenty of that. Maybe even a Rotom?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"That thing...That's the glitch on the screen?" Jerry muttered in terror as the pixelled entity slowly floated forward.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"W-w-what is that?" Joy stammered in terror. Chansey had come to investigate now, and it froze at the site of the creature.</span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LFrFWcCTq_M/Xrsyo4RUYqI/AAAAAAAABBw/67jteLXi7cw-WQazel6kne1paaRmfQt0QCK4BGAsYHg/pokemon-missingno-png-clipart-thumbnail.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LFrFWcCTq_M/Xrsyo4RUYqI/AAAAAAAABBw/67jteLXi7cw-WQazel6kne1paaRmfQt0QCK4BGAsYHg/s320/pokemon-missingno-png-clipart-thumbnail.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pictured: A terrifying abomination on nature<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The entity, once a Pokemon, floated towards the group. It knew the young boy. It didn't know why any more, but this trainer.. hated it. Hate filled the entity, despising the trainer that had apparently wronged him. It began to glow.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"W-what's it-?" Joy stammered again, but before she could finish, the entity launched forward, too fast for them to follow.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">No one in the Island heard the screams over the storm that night.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I'm sure, once you managed to unscramble the unholy noise it made, Missingno said something to the effect of "heh, nothin' personnel, kid".</div><div><br /></div><div>And that's the prelude of this epic... mysterious... er... dark and shocking? "Story". I would be amazed that it last 16 chapter, if said chapters weren't hilariously short enough to barely cover a total of, like, ten pages or something. Before I continue on, I guess I can share the incredible biography for the characters shown up to this point. Because I guess I decided that a fanfiction based on one of the most popular video games of all time needed a space to introduce its characters.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Name: </span><strong style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font color="SeaGreen" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerry</font></strong><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Age: 10</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Occupation: Trainer</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Team: Dugtrio, ?, ?, ?</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Misc: The genius who screwed up everything.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Past Me was quite the dick, huh? It wasn't like Jerry planned for a lightning bolt to kill the PC while he was using it. Actually, if something like that were a possibility, surely the Pokemon World would have failsafes for that kind of scenario? Otherwise there would be a lot of Missingno's. Or dead Pokemon floating in the void between reality and cyberspace.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Name: </span><strong style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font color="White" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nurse Joy</font></strong><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Age: Not a day under 30 maybe.</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Occupation: Take a guess.</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Team: Chansey</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Misc: Would it be easier to tell them apart if they had first names?</span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Reasons why you never give someone access to colour tags when writing stories:</div><div><br /></div><div>A common theme behind the misc. sections of these comprehensive character biographies are unfunny one-liners. That's... all there is to them. I guess we can move onto chapter 1 proper now.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>Flying high over Pallet Town, a large dragon-like Pokemon floated high above. This orange beast, Charizard, was one of the Pokemon belonging to the newest Champion, Red.</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Best starter gets to be fully evolved first in this story. It's the law.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Red sat carefully on Charizard's back, making sure not to fall off. It was great to be going home. When he left this town, he was just a newbie who knew nothing of being a Pokemon Trainer, and now he returned as Kanto's best Trainer. Beating Green for the Championship was pretty awesome too.</span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>You'll notice that I use the name 'Green' for the rival here, because I was really into Pokemon Special back in the day, and to this day it makes way more sense to me that Blue is Green, and Green is Blue. Although I guess Blue would be Leaf, following the logic behind this fic's universe, therefore Green should be Blue, and Red remains Red.</div><div><br /></div><div>Okay, maybe Oak can't be fully blamed for forgetting his name.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>The large Pokemon glided lower and lower, towards the centre of town. Charizard remembered when it was just a Charmander, and was chosen by Red to be his first partner. He was inexperienced, but wanted to be useful to his new trainer. And now the Charmander had grown up to be a mighty Charizard.</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I still struggle with brevity in my writing, but boy is it really painful looking at it here. Absolutely nothing is really conveyed here, just really short, simple statements, like a really bored recital of bullet points.</div><div><br /></div><div>-Red lands in town and everyone gathers round-</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>"You've certainly come a long way, Red." Oak praised, extending his hand and stroking Charizard's neck. "From beginning Trainer to Champion. And it only took you ten months."</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Who takes ten months to beat a game set in Kanto? Such a scrub. I bet that Charizard only knows Fire-type moves too.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Oh, there's my little Champion!" Yet another voice cried out, and Red immediately recognised this one too. suddenly, a woman shot forward and enveloped him in a bone breaking hug.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Oh, my little Red, I've missed you so much! You could have come visit me, y'know! You can fly anywhere and you don't even stop by for five minutes..."</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>That's the downside to region-wide free health care, I'm afraid.</div><div><br /></div><div>-Green sulks in the background-</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>Green understandably wasn't happy about Red becoming Champion. That was taken from him. Even though Green was forced to accept Red as Champion, he didn't like it. Even if he respected Red for his strength a little.</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Green is a tsundere confirmed. "I-I guess Red-kun is a little strong... but just a little, b-baka!"</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The rest of Red's team composed of:</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pikachu, from Viridian Forest. It had been his first capture.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bulbasaur, which had resided on the road between Mt. Moon's exit and Cerulean City.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Wartortle, which he found as a Squirtle near Vermillion City.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Snorlax, which had been causing problems by blocking a road to Vermillion City.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And Eevee, which had joined him because its previous owner treated it like a tool rather than a friend.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>And in the edgy 2010's reboot of this story, Eevee is replaced by Lapras because... I dunno, Nuzlocke death or something. Also all the jokes are replaced with death and sadness and brooding. Also Red is silent because of the pain in his heart.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>They all played happily with the younger town residents as Red familiarised himself with his old room. Oak and his mother were downstairs talking about something or other. Maybe his recent victory. It was nice that he was a local celebrity now, but he hoped he wouldn't constantly be stopped in the street to be praised. For all he knew, there would come a day when he would be beaten by an even better Trainer. Always someone better, as they say.</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Not sure how that would take away from you being a Champion... but according to this story, everyone loved Green until he was beaten by Red. Which must have lasted for all of an hour or something? Maybe everyone in Pallet Town is super fickle.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>After checking out his old PC, Red switched on the T.V. There was a news broadcast on. As far as he knew, the biggest news was him, but this about something different.</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Therefore, Red had no interest. Nothing was more interesting than him, after all.</div><div><br /></div><div>-The news reports that Cinnabar Island is under attack by extremely powerful Pokemon, and a Fearow with a camera's gonna take a look-</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The T.V. went static for a second as camera broadcast's were shifted. Then a birds eye view of Cinnabar Island flashed on screen.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Red's eyes widened when he saw the display. the camera (Which would be attacked to the Fearow's neck) slowly rotated as the Fearow circled the island. He could sea a lot of buildings had been destroyed. Had the Pokemon done that?</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Probably a safe bet. They're the ones attacking the island, after all.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote>"From what we can see, the Pokemon have rampaged through Cinnabar!" A Voice narrated in an excited voice. "There are no people outside, and it is assumed they were safely evacuated to the Cinnabar Volcano, where Resident Gym Leader Blaine, who had sent a mysterious S.O.S. message, conducts his training!"</blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Reporter Dude, you need to work on your exposition delivery. You can elaborate once you say 'Blaine evacuated people probably maybe".</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Suddenly, the Fearow screeched in surprise, and the camera moved around frantically as the Fearow manoeuvred, apparently to dodge an attack.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"The Fearow is being attacked! This is bad, it's been spotted!" The voice shouted, now in alarm. "Come back Fearow! Return quickly!"</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Fearow tried evading an attack from the Pokemon, just a tiny Pidgey. The Fearow couldn't understand how a timid bird like that would find the courage to attack, but Fearow could sense something horribly wrong with it. It exuded an aura that didn't belong to a creature of this world.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I'll spare you a second shitty MENACING photoshop job and instead ask how we can establish it's a Pidgey when it's a super fast little bird against a flailing neck-camera. The next line makes it obvious the reporter (and anyone watching) can't see the thing. I mean, obviously the answer is just terrible writing, as well as conveying to the reader that the super strong Pokemon is a normally weak little birb.</div><div><br /></div><div>Suspense was not a thing I was ever good at, as you can tell.</div><div><br /></div><div>-The Pidgey Quick attacks the Fearow to probable-death-</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The camera went dead when it hit the ground, and Red stared at his T.V. in disbelief. What had happened to that Fearow? Something big must have knocked it down. The Reporter was silent with shock, unable to believe their Pokemon was knocked out the sky.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">'Whatever's happening in that Island...' Red thought to himself. 'I have to check this out. Something's horribly wrong there. I just know it.'</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I mean, yeah, Pokemon are running rampant to the point that the gym leader sent out some sort of distress signal. It's hardly a subtle conspiracy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Chapter 1 ends there, and as fun as it is to reread my masterworks, I'll end it here for now. I might discuss the overall plot in a future blog post (shouldn't be too hard to remember the plot beats, nothing of interest ever really happens), but for now... enjoy hearing about the Porygon that got glitched into some digital abomination, I guess?</div><div><br /></div><div>...Ah, what the hell, let's look at a few more bios.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Name: </span><strong style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font color="Red" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Red</font></strong><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Age: 10</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Occupation: Pokemon Champion</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Team: Charizard, Wartortle, Bulbasaur, Eevee, Snorlax, Pikachu</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Misc: Constantly interrupted before he can talk.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Such a shame we couldn't see much of the <i>hilarious</i> gag of 'Red is not allowed to talk'. I'm sure you would have loved the various methods in which the universe conspires to keep him silent. On another note, can you guess my order of preference for Kanto starters?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Name: </span><strong style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><font color="Lime" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Green</font></strong><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Age: 10</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Occupation: Former Champion</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Team: Pidgeot, Arcanine, Alakazam, Rhydon, Exxegutor, Machamp</span><br style="background-color: #f0f0f0; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Misc: Has a habit of appearing from seemingly nowhere to challenge people.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div>"What's your current occupation?"<br />"Well I used to be a Champion."</div><div>"...But what are you right now?"</div><div>"A former champ."</div><div><br /></div><div>Why did I ever bother with those things when they tell you even less than what the games themselves did. Oh well, I guess everyone starts off writing utter cringe. How else are you supposed to find your style if you don't get the worst of it out of your system?</div><div><br /></div><div>Smell ya later, readers.</div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: "Open Sans", "Noto Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div>Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-48960850875304256382019-10-23T13:18:00.000-07:002019-11-18T22:35:09.142-08:00When the Cicadas Cry Out "Dear Sweet Jesus What"This'll probably be hilarious to imagine nowadays, but the Higurashi anime was probably the first anime to actually unnerve me a little, by the end of it's first arc. Watching everything slowly go to shit around Keiichi was a hell of a time, I tell ya what. Then I read some manga arcs and they had some creepy pages going on, too. Hell, when I got around to the original sound novels, thinking I was too toughened up to be caught off-guard, BAM! Nude Satoko sprite out of nowhere to traumatise me.<br />
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Let's just say that <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12876637/1/" target="_blank">Yandere-hen THE CONTINUATION</a> by YuuyaKizami21 doesn't quite reach that same level of creepy atmosphere. Or tragedy. Or nuance.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Keiichi was held captive by Rena for long. It is time for him to escape. Sequel to Higurashi No Naku Kori Ni: Yandere-Hen. Yandere Rena x Keiichi. Bad summary, rated T for Yandere. Multiple endings.</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Nice and simple, I suppose. Evidently, this is a sequel to a previous story by this author. I started with the sequel because I saw it first and I'm just hardcore like that.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Multiple endings though, huh? Can't wait to see how that turns out, I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I've lost track of time. I've lost track of how long I was within that psychopath, who killed all of my friends... Only because they were just hugging me that day.</span></span></blockquote>
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She was not home currently. I tried to remember what did she and I conversed about last time.<br />
"Keiichi-Kun~ Reina wants to go shopping for our needs, OK?~" She asked me.</blockquote>
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Now it's been hours, no... maybe more... I am completely lost track of time.<br />
Then Suddenly I heard the front door opening and closing. I then heard whoever it was who opened the door walking up the stairs.<br />
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Then I heard a gasping sound from the other side of the bedroom door. It's clearly not her.<br />
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Please don't question why this random high school girl decided to break into someone's apartment for no readily-apparent reason.</div>
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"Please... Help me-" I was trying to plead to her so she can free me, though it got interrupted as I saw another figure behind her.<br />
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The poor girl was then sliced from head to groin by the figure I feared so much.<br />
Rena Ryugū.</blockquote>
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Ah. Well, uh... that's... that's a really sharp machete, then. Y'know, since it apparently cleaved through a girl's skull, and worked it's way down with no resistance whatsoever?</div>
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Is... is Rena stronger than Jason Voorhees?</div>
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"She is nobody, Rena. You don't have to-"<br />"Kill her? Well NO! I KNOW SHE'LL TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ME, JUST LIKE THOSE 4 SLUTS WHO LEWDED YOU!"</blockquote>
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She then puts her hands down, and opens her eyes, revealing the snake slits that she had when she kidnapped me.<br />
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I wonder if anyone ever actually notices a change like that, especially with all the hallucinations going around. Somehow I kind of doubt it's an actual, physical change... but then, I also doubt Rena would have the power to smack Jason around like a ragdoll, and look where we are.</div>
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"What's wrong!?"<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Oh okay yeah that's what I thought you meant.</span></div>
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"And now, you are going to be with me... BY FORCE!" She took her machete.<br />
She raised it, and swung it on me, but I dodged and the machete hits the chain, cutting it off. I then punched her in the head with all my might. She went down instantly.</blockquote>
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Well, uh... that escape sure was easy. So that was all it took, huh? tricking the super-powered high-school anime girl into cutting a chain with one swing of her machete, then downing her with one punch, man. At least it's a simple matter to just walk out the front door, huh?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I then begin to search the house for the key, I checked the kitchen, bathroom and living room. The only place that I haven't checked is the basement.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Why would the key be anywhere else?! If it's anywhere, it'd be Rena's pocket, Keiichi! If you're gonna faff around like this, at least tie her up or something, gawd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">It's a huge basement, it had 2 rooms, however one of the rooms are filled with dried blood, and had hanged bodies. Is she planning to eat them?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...No? Why would she eat those bodies? ...Why would she be hanging bodies in the basement, anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Why does an apartment have a basement, let alone one this huge?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">And I looked at the second room. Inside looks like an interior of a church, many seats.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">AND HOW THE HELL DID RENA SET ANY OF THIS UP BY HERSELF</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Is... is this apartment built by Umbrella or something? Why would Rena keep the key to the front door inside her recreation of a church in the oversized basement of an apartment? How did she have time to enter the apartment, bypass the schoolgirl without being noticed, trek all the way up to the mannequins to hang the key, then return all the way back to Schoolgirl-chan, arm herself with a machete in the meantine, and then kill her in the time it took for that girl to open the door and ask why a young guy was chained to the wall?</span></div>
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"Darling! Come back to me!" I heard her calling.<br />
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Drat, drat and double drat. The killer yandere has woken up. If only he had some way of preventing her from given chase, but alas, that half an hour of free time he had just wasn't enough.</div>
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I quickly took the key off the mannequin and just as I turned around...<br />
"Traitor." I saw her, tilting her head, with those snake eyes. I also saw maggots crawling out of her neck.</blockquote>
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Author cleverly weaving in the symptoms of Hinamizawa Syndrome into Keiichi's narration to make the maggots look real, or the author deciding the maggots are actually there and crawling out of her... we'll assume she has wounds on her neck. YOU MAKE THE CALL</div>
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"Get away from me, Rena!"<br />
"Rena? Who is Rena? My name is Reina!"<br />
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"Seriously is this really the time for your pedantry I'm trying to escape from your murderous clutches here."</div>
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"So that Rena had finally fooled you that she is Rena? That's actually a fake name."<br />
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I then ran back upstairs, and went to the kitchen briefly to take a knife as a weapon, before running to the door and unlock it. Just as I unlocked it, I heard her voice again.<br />
"You really are hard." She grabbed my neck and pins me to the door.</blockquote>
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I took the knife quickly, and stabbed her in the right eye.<br />
"We could have been a perfect couple..." Was her last words, as maggots were crawling out of her eye, and she falls backwards.</blockquote>
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...That's all? Nothing else to say? No "why though" or "holy fuck this hurts" or even "<b>CRAAAWWWWLLLIIIINNNNG IIINNNNN MY EEEYYYYYEEEEEE</b>"? Feels a bit bland for her last words, to be honest.</div>
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It's over. She's dead already.<br />
-Neutral Ending~ Free at Last.</blockquote>
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...Well, uh... sure, I guess. Good thing there's no loose ends to tie up in this timeline. Rena's dead, so that's it. No, never mind the two halves of the murdered schoolgirl at the end of the hall (I think that's where she is. This apartment's layout is more fucked than that house in Handshakers), or the bodies hanging in the giant basement. We're all done here.</div>
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Chapter 2: Bad end<br />
A/N this is the bad ending.</blockquote>
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There's no way I can forgive her, for what she had done all this time.<br />
"I'll pass. There's no way-" I said, but then was silenced with a kiss on my lips.</blockquote>
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Just ignore all the blood that's spurting down your throat, given you plunged a knife into this anime Terminator's gut a second ago.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Seriously though Rena you might want to see someone about that it's not normal to have so many maggots living in your mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Then Keiichi begins to itch everywhere and maggots crawl out of him-</span></div>
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My vision began to darken, and the last thing I saw is that she cries out blood, and is grinning widely.<br />
"Now you are Reina's property, darling. You're Reina's forever..." Is the last thing I heard.<br />
Then everything went black.<br />
Bad end- Devoured by love.</blockquote>
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I feel like killing him is a bit counter-productive to 'owning' him, but hey, what do I know? I lack experience with murderers, psychopaths, and girlfriends.</div>
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Time for the True End! Hopefully this is where all the super fun happy times go.</div>
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I can't escape. This is already my fate to become her's.<br />
"OK, I promise. Forgive me." With that, she let go of me.<br />
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When I woke up, I see that I am in the basement, in the church like area. I looked at myself to see that I am wearing the black wedding suit, and I already wore a ring.<br />
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I suppose when the groom's unconscious, the wedding reception is a lot more boring than normal, huh?</div>
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So wait are these supposed to be the bodies from before? Slight difference between corpses and skellies, y'know.</div>
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"Rise and Shine, darling. Who do you love?"<br />
"You."<br />
"Who do you obey?"<br />
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"And who is that?"<br />
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Is it my general lack of experience talking again, or does these vows seem a tad one-sided.</div>
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She then smirked and slaps me in the face. Blood began dripping from my mouth. She then grabbed my chin and forced me to look at her.<br />
"It's Reina Maebara~"<br />
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...Uh... yay? I think? Uh... sure, okay.</div>
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So, uh, wow. That sure was something. Not sure how to feel about the 'true end' being cool with, at bare minimum, domestic abuse, with the implicit and very real threat of bloody murder via Umbrella-sponsored serial killer schoolgirl keeping these two together. I am most definitely sure that this was not a good story, however.</div>
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If I can put aside my own dislike for bleak, depressing stories, this story lacked so much detail and logic to everything from it's premise to every action and line of dialogue given, I can't understand what the point of any of this was. Besides, surely you realise that Rena's real charm are her silly noises and quirky speech patterns, speech patterns?</div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-50695350982790205082019-05-11T10:47:00.002-07:002019-05-11T10:47:31.666-07:00Bleach: Old Story But Totally New I SwearStill missing Bleach. I am too non-Japanese-speaking to check out the novels, my phone is loaded with too many gacha games to pick up Brave Souls for the third time, and I somehow doubt Burn The Witch will become a series any time soon. Guess it's time to look for some fun, original fanfiction!<br />
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Today, let's take a look at <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12965920/1/" target="_blank">Bleach: New Blackness</a>, by Show Expert 1, who is nice enough to assure me this will not copy the source material in any way:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Years have gone by as the war came to an end, but just because one story ends doesn't mean another can't begin. Hiro Hashiru was just a normal teenager until he met a soul reaper and became the newest substitute soul reaper. A new era for soul reapers has started. AN: It is more than just a copy of the original series</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">See? It's <i>blatantly</i> a sequel work, so it can't possibly copy the same events!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Also, Hiro Hashiru? Uh... are we <i>sure</i> "Hashiru" is a surname? I hate to ask Google these things, but surely verbs don't work as surnames? Might as well just call him Hiro Running for all the sense it makes. Well, I guess Bleach had some wacky names itself, so let's let it slide for now, and dig right in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">I wonder why this sounds so familiar. Eh, probably just imagining it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">He wore a black shihakusho with a sword carried around his waist. He had black spikey hair that looked like it was going backwards with his face framed.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'Swept back'. That is the descriptor you are looking for. Because surely it would be 'going backwards' if you looked at any angle. Unless his hair is dictated by a limited animation budget in this literary work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Upon declaring he can sense evil spirits, we cut to downtown-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">A few punks was beaten to the ground. One guy tried attacking, but someone ended up driving his foot into his face. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">A guy attacked, some guy attacked back. For some strange reason, this is all I need to fully visualise the scene in question. I guess it just reminds me of something I saw before?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">The guy that was beating them down was about fifteen years old with black spikey hair of his own, but it was shorter and a little wilder.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">That way, you can tell him apart from the mysterious figured. Wouldn't want to mix those two up at all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Scram!" The guy screamed and it scared them all off. "Bunch of punks. They should know better to never try and pick a fight with me." He grabbed his school bag and started walking.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">The other indicator is that this guy is a badass for... beating the shit out of some alleged punks. Er. Good job, dude? I guess we'll take your word that they started it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'My name is Hiro Hashiru. I live here in Kyoto, Japan.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">As opposed to Kyoto... Scotland.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Some people might think I'm a delinquent because I get into fights. It's only because some guys want to mess with me.'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Huh... why does this main character, known for being seen as a delinquent that fights a lot, give me such a strong feeling of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">déjà vu? I must be getting confused over something.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Hiro returns home and speaks to his mother-</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">That's a... strangely Western name for a Japanese woman. I think she's Japanese, anyway? Nothing's said about her ethnicity, but surely if she was foreign to Japan, it'd be worth noting? Well, I guess it's not impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also, "I'm okay with you beating the ever-loving fuck out of people, dear. I just wish you'd do it less often."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-He heads to his bedroom to look out the window. Assume it's a pretty bishie pose or something-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'I also have this special gift.' He stared out the window and saw kid running through the streets, but he had a chain on his chest and could go through solid objects. 'I have the ability to see ghosts.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I hate to shatter the <i>flawless</i> facade I've maintained up until now, but if I may point out an issue with Hiro's introduction here, compared to Ichigo's; when we opened up to Ichigo beating people up, we were immediately given context for it:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-It told us immediately he could see dead people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-We were explicitly told and shown evidence the punks were acting disrespectful</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-Ichigo fought them on behalf of the dead child, not because they were messing solely with himself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">By contrast, all we've seen of Hiro is that he was allegedly attacked and fought back. His ability to see ghosts hasn't factored into anything, and honestly seems thrown in just to remind us he's supposed to be an Ichigo rip-off.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> I had that for as long as I can remember, but because of that, people think I'm some sort of freak. That's why I get into some fights. Though, I do wonder that if there are really ghosts, what is out there.'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You could always just... not tell people you're seeing ghosts. You're the one that doesn't want fights, remember? And if that's all the reason people need to pick fights with you...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-There is a small scene of Hiro heading to school the next day, and seeing the mysterious figured killing a Hollow. Then he heads home after school. It's quite riveting, I assure you-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'What the hell was all that about? Who was that guy and how did he just disappear?' Hiro thought. That was when he noticed a dark hole formed in his wall and the man from before appeared in front of him. "It's you!"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I would have preceded that with "AH WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS THAT", but hey, I <i>am</i> a bit of a shitbag at heart.</span><br />
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"It's near." He was sensing something and reached for the sword in its sheath, but he was surprised getting kicked in the back by Hiro.<br />"Hey! Who the hell are you?" Hiro said. "I want some answers. Especially since you just broke into my apartment."<br />"Did you just kick me?" The guy said as he seemed confused.</blockquote>
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"First, my name is Daijo Kurogo. I'm a soul reaper."<br />"A what?" Hiro said.<br />"Better get yourself comfortable. This is a long story." Daijo said.</blockquote>
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"Enough to fill out 74 volumes, I'd wager."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Julia was on her way home after doing some shopping. She was about to pull up the street to her apartment, but she wasn't aware that something she couldn't really see was following her.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Thanks for the one sentence interlude, I guess?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Daijo explains Hollows and soul Reapers and junk-</span></div>
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"You expect me to really believe me that load of garbage." Hiro said.<br />"What?! How could you not after what you saw?" Daijo said. "After all, you were the only one earlier who could see what was going on."</blockquote>
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-I would cover their conversations in more detail... but seriously, this is almost exactly 1:1 with Bleach's first episode. I'm sure you've all seen the original several times by now, you don't need to see it through the filter of Nick Simmons' fanficition account. Let's cut to them hearing Julia crash the car-</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Mom!" Hiro called out, but Julia was unconscious. Hiro undid the belt and was able to pull her out.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Boy I sure hope she didn't injure her spine in any way.</span></div>
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"Hollows usually go after souls of the departed, but they will sometimes attack living humans." Daijo said. "They're quite drawn to spiritual energy. Now that I think about it, you seem to have a lot of spiritual energy inside. You had so much that it must have blocked my senses from sensing this hollow."<br />"Say what? Are you saying that thing is really after me?" Hiro said. Hiro saw he was involved now and he's going to do what he always does.</blockquote>
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I know Ichigo had a similar mindset at the beginning, but you still knew he was a selfless guy at heart. Reading Hiro's thought processes just makes him sound more dickish about it. I would say it's not necessarily bad to have a less-moral protagonist... if this wasn't so blatantly supposed to be Ichigo 2.0.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Come on, ugly bastard. You want me? I'm right here." Hiro said and the hollow unleashed its teeth at Hiro.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">..So... how does one unleash their teeth? Did it shoot tooth bullets? Did it pluck the teeth out to reveal swords where the roots should be? Did it smile really weirdly?</span></div>
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Daijo stepped in the way and tried to block the attack. Daijo got bit in the shoulder, but Daijo stabbed it in the neck and pushed it back.<br />"You fool." Daijo said as he dropped to his knees. "Did you think if you sacrifice yourself, others would be spared? One soul is never enough for them." Daijo crawled to the wall and leaned against it.</blockquote>
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One bite and you're already this wrecked? It was already a little strange Rukia was beaten so easily, but Bleach was nothing if not a tad inconsistent with how strong everyone was in relation to each other. It's not like Daijo lost an arm, or he was poisoned, right? You'd except a Soul Reaper to face much worse just from training. Or interacting with Squad 11 in any capacity.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"There's only one thing you can do. Not that it matters, but if this doesn't' work, we're all dead." Daijo said as he held out his sword. "You must take my sword and drive it into your being. By doing that, I can transfer some of my power to you and you can become a soul reaper."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">But of course, without contriving Daijo's weakness, we couldn't possibly have the most original scene yet in this story. The passing of the torch, so to speak! The emotional culmination of the hero and the heroi- ... other her's short, but fateful encounter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">He drove the sword into him and unleashed tons of spiritual power and pushed the hollow back. When the light was fading away, it showed Hiro as a soul reaper and pulled out his sword. Meanwhile, Daijo was changed into a white clothes.</span></blockquote>
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'Nothing you need to know, and I wish I don't remember it.' The man sneered.<br />
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Oak is not amused that after... just about twenty years worth of episodes, Ash has managed to fill up 50 or so slots on the Pokédex, spanning nearly 1000 species right now. Step up your game, dude!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Finally, we're home Pikachu, we got second place in the Kalos league against those Mega Evolution trainers." Ash remarked as Piakchu nodded.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"If you think we're here to congratulate you, think again, because WE will never celebrate with a cheater like you!" She yelled directly at Ash's face.</span>Ash turn from happy to shock as he faced them, what were they talking about? He doesn't cheat not in any unfair methods.</blockquote>
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"What?! Then tell me, what did I cheat in!" Ash challenged.<br />
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"That has got to be a lie! I don't cheat!" Ash continued to protest.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"The whole town already hates you tarnishing their name, even Gary did better than you!" Ash turn from the corner of his eye to see his mother, was she against him as well?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Oh yeah I should really question this, huh? Why is every single travelling companion shitting on him, when they know Ash doesn't cheat? Brock mentioned evidence, buuuuuut where is it? Assuming Ash did 'cheat', what exactly was so horrendous to warrant this kind of reaction?!</span></div>
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"If you say punishment, what type of punishment!" Ash yelled, in his heart he already sensed that his nightmare was going to become a reality, but in his mind, he believes that it wasn't real.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"I'm afraid I have already carried out your punishment, and as the order came from the PLA, I have released all your Pokémon back to the wild and have given them to worthy trainers that doesn't cheat like you." The elderly professor responded.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Pallet Town was promptly overrun by a pack of Tauros, a sentient pile of sludge that loved hugs, and an obese monstrosity that flopped on top of little Timmy and hasn't moved since. Good job, Oak and PLA.</span></div>
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"R-R-R-RELEASED!" Ash roared.<br />
"Of course, why does a cheater like you need Pokémon for?" Tracey sneered.</blockquote>
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"What about the ones I left with you this morning!" Ash yelled.<br />
"I too have released them back into the wilds, your journey ends here Ash." Oak answered calmly.</blockquote>
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He ran out of the ranch as he cried leaving a few smirking traitors behind him.<br />"A cheater like him doesn't need Pokémon, and now they're all but ours for the taking!" Misty cheered.</blockquote>
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Ash stopped in the forest near Pallet Town as he leans against the tree with dead looks in his eye, a bush rustled beside him as a Weedle came out.<br />"What's wrong human?" It asked.</blockquote>
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"Nothing is wrong, nothing." Ash replied with a cold tone.<br />"It can't be nothing if you're crying." Weedle retorted.</blockquote>
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No, Weedle, don't be fooled! He's lowering your defences with Fake Tears!</div>
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"So, it happened after all." The two turn to see a dark figure appear from the ground.<br />"You were trying to warn me, why didn't I believe it." Ash laughed dejectedly at his own foolishness.</blockquote>
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"You realise that you just destroyed one of the greatest encyclopedic tools ever created for no reason, correct?" The speech-capable worm asked incredulously, for he was a lot smarter than the ten-year old trainer with twenty year's worth of training and battling experience.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">he went to the machine to removed two things, one was his limit capacity and second was the tracking device.</span></blockquote>
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Also, what tracking device? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS</div>
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He soon walked back to the woods as he looks at the two in front of him.<br />"Do you guys want to come with me?" He asked darkly.<br />"Of course." Both Pokémon agreed.</blockquote>
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On the condition that Ash never try that hardcore villain voice ever again.</div>
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Hold up, two Pokémon? What? The dark figure's a Pokémon? Uh... glad to... find that out? I guess?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"From this day forth, Ash Ketchum is dead, there shall be a Ghost to spread terror." Ash said darkly as he smirks before leaving the area.</span></blockquote>
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What, was Tri-edge too silly for you?</div>
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(Current Day)<br />'Six years and your name were cleared.' Darkrai started.</blockquote>
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It took six years for obvious bullshit to be disproved? Also hi Darkrai.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">'That still doesn't change the fact that they ruined my life, because of them, this is who I become.' Ash retorted.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I mean... you could have, like... not become a bitter ass? Granted, I've never had fifty people from my life suddenly accuse me of cheating because they were secretly evil bastards the whole time, but you could've been the bigger man, Ash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">He opened the door to see a few people dancing around a radio that was radiating music.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">That... that is an odd sight to see outside your front door, really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Ash shoos them away, then goes to school with Guzma. Okay then-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Arriving at some sort of school, Ash walked in to see a few people greeting him and as Beedrill said, he was never friendly towards people outside of Alola.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Why? So wait, he hates literally everyone from Kanto, Johto and everywhere else that's not Alola? Because that's where all his other friends came from?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Ash please use your logics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">A man soon walked in as he looked at the entire gang including Ash who was sitting on the railing, obviously not afraid of falling over.</span></blockquote>
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"I got a letter, so who wants to have the honor of reading it?" Kukui said out loud.<br />"Why don't you read it, Ghost?" Mallow questioned.<br />"Hell, no." Ash rejected darkly.</blockquote>
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Ash really hates being called by his silly new name that he decided to call himself.</div>
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"Come on, It's just a letter Ghost." Lana added.<br />"If you're so free, why don't you read it." He sneered.<br />"Well, you are the strongest here among us." Kiawe retorted.</blockquote>
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It is a well-known custom in Alola that only the very best, like no one ever was, are taught how to read.</div>
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-Ash finally reads the letter, written by President Goodshow. I guess he heads the PLA-</div>
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I would like you to have some of your trainers to participate in this year's World Cup, the venue will be at the Indigo Plateau within the Kanto region and the rules will be explained during the events, from what we know you had a trainer we really want you to have participate.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">PS: If you are joining, I thank you in advance if you can bring Ghost along.</span></blockquote>
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"No, if you have read the news four years ago about the league results." Ash pointed to the news on Sophocles computer.</blockquote>
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"We actually already knew." Kukui responded.<br />"Then why do you still want to send me? You know I'm just going to send them all to the hospital." Ash sneered.<br />"We believe you won't, now what do you say?" Kukui said with a smile as Ash sigh.</blockquote>
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Calling it now, Kukui masterminded the whole betrayal. He's a dirty rat and I bet he uses Uber teams.</div>
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"Fine, I was hoping to go there myself anyways." Ash responded as he fell over to only be carried away by a Flygon who flew away.<br />"Please be there, Anabel." He thought.</blockquote>
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"I don't wanna go. Okay fine, I wanted to go anyway."</div>
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So if I've got this right... the only way the author could justify an Ash/Anabel ship was to... turn everyone else that's ever been named in the show into evil, moustache-twirling shitheels? That's.. well I guess it's a tad more extreme than the usual "fuck the canon pairing here's my version" fanfic.</div>
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So that was hilariously silly, really. It feels like it's trying to be edgy and dark, yet absolutely nothing makes sense, from Pikachu thinking Ash 'cheated', to talking Weedles and calling himself Ghost except not really... wow.</div>
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Come to think of it, I don't think I've read much, if any shipping fics. I have nothing profound to say about that, so let's check one out.<br /><br />Today's selected subjected is <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12060933/1/Between-Strawberries-and-Jealousy">Between Strawberries and Jealousy</a>, by Strike Faster Than Starlight. I actually like that username. the story... not so much. It's a crossover of Bleach and Fate/! Shipping Ichigo with Scathach. That is... that's something.<br /></div>
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She couldn't stand the way these girls were gazing at him.How they dare to stare at him in such way? Ichigo was hers, and now was the time to show it, not only to him, but to everyone else as well. AU! One Shot! Ichigo x Scathach!</blockquote>
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And apparently a yandere. Sure, that... seems close to her personality? I guess. Maybe if you ignore literally everything about her lore in Fate, it kind of makes sense? Well, let's get started, then.<br /></div>
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It's been already two years since they met. She still remembered when her family had to leave Ireland and go live in Japan because of her father's job. At that time,she was frustrated at the prospect of leaving her old life,everything she knew behind.</blockquote>
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<br /><i>Akshooahlee</i>, I think you'll find that, despite her legend originating in Ireland, Scathach herself is Scottish as fuck. This ultimately means nothing for a fanfiction where Scathach is now a schoolgirl living in Japan and has nothing to do with combat... despite crossing over with a shonen battle series... but hey, I'm here to nitpick.<br /></div>
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This frustration just got worse in her first week in Karakura high. Since she couldn't speak japanese yet, nobody would approach her for a small talk,and besides that,she had to take the lessons in english with a particular teacher,making her stay separated from everyone else.</blockquote>
<br />I have to wonder what kind of job her father was working that meant the whole family had to uproot to Japan. Feels a bit random.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
On her second week, she was getting out of the school alone as usua,not giving any attention to her surroundings when she bumped into someone,making her bag fall and spread all of her books on the ground.</blockquote>
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she saw a guy with the boy's school uniform, He had short spiky orange hair and deep brown eyes, a firm scowl set on his handsome features. He was rather tall, standing at a good 5'11.</blockquote>
<br />Is that tall? I don't consider myself tall, and I refuse to believe someone as lanky as Ichigo is the same height as me.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
-''Look at what you made'',She shouted while kneeling on the floor to pick her books.</blockquote>
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The orange haired guy didn't say anything, he just kneeled and started to help her. After the two stood up, he extended his hand that was holding her book and she took it. There was an awkward moment where neither of them said nothing.</blockquote>
<br />Ichigo is well known for being the silent type. He just never bothers to speak, you know. It's his defining trait.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
-''I'm sorry'', The teen broke the silence,''I didn't mean do it''.</blockquote>
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-''It's okay, after all I wasn't paying any attention while walking'', She mumbled,then something clicked,''Wait you're speaking english'', She said in suprise. The teen just furrowed his brow.<br />-''Of course I am, in which way would I be able to speak with a foreign?'', He spoke in a matter of fact tone.</blockquote>
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-''Scathach huh? That's a pretty nice name, is it in honor to the warrior goddess from the legends of the Ulster Cycle?'',He questioned with a smile.</blockquote>
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Why the fuck would Ichigo know anything about the Ulster Cycle? Sure, he's surprisingly book smart for a shonen protag, but I highly doubt any Japanese high school has a course dedicated to Irish mythology.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
-''Yes! My parents always loved her legend , so they named me in her honor!'' She exclaimed, excited that she found someone that knew at least a bit of Irish legends</blockquote>
<br />And this just adds another layer of confusion. This crossover doesn't even really have Fate/Scathach in any form. This is just a random Irish girl, named after a famous figure in Irish mythology. Well... at least it technically excuses her characterisation?<br /><br />It's a good thing her parents didn't go with Medb, though. Given Ichigo's inexplicable knowledge of Ireland, I'm sure he'd be guessing she was specifically born in Ballypitmave or something.<br /><br />-And so, they hang out together, and Ichigo apparently waits eight months to introduce her to the rest of his friends. What a swell guy-<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
Ichigo then introduced her to his closest friends Chad,Uryu,Rukia,Tatsuki,Orihime,Keigo and Mizuiro.</blockquote>
<br />I'll skip over the brief summary everyone listed there gets because boy is this massive paragraph just a giant wall of filler. Instead I'll just wonder is Soul Society, Hollows, or... anything that defines Bleach is even a thing here. Rukia's around as if she's always supposed to be there, so...<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
They were now all precious friends to her, specially Ichigo who was the one that made her life better.</blockquote>
<br />Because who wants to bother writing about how they came to be her precious friends? This is all about an inexplicable pairing that have... had their interactions mentioned in passing for an eight-month period so far! Romantic!<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
Their bond just grew stronger over time, and as they were always close to eachother, their friends would tease them saying things like,''Kiss already you two'' or ''When is the marriage?''</blockquote>
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after that, Ichigo would always chase them, screaming that they were just friends. In the beginning she would join him in the complains, saying that the feelings they shared were just a strong friendship, but now she couldn't say this because, since a few months to now, her feelings for the berry headed teen have changed.</blockquote>
<br />Berry-headed? Sorry, this is too ambiguous for me. There's no possible way to know what type of berry his head could resemble. Is it blueberry?<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
When she was next to him she would always be nervous, and just the slightest of his touchs would make her heart flutter.</blockquote>
<br />This is exactly how I imagine a powerful Scottish warrior to act around a man she likes. All it's missing is the flowery border.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
At first she wouldn't admit it even to herself but now she accepted it, She accepted the fact that she Scathach was in love with Kurosaki Ichigo.</blockquote>
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Some time ago, Ichigo announced that he was going to join the soccer team and that they would have a training match in a few weeks and invited her and all of their friends to watch it.</blockquote>
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And here they are now, sitting on the bleachers waiting for the match to begin. She was really excited to see Ichigo playing but soon, excitement gave place to annoyance when, a few seats from her, a group of girls spoke:</blockquote>
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-''I can't wait to see Kurosaki-senpai playing'', One of the girls said.<br />-'' Me neither! He is so hot! Kyaaa I hope that we can see him without the shirt in the match'', The other one spoke.<br />-''Yes! I would love to see that sculpted body of his hehehe'' A petite one said pervertdly.</blockquote>
<br />Okay, so girls swooning over Ichigo and wanting to see him shirtless. Not exactly a terrible crime against humanity, as far as I know. Scathach should have a reasonable reaction to that, I'm sure.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
Scathach was boiling with anger,''How dare they say things like that about MY Ichigo?'', Without even noticing, her face gained a Ichigo like scowl. Rukia, who was by her side, almost jumped of her seat when she saw her friends face.</blockquote>
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-''Uhmm, Scathach are you okay?'', She asked carefully.<br />-'' I'm great'', The crimson eyed girl practically growled, making Rukia a little afraid.</blockquote>
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-''Look the game will start!'', Orihime exclaimed, making them turn their attention to the match. 20 minutes later everyone was smiling and cheering for Ichigo, who was without a doubt the best player in the field.</blockquote>
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-''Are you alright?'' Ichigo asked in concern.<br />-''Yes! Thank you Kurosaki-senpai!",The girl said, putting her hand on Ichigo's rock hard eight pack.</blockquote>
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''This bitch sure wants to lose her life'',This was all she could think, How can this girl dare to touch her strawberry?</blockquote>
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-''Scathach, where are you going?'' Tatsuki asked.<br />-''I'm just going to take care of some urgent business'',She replied with an Unohana like smile</blockquote>
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Walking towards Ichigo and the girl, she tapped his shoulder,gaining his attention. Turning his head, he smiled.<br />-''Oh hey Scathach, whats the matt-ufff'', Not even letting him finish his sentence, Scathach grabbed Ichigo by the hair and yanked him towards her, crashing their lips roughly.</blockquote>
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-''I hope that you understand that you're mine Ichigo'', She spoke possessively and gave a hard squeeze on his ass, making the teenager jump.</blockquote>
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Turning her attention to the wide eyed girl she gave her a smirk before starting to go in back to her friends, who were beyond stunned.<br />-''And Ichigo'', She called, '' Finish this match fast, I really need to eat a certain strawberry tonight''. Smiling sensually at him, Scathach resumed her walk, leaving a jaw dropped Ichigo behind.</blockquote>
<br />And with that terrifying threat to Ichigo's innocence and freedom, the fic comes to an end.<br /><br />...So I'm going to go ahead an assume that that ending scene played out a lot more... romantically in the author's head. I think I can see what they were going for there, but... wow did that not convey properly.<br /><br />Putting that aside, it was pretty... bland. Scathach and Ichigo bear basically no resemblance to their canon counterparts, it's incredibly unclear if this is a fully mundane AU (leaning towards yes?), making such a crossover pointless if it is... well, I guess the entire point was to ship Ichigo and Scathach, but... why? If you need to drastically alter literally everything about their characters, why aren't you just using OC's?<br /><br />So that was that. Fairly short, unremarkable shipfic with rushed events. Guess I'll go back to neglecting my own Scathach in Grand Order, because Best Wife <span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">Tamamo needs her levels.</span></span></div>
Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-62925479377227038002018-04-29T09:18:00.000-07:002018-06-03T10:48:41.786-07:00A Story Where We Capture The Self-Insert CardBoy, has it been a while since I looked up Cardcaptor stuff. Or read the Clear Card manga. Actually, I haven't watched the original anime is a long time either. I really should get around to these things at some point. Before that though, fanfiction!<br />
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Today's story is <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9094727/1/CardCaptor-Sakura-The-Tale-Of-The-Two-CardCaptors" target="_blank">The Tale Of The Two Cardcaptors</a>, by Zachycards. I am sure the title makes it obvious what we will be seeing here.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">This is a self insert story of mine that was deleted a few years back. But now I have decided to continue my work on it. This is a story of how I wished upon a star one night to become a CardCaptor just like Sakura. Please feel free to leave me a review. But remember that no flaming reviews are allowed at all, under any circumstances.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"W-where am I?" I said/asked to no one in particular as I sat up in the bed that I was sleeping in. What happened next was a shock to me, the alarm clock that rested in between the beds went off, and an all too familiar girl with short auburn hair and emerald colored eyes sprang up from under the covers. "HOEEEEEE! Were going to be late!" Sakura said.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Ah well, we can at least find out what unique interactions another sibling brings into the <strike>Kinomoto</strike> Avalon household!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Sakura, Zachary, could you too be any louder?" Tori said in a sarcastic tone. "We weren't that loud" Sakura said to Tori. "You two sounded like small dinosaurs up there" Tori teased. "We were walking normally!" I said in response.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Hey, I'm lucky, how many brothers get two dinosaurs for a little brother and sister." Tori said. "STOP CALLING US DINOSAURS!" Sakura and I said/yelled in unison.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...So wait, is Zachary a cheerleader, too? Why does he have a baton?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You were hoping for a burglar?!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> But, as Sakura and I stayed close to one another while looking around, we heard a strange noise. Both of us then turned around and noticed that one of the books on the shelf was glowing. Without hesitating even once, both Sakura I reached for the glowing book and pulled it off the shelf.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You don't need to literally do the exact same things as each other. Like, wow, Zach's mimicking every single thing Sakura does, right down to her skating and cheerleading.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">It was then that both Sakura and I dropped our batons and gazed at the book, the book was red and had what looked like a lion type creature on the front cover, chains were on either side of it, and a sun was in front. "That's the same book from my dream" Sakura and I said to ourselves.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">WHEN DID YOU EVEN HAVE A DREAM, ZACH</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also, yet more copying. Is the plot twist that Zachary was ~The Mirror~ all along or something? Wait, no, that one already exists. Uh... The Shadow? ...Copycat? There we go. Was Zach ~The Copycat~ all along?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">That must be some fucking heavy cardboard is that card requires two(?) ten-year olds to pick it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Jeez you two could be a little more impressed that the Osakan-but-possibly-English-speaking plushie that lived in a magical book gave you both mystical staffs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Oh wow they're actually going to try and do different things? Of course Zach is the one that gets the glorious sealing role, but hell, it'll give me something to moan about!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">It was then that Sakura approached the giant bird. But, while I wasn't looking, the bird spread its wings and took off into the sky, and, little did I know was that Sakura had jumped onto the bird and was taken along for the ride.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">It was when I was kneeling beside Sakura that she finally woke up, "uh…What happened?" Sakura asked. "You almost got hurt when I bound the Fly card with Windy, but thankfully I was able to catch you in time" I said. "Thank you Zachary" Sakura said as she smiled at me. "Your welcome" I said as I helped her up.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Could have mentioned that wee tidbit five minutes ago, Kero. Seems like an incredibly important detail to hold back until after one of them almost cracked their skull against the pavement from a fifty-foot drop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">The air was filled with the agonised, heart-rending screams of The Fly as it was violently torn in twain by the cardca</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">ptors' cruel magic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">It was then that Kero l</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">anded in front of us and said, "both of you will need to write your names on the card so that it won't escape."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And with that, Sakura and I wrote our names on the bottom of the Fly Card with Sakura's name below mine.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Why don't the both of you try it out?" Kero asked after Sakura and I were both done writing our names on the card. "What can the card do?" Sakura asked.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Oh but <i>of course</i> Zachary can figure what a card called <b>The Fly</b> can do. Such a genius.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">and after the one word was said, both of our staffs grew wings on the top. Sakura and I then got on our respective winged staffs, and then, after a few seconds, we took off into the sky. "This is awesome!" Sakura and I said in unison.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"I knew I could count on you two CardCaptor Sakura and Zachary" Kero said. "Hold on, we haven't agreed to anything yet" Sakura and I said in unison as all three of us flew across the sky.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Phew, that was... incredibly bland, to be honest. For the most part, it's a copy-paste of the dialogue, with the only changes being either "Self-insert speaks in unison with Sakura like they were creepy ghost twins" or "Zachary and Sakura swap lines that Sakura herself would have spoken herself anyway". Also, Zachary just... goes along with the 'sucked into Cardcaptors' thing ridiculously easily. Like, not even a passing thought like "what the fuck how", he's just instantly fitting in. Well, 'fitting in'. It made the intro with the shooting star extremely pointless if it plays into absolutely nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">According to a paragraph I skipped at the beginning of the story, this is a re-upload after some assholes humiliated the author. Obviously, that really sucks and shouldn't be done, regardless of the story's quality. Not to sound like some special exception or anything, but if all you can bring to a story is blind hatred... why should anyone give a shit about your opinion? Explain why a story doesn't work in detail, and how it could possibly be improved, and maybe the author can actually write something better?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Or, y'know, bash your keyboard in frothing rage, I'm sure that's fine. Us intellectuals like to provide some snark and sophistication to the proceedings, myes. *Swirls wineglass*</span></div>
Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-20774383158052854062018-01-10T09:26:00.005-08:002018-01-10T09:26:42.492-08:00A Touhou Fanfic Where The Biggest Sin Is CommittedMan, feels like it's been forever since I did anything Touhou-related. I could probably spend more effort looking up franchises I haven't covered for the sake of variety, but... goddamn my choice in media is shockingly limited. I need to put my Netflix account to good use, it seems.<br />
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Anyways, here we have <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12718873/1/Sin-Judgement" target="_blank">Sin Judgement</a> by Momotaros Hawking. What is it about? Well...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">This is literally my first story, so you aren’t expecting anything special or epic from it. But still spend sometime and read it. Sooooo the story is basically about a boy named Aruma who had been given a mission by his father to protect Gensokyo from an organization that wants to rules Gensokyo.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">It's about some random boy that has to protect a pocket dimension, which is unknown to literally everybody except, like, five humans outside of the place, from an 'organisation' that feel the need to rule a place filled with powerful monsters and is filled with obsolete junk from the past. Also we're told from the get-go that the story isn't anything special but we should still read it. It's an interesting marketing strategy, at least.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Well, without further ado...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Being a protagonist of a story was never a good thing, it means you'll have to face a lot of tragic moments</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Unless you're a Touhou character, where your most tragic moment will be either "I was sealed away for a thousand years, but it wasn't that bad really. I'll go preach Buddhism now", or... "I had to resolve an Incident, and it wasted my <i>whole</i> afternoon, man."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">sometimes Aruma wished he was a side character who can live a peaceful life. Sadly, his wish will never be granted. Because Natsu Aruma was unfortunately the protagonist of this story.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I mean, it's not like side-characters are exempt from tragedy either. Take any given side-character from a Nisio Isin work - they have to suffer with a terrible protagonist stealing their screen time!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Oh good, is this going to be a Naruto situation where the totally-well-meaning dad fucks up his son's life by trapping an evil monster inside h-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...O-oh. Well, uh... I guess turning him into Angra Mainyu is about the only way to top Minato's shit-tier parenting.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">" Father what are you going to do with me, let go of me! " The white hair boy struggled to try to get free " Don't resist Aruma, you cannot break through my bind spell. This is something I must do, you had your rights to hate me. "</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So now he no longer has the right to hate you? This seems like the best time possible to be hating you, dude.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> then the man started to speak a paragraph of words, a magic circle started glow under Aruma, within a second the whole place was covered with a strong light, then Aruma was burning in blue flames, the man was not happy with the results " So it failed..."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">How do you judge failure of anything here? Were the flames supposed to be ochre yellow? Is Aruma supposed to be screaming in pain and hatred?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Now inside Aruma, there were two souls, one was Aruma's soul, the other one was created by all the sin from the past and the future, burning in cold blue flame, the flame of sins.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">It might seem strange to ask this, given all the magic involved, but how the hell do you pack <i>future</i> sins into someone? Those sins haven't exactly been committed yet, have they?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...So what was the failure Baddad was referring to, here? His son rampaging around with all the sins ever, or he mangled grammar trying to convey said rampage?</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Aruma keep throwing blue flames toward his father, but he dodged every single of them</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">then Aruma switched to close combat and punch him, Aruma's father block everything attack that Aruma throw toward him with a simple materialize spell, but eventually Aruma break through the spell and hit his father sending him flying toward the wall, smashed into it as he coughed some blood out.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah Aruma, stop bugging the father you just murdered. He's a bit tired. Run along and hide from this mysterious organisation that I guess know all about you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Then he burned his father's body then went back to home, he opened the door with the key that his father gave him, he grabbed the huge suitcase, he opened it, there was a set of clothes and a letter.</span></blockquote>
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<em>Dear Aruma</em><em>I know when you are reading this letter, I'm already gone, this letter will explain every reason behind my actions and what you'll need to do.</em></blockquote>
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So the uncontrollable murder was a <i>known</i> side-effect?</div>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;">I am sure you would ask why did I perform that ritual that turned you into your current form. Well, it's a long story but I'll still have to tell you about it. Sin made a person to beg for mercy as they feel more and more guilty</em></blockquote>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;">eventually the person can't hold those feelings anymore and go on rampage and destroy everything around him, then people who were affected by the rampage will hate that person and revenge at him</em></blockquote>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;"><i>THE WRONGED SHALL HAVE THEIR REVENGEANCE THIS DAY</i></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></u></b><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">He witnessed the chaos of sin, that's when he decided to perform a magic ritual that will turn himself in to sin itself, then he would also judge them.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Just saying, you can probably judge sins without being a sin itself. However that works. It's not like you have to become a murderer to decide that killing is wrong, after all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">(never mind the part there's already a judge in the setting perfectly capable of judging sins)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">But when he got older he decided to perform the same ritual to his son, but it fails.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Fucking <i>good</i>. Is involuntary corruption of one's offspring a family tradition?!</span></div>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;">The ritual turned his son into the carrier of all sin, but not the judge of sins, then his son gone rampage, bring a large amount of damage to Gensokyo.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">O-oh. So 'failure' is literally the exact same as success in this scenario. That seems incredibly inconvenient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Skipping to the last sentence of this utterly massive paragragh because all that's left is 'I escaped Gensokyo for some reason'-</span></div>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;">So yeah the ritual is a traditional custom in the Natsu family that I must do even if it means turning you into a monster.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Nowhere at all in this letter does it explain why this family force this stupid ritual on their children, nor why <strike>Shikieiki</strike> the ancestor can't just 'stay the judge of sins'. Even if he died of old age, this isn't the kind of setting where that would be a major inconvenience, you know.</span></span></div>
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<em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> I remember I was running away from my home after stealing the ritual formula then I was in Japan, the outside world. Funny right, I can't even remember where my home was.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Are rituals just formulas? Also, why was this guy running away? I've yet to hear of any incident that would force this kind of thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">but when I reached the outside world, information of the Natsu bloodline and Gensokyo leaked out to an organization for some reason, they learn about magic in Gensokyo, and they hunted me and the formula as they started to find Gensokyo.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><i>How</i>. How did they learn <i>any</i> of that. Did this 'organisation' happen to see you pop out of a random wall at the Hakurei Shrine's outside world location, carrying a bottle labelled 'REALLY STUPID SIN FORMULA' while you cried about leaving your magical homeland?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-Instead we have to learn how Aruma's dad met his mother-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Riveting backstory, so glad it's here.</span></div>
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<em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">but one day the organization found our hiding place, I tried to fight against them but they got an army of people,</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Why does this organisation exist?! Seriously, what was their purpose? It sounded like they either didn't exist, or did fuck-all until Minato 2.0 popped up out of nowhere. What is the purpose of this "army of people"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"I came right on time to let them kill my wife. Whoops."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well... fine, let's see what kind of clothes the judge of all sins will wear. Perhaps a fancy, dignified robe? Nah, wait, apparently a few things have been added to make it more modern. So...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...A hoodie.The ancestor from centuries ago, from what was probably the era of feudal Japan, wears a modern-day hoodie. really now? And no, I highly doubt the hoodie part was added, because...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...That. Just... all of that. If anything was 'added', it was the disjointed, utterly useless pieces of armour glued on to the clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So despite undergoing a ritual and clearly being consumed by the power of these time-challenged sins, he still needs to wear a specific set of clothes in order to use said powers?</span><br />
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<em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And the big weird shoulder armor, I don't know much about it, but I heard that the two gems were actually two swords that can be summoned whenever you want when you wear it, also the shoulder armor will appear in your will, so you won't had to wear it in public.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Oh, so he didn't glue the armour on, it was just always there. And it doesn't even need to be there because they can disappear at will? And he's also conveniently 'heard' that the gems on said armour are also swords.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">For a guy that ran away before he could undergo this ritual, he sure knows a metric fuckton about all the particulars.</span><br />
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<em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">How</span></u></b></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And they will find Gensokyo by... um... er... they're gonna... well, uh... l-look, it's obvious they'll totally find Gensokyo, there's just no point in thinking otherwise!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-The letter <i>finally</i> ends with Natsu Atlantis telling his tortured son to find his old home in Gensokyo and stick the 'ritual formula' there. And meet his grandfather I guess-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">" Don't worry, I swear that I will complete your wish, I'll find Gensokyo and protect it against that organization, and... you never did something wrong. "</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Look... if you want to forgive your dad for forcing all this bullshit on you... go ahead. That's your prerogative. Just please don't pretend he was a good person for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Glad we established that immediately before a three year timeskip!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And he's done a bang-up job laying low, obviously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Probably because it'd be a shitty barrier if it were that easy to detect?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Just sayin', the amount of times he got caught would be a lot closer to zero if he weren't setting himself on fire and zooming around the open sky, in plain view of everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Suddenly a light beam cut though Aruma's flame but thanks to his reflexes, he managed to dodge the beam, he got caught by the organization again.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">oh golly gee willikers how did that happen he was so stealthy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">" I'm not going to let you escape from Dan Ouja this time, I will capture you. " a person who's wearing black clothes with grey armor flew to the front with his black hoverboard while the rest of the crew followed and flew up to the sky.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">What's with all the armour? What kind of name is Dan Ouja? A hoverboard? I'd ask how these guys also escaped Aruma's notice, but I imagine sitting in the middle of a fireball doesn't do much to help with vision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I feel silly for asking, but... how much army is there, exactly? Is there literally hundreds chasing him right now? Is it, like, a quirky squad of five? What the hell is the point in having super ultra omega sin powers if they do jack-shit to help against the very opponents you're supposed to be fighting?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">after a while he stopped, he looks at his back, the organization was gone, he extinguished the flame around him as he floated in the air resting, unaware of the organization was charging up a magic spell aiming at him,</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...They're aiming a spell at Aruma... who is so far away he can't see a single one of them in the skyline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So either that magic blast can travel 400,000 mph, or Aruma has zero awareness of his surroundings. Oh how I wonder which one's more likely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">After receiving the spell without any protection he was knocked out, he started falling down high up the sky. Ouja was excited for the first moment when he saw the person he had been hunting for years finally falls</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Exactly <i>how</i> it took three years to accomplish when it was this easy is another matter entirely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">but then a purple gap with lots of eyes suddenly appeared below Aruma, and Aruma falls into the hole and disappeared.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So that's three years of searching completely and utterly wasted. Yukari's trolling is as fearsome as ever, I see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Hey now, those clouds did nothing wrong!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-Aruma wakes up mid-fall-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Aruma smashed into the ground, the bricks on the ground went flying away from the ground " OuchOuchOuch IT HURTS~! " as he tried to get up. " Who are you? " " Do you realize that you just fall from the sky da ze? "</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I love how little of a shit Reimu and Marisa give about the random idiot falling head-first into a pile of bricks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Since the last paragraph is just describing their appearances and Aruma wondering where he is, let's call it a close here. So then... that was a thing, huh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">The author states in their closing notes that English is his second language, so I won't harp too much on the grammar (because we all know my writing is flawless right guys), but the story is... quite a mess. We have the MC being a random guy that has his life ruined bu his shitstain of a father, being okay with that, then doing absolutely nothing to hide from this 'organisation' and presumably being surprised every time he's found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also, this whole 'carrier of all sin' thing... I don't think it works particularly well in Touhou? There's already a judge of sin that's well above almost every other character anyways, so Aruma's position is just redundant, at best. And even if it fits the series... what is it about being a 'carrier of all sins' that makes him not only uniquely suited to be used to capture Gensokyo, but that he is both weak enough to be easily captured by Organisation Who and strong enough to capture a pocket dimension that, putting the 100+ characters aside, is run by <b>Yukari Yakumo</b>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So yeah, not to my taste, shockingly enough. Why can't people write Touhou fanfics more like mine, which had hair-manipulating youkai as the final boss, or some random guy with 'chaos' powers that was totally almost as strong as Yuuka, and a maid with super dancing powers. Everyone knows that was pure literary genius. Literally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Please don't emulate my shitty fanfics, kids.</span></span></div>
Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-80200814689981574252017-11-18T17:30:00.002-08:002017-11-18T17:30:50.588-08:00Card Gamer Lyrical YugiohYou know, I've been wanting to poke a little fun at a Yugioh story for a while now. Because instead of finding one that's enjoyable to read, my time is apparently better spend finding something so bizarre and unwanted that I have to wonder who the people that leave one-line "reviews" are that seem to like them.<br />
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Today I came across a crossover fanfic! Between Yugioh and... uh... another Yugioh. <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12087032/1/Arc-VX" target="_blank">Arc VX</a> by RainfellSaturn crosses Yugioh GX with Yugioh Arc-V. That should be interesting, huh? GX's... kind of modern-ish setting mixed with Arc-V's slightly more futuristic setting, or perhaps it's replacing the Fusion Dimension with GX's academy?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Arc V /GX Crossover, Rather overpowered main pairing. Crossover with Lyrical Nanoha in as much as Fate Testarossa is the main female (no magical girl powers though) OC/Fate. Contains Arc V cards in the GX storyline, so the duels will be a little onesided in alot of cases. Rated T for Language, may increase later.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">...Er. Right. A few questions then.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">No actual plot summary, then?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">'overpowered main pairing', huh? At least it warns you out of the gate there'll be zero tension in the duels</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Fate Testarossa? Er... I know this a crossover, but it's a crossover between two Yugioh series. Why is Fate randomly added in?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">'A little one-sided'? Hoo boy, if anyone is unfamiliar with the power gap between cards released over ten years ago with cards released within the last two or three...</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Ah, Kaibacorp Tower, holding the Duel Academy entrance exam here as a show as to who owns the Academy of course, Seto Kaiba, its owner.</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well that was delightfully redundant. The owner is Seto Kaiba, who is the owner.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">The Guards recognize me as I turn up for the exam, held in a private room so as to avoid outside distraction. Not that I'm wearing your typical exam taker's clothes, nor am I your typical exam taker, but we'll get to that.</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">What even are 'typical exam-taker clothes'? Or a 'typical exam-taker', for that matter? In fact, what's an 'exam-taker'? Is it someone with a hankering for exams that just wanders into schools and takes whatever tests are being held that day?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">My black and spiky hair, with purple tones, oddly, completely natural, never dyed it once. People sometimes say I dress like a punk, the fact that I wear a choker, a Pendulum pendant that I received when I was little, and goggles as common accessories doesn't exactly disparage such thoughts.</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Haha, natural. Get it? Because Yugioh protagonists often have seven different colours in their hair at any given time! Yet he sounds like he's the second-most normal-sounding person after Jaden with hair like that. Just black and purple? Come on, now.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Meanwhile, a choker, pendulum pendant and goggles? Hm... where have I heard that before...</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">The fact that I wear a dull green formal shirt with a dark blue tie, dark blue pants (trousers, for the British among you) and black boot like shoes, as well as a cape (well, capes are awesome, who doesn't like capes). Well, enough self reflection, lets look at the exam</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...What about the fact? I think you lost your train of thought there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Fair enough. I too would take points off a student if his name was Kamito.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-From here we establish he can answer hilariously easy questions about summon conditions and ATK points. And that he can super easily do those 'win in one turn' puzzles you don't bother with on YGO Pro-</span></span><br />
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<strong>CONGRATULATIONS KAMITO KAIBA – SCORE 105% </strong>wait, I scored OVER 100%, odd<br /><strong>5% BONUS ADDED FOR CLEARING ALL WIN IN THIS TURN SCENARIOS IN THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF MOVES</strong></blockquote>
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That's not how scoring works. Fifty points from Obelisk Blue.</div>
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<strong style="font-size: 14.08px;">Please Proceed across town to the KaibaCorp duelling field for the practical half of your exam</strong></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Not that I wouldn't put it past Kaiba to be a big enough dick to make people travel from one end of a city to the other for no readily-apparent reason, but... <i>why</i> though? It's not like anyone else had to come to this tower, and I highly doubt this protagonist needed the extra assurance, considering the 'overpowered' warning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Wait, people have got 100% before and it only predicts Ra, guess it must be the extra 5%.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So if you're literally perfect, you'e considered middle of the road in terms of skill. I have no idea how the original GX sorted out its' students, but surely it wasn't this inexplicable?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-He makes his way to the duel site, stopping for a Domino's Pizza because I guess they were really desperate for the ad revenue-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Some kid named Syrus just beat an Examiner with a Roid deck, I bristle at that, the only real Roids belong to Fate dammit!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, if there's an archetype that fits a magical girl known for her tragic backstory, loving nature, and combat capabilities second only to her girlfriend... it's the one with faces slapped on random vehicles. I'm sure she called dibs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I feel angry all of a sudden, being reminded of Fate being missing</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Uh, wait, what? That came out of nowhere. Probably because there wasn't a plot summary for whatever the hell is going on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Man, the main character is such a badass, operating under 2017 Yugioh power levels, in a setting created around 2002, based on a game that goes through monumental power creep every six months. I can tell he has a complex knowledge of the game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Okay, so... these proctors have been using weak decks against the students, so that the 'good' students don't lose because they drew the wrong card? That's... wha?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well that's a ridiculously contrived way to have Super Ultra Cool Protagonist duel Crowler. I know he's a pompous ass, but not even he would associate 'name withheld' for 'LOL LAZINESS BETTER GO BULLY HIM'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Also... cross-dresser? Uh... sure, his design is a bit strange, and the dub pokes fun at it, but... he's not wearing a frilly dress or anything. It's a fancy jacket. With a duel disk glued onto it. ...And <i>sometimes</i> has frills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I arrive at duelling field four to find …. a Cross dresser? Standing in the opponents space on the field. This school has Cross-dressing proctors? Odd.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"As if a weak slacker stands a chance against me, I have a PHD in duelling, there's no way you'll get past me, and there's no way you'll get into the academy" At that last bit, I get angry again, I WILL get into the academy, if I have to destroy this idiot to do it.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">And boy does he get angry easily. Wonder when he'll hulk out at the slightest provocation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I feel rage in my soul, the thought of not being able to save Fate, NOTHING WILL STOP ME FROM DOING THAT.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Oh, the next sentence. Seriously, one weak taunt and you immediately jump to "<b><u><i>RAGE IN MY SOUL</i></u></b>"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">My eyes, under the goggles are glowing dark purple, an air of anger to my duelling, Berserk mode, albeit a minor case of it.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">His Mad Enhancement rank is E, so he gets to stay sane while being super angry. At least this is a totally unique trait to the protagonist, and not another detail lifted from Yuya, right? Wouldn't it just be silly if Yuya also went 'berserk' sometimes and the author just lifted that wholesale, too?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Seriously this is literally Yuya with Yuto's colour scheme how lazy can you get.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Well Slacker, how about we decide who takes the first move" Crowler said. With a faint scoff, I , the yet to be unmasked Kamito</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So not only is he wearing goggles, but underneath those, he's got a mask on too? Is it a Kabuki mask? A Kaibaman mask? Revolver mask? Help me out here, I need to know exactly how silly he looks right now.</span></div>
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son of Seto Kaiba decided on the sarcastic response "Ladies first, I insist" I let out, bored with having to listen to the fools blustering.<br />"LADY, I AM A MALE PROFFESSOR WITH A PHD IN DUELLING" Crowler snarled, clearly having woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, or PMS, its hard to tell with these cross dressers.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"I end my turn, see if you can match that Slacker" Why does the cross dresser expect me to match that, it was an awful play, he left himself wide open, no facedowns, no protective effects, might have been a good play going second, but going first, its just plain awful</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I'm sure even from a meta standpoint back in the early 2000's, it was a bad move, but hey, 3000 ATK is 3000 ATK. Didn't draw your Raigeki? Sucks to be you for the next few turns. But hey, let's see what happens when you use a modern deck from a time when you can summon sixty monsters and search out all of your power plays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Kamito reveals his deck to be </span></span><strike style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Entermates</strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;"> Performapals, a Pendulum based deck that's filled with weak monsters that buff each... and was one half of one of the most broken decks in the games' history because it has some of the strongest deck-searching power in the game. Figures. He summons two monsters-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Of course. Meanwhile, Kamito exhibits his super-hearing powers. That must come in real handy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">A blonde girl and a man with oddly natural looking blue hair (stranger things have happened) seem to know what I have planned</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">You can tell that two strangers, who have never seen Performapals before, know exactly what you're going to do next?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...How do you know these things?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Formed from pitch-black darkness, to fight those foolish enough to oppose it with its treacherous fangs! Now, descend! Xyz Summon! Appear! Rank 4! Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Damn it I thought it would be Utopia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I suppose I should point out that he's decided to buff </span><a href="http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Rebellion_Xyz_Dragon" style="font-size: 14.08px;" target="_blank">Dark Rebellion</a> for some reason; instead of using both both Xyz materials for its' effect, it only needs one. Which means it can use it's fairly powerful effect twice. Because I guess consistent rules for what cards you're using is too hard when you could just cheat to make one-turn kills possible, huh?</div>
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The blonde girl at this point decides to add "No way, a one turn kill on one of Crowler's best cards, beating him like he was nothing, Zane this guy could be a match for you"<br />Zane , obviously the blue haired boys name replies "I doubt he's shown anywhere near what he's capable of yet Alexis , he hasn't even shown who he really is yet."</blockquote>
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<br /><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The impact of the attack almost blowing Crowler into a nearby wall , whoops, forgot that tends to happen when I'm annoyed.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Fate my lost love, I will find you, no matter what I have to do" I whisper to myself</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Man, he is so pained and sad. I feel for him and his well-established relationship with the lesbian magical girl who is his girlfriend now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">And then the major surprise happens, a rather well known man, tall, dark hair, white duelling coat, obsession with Blue-Eyes White Dragon, yes, Seto Kaiba, walks out of the shadows.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Wherever those shadows were. He did a good job hiding from the several hundred people inside the arena by hiding his bright-white coat inside a slightly-dark corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"A rather easy duel for you eh Kamito, not that anyone other than Fate has ever beat you , not even me" Kaiba intones, amused and rather casual, as he always is unless Yugi or someone else made him mad.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Because if Kaiba is known for anything, it's that he is a graceful loser that in no way holds an obsessive grudge and would totally never go as far as resurrecting the dead if it means beating someone at a card game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"You expected any less Dad? Guess you had me enter in disguise to see what peoples reaction would be to my deck"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, because that <i>brilliant </i>disguise did so much to make your deck stand out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">He then confirms exactly that "As much as , being the owner, I could just get you in, I wanted to see you crush the instructor and take the exam, to show them your own merits, </span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">of course, you'll be in Obelisk blue, though I will get them to allow you to wear your own clothes, light colours don't exactly suit you after all. Your boat has been sent ahead, will send supplies as you need, If anyone can find her, you can"</span></blockquote>
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So despite having him qualify for the school like any other student, he's still getting preferential treatment because he's your son. Good job Kaiba.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Crowler recovers from his shock at this point "WAIT A SECOND, I JUST LOST TO SETO KAIBA'S SON, THAT IS FAR BETTER THAN LOSING TO A SLACKER AT LEAST"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">THAT IS GOOD TO KNOW, ZOAH. NOW PLEASE QUIET DOWN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I then walk away, head held high, face still not unmasked, wonder if people will assume I'm a Vampire or something.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">They'll assume you like looking utterly ridiculous. The hell does a vampire have to do with a mask and goggles?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Good thing no one noticed that the attack on that Gear Golem was actually real, well, Dad noticed, but eh, he doesn't care.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So not even Crowler noticed that the massive, lightning-wielding dragon made of shadows and treason dealt physical damage to him? He's a pompous dick, not a brainless dumbass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I wasn't the last duelist, apparently, a guy named Jaden Yooki? Yuki? Yuuki? Something like that has yet to duel,</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So apparently the Perfectly Ultimate Great Protagonist can't figure out how to pronounce what has to be the most common Japanese name besides Sakura. Boy I sure do love reading about this guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">and the guy before me, Bastian Misawa, he may have beat the test proctor, but his strategy seems weak, like he plans his duels with maths and science or something</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Making the most optimal plays based on his knowledge of the opponent and his current resources is a bad way to play? Well, guessed I learned something today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well, lets watch this Jaden duel shall we</span><strong style="font-size: 14.08px;">. </strong><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Haha, it seems Crowler is pissed that I beat him so easily and is taking it out on a relative unknown, well then, lets see what this little guy has.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">He then proceeds to ignore the duel in order to converse with Zane and Alexis. I guess this means I'm spared of his witty commentary on 2002 duelling strategies and how it totally sucks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Even though you apparently knew he was going to Xyz summon and win on his first turn five minutes ago. Eh, not like consistency is important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"By the way, who was the noisy guy who was shouting about luck and how I would have never beat Doctor Crowler, and then immediately changed his mind on that when he realized I was a Kaiba"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Huh, Kamito's hearing is so amazing he can hear comments that weren't even written in the narrative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">No, no it does not. Author, stop trying to justify your silly design choices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Fashion comments and girls, I swear Fate was the only one who didn't make them.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Dude I get it you love Fate so much you made one of the flagship yuri characters your male OC's girlfriend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"The goggles are technological, multiple filters, in case I end up searching through the dark, and the mask is protective, though, I do mostly wear them because I'm not a happy person.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">2 years ago, I was too ill to go, but Fate, someone I care for more than my own existence went to the duel academy special seminar, and ever since that, she was missing. I intend to find her, and make whoever took her away from me pay dearly." Tears in my eyes at this point, not that they can see through the goggles</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Meanwhile, Fate went missing in that unexplained event from GX where a whole dorm of students went missing and were never really recovered. Well, aside from Alexis' brother, not that he offered any clues as to what the hell happened. Still want to know why the academy itself wasn't shut down for that kind of thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well maybe if you take off your dumbass mask.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Sure Alexis, hey Zane, how about you?" Zane smiles fiercely</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Because if there's one thing the stoic badass of the school is known for, it's his fierce smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Seriously is no one going to question that a hologram smashed through concrete/marble/whatever the floor's made of here?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Uh... how the hell can you tell exactly what his deck is based on his 'attitude'? I mean, yeah, Yugioh characters tend to be overtly themed to whatever their deck is, but Jaden isn't exactly running around with a cape and spandex suit, is he? He could be running Vanilla Beatdown for all the indication 'spiffy attitude' gives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Oh yes, of course he can see monster ghosts too. We can't have him being too underpowered, can we? And yes, the flying ball of fur that has nothing to do with Warriors or Heroes was clearly the indicator that Jaden used a HERO deck. I can see the link there.</span></div>
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-The duel between Jaden and Crowler only now just starts. That sure took a while. Guess I need to endure the lovely commentary after all. Since there's nothing of value to see here, I'll just skip over most of the duel. It plays out exactly like the show anyway-</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I turn to Zane and sigh "Was at least expecting a Man-eater Bug or something, Guessing he plans to somehow get that Avian back and fuse it" Alexis and Zane look contemplative for a second and then nod, before Alexis replies "How is it you see through his strategy so easily when you aren't even the one duelling him"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">>Is disappointed that an archetype user is not using a card outside the archetype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Can you please stick to a crappy character trait? It's be nice if your list of flaws wasn't constantly expanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Also, good job predicting that the person who uses an archetype based on fusion summoning... is going to fusion summon. I can see why you're a genius.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nevermind that we're now using an anime-version effect, since the real life Winged Kuriboh would've still had him take damage. Lol consistency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-So Jaden wins the duel exactly as predicted, good for him. Alexis wants to know more about Kamito getting to live in a boat because Priviledge-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I ponder that for a second "Oh, that, Luxury Boat, high end kitchen, I like to cook for myself, also, high security, has its own Computer, my D-wheel, and well, I'm used to sleeping in it, sleeping in an unsecured dorm room in a place where people have disappeared, not exactly my idea of safe."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Firstly, ugh, D-Wheels.</span></div>
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"Well, I'll see you guys at the Academy, hope to duel ya soon." Those two perked me up, gave me hope I haven't had for a while, maybe this place won't be so bad after all, as long as I don't say that out loud, Murphy and his laws have a lot to answer to after all.<br />Phase one complete. I will find you and I will save you Fate. I swear it.</blockquote>
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Meanwhile - and this is a personal gripe - I'm not too fond of the idea of making a lesbian character have a relationship with a guy. I know, I know, it's a fanfic, and a crossover at that with a non-existent Nanoha, but.. there's so little canonically gay characters as-is in media. Was it really so hard to just... I dunno, base an OC around Fate? The main character was already Literally Yuya/Yuto except with a random mask, appearance-wise.</div>
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But yeah, guess I'm done grumbling. If I stop being lazy in the future, maybe I'll complain about GX having this weird problem with everyone literally reposting the first episode, except with Jaden's twin sister also being around to beat Crowler immediately before/after him, and all dialogue being exactly the same.</div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-89203964650026187532017-07-29T05:14:00.000-07:002017-07-29T05:14:14.447-07:00Sonic the Hedgehog: Second Fastest Thing AliveSo I hear the Sonic fandom produces some interesting content. Let's see what fishing in the shallow waters gives me.<br />
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<a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12478792/1/Knight-the-Hedgehog-Awakened" target="_blank">Knight the Hedgehog: Awakened</a> by FanFictionKid 999 is our lucky subject for today! Let's see...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Knight the Hedgehog. A Hedgehog with no memory is released by Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower on May 7th, 2017 a year before Eggman takes over 99.9% of the Earth. And when he is released the reason Eggman trapped him there is too. A darkness is roaming free and anybody with even a little hatred can be affected. The Story leading into Sonic Forces begins here.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I have to wonder what that .1% of the world is that Eggman couldn't conquer. Is there a three-mile long island made of magnets or something?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">So then, we got ourselves Hedgehog #826, somehow captured by everyone's favourite Humpty Dumpty cosplayer. Let's see how this goes!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span></span></span>"Man, Never thought Eggman would leave a base like this so empty right Tails?" I heard a person say his voice sounding so familiar…<br />"I know right. This place has some early sketches for Metal Sonic… And oh look at this Sonic! It looks like some prototype Metal Sonic armor…" I heard.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Um… Who are you?" Sonic asked me and I sensed a friendly aura from him just by the way he looked and talked. "Can you um assist me in getting out of this cage?" I asked him pointing at the key on the lock</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So Knight <i>is</i> in a cage, and not a hole? Or a whole? And the key is already inside the lock? Er... is this cage the standard 'metal bars only' thing? Surely you could have freed yourself long ago if that's true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">That's adorable and all, but how does one unlock a <i>key</i>? I'd always thought it was the key that did the unlocking...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"It has been years! Well for me if I think I just turned 16 January 23. I said smiling at Sonic. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><i>Years</i>?! How can you even tell what day it is if you've been locked up for years in a deserted base?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Okay… So how did you get here?" Sonic asked me a concerned look on his face. "I was running through this um… Green Hill Zone place where I ran into a portal and it transported me here."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Wow. So not only were you not stuck in a random <strike>w</strike>hole, but you weren't even captured. You just tripped on a random warp panel and happened to land inside a goddamn cage. I feel so misled right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">""I like a good race and all, it just doesn't seem fair to race against an opponent who hasn't eaten or drank in so long that you should have died after less than a week of captivity," said the blue hedgehog with super speed powers."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Sonic I feel like if I run any faster something bad is going to happen." I said to the blue hedgehog who then looked at me dead in the face.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I am enjoying the mental image of Sonic giving this vacant stare to Knight as they both run faster than light can travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-The race is finished instantly once Sonic teaches him to breathe or something. Good thing there's no whiplash involved going from a billion mph to 0-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">'How did I end up here' I thought and Tails looked at me shock covering his face. "You just broke the Multiversal Barrier. Something only Hyper Sonic can do… Knight… You… Are…"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">""A textbook definition of a Mary Sue..." the dual-tailed fox whispered in horror."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Confession time! I am but a mere casual fan of the series who has only ever beaten Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Rush. The hell is this multiversal barrier? Is this what's introduced in the official Sonic OC Generator game coming out?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT!" Shadow the Hedgehog shouted at Tails and Sonic as their friends looked at me surprised.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"So you are Knight the Hedgehog. Nice to meet you since I am the last one here I guess you haven't heard about me. I am Amy Rose… Sonic's one and only…"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Uh wait what hold up now Amy's talking? This is literally the next sentence after Shadow's intro. Where the hell are they all coming from? Are they still in Eggman's abandoned base? Where did they say the finish line was?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Okay see Sonic said you would try something like this so I know you are not his Girlfriend.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I then walked towards the Shadow and offered a hand out to him but then he stared at me with a glare. "Um Hi I am Knight the Hed-" I started but then he grabbed me by my hair and ran off with me with Sonic following closely behind us and the he threw me to the ground in some forest.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Well. That was rude. Is it just me, or is Shadow acting more like a spurned lover than Amy is?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"I don't know much about you. Where you are from how those idiots found you but I am here to make sure you really are the quote on quote "Fastest Hedgehog Alive"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Not quite how you say 'quote unquote' Shadow, but good try. Also, that is an... incredibly niche title, no? Between the four hedgehogs that exist (so far), only two could make such a claim. Now, if it were 'fastest <i>thing</i> alive', then I could see some more competition brewing, but...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">He then threw a punch at me but then like with Sonic time slowed and I dodged the punch and struck Shadow in the face with a hard swing knocking him back and then he kicked me across the face sending me into the mud.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Guess I can't call him a Mary Sue any more. He took a hit and fell into the mud. I was too hasty in my accusations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-We switch to Shadow's POV as he's left behind by Knight. And I guess Sonic-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">I lost… To a Hedgehog who is inferior… Speed and Strength how do you match that…</em></blockquote>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;">Sonic is speed and I am Strength how do beat a person who bested us in both of those things… he must be Selkadoom's reincarnation… Yet… I feel like… He isn't…</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">First: Since when did Sonic and Shadow represent speed and strength respectively? They're both exactly as fast as each other, last I checked, and the only thing 'stronger' about Shadow is his chaos control ability, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Second: The hell is a Seikadoom?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Shadow didn't notice a dark energy flowing from the ground toward him and as soon as he felt it's presence it lashed at him entering his mouth strangling him before fully going down his throat engulfing him in the darkness causing his eyes to go completely red and the red on his black spines turning a dark purple and he screamed "KNIGHT THE HEDGEHOG!" Into the air before with a smile dashed forward ready to kill the Hedgehog himself.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Lovely. Let me guess, no one heard this bestial roar, and despite immediately giving chase to the hedgehogs - who were not stated to be running or anything - he will fail to catch up to them for some reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"And that is what happened." He said to Sonic who looked at him with a somewhat look of admiration but a small tinge of fear that he hoped Knight couldn't notice.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So Knight will have a Central Role in things (In a Bad Way) and yes the breaking of the Multiverse Barrier is Knight's current top speed putting him above both Sonic and Shadow in speed and strength respectively. So give a good reason if you think this story is bad so I can change it BUT Knight stays this story would be nothing without him.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Overpowered OC who is yet another hedgehog in a series that already has plenty of them, uninspired name with a random-as-hell backstory, the entire premise is a mess (how does someone as powerful as Knight get captured by Eggman? I guess just have him fall into a cage and never bother using the key that was already in the lock!), and basing this on a game yet to be released seems... pointless. Is there even enough information to go off of anything?</span></div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-73543750789804611552017-04-25T09:21:00.002-07:002017-04-25T09:59:57.731-07:00Inane Ramblings About Fanfiction Trends: Touhou EditionWelcome, those unfortunate enough to stumble upon this blog, to a slightly different post than usual. This time, instead of cherry-picking a random fanfic to comment on in a desperate attempt to be funny, I instead tackle a certain cliche/trope/concept as a whole, in order to moan about how much it irritates me. I assure you, this is quite the productive use of my time.<br />
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There're certain trends that fandoms seem to follow, I noticed in my search for stories to read. Reoccurring elements and plot lines that seem to universally adopted by every fanfic writer for no particular reason, beyond general laziness or... just not being much of a writer to begin with.<br />
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Today's fandom shall be Touhou Project, and the most sinful of fandom cliches that the series could possibly spawn... <i>male original characters</i>.<br />
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"But RandomVideoPeruser!" My imaginary audience queries in unison, "whatever is the problem with guys?" And the answer to that is... absolutely nothing! Male OC's aren't a problem in and of themselves at all. That much is blatantly obvious.<br />
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However, Touhou is one of those series where every named character, except for like two or three, is female. Out of well over a hundred. Probably 150+ characters at this point. It's hard to keep track between all the media Touhou incorporates. Either way, the only guys you'll ever see in Touhou are a pink cloud who is effectively an extension to another character, or a shopkeeper who's only really appeared n a few manga stories.</div>
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So what exactly is the problem with using male OC's? It's obviously not an ironclad rule that only girls exist in the setting. Well, again, there's no problem with it. The issues come not just from the idea of 'let's create a guy' and more... 'let's create a guy for the sole purpose of being stronger than every single canon character. And make a harem out of them all'.</div>
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A tiring trend I've noticed is the sheer abundance of "a perfectly ordinary guy is transported to Gensokyo for no reason, befriends whichever character had their name picked from a hat, and I guess he has a super ultra important destiny to fulfil". I'm sure there's been one or two good stories made with that formula, but this idea kind of ran its' ground years ago, and more importantly, I never cared for it, so there.</div>
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As of late, though, there's been a twist or two to freshen up the formula. These days, there's a lot more 'OC knows they are an OC and won't shut the hell up about it' stories, which is just <i>riveting</i>. As for the reason these people tend to get pulled into Gensokyo? Yukari. Just Yukari. That is generally as far as the explanations go.</div>
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I get it. Yukari's a mysterious lady who acts in mysterious ways for the sake of Gensokyo as a whole. She also generally has a goal in mind when she sets things into motion, instead of just inexplicably dropping the first fifteen-year old she comes across into the youkai-infested forest with no explanation. Or even a hello.<br />
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Returning to the 'OC stronger than all canon characters' concept, keep in mind that in this setting, we have someone with somewhat-limited reality warping, someone that can kill with a thought, another who can literally fly outside of reality (and that's just the three characters explicitly stated to be far <i>weaker</i> than another character in the series, even if they all teamed up against said person). Obviously, people can and have made female OC's that are just like that, and that's also dumb, but the sheer abundance of male self-inserts with these attributes is pretty insane.<br />
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Now, is there a point to my rambling? Well, no. It's a ramble. Rambling is pointless and I'm grumpy.<br />
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But sure, let's tie it all together in a clumsy manner, for the sake of taking something out of this. Putting aside the part where a lot of fanfic authors are probably pretty damn young, have nothing else to do and will probably forget about their fanfic five minutes after posting a cliffhanger opening... some advice to take, at least as far as Touhou stuff goes, is... make your character compelling, Male or female, what a reader wants is to be invested in the main character.</div>
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How to make them compelling? Well, for a start, don't make their description boil down to "Is basically my favourite character, but stronger/faster/their identical sibling/their Shadow, the true self". They need an <i>identity</i>. In the context of Touhou; why would Yukari whisk them to Gensokyo? No need to answer that immediately, but make sure you have a reason. What about them is so special that Yukari is not only aware of their existence, but only this OC of yours is uniquely suited to solve the problem that hundreds of others can't?</div>
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Hell, do they even need to be the main character? Considering the canon roster, you already have all the characters you'll ever need to write something out. Your OC could be a mere shopkeeper that occasionally gets screentime when things happen in the village? A generic youkai who may or may not be on speaking terms with, say, Rumia?</div>
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So, in short; if you want to improve as a writer in general, seek help from elsewhere. All I can do is point out the obvious and pretend I'm smart for doing so. Otherwise, I hope what little advice I can offer is of help in your future endeavours.<br />
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Now, back to making myself feel better with <strike>games</strike> <strike>anime</strike> <strike>various other activities</strike> fanfics.</div>
Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-71760553786854521742017-03-20T07:57:00.003-07:002017-03-20T07:57:42.934-07:00Dead Body Party With A twistYa know, I like Corpse Party. Bit of a surprise, given my disdain for relentlessly dark and grim plotlines, but I guess there's always exceptions. Granted, Book of Shadows felt needlessly cruel, but I'm sure Blood Drive brings a satisfying conclusion! ...At least it damn well better. I think it's the only Vita game I want that hasn't been ported to the PS4 by now, it'll need a damn good ending to trick me into buying a whole console for it.<br />
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Inane ramblings aside, one thing I don't like is terrible OC's. Go figure. Sure hope I don't end up reading a fanfic starring one of those. Today's fanfiction is <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12077298/1/Corpse-twist" target="_blank">Corpse twist</a>, by ChsisAnialation:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">On the one hand, that name is already screaming 'fake special', on the other... Vandra apparently is a real name. Fair enough, but I'm also pretty damn sure neither that or the surname is Japanese. Vandra is also apparently a female name.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-There is a knock at the door. What door you ask? Surely you would know if you watched the anime or played the game. No need to establish the scenery at all, obviously-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"I couldn't be bothered remembering or googling the full names of the characters, so here's a list of names I vaguely recall". </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Boy I sure am liking Vandra's personality so far. He's so chill and cool and awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"OK! Ready." Everyone gathers. "This is called Sachiko Ever After! We each grab a piece of this paper and think in our head "Sachiko we beg of you" 10 times then pull it apart." Ayumi(?) explains.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Especially those of you whose names I have no desire to remember or learn in any way. Let us be connected for all eternity, my valued classmates I happen to be in the same room as."</span></div>
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The quake stops suddenly. "That was quick." Naomi comments. I am in the middle of everyone. "Are you going to move anytime soon?"<br />
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"I also heard Yuka crying earlier, but meh. Looking for a piece of paper I do not yet know is vitally important is way more worth my time."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I sigh. "No. I have been cast away by many in my life time. People tried to kill me before. Since I have always excelled in evasive combat, I never was. That is why I must get back to Jasmine." I tell the kid.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">What even IS 'evasive combat'? I mean, it sounds self-explanatory, but even goddamn Jackie Chan takes a few hits now and again! I'd also ask why people have wanted him dead, but... really, if I couldn't guess after reading this much, I'd be pretty damn dense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Wow! You have no love for her, but you need to get this turned in for her in fear of her hating you?" I nod. "That is a first! For that, I will let you live longer." He says handing it back.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So merciful. Let him live longer in a school with no food or clean water, and is stalked by several murderous ghosts and at least one super strong monstrosity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">(And even if Seiko planned to kill herself, the author had so kindly omitted the actual reasoning for this to happen anyway. Whoops!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Then stop being a dick 24/7 if you hate it so much. Now, I'm no psychologist, but if someone were planning to kill themselves in front of me, I think one of my last options would be to beat them up over it. Dunno why, but it just feels counter-productive...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Good to know you care. Now stop talking like some shonen anti-hero and be a likeable goddamn person already.</span></div>
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A wide demonic smirk rounds on their faces. "Well Mayu is splattered on the wall! It gave me so wet that I had to fuck this blond hunk here!" The demon girl laughs evilly.<br />I clap. They both look at me like I am the one that just made that lewd comment. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"As much as I would like to talk about what turns you on, I have to find Satoshi and Yuka." I go to leave, but stop. "Burn in hell for your trickery demons."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">A howl of anger triggers my legs into overdrive. Gotta go fast. Crest gotta go fast. Crest gotta go faster faster fa-fa-fa-fa-faster! I liked watching that show.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Confirmation that this was a troll fic all along? Huh. Well, let's see if the author's note has anything to say for this, uh... thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">2) Horrible characterisation</span></div>
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It honestly feels like no effort was put into this work. I wanna be mad, but slipping in the Sonic meme makes me wonder if it was just a troll fic all along. Well, that and the clothesline. It's hard to take a horror seriously when you do that to a ghost.</div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-4514508516606897532017-03-02T10:42:00.000-08:002017-03-02T10:42:42.846-08:00Riffdom Hearts 2.9/2 Years. Final Mix HD Collection.Today's subject is <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11890310/1/A-journey-across-the-worlds" target="_blank">A journey across the worlds</a>, a Kingdom Hearts fanfic by Haro654, in which a self-insert is thrust into the universe of Kingdom Hearts to defeat Ansem. Presumably Xehanort and Xemnas get a pass.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Really hope Olette's the oldest of the Twilight Town cast, otherwise we'll be shipping a most-likely fifteen-year-old girl with Self-Insert here. And I guess Wolf doesn't know he's in a "sucked into the game" self-insert fanfic? I suppose that's... novel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And we're already starting with with some useful trivia.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Wolf Mitchell, a 20 year old man, with short brown hair and blue eyes, was and will always be, in his opinion, an assistant librarian.</span></blockquote>
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"Well then Mr. Mitchell, don't fall asleep on the job next time, otherwise you can get the hell out of my library."<br />
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<strong style="font-size: 14.08px;">(Author's Note: Wolf when he traveling other worlds is wearing Kirito's outfit from the ALO arc of Sword art online, but it's white instead. Normally right now he's wearing a t shirt, jeans and some tennis shoes.)</strong></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Wanna try that sentence again?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, those folk are easy to miss. All that standing and stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Who the hell are you? Doesn't really matter I could just call the cops on you for breaking and entering."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Then why did you even bother asking? And how do you know that they broke into your home? It sounded like they were just standing <i>outside </i>the apartment, and there's been no mention of a broken door, just a light switched on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"You, specifically, as opposed to the billions of other people on this planet alone, never mind the potential assistance of two company's worth of characters I could ask."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Wait what? The hell are you on?" Wolf was questioning this random stranger who was standing in front of talking in a weird, but in a quiet almost shy voice to be exact. Soon the world around goes black.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well that was an abrupt end to the prologue. Wonder what the shy cloaked figure was about. Well, before we move onto chapter two, here's a bit from the author's note at the end.</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> oh and also request worlds in which Wolf could possibly go to could be anything from anime, books, video games, movies, and tv shows. Maybe I might put some songs into the fic making it a adventure, action, romance, song fic of sorts!</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You'd think a crossover between Disney and Final Fantasy would give you at least one or two cool opportunities, but everyone seems to insist on turning it into a massive crossover. I mean, sure, go ahead, but shouldn't you put the fanfic into the <i>crossover</i> section of the site?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also songs in fanfics <b>uuuuuuggggggghhhhhh</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I'm not sure how to feel if even the chapter title sounds confused about its' contents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Starting in Silent Hill is a hell of a hurdle there, dude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Where the hell am I, and where the hell are the townsfolk supposed to be at?" I say to no one in particular, since you know, no one apparently live here.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I mean, are we absolutely sure people aren't just staying inside their homes to keep warm or something?</span><br />
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"Well you aren't exactly right, Wolf" A voice says in my head. "But you aren't exactly wrong either."<br />"Who the fuck are you? How in the hell do you do you know my name?" I shouted to the voice in my head.</blockquote>
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<br /><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Wolf, my name is Kathrine, I was told by the Creator himself that you were coming to my realm." The new voice, dubbed Katrine, said in my head.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Rude. She just said her name was <i>Katherine</i>, Wolf.</span></div>
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"But…bu….b… what….How did you…"<br />"Read your thoughts? Well….. I'm a goddess sent by Zeus." Reveling her true nature to me.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">It was nice of the Creator to not inform Katherine of any important info on this super special individual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">What an odd set of abilities for a librarian to have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So with that my friends I bring to you my start of a journey in which I find love from a girl and maybe a goddess,</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">How strange that the summary advertises OCxOlette because no one ever ships her, yet he seems to be going the harem route here.</span></div>
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fight an evil that could be rising (even though at the time I didn't know it and Kathrine hasn't told me at that point in time.), and maybe get into a whole lot of trouble with different characters of different worlds.</blockquote>
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<br />"Wolf? Who are you talking to?" Kathrine inquired about my thoughts.<br />"Uh no one…..." I said to the confused goddess of Zeus.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">And what's the point of narrating to the audience like this? Are you sudden;y self-aware?!</span></div>
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Well, that's that. This, uh... was there even a single Kingdom Hearts related subject anywhere in this fanfiction? Outside of the summary, there's virtually no mention of the characters - well, according to one of the notes, Sora and Pals will cameo at some point, but beyond that, there's nothing that fits the setting at all here.</div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-22368190256087503572016-11-18T14:30:00.002-08:002016-11-18T14:30:34.933-08:00Dragon Ball F Kai: My Titles Are So WittySo hey, Super's finally getting a dub. That's neat. Still waiting for the rest of Kai to be dubbed though, but I'm sure Funi's getting right on that. Maybe. Probably. Well, putting my aversion to Japanese Goku's voice aside, I suppose I can spend my wait reading dome DBZ fanfics.<br />
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<a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12231549/1/" target="_blank">Dragon Ball F</a> by Legend of light, is a story about Goku having a twin, which will drastically alter the story of DBZ. I guess?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">What if Goku had a had a twin sister that was older than him by 9 minutes. How will this change the entire story? How will this affect Gohan, Goku, Chichi and the rest of the Z-fighters? How can this change affect the entire DBZ universe find out on Dragon Ball F. Current saga: Saiyan Saga</span></blockquote>
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<strong><em>24 years ago.</em></strong><strong><em>Planet Vegeta.</em></strong>Two newborn babies who are born with a tail are laying around on there incubators crying loudly.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So one of Bardock's buddies is now his daughter. 'Kay then.</span></div>
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"What is their power level?" asked a old man with a large nose in a doctors coat.<br />"The boys power level is 5 while the girls power level is 15."said the second man.</blockquote>
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I'm sure you Dragonball fans just screamed in hot-blooded rage at those sentences. And I can see why. Everyone knows that Baby Goku's power level was two!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Boy am I glad those scouters were fully described. I had no idea what they were, what they looked like, how they function, what they're supposed to do... all of this has been properly exposited in a natural way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"We got orders from King Vegeta to send them to a Planet called Earth it is rare that we send two babies to a planet but in this case since they are twins we have to send them together and the king knows that for some reason" said the first old man.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Knows what for some reason? That Bardock had twins? That twins are supposed to conquer planets together? That doing so is rare to begin with?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...The thought occurs to me: How the hell do Saiyans survive the trip anywhere in those pods? All they can do is sit in it for however long the trip is; where's the food and water?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">As the two babies are sent towards Earth, trouble awaits there father. As he prepares to fight the diabolical tyrant named Frieza, the tyrant uses his death ball to destroy the warrior and the planet behind him.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Uh, right. Good to know all of that suddenly. What about it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">And he was walking through the forest when all of a sudden he hears a loud cry echo through the woods.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">This caused the grumpy old man's power level to shoot right up to 10000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"You boy! have the cry of a warrior you are going to be called Goku and I will raise you like if you were my grandchild you will receive excellent care under me."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Exactly what I would say if I saw a tailed boy crying next to an alien spaceship. ...Snarking this scene is hard to do when I don't think it was all that different from canon, really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Now Goku in the beginning gives him a lot of trouble, despite the kindness of Gohan, but later Kakarot bumps his head down a cliff and the server head trauma causes him to forget about destroying Earth and becomes a caring loving boy.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well, glad to have that extremely sparse recap of Goku's backstory. So far, the only difference is that Goku started off about twice as strong as he did in canon. Which is much less impressive than you'd hope it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">As well as the tiny body of the defenseless, powerless Saiyan. Poor thing never stood a chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Bullshit she's 'seriously injured'!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Or, I dunno... drool incessantly or twitch weakly as the last of her doomed life fades from this world?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">""Jesus Christ I can see every one of her bones poking through her skin!" the doctor cried out in horror, as her husband recited a tearful prayer for the suffering infant."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"there, there you will be alright, you are right that is why we are going to raise it as are own child. We will name her Kari lets treat her for her injuries" said the woman.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Good job managing to do that for twenty-four whole years, I suppose?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, those dreams are annoying. Look, I get it, there's someone I used to know, and for no reason I'm suddenly dreaming about them, but can I please get a full night's rest? ...Why is it preventing her from sleeping, exactly? It doesn't sound like a nightmare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Is it just me, or do names like Kari, Asuna and Jeriko just not fit within Dragonball's setting? Maybe I'm just too used to characters being named after underwear, vegetables or the fairy godmother's chant?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Asuna is her best friend, they were friends since they were little, they practice Wing Chan on a daily basis while its safe to say Kari is far better than anyone she faced and is much better than her at this point.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well of course she is. Can't be Goku's older twin brother without being an instant combat expert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">As she sits on her bed she looks at a picture of her at 7 years old that she hasn't even shown Timothy.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Timothy, as the next sentence explains, is her fiancee (also she is better ai Aikido than Timothy). I have to wonder how he's missed this picture, given no special effort seems to have went into hiding it. Nor do I even know why it should be hidden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">'What would he say if he knew I had a tail I know he'd probably go crazy? What am I saying this is Timothy I'm talking about the man I still love but I'm on a mission to find who am I and where I come from.' Kari thought</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Not really sure how those two thoughts connect but sure. Also, seriously, how can you manage to keep your tail hidden for this long from everyone?! there's no way in hell it never accidentally slipped out of your gi during a sparring match or something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-And then it's the next day-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Ok, I'll leave my month rent on the table as I'm going to West City" Kari said as she takes the mortgage payments for the next few months and put it into a envelope. "Maybe they might know who this person I keep dreaming about."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Well this is kind of abrupt.</span></div>
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"I inexplicably knew you were leaving so I sat out here all night to stop you."</div>
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"I know you know me since I was 8 but I'm going show you something I've never shown anyone" Kari said.<br />"And what is that?" Asuna asked<br />"This" Kari said as she went into the back of her pants and pulls her tail out.</blockquote>
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"Kari what is that?" Asuna asked a little freaked out as she pointed at the tail in shock.<br />"My tail and before you ask I have no idea where I got it I guess I was born with it" Kari explained.</blockquote>
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"Take my car and I'm coming with you." Replies Asuna<br />"Fine" Kari said as she put her stuff in the car.</blockquote>
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...So... you were planning on skipping town without telling your friends, but you have no qualms with them joining you? Why exactly are you being so secretive about it? you're not even telling your boyfriend.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Kari whenever we go to a restaurant you always get a appetizer and a meal and it it yourself, why?" Asuna asked.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Because that's what you generally do at a restaurant?</span></div>
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"Let just say I eat more than ten to fifteen servings per meal." Kari said.<br />"How when you look so skinny?" Asuna asked.<br />"Tell me when we get there and I don't know I think it has something to do with my tail." Kari said as she lay down and took a nap.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Er, no, the headset goes on your <i>head</i>, Asuna.</span></div>
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"Jeriko, Honey, are you there?"<br />"Yea Asuna, so did Kari get surprised?" Jason asked.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Jeriko can you look up Capsule Corp and see if they know anyone that may have a tail, don't ask?" Asuna said.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Nah, I'm gonna ask. Why are you randomly searching up Capsule Corp for that kind of info?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Asuna I tried to find something but the site is so complex that when I try to find anything remotely similar to someone with a tail it starts up a red alert and forces my computer to shut the tab off." Jeriko said.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Sounds more like a virus to me. Or Capsule Corp seriously decided to tamper with google results for anyone that looks up Goku. For some reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Why would Capsule Corp cover up Goku's existence, exactly? Even after several martial arts tournaments and heroic deeds, he's hardly some well-known, legendary warrior to the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"That was just the bad news and you are right I did find some good news, Someone named Son Goku Fought in the WMAT and he had a tail and more importantly Capsule Corps may know something about it."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">And so, CC's censorship was rendered completely pointless two sentences later. More proof that it never works, I suppose?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well that's a super interesting way to end a chapter, I guess. "Here's two guys with fancy space monocles. I guess they're baddies."</span></div>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;"><strong>What's the deal with these two males heading towards Earth? Are they friends? Are they new Enemies? Will Kari find the answers she is looking for? Will like the answers if she gets them? Find out next Dragon Ball F</strong></em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The story already spoiled the fact that those two guys are up to no good, Kyle Hebert. Nice read, though!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">This story is <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5190212/1/Darkness-in-his-heart-Tri-edge-ash" target="_blank">Darkness in his heart, Tri edge ash</a>, by Azure Ash. As you can probably surmise, it's about Ash being evil. And also mastering that aura ability he's displayed in... one movie and, I dunno, two episodes max? Why do the writers never remember the one time he went Super Saiyan, as well...? Aside from it being incredibly stupid, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Good thing he happened to run into two people with the same ability and were partial to villainy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Show's how much they pay attention!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well that's just inexplicable and massively silly. How do those swords have three blades each? Are there just, like, two branches on the blade? Are there three blades wedged into the hilt?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Maximum scary. Wow. So terrifying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So that was a thrilling prologue, huh? Guess we'll move on to the main story now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;">So I take it the number three will be a wee bit important. Dunno why, it's just an odd feeling I get.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So this is very Pokemon to me right now. I can only assume this is very Pokemon to everyone else, as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The figure on the right was wearing a dark blue cloak with ice blue eyes. The one on the left had a red cloak with crimson eyes, and the one in the middle had a jet black cloak and his eyes were a piercing auburn color.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So blue, red, black. Good to know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span>"I hate when they look at us like that," the blue eyed one said.<br />You should be use to it you whore, the crimson eyed man said.</blockquote>
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"Who are you three?" Erika asked the 3 figures.<br />"I'm Sai," the crimson eyed man said after chuckling,<br />"and I'm Helen," the blue eyed girl said, and this is our leader</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"What do u…?" before Erika could ask the question, Tri-edge brought one of his swords up and it shined in a blue aura, Erika gasped as he swung the sword. Seconds later, the city was in gulfed in a blue light and then… BAAAAAAMMMMMMM.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">TIL that aura in Pokemon is a better nuke than 99% of all Pokemon. Come to think of it, are we even going to be seeing Pokemon in this story?</span></div>
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<br />"Yeah, just total destuction," Sai said as he examined the once beautiful city. He was interrupted from his tour by the sounds of sirens headed there way.<br />"alright some fun for us!" Helen said as she saw multiple police cars outside the city.</blockquote>
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<br />awwwwww, said Helen as they were enulfed in blue spheres of arua which suddenly disappeared.<br />In the center of the city, before they disappeared, they left the infamous mark of Tri-edge there.</blockquote>
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<strong style="font-size: 14.08px;">Im pretty sure you've already figured out who the trainer in the black cloak is, but damn, using the power of aura to destroy all of Celadon city with one slash was only the tip of the iceberg.</strong></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I think I have an idea of who it might be. The subtle clues left in the title and description, and even your user name, have given me a suspect or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Why would he even bother with Pokemon? Again, he nuked an entire goddamn city by himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well, that was... a thing. I don't get Pokemon stories that a) try to grimderp things, and b) omit Pokemon from the </span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Pokemon</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;"> setting. I guess I'll take their word that they eventually show up, but that's kind of a delayed appearance for something the show is named after.</span></span></div>
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Today's subject is <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12110584/1/Savior-of-the-World" target="_blank">Saviour of the World</a>, by Mistress Galiancrystal, a Bleach self-insert story. I could summarise more, but I'm sure the description is more than enough to excite you:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">I dunno about you, but I sure am excited to read a story that hints towards the usage of gratuitous Japanese in place of actual English equivalents!</span><br />
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<em>"I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."</em><em>~Aunt May, Spider-Man 2</em></blockquote>
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Ah, yes, the single morning of August, what a day that was. Where were you on August's solitary morning of the month?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Why was I crying you ask? I finished the final chapter of </span><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">Bleach</em><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">, crying as the ending was rather a surprise.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I mean, sure, it wasn't the best ending in the world, but it wasn't quite "Sasuke is forgiven and starts a family" bad, you know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">There was only a few disappointments I have- the biggest being Jugram dead. I'm sorry, but I have a crush on the Quincy(as well as Tsukishima) so of course I'd complain about his death besides the fact that he has hIS BEST FRIEND'S INITIALS ON HIS SWORD.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, poor Jugram. Really sucked that he died. What a shame. Who the hell was he, again?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Research ensues-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Ah, right, Haschwalth. Yeah, he sure left an impact... and what does that last sentence even mean? You're exempting that thing about his friends' initials from his death?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">My name is Victoria Espinosa. I live in the United States of America and I hate Trump.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well I guess I can't nitpick any flaws with this character now. her personality's been set to 'flawless'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I took out my notebook- a small 3 inch by 5 inch blue notebook with the Substitute Shinigami logo in white on it as I wrote in it in a semi-cursive, "Make IshiHime canon"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So is this your bucket list? Wishlist? Ransom demands to the police while Kubo's held captive in your basement?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">One could argue that Ichigo and Orihime have zero chemistry with each other, but really, her one-sided crush makes that pairing way more plausible than... uh... that time she interacted with Uryuu in Soul Society?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Unfortunately for Victoria, she had written in a Monkey's Notebook, so when she was inevitably pulled into the world of her favourite manga, it was a completely different country, with no ties to anything vaguely resembling Bleach's plot, no way to get to Karakura Town, no powers to speak of...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Not even Ichigo was both of those things at once. And Ichigo was every goddamn thing in the series. Except whatever Komamura was. ...As far as we know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">My clothes, which were formerly pjs, have changed. My dad's old bright sky blue DC shirt was replaced with a form fitting sky blue shirt with a white </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Kingdom Hearts</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> heart and crown top along with two entirely different jackets that went together.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Oh boy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">1. Overuse of sky-blue to the point it rivals Kubo's use of black and white - minus the ~SYMBOLISM~</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">2. At least choose a franchise that existed before Bleach even started. Hell, would the game have been out by the time the series got to the Fullbringer arc?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">3. "Two entirely different jackets that went together".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Those go about as well together as socks and sandals. And of course there's a logo. Everything has a logo. Right, what's the logo, then?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">That is exactly my reaction to finding out my eyeballs have been swapped with another's. "Oh, neat."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So in other words, they are not Grimmjow's eyes. If anything, you now have yellow irises.</span><br />
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<em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Wait… maybe I should check to see if I'm spiritually aware."</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> I thought. </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Well… only way to find o- Nevermind."</em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> My eyes looked up and saw the huge, spider like Hollow.</span></blockquote>
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-that gratuitously using Japanese terms is very stupid when you're writing the story in English? And that the English term was just used in the exact same sentence?<br />
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"You can see spirits, don't you?"<br />
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Good to know that the Bleach fangirl has no idea what a Hollow is, but can remember Haschwalth's first name.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Death Gods… interesting." I murmured and took a calm sip of my tea. "But you already knew that, didn't you?" Those words caused me to choke in mid-drink and to cleared my throat. "W-what was that, Mister Urahara? I didn't quite heard what you said clearly." I let out a small nervous laugh as Kisuke's face showed seriousness.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I love how she uses the terms 'shinigami' and 'death god', when the series already had a translated ter. Hell, I'm surprised she even went with 'death god'. It doesn't sound Japanese enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also, why is she even hiding that she knows about Hollows? It's not exactly going to change anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">He then pulled out an envelope of sorts, labeled with a seal having on the inside of said seal was a kanji on it that I recognized from looking up random kanjis and their meanings.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">What luck you happened to look up that one particular Kanji one day while you were bored, and then never forgot what it meant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> "The… Reiō?" I raised an eyebrow as I took the envelope and looked at it. "Did he know I was coming here?" I thought before opening it and reading the letter. My eyes widened when the kanjis started to arranged themselves into English words.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Therefore making the effort to write in Japanese completely pointless. Good job, Soul King.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also, why is the Soul King kidnapping random girls, hope they end up in Urahara's shop before the get eaten, and posting letters there? This feels needlessly roundabout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;">...Um... behold, the theme that plays when Victoria reads a letter?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;"><br /></span><em>"Greetings,</em><em>As you have already known, I am the Reiō, the creator and balancer of the universe.</em></blockquote>
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"And much like yourself, I speak in English, except when I randomly slip Japanese words into my speech. Like a true Nihon-taichi."</div>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;"> I chose you out of all the others because you think differently than most. You see both sides of the field, the good and evils sides, along with the line in between, the neutral side.</em></blockquote>
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So... does she just handwave every terrible crime a character does if they're hot enough or something? What does that even mean?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Because I'm sure there was no one else that was effectively neutral to whatever's going on. And would also have combat experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"But not part-Fullbringer. Don't want you getting too sue-ish."</span></div>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px;">This should be helpful, no? I have given out similar letters to a few others about you and they will help you understand your powers and train you to tame said powers.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I mean, she's effectively ripping off Ichigo by now, and assuming this is post-manga (...where the Soul King is dead?), Ichigo is all of those things and pretty much the strongest guy ever, now. This feels a little unnecessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span><em>Please, do not be reckless on your journey.</em><em>With prayers,</em><em>霊王</em><em>P.S.- You are able to respond back by writing on the back of these."</em></blockquote>
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So the letter that magically translates itself into English just so happen to lack the words 'soul' and 'king'. Well, I guess those words can be added in the next patch.</div>
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Anxiety that has not manifested in any way despite the situation, by the way. </div>
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<em>Ichi- Why choose me out of others who have more potential and strength than I do? I may think the ways similar of Sōsuke Aizen and a few others I could list off of from this universe, but I lack a lot of things other potential "saviors" could have.</em></blockquote>
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1. IT'S NUMBER ONE. 1. O-N-E. AS IN THE THEME SONG AIZEN KILLED ONCE</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The Soul King really needs to learn clarity. All this ambiguity makes things so awkward.</span></div>
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Neglecting to inform the main character of what the plot even <i>is</i> is rather silly, too.</div>
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<em><br /></em><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Once I was finished writing, the letter glowed before vanishing into sparkles and I raised an eyebrow. "Well then…" I mumbled and looked at Kisuke who seems to have a bit of confusion as well.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"If these things can just teleport to and from recipient and sender, that both makes its delivery to my shop unnecessary, and completely obsoletes the death butterflies. Goddamnit Soul King."</span></div>
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A pale-skinned male examined a letter that was put in his papers, the pale moonlight shining down on him as he looked up at the moon.<br />"Train this "chosen one" of not just Quincy blood, but of Shinigami as well… I will see about training you as my choice, not his."</blockquote>
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"Even though I would have known literally nothing about this person and would not care otherwise, it is totally all me that is making the choice to train this stranger for no reason."</div>
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"The hell you mean another Visored!?"<br />"Yep. It's a girl too."<br />"You would point that out."<br />"What? I can't help but think how much of a cutie she'l- OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?"<br />"For you being a dumbass! Dumbass!"</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Why would she need a new name?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"My name…? "Victoria thought about it, a new name meant she could disguise herself, become one with the environment and blend in with the crowd.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Yes, the girl that literally no one else has met can hide her identity by adopting a new name, which will help with her blend in with the scenery. You know, alongside her half-Mugetsu hair and bright yellow eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><br /></span>"My name… is…" Confidence swelled inside of her as she smirked with a glint of slight cockiness in her blue orbs.<br />"My name is Minato Reishinzō(霊心臓 港)- chosen savior of the Reiō!"</blockquote>
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And finally, the chapter ends with some fun facts... with the numbers written in Japanese because there was no other possible way to write them:</div>
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<em>Ichi: Minato is a unisex name.</em><em>Ni: Reishinzō means "spirit heart".</em></blockquote>
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I love that we get the meaning for her made-up surname, but Minato is just 'Unisex name'.</div>
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<em style="font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;">San: The kanjis of this chapter are- 1. Reiō, 2. Espinosa Victoria, and then 3. Reishinzō Minato.</em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;">And it was necessary to write themin Kanji because... uh... set in Japan? Yet written in English?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;">Why is one of her favourite characters a horrible father that doomed his infant child to a life of misery under the assumption nothing bad could ever possibly happen by sealing a fucking demon inside of him?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;"><i>Go: "Ichi" means "one", "Ni" means "two", "San" means "three", "Shi" means "four" and "Go" means "five".</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px; text-align: center;">Because I'm sure common sense would not have told us otherwise. I have a fact of my own, by the way: The English language has numbers, too. They can also be written as '1, 2, 3, 4, 5". Weird, huh?</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Phew, that sure was a thing. This story contains a lot of the usual tropes a self-insert fanfiction uses: The MC somehow gaining an appearance that's an amalgamation of their favourite characters (and sometimes their powers, too), informed character flaws, inexplicable importance despite the canon possessing dozens of far more viable candidates for... whatever actually needs doing, and worst of all... the goddamn gratuitous Japanese.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I get it, Bleach is set in Japan. But unless you're writing the whole thing in Japanese, there's zero reason to just randomly throw in random Japanese words just because. If there's literally no way to translate a word or phrase without killing the meaning or ending up with a paragraph for a translation, then fine, go ahead. But seriously, Japanese numbering? Refusing to acknowledge the English alternatives for everything?</span></span></span></div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-68305146415593545342016-05-17T14:19:00.000-07:002016-05-17T14:20:01.320-07:00BlazBlue: Chaos Silliness ExtendI am a master of procrastination.<br />
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So, here's chapter two of <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8563840/2/" target="_blank">Heart of Chaos</a>. It should be super fun to read through.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I quickly made my way down a street my target was said to frequent a lot; it was quiet, except for the small sounds of shops being opened up. I stopped and ducked into an ally, peeking around the corner to see if he was coming yet. "Hmm, no sign of him yet"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Ya know, early morning or not, a half-white cloak made of wings that came from two girls is not something you want to wear while hiding. It's a wee bit very visible, no matter what alley you're peeking from.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> "</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">well</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">of course he's not hear yet, were probably too early!"</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> Nova yelled in my head, leaving a painfully loud echo through my mind.</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Nova, don't just blurt things out like that, it causes Hikari migraines" </em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Aegis quietly said in a gentle tone</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well... a downside's a downside, I suppose. Not that those two girls make any kind of sense, anyway.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"oh yeah, Aegis! If it weren't for him screaming, we could have gotten some more sleep and gotten hear at the right time instead of having to wait!"</em></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">...You also could have went straight back to sleep. Or wait a little longer before leaving? You sure as hell weren't in a hurry during breakfast.</span></span><br />
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<b><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Nova! You know that the nightmares aren't his fault! You know what he has to deal with, and yet you act like you don't even care!"</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> Aegis snapped back, Aegis wasn't the type to get angry, but when she does, you better watch out.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah man, better watch out. Don't wanna make Aegis angry. She might raise her voice. We can't subject anyone to that. Think of the children.</span><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"How dare you say something like that! Of course I care about Hikari! All I'm saying is that he can try not to be so loud!"</b></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"It's not like he has a traumatic past or anything!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Will you two please stop arguing!" I peeked around the corner to make sure that no one had heard me, good, no one was their still. After I had said that, Aegis and Nova stayed quiet, and it was gilt was getting to me</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">You're feeling guilty for asking two annoying girls to stop literally screaming into your brain? Don't be <i>that</i> kind of MC, dude.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">-Some totally heartfelt apologies later-</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I couldn't help but feel even worse for yelling at them, Nova was speaking in such a kind tone, and Aegis was even quieter when she spoke. I was about to say something, when I heard the sound of loud footsteps trekking through the street.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, I guess rightfully telling them to not hurt your brain was a terrible thing to do, after all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I looked over the corner, and I saw him, a large, bald headed man wearing a black and red striped vest and black pants with rips in them, another noticeable thing were the strange gloves on his hands, Solid black with white lines running through them and large, red metal plates with a strange symbol on the knuckles.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">WHY DOES EVERYONE IN THIS STORY HAVE THE EXACT SAME COLOURS</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Their he is, today's target" I gripped my blades as I prepared for what I was about to do. I silently ran to the target, and kicked him in the back.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Uh, Hikari. Swords? Those blades in your hand? They might do more damage than a wimpy kick.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>After I did that, it took a few seconds, but he turned around, anger in his eyes, I then quickly dashed back to the ally, I could hear loud footsteps behind me.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Just to reiterate, our main character, whose profession is being an assassin, has snuck up behind his target, kicked him despite holding two swords, and then immediately ran way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I then ran into one of the dark corners of the ally, and instantly disappeared. In a few minutes the target was finally in the same area I was, he ran a bit father ahead, and stopped to look around. He was confused, good, that'll make this easier.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You know what also could have made this easier?<i> Slicing the guys' spine like a baguette when he had his back to you.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Vice terrow, you have been convicted for the murder of ten people, by the order of the N.O.L, I have come to execute you" I stood their watching him, he didn't say anything, didn't even move.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, if a self-proclaimed assassin did everything in their power to announce his presence, and look like an Inuyasha* cosplayer gone horrifically wrong, I'd be frozen with sheer disbelief, too.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">*I know he's a dog demon, but still.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Uh, hello" The next thing I know, he turns around, and throws a punch at me. I easily sidestepped it, and his punch headed for the ground, the thing that I wasn't expecting though, was an explosion the very same spot his fist touched.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Given Hikari's proximity to this explosion, as well as Baldy McPunchdude, I can only assume both died in a terrible inferno. Filled with fire and stone.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">What the heck was that!"</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> Nova yelled in my head, and I would have said something, if I weren't thinking the same thing. Vice slowly got up, and turned around, fist in a defensive position in front of his body, it was then that I was able to see the strange markings on his gloves, they were pictures of bombs.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...So doodling Bomberman icons give his gloves super powers? Is that how the weapons in BlazBlue work? Does Bolverk have little doodles of lasers on the side?</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Oh dang!, That's an armagus on his hands, how'd he manage to get that!</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> Nova yelled again. "</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, I heard a report a few weeks ago that someone broke into a lab and stole an experimental armagus; he must have been the one that broke in"</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Why would they even be developing <i>gloves</i> that <i>explode</i>? Did no one see the fatal flaw in that design choice waaaaaaayyyyyy back during the ideas pitch?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I quickly changed the way I held my swords so the blades were pointing outward. I then held then out in front of me in a battle stance, I then started to focus energy into them, dark energy started to envelop the black blade while light energy enveloped the white blade.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">But what good is violet and brown energy going to do at this point?!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>After seeing what I was doing. Vice pulled his fist up, and began running at me. I then readied my swords, and right when he was about to hit me, I parried his blow, and dashed right past him with my swords in front of me, energy starting to vanish from the blades.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Boy, it's a good thing his exploding gloves didn't explode when you parried. Awfully convenient, there.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also, why did you need to make your swords glow to do that? Does it raise your competency at actually assassinating someone?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>For a few seconds, vice didn't move, but he then suddenly fell to the ground. After that, I slowly put my swords back in the sheathes "Target exterminated . . . . ."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I can just see the kanji smashing onto the screen now. So badass. So ultra cool.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Okay, we better get the body back to base, but first . . . . ." I lifted up one of his hands, and took the glove of, then the other one "the N.O.L will be happy to get these back"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">If only so they can bury the evidence of ever developing such impractical weapons.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I put the gloves away in my jacket, and looked at the body of the once living Vice </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"The body of the once-living" has got to be the most redundant sentence I've come across in a good while.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"all right, time for the body" I held my hand out, and black, shadowy chains shot out of the palm of my hand, and quickly wrapped around the body, I gripped the chains, and pulled them up, and they pulled the body up with no difficulty at all.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Good thing the not-Ouroboros chains completely eliminate weight, then.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>After flying for a while carrying vice's body, I finally made it to my destination, the N.O.L head quarters</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I like to imagine the body dangling several feet below, and bumping into the occasional chimney or something. Thank you for this image, fanfic.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I put my wings around me again to form my black and white cloak, and with Vice's chained up body trailing behind me, I then quietly snuck through the front gate and silently ran into a familiar hallway</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So this master assassin ran straight into the entrance of the place he works at, while dragging a corpse behind him, and wearing that stupid black/white cloak. With absolutely no one around to see this.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I was quickly walking as fast as I could, a lot of people know about the assassins of the N.O.L, and we weren't exactly greeted with open arms if we were seen, if you know what I mean, so it's best that we try and not be seen here as much as possible.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I would ask how anyone would even know you're part of the NOL's assassination team, or why they're so taboo, but... I think Hikari is a good answer to those questions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I slowed down my pace as I turned and started up a large stair case with different rooms on the side's, I didn't have to worry about others walking through and seeing me, since it was still early in the morning and not many others have been coming up here lately since the incident.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I'm not gonna bother trying to remember the details of this game's plot, but I get the feeling Ragna never attacked their central HQ. It was wherever the Murakumos were being kept. I'm sure there's still thousands of employees around to see you dragging a corpse around.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The room that I entered was large with filing cabinets pressed against each of the walls, and in the middle was a desk where a man with green hair was sitting at. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, at least we finally meet a canon character.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Ah, Mr. Shinzo, good to see you again" he then angled his head a bit and looked at the chained body that I had placed on the floor in front of his desk "and by the looks of this, you've completed the job with perfect results, good work as usual"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">> Completely fails to kill the guy without instigating a fight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">> Said guy uses exploding gloves. With explosions that failed to attract attention from anyone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">> Hikari flew in the air, completely unobscured, with this guy dangling below him</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">> Dragged his corpse into a building that should be filled with tons of witnesses</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah man 10/10.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Thank you, captain Hazama" I was starting to feel uneasy as he looked at me, for some reason, I always felt like that whenever I talked with captain Hazama, but since he is the head of the intelligence department, I had no choice, and the feeling always went away after I left.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> "He had these on as well" I pulled out the glove armagus that Vice had on, and placed them on captain Hazama's desk, he picked them up, and examined them for a few moments, then placed them back on his desk.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">~JUST ANOTHER POSSIBILITY OF THE CONTINUUM SHIFT~</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Ah, very good, this was the armagus that was stolen from one of the research labs weeks ago, to think, that you would accomplish two things in one mission, im very impressed."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...You mean recovering those gloves wasn't even the point? Why did they want him dead, then?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I was about to reply, when I heard someone else walk through the door, I gripped one of my swords, and turned around, only to be surprised by who it was.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, no wonder you NOL assassins aren't well liked. There's literally no reason to expect an attack and you go for your swords?</span><br />
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<b>It was a girl with short brown hair with white on the ends; she had on a black beret on her head and she wore a black cloak over her body. As she walked over to captain Hazama's</b></div>
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<b>Desk, she looked at me with hazel colored eyes and memories of my days at the academy flooded back to my mind.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Ah, Ms. Nanaya, so good of you to join us" she looked at me again, only this time with a look of suspicion on her face. "Uh, captain Hazama, who is this?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I know he looks utterly ridiculous, but there's no need to be so judgemental. It's not like he dragged a dead body along the ground on his way there or anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b> After she asked that, the smile on captain Hazama's face grew bigger "Ah of course, well let me introduce you, Ms. Makoto, to the top assassin called the Chaotic Nightmare."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>After he had said that, she looked down at the body that was laying on the floor, then she took a couple of quick steps back, and looked at me with horror, it made me sick inside to see the look on her face, she's one of my best friends, and now she's looking at me like some kind of monster.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Take a closer look in the mirror, man. You're making Hazama look subtle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Also, goddamnit don't force your way into Makoto's backstory! It's not one you can just easily slip into!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Captain Hazama! Why would you call me into the same room as an assassin!?" She now had a desperate look on her face, as if trying to get away from a great evil, and seeing that, it felt like I punched in the stomach. "Now, now, theirs no need to be so scared Ms. Makoto, now, the reason that I called you hear, is because I have a mission for the both of you. After he said that, I felt like I was going to fall down.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">And with that shocking twist of a paragraph, the story comes to an end. Not really sure what made the author drop this, but I can't say it had much promise. It was utterly ridiculous through-and-through, trying way too hard to be cool, and the whole 'tortured protag' routine is not going well. Thank god this timeline was erased.</span></div>
Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-77166503225484674972016-04-02T13:17:00.000-07:002016-04-02T13:17:25.762-07:00BlazBlue: Chaos SillinessMan, these new characters keep getting sillier, don't they?<br />
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So, BlazBlue. I like it. Fun fighting game. Noel is great. A wee bit confusing to explain the plot though, what with the timelines and dimensions and standard 'why can't a fighting game tell a coherent story for once' formula. What I CAN tell you, however, is that assassins should not be as visible as Makoto's boobs.<br />
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<a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8563840/1/" target="_blank">Heart of Chaos</a>, written by Kusanagi The Blood Angel, is a story about an assassin employed by the NOL, and is the standard "no one likes/understand me waaah" story, so that should be fun to look at.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>Hikari Shinzo is not an ordanary solger of the N.O.L, he is one of few top assassins. Follow him on his journey as he tries to survive in a world of chaos. Rated T for blood, will be pairing, but not yet. This story will be taken down . . . please do not read . . .</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I am not sure why exactly they stopped writing the story, but since it hasn't been removed... well, let's just see if there was any real potential in the two chapters written.</span><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><strong>I'm in the middle of a dark forest, I look around me and see nothing but trees engulfed in shadow. That is, until I see an old, and very familiar looking house.</strong></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So not a lot to see here, just a dream sequence that'll set-up just how tortured and stuff that Hikari is. Written in massive blocks of text.</span><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><strong>As I got closer to the old house, I could see that the lights were on, and I could see two figures inside that I recognized instantly. "Mom, Dad!" I cried out as I started running to the house, but as soon as I got within a few feet of it, the house caught on fire.</strong></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, good job, ya little shit! You went and burned it down, what did you do that for?!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So, as some random darkness pulls him into the shadows, away from the burning house, one comes to realise that this sounds like a slightly re-written backstory for Ragna. Well, I'm sure that's just coincidence...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"AHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed as I shot strait up out of the bed I was in, my whole body was sweating and my heart felt like it was about to burst out of my chest. The events of the dream continued to play thru my mind until a pillow hit me right in the face.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well that defused quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Shish, why do have to be so loud this early in the morning" said a very irritated sounding voice. I looked over to bed next to mine to see a girl standing next to it;</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">It's kind of sad that I can consider a tsundere sleeping in the same room as a male character with no hint of embarrassment 'refreshing'. Still, way to be a bitch to the clearly distressed guy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>she had long, dark red hair, and brown eyes that were glaring at me. She had on a black pajama top, with black pajama bottoms, and on her back were large, black bat like wings.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So I think she likes yellow. That seem right to anyone so far?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Eh he, sorry about that Nova" I said as I rubbed the back of my head with my hand, since the fear was knocked out of me from the pillow she threw at me.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I can relate. I usually forget my nightmares by immediately having some object completely cover my face and hinder my sight and breathing. It's so calming.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> "Nova, it's not Hikari's fault he had a nightmare" said a sweet voice in a gentle tone. Me and Nova both turned are heads to the source of the voice, which belonged to a girl with golden blond hair and sky blue eyes,</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Oh man, a shrinking violet, too?! This guy's prettiness is overwhelming!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>she was getting out of her bed and I could see what she had on, which was a light blue pajama top and bottoms, and on her back she had large, white bird like wings.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So her favourite colour is crimson. Got it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And with those introductions out of the way, Hikari heads to the bathroom to change.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I went over to the full body mirror and looked at my reflection, I had long, silver hair that went a little past my waist that seemed to go every where, and it also framed my face that had violet colored eyes.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I looked at the top of my head to see a pair of silver fox ears, in which I looked at my back to see a long, silver fox tail. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a fox beast kin.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Did you need to remind yourself that you had animal features or something? Do you always think to yourself in clunky exposition about how you look?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I guess the word 'coat hanger' got lost during the Black Beast's attack. Along with McDonalds and actual countries.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I looked at it and smiled, it was a Yin-Yang symbol, but it looked like it was an ornament for hair. I grabbed the end of my hair and placed the hair ornament on, and then put on a pair of black fingerless gloves that had a white trim. I then grabbed two large, thick, golden bracelets and gave another smile as I put them on.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So from what I've gathered, absolutely everything makes this guy smile. Wagging his tail, looking at hair ornaments, putting on bracelets...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I then proceeded to put on my jacket, which was silvery white with a trim of thick, pure black fur, with also a thick, pure black collar.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So far I've seen a lot of black, white and silver in the character design. It is very robust and varied.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">After I put it on, I pulled two long katana like swords from a belt on the counter, one had a pure white frame while the other was black. I stared at them for a little bit and only one word came to my mine, </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Arcanea. </em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I sighed as I put the belt around my waist and then put the swords back in.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, I'm glad we spent all this time getting know every single piece of Hikari's black, white and silver equipment. Also, of <i>course</i> he has two katanas. It's never two broadswords. Never two claymores. Never even two kitchen knives.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I noticed though, that they both had different outfits on, Aegis was wearing a long, light blue top with a white trim, and a dark blue skirt, while Nova had on a black top with red streaks going thru it, and a pair of black shorts with a chain on the sides</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">How can you even tell if they're wearing anything different when it's all the same goddamn colour.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>this might seem normal, but the thing is, they don't have any clothes, no, it's not that I don't buy them any, the thing is, what ever type of clothing they imagine, they can create out of thin air and wear as long as they want</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And yet they can't seem to think of more than two colours at a time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, if nothing else, he's not acknowledging the more perverted side of this ability that so many others would lovingly point out in their own stories?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> to tell you the truth, I have no idea how they do this, I asked them both about it, but Aegis said it was very difficult to explain, and all Nova did was just look at me like she didn't have an answer.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Smiling is all you seem to know, Hikari.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">OKAY I GET IT YOU'RE ALL SMILING PLEASE STOP IT</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">This seems overly dramatic.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Aegis and Nova both suddenly turned into balls of light, that then went right into my body "Okay, lets go get him" I heard Novas voice eagerly shout in my mind. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...And this... uh. This seems... random.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I sighed to my self a little, and then I started to focus energy towards my back, I then felt the energy pulse out and form into something, I turned my head and smiled at what I saw. I had a huge, black bat wing and a huge, white, bird like wing on my back, I flapped them both around a bit to stretch them out, and it felt good to have my wings out after a long time.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">...Uh... okay? So I guess Hikari is also not-Dizzy? And STOP. SMILING. SO MUCH.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Blue and orange really do go well together, yes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I sighed and frowned a little at the mask as I put it on</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">LET'S PUT A LITTLE SMILE ON THAT FACE</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> it was a constant reminder of who I was, a mark that would always be apart of me.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I mean, it's just a mask. It's not like it's a tattoo or anything. You could always throw it in a bin.</span><br />
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I know, I know, it's a fanfic set in a universe filled with battles in a genre that forces 1-on-1 fights from everything that knows how to make a fist, but come on now.</div>
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<b>It was still early in the morning, so no one was around, after I made it to the ground, I formed my wings around me, and together they formed a hooded cloak, half black, half white.</b></div>
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<b>"Right, he should be close by" I said as I made my way to the target.</b></div>
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And with that, chapter 1 is finally over. I might as well cover chapter two next time, but for now, I'm just going to lament the loss of the colour chart, as well as varied facial expressions. I hope the author updates the character models for the next chapter.</div>
Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-1837179635637103292016-01-23T08:29:00.000-08:002016-01-23T08:29:25.468-08:00Dissidia Final Fantasy: Self Insert Is Too OP, Please Nerf In The SequelSelf inserts are not a thing I'm particularly fond of in my fanfics. Original Characters, sure, go nuts I guess, but putting yourself (and/or your friends) into the story? Uh... sure... can't see how that'll ever go over well, honestly.<br />
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Today, I bring you a Dissidia: Final Fantasy fanfic by the name of <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10216550/1/The-Warrior-Of-Spirit" target="_blank">The Warrior Of Spirit</a>, by Mistress Galiancrystal. In which the self-insert randomly enters the Dissidia world and is ultra super omega important to everything. Because of course she is.<br />
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<b>The name is Cassie Lucis Strike, Cass for short. I am leader of a band called "The Gift" at Riverside High.</b></div>
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Man, I can see the coolness already.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"The Gift" has four people including me which is the guitarist, Axel Kendrick or as we call him- Ifrit, also a guitarist</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Seriously? Your stage name is Ifrit? Were you afraid that "Axel" was copyrighted or something?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Fiona Lionheart or- Shiva, the violinist and pianist</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Your surname is Lionheart and you go with Shiva. Rightio, then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Leona Hikaru or- Sieren</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Poor Siren, can't even get proper rep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>and the drums are Alexander Smith or- Bahamut</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I mean, we can all see Bahamut being the drummer in any band, right guys? Also, including Cass there, I'm counting five band members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>and then there's me and the nickname is are our nicknames are the names of Final Fantasy summons you ask?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...No, I'm asking what the hell you just said. Couldn't follow a word of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The answer is that we are fans and they are our favorite summons.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I suppose it's good we're in a more progressive time were people that name themselves after game characters don't get laughed at openly, but come on, seriously? And what is Cass's nickname/favourite summon? Given that it was eaten by THE VOID, I suppose we may never know...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So... does it just randomly spike on top of your head, is it more of a Super Saiyan 3 thing...?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>blue-violet eyes, a Bahamut [F.F.X version] pendant on my neck [similar to Cloud's Fenrir]</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Cloud's motorbike? Oh, right, you mean thyat really obscure, miniscule detail hardly anyone would be aware of. Of course, silly me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>and a wolf piercing on my left ear and an angel wing on my right ear</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well don't you look fashionable, Clouphiroth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I also wear a black leather jacket, a navy Faded Glory shirt, Paris Blues black skinny jeans which are faded on the knees, and black leather boots [Lightning's boots but black].</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Sure am glad I know exactly how each of those look by name alone. Just like everyone else in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>So as I walk home from band practice at Axel's garage, with my guitar, Griever,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">WHY THE HELL DID YOU NAME YOUR GODDAMNED GUITAR</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Wow Cassie, breathe. Calm down. It's not a race to see who can exposit the quickest, here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And with a small passage of the lyrics helpfully copy/pasted, let's move on from this blatantly Final Fantasy-ish song...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I sang on until I reached my house and unlocked the door just to see about half of the house is destroyed -and I mean literally- half of the house was destroyed.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">What an odd thing to miss until you open the door. So... is it the back half? Cut down the middle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...A joke. Half your house has apparently been bulldozed and you think it's a joke?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">and slowly backed up and bumped into something, well more like some</span><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">one</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">. [overly-long detail expunged] and two glowing menacing yellow eyes that gave could give the Devil shivers down his spine.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">""It's just a prank, bro." the armoured joker growled cheerfully."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>This was no ordinary person, I thought, this was Garland, Chaos's right-hand Stalwart, Warrior Of Light's nemesis, and the very first Final Fantasy villain.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And the instigator of many forced "knock you down" jokes to come.</span></div>
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<b><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'I'm screwed.' </em><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I thought in fear and did what would Laguna do in situations like these. "Umm… h-hi there big fella." </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'I am losing it here and I think I'm going to have a leg cramp.'</em></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Hahaha, gotta have some comic relief in there, right guys?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Then there was a creepy silence that showed that either he was thinking hard or he was going to knock me down with that huge sword of his</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Everything Garland stares at, risks getting knocked down. He is the Knockdowner, knock-overer of Worlds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>and I walked back very, very slowly where I hoped he didn't notice.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-And then Kuja grabbed her from behind anf got an overly-long description-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Sshh~ little canary," said a voice behind my ear. "And I won't have to harm you." My eyes quickly darted to a shattered mirror in what was left of the bathroom.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I have to say, I am very confused about where everyone is right now. I guess they're not hanging around outside, but the house is big enough to comfortably... house Garland and his sword? And which half got wrecked?!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">This was Kuja, the Angel of death and Zidane's older brother. </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'Great,'</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"> I thought, </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">'Who's next? The harlequin and the wraith?' </em><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I thought with a hint of sarcasm and guess what? Two more people came in!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And another thing - have the neighbours called the police at all? Tearing a house down is a wee bit difficult to do stealthily, and now there's four cosplayers hanging around, trying to kidnap a teenaged girl. Surely <i>something</i> about this scene seems mildly unusual to them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Ah, yes, Garage Band Rocker Fanboy Cecil, so blatantly similar to Cassie here. It was an odd phase in the paladin's life, really. Probably because he was a dark knight at the time, I suppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I immediately recognized as Sephiroth, SOLDIER 1st and the villain from Final Fantasy VII who is famous for his theme, the One-Winged Angel.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>A gasp escapes her lips with eyes wide in shock and horror. "Oh no! The warriors of Chaos have reached the eleventh warrior of spirit." Cosmos then gets up from her throne and tries to think of a plan to get the warrior to safety, and out of Chaos's reach to aid her and the warriors of harmony.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So why is Cassie a warrior, exactly? I mean.;.. literally everyone in Dissidia has fought a crapton of battles - it's kind of the norm in a world full of monsters, after all. How is a perfectly normal teenager with zero combat ability or experience supposed to help?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> "I think I know how to get her to safety and to aid me in this war." She spoke and clasps her hands together almost like a prayer and starts to give a soft glow.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">""Actually, if I needed this girl's help so much, why didn't I do this immediately?" Cosmos wondered aloud as realisation struck her."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Okay Cass, what can I do in this kind of situation. Is it a) do what Lightning did to PRISCOM trooper and tell Kuja that he's got a nice outfit a kick him where the sun doesn't shine and run like Hell's on my tail</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...You mean that thing Lightning never did?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>or b) let them take me to their leader or in this case god? Oh wait I know what to do!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Absolutely nothing, because there's no way in hell you can evade these four ultra-powerful fictional characters, especially when you're presumably inside a building that cannot possibly hold all four of them in one room?</span></div>
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<b> "As a make of fact I <em>do </em>have some words to say… Kuja?"</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Then plan "A" took action as I first elbowed him in the stomach, as predicted, he releases me but tries to grab my shoulders, then kicked him where the sun and moon never shined and he kissed the ground, whimpering from the sudden pain and ran as fast as the Flash can hope to run.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Behold the Angel of Death that tanked Bahamut's Mega Flare, destroyed Terra and killed the party, everyone. Defeated by a powerless fourteen-year-old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Then the dark knight tries to knock me down with his sword literally</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">As opposed to... uh... a philosophical knocking down?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Also, Knock Down Reference #2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>but I dodged with a forward flip and it was an inch or two away from my face.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I cannot even begin to imagine how this happened. Probably because I've been given nothing to work with, but still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-And now... Sephiroth's PoV? Why?-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I am impressed about how this girl was able to take Kuja down with simple techniques – minus the fact she kicked him in the lower region and he's whimpering like the weakling he is</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So in other words... not impressed at all, because that was her entire strategy, and you consider Kuja weak. You must love hearing yourself think, Sephy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>My turn, I thought with a smirk on my face for a quick five seconds and tried to stab her with Masamune.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Somehow, I doubt five seconds of doing nothing but smirking is anything but 'quick' in a kidnapping attempt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>She was able to dodge it until, I landed two scratches making an "x" on her left cheek and for a quick moment, she looked like an old friend of mine in SOLDIER, Zack.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I'm sorry you were referenced, Zack. I'm so, so very sorry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Also, Square's strongest villain ever (Caius aside) was unable to land more than a 'x mark' on this girl's face? SHE HAS NOWHERE TO FRIGGIN' DODGE, DUDE WITH THE FIFTY-FOOT LONG SWORD</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>She then ran for the back yard ducking from Golbez's energy balls he threw at her.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Battle-hardened veterans struggled against these villains. Level 99 parties had to take care not to die fighting these people. Golbez took a meteor to the face and laughed it off.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Then all the sudden, she started to glow white and sky blue and looks at each of us for thirty seconds but her glare was lingering at me. Then I saw a quick image of my nemesis, Cloud with that same glare. </span><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">'"Why does this look familiar?"</em><span style="font-size: 14.08px;"> I thought and she disappears in a white abyss.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">She did nothing but glow and stare for thirty seconds. Aside from randomly setting up a rivalry with Sephiroth for no reason (I'm guessing major Cloud fangirl), you guys just let a chance to capture/kill her pass by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Aaaand Cassie PoV again-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">No doubt creeped out by your weird staring. Weirdo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Then I disappeared in white smoke and appeared in a blue version of the Historia Crux from Final Fantasy XIII-2.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So for those of us that have either never played that game, or haven't done so for several years... what does the Historia Crux look like? All I remember is a fancy level selector and a lot of pink. Am I close?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>That's when I started to hear "Sanctuary After The Battle" by Utada Hikaru</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I mean, I'm sure the Historia Crux has its own theme. At the very least, the XIII series has plenty of songs to choose from. So why the hell are we dragging Utada Hikaru into this? Why is there a song playing at all?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-And after randomly falling asleep-</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I woke up from my sleep to find myself at Order's Sanctuary. "</span><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">What am I doing here?"</em><span style="font-size: 14.08px;"> I thought while scanning the area. I thought that Final Fantasy was just a role-playing fantasy rated T video game, but now this was serious and if I'm not then I die.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">You just made Garland, Golbez, Sephiroth and Kuja look like a bunch of dipshits. Like hell you're ever going to die with all that plot armour weighing you down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>As I search for a sign of someone, I finally found someone and it was Cosmos, the goddess of harmony.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">It's a fairly empty place. It can't be hard to see a tall, blonde woman sitting on the only object in the entire area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"So you have finally arrived, Warrior of Spirit." She spoke in her soft, angelic voice. "Cosmos, why did you call me "Warrior of Spirit"? Because I heard it that from Golbez too." I asked with a lost look on my face. "It is because you can call spirits from ten other worlds and use their powers to aid you in battle."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Only ten, specifically. Not nine, not eleven, just ten. Conveniently so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Oh~. So why am I here?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"...To call forth ten warrior spirits to fight Chaos. Also known as 'the premise of the fucking game' and 'the thing I just fucking told you about'."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"I understand your need of an ally, so I'm in this to keep balance to the worlds. I shall begin my journey." I spoke in a determined voice like the Warrior of Light and walked away from the throne.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Why do you need to journey? Can't you just... summon them right now? In the safety of a place where there's no enemies?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Hold on," spoke Cosmos and I turn around to face her. "You will be needing this." A she hands me a white feather that was tipped with light green.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Yadda yadda dangerous go alone reference reference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b> When I touched the feather with a small stroke of my thumb, it started to glow and something heavy landed on my back and it was Odin in his Chocobo form from Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I have no idea if this is a spoiler or not for the game, but I was pretty damn confused until I looked it up, and it seems to be a surprise reveal, at least? I dunno, but there it is. Also, fuck Lightning, I suppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Oh hey, guess we found the answer to Cassie's favourite summon! So there's that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The goddess giggled at my feathery problem on my back."This is my gift from me to you as a gift of good luck."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, uh, given the size of chocobos, pretty sure her back's broken. Good job, Cosmos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b> "Thank you Cosmos for this wonderful gift, I will treat it with respect." And then hopped on Odin's back with the hood on, ready to take off. "You know what Odyssey you want to start first?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">What hood?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">More importantly, Odyssey? You're referring to things by out-of-universe names now, Cosmos?</span></div>
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<b>"Yes and I hope I'm not too late. Goodbye Lady Cosmos!" I yelled with pride and took off.</b></div>
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And it's been too long, so I can't even make a timely reference of a perfect 5/7 score. Curse you, Internet Time.</div>
Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-2573966393554714442015-12-08T05:59:00.003-08:002015-12-08T05:59:57.712-08:00The Adventures of Team Bicdiss.Man am I loving RWBY's third season so far. Still needs more Yang, but there can never be enough Yang in one's life. Come to think of it, I've never actually looked for RWBY fanfiction before. I guess now's as good a time as any to start?<br />
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<a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11485822/1/" target="_blank">The Mixed Up Adventures of Team BCDS</a>, by TheSilverHuntsman is... a thing. From the description alone, I can't tell if the thing is a parody or the typical, er... fanfic tropes.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;"><b>The best mixed up team of Beacon that is made up of a guy in silver armor, a guy who loves to crush stuff, a rare dragon faunus who can use dragon powers, and a girl that loves deadly weapons. This story will have action, shenanigans, and lots of references to other stuff from time to time. Rated T for some violence and me being paranoid for no reason.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">So yeah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13px;">Also, might as well start with a nitpick: The hell is BCDS? I know the series has some rather creative... codenames (CFVY is totally 'coffee' you guys), but what could this acronym possibly even mean?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">But what if they're known for their colours?!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Quick note for anyone not familiar with the trailer stuff - In the year before RWBY's first season was released, four trailers were made, each centred on one of the main characters and named after their colours - red, white, black and yellow.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">How do you make a trailer made purely out of text, and why wouldn't you just call it chapter 1, or even just the prologue? Good questions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The real story will start after the S trailer is done and if I get at least 5 reviews before the first proper chapter.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">This is the best way to make someone interested in reading. "Oh, this story's actually really great! ...But no one else has reviewed it, so I guess it'll never continue".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or I would have added a character from my story into it.</b></span><br />
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<b>"So far so good" a guy in pieces of silver armor grumbled.</b></div>
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<b>The guy was Brandon SilverSchnee, a distance member of the Schnee family and one of the best sword fighters and security in Atlas.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Brandon is a 16 year old guy that is 6 foot tall and he is a thin person that carries two custom swords called Light Switch and Sin Slayer and his powerful hand cannon called Silver Angel.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Normally those two swords would <i>combine</i> into a hand cannon in this series. Do you even RWBY, bro?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Anyways, he's in a train making it's way to a major city in Atlas to drop off Schnee dust crates and the Atlesian combat droids.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I know that generic grunts tend to be useless, especially in a show where every named character has superhuman martial arts skills, but just one teenager protecting a whole train? Was the price to hire an actual Hunter too stupidly expensive?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>He was sitting around doing nothing when he heard an engine and multiple foot steps above him." let's get this show on the road"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Good god, two lines of dialogue and he speaks exactly like Adam: Stock uber badass phrases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Brandon huffed as he got Light Switch, his templer styled sword that has the dust revolver mechanism, and placed his earbuds in his ears and played Lift Your Spirits by Unlimited Gravity (cue the song)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...Fine, I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...What the Christ is glitch hop?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Brandon climbed a ladder and leaped onto the roof and found five White Fang members, all armed with swords, lifting two dust containers.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">In hindsight, placing important cargo on top of the train was a poor choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>He smirked and placed his custom silver helmet on and ran towards the robbers.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">It seems redundant to refer to one's equipment as 'custom' in this series. Like, one whole character inherited his weapon, the others made their stuff themselves!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Brandon proceeds to one-hit everyone with a single ice attack-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>That wasn't all because a bullhead just arrived and more White Fang members arrived with a guy wearing a mask covering his eyes and wearing a black trench coat and has red hair.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Oh hey, speaking of Adam. Please don't let these two have a conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Brandon just yawned and pulled out Silver Angel. The hand cannon was a silver revolver style handgun and the barrel looked like the desert eagle's and has a blade under the gun and can switch into a knife in a press of a button.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...A revolver... shaped like a desert eagle... that still has room for a blade. <i>Before</i> it switches to a knife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I should point out that the reason RWBY's weapons can be a scythe/rifle, or hammer/grenade launcher at the same time, is because it a) is freakin' awesome, and b) carefully designed in such a way that it seems plausible. They tend not be jumbled messes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well, anyway, from here, a fight scene worthy of the series takes place. No need to copy all of the paragraph block, but I'm sure this will be suffice to convince you of its' greatness.</span><br />
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<b>" Who do we have here" the guy in black questioned him as he drew his sword.</b></div>
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<b>" I'm just a guy defending a train" Brandon answered as he sheathed Light Switch and brought out Sin Slayer.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Sin Slayer is a sword that has a blade made entirely out of fire dust and the handle is shaped as a T and its made out of silver and ebony metal.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">On the plus side, that's, like, +4 Fire Damage to all enemies. On the downside... you could sneeze on that sword and cause a nuclear apocalypse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Dust is not the kind of thing you use as the primary metal for a sword, guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The stranger struck first and forced Brandon into his defensive position, but he was able to counter attack and launched his attacker a few feet back by directing some of his aura to his hand and done a palm strike at the guy's chest.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Adam is well known for leaving himself wide open like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"You're more skilled than I thought" the unique White Fang member commented as a bullhead arrived.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Or you're just incompetent. Either way, 'skill' is not the word I'd use to describe this epic battle so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The guy got on the bullhead and was about to leave when the guy spoke. "The names Adam" was the only thing he said before the bullhead flew away.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Soooo... why did he run away so quickly? Why did he give out his name? And did that fight really just consist of Adam jumping around like an idiot, and Brandon shoving him away?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>It was a quiet ride from that point on with Brandon doing nothing but listen to music all the way there.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">This is gonna be a thing with him, isn't it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">-Brandon meets a totally mysterious guy when they finally reach a train station-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>" I'm Ozpin, the headmaster of Beacon" Ozpin told him as Brandons mouth flew right open.</b></span></div>
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<b>"As in the headmaster of Beacon Ozpin?" Brandon questioned Ozpin again.</b></div>
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No, no, he means the <i>headmaster</i> of <i>Beacon</i>. That would be <i>Ozpin</i>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Ozpin told him yes and handed him a letter. Brandon opened the letter to see an acceptance letter for Beacon. He looked at the letter and back to Ozpin for a few minutes. Brandon was about to ask why he got accepted, but Ozpin was gone.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I guess Ozpin just got bored of Brandon staring at him and the letter without saying anything for an extended period of time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The silver knight got his scroll and called his family that he got accepted to Beacon. His family congratulated him and told him that they were proud of him. He thanked them and hung up and called Weiss about the good news.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Hey guys, I got accepted into Beacon."<br />"Cool."<br />"Yep. Bye."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b> Weiss is one of Brandon's favorite cousins and Brandon is the only person Weiss can talk to without going into her annoying attitude.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">☑ OC related to canon snippy character that doesn't trigger any snippiness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>" Its me Weiss, Brandon, anyway I got accepted into Beacon" Brandon told Weiss as Weiss began to ramble about how he was only 16 years old. " I got the acceptance letter from Ozpin himself Weiss" he told her as Weiss finally congratulated him on his acceptance.</b></span></div>
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And, like the mainest of main characters, he is totally super ultra omega awesome enough to join the academy early. At least he's still a year older than Ruby?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>" well see you at Beacon in three days" Brandon told her as he said goodbye. He hung up and got on an airship that leads to Beacon to get an early tour.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...What, was there an airship waiting right behind him or something? I thought he was at a train station? Also, dude, luggage. Might need it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>" I got accepted to Beacon!" Brandon yelled in excitement as people all around him looked at him.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well that was quite the delayed reaction, there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Brandon apologized and placed his earbuds into his ears and played This Will Be The Day by Jeff William.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Damn it it's gonna be a thing. At least this song was actually made for the show?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b> lets see what life will take me" Brandon mumbled under his breath as he continued to listen to his song.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">That's not how the song goes, Brandon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Well, that's that for chapter 1. I guess the next three are gonna be more 'trailers', filled with amazing action scenes, epic/sombre/fitting character songs, and... I dunno, super totally awesome characters?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The story's kind of a mess here, but the main draw seems to be the comments section. It's... I can't describe it. Just look at it. Look and marvel.</span></div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-33867310627630815352015-10-24T15:55:00.000-07:002015-10-24T15:55:00.852-07:00Sword Art Online: Man, the DLC Is Not Worth the PriceSword Art Online, for those not in the know, is one of them popular animes that you either love or hate. To get my opinion out of the way: Mother's Rosario > SAO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Everything Else. Glad we settled that debate.<br />
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Anyways, today's story, <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11575100/1/The-World-of-SAO" target="_blank">The World of SAO</a> by Veridan, is a typical OC story about being trapped in Aincrad, and what said OC does during those two years of imprisonment within the game. As the author himself puts it...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>When sarcastic and smart college student Terran gets trapped in a virtual reality game, he's mad, and vows revenge on the creator, Akihiko Kayaba. Under the alias Terris, Terris goes to complete all 100 floors, but he has to go up against 99 bosses, death guilds, monsters, traps, dungerons, and his arch nemesis, Kirito.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">...You can tell it'll be a whole load of fun to read. So, let's get started...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I'll admit… I've never been a gamer. I play games, a lot, but gamer is a bit of a stretch.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I dunno, you seem to play more games than the filthy casuals, from the sound of things.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>However, even I will admit that I am hyped for this new game. And so, fast forward three days later... Sword Art Online, considered to be the most amazing experience in gaming history, a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Rope Playing Game. I know it's a lot, shut up.)</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Right now, there's not much really happening. "In three days, I wait one more day to play a game" is the gist of it. And a joke about the length of an acronym, I suppose.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I got one of the last copies, one of the last 50. I was really lucky, so I ran home and slammed my door open. Went straight to my room and logged on. I didn't even eat anything.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Now that might as well be a death flag for you, guy. Come to think of it, do you even live with anyone else?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">See what I mean? The twist is that this guy will suddenly die in day 4 for no readily-apparent, in-game reason, right?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Link start!" I yelled and suddenly, a flash of blue appeared right before my eyes. I made an account, put my username: Terris and password: monkeykill29 (yes, that's my password, I was bored).</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, thanks for the login info, genius college student.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">By the way, why do you even need to make up a new username? Does the blatantly "Japanese" name <i>Terran </i>not sound awesome enough for you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I chose my avatar; I was a tall, handsome, fearsome warrior with blue hair and red knight outfit. I was a freaking badass, if I do say so myself.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">SAO was revolutionary for having no annoying tutorials of any kind on start-up, and for it being super-easy to navigate without practise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I'll say, is that supposed to happen?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">-After a quick katana purchase and some boar-killing-</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I was teleported to the plaza. The blue sky was completely filled with red hexagons. A red blood like material oozed through the cracks, and it turned into a man in a robe.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well isn't that a slightly odd event. I hope you've prepared an adequate reaction to this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>He said some weird stuff about how we're in a game and trapped, no log out button, but then he sent me a mirror. I equipped it and I turned into someone else. It wasn't my avatar, but me. It was me.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">In other words... not someone else, Mr. Smart College Student.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I was a tall person, with blue hair that went to my eyebrows. I wasn't the strong warrior anymore. I was still tall, but I was skinny and not strong at all.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">In other words again, since your stats were not affected by the change, and you're apparently already tall and blue-haired... almost nothing at all has changed about you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">Again, smart college student.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I still had the costume; however, it felt weird on me. I was pissed.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah man, Kayaba is such a dick, making the armour not fit right. Thank god he didn't do anything worse, right?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"At this moment, over 200 players have been deleted from the world of Aincrad and the real world." The man said.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">I don't think that happened right this second, but fair enough, things are still following canon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>I started to listen to his conversation;</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You've only just started to?! What kind of idiot skips important info during the cutscenes?!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>however I was still mad at him for getting rid of my awesome avatar.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Fuck the 200 dead players, though. Scrubs, the lot of them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> He said some other stuff I didn't listen to, and he left.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Are you secretly DarkSydePhil or something? This is kind of serious shit, here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b> I slowly snuck out of the crowd, bought some potions and teleport crystals and headed for a different freaking village. At least they didn't take away my freaking avatar.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Stupid Kayaba. Taking away my avatar. Screw you." I mumbled slowly to myself as I ran to the next village.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I know Asuna broke the sound barrier or whatever in canon, but breaking in-game rules like that is still stupid. Kind of defeats the point of limits in games, y'know?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Also, thought you were bitching about how weak you were now, Smart College Student.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You and this story's interpretation of Kirito are so dead.</span></div>
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<b>"Oh my god, I'm so sorry man!" He scrambled reaching for my hand to pick me up. I grabbed it and he helped me up. "I think you dropped this." He picked up my sword and handed it to me.</b></div>
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And with that, Kirito, the guy rushing to the next village in order to get a massive headstart on the level grinding and crap, immediately resumed his jour-</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Sooooo… is first time in the game?" He asked.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Ah, sorry, I meant to say that he initiates dumbass small talk for no readily-apparent reason.</span></div>
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<b>"Yup. I just bought it today, one of the very last ones." I replied to him.</b></div>
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<b>"Nice. I like it so far. I was a Beta Tester."</b></div>
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"I'm glad Kayaba listened to our recommendation for the starting event. We can weed out all the scrubs so that only us hardcore gamers remain."</div>
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<b>"Hey, you need help with getting around?"</b></div>
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<b>"Huh?"</b></div>
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<b>"You heard Kayaba…"</b></div>
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<b>I reminisced about that moment. I didn't listen to a thing he said.</b></div>
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Well, don't blame the game when you have no idea what's happening.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"…the easiest way to win an MMORPG is…"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Never start one to begin with?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>He took away my avatar. I have a general hatred for him now.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Yeah, how dare take away the appearance that looked almost exactly the same as your real-life look?</span></div>
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<b>"...I know my way around and I was thinking…"</b></div>
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<b>I suddenly realized that this kid was asking to be in a guild with me.</b></div>
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<b>"Glad to work with you, Terris?" Is that it?"</b></div>
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"That name sounds dumb. Terran would've been way cooler."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Ki-ri-to? What kind of name is that?"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">You have no right to talk. At least Kirito could pass for a real name.</span></div>
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<b>"This way. It's about 5 miles that way." He pointed west.</b></div>
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<b>"Okay. Let's go."</b></div>
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So... yeah, I honestly have no idea if this is secretly a troll fic. Terran/Terris/Asshole is such an unlikeable, callous dumbass than I'm led to believe it is, but... it's hard to say.</div>
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Either way, this fic cares little for canon, and ruins one of SAO's two good arcs (well, covered by the anime so far). Not a fan of it, I'm afraid.</div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-56229138576446202532015-10-08T07:25:00.001-07:002015-10-08T07:25:49.883-07:00Fullmetal Alchemist: Angry EditionSo you know how there's seven deadly sins, and the antagonists of Fullmetal Alchemist are named after them? Turns out there was a secret eighth sin all along. I know, weird how it was missed, but that's okay, now it's been rectified with today's fanfiction: <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11466683/1/Rage-The-Eighth-Homunculus" target="_blank">Rage: The Eighth Homunculus</a>, by bopdog111.<br />
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Now I know what you're all thinking already, and no, it isn't just a prequel starring Wrath. Somehow, rage is completely separate, and I suppose he gets a few whacky adventures?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">So I can only assume this is post-finale, or vastly AU. I'm guessing the latter, thanks to "Amestra".</span></span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist but i do own Rage. By the way this is before Riza joined the military.</strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, that too.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Talking or taking? This is an important distinction, probably.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Ben! The usual?" A guy selling hot dogs ask. "Yeah same old same old." Ben said before a buliding exploded.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">It's because Ben's alchemy requires a building to blow up before he can consume hot dogs. It's called Equivalent Exchange, man.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Now the people were screaming, running, and hiding. A pregnant woman with blonde hair into a bun, white tank top, brown shorts, black boots, grey eyes, and pink lipstick was running until a black fingernail emerge from the smoke. The fingernail hit her shoulder she screamed in pain as blood run down her shoulder.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">This feels like a strange ensemble of colours to put on. How is it conductive for fleeing random acts of terrorism?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>She looked behind her to see a woman wearing a black dress, long black sleeve gloves stopped above her shoulders with red markings, black shoes, long black hair, a grey tattoo that shows a snake eating it's tail with spikes on it's head</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Just keep checking off those bullet points, I'm sure you'll reach the end of that appearance list eventually.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>and back wings above it and a jew symbol in the center on her chests</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">I also would have accepted "Ouroboros wrapping itself around a hexagram. Especially when Judaism has nothing to do with the series. I can't imagine the descriptor "jew symbol" goes down well, either.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Hello Riza Hawkeye." The woman in black said. Riza looked at woman in shock before she said her name "Lust." "Oh my you know my name all to well." Lust said.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"Which is weird, since I kind of don't make it very public. Nor do I personally blow up buildings for that matter."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Lust stop behind Riza and ready her other hand. "Ah well i like to see how Roy will reacted when he sees you dead." Lust said.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Lust was very well known for her hate-boner over Mustang. It's, like, the first thing you remember about her.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"No Lust! Please i have a child on the way!" Riza begged. Lust looked at Riza's expanded stomach, chuckled and said "Ah yes how would i forget that? But i don't care." Lust ready her hand and charge.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.08px;">Good point. Hard to forget if you don't know - or care - beforehand.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Before it will plunge her face a white gloved hand with a transmutation circle on it grabbed Lust's hand.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">"As it did nothing to stop the rapid growth of a fingernail sharp enough to scratch adamantium however, Roy's heroics were in vain."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Lust and Riza looked at the owner and Lust said "Colonel Roy Mustang." Roy is a man with short raven black hair, blue uniform suit, white gloves, black boots, black eyes, and white pants.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">And that was all there was to him. Doesn't even own other clothes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"Lust you will not kill her." Roy said coldly. "Roy you know it's rude to interrupt somebody's business." Lust said. "Not when it's between my wife." Roy said. "Fine." Lust said as she remove her nail from her shoulder.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Dank bants, fam. Or whatever the hell the lingo was back in the AU of a 1930's AU. Uh... sweet conversation, chap?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Riza slowly looked down in shock with Roy staring at the nail in horrar. "-I can't get away without killing something!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">You blew up a building and still failed to kill anyone? Maybe you should leave the blatant terrorism stuff to the other homunculi, Lust. You seemed way better at the scheming.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Lust laugh as she retracted her nail and ran. "SOLDERS AFTER THAT HOMUNCULUS!" Roy yelled in rage to some solders with tears whelling his eyes. "Sir yes sir!" The solders saluted as they ran toward Lust.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...So why did these soldiers watch Lust stab a pregnant lady, attempt to kill her, make contact with the colonel, stab the same pregnant lady in the stomach, then flee while laughing like a maniac?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>By the time they got to the hospital they were waiting. For the review on the child.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Is this how. You write in. A Shatner-like voice? Or maybe just. An overly-dramatic fashion. In general?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Then the doctor came out holding a clipboard. "Well i got good news: Riza will be fine after some stiches." The doctor said. "What about our child?" Roy ask. The doctor hesitated at first before saying the answer "I'm sorry it's dead." Then he left.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I, uh... I don't think I have a joke sufficiently witty enough to point out the rampant dickery with that doctor. Granted, that's not stopped my hilarious commentary before, but... wow.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Well, guess I could give it a try. "Yo man, good news! Your wife's alive, at the cost of your baby. Sucks, lol. See ya~"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Roy and Riza were horrified. "Roy." Riza sobbed with tears running. "I'm sorry Riza i shouldn't left you." Roy said in saddness.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">If only you could have predicted an explosion that somehow led to a homunculus targeting your wife for no adequately-explored reason.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Why was she being targeted? What's their history with Lust? This is pre-military Riza, after all... in which case, why the hell are those two married to begin with?!</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Then three doctors came in "Colonel you must leave this room. We will prepare a C-Section to get the child out." One of the doctors said. "Alright." Roy said as he left. Then Riza relize something and thought </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">I know! I will preform human transmutation to get our child back! </em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Before she fell asleep.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">...Well, okay, I suppose Riza would be broken up over the murder of her unborn child, but... Riza in any timeframe seems a wee bit unlikely to jump straight to "let's bring him back to life with an alchemy that's never actually been known to work, lol".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"How is she?" Roy ask. "She'll be fine." The doctor said. Roy waited patiently for Riza to wake up. Then Riza opened her eyes. "Roy?" Riza said. "Riza." Roy said as they share a kiss.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">So it only took a week to learn all about human transmutation, huh? I always assumed that everyone else who tried took a little longer to work things out, Ed & Al included.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;">Oh, and I guess I should ask the obvious question: Since when was Riza an Alchemist?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>Then she was standing in front of a huge gate. "So you've come." A voice said. She looked behind her to see a being that looks white, a dark aura coming out of her with a smile and she is holding a baby boy. "Is that?" Riza ask. "Yes this is your child." The being said. "I want him." Riza said.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.08px;"><b>"What are you willing to trade me for him?" The being ask. "Trade?" Riza said as the being nodded. "Yes." The being said. "Then my way to use Alchemy." Riza said. "Deal but They're is a price your son will become a Homunculus with much knowledge."</b></span><br />
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<b>"Hello Father." The boy said as he ran.</b></div>
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<strong style="font-size: 14.08px;">The birth of Rage and no he'll not team up with the rest. Be sure to review.</strong></div>
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So... yeah! Rage! I can only assume that's what most people feel while reading this, given how... um... short it comes up. Everybody is pretty OOC, the AU thing only mentions a pre-military backstory for Riza, yet just about every detail is changed, and Lust... seems to prefer letting the whole world knows of her exploits now.</div>
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<strong>Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts or the characters I'm gonna put in.</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>In a strange ethereal place a young boy with blue eyes, dark brown hair with a big bang covering his right eye, wearing a blue short sleeved shirt with a white opened hoodie with black short sleeves over the blue shirt, dark green shorts with a star chain hanging from the left side of his shorts, and black and red shoes is floating down in the ethereal place much to his confusion.</b></span></div>
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<b><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Huh? What's going on? Where am I?" </em><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The boy asked even though he's not physically talking but mentally.</span></b></div>
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<b><em>"So very much to do, so little time." </em>A voice said and the boy looks around to find where the voice came from.</b></div>
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<b><em>"Where are you?" </em>The boy asked.</b></div>
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<em><b>"The door is still shut. The time has come."</b></em></div>
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Don't you just hate rude, disembodied voices that don't answer you? Also, Protag here landed on a cloud, just so you know.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The cloud takes the boy to a floating rocky land and upon arriving the boy gets off the cloud and gets on the rocky land and while exploring but just weapons appear and they are a sword, staff, blaster, gauntlet, orb, scythe, whip, and a cane and the boy walks over to them and examines them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">So, this guy's tutorial gives him eight different weapons to choose from, huh? Well, since this is Kingdom Hearts, this just means eight different ways to level up and learn new skills! If he's introducing so many, then these new weapons must play an important part, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The boy examines every weapon and chooses the sword.</b></span></div>
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<b><em>"Is strength important to you?" </em>The voice asked.</b></div>
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<b><em>"Yes." </em>The boy answered taking the sword and wields it backhanded.</b></div>
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"As the sword was not built to accomodate such a style, however, it was uncomfortable to wield, and was no doubt useless in battle like that."</div>
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<b><em>"You have the power to fight." </em>The voice said.</b></div>
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<b><em>"Now what?" </em>The boy asked.</b></div>
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<b><em>"Try swinging." </em>The voice said and the boy takes a swing. <em>"Excellent. Use this power to defend yourself and others." </em>The voice said.</b></div>
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<b><em>"Okay." </em>The boy said and just then a black phantom creature with crimson spiked crescents on its body appears. <em>"What is that?" </em>The boy asked.</b></div>
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<b><em>"There will be times when you will have to fight. You must keep your light burning strong." </em>The voice said.</b></div>
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<b><em>"No problem." </em>The boy said</b>.</div>
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So is this just a shot-for-shot remake of KH1's opening sequence, except with dialogue that Sora probably would have said?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The phantom creature attacks the boy but the boy strikes at the phantom with his sword killing it but just then more phantoms creatures appear and attacks the boy but the boy keeps fighting back with his sword delivering a killing blow on the phantoms making them leave but one appears behind the boy but the boy turns around and strikes with his sword killing it but another phantom destroys the building and the boy falls but the cloud returns and saves him.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Right, okay, so... huh? The hell just happened? Was he just one-shotting them? Were they any threat at all? How was the building destroyed? What kind of building even was it?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">...What... what was the original version like...?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The cloud takes the boy what looks like a forest and the boy gets off the cloud and explores around the forest and he finds three people which are two boys and one girl.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"It took me five goddamn hours to find you guys! I am dying of thirst! Why didn't that stupid cloud take me straight to you!"</span></div>
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<b><em>"The door won't open just yet." </em>The voice said.</b></div>
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<b><em>"Then what do I do?" </em>The boy asked.</b></div>
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<b><em>"Tell me more about yourself." </em>The voice said.</b></div>
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"Oh, well... I like painting, and sunsets, and friendship, and I have a thing about spiders. Creepy little things, man. And I'm a Tauros."</div>
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-And then random questions are answered. It is exactly like the game-</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The cloud arrives at what looks like an island and the boy gets off and explores around but just the island is being covered in water and the boy is trapped in the water but the boy emerges back to the surface</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Sorry, I just need a moment to parse this before I continue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>but notices that the sky is dark and the waves are getting rough but the boy sees a piece of wood and gets on it but just then a giant shadow dragon creature with the crimson spiked crescents marks appears and attacks the boy but the cloud appears and the boy gets on.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">That cloud is such a dick. It keeps dumping him in random places, knowing full well he's probably either gonna fall to his death, drown, or get lost.</span></div>
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<b><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Do not be afraid." </em><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The voice said and the boy prepares to fight.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">"I AM FIGHTING A FUCKING SHADOW DRAGON, YOU FIGHT IT AND NOT BE SCARED"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;"><b>The shadow creature breathes black fire at the boy but the cloud dodges and it takes the boy to the shadow dragon and the boy starts attacking with his sword but the shadow dragon bites but the boy who blocks and strikes back with his sword and gets the head but the shadow dragon roars in anger and shoots black fireballs and the cloud tries to dodge but one of the fireballs get the boy making him fall</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.08px;">Hate to cut it off at the most suspenseful part and all, but... but. But but but. But but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but but. I think that accurately sums up the rest of this, er, battle.</span></div>
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<b><em style="font-size: 14.08px;">"Do not be afraid. You will be the one who will open the door and restore what is now broken. Do not forget your destiny and your purpose." </em><span style="font-size: 14.08px;">The voice said as the shadow dragon consumes the boy and everything goes black.</span></b></div>
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Well that sure was an original dream. Glad it was something I could view any time I play Kingdom Hearts.</div>
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So, that was... a thing. I hesitate to call it downright horrible, since... while it's pretty much another example of ripping of a game's script, this at least isn't defiling canon characters in the meantime. Also pretty weakly written for a rewrite, especially with those run-on sentences that contain more 'but's than it does actual combat.</div>
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Not sure why it felt the need to include what was basically gameplay tutorials, though. Or add so many random weapons that, in-game, just determine what you learn at X level, and then go with a choice provided by the game, anyway. Strange.</div>
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Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-3325787993474895572015-07-29T14:20:00.001-07:002015-07-29T14:23:19.510-07:00Katekyo Varia UmarekawariSo Katekyo Hitman Reborn was a silly show about a baby hitman teaching the world's meekest high-schooler how to be the boss of an Italian mob. Shonen ensues. One of the enemy groups that Tsuna and pals (and Hibari) must fight is the Varia, a merciless group of killers that don't want Tsuna to rule the Vongola Family. They're all ruthless and villainous, so it's always a good thing to see a varia-centred fic promote OOC-ness in its summary.<br />
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<a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10728840/1/Um-Do-I-Know-You">Um Do I Know You</a> is a fic by Aya Takeshi, in which her OC is a former, amnesiac Varia member. To quote the summary...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>This is Yukino. The only girl in Varia and is doing a pretty good job at it. But after a certain mission she loses all of her memories. How will she survive in this Mafia world with assassins around every corner? More importantly how will Varia deal with this? Warning of OOCness!</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">So we can expect Yukino, if nothing else, to be good at her job of being a girl. Let's take a look.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>I was currently cooking breakfast for Varia when Lussuira walked through the door. "Ohayo Yuki-chan." "Ohayo Lussuria. Get a good night's sleep?"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">I'd like to remind you that the Varia are Italian.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>He started to help me with breakfast. Soon we were done cooking and heading towards the dining hall. When I opened the door I saw Varia arguing. "VOOOOI PUT THAT OVER THERE!" "Ushishishi I think it'll look better over here."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Varia, stop shouting at Voi. That's just rude.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"What's going on here?" They stopped yelling, looking at me. Squalo and Bel quickly grabbed hold of a large sheet of paper while Mammon used his psychic powers to hang it up. On the sign I read out loud "Happy 8th Anniversary Yukino!"</b></span><br />
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So the crazy sword guy and the crazy knife guy are perfectly in character, as you can clearly see here.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>The day I first joined Varia. See my parents were both Mafioso. My mother served for Vongola while my father was in Varia. After my mother pasted on, my father trained me. From time to time my Father let me meet up with Varia. So when my father died Xanxus took me in to be a top Varia officer.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">A comprehensive story that at least firmly establishes her father is an idiot. I don't care what kind of promotion Xanxus gives it, there's no way "Take your kid to work day" works for a ruthless assassination group. :v</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"A-arigato minna-san!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">-Eye twitch-</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">I looked at everyone around the room. First was Superbi Squalo, second in command of Varia, to me he was like my big brother though it took a bit of time for him to accept me. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Next was Xanxus, boss of Varia, he was like the father I lost but still has a murderous atmosphere around him</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">I should probably note that this is a lot more affection than they show each other.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Bel, also known as Prince the Ripper, was my best friend and was someone I could always trust.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Yeah, the guy with the "Ushishi" laugh, knife fetish, and has attempted to kill his twin brother, on top of being, y'know, an assassin, is trustworthy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Fran was my little brother and kohai</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Man, my eye just will not stop twitching.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Finally was Mammon my...second best friend? Honestly I got a little crush on his mysterious behaviour and he may not look like it but he really is holding all his emotions in.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Anno I just don't know what to say. I guess I can't even believe that it's been 8 years already. 8 years, huh?"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Waa it's all my favourite foods!" I noticed at the end of the table Xanxus was already the food. I couldn't help but laugh at him.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">If Xanxus is already the food, all is lost.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"So what's this big job Lussuria talked about?" Levi asked. "I can't believe you forgot what today is, Leviathan. Today is not only my anniversary but V.B.A Day."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Not a thing as far as I can tell... but hey, this idea isn't necessarily bad, I suppose. It's just, there's the entire rest of the Vongola family that would be more likely to go on such a mission. Not the secret assassination group that are so notoriously volatile, that even the Vongola Boss is unlikely to be able to control them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Usually only the bosses will go but with Xanxus's personality he refuses to go. That's the same with the rest of Varia so I ended up being our representative. "I see. So which families are coming this time?" "Um Varia of course, CEDEF, Cavallone, Simon, Millefiore and Tomaso."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">But the Varia's part of the Vongola... and CEDEF's an organisation that might as well be the Vongola. Also, why couldn't you have just left out the Tomaso Family? I would've overlooked it, I swear!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"I see. You better not shame Varia's reputation." "I should be saying that to you every time you go on a mission." "What was that?!" He stood up, slamming his hands on the table. "It's exactly as I said. You got a problem?"</b></span><br />
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Boy, I sure am glad that the author took the time to make sure the reader never lost track of who's speaking to who, here.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Well, that was one of the best fight scenes ever written. Time to move on?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>During the fight I took a quick glance at my watch. It read 11:45am. I quickly snapped my fingers using my snow flames to freeze their flames.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Oh, yeah, the author also established that Yukino here uses Snow Flames. If you don't recognise that as either the Sky or Earth Flame, that's because it was only used in one DS game. And is basically Tsuna's Zero-Point Breakthrough without the ten-billion year prep time. Well then.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b> I clapped my hands together, bowing slightly. "Gomen Squalo-san but I have to get ready now."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Don't you just hate it when your own language lacks a suitable word to use, forcing you to borrow something from another language?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"I'm going now. I'll be back in 5 days top." I said holding up 5 fingers. I walked out the door and took a plane to head to Japan. After a few hours I arrived in Japan and went to Tsuna's house. Once everyone arrived Reborn started to explain the mission he found us.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Well that was the world's fastest transition to another country ever.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Our mission was pretty simple for me and Byakuran but for people like Tsuna and Naito it was a different story. For Tsuna and Naito this was their first time with going on a mission.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Naito I can understand, but Tsuna? The main character that's had to defeat the Varia, defeat Byakuran's world-dominating family in the future, defeat Simon's overpowered family after that, and then had to fight those weird jailor guys that were stronger than everyone else up to that point? What the hell kind of mission is this, anyway?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Our job was in Beijing, China. It was to take down a family that was getting too much strength. We had to take this family down before they get too strong. After discussing a plan we were on our way to Beijing.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">So putting aside the fact that Tsuna could roflstomp this family on his own by the end of the manga... why is this different from anything else he's done? You aren't going to straight-up murder everyone, are you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Soon we were all spilt up around their base.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Damn right it was soon. Literally the next line, I'd say.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Yuki no Tenshi can you read me?" I heard Dino call to me on the ear piece.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Dino please just call me Yukino." Yuki no Tenshi was my Mafia name meaning Angel of Snow. Bel came up with it because my name means snow and he likes to call me an angel.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Well I'm so glad this was necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Fine fine. Are you in position?" "Yeah. I could see the Boss's safe from here. Did you get the code?" "Yeah Naito was able to get the guards distracted while Byakuran got it." "I don't need the story just tell me the code." "You seem to be serious about this. Fine the code is 34791."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Giant lines of dialogue are always fun to read.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Thanks tell Basil-kun and Tsunayoshi-kun to ready their attack once I get the papers." "They're already good to go." "I'm going in now." I stood up and used my Mist flames to create a distraction. "Good luck." I chuckled a bit. "Don't need it."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">And with her no-doubt elaborate and perfect ruse in place, this chapter comes to a close. There's also a glossary at the bottom that explains what all of the unnecessary Japanese words mean. My personal favourite is "Anno - Um".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">So, if you've learned one thing to day, I'm sure it's this: Fanfics that rely on characters being OOC tend not to make much sense. Also, try not to give your characters stuff that's just "Main Character's special attack, but better!".</span>Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328374800814898304.post-7948538004739132902015-07-23T12:18:00.001-07:002015-07-23T18:26:30.457-07:00Final Fantasy VII: The CrisiseningAdmit it, you have at least one story you love so much that you couldn't help but place yourself within that world. Befriending the main characters, beating the shit out of the villains, winning the affection of that one character you have a crush on... sigh, if only...<br />
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Oh, uh, anyway, yeah. Today's story is <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11365174/1/Final-Fantasy-VII-the-Rising-crisis">Final Fantasy VII the Rising crisis</a>, by Strife VII. What if some guy named Tony was sucked into his game? How would this affect events? Why would your game suddenly suck you into its contents after many years of being perfectly normal? Why doesn't the manual cover this? Let's find out...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">I was not aware "mako green" was an official shade. Also, no wonder its glowing, you just randomly opened the disc drive for no readily-apparent reason.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>he materialized into the game and he noticed he was wearing new attire. He was wearing baggy dark blue pants,and a black T-shirt,his long black hair was also slicked back,and his glasses were thin framed and dark black.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">"Unlike his official art, however, Tony's in-game model was a blocky monstrosity with jagged shoulders, and no definable features could be seen on his single-digit polygon outfit."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Cloud noticed Tony was close to aeris and tossed him the butterfly edge sword.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">You've seen a complete stranger pop right the fuck out of nowhere, have no idea if he's an ally, or Sephiroth's BFF, and you just toss him a massive goddamn sword that, for all you know, is about twenty times over his maximum handling capacity?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tony pushed Aeris out of the way,and cloud fought with sephiroth.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">It's like he ripped the fight scene straight from Advent Children. And what's Cloud even fighting with now?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Sephiroth saw things were not going to end well and left. "Very well...the girl will live,but when I have the chance I will finish what I started."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Preeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure you can still roflstomp them at this point, man.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b> Tony scheathed his sword,I'm Tony,and I'm not exactly fro-...from this area." Tony knew if he mentioned anything about them being a game it might fracture their consciousnesses.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Sheathed in what? That's Cloud sword, remember? Also, I'd laugh at the stupidity of everyone instantly believing him if he told them their world was a game... but Cloud is also pretty fucked in the head, so... good call, Tony?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tony met eyes with tifa,she smiled and walked up to him. "Hey,I'm tifa...nice to meet you." Tony was sitting there beside himself.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">He was? How? Tony, did you split yourself in half? ...Is one of the Tonys his imagination?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"uh-um I'm Tony...n-nice to meet you" tifa giggled and went on with the rest of the group</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">This was a good talk, Tifa.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Tony is it?" Aeris asked shyly."yeah that's me"Tony answered. "Well thank you so much for saving my life back there,if you hadn't done that I may not have been here right now." </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">What? Come on, Aerith, don't talk like that! As if anything would ever happen to you!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tony looked down and became lost in thought, suddenly his ears started ringing and he put his hands on his head then fell to his knees."you imbicile! If you wouldn't have come from your world to ours I would have killed the ancient and gained access to the life stream!...well my goal seems larger now...kill cloud...you...and then the ancient. Hmph in a way I thank you for your insolence... Heh, heh, heh, ha aha ha ha ha!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">So basically, Sephiroth is a moustache-twirling villain now. And his hate-boner for Tony equals the one Sephy has for Cloud, too. Oh, and I guess Tony's a Sephiroth clone. And people say the Compilation was bad...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"Tony...get ahold of yourself man!" Tony snapped out of it and stood up."its sephiroth! He's gonna do something horrible!"Cloud still couldn't believe what had just happened to Tony.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Give yourself longer than half a second for the surprise to wear off, then.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b> Tifa ran up behind Tony and helped him over to the tiny bronco."Are you okay? That was kind of a big mess that you had back there." Tony regained consciousness and sat up</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">When did you <i>lose</i> consciousness?! This is still on the same line as that previous sentence! In the middle of this massive block of text! Why is Tifa now nursing you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b> Tony closed his eyes."sephiroth spoke to me...he plans on killing Cloud, me, and Aeris."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">"The rest of you are cool, though. He wanted me to tell Barrett that he's a cool guy, specifically."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Cloud walked in the door,"hey Tony I see your awake...Man that was weird, anyway we're in Gongaga now and we're heading for the great glacier in the morning...so now we're all just gonna get some sleep and go on from there." Cloud closed the door and climbed into bed"Well goodnight..."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">...Good to know, Cloud. See you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>(Will you look after Tony?) Cloud began dreaming."wh- who's there?!" (...) "Answer me!" (Tony will save you when you are in your deepest peril) "what's that supposed to mean?" (You know all you can know...look after Tony.) "Okay...I'll look after him."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b> "You were dreaming cloud" Tony laughed,"you kept saying my name...man back at the alter...that was weird."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Nah, what's weird is the next two words immediately following that statement.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Cloud smiled</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Fucked up, man.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"yeah it was...say, do you have any materia?" Tony Pat his pockets,"no...I guess not, could you lend me some?" Cloud pulled out a new born ice and cure materia and tossed them to Tony.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Cloud the baby-thrower confirmed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b> Cloud laughed</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">You're absolutely sure that was laughter?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tifa came out of the restroom and began to get ready,cloud noticed that Tony's eyes were following her. "Hey Tony keep your eyes on your weapon or materia." Cloud smirked.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Mopey Cloud jokes aside, I seriously don't recall Cloud being this openly friendly with anyone in the first disc. I guess saving Aerith instantly cured his grouchiness. And mental instability.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tony sat up and went for the door,"well I'm gonna go and get whatever info I can on sephiroth...I'll be right back."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Shouldn't you know everything you need to? I assume you've played this game more than once before.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Aeris was walking down the hallway when Tony stopped her to talk. "Hey Tony!" Aeris smiled. Tony smiled back and asked,"so how did you sleep?" Aeris looked down and sighed,"not well I was so worked up over what had happened."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">I know how you feel. I'd be annoyed if one of gaming's most iconic and treasured moments was brutally shattered so callously.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">-One extremely uneventful walk to Glacier Village later-</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tony slowly walked forward and pulled out his sword,then swung in at the ground."wh-what are you making me do!?" He screamed. Cloud sprinted to his side and took the sword from him."Tony snap out of it man! Drown sephiroth out! Drown him out!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">"DON'T LISTEN TO HIS STUPID AND POINTLESS DEMANDS! SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF HITTING THE GROUND LIKE THIS?!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>(I have come for you my leige) "what!?" Tony screamed. (The warping of your reality to ours...there is no age here and no time...here aging is impossible... You can choose to stay here or leave to home...I warn you however, there is no return once the choice is made...) "</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Yeah that's real interesting, but can you give Tony a second, Mysterious Voice? He's trying to deal with another voice in his head right now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b> "Ga ha ha ha aha ha ha ha aha ha ha!" Sephiroth laughed.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">I am paying George Newbern all the money in the world to voice this laugh.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>"I know of your arrival tony, and I know of what you plan on doing...I will not let you of all people ruin my life's work! Now return to your feeble consciousness... " Tony awoke and jumped up."I want to stay!" He screamed. Cloud slowly tilted his head and said,"Tony snap the $#%&*# out of it!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">"Oh, what the actual @£&%!" Barret and Cid yelled in anger.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Also, Jesus Christ, Sephiroth, let it go. You can gut Aerith later.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>(Is that your final decision?) Tony put his hands on his head,"krrgk!" (Remember once a decision is made...no return is possible)</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Tony struggled to decide if he should use a lifeline for this question.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tifa ran to Tony and put his hand on her chest,"this may wake him up!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tony blinked "ungh...my head...it- its sephiroth...he's tampering with my mind...an- oh my God I'm touching your boob!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">One stupid crisis at a time, man.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Tifa looked at the ground,"well this is...awkward..."</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Can't possibly imagine why!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;"><b>Cloud slapped his hands on his sides,"tifa did that to wake you up,but lets focus on the main problem. Sephiroth is tampering with Tony's mind, but not just his...mine too." Tifa crossed her arms and looked down,"sephiroth."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">That sounded like the world's most unimpressive plot twist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">So. I'm not the biggest FFVII fan out there, but I think there were... one or two slight mistakes in the characterisation of a couple of people. Nothing too major, just, y'know, might wanna hammer those problems out with a mallet or something.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.0799999237061px;">Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to finish that fanfic of mine where Zack's biggest fanboy, Sean (who Hojo fused with Materia to create the Hell -aga series of spells, of course), joins the group to kill Sephiroth, as revenge for murdering his hero and ruining his life in some dramatic way. 'til next time.</span></span>Terrible Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02309866532667858200noreply@blogger.com0