Wanderer's Rest

defeated by the sleepies

FFVII, Sephiroth, ice in my blood
Transformers (G1), Ratchet/Deadlock, My Beloved, Lord Of All He Surveys Including The Medbay
Pokemon; Pikachu; instead of Meowth, it's Pikachu who can converse with the humans
TFG1, Optimus & Mirage, gladiator AU
FFVII/Disney, Cid & Shera, "I come back and there's fucking mice in our home?"
TFG1, Galvatron/Cyclonus/Scourge/Rodimus, what i love about my lovers

yeah, remember when I was complaining about the lack of emotional impact in the final-boss battles in Pokemon?

Yeah, uh, I beat the final boss in Violet last night.

I AM CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING SEVERAL EMOTIONS. o____________o

I feel like I'm counting down to the new Pokemon by continually shitting on Pokemon, which I'm sure isn't the correct way to be a fan of anything - wait what am i saying we're nerds we're eternally complaining lol

( Ending spoilers for SwSh, along with just a butt-ton of complaining. )

Me yesterday, nose in freshly pirated Pokemon Y: X/Y is my favorite gen because the Battle Chateau lets you beat the crap out of obnoxious rich people. 10/10 game of the century.

Me today, likewise: X/Y is my favorite gen because the Battle Chateau sees you entering into this world full of people who are, yes, spoiled and self-absorbed, but also desperately unhappy, and as you continue to battle them, your drive for money/XP pulls you deeper into their world, slowly eating away at your soul until at long last you reach the lofty rank of Grand Duke or Duchess and complete your transformation into one of them. 10/10 game of the century.

....mostly because my partner gave me Crimson Sun's FF7 tarot deck for Christmas and I wanted to play with it. And I just kinda feel like it now my mojo seems to be coming back. (Fingers crossed.)

( ...look, I'm following my muse, I'm not responsible if she leads me off a cliff. )

I don’t remember picking up Pokémon Red, but it was probably at Walmart. Most of my games came from Walmart back then. Before Pokémon my Game Boy was something I picked up once in a while for a little Kirby Pinball or Mickey’s Ultimate Challenge*, but Red was the first game I could happily spend hours with. I brought the damn thing to high school with me and whipped it out at lunch and during Creative Writing class. I took shameless advantage of that Missingno glitch to build a beautiful L100 team. Eventually, despairing of ever catching ‘em all due to a regrettable lack of friends, I picked up a cheat device at a shady Japanese-merchandise store in the mall and cheated my way to that weird little certificate.

Pokémon Blue I picked up a year later, during a vacation with my cousin, a fellow video game enthusiast though he wasn’t a Pokémon freak. I got it with the express purpose of catching Mew, which I head heard through the grapevine was located under that truck at Vermillion Harbor. When I reached the truck, the cartridge glitched out and erased its own data completely. I probably still have that cartridge in storage somewhere, but it is, in its way, a vegetable.

Pokemon Yellow I never finished, because I loaned it to the twin brother of a guy I liked in junior year, and then the asshole moved away with his family without returning it to me.

All of this probably seems pretty depressing, but these are among my few happy memories of high school. I fucking love Pokémon and I always will.

I've mentioned Phaedra before, but here's the extended version.

( OC #24, Phaedra )

Doing these kinda makes me want to write fanchar-drabbles. Maybe I'll make that a regular Thing too. ^_^

Want to trade FCs? Mine's 0619-3844-5386 and my username is, naturally, Moogle. :DDDD

You may all blame dark_puck for this. Note that I'm using 'Noire' for my female PC character's name. Also note that I'm far too lazy at this time of night to do the little tickmark over the 'e.'

( Them second grade bookworm blues... )