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Lithia Spodumene | nolongerasleep

Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

Renne Hayworth | notquiteangelic (formerly at empatheias)
Loewe | eyesofstrength and eyesofdespair
Tita Russell | lovesmachines
Karin Astray | eyesoflight

Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

Victor S. Arseid | radiantblademaster
McBurn | almightylaziness (formerly almightyconflagration
Sharon Kreuger | bondagemaid
Sara Valestein | beersensei
Vita Clotilde | illusionarymelody
Shirley Orlando | flamingchainsaw

Ys series

Thanatos Beldine (Ys 8) | notadinosnack
Hugo Fact (Ys Origin) | squishymage
Hawk (Ys 9) | notquitetamed

The Alliance Alive

Vivian Vin Esmerode | eccentricdaemon

Golden Sun

Piers | ancientmariner

Lost Odyssey

Jansen Friedh | notimmortal

Day 2 - Your favorite character.

And considering how many games I've played and how many characters I've been exposed to, damn this is hard.

So I'll just try and narrow it down to 5 characters which is hard enough! Characters are in no particular order:

Yuber (Suikoden I-III) - He'll probably always be my favorite in the Suikoden series just because I tend to love villains, and he's a very interesting one. He seems like the typical out to destroy and kill everyone sort of villain, but we get enough hintings that there may be more to him than that.

I just wish we'd get more damn it. One thing that would totally convince me to buy a PS3 would be an announcement of Suikoden VI coming to the US on PS3 and it has Yuber in it. Yes, I'd totally buy the PS3 just for that.

Yuri Hyuga (Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts: Covenant) - Best video game protagonist ever! He's just hilariously funny, kind of an idiot at times, but has a heart of gold for all of his assholish tendencies. In my eyes, he's what makes those two games awesome and the fact that he's not in the third game is a major reason why I dislike it.

Dekar (Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals & Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals) - Never seen a character like him. He's meant to be the idiot of the party, but really that's more Guy's role. No, Dekar really just doesn't fit into any typical category for party members and he's both a comic relief type character, and the insightful one. He just goes between being a total moron and actually being really insightful, and yet it works for him. And seriously, some of the craziest things come out of that boy's mouth (like his comment with a completely serious face about how tiny his bikini is)

Meis Triumph (Thousand Arms) - Another absolutely hilarious protagonist. He's a big part of what makes that game totally awesome. It's not often that the womanizer is the main, but it works in this game.

Erim (Lufia series) - And the only female who is going to be among my favorites. She's actually a very well written female character and is just amazing even for this time period, and especially so considering the Lufia games were originally created in the SNES era where characters like her just didn't exist. I'd say more, but it gets into huge spoilers for the series and I know a few people here will be playing it for the first time with the new DS release.

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( That D&D meme everyone on my flist is doing )

Well, may as well give an update on random life stuffs. Will be coming off hiatus soon at luceti and I very much am glad I took the break. It gave me a chance to get stuff together and focus more on getting used to my job and the hours. I was getting rather sick of spending too much time sleeping, but that seems to be fixed.

Really, I was feeling pretty crappy there a lot at the beginning of the month, and finally got over that. Amazingly, the problem fixed itself by me starting to take vitamin supplements. Seriously, for all that people tend to disregard them a lot, they made a huge difference. I'm getting less migraines, not feeling so tired all the time no matter how much I sleep. I'm honestly feeling better than I have the past few years, and it costs less than a dollar a day for the vitamins.

Finished off Suikoden V finally, and amusingly enough, I kind of want to play a character from it that I really didn't intend to want to play. Go figure, I'd still love to play Jeane, but have no confidence with her. I have confidence with who I am likely going to app, just worried about if I may run into a conflict of interest playing her and Yuber. It's unlikely, but still very possible. Argh, why do I have to be the only one left with a True Rune bearer now?

Yeah, may as well fess up if anyone besides Alisa watches dear_mun and the Suikoden tag. falenansun was me.

As far as my opinion on Suikoden V, I'll just say I prefer III. V is a good game, and I'll give it that it does indeed have a good ending, but there were many faults to it and it felt like it was trying too hard to be like II and falling short in almost every attempt which just really didn't help the game.

But now, I think I'm going to try and slowly go through my long list of games that I haven't finished yet. I decided to start with the PSX games since that has the largest amount of games that aren't remakes. Currently working on Thousand Arms, and I don't get why in the hell I didn't finish that game originally. It's absolutely hilarious, very unique overall even if the story is a bit cliche. The game just doesn't take itself seriously and I find myself laughing at some of the lines that you can choose for Meis (the main character). Definitely worth playing, and this time I will finish it off.

And it's a pretty easy game overall, so I'll take suggestions on what to play/finish next from the list. Just anything besides Vesperia, the NES games and Game Boy games (because I cannot play them due to not having the console and/or the games).

So yeah, probably dropping a few characters when I come back and going to have myself be at 3 characters once I app someone from Suikoden V. Still going to go through with the app for Dalamar at trans_9, just need to get off my ass and finish the sample already, and do something about his icons. Yeah, I'm glad to have the ones I have, but I know very well, I'll likely need more. Of course, good luck finding a good PB for a dark haired elf wizard.

And now I better shut up before I go over the character limit here or something.

Just a few cute memes here, first one ganked from daathic

▮ Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper on their LiveJournal.
▮ Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
▮ Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on

I'll just link it

As far as why I'm using it? Well, I felt I needed a change from the one I had been using for a few years that was for a fandom I don't care as much about anymore. The fanart I used is very pretty and it's size was very ideal to adjust to fit a 1280x800 resolution.

And well, it's the Destroyers drawn very well. Who can resist that? I wish I could color that nicely, seriously.

And then the meme that it seems most of the RPers on my flist have done:

( Cut because I tl;dr )

I seem to be failing with my search of Pixiv here, so if any of you guys on my flist here who know good sources for Suikoden fanart could help it would be great, because I'm honestly surprised I'm not finding fanart for who I'm looking for.

Anyway, looking for some art of Jeane outside of her official art and the few panels in the Suikoden III manga (have the whole thing, will color those soon while I'm on a manga coloring kick). Seriously, why I can't find fanart for a character who is female and wears that little clothing is beyond my comphrehension, but it seems to be the case.

Yes Luceti folks, I'm highly considering her for when apps open, already have a journal for her even. Yes, this means I'm going to be playing Suikoden V now, not sure if I'm going to finish IV unless we get a cast, but might watch a playthrough of it at least since I just suck at the game.

Yoinked this from ivy_chan because it was too funny to resist:

1) First, make a list of fifteen characters. Keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your flist to post questions in the comments. For example: 'One, nine and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?', 'Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?', 'Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?' 'Write a drabble in which three and eleven fight crime.' (...possibly not technically a question.)

3) After your flist has asked enough questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

Have fun guys!

Apologies for my not saying this sooner, but I seem to be having an issue on this account with being notified about its paid status (and I just put in a support request on that since it only seems to be this account).

To whomever renewed this account for another two months, thank you very much!

Anyway, don't have much more to say, I just didn't want to look ungrateful for the kindness of whoever this is just because LJ is being stupid to me.

And this is tl;dr as usual for me when I actually write an entry that isn't all meme.

As usual, Walmart attempts to screw me over. I still haven't gotten my W-2 forms in the mail, then I remembered they have a website to view paystubs and all. So I was sneaky and got my W-2.

Did my tax return, have a $934 refund coming my way. It's sad, Walmart paid me so little that I actually qualified for Earned Income Credit this year (basically, you have to be making jack and squat to get this as a single person with no children). Yeah, fuck you Walmart, you won't be getting any more of my money unless I'm seriously desperate (they are the only place open 24 hours after all, but the other grocery stores are open til 1am).

So glad I quit that hellhole. Yeah, it sucks being broke because of being unemployed, but with those shitty hours, the lack of sleep, the sheer pain they were putting me in, I'm better off. Already have a job interview on Monday with a staffing agency that I'm told is pretty good about keeping their people working. Maybe I can actually get myself some office work that will actually use my skills rather than menial physical labor. I'm getting too old for jobs requiring physical labor, seriously.

And it seems my bank is being dumb. Last time I checked the balance, I had nearly $300, since then I got paid another $300, yet my debit card got declined today, bank must be having issues again. Oh well, will have to see what is going on by going to the bank tomorrow. I have a check from my parents for $200 that I've been meaning to cash for like oh, a month now. Thing is, I hate going to the bank with a serious passion.

But if I get myself a new job soon, I'm going to use that tax refund towards getting a new laptop (and the rest that is left to go towards paying back my roommate, I owe him far too much money and barely made a dent in it the past year, he's pretty understanding of the situation once I explained though, as long as I'm making an effort to find a job and make an effort to pay him back, we're cool). I also found out that through my bank's reward program, I have enough points saved up to get $225 in gift cards from Best Buy (or also Target). Hmm, not bad, I was willing to spend $500 for a laptop once I had the money saved, that will let me get a nice one.

Anyway, that's the RL stuff. RP wise, things are going well. Having loads of fun with the current event and got threads with all my characters pretty much during it. Still failing at a third person sample for the character I am going to app at sirenspull and my reserve runs out on the 31st. This sucks, I shouldn't be blanking this badly, but really this character is so not the type I normally play (damsel in distress type, too nice for her own good, can't fight her way out of a paper sack, etc. Yeah, basically the complete opposite of Yuber.) Oh well, will figure something out, I'm sure. Or just drop the idea entirely.

Erim is a blast to play though. I admit, sometimes I'm so sorely tempted to just drop everyone but Yuber, Flik, Folken and Erim at luceti. Those four are the ones I have the most fun with and people don't seem to gripe at me about them. I can keep up with seven, but it just seems that the ones who I'm struggling with, I ignore in favor of the ones I enjoy more.

Edit: Well, looks like I won't be apping at sirenspull, my castmate to be dropped and my character will not work in such a setting without someone to keep her out of trouble. Maybe if I ever do decide to drop someone at luceti I'll take her over there just because it would be so funny to play Yuber's complete opposite there too.

And now, a long winded meme where I rant and gush a lot about video games and really show my age a bit.

( That video game meme going around my flist )

Okay, this was requested, so doing the RP meme thingy for Yuber for now.

( Warning, too much info about a creepy demon )

If there are actually any other requests, anyone from my RP post is fair game. You'll get more complete answers for those I've actually played a decent length of time though.

Because I'm truly a derp and for some reason didn't notice it sooner (also, LJ forgot to notify me), whoever renewed my paid account time for two more months, thanks! I honestly have no idea if it was an anon gift, if I did it in my sleep, or who did it because LJ decided to be major fail and not let me know and I just noticed today that my account should have been expired as of oh, three days ago?

And Happy New Year to everyone!

And welcome to the folks from luceti who friended me recently via the meme or on their own. Glad to have you as friends code_gal, herrjustice, fuckyeahfish, whiteadelphi, meowzy_chan, dynast_harmonia and luna_hoshino! This is definitely a momentous short entry for me :)