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I've just been thinking, over the last few hours since I got thinking about Larsa Solider, about kids in FF games, and it seems that practically all the games since FF7 (since I don't know any of the pre-7 ones well enough to give an opinion) have some sort of Token Kid - either of the Cute Kid, or Smart Kid type.

FFVII - Marlene.
BC - Yuffie.
AC - Denzel (though he shares with Marlene).
DoC - Shelke.
FFVIII - Ellone.
FFIX - Ekio.
FFX - Bahamut's Fayth.
FFX-2 - Shinra.
FFXII - Larsa Solider.

I know, I didn't include FFXI, but I know crap all about 11 and am never likely to bother since it's a MMORPG and my internet connection is crap for things like that.

Also, KH kinda doesn't count, since the lead character is still young either that he scrapes into the "Cute Kid" catagory - or at least he did in KH1, before puberty really hit him. (That makes me wonder, has anyone ever written a fic that actually brings up how much Sora grew while he was asleep between CoM and KH2? That'd be interesting reading.)

Okay, so I seriously started to rethink some of the holes new canon info has poked in my poor Griever-bunny. Some of the stuff in my microscopic collection of ficlets for it have been Jossed and I'm thinking of writing something new to go over it again, with reinvented ideas.

I also reworked the GF lineup on AIM, with serinance. Some of the roles I have amongst the GFs, I got the idea from Seri - particularly Phoenix.


In other plotbunnies, I got chatting in comments on KHFFR and ended up relating the basic idea behind my KH mutation - the conglomeration of a few of my fluff plunnies. ( This is a direct cut-&-paste of the description )

Mrr. Not like these things will get written into epic fics - at least not by me, I know how well that would go!

I am currently in much amusement over this post on khfanficrants.


It is official: In my opinion, Vincent Valentine's middle name is Ienzo.

Okay, so I've made up a neighbourhood. The landscaping isn't spectacular but that's because I still haven't gotten a full grip of the conversion between SC4 and TS2.

If anyone tries making their own landscapes, keep in mind that you only get the middle of the city plot you've transfered - that means, don't plan out roads on the outer edges of the map and expect to be able to use them.

As much as I love the peak in the middle of Never Was there's not many roads on the map that I can use - which is a pain, because the long shots show there's more roads further out.

Anyway, the plots I've managed to make aren't great for landscaping but what they do have in their favour is enough roads to suport my collection of FF and KH sims. Predicably, for a neighbourhood that is intended to be my perminent FF/KH one, I named the primary area Radiant Garden, the university Hollow Bastion, the shopping district Twilight Town and downtown Traverse Town. It was a bit of toss-up which would get Twilight and which Traverse, but I get the idea that Traverse Town is perminently night so it got Downtown.

The big problem now is setting up the sub-neighbourhoods - the uni, the shops, downtown. I think I am going to have to plunder the official neighbourhoods to get stuff - I am definately going to have to clone that nightclub I adjusted in Pleasantview Downtown (I didn't do much, I just altered the bathrooms to include Rejuvenation Chambers) and I am very inclined towards setting up a nice little vampire population as well.

But I still want to get all the Org families housed before I start moving them out of Never Was - and get all the Org toddlers trained in at least the basics (walking, talking, potty) - means less lots to shift that way.
I also need to do some work on some of the other houses - Supernova (Seph and Cloud's house) needs a garage, since the loss of the savegame I had before I transfered to Fanyarë erased the one I had made, the Kingdom house, Wutai, Spira house (if I keep it) and Square Round (the Hubbard house) will all need extensive remodelling to get a garage into them - if I don't just declare it a bust and just yank the families in question out of those houses and build new ones.

But the Org first - then neighbourhood setup, then I start placing houses and doing renovations to existing family homes. I'm still in for the long haul yet!

Vexen = Hojo!!!!

I am much amused, considering I have maintained that Vexen inherited Hojo's Mad Scientist Frown Lines. (Any other Mad Scientist attributes he may have inherited I cannot speak on, having not played CoM and Skies of Memories not having much audio to speak of.)

You know that disappearing sim?

Well I got the Ignatius family (Axel's) housed and Ïethacan turned up on... probably the third day (I've shoved in some of the SimSlice electro-boards so all three members of the family can work up some skills without interuption) and I decided to temporarily get an NPC Generator cabinet (another SimSlice toy - a recoloured shower that teleports other sims into the house as visitors) so I could have Saïx over as well and weirdly enough, there's Calista on the character selection piechart for the Nathyus family.

( The disappearing, reappearing, made-over nanny )


So, I don't know what I'm going to do with this girl, maybe I'll see if I can get her to stay solidly in a house. I still feel like playing out the irony of hooking up Ïethacan and Selwyn though, but maybe I can engineer a few intervening memories and use Calista as one of my subjects for that.

At the moment, I'm going to do a bit of Body Shop work to get some of my yet-to-be-implemented sims ready to place so I may start on an idea I had in that direction - making up Edea as mother to teen sims - ones like Selphie and Irvine - so I can put the Teens into Uni.

Strangely, in this case, I am glad of this game's stubborness about surnames - it's kinda nice that I know Calista won't change names, even if I transplant her into Edea's house so I can work things around to getting her to fucking stay put.

Maybe I'll see if I can tweak the Ellone model's face into something I like better while I'm fiddling in Body Shop. Both of them I need to find clothing for because they either didn't come with custom clothing or the clothes didn't work. I at least have a dress chosen for Edea.

Actually, I'd like to download SimPE and start poking about with it - I read somewhere one can reset family relationships with it, but that sounds rather high level alterations that could potentially go wrong very easily. Meh, maybe I'm a bit too ambitious there!


Edit: Grr! Already having issues with Edea. You know those veiny-things along the sides of her face while she's the Big Bad Sorceress? Well they are part of the base skintone for her. That's what's annoying, you can't change skintones - you can't change eye colours either - once the sim is made up.
I wish whoever had made this sim had taken into account that Edea in "Matron" mode (in the flashbacks and the final scene after the Ultimecia fight, and in the camcorder FMV in the credits) didn't have those veins and had made them facial makeup, but nooooo! They're part of the skintone aren't they?
I also hate the skullcap - it looks daft, a lot dafter than the original in FF8 - which is why I am wishing the veins were makeup or eyebrows because then I could make over Edea mid-game, from "The Soreceress" to "Matron" and back again if I wished - because my experimental "Matron" is not looking very Edea-like at the moment.

Okay, so I'm going to erase the Lexaeus family I have and remake it.

One, "Weffic"? My cr3ative name-creation went a bit off there.

Two, I got a reminder of how Lexaeus really looks and wanted to make my sim of him a bit more... angular. Lex has this really odd face that is practically all sharp corners.


I've been doing a tidy-up job in Body Shop - reordering all my sims into something vaguely like a sensible order. So far I have all the sims I have already used (except Reno, who I think I made from scratch once I got a good head of hair for him) and lined them up in something resembling the aproximate order in which I implemented them as playable sims.
The rest - the unused ones - are still a mess, but I really don't feel like tackling them yet.


Actually, it's a good thing toddlers can't socialise with other toddlers - at least the replacement won't register.


Edit: Lexaeus is now the fitest toddler in the Neighbourhood the Never Was!

So I did it, I replaced his family with a new set, based on a more angular Lexaeus model I worked up in Body Shop. Their surname is now Westbrook - a hell of a lot better than Weffic.

I dumped them on the Number 5 temp block so I could push up their bank balance and ended up sitting around, giving them all skills. This isn't easy... unless you have some of the modded items like I have.
SimSlice's Rejuvenation Chamber is a lovely thing, their electro panels are pretty damn good too - they're little panels that look like recoloured burglar alarms that affect the moods of all sims on the lot, meaning they keep said moods perminently at full. I couldn't use that all of the time - I had to let Lex's bladder fill so I could potty train him (which took a fair few toilet breaks to do because I didn't put in the SimSlice phone which allows sims to buy the aspiration rewards, so I didn't have any Smart Milk to speed the process).
But anyhow I did spend a fair while making fair use of a hack I got hold of recently - one that makes dancing a Body skill gaining activity - I set Lexaeus dancing and left him there. It took several sim days but he now has a full 10 Body skill points and a full fitness bar.

Oh, and his two favourite skills seem to be Logic and Charisma. Anyone else think that's fitting for him?

Okay, so I knuckled down and got Microsoft .NET Framework installed.

The reason why this is neccesary is because a fair number of Sims-related programs that people have made to do stuff with S2 need .NET Framework to work.

The program I installed it for is one that can be used to expand the size of an already in-play lot.

I've already put it to use - mainly to extend the lot the Laville family is on out enough at the side so I could build a garage. I made a mistake though, I extended out the other side as well and found out I can't cut that extention back, so I'm going to have to find some way of making use of all that extra yardspace. Maybe I can give them a proper swimming pool.


Now I really need to go to bed!

Okay, so this is a direct continuation of what is now being referred to as my Zexion-bunny.

I totally spammed serinance with this on AIM so now the rest of my Flist is getting it.

( It has prominent teeth, long ears and blue-silver hair covering one eye. )

All in all, I think this has to be the complete plotbunny I have ever had. If I thought I could get it finished and had even a hair's chance of getting the characterizations right I'd write it, but I know what I'm like, this acts like a multi-chapter epic in my head and I'd more than likely give up before I'd finished even the first chapter and if I'd even got any headway in it I don't trust my characterization skills anyway.

Still, the bunny wants to spread-eagle itself across my brain and regale me with fluffy post-story slashiness between Ienzo and Elaeus, because really, it all started as a resurrection plotbunny that would result in a happy slashy ending for those two.

Okay, so I have been assulted by a plotbunny. The problem is this time it's a plotbunny for characters I don't know all that well. I mean I have read neumerous fanfic rants for both of them and I have read a very few fics for them that probably vary in ICness and I have read discussions about them between people who know them and I've read Wikipedia... but I haven't actually seen any of the original canon.

The problem is they're Chain of Memories characters. I don't even have a gameboy of any form, let alone the game itself. It'll be a while before I can get a gameboy of any form too as I have a list of things that I suspect is getting as long as my arm that I need to do before I can think about a gameboy of any form.

Anyway, the point of this ridiculously long preword is that I have no idea if this plotbuuny contains much logic or how IC it can be.

( I love reserection ideas, especially for Org13 members )


So any, don't know how sensible that is but that's the idea that's been biting me.