Sailor §trange

Well I have been doing a fair bit of work in Sims 2, fixing problems and getting my households restored again.

First off, I was having problems with Supernova House - the house where Sephiroth and Jenova are. When I tried to load it, it would keep on crashing on me.
Well I got past it by creating a stand-in sim (Freya Strife), putting her on a block and using one of my pet modded items to move Seph, Jen and Cloud in.

This does mean however that I lost all teh furnishings in Supernova House, which is going to be a pain to restore, but it means I don't have to go back to an old savegame (which is a pain in itself, because I think the last save file I have is before I built the Org families).

I do have one strange problem though, Laguna is registering two Squalls in his relationships - the one who I just moved in, and the one he is married to. That's a pain, because it's suposedly the same Squall but until I can deal with the phantom one (that he thinks he's married to) I can't get them remarried, and I don't know SimPE well enough to get it straighened out.

I also went and changed Xehanort's hair to the Xemnas style from MTS2, the results of which are ridiculously cute, because I haven't yet let him age up from toddlerhood.

I'm going to poke around SimPE and see what I can find about the phantom Squall. If I have to, I'll kill off Laguna and remake him totally - same applies to Seph if I get similar problems with him and Cloud.

Edit: I did it, I killed Laguna off and made a new one. I hope it doesn't take too long for the reserection wants to disappear from Squall's Wants dial - maybe I'll look into making them parents.

Nabbed off of bard_linn - ( Almost all of this is FF too... )

Just went over and took a look around the flist on my other journal... wow, reminder of old fandom stuff eh?

I don't think I'm ready to go back and read LotR stuff again (I have found that after some time away I am willing to go visit an old fandom - if only briefly), or at least not morgana_avalon's writing. Hell, if Orchyd Constyne was still writing LotR I don't think I'd go back at the moment for even her writing!

On the other hand, I may go poke around stubenfliege's journal and see what her latest fic is about. I know it's an Apocalyptica RPS and I am marginally interested. Took me half a second to remember who "Ansta" was though.

In things closer to home: I have to thank lazzchan for a new pairing-threesome-whateversome, post-KH2 Riku/Sora/Roxas, specifically with Sora and Roxas sharing the one body and implied Riku/Roxas from the pre-KH2 period.
It's like Riku gets two boyfriends in one. XD


Also, found another fandom that, at those point, will probably only rate as a minor one to distract me in times of low ficcage in FF - Homestar Runner. I have, after a couple of recent visits to the website, developed a fondness for Homsar. He's cute and he talks weird, and once he turned into a moderately hot girl in an imaginary senario. XDD


I also want shota. Someone write some FFXII creepy shota incest? Two guess who I want to see in it. *poings at icon*

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!

You know, I think one of Suvari's problems is that she tals too slow. If didn't talk so slow Aerith wouldn't sound quite as off with the fairies as she does. I'm just happy Cid didn't sound quite so bad in AC as he does here, though I'm curious as to how he sounds in DoC - is it better?

I am sure I'm going to have all sorts of fun over Leon - swapping back and forth between the first and second game, having to reconcile the two versions of his voice. Actually, I think I do prefer David Boreanaz for his voice and I'm just a little off-put about the change.

Well I finally decided to move on in KH2 - got Roxas up to level 8 and over 1000 munny - and now he's at a spot right before a key plot point. So now I feel like elaborating on my opinions of the plot so far, ( and because I don't know whether I have someone watching my journal who *hasn't* played through the start I'm cutting it )

I stumbled across a really good buy today, while I was in poking around Target. Two PS2 memory cards for $39.88.

Now take into consideration that all the other memory cards all had the exact same price, for single card packs.

I didn't actually see any other double packs in either of the security cabinets that contained memory cards so I think I was lucky.

That means I have one memory card per game that I currently own - though I'm not sure if that means I will take up playing FFX again yet - I have enough of a juggle finding time to play both of my KH games between work and my internet addiction (really, I love the internet - I seem to find excuses to stay on - even when the only apparently interesting option is to put on The Sims 2. I just feel like the internet is one of my few true links with the world - one that's interactive).

So I'll haul myself upstairs soon and start shifting games onto these two darlings so I'm not filling card space at both ends (I have my KH2 save at the bottom end of the same card that my KH1 saves are on) and they are still all playable, which is more than I can say for the saves on the Max Drive (I have to stick in the AR Max disk to even be able to identify the flashdrive on the PS2, let alone be able to transfer games from it to a memory card).


In a slightly odd turn of fan-driven perchasing, I bought a packet of sherbet lemons. I totally blame American publishers who feel a need to translate British books into American English - specifically the Harry Potter books, which I once heard a few examples of how typically British idioms and word usages got changed into more American ones. The three examples I recall is pants/trousers, lorry/pickup truck and sherbet lemons/[some sort of term for lemon candy].

*Idly using the Squee! icon because I have Xemnas on the brain at the moment.*

Okay, so I wasn't able to keep away from the game. I figured when I put it on I'd simply watch through the opening FMV and get an idea of how to handle gameplay.

The Reaction command is going to be a pain - I already have enough problems in KH1 with handling both the attack button and the jump button!

The tasks for making munny on the Second Day are going to be a total bitch. I already tried the cargo one - bugger that!

On the matter of the guide book I got with it: I am in love with the pictures in it! The title page of the Enemies section (listing types of Heartless, Nobodies and Pirates) has large picture of a Dragoon on it. Damn that thing reminds me of FF7's Ultimate WEAPON!
The Dancers are also rather cute and I finally understand something about a comic someone drew with Luxord having a Gambler draped all over him.

And XEMNAS!!!!

Okay, so I knew Xemnas was pretty hot already (Ansemised!Riku is pretty damn hot and he and Xemnas share a face - if not the same hair style), but having nice, clear, large-size picture of him makes it even easier to see. The down side is that Ansem/Xehanort/Xemnas' voice in KH2 is waaaaaaaaaaay too deep for my liking! I liked Billy Zane dammit!

And while I'm on voices I'd gotten used to Leon sounding like Angel so the new voice of his is also putting me off!

But getting back to the point (XEMNAS!), I am starting to think that I can put more than just a perfunctory suport into Xemnas/Saïx now... and I totally am being a silly fangirl by saying that just because I got a nice clear picture that shows just how pretty Xemnas's lips are is.

Riku also has pretty lips.


But, enough. I have work to get dressed for and a damn gummi ship to alter to worry about in KH1 before I can start beating Roxas' my head against those damn errands in KH2.

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!

You know that plotbunny I was lamenting a couple of days ago as being total OOC fluff? Yeah, well I read a comment someone made about the CoM manga and the stupid rabbit is breeding another sideline.

See, the plotbunny is basically a reserection one that is a stupid excuse just to bring back the Org, as [almost] normal people, with hearts, and let them quietly settle down in various places across the worlds and live happy lives.

Only the comment I just read was something about the Riku Replica surviving, finding some Vexen Replicas and going off with them. Well the bunny pounced on that and I am suddenly wondering what would happen if the reserected Vexen ran into his copies and Repliku.
Or maybe Luxord or Saïx run into them (because those are the two who haven't settled down) - better Luxord though, because Saïx is just a little pissed off most of the time because he still can't find Xehanort (there's a reason for that) and running into multiple copies of Vexen and a copy of one of the brats who killed Xemnas... well I can imagine Saïx not being happy.

*Goes to fight the plotbunny off with some sim renovation work.*


Oh, this plotbunny is not one fit to be considered as fic material. It's mostly bedtime imaginings and therefore shmoopy OOC fluff.