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spokeWhoa. I have not updated this in forever. >>
Ummm - here have a meme!
* Comment on this post.
* I will give you a letter.
* Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your journal.
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shusu gave me an M! mmmmm
Maleficent, Sleeping Beauty and Kingdom Hearts - I think Maleficent was the first strong woman who really grabbed my attention. I know I had read Tolkien before this, but somehow it took awhile before I realized how cool certain women there are - they are for the most part in the background.
Maleficent, though. She took center stage from the moment she showed up, with what is on the surface of it a legitimate grievance - it's impossible to believe that someone so clearly more intelligent than anyone around her does not understand why they snubbed her. And she does her thing anyway.
It's just - I had never seen a woman that proud and elegant and strong, who made no apologies for it, who made no attempt at being 'girly' in any sense - and yet was more feminine for it, to me. (I think this might be where it first occurred to me that there's a difference between a girl and a woman. ;p ) And just when I thought she could not be cooler, she turned into a dragon. I do not believe I have ever properly expressed how much I LOVE DRAGONS.
When she showed up in Kingdom Hearts? When I realized that Riku had ended up with Maleficent? I had to stop for a minute and sort of flail about, squeeing, because I'd have gotten Sora killed if I tried to play while my brains were all fused. XD
ps. I hate you, Three Good Fairies. You are hypocrites, misses 'let's conjure a sword for the Prince and then use it ourselves when he fails, because helping him makes it okay to kill!' ugh. x.x
Merryweather, Sleeping Beauty - Okay, so I have a bit of soft spot for her. Because she wanted to make a fight of it from the beginning, and just strikes me as being more honest than her sisters. Also I do not feel right having the mini-rant about her sisters without acknowledging that she would've done things differently. (Ha, now I want to see her and Maleficent duke it out. Like in a fighting game or something. XD )
Malik, Yu-Gi-Oh - The hier of the Tombkeepers' legacy always struck me a falcon, just - this wounded bird whose only real need was for his freedom. I think he could have handled the rest of it if he'd had a life under the open sky, and that it wasn't just the insane bastard of a father but being stuffed down in the tombs that broke him. After Seto and Mokuba, it gets to me most when Malik is hurting - because with them it is such a viseral pain, and there is so little they could have done to get out of it, when Yugi's friends are always shown as having a choice.
I can't talk about Malik, though, without mentioning Rishid, his adopted big brother. To extend the falcon metaphor, this is the falconer. I love that he stays with Malik, even when he's in the grip of his insanity, when he turns on Rishid and bites and claws and screws with his head - Rishid stays. He endures. The moment when I loved Malik most is when he thinks he is dying, and he goes in what spirit is left to him to Rishid. He thinks he's dead, he's given up, and he goes to talk to a man he's not even sure can hear him, because Rishid was in a coma at the time, striken down by the very magic Malik manipulated him into using.
Because these are his last moments on earth, you see, and he can't leave without saying 'goodbye' and 'I'm sorry.'
But when the storm blows over, Rishid is still there.
McCoy, Star Trek the Original Series - Cranky doctors for the win!
I've always had this soft spot for healers, for which I rather blame Leonard McCoy. He is so deeply compassionate under all the crank - the sort of guy you know, without question, would heal all the pain in the world if he were able.
The sort of guy you know is too smart, too experienced to believe that that would necessarily be right - but would want to anyway. I think because he is also a surgeon, and understands that sometimes you have to inflict pain to heal it, but wishes there were a better way.
Merriman, the Dark is Rising - Do you know, he really does remind me of a tree? Some huge gnarled old oak with moss dripping off it and the wind tossing its branches about, and if you sit there long enough you get the feeling that you're in the prescence of something that you're never going to quite understand - but you're glad it's there anyway, because the world is a better place with such things in it.
Melissa Pierce, Parasite Eve - Here we have an enigma: an opera singer and would-be diva pursuing her art only to be consumed at the very beginning of the game, by a creature that had been growing in her well before the opening scenes. The little we're shown of her diary suggests that she didn't realize what was wrong, that she attributed the pain she felt to ongoing medical conditions.
But Eve, the creature in question? Sings with Melissa's voice, until very near the end. You come up this being singing a lullaby to its unborn child in that voice, and see the heroine, Aya, responding to her in ways that have always made me suspect Melissa did not go blindly into her end.
So the question in my mind remains - how much of Eve is still Melissa, giving the greatest performance of her life?
In other news I got more writing done, and figured out something of a block in my understanding of the apprentices/original six in Kingdom Hearts? Namely, the arguing between Braig and Even that I took to be serious anger is in fact their version of roughhousing, as initiated by Braig - because he wanted Even to 'play' with him and shoving him around wasn't working the way it does with other guys. That one thing opened this little floodgate of images and incidental facts and put the biggest stupid smile on my face.
Also. With the laughing out loud and startling the cat. I might actually try to write some of this now, instead of just mulling it over/strangling Braig and Even in my head. :D
But first (or concurrently?) the thing that started with killing Axel! Because I got up to 544 words on that before I lost momentum again, and I'd been stuck and upset. Very much relieved and pleased now. ^^;
Ummm - here have a meme!
* Comment on this post.
* I will give you a letter.
* Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your journal.
shusu gave me an M! mmmmmMaleficent, Sleeping Beauty and Kingdom Hearts - I think Maleficent was the first strong woman who really grabbed my attention. I know I had read Tolkien before this, but somehow it took awhile before I realized how cool certain women there are - they are for the most part in the background.
Maleficent, though. She took center stage from the moment she showed up, with what is on the surface of it a legitimate grievance - it's impossible to believe that someone so clearly more intelligent than anyone around her does not understand why they snubbed her. And she does her thing anyway.
It's just - I had never seen a woman that proud and elegant and strong, who made no apologies for it, who made no attempt at being 'girly' in any sense - and yet was more feminine for it, to me. (I think this might be where it first occurred to me that there's a difference between a girl and a woman. ;p ) And just when I thought she could not be cooler, she turned into a dragon. I do not believe I have ever properly expressed how much I LOVE DRAGONS.
When she showed up in Kingdom Hearts? When I realized that Riku had ended up with Maleficent? I had to stop for a minute and sort of flail about, squeeing, because I'd have gotten Sora killed if I tried to play while my brains were all fused. XD
ps. I hate you, Three Good Fairies. You are hypocrites, misses 'let's conjure a sword for the Prince and then use it ourselves when he fails, because helping him makes it okay to kill!' ugh. x.x
Merryweather, Sleeping Beauty - Okay, so I have a bit of soft spot for her. Because she wanted to make a fight of it from the beginning, and just strikes me as being more honest than her sisters. Also I do not feel right having the mini-rant about her sisters without acknowledging that she would've done things differently. (Ha, now I want to see her and Maleficent duke it out. Like in a fighting game or something. XD )
Malik, Yu-Gi-Oh - The hier of the Tombkeepers' legacy always struck me a falcon, just - this wounded bird whose only real need was for his freedom. I think he could have handled the rest of it if he'd had a life under the open sky, and that it wasn't just the insane bastard of a father but being stuffed down in the tombs that broke him. After Seto and Mokuba, it gets to me most when Malik is hurting - because with them it is such a viseral pain, and there is so little they could have done to get out of it, when Yugi's friends are always shown as having a choice.
I can't talk about Malik, though, without mentioning Rishid, his adopted big brother. To extend the falcon metaphor, this is the falconer. I love that he stays with Malik, even when he's in the grip of his insanity, when he turns on Rishid and bites and claws and screws with his head - Rishid stays. He endures. The moment when I loved Malik most is when he thinks he is dying, and he goes in what spirit is left to him to Rishid. He thinks he's dead, he's given up, and he goes to talk to a man he's not even sure can hear him, because Rishid was in a coma at the time, striken down by the very magic Malik manipulated him into using.
Because these are his last moments on earth, you see, and he can't leave without saying 'goodbye' and 'I'm sorry.'
But when the storm blows over, Rishid is still there.
McCoy, Star Trek the Original Series - Cranky doctors for the win!
I've always had this soft spot for healers, for which I rather blame Leonard McCoy. He is so deeply compassionate under all the crank - the sort of guy you know, without question, would heal all the pain in the world if he were able.
The sort of guy you know is too smart, too experienced to believe that that would necessarily be right - but would want to anyway. I think because he is also a surgeon, and understands that sometimes you have to inflict pain to heal it, but wishes there were a better way.
Merriman, the Dark is Rising - Do you know, he really does remind me of a tree? Some huge gnarled old oak with moss dripping off it and the wind tossing its branches about, and if you sit there long enough you get the feeling that you're in the prescence of something that you're never going to quite understand - but you're glad it's there anyway, because the world is a better place with such things in it.
Melissa Pierce, Parasite Eve - Here we have an enigma: an opera singer and would-be diva pursuing her art only to be consumed at the very beginning of the game, by a creature that had been growing in her well before the opening scenes. The little we're shown of her diary suggests that she didn't realize what was wrong, that she attributed the pain she felt to ongoing medical conditions.
But Eve, the creature in question? Sings with Melissa's voice, until very near the end. You come up this being singing a lullaby to its unborn child in that voice, and see the heroine, Aya, responding to her in ways that have always made me suspect Melissa did not go blindly into her end.
So the question in my mind remains - how much of Eve is still Melissa, giving the greatest performance of her life?
In other news I got more writing done, and figured out something of a block in my understanding of the apprentices/original six in Kingdom Hearts? Namely, the arguing between Braig and Even that I took to be serious anger is in fact their version of roughhousing, as initiated by Braig - because he wanted Even to 'play' with him and shoving him around wasn't working the way it does with other guys. That one thing opened this little floodgate of images and incidental facts and put the biggest stupid smile on my face.
Also. With the laughing out loud and startling the cat. I might actually try to write some of this now, instead of just mulling it over/strangling Braig and Even in my head. :D
But first (or concurrently?) the thing that started with killing Axel! Because I got up to 544 words on that before I lost momentum again, and I'd been stuck and upset. Very much relieved and pleased now. ^^;
