For the pages of the Daily Ami:
1. If you could choose 6 superheroes/villains to form a team under your command (like pokemon), who would they be? :D
Hmmm. That's a toughy. I would probably pick heroes that haven't reached their peak potential yet, both so I can help them get there and so that they listen to what I have to say.The actual team would be as follows:
-1 The (new) Blue Beetle because of I like to be ready for anything.
-2 The (new) Atom because, as useful as his powers are, his mind is a much more powerful "weapon."
-3 Though not entirely inexperienced, Power Girl, for the intimidation factor. I would also refer to her as Power Woman, because I find it rolls off the tongue quite well and she deserves it by now.
-4 Dr. Fate, because sometimes the only way out of a bad situation is God Mode, and he looks cooler than Dr. Strange.
-5 Harley Quinn, just for the hell of it.
-6 Captain Mar-Vell, because I love him and he has leadership experience, so just in case.
(Honorable mention goes out to: Big Barda, Ms. Marvel, Raven, Steel, the Thing, Nightcrawler, Angel, Guy Gardener, Huntress, Iron Fist, MacBeth [from Gargoyles] and Jazz [from Transformers] who were all considered, but didn't quite make the cut.)
2. Would you rather join the Teen Titans or the X-Men? :o
Even though it'd be weird for me to hang out with teenagers, I'd join the Teen Titans because they seem to know how to have fun, plus I don't really want to hang out anywhere near Wolverine.
3. Air conditioners or fans?
Despite them making the room smell like a fridge, I prefer Air conditioners because they do a better job cooling the room and usually double as fans anyway.
4. What's your favourite treat for a hot summery day? :3
ICE CWEAM!
5. Which was the first comic book you can remember reading? :D
This is pretty easy. Not counting the numerous Archie Digest comics my lame-o family exposed me to. the first one I remember reading was a "What If?" comic in which both John Jameson and Aunt Mae died in a tragic rocket crash caused by the Chameleon. As a result J. Jonah Jameson adopted Peter Parker while blaming the accident on Spider-Man. (Go figure.) Spider-Man ended up unmasking himself to get J. Jonah Jameson to stop his warpath against Spider-Man which included the creation of the Spider-Slayer robot and the Scorpion, who was actually Flash Thompson, in the end, J.J.J. used the Spider-Slayer to help Spider-Man stop/cure the Scorpion and they formed a heroes-for-hire team, where Spider-Man's mask didn't cover his face nearly as much and J.J.J. still used the Spider-Slayer, only it had the letters "JJJ" on its chest. It was released some time during that whole Onslaught thing, I remember this because I remember reading one where Onslaught blew up New York immediately afterward.
And now the rules of the game:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions. (They probably won't be the same ones you see above!)
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Marr Vell
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Would You Nerds Shut Up About Venom!
An apology.
I apologize for not posting more often but I've basically run out of things to say and mostly just use this blogger to comment on the few blogs that I check on now, so don't expect too much more from me in the future.
As you've probably guessed, I recently saw Spider-Man 3 and I didn't like it. I've heard complaints from many a person about it, mostly due to Venom's lack of screen time. Now, I love my comics, but I'm not a Spider-Man fan by any measure, I tried to be one but I just can't bring myself to put up with all the angst, so I went to the movie with Kalinka without the mindset of a fan expecting the movie to be exactly like the comics that I've read for years (which I haven't) so the whole Venom-not-be-in-the-movie-very-long thing didn't bother me as much. Not to mention that when you think of it the script had two choices: One was to have Peter Parker/Spider-man spend most of the movie confronting his own dark side using inner turmoil and to later choose the path of light while the other was to spend most of the movie confronting his own dark side personified as some guy with a giant mouth using his(Peter Parker/Spider-man) fists. If you want (relatively) good story telling, no contest.
What I was expecting to see was almost no Venom content at all, but instead see Eddie Brock get the symbiont at the end and fore shadowing Venom being in the next movie. That would be the only way that Venom could possibly have been a bigger character than he was. Sorry, but any other way wouldn't have saved this movie, they'd've have been better off without him.
But on that note I have to say, despite the fact that I may seem to be defending the movie at first glance. I'm not. I'm just saying that the movie didn't disappoint my expectations, which was a action movie starring Spider-Man. This movie had Peter Parker/Spider-Man as both the title and most featured or "main" character and a lot of happenings were going on (or was it goings on happening?) which is pretty much the definition of action and AND this was a movie, so I pretty much got what I expected. The main point is, Venom wasn't what was wrong with this movie. In fact, with the exception of J. Jonah Jameson, Eddie Brock/Venom was my favourite character in the whole film. Despite his lack of screen time, or maybe because of it, he is the least flawed of the all the characters in the film.
And since if I'm known for anything it's analyzing everything with a fine-toothed comb, I've taken it upon myself to point out all the flaws I've seen.
Be warned, the next few paragraphs contain spoilers, lots of them. If you haven't seen Spider-Man 3 yet, well, don't. But if you still want too, that's cool. Just don't expect to enjoy yourself. Oh, and don't read this then either.
Focusing on the plot of an action movie is a waste of time mostly, you don't go to an action movie expecting art, you expect action. The makers of the movie mostly put together amazing fight/chase/chase-fight scenes and then squeeze in a few thrown together scenes that don't involve explosions to try and explain why the explody scenes are happening and to make themselves feel better. Usually it's not done very well, Spider-Man 3 is no exception. So rather than waste time on plot I'm going to pick apart the characters instead. All of them.
May Parker: Good old Aunt May. What's wrong with her you ask? Her only two purposes were to a) dish out a heaping helping of proverbs and sagely wisdom, and b) gross us all out at the image of her in a swimsuit. *shudders* Then she disappears without even a hint of any development, even when she learns who killed her husband so many years ago, she's still just a stereotypical kindly old lady and nothing else.
Gwen Stacey: I knew she would be in this movie, I don't look up stuff like the cast for upcoming movies or watch movie trailers, that's more of my brother's kind of thing, so other than my own intuition I had nothing to go on that Gwen Stacey would be in this movie, but whatdayaknow, i was right. Anyway, Gwen had one shining scene at the start were answers a probably difficult physics question, but then spends the rest of the movie as just some big airhead who coincidentally gets her life put into mortal danger(this happens a lot to women in Spider-Man's world.), and is then used to make Mary Jane jealous three times, the third being completely intentional and humiliating for both.
J. Jonah Jameson: Is awesome and if you think otherwise he will kill you in your sleep. That is all.
Ms. Brant?: Exists solely to annoy JJJ, then reject Eddie Brock's dorky come ons only to fall for Evil Peter Parker's equally dorky come ons.
That girl what lives across the hall, whatever her name is supposed to be: She's ditzy, submissive, and maybe borderline anorexic. What's not to love?
Peter Parker's Landlord: He's a stereotypical New York landlord with more than just a hint of an Indian background. Yet his daughter doesn't seem Indian in the slightest from my perspective, go figure.
Dr. Connors: He specifically says that he is not (note the word "not") a biologist. Yet he can identify a symbiont that's from an alien planet using only a microscope, and even pronounces "symbiont" like an uptight holier-than-thou-but-not-really-holy-because-I'm-a-man-of-science jerk, which I can buy, maybe during his education he studied some biology, but then he runs further tests? Why did he have to do it? Isn't there any actual biologists at this, evidently, prestigious university? Also, did Dr. Connors not figure out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man from this? I mean c'mon Peter-Parker-gives-you-black-goop + black-goop-makes-you-more-aggressive + new-black-suited-overly-aggressive-Spider-Man = Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Just put two and two together man! Oh wait, Dr. Connors is a physist, and that has nothing to do with math.
Flint Marko/Sandman: Almost pulled this one off, except that they just HAD to tie him into Spider-Man's past by making him the actual person to kill Ben Parker, then he just went downhill. I can't believe that people sympathize with his character, he's been dealt a difficult hand, okay, but that's not an excuse to endanger other lives the way he constantly does. If he isn't such a bad person then why was he hunting Spider-Man down? Someone so irrationally pissed at something you did that he would try to kill you is someone you avoid confrontation with, and then he teams up with Venom?! I know that he doesn't know who Venom is but still, if the guy has a mouth that reaches his ears and it's full of razor sharp teeth and his plan to eliminate Spider-Man involves putting an innocent girl in mortal danger, I'm sorry, but you just don't trust him and if you do, you're not a good person either. Then they do a pretty piss-poor explanation that his murder of Ben Parker was an accident that he turned himself in for and that all the crimes he commits are to pay for medical bills for his sick daughter, so he must be a good person at heart. He ONLY valued the life of his daughter over the lives of two armoured truck drivers, everyone else on the road, Mary Jane Watson, Ben Parker, and Spider-Man enough to risk their lives for money and in Spider-Man's case, actually attempt to murder him.
Harry Osborne/Gobli Jr.: I know that comic book characters wouldn't BE without coincidences, but this is just too much. Harry is coincidentally the son of the Green Goblin from the first movie, coincidentally best friends with Peter Parker, who is coincidentally Spider-Man, Harry's father died coincidentally indirectly because of Spider-Man, Harry then discovers Spider-Man's identity (not-so-coincidentally, though.), coincidentally develops some strange insanity in which he is speaking to his dead father who is coincidentally acting like the crazy evil version rather than the nice loving father that he WANTED to remember, which then coincidentally leads him to the secret room that contained all the equipment necessary to seek swift revenge on Spider-Man. Tell me that's not hard to swallow. Then he loses his "short term memory" after hitting his head, which would make him forget the chase-fight, but not the "murder" of his father or the hatred of Spider-Man that has been festering for years or the knowledge of his identity, all of which should be stored in his long-term memory by now. Oh, and let's talk his ingenious plan to destroy Peter Parker/Spider-Man's spirit, it was almost well executed, almost. Force his girlfriend to break up with him and make him believe that there is another man in her life, then pretend to be that other man, pretty good plan to ruin the life of someone as emo as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. But to end it all by winking then disappearing like that? Man, Harry Osborne/Gobli Jr. did you ever blow it, all you managed to do use make Peter Parker/Spider-Man cry and then blow your face up. Congrats. Though I did find it interesting that Harry Osborne/Gobli Jr. never actually fought Spider-Man, just Peter Parker.
The Symbiont: Not much to say about it, just how is "oh, it just rode in on a meteor an instinctively sought out Peter Parker/Spider-Man" an explanation on how the symbiont is in this movie?
Mary Jane Watson: What. The. Hell. Is. Wrong. With. Her? I don't care how "in love" you feel at the start of your relationship with anyone, if they are as insensitive, self-centred, and all around deaf to your words and seemingly your words alone, you end it. Seriously, Peter Parker/Spider-Man was probably one of the worst boyfriends of all time even before the symbiont crawls up his ass and afterwards? He cuts a rug with Gwen Stacey specifically to humiliate Mary Jane and make her jealous, then he accidentally backhands her which is somehow worse than the humiliation just previous. Oh, and when she was feeling a little dejected before all that, she practically throws herself at her previous boyfriend who, as I recall from the first movie, wasn't much better during their previous relationship, but who cares about that? Clearly failing miserably to flip an omelet is the epitome of romance. It's like MJ can't not be in a relationship, and sadly this isn't that hard to believe. I've met people like this and it's pretty pathetic.
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Oh boy, this one's a stinker. I won't dwell too much on his "worst boyfriend ever" failing as it was already mentioned above but I will say this, if a loved one is distraught about something, you DO NOT try to relate to him/her, chances are you've never experienced anything remotely the same. For example: A super hero doesn't need fans to save lives, he/she may feel unwanted without them, but ultimately he/she doesn't NEED them, an actor, however, is nothing if nobody likes him/her and because actor is his/her choice of career, discovering that he/she is unwanted is potentially destructive to their lives. Big difference. And Peter Parker/Spider-Man really needs to get his priorities straight, after the symbiont attaches to him he does the following and was proud of each one. He: Ruined Eddie Brock's career by exposing him as a vindictive fraud, tried very, very hard to kill Flint Marko/Sandman, blew up the right side of his best friends face in cold blood, and salsa danced with Gwen Stacey right in front of Mary Jane Watson in order to make MJ jealous, simtaneously humiliating them both. And what snaps Peter Parker/Spider-Man out of symbiont-high? He accidentally back hands Mary Jane Watson in the face. Now hitting someone is wrong, especially if you care about that person, but compaired to any of those other things and even moreso all of them combined, accidentally backhanding someone doesn't seem like very much at all. And he had better not get a second chance with Mary Jane Watson, despite what the ending seemed to imply. He has no better defense for his actions than an alcoholic, it was his decision to wear that suit, he knew the risks, he should get no sympathy.
And that is every flaw I found in every character in Spider-Man 3.
Also I do think that the death of Eddie Brock/Venom/the symbiont at the end was best way to stop them as I see it as a portrayal of the inevitable result of addiction.
The spoilers end about here, maybe.
Seriously though, I'm done.
Marr Vell
I apologize for not posting more often but I've basically run out of things to say and mostly just use this blogger to comment on the few blogs that I check on now, so don't expect too much more from me in the future.
As you've probably guessed, I recently saw Spider-Man 3 and I didn't like it. I've heard complaints from many a person about it, mostly due to Venom's lack of screen time. Now, I love my comics, but I'm not a Spider-Man fan by any measure, I tried to be one but I just can't bring myself to put up with all the angst, so I went to the movie with Kalinka without the mindset of a fan expecting the movie to be exactly like the comics that I've read for years (which I haven't) so the whole Venom-not-be-in-the-movie-very-long thing didn't bother me as much. Not to mention that when you think of it the script had two choices: One was to have Peter Parker/Spider-man spend most of the movie confronting his own dark side using inner turmoil and to later choose the path of light while the other was to spend most of the movie confronting his own dark side personified as some guy with a giant mouth using his(Peter Parker/Spider-man) fists. If you want (relatively) good story telling, no contest.
What I was expecting to see was almost no Venom content at all, but instead see Eddie Brock get the symbiont at the end and fore shadowing Venom being in the next movie. That would be the only way that Venom could possibly have been a bigger character than he was. Sorry, but any other way wouldn't have saved this movie, they'd've have been better off without him.
But on that note I have to say, despite the fact that I may seem to be defending the movie at first glance. I'm not. I'm just saying that the movie didn't disappoint my expectations, which was a action movie starring Spider-Man. This movie had Peter Parker/Spider-Man as both the title and most featured or "main" character and a lot of happenings were going on (or was it goings on happening?) which is pretty much the definition of action and AND this was a movie, so I pretty much got what I expected. The main point is, Venom wasn't what was wrong with this movie. In fact, with the exception of J. Jonah Jameson, Eddie Brock/Venom was my favourite character in the whole film. Despite his lack of screen time, or maybe because of it, he is the least flawed of the all the characters in the film.
And since if I'm known for anything it's analyzing everything with a fine-toothed comb, I've taken it upon myself to point out all the flaws I've seen.
Be warned, the next few paragraphs contain spoilers, lots of them. If you haven't seen Spider-Man 3 yet, well, don't. But if you still want too, that's cool. Just don't expect to enjoy yourself. Oh, and don't read this then either.
Focusing on the plot of an action movie is a waste of time mostly, you don't go to an action movie expecting art, you expect action. The makers of the movie mostly put together amazing fight/chase/chase-fight scenes and then squeeze in a few thrown together scenes that don't involve explosions to try and explain why the explody scenes are happening and to make themselves feel better. Usually it's not done very well, Spider-Man 3 is no exception. So rather than waste time on plot I'm going to pick apart the characters instead. All of them.
May Parker: Good old Aunt May. What's wrong with her you ask? Her only two purposes were to a) dish out a heaping helping of proverbs and sagely wisdom, and b) gross us all out at the image of her in a swimsuit. *shudders* Then she disappears without even a hint of any development, even when she learns who killed her husband so many years ago, she's still just a stereotypical kindly old lady and nothing else.
Gwen Stacey: I knew she would be in this movie, I don't look up stuff like the cast for upcoming movies or watch movie trailers, that's more of my brother's kind of thing, so other than my own intuition I had nothing to go on that Gwen Stacey would be in this movie, but whatdayaknow, i was right. Anyway, Gwen had one shining scene at the start were answers a probably difficult physics question, but then spends the rest of the movie as just some big airhead who coincidentally gets her life put into mortal danger(this happens a lot to women in Spider-Man's world.), and is then used to make Mary Jane jealous three times, the third being completely intentional and humiliating for both.
J. Jonah Jameson: Is awesome and if you think otherwise he will kill you in your sleep. That is all.
Ms. Brant?: Exists solely to annoy JJJ, then reject Eddie Brock's dorky come ons only to fall for Evil Peter Parker's equally dorky come ons.
That girl what lives across the hall, whatever her name is supposed to be: She's ditzy, submissive, and maybe borderline anorexic. What's not to love?
Peter Parker's Landlord: He's a stereotypical New York landlord with more than just a hint of an Indian background. Yet his daughter doesn't seem Indian in the slightest from my perspective, go figure.
Dr. Connors: He specifically says that he is not (note the word "not") a biologist. Yet he can identify a symbiont that's from an alien planet using only a microscope, and even pronounces "symbiont" like an uptight holier-than-thou-but-not-really-holy-because-I'm-a-man-of-science jerk, which I can buy, maybe during his education he studied some biology, but then he runs further tests? Why did he have to do it? Isn't there any actual biologists at this, evidently, prestigious university? Also, did Dr. Connors not figure out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man from this? I mean c'mon Peter-Parker-gives-you-black-goop + black-goop-makes-you-more-aggressive + new-black-suited-overly-aggressive-Spider-Man = Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Just put two and two together man! Oh wait, Dr. Connors is a physist, and that has nothing to do with math.
Flint Marko/Sandman: Almost pulled this one off, except that they just HAD to tie him into Spider-Man's past by making him the actual person to kill Ben Parker, then he just went downhill. I can't believe that people sympathize with his character, he's been dealt a difficult hand, okay, but that's not an excuse to endanger other lives the way he constantly does. If he isn't such a bad person then why was he hunting Spider-Man down? Someone so irrationally pissed at something you did that he would try to kill you is someone you avoid confrontation with, and then he teams up with Venom?! I know that he doesn't know who Venom is but still, if the guy has a mouth that reaches his ears and it's full of razor sharp teeth and his plan to eliminate Spider-Man involves putting an innocent girl in mortal danger, I'm sorry, but you just don't trust him and if you do, you're not a good person either. Then they do a pretty piss-poor explanation that his murder of Ben Parker was an accident that he turned himself in for and that all the crimes he commits are to pay for medical bills for his sick daughter, so he must be a good person at heart. He ONLY valued the life of his daughter over the lives of two armoured truck drivers, everyone else on the road, Mary Jane Watson, Ben Parker, and Spider-Man enough to risk their lives for money and in Spider-Man's case, actually attempt to murder him.
Harry Osborne/Gobli Jr.: I know that comic book characters wouldn't BE without coincidences, but this is just too much. Harry is coincidentally the son of the Green Goblin from the first movie, coincidentally best friends with Peter Parker, who is coincidentally Spider-Man, Harry's father died coincidentally indirectly because of Spider-Man, Harry then discovers Spider-Man's identity (not-so-coincidentally, though.), coincidentally develops some strange insanity in which he is speaking to his dead father who is coincidentally acting like the crazy evil version rather than the nice loving father that he WANTED to remember, which then coincidentally leads him to the secret room that contained all the equipment necessary to seek swift revenge on Spider-Man. Tell me that's not hard to swallow. Then he loses his "short term memory" after hitting his head, which would make him forget the chase-fight, but not the "murder" of his father or the hatred of Spider-Man that has been festering for years or the knowledge of his identity, all of which should be stored in his long-term memory by now. Oh, and let's talk his ingenious plan to destroy Peter Parker/Spider-Man's spirit, it was almost well executed, almost. Force his girlfriend to break up with him and make him believe that there is another man in her life, then pretend to be that other man, pretty good plan to ruin the life of someone as emo as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. But to end it all by winking then disappearing like that? Man, Harry Osborne/Gobli Jr. did you ever blow it, all you managed to do use make Peter Parker/Spider-Man cry and then blow your face up. Congrats. Though I did find it interesting that Harry Osborne/Gobli Jr. never actually fought Spider-Man, just Peter Parker.
The Symbiont: Not much to say about it, just how is "oh, it just rode in on a meteor an instinctively sought out Peter Parker/Spider-Man" an explanation on how the symbiont is in this movie?
Mary Jane Watson: What. The. Hell. Is. Wrong. With. Her? I don't care how "in love" you feel at the start of your relationship with anyone, if they are as insensitive, self-centred, and all around deaf to your words and seemingly your words alone, you end it. Seriously, Peter Parker/Spider-Man was probably one of the worst boyfriends of all time even before the symbiont crawls up his ass and afterwards? He cuts a rug with Gwen Stacey specifically to humiliate Mary Jane and make her jealous, then he accidentally backhands her which is somehow worse than the humiliation just previous. Oh, and when she was feeling a little dejected before all that, she practically throws herself at her previous boyfriend who, as I recall from the first movie, wasn't much better during their previous relationship, but who cares about that? Clearly failing miserably to flip an omelet is the epitome of romance. It's like MJ can't not be in a relationship, and sadly this isn't that hard to believe. I've met people like this and it's pretty pathetic.
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Oh boy, this one's a stinker. I won't dwell too much on his "worst boyfriend ever" failing as it was already mentioned above but I will say this, if a loved one is distraught about something, you DO NOT try to relate to him/her, chances are you've never experienced anything remotely the same. For example: A super hero doesn't need fans to save lives, he/she may feel unwanted without them, but ultimately he/she doesn't NEED them, an actor, however, is nothing if nobody likes him/her and because actor is his/her choice of career, discovering that he/she is unwanted is potentially destructive to their lives. Big difference. And Peter Parker/Spider-Man really needs to get his priorities straight, after the symbiont attaches to him he does the following and was proud of each one. He: Ruined Eddie Brock's career by exposing him as a vindictive fraud, tried very, very hard to kill Flint Marko/Sandman, blew up the right side of his best friends face in cold blood, and salsa danced with Gwen Stacey right in front of Mary Jane Watson in order to make MJ jealous, simtaneously humiliating them both. And what snaps Peter Parker/Spider-Man out of symbiont-high? He accidentally back hands Mary Jane Watson in the face. Now hitting someone is wrong, especially if you care about that person, but compaired to any of those other things and even moreso all of them combined, accidentally backhanding someone doesn't seem like very much at all. And he had better not get a second chance with Mary Jane Watson, despite what the ending seemed to imply. He has no better defense for his actions than an alcoholic, it was his decision to wear that suit, he knew the risks, he should get no sympathy.
And that is every flaw I found in every character in Spider-Man 3.
Also I do think that the death of Eddie Brock/Venom/the symbiont at the end was best way to stop them as I see it as a portrayal of the inevitable result of addiction.
The spoilers end about here, maybe.
Seriously though, I'm done.
Marr Vell
Monday, January 22, 2007
Ombre and Iris
You know, about five years ago I created my own comic book universe with my own heroes and villains. Being only 17 at the time I thought that the ideas that I originally came up with were pretty unique and well thought out. As I grew older I kept the characters that I had created in my mind, constantly working and reworking out even the slightest detail on their origins and histories. To this day I'm not entirely satisfied with any of them. Even the one that I started with, "Ombre", had much of his origin scrapped to the point that his powers have little explanation on their source. But what I am satisfied with is his persona, what makes him the way that he is. It's to the point that it doesn't matter how he got his powers anymore. Besides, does anyone really care that Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider anymore?
Anyway, thanks to an Internet friend of Kalinka's, (and a little persuasion from Kalinka herself.) I've decided that it's high time I let some more people see into the eyes of two of my most treasured characters: Ombre and Iris. You may remember them from a previous post from, like, August or something.
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Ombre
"They say that you’re the man without fear."
"No, that’s the Green Lantern - or Dare Devil - I forget which. Either way, that’s not me at all. They call me the man that fears nothing."
"You’ve lost me, aren’t those the same thing?"
"Not exactly, no."
"I’m not sure I follow."
"Yeah, most people don’t."
"Well, enlighten me. That’s what this interview is about. The public - I want to understand you better."
"Heh."
"What? What did I say?"
"‘Enlighten me.’ Funny that you should word it like that."
"Stop trying to change the subject."
"Fine, I’ll try and ‘enlighten’ you. I suppose the best way to start is with my name."
"‘Ombre’, French for ‘shadow’. You came up with the name because you morph into a shadow whenever you ‘disappear’, I already know that."
"Yes, and you’ve seen me use that ability how often?"
"Almost never, I know that you can but you never use it unless you absolutely have too. I always kind of wondered why that is."
"It’s because I’m afraid, afraid of nothing."
"I don’t get it, you say that you’re afraid, but then you contradict yourself by saying that your not afraid of anything."
"I didn’t say that, you just heard it. I said, ‘afraid of nothing’ not, ‘not afraid of anything.’"
"Now you’re just arguing semantics, they both mean the same thing."
"No they don’t. Listen just forget it, you don’t understand just like I knew that you wouldn’t."
"I’m sorry, I’m trying my best to understand your meaning, it’s jus–"
"Do you have ANY idea what it’s like for me every single time I use my powers? All you ever see is me melting into the floor or the wall, becoming a pool of black, like a shadow without anything attached. But for me it’s the purest of tortures. Total and complete isolation.
"It’s as if I’m transported to another world. Another world that’s devoid of anything at all. There is no matter, there is no air, there is no light, and sometimes I’m not sure I’m even physically there. All my senses simply shut down and there is nothing. No touch, no taste, no smell, no sound, no sight, nothing. Do you understand now? Nothing is a PRECISE and ACCURATE description of what I fear."
"..."
"I’m sorry. I over-reacted. It’s just...I’m not entirely comfortable talking about it."
"I think that’s enough for now, I think I’ll leave you to yourself for now."
"I think that would be best, goodbye."
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You'll notice that Ombre is actually the origin of the curse that I gave myself in the Lucid Seed stories. There's more to his powers than just being able to morph into a shadow, but those aren't nearly as important to his persona so they aren't mentioned here.
Next is Iris, I wrote this one to tell her origin for two reasons; one is that I actually like her origin, and the other is that I haven't really gotten as much inside her head as I have Ombre.
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Iris
Maria was born in another world that lies parallel to ours. This world was created by wizards and witches of past generations as a safe haven for magic users who were persecuted during the witch-hunts of the various eras on Earth.
Over many generations, the ruling class of this new world taught the idea that the old world was a cesspool of crime. It was with this mindset that Maria grew up. She was an optimistic young girl, she saw that her homeland would be seen as a utopia to the people of our world. She petitioned her father, who was a Governor, to build relations with our world to teach us to improve. Her father refused her offer, as the mis-created education of our world was used, in part, to cover up his own corruption. But Maria was determined, and despite countless warnings and threats of being disowned, she crossed over into our world, giving up her own name in the process, all to save us from a peril that never truly was.
What happened next no one could have anticipated. In her home world, her powers came as natural to her as walking, but here they were a terrible strain on her to even contain, more so to control once released. Her overflowing powers forced her to form barriers within her own psyche to protect everyone around her, weakening herself significantly. Doing so also created an instinctive need for her to release her powers, and with it a second personality which had seemingly complete control of her powers, but little regard for the well-being of others.
After regaining some control over her powers she set out to bring some measure of peace to our "chaotic" world. Much to her surprise, this world, though certainly not perfect, was nowhere near the cesspool she was taught that it was. She also found that protecting this world were various stable governments that saw to the safety and liberty of their people. She also saw that the world did have it share of criminals, but for the most part they were under control thanks to police and military forces.
Seeing that the world didn't need the savior she was expecting to become brought a sense of relief to Maria. Deciding to leave our world and return home, she went about retrieving the materials she needed to open a portal to her world.
Upon leaving a magic shop in search for the required spell components, Maria was drawn to a nearby flower shop because of a police car parked in front. At first she thought that maybe the officers could use some assistance. But when she arrived at the scene it became pretty clear that these policemen were, what she later learned were called, dirty cops. They were extorting the flower shop owner for "protection" money. Maria couldn't let these people get away with their crimes, and she knew this world's legal system well enough to know that these men could go on like this for months before justice could find them. So instead she decided to bring justice to them herself.
After using her magics to disarm the police officers she then used the vines in the shop to tie them from the ceiling until some honest officers could arrive and arrest. Wanting to repay Maria for her help, the flower shop owner offered her a flower as a gift. She said that the flower represented what she saw in Maria's eyes when she helped her. When Maria asked the woman what the flower was, she identified it as an Iris. Maria gladly accepted the Iris and elected to keep it with her and placed it in her hair, using her magically powers to keep the flower alive.
After that experience Maria realized that the system of our world was not infallible and rather than return home she vowed to protect the good people of the world from the persecution of corrupt peoples in stations of power, as well as help in the fight against common crime. The media quickly dubbed her "Iris" as most of the reports of her exploits had the defining trait of an Iris in her hair.
Maria accepted her new identity as Iris lovingly, having chosen not to return home until the corruption in our world is cleansed. Still blissfully unaware of the level of corruption in her home world.
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And there you go, I've put much of my creative thought into these two for the past five years. I'm under no illusions that they are perfect yet, so I'm willing to accept any critique anyone on ye ol' internets has. But remember, they are both very dear to me, so please be kind.
Marr Vell
Anyway, thanks to an Internet friend of Kalinka's, (and a little persuasion from Kalinka herself.) I've decided that it's high time I let some more people see into the eyes of two of my most treasured characters: Ombre and Iris. You may remember them from a previous post from, like, August or something.
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Ombre
"They say that you’re the man without fear."
"No, that’s the Green Lantern - or Dare Devil - I forget which. Either way, that’s not me at all. They call me the man that fears nothing."
"You’ve lost me, aren’t those the same thing?"
"Not exactly, no."
"I’m not sure I follow."
"Yeah, most people don’t."
"Well, enlighten me. That’s what this interview is about. The public - I want to understand you better."
"Heh."
"What? What did I say?"
"‘Enlighten me.’ Funny that you should word it like that."
"Stop trying to change the subject."
"Fine, I’ll try and ‘enlighten’ you. I suppose the best way to start is with my name."
"‘Ombre’, French for ‘shadow’. You came up with the name because you morph into a shadow whenever you ‘disappear’, I already know that."
"Yes, and you’ve seen me use that ability how often?"
"Almost never, I know that you can but you never use it unless you absolutely have too. I always kind of wondered why that is."
"It’s because I’m afraid, afraid of nothing."
"I don’t get it, you say that you’re afraid, but then you contradict yourself by saying that your not afraid of anything."
"I didn’t say that, you just heard it. I said, ‘afraid of nothing’ not, ‘not afraid of anything.’"
"Now you’re just arguing semantics, they both mean the same thing."
"No they don’t. Listen just forget it, you don’t understand just like I knew that you wouldn’t."
"I’m sorry, I’m trying my best to understand your meaning, it’s jus–"
"Do you have ANY idea what it’s like for me every single time I use my powers? All you ever see is me melting into the floor or the wall, becoming a pool of black, like a shadow without anything attached. But for me it’s the purest of tortures. Total and complete isolation.
"It’s as if I’m transported to another world. Another world that’s devoid of anything at all. There is no matter, there is no air, there is no light, and sometimes I’m not sure I’m even physically there. All my senses simply shut down and there is nothing. No touch, no taste, no smell, no sound, no sight, nothing. Do you understand now? Nothing is a PRECISE and ACCURATE description of what I fear."
"..."
"I’m sorry. I over-reacted. It’s just...I’m not entirely comfortable talking about it."
"I think that’s enough for now, I think I’ll leave you to yourself for now."
"I think that would be best, goodbye."
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You'll notice that Ombre is actually the origin of the curse that I gave myself in the Lucid Seed stories. There's more to his powers than just being able to morph into a shadow, but those aren't nearly as important to his persona so they aren't mentioned here.
Next is Iris, I wrote this one to tell her origin for two reasons; one is that I actually like her origin, and the other is that I haven't really gotten as much inside her head as I have Ombre.
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Iris
Maria was born in another world that lies parallel to ours. This world was created by wizards and witches of past generations as a safe haven for magic users who were persecuted during the witch-hunts of the various eras on Earth.
Over many generations, the ruling class of this new world taught the idea that the old world was a cesspool of crime. It was with this mindset that Maria grew up. She was an optimistic young girl, she saw that her homeland would be seen as a utopia to the people of our world. She petitioned her father, who was a Governor, to build relations with our world to teach us to improve. Her father refused her offer, as the mis-created education of our world was used, in part, to cover up his own corruption. But Maria was determined, and despite countless warnings and threats of being disowned, she crossed over into our world, giving up her own name in the process, all to save us from a peril that never truly was.
What happened next no one could have anticipated. In her home world, her powers came as natural to her as walking, but here they were a terrible strain on her to even contain, more so to control once released. Her overflowing powers forced her to form barriers within her own psyche to protect everyone around her, weakening herself significantly. Doing so also created an instinctive need for her to release her powers, and with it a second personality which had seemingly complete control of her powers, but little regard for the well-being of others.
After regaining some control over her powers she set out to bring some measure of peace to our "chaotic" world. Much to her surprise, this world, though certainly not perfect, was nowhere near the cesspool she was taught that it was. She also found that protecting this world were various stable governments that saw to the safety and liberty of their people. She also saw that the world did have it share of criminals, but for the most part they were under control thanks to police and military forces.
Seeing that the world didn't need the savior she was expecting to become brought a sense of relief to Maria. Deciding to leave our world and return home, she went about retrieving the materials she needed to open a portal to her world.
Upon leaving a magic shop in search for the required spell components, Maria was drawn to a nearby flower shop because of a police car parked in front. At first she thought that maybe the officers could use some assistance. But when she arrived at the scene it became pretty clear that these policemen were, what she later learned were called, dirty cops. They were extorting the flower shop owner for "protection" money. Maria couldn't let these people get away with their crimes, and she knew this world's legal system well enough to know that these men could go on like this for months before justice could find them. So instead she decided to bring justice to them herself.
After using her magics to disarm the police officers she then used the vines in the shop to tie them from the ceiling until some honest officers could arrive and arrest. Wanting to repay Maria for her help, the flower shop owner offered her a flower as a gift. She said that the flower represented what she saw in Maria's eyes when she helped her. When Maria asked the woman what the flower was, she identified it as an Iris. Maria gladly accepted the Iris and elected to keep it with her and placed it in her hair, using her magically powers to keep the flower alive.
After that experience Maria realized that the system of our world was not infallible and rather than return home she vowed to protect the good people of the world from the persecution of corrupt peoples in stations of power, as well as help in the fight against common crime. The media quickly dubbed her "Iris" as most of the reports of her exploits had the defining trait of an Iris in her hair.
Maria accepted her new identity as Iris lovingly, having chosen not to return home until the corruption in our world is cleansed. Still blissfully unaware of the level of corruption in her home world.
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And there you go, I've put much of my creative thought into these two for the past five years. I'm under no illusions that they are perfect yet, so I'm willing to accept any critique anyone on ye ol' internets has. But remember, they are both very dear to me, so please be kind.
Marr Vell
Thursday, January 18, 2007
ToSCA: Sendoff!
And here it is, as promised, a huge, multi-picture conclusion to the hit "Tales of Symphonia Character Association". Now, some characters are not represented as much as some others here, simply because it's harder to find good pictures of everyone.
Anyway. Here. We. GO!
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Anyway. Here. We. GO!
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And that's the end. It feels good having finally finished this project and also I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
I would also like to take this chance to thank three specific groups of people: The people at Namco for making such a splendid game, the artists at deviantart.com whom I blatantly stole from (and in some cases butchered their work) for having as much imagination as me and like a million more talent, and finally all of you for giving me personalities to poke and prod so's to put this all together.
Marr Vell
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Tales of Symphonia Character Association Part 8
Bet you didn't see this coming, huh? That's right, I updated this already. I hope they sell mittens in Hell, 'cause I'm guessing it's suddenly gotten mighty cold down there.
Anyway, as promised, I have put together a comparison between Colette and a super secret surprise person we all know. I hope you're ready for it.
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Colette Brunel
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 97 lbs
Class: Chosen
Race: Human
Hair: Platinum Blonde/Long Hair
Build: Slender
Weapon: Chakram
Occupation: Student/Chosen
At first I had an idea for just one "person" to compare Colette to. But after a little thought into the subject, I realized that Colette is actually more like a whole group of "people". I am refering, of course, to the non-Blue Kalinkas.
This comparison system will work a little different than the rest: (You'll see how if you scroll down.)
Green) This is easily the natural comparison to be made; Colette is usually a naive, energetic, animal-loving, quirky, somewhat-ditzy girl.
White) Colette temporarily loses the ability to sleep early in the game.
Anyway, as promised, I have put together a comparison between Colette and a super secret surprise person we all know. I hope you're ready for it.
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Colette Brunel
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 97 lbs
Class: Chosen
Race: Human
Hair: Platinum Blonde/Long Hair
Build: Slender
Weapon: Chakram
Occupation: Student/Chosen
At first I had an idea for just one "person" to compare Colette to. But after a little thought into the subject, I realized that Colette is actually more like a whole group of "people". I am refering, of course, to the non-Blue Kalinkas.
This comparison system will work a little different than the rest: (You'll see how if you scroll down.)
Green) This is easily the natural comparison to be made; Colette is usually a naive, energetic, animal-loving, quirky, somewhat-ditzy girl.
White) Colette temporarily loses the ability to sleep early in the game.
Red) Colette's purpose in the world of the game is the "Chosen" which means that she is fated to die in order to save the world from the steady decay that is threatening to destroy everything. Because of this, Colette is very fixated on death, specifically her own, which she see's as an inevitability
Violet) Because of her predestined demise, as well as other reasons, Colette tends to slip into states of depression throughout the course of the plot. And she would rather suffer in silence than make her friends worry about her.
Black) At one point Colette loses her soul to the gem on her chest, thus robbing her of all her emotions and leaving her with only a sense of self-preservation. Though she lacked Kalinka Black's detailed, calculating intelligence, Colette was essentially action-reaction.
It's actually pretty cool how that worked out. Anyway, more pictures!
Black) At one point Colette loses her soul to the gem on her chest, thus robbing her of all her emotions and leaving her with only a sense of self-preservation. Though she lacked Kalinka Black's detailed, calculating intelligence, Colette was essentially action-reaction.
It's actually pretty cool how that worked out. Anyway, more pictures!
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Thus concludes my little indulgance of my insanity. I'll probably look for more pictures to post of the various characters for a final send off. But this is the last comparison I'll be making of Tales of Symphonia characters.
Thus concludes my little indulgance of my insanity. I'll probably look for more pictures to post of the various characters for a final send off. But this is the last comparison I'll be making of Tales of Symphonia characters.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Tales of Symphonia Character Association Part 7...FINALLY
Well, it's about damn time isn't it? I mean you come here every freaking day just to see if I updated my little project and you are disappointed every single time. But it's up now, and you can finally rest easy knowing that I do still care about this and how interested that you all are.
All joking aside, there are good reasons for me not posting for so long. One, I wanted to wait until the tournament ended before I posted this and that took like forever to do. And two, the computer lab that I usually post from was locked up for the holidays until just now.
But you're not here to read my excuses, you're here to see the thrilling conclusion to my project. Which is exactly what you would get, if I didn't recently figure out who I can compare Colette Brunel to. But that will wait until next time.
Anyway, let's just consider this a belated Christmas Gift that I was going to give you anyway even if Christmas wasn't real.
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Kratos Aurion
Gender: Male
Age: 4028
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 172 lbs
Class: Mage/Swordsman
Race: Human
Hair: Dark Brown
Build: Average
Weapon: Double-edged sword
Occupation: Mercenary
I said at the start that I would be saving whoever I compared to myself for last. This would be the final chapter, but I decided otherwise. Anyway, I digress. Kratos is like me. There, I said it.
Of course, I have more reasons to compare myself to Kratos other than just that he's my favourite character:
1) Kratos is the oldest of the playable characters, much like I am the oldest of the members of Lucid Seed. (Though not by THAT much.)
2) Speaking of age, Kratos seems very spry for his age, and (most of you don't know this) but a lot of people mistake my younger brother for being older than me.
3) Kratos, like Regal, is very proper in his speech. And though I sometimess (not a typo, that's for emphasis, Kalinkaa) talk using slang, it's mostly for fun and I usually speak with real words and phrases.
4) Kratos takes on a paternal role in the game (even before it's revealed that he is, in fact, Lloyd's father. Oh yeah, *SPOILER ALERT*) and I've taken on the role of big brother/teacher/father figure in our little club. (I prefer teacher.)
5) Kratos, like Regal again, has had some great tragedy occur in his life, (the same one, in fact. Only the names are changed) but unlike Regal, he doesn't let that be the only thing there is to him. And I WAS cursed, you don't hear me whining about it every day.
6) Even though he is an angel character, he doesn't reveal that fact for a while and even after it's been made known he doesn't make a big deal about it and doesn't use those abilities often. Much like me, if you witnessed my fight against Joneus you would have seen me morph myself into a shadow to turn the tables at one point. I've had that ability all along, it's part of that curse that I mentioned in my story, I just never used it and will probably not use it very often, not to mention the other abilities I have that are top secret. Heh heh heh.
7) Despite being a warrior, Kratos is actually quite wise, though not quite as much as Raine. And who is better at dishing out gems of wisdom of surprising clarity than Marr Vell?
8) This one wasn't really in the game, just in my head. (and the heads of a lot of "Tales of Symphonia" fans out there, evidently) Anyway, I've always pictured Kratos and Raine as a couple when playing the game, they just seemed to click, and I compared Raine to Kalinka. In case you haven't heard, we're getting game married.
9) This one is based entirely on the first picture in the picture party, I think it's self explanatory.
10) Kratos is easily the dreamiest character in "Tales of Symphonia", and what am I if not a hotty? (Okay, I'm just indulging myself now.)
Reasons eight and nine also double as reasons for comparing Kalinka to Raine.
Does this part even need an introduction anymore?
All joking aside, there are good reasons for me not posting for so long. One, I wanted to wait until the tournament ended before I posted this and that took like forever to do. And two, the computer lab that I usually post from was locked up for the holidays until just now.
But you're not here to read my excuses, you're here to see the thrilling conclusion to my project. Which is exactly what you would get, if I didn't recently figure out who I can compare Colette Brunel to. But that will wait until next time.
Anyway, let's just consider this a belated Christmas Gift that I was going to give you anyway even if Christmas wasn't real.
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Kratos Aurion
Gender: Male
Age: 4028
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 172 lbs
Class: Mage/Swordsman
Race: Human
Hair: Dark Brown
Build: Average
Weapon: Double-edged sword
Occupation: Mercenary
I said at the start that I would be saving whoever I compared to myself for last. This would be the final chapter, but I decided otherwise. Anyway, I digress. Kratos is like me. There, I said it.
Of course, I have more reasons to compare myself to Kratos other than just that he's my favourite character:
1) Kratos is the oldest of the playable characters, much like I am the oldest of the members of Lucid Seed. (Though not by THAT much.)
2) Speaking of age, Kratos seems very spry for his age, and (most of you don't know this) but a lot of people mistake my younger brother for being older than me.
3) Kratos, like Regal, is very proper in his speech. And though I sometimess (not a typo, that's for emphasis, Kalinkaa) talk using slang, it's mostly for fun and I usually speak with real words and phrases.
4) Kratos takes on a paternal role in the game (even before it's revealed that he is, in fact, Lloyd's father. Oh yeah, *SPOILER ALERT*) and I've taken on the role of big brother/teacher/father figure in our little club. (I prefer teacher.)
5) Kratos, like Regal again, has had some great tragedy occur in his life, (the same one, in fact. Only the names are changed) but unlike Regal, he doesn't let that be the only thing there is to him. And I WAS cursed, you don't hear me whining about it every day.
6) Even though he is an angel character, he doesn't reveal that fact for a while and even after it's been made known he doesn't make a big deal about it and doesn't use those abilities often. Much like me, if you witnessed my fight against Joneus you would have seen me morph myself into a shadow to turn the tables at one point. I've had that ability all along, it's part of that curse that I mentioned in my story, I just never used it and will probably not use it very often, not to mention the other abilities I have that are top secret. Heh heh heh.
7) Despite being a warrior, Kratos is actually quite wise, though not quite as much as Raine. And who is better at dishing out gems of wisdom of surprising clarity than Marr Vell?
8) This one wasn't really in the game, just in my head. (and the heads of a lot of "Tales of Symphonia" fans out there, evidently) Anyway, I've always pictured Kratos and Raine as a couple when playing the game, they just seemed to click, and I compared Raine to Kalinka. In case you haven't heard, we're getting game married.
9) This one is based entirely on the first picture in the picture party, I think it's self explanatory.
10) Kratos is easily the dreamiest character in "Tales of Symphonia", and what am I if not a hotty? (Okay, I'm just indulging myself now.)
Reasons eight and nine also double as reasons for comparing Kalinka to Raine.
Does this part even need an introduction anymore?
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Part 7 is finally up, but how long must we wait for part 8? If past experience and mathematics serve, it'll probably be up in give or take an eternity, maybe even longer.
Marr Vell
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Tales of Symphonia Character Association Part 6
I know it took forever to get to this part, and you're probably all dead from old age or scurvy or something, but it took soooooo long to find this one picture that I knew existed and needed and even longer to pick just a few pictures to use from the many great ones that I did find. The artists who post on deviantart.com really seem to genuinely like Raine and it made things more difficult than you would expect.
Anyway, the show must go on.
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Raine Sage
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 108 lbs
Class: Mage
Race: Half-Elf
Hair: Silver
Build: Average
Weapon: Staff
Occupation: Teacher
This has pretty much been reduced to process of elimination, with only two left to cover and the last one being me, who could I possibly be comparing Raine too?
Kalinka, duh.
Par for the course, I've come up with real reasons for the comparison:
1) Raine, as the school teacher for three of the other characters at the start of the game, takes on a maternal role throughout the game, specifically towards her younger brother Genis, whom she raised since their abandonment. Much like Kalinka, who has taken on the role of older sister to the rest of Lucid Seed.
2) Raine is the most intelligent character in the entire game, need I say more.
3) Raine and Kalinka are very soft spoken most of the time, moreso guides than an actual commanders, but don't make them mad.
4) Raine has a glaring multiple personality disorder, wherein she spins into an insane "Ruin Mode" whenever exposed to specific stimuli such as tombs, artifacts, and just about anything archeological. Now, replace "tombs" with "cats" and "artifacts" with "steam", what does that make you think of?
I know full well that Kalinka isn't near as serious as Raine is. But that's not a bad thing. I like her better like that.
And, of course, PICTURE ADVENTUUUUUUUUUUURE!
Anyway, the show must go on.
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Raine Sage
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 108 lbs
Class: Mage
Race: Half-Elf
Hair: Silver
Build: Average
Weapon: Staff
Occupation: Teacher
This has pretty much been reduced to process of elimination, with only two left to cover and the last one being me, who could I possibly be comparing Raine too?
Kalinka, duh.
Par for the course, I've come up with real reasons for the comparison:
1) Raine, as the school teacher for three of the other characters at the start of the game, takes on a maternal role throughout the game, specifically towards her younger brother Genis, whom she raised since their abandonment. Much like Kalinka, who has taken on the role of older sister to the rest of Lucid Seed.
2) Raine is the most intelligent character in the entire game, need I say more.
3) Raine and Kalinka are very soft spoken most of the time, moreso guides than an actual commanders, but don't make them mad.
4) Raine has a glaring multiple personality disorder, wherein she spins into an insane "Ruin Mode" whenever exposed to specific stimuli such as tombs, artifacts, and just about anything archeological. Now, replace "tombs" with "cats" and "artifacts" with "steam", what does that make you think of?
I know full well that Kalinka isn't near as serious as Raine is. But that's not a bad thing. I like her better like that.
And, of course, PICTURE ADVENTUUUUUUUUUUURE!
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Okay, Part 6 is finished. Tune in next time for the thilling conclusion: Kratos Aurion!
Marr Vell
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