Alle Kunst ist der Freude gewidmet

It really should've been obvious, but... the time before holidays where you make gifts is the best time to sell stuff. (Also, it will never cease to be funny that "gift" means poison in German. Hi there, Gift Shops 8D)

I'm still bemused, though, that all of my Gamecube games are sold while only one of my PS2 games. That I would've never expected.

In other news; Luke is still fucking annoying. And him being a replica of Asch was extremely obvious.

Also, tomorrow is my first real meeting with my therapist. I'm kinda scared :/ But it will be good. Yes.

Edit:

NATALIA IS FUCKING MADE OF AWESOME. FAVOURITE CHARACTER, FUCK YEAH.

Why do I want Captain Roger/Captain Baddog slash? Whywhywhywhywhywhy? And why does it sound so awesome in my head. I'm normally not into enemies-turn-lovers (not that they would ever be a couple. A few flings maybe with lots of hate and snark and arguments and sexual tension and all the good stuff). But thisssssssssssssssss. Want so much. Also, maybe a bit Captain Roger/Rumpott at the side 8D

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( Rambling about "Lightning Thief" with a few spoilers )
Somehow it bugs me that the designer weren't consistent with Viggy´s beard. Why is it closed under his nose one time but not the other? >8I Irrational bug is irrational.

   

My literature teacher is pretty much amazing *o* She said that my term paper could wait with all that England business. I'm so fucking relieved~ 8D (So relieved that I wrote a bit about bros XD)

Also, I suddenly remembered that I still had some prompts to write from way back. And that I had one finished but now looking at it... I really don't know what I wanted to say with it. Maybe I didn't want to say anything, idk. It confuses me a bit XD It's here: Duessel and someone else - don't forget.

Aaah, that's all for now. I post so much lately...

Edit:

Alright, now I finished reading the script from FE6 as well (I think I've read all of them now). And I have to say, there are a good handful of people I like; Marcus (there was not enough of him >8I Even though I do like Merlinus, I wish Marcus had taken his place), Douglas, Lalam, Roy, Miledy/Gale (;A;), Yuno/Zealot, Thito/Klein, Mordred, Niime&Hugh (he's so dorky XD). But the most important thing....

I am incredibly fascinated by Desmond (which is more FE7, but eh). So incredibly fascinated. How he can love Guinevere and her mother so much and yet hate Zephiel and his mother, and what happened between him and his "wives"... *o* Tehehehe~ Ah, the shiny~ (Btw, I need to google his face or something, because I can only remember him having long blond hair and somehow that results in me picturing him like a blond Vigarde XD)

However, I have to say that I find Elibe as a whole not a very interesting continent. It's just... I dunno. I don't find the countries terribly interesting (apart from maybe Bern thanks to Desmond), but other than that? Nah. But that's actually not so different when it comes to the other FEs apart from Magvel. I neither find Archanea nor Jugdral particularly interesting in regard to history and culture, Tellius depends on my mood (and if I'm interested it's mostly Crimea). But Magvel? I nom that shit up. Gawd, I love Magvel <3

So, first I wanted to make a rambly post in which I go back to the Eirika/Innes support and examine what exactly I dislike about them (to have a reflected opinion about them), but I was waylaid by Fado-ness in the Eirika/L'Arachel support and doting-Hayden-ness in the Tana/Eirika support. Now I'm grinning like an idiot again and cannot think clearly enough for reflected rambling. The Curse of Being A Horrible Fangirl D8

Therefore I could only collect more or less curious things that made go "...Huh?" or "XD".

( Read more... )
Maybe I'll just go read moar Duessel supports. The one with Amelia is so cute ;A; (And the Ephraim one for ~shenanigans~ 8D)

Edit: I need to find a name for Vigarde´s father... I've written things about him and yet I still have no name for him XD Hm, I feel like something Russian could fit. 8I Yeah, feels like Russian. But I'm perfectly open for other things 8D

Also, lj, stop fucking up my format when I edit things. It's highly annoying.

After Valter slaugthered those innocent village people, all Vigarde does is strip him of his title and exile him? He just sends the nutjob into another country so he can slaughter there some more? I mean... why was he not sentenced to death? Is that not possible? Had Vigarde a lapse in judgement? Seriously.

Also, still mourning that Viggy is not on the Grado wallpaper. Everyone else is on it but the bloody emperor. ;^; /heavily biased

So, self, now finish the Louise/Pent drabble. 8D Klein wants to be adorable.

Edit:

I. HATE. SUMMER. Go die in a fire. I hate living in an attic. SERIOUSLY. All the heat gathers there and ghiersgb ndyutgcb so much hate.

I kinda really want an AU were the unlockable characters are later in-game, during the main story, used to fuck with the characters (not literally, guys), just like in FE7 at the end. Yeah, I admit, I'm mostly in for it because of Fado (8D), but the rest is awesome too! (And why Hayden turns up. Goddammit, the conflict Innes and Tana could have!) Oh, oh! And Izzy! Yes, Izzy has to come as well. Maybe even late in the temple, whatever. And to make it even more mean, the DK lets the zombies speak like he did with Vigarde! Andandandand it would be awesome, yes.

>8D I want the angst~

So, the concert didn't prevent me from thinking about fic. Well, to be correct, it triggered an idea I had a while ago (which was inspired by Abney Park´s "Dear Ophelia"). Since I very probably will never write it, I'll just write it down here because it wants to get out of my head, no matter how.

So, rambling about an AU concerning Vigarde and Lyon starts now.

( Ich schick dir ne Flaschenpost )

Rambling over now. Also, I also have a first idea for the prompts. (I'm sorry, but the Duessel one will have a teeny teeny bit Vigarde in it D8 But it's too tempting not to do eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Because illegitimate bro spawn, yessssssssss)

Oh, and another thing.

I was thinking about languages on Magvel (since I love to use old texts or spells in my fics) and I was wondering... Which is the most common suffix for language names? Or rather, how many variants are there? I can come up with -ish (English, Spanish), -an (like German, Estonian) and I believe there is also -ian?
The thing is; I want to "name" the old languages. "Old Frelian" sounds good to my ears. However, what about the other countries? Renais = Renaitian, Renaian (how would you pronounce that? /renaiyan/?), Renitian, Renaisish, Renaish? And Grado? Gradian, Gradish, Gradan? Jehanna gets Jehan, imo. But Rausten? Well, I'm tempted to give them Latonian because. Makes sense 8D

I dunno. Any ideas or opinions?

I don't remember where it came up, but somewhere anyone wondered how the male/female ratio in FE 8 was (Maybe it was me in reaction to someone saying that we have no female knight from Renais? I don't know. It doesn't really matter, honestly) It kinda bugged me that I didn't know concrete numbers so I had to make a little table:

	Male	Female
Frelia	Gilliam, Moulder, Hayden, Innes	Tana, Vanessa, Syrene
Renais	Seth, Franz, Forde, Kyle, Ephraim, Orson, Fado, Ross, Garcia, Colm, Artur	Eirika, Neimi, Lute
Grado	Lyon, Vigarde, Duessel, Cormag, Knoll, Glen, Valter	Natasha, Amelia, Selena
Jehanna	Joshua, Gerik, Ewan, Caellach, Carlyle	Marisa, Tethys, Ismaire
Rausten	Dozla, Mansel, Riev	L'Arachel

Saleh (Caer Pelyn), Rennac (Carcino), Myrrh

That gives us: 43 characters from the countries that really count 8D Saleh, Rennac and Myrrh as the odd ones out. (Mostly because they have no "contrast" so to speak; they are the only ones coming from their respective homelands)
    30 are male, 13 are female. Interestingly apart from Rausten (which has such a little number of characters anyway) EVERY country only has three female characters. Frelia still has only three even though it has the unfair advantage of being the country with the pegasi knights. However, it still looks better than Renais because the male:female ratio is better; 4:3 vs. 11:3. Grado lies between it with 7:3. Jehanna has almost the same ratio as Frelia with 5:3. (L'Arachel counts as much as a dozen "normal" persons anyway XD)

( Have some tl;dr about the countries )

I have no idea if I had a point or not. But I like ratios. Yay 8D

On a different but related topic:

Did you also notice that only Frelia and Grado (and Rausten, of course) have "court priests"? Moulder serves directly at court (and is obviously close to Hayden since he is introduced as a "most trusted vassal"). In Grado you have Father McGregor and Natasha, in a way. Renais and Jehanna don't have them (Renais doesn't have any healer, period. Artur can become a bishop later, but at the beginning he can't heal). Coincidence? 8D I don't think so~ Which reminds me that I have to put down my thoughts on Religion in Magvel.

Also, I was looking at my pirate AU stuff earlier. I really feel like doing a bit more research 8D

Writing Lucius is strange. Oh, and if anyone has me on alert on ff.net, sorry about the little spamage. I just put up all my drabbles that had flown around here.

I had some thoughts on Magvel earlier, but I forgot most of it. Instead I'll ramble about bro wives and bros and their modern AU sports interests. Because bro AU is fun and I want to write more later. Maybe.

( Cut for the massive amount of bro )

EDIT: Holy shit! Viva plays the Tsubasa Chronicle Anime! That is not why I'm all capslock. BUT HOLY SHIT THE VOICE ARE SO FREAKING HORRIBLE, OH. MY. GOD. ONE IS WORSE THAN THE OTHER. I CAN'T DECIDE IF TSUBASA (yeah, I meant Syaoran, fffffff), KURO-CHAN OR MOKONA ARE THE WORST. Just for orientation, Tsubasa Syaoran has the same voice as Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh. THIS DOES NOT FIT. IT IS HORRIBLE IN SO MANY UNSPOKEN WAYS.

Why is writing Vigarde/Minna so hard ;A; At least when Minna is alive. Oops.

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So, I remembered that I've wanted to ramble a bit more about the "re-marriage not possible in Magvel" idea. I've noticed, uhm, on Monday I think, in my lecture about religion in the early modern times that the Catholics had more or less the system I was thinking about; namely that the marriage oath is unbreakable and can only be give once. So even if the partners manage to get "divorced" or become a widow/widower, they can't remarry because their oath doesn't die with their partner. And I do like that concept (because of angst 8D At least a bit~); mostly because in Viggy´s and Fado´s case, and Izzy´s actually, that would mean there is not only a reason why they don't have new spouses (not Izzy, because we more or less know why she hasn't remarried), but should they have affairs that would add an interesting facet. Though in my headcanon Fado has another reason why he wouldn't remarry anyway (about which I wanted to write a story >> for the fe_contest actually, but then I wasn't inspired enough). And Izzy would probably also have the issue that a new husband might try to diminish her authority and push her back, which she probably wouldn't like.

Now, should the wife/husband die before any children can be born, that pretty much sucks for a king/queen. Which doesn't mean they get the permission to remarry, because no, not possible. But. It is made easier to recognize bastard children and make them legal. So a child from a concubine can be made heir relatively easy. (Even against the wish of the father; you just have to prove that it's his child.) So they can't have another official spouse, only a semi-official life partner, or so. Now, if you're a non-noble person, well, sucks to be you, mostly. It's not like concubines were viewed as really respectable and normally you didn't make it public that you had them. And how probable is it for a farmer to have a concubine? Nah, you either have to be quick or hope that you have nephews/nieces who can inherit your property.

Or. That oath thing only happens if you marry in a church of Latona. But I don't believe that you have to do that. Yeah, I have to put down my thoughts on religion in Magvel soon; to make it short: there is still mostly polytheism in Magvel and you can marry with the blessing of another god/goddess as well. It's mostly that the church of Latona is slowly supplanting the other gods and goddesses (and the progress is far from finished). And the royalty at least is probably part of the church of Latona (mostly due to the fact that their ancestors were so close to Latona). The people are just... whatever.

Anyway, the concept is interesting 8D And an interesting type of drama happens. (Remarrying is awesome, of course, but drama is as well~ In a modern times AU I would totally remarry Viggy and Hayden, and maybe even Fado, but as I said he has some issues with it)


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Now, I was also thinking a bit about bro university shenanigans. Then I noticed that I didn't know what they were studying anyway.
( Brokings shenanigans )