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Pluses: My hair is now bright royal blue, and thus, totally awesome. There will be photos later. I also got smacked with a bit of inspiration for a little snippet of Claire-Leon post-C:V conversation, which will probably join the Ada-bit in my binder tomorrow during calc.

Minuses: Apparently we had a project summary due today. Needless to say, I haven't started that. I'm going to have to at least make myself begin it tonight, although I can finish it tomorrow morning. I also still haven't figured out how to import .m3u playlists to my mp3 player, argh.

And I totally can't concentrate on anything right now. Blargh.

Oh, Claire/Leon. I want to love you, I really do. You're sweet, and fluffy, and have some sort of canon basis (more than any of the Leon yaoi-ships), and god knows they both deserve some shred of happiness - Leon in particular. I'm not sure what it is that makes me shy away, though. Maybe because it's a little too much like Asher/Ally (Asher has started bleeding over into my Leon, now...I need to make it stop), which Doesn't Work. Which is probably a topic for another day, because once I get started on those two, I can go for a while. Sigh. Maybe I just need a really, really good Claire/Leon story to win me over.

And Mara wins so much for being willing to edit fic for a fandom she has no part in at one am in the morning. So there will be Ada/Leon soon, once I finish beating it with the Editing Stick. She also gave me an idea for a silly little Ada-drabble, that'll probably get written during Calc tomorrow.

Also, I just realized that in the absence of canon-proof of siblings, I tend to write characters as being an only child. The only three exceptions to this are all OCs - Damien has a younger brother, unamed; Sam has multiple siblings, without ages or names (although as his family has kind of disowned him, they're not really relevent); and Julian, who had an older brother and sister - the brother was kind of important backstory-wise. Arguably, the whole Asher-Ally-Sam-Jey-Damien-Naomi thing is kind of a family dynamic, but it's not really the same. I'm not sure why I do this - maybe because it makes family relationships less complicated to figure out, and, in Asher and Leon's cases (also someone Ally's, but not so much), isolates them. Both of them are kind of lone wolf-type characters - a bit funny, as Asher's personality formed without the influence of Leon's. They are in some respects very, very different, but at the same time, they have certain similarities.

Random bit of amusement - I dug up Julian's character sheet - he was for an aborted VtM game - and his older brother's name was Albert. Actually, Albert Edward Delaval Astley, 21st Baron Hastings, because I decided to be neurotic and have Julian come from an actual aristocratic family. But the Albert bit is what's amusing me.

I had a bit of a reminder the other day of exactly how much fandom is kind of a little world unto itself. One of my school-friends in my calc class asked what I had been doing instead of actually listening to the prof, and I said fic, and then added 'It's so weird having a canon het OTP.' To which he went '...What?' We practically speak another language, really.

It is weird, though - said canon het OTP is Ada/Leon, which as of late I've fallen completely and totally in love with, probably as a result of Ada being totally and completely effing awesome, and Leon being the epitome of dorky!cute, which I love. It's one of my few almost true OTPs, where either of the characters being with someone else is a great big 'no' - I was reading a bit of Leon/Claire earlier to give it a try, because I like both of them, and I like the hints of canon friendship, and I just...couldn't do it. My brain was just going 'Arghnonono'.

Tangentially related - damnit, Leon, stop trying to associate yourself with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in my head. Ada and Vienna Teng is bad enough. Or Asher. Trust me, you two wouldn't like each other (although they could knife-fight. Mmm, Leon-Asher knife-fight. That'd be hot.)

...Yes, I'm going to bed now before I do any more talking to the characters in my head, and thusly, myself.

(or 'Why My Brother Shouldn't Take Away the Gamecube and Thus RE4')

Cloud: *walks by Sora*
Sora: "HI DAD! :D"
Cloud: "..."

Hades: Let loose and have some fun!
Cloud: "...I don't have 'fun'."

Hercules: *throws Cloud over one shoulder*
Cloud: "...Could you take your hand off my ass, please?"

Oh, Kingdom Hearts. You're utter crack, but you let me smash things with bright pretty colors, and thus I'm appeased. It's like DMC's cousin that's perpetually high on LSD or something.

...Well, that might actually explain the 'Leon'.

So, as of 10:28 this past Sunday, I'm legally an adult in the US. Which means I can finally have bank accounts and things in my own name, and buy porn. I should probably be more excited about this than I am, which I think is due to the fact that my insomnia has kicked in big time over the last few days. However, my official apologies to everyone whose pr0n I looked at/read underage. Had a little party Saturday - mostly just some video games and cooking and movies. Comfortably low-key, really. Grace brought a cake from work which was delicious.

Anyway, spring break is now over, unfortunately, and classes have begun again. All I've had so far is my history class for the term, Industry and Empire in British History. It looks pretty interesting, although I don't know how long I'll be able to stand the prof's voice - he has a really strong New England accent and at nine am, it could be a bit grating. Microbiology is next, at eleven, and then Calc 4 which will probably be hideously boring.

RE rantings and ramblings to come! Because I've been playing RE0 and squeeing about Wesker at Jo, who is trying to corrupt me to the Wesker/Chris side of the Force and mostly succeding. And I'm attempting to apply logic to RE in hopes of extrapolating backstory stuff for Krauser and thus Leon. Yeah, I know, I'm going to give myself a headache. At least I'm not trying to apply science, which is probably a good recipe for frying my brain in frustration.

Yeah, I refound my layout groove the other day, so, a new layout over at the blog, finally! I was going to make a Midgar layout, but I had trouble getting the image I wanted - a screencap from the game - off my brother's old computer. And by 'trouble' I mean a blue screen of death every time I tried to write the file to floppy.

So you all get sexy, sexy Ada Wong in her RE4 dress. Which does have butterflies on it, you just can't quite see them there. She is utterly awesome, as are most of the rest of the Resident Evil gals. Which means this is probably time for another RE mini-rant - what is Capcom's obession with Leon's middle initial? It's never 'Leon Kennedy', it's always 'Leon S. Kennedy'.

(Now I just need to finish my sexy Ada LJ icon...)

So, I went out shopping with my mom today, mostly because she was going to Michael's, and I needed some stuff for various costumes. Of course, as this is my mom, we ended up stopping at roughly four other stores along the way. As a result, I had a rather tasty box of marshmallow Peeps (already consumed), and two new pairs of shoes - one set of four-inch stiletto heels which are going to be either covered or colored black for Ada (The style is perfect, but they're a slightly unattractive print), and a pair of super comfortable dark-brown slip-ons that will work nicely for FF7!Rufus, if/when I get around to it. It probably says something about me that that was the deciding factor - otherwise I would have gone 'Eh, my black shoes still have have some wear left in them', despite the fact that they really are on the verge of falling apart. And then I got some fabric paint for Ada, clip-on earring backs for Yuna, and a new box for letters because my first one is over-full. Oh, and I finally ordered my wig for Sephiroth, and on a whim, got a bottle of Special Effects Blue Velvet hair dye. Because white was a bit of a failure, and I'm tired of blonde. So, dark blue it is.

And for the daily dose of Resident Evil babbling - Ben agrees with me that Steve is the ultimate RE n00b, and shared this with me, which is utterly hilarious. And in the realm of things I meant to post weeks ago but forgot - as frightening as it may be, Leon is stylish and up-to-date on fashion. That sheepskin coat I've mentioned before that he has in RE4? Over the last two months or so, I think I've seen roughly half of the people on campus walking around with that style of coat on.

Wow. Steve is such a n00b. Cute, but a total n00b. And argh, Capcom, you were doing so well when you let Jill climb stairs without having to press X in RE3. Why'd you idiots have to switch it back in REC:V?

This entry will probably be updated as I play tonight. Along with a bit of babbling about the end bits of RE Remake for the GC, which I finished the other day.

EDIT: Oh my god, Alfred Ashford is insane. Also the most wonderfully over the top collection of snotty English nobility stereotypes I've heard in a long time (and from that looks of that little video clip, in love with his sister, but who am I to judge?).

EDIT THE SECOND: Okay, enough Code: Veronica for the evening. Which means time for RE rantings. Jill (and assumably Chris, I was playing as Jill) seems like a fairly intelligent person through most of the game. Get near the end, though, and she turns into a total idiot. She grabs Barry's custom magnum and points it at him, demanding explanations, and then five minutes later, she seems to have totally forgotten about all of this. And then, exploring the labs, you find a document of Umbrella security procedures that has Wesker's name in it, and see him in a photo labelled as being an Umbrella research team. He's hard to miss, because he still has those sunglasses on. Harder to identify are Birkin and his wife, but they're there too. And Jill doesn't go 'Hey, why the hell is my boss there?'

And Capcom really needs to get their script writers to cut down on the cheese. 'Jill and Barry, together... in hell!'? WTF, Wesker? Although I think Steve's lines are the worst in terms of making me want to go bang my head against a wall for a while. Yes, even more so than Dante and Leon's oneliners. Because everything that comes out of that boy's mouth is that level of awful.

...I think Winamp is trying to cheer me up. I was all 'Argh, I hate the world' and then Dragostea Din Tei, AKA the Numa Numa Song, which is wonderful special crack, and never ceases to make me feel better. I was feeling kind of shafted because I had a down sort of day and then everybody I was talking to decided to wander off at once. Which is probably a sign that I need sleep, which I think I will go do, shortly. Anyway, an amusing anecdote from earlier, when I was playing the RE1 remake for Gamecube, and Ben was watching. It was right as the hunter appears after someone who is probably Wesker shoots Enrico, in the caves.

Me: Hey, how'd that hunter get in here?
Ben: The door, maybe?
Me: Maybe Wesker let it in.
Ben: *rolls eyes* He doesn't control them, you know.
Me: Shhh.
Ben: Daddy Wesker! I bet he pets them and they're all 'purrrr' and do his bidding.

Jokes about daddy Wesker and how he wears his sunglasses at night (it's funnier if you've heard the song) ensued. I'm still undecided on his hair, but man, his voice is sexy in the remake. Up there with Seishirou on the character files, who has the sexiest laugh ever. And entirely unrelated, Skuld wins the internet or something. Because she is just that awesome.

I am so out of it right now. I think it's probably the combination of a possible sinus infection (which I think is why I've been so tired lately) and spending most of the afternoon watching Ben play Silent Hill 3. I have also discovered that I officially can't draw Ally, at all. I'm going to have make cookies to bribe Grace with or something, she draws cute girls. And while I don't often hold grudges, there are still a few people I have a deep burning hatred for, when I actually bother to think about them. But in good news, Shinra's Finest is moving again - several months of prodding finally paid off. And I cleaned my room some - it's still cluttered, but you can see my floor again!

Also, I know I owe several people a bunch of stuff - I haven't forgotten, I just have no energy to work on anything right now. I'm really sorry, guys :\

There will probably be cosplay/con stuff post sometime soon, as I have lots to babble about on that front, and there may even be in-progress Seph pictures. Mostly so Skuld can mock my lack of abs. For now, I'm reading old blog entries (I need a new layout now gahhh) and then I think I will go have a cup of tea and play Kingdom Hearts, because everybody has wandered off on me and in this mood, if I don't have someone to talk to, I'm going to get all whiney and grumpy sitting here. And Kingdom Hearts is easy, and brightly colored and cheerful. And I can make fun of Squall 'Leon'. I've actually been playing Chain of Memories in ROM-form, but I'm stuck on Parasite Cage and the battle system isn't nearly as satisfying.