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chews-erotically · 4 years

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Waxing Gibbous

Pairing: Ezra + femNurse! Reader

Rating: Hard M / 18+ ONLY

*****As ALWAYS, if I have added you to the tags and you wish to be removed, just ask and I will do so immediately******

* Warnings: SMUT (mutual masturbation, PIV sex), some plot too, comfort

* Summary: Ezra’s recovery continues. You introduce him to a new way of living, one he cannot immediately embrace.

* Word Count: 2800

*Part ONE* *Part TWO* *Part THREE* *Part FOUR* *Part FIVE* *Part SIX* *Part SEVEN* *Part EIGHT*

PART NINE

Ezra spent an additional three weeks in the hospital after he’d awakened. His recovery was arduous, but his medical team remained impressed by his sheer determination. The same drive he’d shown on the cursed moon to harvest, to succeed, to survive, he showed to recover. Recover he did, working diligently with doctors and physical therapists seemingly around the clock.

You only went back to your loft to shower and change. You had rented a cot, not dissimilar to what you’d been used to before, and you slept beside him each night. You couldn’t stop yourself from awakening several times in the night to ensure he was still there, still breathing. He’d long since been moved out of the ICU and into a room on the Med-Surg unit. He’d proceeded to charm each doctor, nurse, custodian and aide with equal amounts of wit and candor. They would make special trips to his room to sneak him his favorite treats and second helpings of his favorite meals under the guise of “needing to put weight back on.” Ezra would thank them graciously, grinning conspiratorially.

The first time he’d walked three laps around the unit without any assistance was the day you finally knew he was going to be okay. He was told that afternoon that he would be going home in a week. You had thrown your arms around him as he’d laughed and knocked sideways into his bedside table.

That night, you’d crawled into his hospital bed, squeezing in beside him. You nestled yourself into his warmth, his arms reflexively winding around you to pull you closer. Ezra sighed and hummed into your hair. You’d thought him still asleep, until he whispered softly into the darkness.

“.....Dove. Can’t wait to be home with you….” His large, warm hand rubbed up and down your back before circling around your hip, then your waist.

“....can’t wait to be in a bed with you. A real bed.” His fingers spread, his hand coasted lazily up your abdomen and palmed your breast. Your soft gasp echoed into the dark hospital room as you arched into his palm. His fingers zeroed in on a nipple, tugging through the thin material of your tank top. You mewled, hot explosive breaths against his chest. When he craned his head down to bring his mouth to yours he kissed you slowly, deeply, his tongue darting and curling. You bit at his bottom lip and gasped into his hot, sinful mouth.

“Ezra, you’re killing me.” You felt his lips curl wickedly upward. He began to speak to you lowly, in hoarse whispers, punctuating each thought with a nip to your throat, all the while pinching and pulling at you through the fabric of your shirt.

“....Been dreaming of you. How you lose the ability to speak when I’m splitting you open. The sounds you make. The sounds that cunt makes when I rock into it. The way you shake when you fall apart….”

He had nudged his knee in between your legs, and you found yourself rhythmically rocking your core against his thigh. The burning fullness between your legs was making you leak your fluids onto his skin, your clit grinding desperately onto him. You were certain he could feel you through your cotton shorts. You whimpered pitifully as he continued.

“It’s killing you that we can’t do any more than this right now, in this bed. Anyone could walk right in, Dove.”

He released a filthy groan against your mouth when you reached down to wrap your fingers around his hard length through his underwear.

“Careful...be careful, darling girl. I’m not in a mood to stay demure and restrained. I sincerely encourage you to continue if you wish for this whole building to hear our intimacy.”

“Ezra….fuck, I want you. Please, I need to touch you.”

Ezra knocked his forehead against yours. You knew his eyes searched to catch yours in the darkness.

“I need you to wait and be patient for me, sweetheart. When I take you next it will be in our own bed like you deserve.”

You leaned forward and bit his shoulder through his shirt. He gave a startled gasp before chuckling darkly. You groaned in frustration.

“I need something, anything…..s’been so long…”

“Lie down on your cot, Dove. Touch yourself for me. I want to hear how slick you are as you get yourself off to the thought of me buried inside your sweet little cunt. Touch yourself, and I will do the same. Let us fall apart for one another until I can express my desires to you properly.”

You barely hesitated before moving off his hospital cot to remove your shorts with shaking hands. No sooner were they discarded than you were splayed on your back on your cot, legs spread wide, wanton. You heard rustling from Ezra’s cot as he maneuvered his shorts down to free his cock. You heard the rhythmic, wet sounds as he began stroking himself in earnest.

You moaned when your fingers dipped down to your entrance, marvelling at how soaked your slit was. Scooping your arousal with two fingers, you began to circle your hard, aching clit. The wet, sinful sounds of your aroused core reverberated through the room as your fingers circled, pressed. Your breath hitched, your hips arched off of the cot and thrust of their own accord. You both moaned and gasped into the still air.

You could hear Ezra’s cot creaking. He was mumbling half- sentences, pausing to whimper and you could hear him stroking faster. You pictured his hips cana was as ting up as he fisted himself.

“Fuuuuuuuck. Fuck I’m so close. Can you hear me Ezra? I need you to hear what you’re doing to me.”

“Divine cunt. Mine….I can smell it. Smell you….. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holyshit…”

He stilled, screaming lowly as he reached his end. Gasping, breath hitching.

The fingers of your other hand pushed themselves into your passage as your other hand, still circling your clit, began fast, rough. The rhythm of your hips faulted as your orgasm suddenly slammed into you. You bit your lip so hard you may have drawn blood. You gasped and groaned as you felt your cum spill out of your seizing hole and coat your hand.

“Ohhhhh.. Oh fuck. Oh fuck…….” Your breaths melted into whimpers as your hips slowed their twitching. Finally spent, you yawned deeply and turned on your side to face Ezra.

“Still not the same,” you whispered up into the outline of his face. “But if we ever do this again, I want to see you.”

***

You got to the hospital as early as you possibly could on the morning of Ezra’s discharge. You had helped him pack what meager belongings he had the evening before to bring to your apartment. You’d cleaned every surface furiously, and adorned your balcony and interior surfaces with wildflowers and vining greenery you’d purchased from a local nursery.

You brought with you new clothing, something comfortable and casual for him to wear, as well as a pair of loafers lined with fleece. You did not know what he preferred to wear; as well as you knew him, you’d never really seen one another in anything other than threadbare sweats or protective suits. You smiled to yourself as you thought of Ezra being able to buy himself nice clothing, of purchasing music he’d talked to you about for hours on the Green. Large, glossy hardcover books whose spines cracked when you opened them for the first time.

You knew you still had a lot of firsts coming with Ezra. You walked into the bustling lobby and quickly found his room. Ezra was pacing back and forth, muttering under his breath. When you entered he’d immediately stopped and came to you with a wide, beautiful smile.

“I have dreamt of this day for countless stands, sweet love,” he crooned as he wound his arms around you, crushing you to his chest. “My feet will deign not touch the earth in my haste…”

“Slow down a bit, Ez. I brought you some clothing...I hope you don’t hate them.”

He gazed down and you saw how his eyes shone in the early morning light. You loved him so much that your chest ached.

“I could never hate a single thing that passes from your hands to mine, Dove. They are perfect, as are you.” He craned his head down to ghost a kiss across your parted lips. It was chaste, soft and brief, yet you still felt the jolt settling low in your belly, growing warm and tight. You had not forgotten his promise to you during that one desperate night.

Ezra changed quickly as you waited. There was no need to excuse yourself- you’d both been through too much to be bashful. When he’d finished, he stood before you grinning with hands on his hips.

“How do I look, Dovie?”

“Like an angel.”

***

You could tell that Ezra was overwhelmed by the bustling streets of Central. His head whipping around, unsure of what to focus on. Eyes darting, mouth set in a line. You’d grabbed his hand and led the way through undulating throngs of bodies that squeezed, nudged, jostled. Your heart ached with sympathy as you recalled the chaos of your own first experience. You knew he needed time, as you had.

You wasted no time when you arrived at your brownstone building, briefly greeting the doorman on your way through the lobby. Confusion crossed Ezra’s face as he took in lush carpeting and the ivy that wound itself up an exposed brick wall.

“Pray tell, who was that man at the door, Dove?”

You giggled, pressing the button on the elevator. “That is Brice. He’s the doorman, he’s very nice.”

His eyes were wide. “We have a doorman?”

“I know, crazy, right?”

You entered the elevator. As the door whooshed closed you noted apprehension on Ezra’s face. You reached out to squeeze his hand reassuringly, and his features smoothed once more when he caught your small smile.

Soon enough you were at your door. You turned to Ezra and handed him a thick metal keycard.

“This is yours. Try it.”

He paused only momentarily before swiping the card. He reached out to the door handle, holding his breath. You bounced on your heels like a child, pushing him forward.

For one of the few times in all the days you’ve known Ezra, he was speechless. He roamed slowly through the wide open foyer, basking in the natural light streaming through the windows. He reached out a hand to gingerly caress a granite countertop. He caught site of the doors to your balcony and stood before them, hands hanging motionless at his sides.

You sidled up next to him, winding your arm through his.

“Do you like it, Ezra?” you asked softly, looking out over the city beside him.

Ezra turned to you, holding your eyes steadily. His hands moved down to grasp yours.

“I could never have imagined something so grand. This hardly feels real. Truthfully, I am unsure that I did not perish on the Green…” His hands moved up your arms to cradle your face. He leaned in slowly, exhaling into the cup of your ear.

“Show me our bedroom, Dove. It’s been long enough.”

You grabbed his hand, pulling him behind you down the hallway. He reached out to grasp your shirt as you stumbled and bumped into walls, desperate to feel you. You assisted him as best you could, and when you entered a room easily four times the size of your former tent, you heard his gasp.

You had spent an especially long time considering what you had wanted in a bed. It had been far too long since you’d had a proper bed, and so you spared no expense in finding the softest mattress, the sturdiest headboard. Your bed extended down an expanse of wall, covered by soft, downy blankets and piled with pillows.

“It’s...magnificent,” he murmured, reaching down to run his hand across the silken texture of the coverings. His hand moved up to hastily push aside the pillows and pull down the blankets. He hastily disrobed, shoving his shirt up while you joined him in freeing him from his pants. You divested yourself of your own and he caught your lips in a desperate kiss as he tumbled you backward onto the bed. You rolled him onto his back and straddled him, grinding your hips against his hard, swollen length. Ezra was moaning loudly, straining up to maintain contact. Between the sinfully soft blankets and mattress at his back and the heat from your cunt as you spread your arousal on the throbbing skin of his cock. You leaned forward to capture his lips, your hands restlessly moving over his shoulders.

“My beautiful man,” you crooned. “This is what we deserve. You are worthy of this. I need you.”

“Then take me. Ride me, sweet girl. Bless and baptize my cock with your heavenly slick.”

You positioned your dripping core over his head. You sank down slowly, feeling his thickness stretching you open, breaking you. You could not hold back the low moan bursting out of you as his cock reached the end of you. You stilled, after so long you had to allow yourself a moment to adjust to his size. You panted in low groans as your walls twitched and fluttered around Ezra’s incredible length.

Ezra gazed up at you reverently, biting his lip. He whimpered when your cunt squeezed him, hands reaching out to fasten on your hips.

“Fuck….f-fuck, sweatheart. Forgot how fucking perfect you feel. Sweet Kevva. Use me, sweet girl...take what you need.”

You drew yourself up until he was almost out of you, keeping his head trapped in your leaking hole. Without warning you slammed your hips down. The sound that left Ezra’s mouth was feral, animalistic. You began a steady pace of lifting and dropping, eventually falling forward onto Ezra’s chest. You started babbling in between your desperate whimpers and sobs. He hit that one spot inside you in this position, you quickly discovered. It made you roll your eyes back in ecstasy, mouth hanging open between bursts of speech.

“Hngh….oh...my...fucking Gods, so good, you feel so good how is this soo goooood…”

Ezra met your gaze with his eyes wild, teeth gritted. He threw his head back, his hands gripping your hips as he urged you to move faster, harder, while he spoke out into the air in a broken, shaking prayer.

“So good for me, please come for me. Come on my cock, sweet Dove, mark me, soak me before I paint this fucking perfect cunt…”

You were covered in a sheen of sweat, movements faltering from the sustained effort of using him the way you needed. Sensing this, Ezra wrapped his arms around you and crushed your chest to his. Shifting under you, he began to piston himself into your slick, hot sex as your cries became sharp and loud. You lost the power of speech as your breath left your body in explosive gushes against the side of his straining neck. You came with a strangled scream, Ezra struggling to keep you atop him as your limbs shook and bucked of their own accord. You dimly felt the gush of your come running out of you to soak his swollen cock

“That’s iiitt, let it happen, so good for me, taking your pleasure with me so…..deep….insideyouSHIT….” He stilled as his own orgasm crashed around the both of you, head back and groaning loud enough that his voice rattled your soul, your racing heart beating a staccato beat within your chest. You worked through your highs, your bucking hips and shaking legs slowing down incrementally. Your breath eventually slowed, and you stayed nestled against his neck as he, too, came back to himself.

You stayed like that, with him softening inside of you, as he reached down to cover you both with a blanket. You felt limbless, untethered, so mortally sated that you did not care if the world around you was burning to the ground. You barely felt the ghost of Ezra’s lips on your forehead as you drifted out of consciousness. One word, repeated through the haze of dwindling thought was your anchor to everything around you that you had killed and bled and cried for, unbelievably real and soft and unflinchingly kind.

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freshlyjuicedbeetles · 4 years

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Dancing Away with My Heart - Severus Snape x Reader Fanfiction

Based on ‘Dancin’ Away with My Heart’ by Lady Antebellum.

Marauders Era.

You realize Severus is going down a path you can’t follow.

Authors note: I hate that Hogwarts doesn’t celebrate graduation!

I wore my best dress and my heart was breaking.

It was our graduation dance. The Great Hall was enchanted to look like the night sky with a large harvest moon. It put Starry Night to shame with the vibrant blues and billions of twinkling stars. Dumbledore had suspended curfew and allowed all years to attend saying, “Everyone deserves to say their goodbyes and goodbyes should not be rushed when helped.” So, while Narcissa Black looked like a gorgeous porcelain doll, first years were running around on a sugar high celebrating their first night of independence.

Severus and I had been dating for nearly a year at that point. Beforehand, I had had a crush on him for several weeks, the mysterious boy who rarely spoke. I knew he was with Lily Evans, even if they were just friends, but it didn’t take much to see that there was more going on, so I kept my interest to myself. When they ‘broke up’ I saw my chance and swooped in. In my heart, I knew I was something of a rebound for him. I had heard what he called Lily, but I didn’t believe it.

Then, I started to. I saw the signs. He was obsessed with the Dark Arts; nothing was off-limits for him. He became vengeful. I knew I had to break up with him. I just didn’t know when or what to say. I didn’t want to hurt him. I already felt bad for him. He had a terrible home life and was bullied mercilessly. I was afraid of adding to the fire, but I knew this boy was going down a dark path. I didn’t want to be a part of it. I really didn’t want to break up with him. He was my first real love.

I loved how unsuspecting he was. No one would believe how tender he could be or how brave he was. He was intelligent, but not in the effortless sense. He worked for his skills. He was quietly passionate. He kissed me as though he was leaving for war. I had given Severus everything, my heart, my love, my time, my first real kiss, my virginity. I loved how he would hold my hand under the tables of the Great Hall. He would check up on me when I was sick. He’d take as many chewy chocolate chip cookies that always managed to stay warm and gooey as he could take for me because they were my favorite and they weren’t served that often. I loved how he’d help me with my homework even though I could tell he’d rather be doing anything else because he didn’t want me to stress.

Eventually, I ran out of time. I had to break up with him on our last night at Hogwarts. I hated that I had to do it after graduation when the future looked so bright. It was like breaking up with him on his birthday. After awkwardly sitting at a table for most of the dance, Severus asked me to dance during a slow song.

Just this one dance and I’ll do it, I remember telling myself. I wanted to remember the way he looked in his borrowed robes from Lucius, his seventeen-year-old looks, his deep, dark eyes which I swore he could read my mind. I needed to remember the way he moved me to the music and the feel of his arms around me and mine on his shoulders, for the rest of my life. I knew this was the last time.

I put my head on his shoulder as we swayed to the music. I just wanted time to stop.

We stayed like that until he pulled away, but just barely. Severus brushed my hair back, looking into my eyes. He leaned in to kiss me. Tears began to fall from my eyes, knowing it was the last. I was just a seventeen-year-old girl. I had never experienced anything like this. This wasn’t just a silly breakup, this was an ‘I have serious concerns about my partner’ breakup.

He pulled away when he felt the tears come between us, “What’s wrong?” he asked.

I took his hand until I found a secluded corridor. My heart was pounding in my chest and my skin tingled with nerves.

“I’m worried about you,” I announced.

He said nothing.

“Let me see your arm,” I said.

Severus took a step back, hiding his left arm behind his back.

“What? Are you hiding something from me?” I goaded.

Again, he said nothing.

“Show me your arm, Severus.” I practically begged, tears nearly obscuring my vision.

A moment past, then he bestowed his covered arm. I pulled up his sleeve.

I didn’t gasp when I saw his arm. I didn’t recoil in shock. I knew it was there. He dropped his arm.

I shook my head, “Have mercy on your soul. I don’t think you know what you just did.”

I allowed myself one last look at him, then turned to leave.

“Wait!” He called, running after me. He caught my arm.

“Let me go, Severus! I don’t want to see you ever again!” I yelled, ripping my arm away.

I didn’t see him again.

I had always wondered what had happened to him. I thought about him from time to time, when I was alone during a harvest moon. I wondered if he missed me. He stole my heart that night and I don’t think he ever knew. Then when I came back to Hogwarts to teach a symposium on lyricism, I saw him. There he stood, still tall, dark and roguishly handsome. My dormant love for him returned tenfold.

“Severus,” was all I could say as he laid those dark eyes on me.

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omegacrystalmaiden · 4 years

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Ys Log (5/28/2020)

I’ve finished every single Ys I can play at the moment. So, I’m gonna write my opinions about all of them, since I’ve grown attached to the series.

Ys Series

Ys Series are stories of a red-headed fuck boy’s travelogues. This boy’s name is Adol Christin, a wanderlust goody two-shoes who flirted with every single heroine he encountered and left them crying and heartbroken over his departure to another new adventure. He recorded all of his adventure in 100 travelogues, which became the story of each Ys games. Adol has the tendency of getting caught in a shipwreck and got his sorry ass saved by a beautiful girl, who ended up crushing on him, of course.

First to last playthrough:

Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

Ys Seven

Ys I & II: Chonicles

Ys III: The Oath in Felghana

Ys IV: Memories of Celceta

Ys Origin

Ys Origin took place 700 years before Ys I, which means the main protagonist is not that fuck boy (hooray). Ys Origin surpassed my expectation. I never expected Ys Origin’s storyline to be that good, especially Toal’s route. It was touching when Toal reached out his hand to Reah and begged her to stop doing the ritual to seal away the demonic essence. It was heartbreaking, for real. Stay strong, Toal.

Favorite Route: Toal’s. His route is the most story-rich and emotional. It left some impressions in me.

Favorite Character: Hugo Fact. His route is actually a bit similar to Geis’s backstory (Big bro left the house, then lil bro’s pursuing for his lost big bro). He’s actually just some cocky brat who seeks power to bring his traitorous brother down. A bit typical, honestly. But his character makes the interactions with other characters much more interesting, since the whole search party is full of people who worships Reah and Feena too much (in other words, full with naive and too nice people). I really love it when Hugo didn’t back down after he got threatened by Cecilia for doubting the Goddesses. And it was so priceless when he pointed out to Saul Tovah that his dead was caused by his own weaknesses. Man, I never expected Ys series to have a main protagonist with that kind of personality lol.

Least Favorite Character: Yunica Tovah. She’s too naive; believing in the Goddesses blindly. She’s also reckless and too hot tempered, biting every tiny bits of provocations that was thrown at her. But, I honestly kinda get where she’s coming from. The girl just got his father killed by some random barbarian called Kishgal lol (and Kishgal’s sprite is VERY similar to Geis’s from Ys VI). Anyways, her outfit doesn’t look like the outfit you would pick to go to battlefield. Honestly... her outfit really makes me wondering how can she swing her battleaxe. She looks more like a Harvest Moon character actually.

But both of them are so cute, honestly xD

Favorite Ship: Hugo x Epona. Man, they’re so cute. They act like rivals and stuff, but looking out for each other. It was both cute and heartbreaking when Hugo held Epona who was dying in his route. Even Toal ships them. Fuck off, Miuscha lol.

Favorite Design: Zava. I don’t really like this old sorceress since she’s just some typical evil maniac who laughs randomly at people’s hardships. But honestly, her design is just the best in the game. Reah and Feena’s outfits in Ys Origin are outstanding too, btw.

Favorite Soundtrack: Silent Desert, Samsara and Paramnesia, and Scars of the Divine Wing.

Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen

Okay, here goes Ys I, introducing our favorite red-headed fuck boy, Adol Christin! This is the most classic game in Ys series, where you play as a silent protagonist and hit monsters with hilarious bump-bump system. What makes this game interesting is the soundtracks; MAN, THE SOUNDTRACKS! The soundtracks really rock you to the point where you want to bump every single enemies in the field. Oh, and here’s the fun fact: Adol got shipwrecked lol. Adol was asked to collect six books of Ys by some random fortune teller. The player didn’t have the choice to say no to that, since the fortune teller just assumed that Adol agreed to do it even when he didn’t say a single word (like any silent protagonist should have been).

Favorite Character: None. I don’t really have any favorites in this game, since the characters are kinda bland (well, what do you expect from a classic game? xD).

Least Favorite Character: None. But, Reah’s dialogues were getting to my nerves. She kept talking about her lost silver harmonica over and over. I was like “what’s your problem, woman?”. But, since I know that her harmonica was a gift from Toal, I can see where she’s coming from. Speaking of Reah, I personally think that it was priceless when both Raba and Luta Gemma urged Adol to save Reah, who was taken captive by Dark Fact in Rado’s Annex, only to get that Reah was like “oh, I got captured by purpose”. If only Adol could speak, I bet he would be like “shit, seriously?”

Favorite Soundtrack: Palace of Destruction and Tension

Awesome fan art of Adol, Reah, and Feena.

Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ The Final Chapter

After collecting the six books of Ys, Adol was thrown teleported to the vanished land of Ys. He got unconscious and saved by an apple farmer (jk, she’s unemployed), Lilia, who ended up crushing on him. He discovered that Ys was ruled by a twin Goddesses (who were clearly Reah and Feena, but the game treated you as if you haven’t figured it out by then anyway). Adol can uses magic in this game, which you can burn any villagers you want with it (gotta burn Gorto to dust). He went to Solomon Shrine, encountering many hardships along the way, defeating Darm, and bringing peace to Esteria, only to finally know that some npcs are descendants of Ys’s priests. Cool. Anyway, Adol succeeded to make both Feena and Lilia fell for him. At the end of the game, Lilia almost confessed her feelings for Adol in front of Feena (I was hoping Lilia would actually do that and got slapped by Feena tho lol) and Feena also cried for Adol since she couldn’t be with him. She asked him to remember her as a girl, not as a goddess. Good job, Adol. You’ve successfully become a full-fledged fuck boy.

Favorite Character: Still none.

Least Favorite Character: Gorto. At the end of the game, he was like “Oh! I’m actually the descendant of Priest Dabbie!” and I was like “I didn’t went through all of that for knowing that you’re a descendant of some random old fart, dammit.”

Favorite Soundtrack: To Make the End of a Battle

Lilia, the apple farmer.

Ys III: The Oath in Felghana

Ys III took place after Ys IV in Dogi’s hometown. It was told in the bonus prologue (which can be unlocked after finishing the game), that Dogi was worried about his hometown and they decided to give it a visit. It was said that Adol put his finger on Dogi’s lips, stopping him from saying anything further. Umm... I thought Adol was only hitting on girls?? But, okay. Adol x Dogi confirmed LOL. In the old opening, it was also shown that Adol and Dogi climbed a steep mountain without any equipment, out of foolishness I presumed. Adol got a cool scarf in this game, which boosted his confidence when hitting on Elena, Dogi’s childhood friend. Dogi was dumbfounded when he met Elena. He never expected his tomboy childhood friend would grow into a beautiful girl. But he knew better that Elena would end up falling for Adol, so he didn’t even think about making Elena into his girlfriend. Wise decision, Dogi. The game tells the story of Chester’s revenge plan, which was ruined in instance even after Chester stabbed Dogi and stuff. Oof, the embarrassment. At the end of the game, Chester killed himself out of embarrassment in order to seal Galbalan away. Elena, the strongest of all, couldn’t stop her brother because she passed out after getting her shoulder punched by Chester. Makes sense. Oh, don’t forget that Elena was also crying over Adol’s departure towards new adventure.

Favorite Character: Dogi. “Nah, she’ll just fall for you, anyway. Just like the usual.” and “Cool move, showstealer.” are too priceless.

Least Favorite Character: No one. But I can’t stand Dogi’s godmother’s voice acting.

Favorite Character Design: Count McGuire. He’s literally Goban in a king outfit lol.

Favorite Soundtrack: Valestein Castle

I love this artist ever since I was an elementary school girl, and I just found out recently that this is a fan art of Chester and Elena.

Ys IV: Memories of Celceta

Ys IV took place after Ys II, with Adol got his memories wiped off instead of getting shipwrecked. Let’s appreciate his character development at least. Ys IV tells the theories of why Adol decided to call himself an adventurer. At first, the only motivation for me to play this game was to find more references of Geis since I heard that he’s originally from a village in Celceta. But the whole game was quite entertaining. Filling the maps, playing side quests, and retrieving Adol’s memories back. It was shown in his memories that his wanderlust came from his father. There were two memories that left strong impressions to me. The first one was the memories that showed his father’s reason for traveling around the world. “I just want to see things with my own eyes. Here, look at this. I heard that in this place, there are very beautiful white flowers that only bloomed for one night, once in a year.” Idk, but when I read that, I also got the urge to see those flowers with my own eyes. Unfortunately, the game never showed you the flowers he mentioned, even though I’m sure that he was referring to the white celceta flowers, which was already extinct by then. The second one was the last memory Adol retrieved in the game. The one with Eldeel and Adol in it. Eldeel offered Adol the knowledge of the whole world, but Adol refused since he wanted to see the world with his own eyes, just like his father. Eldeel was impressed and gave him another thing instead; a name (more like a title, though). He gave Adol the title of an adventurer, the very title he used in every single travelogue he wrote. It really left a strong impression. Everything in the series just clicked after that memories showed up. It changed the way I look at the whole game. Dunno why though lol. Anyway, it was told that Geis and Ernst lived in Danan. There was an empty house at the outskirt of town. I think it was actually Gruda’s, but I’m gonna assume that it was Ernst and Geis’s since I find it funny that there’s only one bed inside the house (Ernst slept in the bed, while Geis slept on the kitchen floor). It looked like Ernst left an open wound on Frieda, since Frieda looked sad every time she remembered Ernst. Tsk, tsk. It was told that Geis left Danan to pursue his brother and bring him home. How cute. His story will take place three years later in Ys VI. Wait, why am I talking about Geis? :/ Overall, Ys IV is a good game. I personally prefer the Japanese title though, The Foliage Ocean in Celceta.

Favorite Character: Duren. He’s the bullied in the party. I love it when falcom gave us the option “are you breaking up with me?” when he was about to leave Adol for awhile. The way he picks locks are also hilarious. *laughs maniacally, then kicks the treasure chest* He truly lightened up the mood. I don’t really like to use him in battle, though. I prefer Calilica for the strike type. My personal favorite characters in battle are Ozma and Frieda.

Least Favorite Character: Bami. I don’t really like Gruda and Gadis either, since Gruda is just some sort of ancestor freak (typical of Geis’s evil family members) and Gadis is also a violent jerk who hurts animals. But, Gruda still acts decent and Gadis does make a point when he points out that Ozma is actually not that different from him. Bami, in other hand... everything she does just doesn’t make any sense to me. Plus, I don’t like Leeza either since she acted just like Yunica. So reckless.

Favorite Soundtrack: Underground Ruins, Ancient Land, Seeking the Vanished Mask.

Mini Adol and his daddy.

Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

The very first Ys game I played. It doesn’t have the best story line, but it still got a special place in my heart since it was my first game. So, Adol got shipwrecked, as usual. He got saved by two girls (what a jackpot), Olha and Isha. They ended up crushing on him too, of course. Adol was disliked by the whole village at first, because he’s a human. But he just slithered into every villager’s heart somehow. As expected from our beloved fuck boy. Adol went through Mythos Path to get to the village of eresians. He met Geis, an angry-looking jerkass who wore rag. He challenged Adol into a duel and ended up insulting Adol, no matter if Adol wins the duel or not. He warned Adol to mind his own business or he would bitch slap Adol with his halberd again. He truly resembles Kishgal, his ancestor. What irony (1). Anyway, the whole game was about Adol ignoring Geis’s warning, the whole series actually. Adol ended up putting his nose into everyone’s business, including Geis’s. Geis found Adol’s being nosy numerous times and gave him numerous warnings, yet he never put his finger on Adol again. All bark no bite. Adol got involved with Ernst’s mosquitoes fairies who were running errands for their master. Adol also received Livert, Brilante, and Ericcil swords, which were the very key to the weather control panel in Canaan, the Ark of Napishtim. Adol was a big pain in the ass to Ernst’s plan to take over the weather control panel. Yet, Ernst did nothing to stop Adol. He was only trying to stop Geis, who actually did nothing but put on ghost buster stickers on pillars in Zemeth Sanctum. Those stickers got ripped off by the human villagers in the end, which made all of Geis’s hardwork in the last 3 years went for nothing. Poor Geis. In his adventure, Adol also collected Olha’s mirror fragments and returned it to Olha to make Olha fall head over heels to him. Not to mention that Adol also invested his time in Isha, who already fell head over heels to him after Adol saved her. Oh, don’t forget about Terra who got jealous over Olha when she found her in Adol’s arms. Man, Adol’s trying real hard to be productive in this game. 3 girls at the same time. He proved to be skillful in multitasking and time management. Still, he couldn’t win the shopkeeper’s heart, since she mentioned that Adol looks cute, but Geis is kinda hot. Poor Adol, losing his win streak. Anyway about Olha’s mirror, she returned it to Adol again before Adol went to the Ark of Napishtim. So what was the point in returning the mirror back to her? Olha told Adol that he could only get to the Ark by her wyvern. She then told Adol how heroic he was, and that he was the only one who could save Isha and the entire Canaan Island. It launched Adol’s ego, only to get disappointed when Geis showed up and got Olha’s permission to join the ride. If I was Adol, I would be like “Damn it, Olha. I thought you said I was the only one who can do this???”. Then, Adol and Geis got on the wyvern’s back and went to the Ark. Geis revealed to Adol that Ernst was actually his older brother who tried to live up to their ancestors’s delusional dreams. All of Geis’s evil family members are fawning over their ancestors anyway, so it was no surprise. Adol was actively ignoring Geis, though. He didn’t even look at Geis when he was talking. He still got his ego bruised. Not to mention that Adol failed to win the shopkeeper’s heart because of Geis. Adol is angy, no talk to Adol. In the Ark, Geis monopolized the elevator, pointing out that he would rather an outsider didn’t meddle into his family business. Right after Geis left the screen, Galba-roa appeared in front of Adol and kicked Adol’s ass. Geis was beyond redemption to Adol at that point. After defeating Galba-roa, Adol finally got the privilege to use the elevator. He went upstairs and found Geis wounded on the floor. Adol didn’t even run to his side; he just casually walked there to check on his condition. “Serves you right, bastard.” Adol met Ernst afterward, who was discussing about whether he should have killed Geis or not with his mosquitoes. Adol interfered the discussion and got Ernst spouting his ancestors’s history without being asked to. He truly looked up to his ancestors, yet he didn’t even resemble any one of them. Geis on the other hand, who claimed that their ancestors were being delusional and was being called a disgrace to their family, is the most similar to their ancestors. Wears double bandanna and rag, uses halberd, poleaxe, and trident in battle, and loves to challenge someone into a duel. What irony (2). After defeating Ernst, Ernst gave his mosquitoes to Geis. Man, he really hated his brother to death. Geis urged Adol to destroy the Ark of Napishtim and dragged Isha out of the scene, monopolized the elevator once again. Adol destroyed the Ark of Napishtim and was welcomed by his girls and Dogi. Damn, Dogi couldn’t read the atmosphere. The game ended with Adol leaving Canaan with Dogi and Terra, who brought Olha and Isha crying over him. He saw them waving at him with tears in their eyes, and waved back at them with big satisfied smile. The fuck boy had succeeded making girls cried once again.

What about Geis? He also left Canaan with his new friends by a small boat. Nobody saw him off. No wonder he had grown into an angsty angry-looking guy.

Favorite Character: Geis. Honestly, I don’t really like this guy at first. He’s a moody jerk who gets angry at almost everything. Falcom also makes him into Adol’s rival, which he lives up to that identity. But having him in the game is refreshing somehow. Adol is a silent main protagonist, who accepts whatever people ask him to and would never do anything treacherous. The other supporting characters are kinda like Adol, it’s so typical, honestly. It was shown in the game that Adol, Olha, and Terra did nothing when they were about to get captured by Agares’s soldiers. Then, Geis showed up and finished off the soldiers. He then asked Agares about his brother whereabouts. After getting information about Ernst, Geis killed Agares despite Agares’s pitiful begging. “Shut your fat mouth... I don’t need you anymore. You just sleep here with everyone else.” Man, that was badass. He’s an asshole, sure, but he got character. He got the “best” voice acting too in the PS2 version, anyway. That event left quite strong impression, and I wished I could play as him instead of our do-gooder fuck boy. One more thing I like from Geis is that he’s short-tempered and foul-mouthed, but he doesn’t let those affected his decisions. He makes his decisions based on the situation he’s facing (unlike Yunica and Leeza), which is shown more in Ys Seven. I find it quite appealing.

Olha is my second favorite next to Geis, since she’s the master of passive-aggressive approach. She may acts like a tender and loving girl, but there are some scenes in the game that shows her being passive-aggressive around people. The first scene is when Geis showed up in the Rehdan Village, asking both Ord and Olha about how to get to the Ark. Geis was being a rude guest, and guess what Olha did to make him stop being inappropriate? Olha greeted Adol politely, as if Geis was never there to begin with. Ord followed her suit afterward, leaving Geis ignored and embarrassed. The second scene is when Olha talked to Adol before summoning the wyvern to go to the Ark. She gave Adol her mirror, throwing numerous praises to Adol, telling Adol that he was the only one who could save everyone. She really did make Adol feel special. Then, Geis showed up and asked to join the ride. Olha gave her permission, as if she didn’t say anything to Adol before that. She probably hated him for hitting on other girls, especially Isha. Nice move, Olha.

Olha, the master of passive-aggressive approach.

Least favorite Character: No one. Aside from Geis, I don’t think the others got much character. I got nothing against anyone. But if it’s about voice acting... then how about everyone especially ISHA, JUE, AND SERA?!

"He’s kinda hot, but a bit rough around the edges.”

Favorite Character Design: Geis. Despite of wearing rag, I find his design to be quite badass. His double bandanna makes him much more appealing, for real. I hate to admit it, but I agree with the shopkeeper. Adol is cute and all, but Geis is hot as hell.

Favorite Soundtrack: Release of the Far West Ocean, Mighty Obstacle, and ERNST.

What if Geis was the one who found Adol first?

Ys Seven

Ys Seven is my personal favorite Ys game in the whole series. I find Ys Seven to be the most story rich in the Ys series. Ys Seven took place after Ys VIII, in the land of Altago, an uncharted land in Afroca. Adol and Dogi arrived in Altago and found Altaginian soldiers harassed Tia, the final boss a flower seller, and Maya, a muted girl. Of course, Adol stood up for her; he never missed his chance to hit on girls anyway. Ironically, Adol’s heroic actions sent him and Dogi straight to prison. They got theirselves saved by Scias. Scias told them that the king knew about Adol, since Adol was kind of a celebrity in his travelogues, and wished to talk to him personally. The king asked Adol to run some errands for him, since Adol was known for his nosiness. Adol lived up to his expectations, of course. After being trained by Scias, Adol and Dogi left to an altar. They found an altar inside, and it bestowed Adol with a new power and at that very moment Adol was chosen as a dragon warrior. Let’s get serious here. Adol being a dragon warrior actually doesn’t make any sense. He was just some outsider who arrived in Altago some hours ago. In other words, he was nothing more than a tourist. But, oh well. Anyway, after Adol released his new power to the first boss fight, he got unconscious and saved by Tia. Tia brought Adol and Dogi to the old town, where poor people resided. It was shown that people in the old town was threatened to lose their home to Altaginians politicians, who intended to change the old town into a trading center. After Adol recovered, he went to the king and gave him his report. The king was satisfied and asked Adol another request related to dragon warrior stuff. He then revealed that everything that happened to Adol probably had something to do with recent earthquakes in Altago. Following the king’s request, Adol and Dogi continued their adventure in Altago. They met Elk (a monkey boy who looked like Gau from Final Fantasy VI), Aisha (the princess of Altago who dressed as if you hadn’t figured it out by then), Mustafa (a stiff guy with some problem with his dad), Mishera (a blind lady who talks with the wind), and guess what, Geis. The game was about Adol wandering around Altago and collecting information about dragon warrior and recent earthquake alongside with Dogi and Aisha for the first half playthrough. They found out that the earthquakes in Altago weren’t just some normal nature phenomenon and found that there was also a breakout of iskan fever, the fever that made one body’s paralyzed to death. After Adol, Dogi, Aisha, and Geis returned from the ruined island, Adol got accused for murdering the king of Altago, which make him, Dogi, and Geis ended up in prison. Then, there was a scene that showed Adol got tortured by a sadistic woman. Umm... What are you implying, falcom? Are you trying to give the players some fanservice or what? It felt weird to get turn on over a silent protagonist... especially since Adol looks like a cute good boy in Ys Seven (He looks so much better in Ys IX). I didn’t drool over Adol’s body, anyway. He’s not my type and I’m not into BDSM lol. Anyway, while Adol got tortured, Dogi and Geis was just hanging out in a different cell. Dogi kept shouting Adol’s innocence to the wall, while Geis laughed at Adol’s false accusation, completely content with the situation. Adol found himself some good friends, for sure. At least, Geis already figured that Adol was framed by then. Unlike Dogi. Later, Aisha came to see Adol personally and told him that he was going to be executed in the Colosseum. He was going to show his fresh scars in front of Altago people and tried to win an impossible battle against a Titano. The meaning was deep, actually. You got accused for something you didn’t commit, got tortured, forced to show those scars you received in front of public who wished nothing but your death, and tried to prove your innocence by winning an impossible battle. But we all know that giving Adol a sword means that he’s gonna survive somehow lol. After defeating the Titano, Adol’s besties finally proved to be useful. Dogi broke the Colosseum wall and Geis threw a smoke bomb (his little friend), which secured their escape. The three of them left Altago city and went to Iskan Village so Geis could introduce Adol to another evil family member someone. Sounded like he was introducing Adol to his parents, no?

Adol’s hitting on everyone. Indiscriminately.

Adol was actually introduced to Ciarius, Geis’s current boss who taught him how to make ghost buster stickers he used in Ys VI. It was revealed that Ciarius was actually planning on making Geis into the dragon warrior, since Geis could master Iskan exorcism. Looked like Adol was one step ahead of him. Phew. Geis failed to be Adol’s showstealer. But I still kinda wished the main protagonist would be Geis instead of Adol, although Geis didn’t get any character development in this game. Ciarius asked Adol to meet the five dragons of Altago himself, saying that he needed to ask them how to stop the wind of destruction (the wind that would bring end to the entire Altago). Adol was reunited with Elk, Mustafa, and Mishera, who were ready to accompany Adol in his dragons hunting journey. I love it when Dogi said “Wow, we’ve become a big happy family. Speaking of which, we need a grumpy uncle! What do you say, Geis? You wanna be part of this family, too?”. Man, Dogi’s literally being duh in this game, and it made difference to the whole game. I’m gonna write down Dogi’s dialogue in the favorite character section later, since Dogi is my second favorite character in this game, next to Geis (he’s my favorite in the entire series). Geis was planning on not rejoining the party, since he failed to steal Adol’s highlight. He ended up staying in the party, thanks to Ciarius’s passive-aggressive approach. The party left Iska, finding out that Adol was being pursued by the Altaginian soldiers. Sigroon, Aisha’s personal soldier, found Adol and joined the party under Aisha’s name. They revisited the altars of dragons in Shannoa, Segram, and Kylos, found the dragons, and asked them about the wind of destruction and dragon warrior’s job desk. The dragons didn’t give them a straight answer, asked Adol’s group to prove their worth, and gave them stones instead of answers. Wonderful. There were a few changes in the party, though. After visiting the fire dragon in Segram, Cruxie died. Then, Adol revived her using the fire dragon stone. Miracle occured, Cruxie came back to life. Then, she kicked Mustafa out of the party, stealing her brother’s highlight in the game. What a fascinating sister. That explains why Mustafa’s skills are too cute for him, though. Falcom never really intended him to be a permanent party member :/ poor guy. The party returned to Altago afterward, finding that Altago was under attack. The party split up. Adol and Dogi went to Tia’s house, looking for Tia and Maya. But they only found Maya, who was still looking for Tia despite of her iskan fever. Adol and Dogi went to the port and regroup with Geis. Soon, they headed to the palace and found that Aisha was being attacked by a cloaked man. It was revealed that the cloaked man was actually Scias, who worked under the real eldress of Iskan, Tialuna. After the attack, Tia and Scias left Altago (they won against the entire army) and told our lil’ dragon warrior to received two more dragon stones. Aisha rejoined the party afterwards and the party went to the ruined island once more. After getting nothing from the sea dragon, they went back to Iskan Village and found the moon dragon. The moon dragon proved that he could speak more fluently than his brothers (thank goodness :/). After defeating him, he told the entire party the truth of dragon warrior and the wind of destruction. The dragon warrior was the representation of all life in Altago, which the wind of destruction would destroy in order to rebuild Altago again from scratch. In other words, Adol’s just being a representation of Altago people’s struggles against the wind of destruction. Hearing that, Geis said, “Wait, HE’s the proxy?! What the hell!”. If only his dialogue was a tumblr’s thread, I’m gonna reblog it over, over, and over. Why would the dragons choose a tourist to be the representation of all life in their land anyway? Those dragons have to be surely out of their minds. It would make better sense if the dragon warrior was Aisha, or Elk, or Mustafa, or Mishera, or heck, even Cruxie. Anyway, Tia opened up the well of souls after that, the final dungeon. The whole party went there, defeated Scias, Tia, and the root of all existence in Altago. They ran out of the well of souls afterward, since it was going to close down by itself. They forgot something when they were running in panic, though. Adol could teleport all of them out of the well of souls with the fire dragon power. The whole party members forgot about it and ran to the exit by foot, while Adol held Tia’s hand and guided her to the exit. Smooth move, fuck boy. We reached the game’s climax after they got out from there safely. The five dragons disappeared alongside with the root of all existence in Altago. The dragon stones also disappeared. And guess, what? Tia too. When she was about to disappear, Maya showed up, despite of just recovered from her Iskan fever. She ran to Tia, holding her tight and screaming “aaah-aaah” since she was muted. In the attempted of begging Tia to stay, Maya got healed from her trauma and called Tia’s name for the first time, begging her to stay in words. Tia still disappeared, nonetheless. It was the only ending in Ys series that brought me to tears. Maya is a real tear-jerker. But it left a very strong impression, the thing that made me love the whole Ys series. At the end of the game, Aisha was busy, rebuilding Altago. Seemed like Elk, Mustafa, Cruxie, and Mishera headed back to their villages too. Adol and Dogi helped Aisha, just for a few days. They left Altago not long after that, itching for new adventures. Aisha promised them that when they returned to Altago, it would be full of white flowers that Tia loved.

What about Geis? The game showed that he left Altago with his fairies by boat, again. And no one saw him off, again. Poor boy.

Favorite character: Geis. It’s still Geis. Man, I love him even more after playing Ys Seven. He’s still the same old Geis, though. Surly, moody, and hot-tempered. He’s playable in Ys Seven, slash-typed just like Adol and Elk. He’s kinda slow for a slash-type, but stronger than the other slash-type characters. He got cool moves (Axe Art: Ravage is your god) and he was real fun to play with. I ditched Elk, Aisha, and Mishera after I got him. He made his usual appearance in Ys Seven, showing up out of nowhere and challenged Adol into a duel for no reason. And of course, he would insult Adol whether Adol wins against him or not. It’s just so Geis. I guess I just love him being cynical. He snarked to Adol that someone like Adol wouldn’t gain anything good by sticking his nose into the king’s business, which was also his warning to Adol since Ys VI that Adol actively ignored. He proved his point when Adol got framed by Scias for murdering the king. Geis’s dialogue of “Wait, HE’s the proxy?! What the hell!” also voiced my opinion straight to Adol. Good job, Geis. His grumpiness was entertaining, which was shown when Adol, Dogi, and Geis were heading to Iska Village. Geis told Adol and Dogi that the Iskan Village was in the highlands to the west. The player can moved the characters wherever they want. But, when the characters get into the wrong direction, Geis will scoff at Adol and Dogi. And funnily enough, if the player choose to move as Geis and get in the wrong direction, Geis will scoff at the player. “Are you even trying?!” It was one of my personal favorite scene lol. It was also cute when he tried to preserve what is left of his reputation in front of Adol when an Iskan doctor pointed out that Geis was working like a slave to Ciarius. And just like what I said in Ys VI favorite character section, I like the fact that Geis didn’t let his grumpiness got in his way. It was shown when he got insulted by Scias for being Ciarius’s errand boy. He did bark and point his poleaxe to him, but he didn’t rush to him (unlike Yunica). At the end of the day, he got his own character; his own color. That’s why I like this guy. It’s a pity that he got no character development in this game, since he’s just being all rivalry stuff with Adol for no real reason. What happened in the Ark didn’t get into his thick skull, or so it seems. It kinda felt forced, since he started to act a bit jealous over Adol being a dragon warrior instead of him. When the party found out that being a dragon warrior didn’t do any good, he commented cynically that it actually suit Adol. It felt annoying and cute at the same time, but much more annoying than cute. That scene would make you “Jealous much?” at him, for sure. His design in Ys Seven is pretty good, although his design in Ys VI is much better. He got better outfit in this game, but worse-looking armor, bandanna (bring back the double bandanna pls D”:), and rag cloak. Unfortunately, Geis doesn’t have luxury of having a cool and effective EXTRA skill. His EXTRA skill is just summoning his fairies to fight alongside with him, probably referring to the final battle with Ernst. Falcom decided to give him a better version of Fairy Annihilation in Ys vs. Sora no Kiseki, though. Anyway, it’s also cute to find out that Geis is getting along with his fairies, since the fairies hated him with all their guts in Ys VI for interfering with Ernst’s plan. It was shown that Jue grew fond of him the most, since she called him by his name; not by “Master Geis”.

Jue was the meanest fairy to Geis in Ys VI and in the end she’s the one who grew fond of him the most. Cute.

Aside of Geis, I really love Dogi in Ys Seven. Dogi’s still a sidekick; a plot device Falcom use to break a wall or door. But his sidekick dialogue in this game is completely hilarious and voiced our voice straight to the characters in the game.

When the king said that the dragon power chose Adol for being a dragon warrior, Dogi asked, “But why did the power choose Adol...? (Silly question, given how often this kind of thing happens, but still...)”

When Aisha was asked for her trip to Segram, she claimed that it was uncomfortable; it was hot and full of men’s sweaty smell. Then, Dogi said, “No one asked you to come...”

After having a duel with Geis, Adol, Dogi, and Aisha arrived at Kylos. They met Mishera, who had expected their arrival from the voice of the wind. Dogi asked her, “Mishera, do you know about Geis? A man in black with some personality problem?”

When Geis said that he was going to introduce Adol to someone, Dogi asked, “Someone? Who is this someone? Another evil family member, perhaps?”

After reunited with Elk, Mustafa, and Mishera, Dogi felt like Geis was being left out and said, “Speaking of which, we need a grumpy uncle! What do you say, Geis? You wanna be part of this family, too?

It’s quite unfortunate that I find it hard to play as Dogi, as he is too slow for me. At least it was enjoyable with Dogi being around. I also enjoyed his interaction with Aisha, since they kinda showed that they care for each other in a cute way, such as fighting at each other. Falcom swapped their kind of interaction to Geis in Ys vs Sora no Kiseki, though. It felt weird and forced. Great. What’s the point in doing so when it’s confirmed that Aisha is one of Adol’s love interest in Ys Seven (aside of Tia), anyway? And strangely, Aisha doesn’t even look like she’s interested in Adol in the game. Falcom got poor taste in this kind of department, sometimes...

Least favorite character: Adol Christin. This guy’s really getting on my nerves in this game. First, it was just like Dogi said, “But why did the power choose Adol...? (Silly question, given how often this kind of thing happens, but still...)”. I’m gonna repeat it again. Adol being a dragon warrior doesn’t make any sense because he’s an outsider to Altago’s matter. He doesn’t suit to become a representation of all life in Altago (the same goes to Geis). I personally think that Adol being the chosen one ruined the plot. It would be much better if it was Aisha, and Adol fought alongside with her. But, what do you expect from Ys? The main protagonist is Adol, anyway. But, why the main protagonist has to be the chosen one? Not to mention that he got the strongest sword which can be used as slash, strike, and pierce weapon at the same time. Man, it drove me MAD. Just how many other privileges are still available for this guy, anyway?! Not to mention that he got two girls fawning over him in this game; Tia and Aisha. And you got no way to see where it was coming from, since Aisha didn’t really show any interest in ANYONE and Tia looked like she got something with Scias. Great. Ys Seven aside, this guy is still my favorite fuck boy, so no worries.

Favorite Soundtrack: Innocent Primeval Breaker, Crossing Rage!, Vacant Interference, Children in the Shadows, TIA (all version).

The most emotional part of the game. Ys Seven is definitely a game I’m gonna replay in the future.

Afterwords

And that’s all of the Ys games I can play in the moment. Overall, Ys series might not be the best, but I still find it enjoyable and love the whole series. One wish, though. I wish to see more Geis in the future LOL. A side game where he’s the main protagonist sounds nice, since there are still many things that can be revealed about him (His childhood, him being back to Danan, or his development after moving on from his brother). But if Falcom do make it, I hope he already get some character development by then :/ and focusing more to the plot rather building up some weird romance (Geis doesn’t look like someone who would date anyone, though). That’s just my personal wish lol.

It would be nice if there’s a game that tells more about these two.

Anyway, here’s my current personal favorite Ys Games I’ve played:

Ys Seven

Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

Ys Origin

Ys IV: Memories of Celceta

Ys III: The Oath in Felghana

Ys I & II: Chronicles

Lastly, there was actually one more wish I have for the series.

The game where Adol got caught for hitting on every girls he met by all of his love interests at the same time. Oooooh the anticipation!

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The Muse - Episode One - Lockheed Streetstar

In a far away land past the Devil's Sea...

There is an island unknown to the rest of humanity.

Saikan.

A beautiful land that sprouted a nation.

It is a myth and no invaders ever attempted to come to Saikan for nobody knew outside that they exist.

A thousand year ago,

Sunken ships, wrecked and lost, washed ashore to the mysterious land. The people that survived a thousand year ago began a new civilization. Years after years, not only shipwrecks but planes crashing landed to their history.

But in their legends, it is believed that a giant sea creature saved them, placed them in Saikan for a purpose, and protected the land.

In Saikan, thunderbolts paint the sky day and night. Sometimes it is cloudy, sometimes it would rain. It is the norm and it is their friend. The humans adapted to Saikan's cruel weather and took it to their advantage. As the civilization grew, they developed high end technology and system, a little more advanced than what we have.

The four cities, places to remember are named KM#05, Earheart, Xi, Lockheed. Each has stories to tell that are yet to unveil.

And I will unlock these as you read along.

Now before the real story begins, I shall brief you more about Saikan.

In Saikan, the citizens are classified as:

Maruns - people who work for MARU (government)

Theurgists - people who believe and worship mysterious beings, believers of supernatural and divinity

Teknikiin - people who develop and work on technologies

Ediin - agriculturists, economists, businessmen

Undergrounders (UGs) - rebels, and underground independent orgs

J.O.P - Just Ordinary People

Currency:

Points. All citizens are monitored and microchipped at their pulse. The installed permanent device is called SRAM.

With the help of SRAM, the citizens were monitored by Maru (government). The SRAM holds a person's entire biodata, entire web, entertainment, currency, entire life.

Technology:

They are able to turn a 3D holographic form to a physical object.

Economy:

Between the cities, there is a river connected to a lake, and the lake connected to the sea. Its water was mysterious, and it was the main source of power, oil, and minerals of Saikan. The economy was greatly dependent on it. But underneath the blessing was an equivalent price. The lake is called "The Cursed Lake" and river was called "The Dark River", for the water coming from there brought a plague. Anyone who touches it will be cursed. So the river and the lake were glass-sealed. Only selected personnel and machines were allowed to harvest from it.

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Episode One: Lockheed Streetstar

Let us begin with a prophecy.

All gathered, the cult in white hooded robes, recited the eminent future through a song. They sang:

"Time... when the moon

turns blazing blue;

Time... when thunders no longer roar

and land thirsts dry;

Time devours the dead,

And the dead devours the living;

Time of destruction and of revolution;

Time... is power... and power is born

in the hands of the Clairvoyant."

These white clothed men are Theurgists. They devote their lives unveiling the mysteries of their land. Their faith is grounded and built on solid foundation, influencing the culture and tradition of Saikan.

The central city, Lockheed, is the place of the core believers. The theurgists here are influential. They are storytellers, magicians, actors, musicians, and media. They are the attraction and trendsetters.

The cult is lead by Kingsbirth.

Kingsbirth is a powerful man in the country. He lives in the biggest cruise-mansion called The Royal Voyager at Lockheed bay. He is greatly pleasured by art, performances, and divine powers. He is one of the richest people in Saikan, and one of the councilors of the governor.

Meanwhile, on a street in Lockheed, there was a young girl who captivated the attention of the crowd by performing. She was playing ERHI -- a musical instrument device interface that can record, playback, and loop beats and melodies -- projected in holographic form. She was busking for points.

The parks were lovely. The town was as sparkling as New York city. Tall buildings in peculiar architecture, flying vehicles, holograms everywhere. The girl, though in the lowest ranks of the J.O.P., stood out amidst the crowd... for no one was as good as her in their generation.

The girl is a streetkid, 13 years of age, one in the smallest percentage of the population who lives in poverty. Most of them are abandoned children. But among them, she was oddly blessed in maneuvering the SRAM.

It was a dim orange day as the sun's neon light rays peek in tiny holes of the clouds. After earning quite an amount of points through busking, the girl returned home -- a ruined infrastructure filled with street children. She distributed points to each of them, in which after, they ran, with gratitude and excitement, they ran to purchase their needs.

She smiled as they run away. And the smile faded when she heard a noise.

A child crying. She went to the little kid.

"Cicilli? Cicilli, what's wrong?"

The little kid continued to cry.

"I feel... I feel sad." The little kid said before she fainted. She was burning sick.

She carried her to the hospital nearby. The doctor checked her up, tied her, and told her that Cicilli might have caught the dark plague. It was very alarming.

"If anyone is infected by the dark river, the dark plague causes the following symptoms; at first, sadness, depressive thoughts, fear, and then insanity, and extreme hatred. Physicalizing, upon the next few hours, the skin will start to rot. They will bleed, drool excessively, and they will feel hunger, extreme hunger. They will eat food and not be satisfied. Until they eat flesh, their own and of others. The virus will then spread." Explained the doctor.

"We have to cut the parts that were infected. We have to cut her hand. If not, we'll go with euthanasia." The doctor added.

"How much... for her to live?" The girl asked as if she can afford.

"The operation costs 10000 points. That's already discounted." The doctor answered worrying.

"Do it. I'll come back with points." The girl said.

Believing the impossible, she agreed to pay for the operation and decided to go out and busk again.

After several plays she haven’t reached even close 10000...

“You need that much of points? Try to go to the Royal Voyager, maybe you’ll loot enough from the upper ranks.” A stranger suggested. And she went her way to the big mansion ship. She sneaked in to the lobby of the luxurious venue. She walked to the huge dining hall were higher ranks gathered. She opened her ERHI and began to play. The people laughed at her at first but then... something about the music changed the way they feel. They became so drawn to it that they started seeing images and memories.

And right there, Kingsbirth was watching.

After the song, Kingsbirth, as if heard an angel, walked towards her astonished and gave her the points she needs.

"My darling, little sweet darling, would you like to live in royalty? You are divine! You are a goddess!" Kingsbirth exclaimed.

"My friend is in a hospital right now and I need to go. Thank you, Kingsbirth. You have a good heart." She responded politely.

Then she hurriedly ran to the hospital. After an exhausting race, she got to Cicilli's bed and saw the kid lying pale, her skin rotted.

"She has ascended to the sky.” said the doctor. And the girl cried non-stop on the floor. She cried for two things; she cried for being low ranked; and she cried because despite having the points now, she is powerless to change the situation.

The doctor, crushed in sympathy, embraced her, like a mother.

"My name is Doctor Mishuno. Do you have anyone coming?" She asked.

"None." She answered.

"It's okay. You can stay with us. We will keep you." The doctor said.

At the height of the moment, a young boy, her son, called to her and saw the young girl.

"She's... she's that girl at the park! I saw her, Mishuno, she's the singer!" The boy claimed.

"Ah... this boy, he's my son, Clio." Said the doctor.

"Clio." The girl repeated. "I'm going home".

And the girl walked her way out. She returned to the ruined infrastructure, but nobody’s there anymore.

It rained. She sat on the sidewalk waiting for everybody, soaking. Then an umbrella appeared above her, preventing the water to soak her anymore. There was Clio.

"Hey, sorry I followed you here! Mishuno said your friend ascended.... and you don't have to pay anymore." In quite a long silence, the young girl didn't say anything, instead, she sang.

“Your voice resonates like thunder." The young boy said.

"They're gone... all of them. I think they're not coming back." Said the girl.

Then a luxurious vehicle stopped by them. Kingsbirth goes out.

“Come with me.” Kingsbirth invites the young girl, whom he knew was homeless.

"Hey, is that Kingsbirth, the theurgist oldman?!" Clio asked.

"Hold on, little boy. Let me talk to my little lady." Kingsbirth excused the girl to an isolated talk. He persuaded her by claiming that she has a divine purpose and that purpose is to go with him and start a new life. Clio wondered what was happening.

“Go home.” The girl said to Clio. Then she went inside the vehicle without looking back.

She left with Kingsbirth, seeking a better life.

Clio walks home alone. He encountered a strange man begging for food. When he couldn't give him any, the man bit him.

NEXT EPISODE:

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holylangdon · 6 years

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hi, welcome to the masterlist! please keep in mind that as of mid-2019, i am currently on hiatus! however, i will post ahs content again someday :) if you like my writing and want to read more stuff, my multifandom/non-ahs blog is @mhysaisamaster :)

also! warning! fluff is not tagged! i forgot to do that when i originally made this masterlist. oops. maybe it will get fixed in the future.

♡ love, michael (1, 2, 3, 4): michael langdon’s wife finds out that he’s been cheating on her. she wants answers and probably some time apart, but only after a final hoorah with her (potentially ex-) husband.

☁ let’s talk about death: tate’s best friend is dead and it’s his fault. they discuss it, angst ensues. my first imagine.

♡ love me like you do: tate has a crush on violet’s twin sister, y/n harmon. he confesses and it all leads to some smut.

about a girl: a new girl moves into the murder house. tate shrugs her off as a preppy kid but decides to go through her stuff to investigate. turns out, she likes nirvana. he likes her.

pregnancy: tate and his girlfriend are expecting a baby.

☁ all apologies: tate’s childhood best friend decides to visit the murder house years after his death. tate finds her crying and doesn’t recognize her. she tries to jog his memory.

kiss it better: tate’s girlfriend has been having horrible nightmares and stops sleeping so he tries to help her.

♡ i wanna be yours: tate’s an artist who needs supplies and his girlfriend is annoyed and wants to sleep. he decides that sex is a good middle ground. very kinky.

breed: tate meets a pretty girl at a nirvana concert and loves the sweet, sweet feeling of acceptance.

count me in: tate’s twin sister is in love with violet too. may the best twin win...?

♡ stop the world, i wanna get off with you: tate goes to his neighbor’s house, the one he has a crush on, to run an errand for his mom. she answers the door in a pair of tiny shorts. later, he can't stop thinking about it and decides to relieve himself.

something in the way: the reader is a ghost and helps tate through his transition, which he mistakes as her liking him. he confesses.

past lives: the reader’s friends convince her to use an ouija board in her room, which is where the infamous westfield high shooter died twenty years ago.

♡ electric love: tate wants to try a little something new in the bedroom.

♡ goodnight & go: the reader, who is tate’s best friend, is a virgin. on a late night whim, she admits this to him and says she’d like someone special to take her virginity. tate sees his opportunity... and he takes it.

the emotion: the reader moves into the muder house, and charles seems to take a liking to her.

♡ female robbery: violet’s dad is out of town, and her mom is giving her some space. she decides to go down on her girlfriend.

youth: kyle spencer finds the reader in hiding from the frat party going on downstairs with his pet cat, tara.

♡ shape of you: kyle meets a girl at a college bar and they have sex in the bathroom.

nine in the afternoon: kyle spencer decides to curb the study fatigue with a fun little game of hide and seek.

♡ what you need: kyle decides to skip class and comes home to the sound of moaning coming from his room. who could it be?

girls like me: the reader is having a particularly bad day with her scoliosis. kyle comes home and spends the day with her.

overnight sensation: the reader’s friend drags her to klg’s end of year party and she soon gets uncomfortable. eventually, she finds her way to kyle spencer’s quiet bedroom, where kyle finds her. they proceed to go on instagram and make fun of the people partying downstairs.

♡ i didn't just kiss her: the reader breaks up with her boyfriend when she realizes she’s in love with kyle. safe to say, he shares the same feelings.

☁ will he: an angsty fic based on the song by joji. kyle cheats on his girlfriend and finds himself remembering the better times that you shared together.

electric feel: kyle takes the reader to the fair on a date and somehow convinces her to face her fears and go on a carnival ride that she fears.

if that’s not love: kyle spencer gets drunk and the reader, who happens to be cordelia’s baby sister, sneaks him into the academy. as he sobers up, the reader admits that she’s in love with him.

strangers: a songfic based on the song by halsey. delia begins to have second thoughts about dating one of her students after madison catches them in bed together.

☁ it takes time: when michael langdon admits to cheating on cordelia’s daughter, his fiancé, she goes back home to the academy to heal.

☁ no tears left to cry: cordelia says goodbye to her daughter as she places her under an identity spell with mallory and coco.

♡ stars: misty day takes the reader’s virginity under the stars.

the remedy for a broken heart: years after misty gets trapped in hell, michael langdon performs the seven wonders for the council (and misty’s girlfriend). cordelia asks for him to conquer hell and retrieve the girl.

♡ drops of jupiter: jimmy takes the reader’s virginity.

♡ kisses in the wind: jimmy wakes his baby girl up with morning sex on a lazy sunday morning.

jealousy: james’ girlfriend goes to visit an old friend at the murder house on all hallows eve.

ready or not: james’ girlfriend sees another woman flirting with him, so she kills her. james may or may not enjoy watching.

☁ good mourning: james falls in love with a flapper who performs at the hotel. on new years, someone kills her.

♡ lust for life: james makes the startling discovery that his longtime partner is a killer, just like him.

angel on fire: the countess and donovan find a newly-transitioned afflicted with three dead bodies in the hotel. they take her is as their “daughter,” of sorts.

come as you are: the reader meets donovan at the cortez.

let it go: winter comforts the reader on election night after the results are announced.

♡ flesh to flesh: after oz goes to sleep, winter runs a nice bath for her girlfriend. things turn sexual.

♡ moonlit majesty: winter comes home slightly drunk and very horny. she also has a mommy kink.

♡ little hell: after a very sexually charged interview, michael just can’t resist showing up at the reader’s room at midnight.

the michael thing for kyra: very, very fluffy outpost!michael that i wrote for a friend of mine.

♡ hell is too close: the reader is a demon that used to be michael’s accomplice with benefits and now resides in outpost three. he realizes that he needs her, and after a particularly wonderful harvest of the blood moon, they can’t help but go back to their old ways.

do you wonder: after young!michael confesses his feelings for his best friend and things get passionate between them, he pulls away and doesn’t continue. things are a little tense between them until they talk it out, which results in some extreme fluff.

♡ dealing with the devil: the reader is a witch who was chosen to survive at the outpost. in her interview, michael senses something dark about her and threatens her with a knife. well, she has a blood kink.

♡ to hell with the devil: michael finds out that the reader is a virgin and can’t resist the idea of absolutely ruining her purity, but slowly. his plans go down the drain when her hears her sweet little moans for the first time.

♡ pleaser: priest michael langdon knows about a member of his congregation’s sexual fantasies about him. and now, he wants to see her. privately.

strange magic: the reader is the daughter of warlock john henry moore, and he’s asked her to teach the new student, michael, some things about magic.

cling to me: witch!reader comforts michael after the grocery store incident thinking he’s a warlock. she doesn’t intend to stick around, but feels some strange bond to him.

♡ first wonder (MALE!READER): michael is a new student at the hawthorne school and quickly forms feelings for a boy there. later, in his room, he lets his thoughts wander south.

just looking at the world: the night before michael is set to perform the seven wonders, he comforts his girlfriend, who isn’t sure he’ll make it out alive.

you’re somebody else: when michael langdon wanders into the underground church of satan, the girl sitting next to him decides to take him home for a shower and a good meal.

from eden: michael hates christmas parties with a burning passion, but when he hears that his sorta-kinda-girlfriend is coming, he can't resist attending. he takes her back to his room where it’s quiet so they can talk, and she ends up confessing that she loves him.

♡ say amen: another priest!au, but this time michael wants the reader to pray for him. things get really dirty really fast until he’s making her beg for his cum on her face.

♡ moment’s silence: the world is ending and you can’t do anything but watch it burn until michael sends his cooperative henchmen to collect you. next thing you know, you’ve woken up to the one and only antichrist standing before you.

♡ bedroom hymns: michael’s gone vanilla. he’s not happy when you point it out and punishment ensues.

♡ dinner and diatribes: michael gets pegged at a dinner party. very fem!dom. you’re welcome.

sweet creature: you sold your soul and married satan to bring your lover back from death. after a series of unfortunate events, michael langdon is now in possession of your soul after his father told him you’d be perfect by his side. he can’t help but agree.

house of the rising sun: mallory’s roommate at miss robichaux’s has a crush on her, but mallory doesn't realize. when she notices her growing distant, she pushes a little too far and she snaps, confessing her feelings.

santa baby: violet and her girlfriend decorate her bedroom for christmas.

what a wonderful world: kit, his partner, jude & the kids spend christmas morning together.

♡ baby, you’re a haunted house: michael takes his girlfriend to a haunted house, but they’re forced to leave when things get a little too real. he takes her back to the car to calm her down, but things get heated rather quickly.

♡ psycho killer: michael and his girlfriend are handing out candy and watching scary movies on halloween night. when he gets bored with the blair witch project, she decides to take matters into her own hands. sadly, the two of them keep getting interrupted by trick or treaters.

♡ drunk on halloween: the reader attends la’s hottest halloween party alone after michael declines her plus-one invitation. he tries to get her not to go because he has a bad feeling. later, he steps in to stop a creep who tries to grope her, having followed her to make sure she didn’t get into trouble. he takes her to a private room and things go in that direction.

nearly witches: mallory and her girlfriend go to a halloween festival in the french quarter together to celebrate her favorite holiday.

* christmas at the cortez

* halloween with misty

* the evans throwing a christmas party

* sex with tate langdon

* violet forgiving tate

* pre-death tate asking the reader out

* tate’s so being a witch

* small things tate does for his s/o

* dating pre-death tate langdon

* getting high with tate langdon

* poly relationship with tate and violet

* sex with nora montgomery (fem!reader)

* sex with nora montgomery (male!reader)

* dating charles montgomery

* sex with kit walker

* dating kit walker

* sex with lana winters

* dating lana winters

* non-possessed mary eunice having a crush on a patient

* mary eunice having a taller s/o

* sex with pre-death kyle spencer

* dating pre-death kyle spencer

* pre-death kyle spencer and boobs

* kyle’s frat brother walking in during sex

* poly relationship with kyle and zoe

* sex with post-death kyle spencer

* couples costumes with pre-death Kyle spencer

* first time spanking with kyle spencer

* dating cordelia goode

* dating madison montgomery

* dating misty day

* sex with jimmy darling

* dating jimmy darling

* jimmy dating a shy girl

* jimmy dating someone with scars on their face

* sex with dandy mott

* being elsa mars’ daughter

* dating james march

* james march as a teenager

* marrying james march

* james’ so being a famous singer

* james’ so getting drunk at the bar

* james finding out his so is pregnant

* james’ so finding his back scars

* sex with donovan

* donovan turning his so

* sex with sally mckenna

* sex with tristan duffy

* dating tristan duffy

* wedding and honeymoon with tristan

* dating rory monahan

* sex with kai anderson

* dating kai anderson

* dating winter anderson

* nsfw alphabet with michael langdon

* sex with michael langdon

* dating michael langdon

* michael falling in love with a human

* virgin michael langdon

* michael giving oral

* how they sound in bed

* the evans: taking their partner’s virginity

* the evans: what they would dress up as for halloween

* the evans: on halloween w/ their so

* the evans: what tattoos they would have

* the evans: how they would wake their partner up

* the evans: reacting to their partner fighting someone

* the evans: playing tag with them

* the evans: throwing a christmas party

violence - pre-death tate langdon

the cigarette duet - violet harmon

unchained melody - lana winters

season of the witch - zoe benson

heartbreak hotel - the countess

antichrist - michael langdon

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kyndaris · 5 years

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This Little Light of Mine

As I was dropping off one of my grandmother’s choir friends at the local train station, she struck up a casual conversation with me. When we neared the cafes and the crossing, she told me the troubles her seven year old granddaughter was experiencing in school. Not only was she suffering from from eczema and the endless itch that comes from being afflicted with the skin condition, but she was also being bullied for it as well. And because she could see no possible light at the end of the tunnel, this little seven year old girl wanted to die. It broke my heart to learn that there was little the grandmother could say to help alleviate the pain her granddaughter was in. But it’s a story that many might have heard before or suffered through firsthand.

With the advent of technology, society has become increasingly insular in many of their worldviews. We join Reddit threads and Discord servers with individuals that share our hobbies and beliefs. Social media has been a great way to shrink the world. We can connect to people from the other side of the world with minimal interference. Twenty years ago, it would not have been so easy.

Unfortunately, the internet and apps like Instagram and Facebook have also opened a gateway to online abuse. Often, these complete strangers hide behind their screens and spew vitriol. And if you read the latest news headlines, it feels like more and more young adults and children are committing suicide due to the hateful comments, or have been encouraged to take their life through the proliferation and ease of access of mobile applications such as Snapchat.

Having read through a couple of articles on ABC News, it’s clear that this is an ongoing issue in many of our schools. In particular, is the culture of fear and physical violence that have permeated schools in our nation’s capital: Canberra, with both students and teachers powerless to stop.

Children can be cruel. It’s a fact of life and an adage for almost as long. In my own personal set of experiences, though, a lot of it is derived from the very thin line between teasing and bullying.

In primary school, I was often seen as odd. Though I had the opportunity to join one of the more popular cliches that had formed, I simply could not condone the heavy gossip and heavily opinionated discussions that were also a part of the entry fee. I was far more interested in re-enacting popular anime shows such as Dragon Ball Z and Zoids.

On occasion, I would be at loggerheads with the son of our next-door neighbour. He would call me names and say mean things. While some of his comments got to me and I would go home crying, I also managed to vindicate myself by kicking him up the butt or ignoring it to the best of my ability. It didn’t help when the advice from those days were: boys are just being boys. Or, ‘it means he likes you.’ Nobody wants to be put-down because of some supposed infatuation. And too often, society has turned a blind eye towards harassment without addressing the core of the issue before twenty years down the track, a person needs to escape from an abusive household.

When I entered high school, though, I found it more difficult to connect with the boys of my grade. It felt as if going through puberty had made them even more immature than they had been in Years 5 and 6. Instead, I found myself surrounded by a group of girls and I slowly tried to ingratiate myself with them. In Year 9, I grew close to a few of them and we became more comfortable about pushing buttons and teasing each other. For me, personally, this came in the form of invading my personal space. Initially, I laughed it off but when they continued and became much more daring, I began to resent their carefree behaviour and their lack of respect to my desires.

I told my mother and asked what I could do.

At first I tried to make known my discontent. When this did not work, I thought to act on my mother’s advice by fighting fire with fire. Rather than play the victim, I would also delve down and try to be as outrageous as I could be. While it didn’t make them stop their relentless teasing, it did slowly inure myself towards their proclivities. Still, it felt like I had to create an entirely different persona and my real self was hidden behind a facade in a bid to keep me sane.

I can’t rightly say that any of this was any actual bullying but even unwarranted teasing can cause an individual distress. When someone pulls you aside and tells you to, “Stop. I’m being serious. I don’t like this and it makes me feel uncomfortable,” we need to listen and acquiesce. We need to think about how our actions - perhaps done in the spirit of fun - can still alienate another person. It’s not a matter of political correctness. This is simply respecting a person’s wishes before it goes too far.

In fact, my fear of the online community in League of Legends and many multiplayer games have also seen me shy away from people that are enjoy video games just as much as I do. This was particularly evident during the events of Gamergate. And while I was never so prolific a celebrity such as Dodger or Felicia Day, I often felt that many of my opinions and interest in the world of video games were often overlooked by the boys that would be in the school library having a DOTA Lan party (or, in Year 8, trying out Magic: The Gathering) as well as a topic that I could not so easily whip out in conversation with the group of girls that I had befriended because only a few of them had even heard the words: Kingdom Hearts or Harvest Moon.

Even now, I’m quite reticent to reveal my eagerness to delve into fantastical worlds with new colleagues or show more than a passing interest in the latest anime craze.

For years, it feels like I’ve had to hide away a side of myself that has always been a core proponent of who I am. Still, I’ve slowly learned to peel back the layers and maybe one of these days, I might be able to lower all the barriers I’ve put up around myself.

In any case, all I wanted to say was that it’s not okay that we live in a world where a seven year old would contemplate killing herself. We need to be better. We need to provide role models. And we need to recognise the behaviours that harm others as well as give support to those that are hurting.

I hope those that read this have a good day and know that they are not alone. Sometimes things can feel as if the whole world is pushing down, threatening to crush you, but just around the corner, there might be a sliver of light.

Hold onto that hope. Don’t let the naysayers bring you down.

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gutterdreams · 6 years

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Rest, Shame, Love [Billy Hargrove]

Disclaimer: I don’t own Stranger Things or the gif below. I was inspired to write this after sleepily saying goodbye to my fiancé this morning .

Word count: 3.1 k.

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There were plenty of reasons why you and Billy never made it beyond flirting in class, one trip to the movies, and heavy petting in the front seat of his car. Yes, you didn’t even make it to the backseat. He wasn’t looking to give up the opportunity to try out every flavor in Hawkins High and you weren’t prepared to take on the full time pet project that was his unsteady temperament. The mutual attraction between you both was there, but nothing worth harvesting ever grew from it. Hawkins was not a busy community though, so it wasn’t as if you never saw one another. You had geography together, your lockers were in the same corridor. He would be in the drugstore picking up hair product while you were flipping through magazines, outside assisting his dad putting up Christmas lights on their house as you were walking by with your older sister to go skating at st the community rink, and even exchanging five minutes of small talk when he was filling up his gas tank at Esso while you were in the passenger seat of Diana’s car on the other side of the pump. There was no hard feelings. There wasn’t really anything.

You weren’t surprised when you spotted him around a keg with Tommy and his favorite gaggle of opportunists at Janet Channing’s random party. Billy would never turn down a chance to drink free beer. You also weren’t surprised that nearly all of the buttons of his red shirt were undone and that he looked good. Billy always looked good and he seemed to struggle with doing up his shirt. You didn’t move to say hi and he didn’t so much as nod his chin in your direction. Sticking by Deanna’s side, trying to talk over the A Flock of Seagulls song that was playing for the second time and convincing her not to hit on Tommy. Some people were giggly drunks who ran away from anyone who tried to contain them. Others were obnoxious and/or violent. You fell into neither category. One drink [Y/N] was fun, she could handle herself with as much composure as sober [Y/N], but if you didn’t progress quickly from second to third to fourth, you were screwed out of being a noisy drunk and slipped right into a state of sleepiness. Tonight, since you hadn’t planned to get wild, you were curled up on the side of the couch, almost squished by a random couple making out half on you, and holding your head with one hand as you started to sink I to drowsiness against the floral arm of the couch. Your friends were around somewhere in the sea of people that had the split level house and it’s back porch filled, but you weren’t worried about it at the moment. Right now, your mind was blank and you were falling to sleep and The Cars ‘Magic’ was your lullaby. “Hey.” At the level of your eyes that you could barely keep open, a groin stood being crushed under the tight pressure of light wash denim. You tried to acknowledge the voice and the body it came from, but only a grumble came out from the small part in your painted pink lips. “Are you okay?” Billy grumbled as he tilted his own head, his mullet shaking to one side. He scrunched up his nose to detect the answer of his question for himself. He hadn’t seen heard you screaming annoyingly at any point in the night or seen you dancing or puking anywhere. You just looked sleepy and, possibly, uncomfortable due to sitting up under the kissing couple that was close to fornicating against your shoulder. “Just sleepy.” Very lazily, you shrugged and went to wave him away, but lifting up your arm required way too much energy. Coming from the house he unfortunately had to call home, Billy was an expert at scouting out bad situations. He could deduce what was inviting to trouble in under five seconds upon entering a room. Of course, Billy sometimes was enticed by the promise of trouble, but he knew when to dip his toes in and when to avoid the water all together. A girl passing out at a party seemed like it would attract trouble like a fly to shit. He sighed and contemplated his options while your hand slipped from under your chin and let your head fall to the couch. You weren’t fazed by the change in position. He had had a lot to drink. Legally, he was drunk, but Billy was such a seasoned beer and whiskey drinker that he didn’t feel more than a buzz pulsing through him. He felt like he could do just about anything right now, barely impaired. While a part of him knew it wasn’t the best idea, he hint at the knees and pulled you from your waist. He grunted through clamped teeth and hoisted you over his shoulder where you laid like a sack of sand. Drunk girls had a way of feeling like dead weight, but Billy kept one hand rested on your back as he walked through dancing friends and crying girls like they weren’t even there, carrying you through like a special delivery.

He was close to the front door, just a few more steps when all skin and bone, Nancy Wheelers stepped right in his way with her fingers curled around her hips jet out to the right. “Move, Wheeler.” After choking back a meaner comment, Billy spoke at her and tried to avoid eye contact. “Gladly.” Just as annoyed with his existence as he was with hers, Nancy retorted. “When you put [Y/N] down.” It didn’t look very good for Billy, carrying a passed out girl and trying to leave with her. Nancy was just doing what she hoped any girl would do for her. You two weren’t as close as you had been in freshman year, but there wasn’t any bad blood. “Fuck off.” Almost a whisper, Billy said under his breath and tried to step around her, but she beat him to the white wooden door. “Billy, I’m serious. Put her down.” “Move, Wheeler.” He could only imagine how fast he would be chased out of Hawkins with pitchforks if he so much as laid a hand on Princess Nancy, but he had half a mind to try and pick her up and throw her kicking and screaming over his other shoulder. “I’m taking her home. She’s passed out on a couch.” He hated having to explain himself. To Billy, it made more sense for you to be in your own bed than an easy target for the lepers at the party. He knew them personally, they considered him one just like them. “Yeah, right.” She scoffed. He must have thought she was dumb. “I’ll call her a cab.” She was certain any other option would be safer than his noisy sin wagon. Billy felt he had been polite enough and finished standing there in the line of Nancy’s judgement and moody eyes. He adjusted your position on his shoulder and then reached around Nancy and harshly yanked the door open. The motion caused Nancy to stumble away, but she didn’t stop. She followed after both of you, a few paces behind, and shouted Billy’s name over and over. He ignored her though just like he did at school. Since the noise Nancy was making had caught the attention of others, including her boyfriend’s, Billy wasn’t surprised when Steve jogged in front of him and stood before his car. Exasperated, Billy just snickered.

“I don’t embarrass you enough in gym. You want me to do it in front of your chick?” He snarled at Steve before the scrawny guy in front of him could say a word to him. Billy was dying for a cigarette and, right now, he was annoyed that Steve was standing in his way of putting you down and lighting one up. “Just put her down.” He couldn’t make out who you were with only the moon and the porch light for illumination, but he could tell it was Nancy’s friend by the way she was chasing after Billy and shouting. Steve mirrored the pose Nancy had when blocking the door inside, waiting impatiently for Billy to comply. Steve knew, internally, that Billy would be slow to cooperate. He bet the blond couldn’t even spell the word. “Come on.” Steve tried again. It was dark and he could only make out pieces of Billy’s face. Steve was oblivious to Billy’s flared nostrils and the murderous glare he was directing right at his mouth. “You’re fucking lucky my hands are full or I’d lay you out, Harrington.” Billy wasn’t sure he would be able to stop himself if he started on Steve. He had a hunch that he would lose all control.

“Yeah, yeah, you say this all the time.” Steve was exhausted with Billy and they had only been standing in front of each other for a minute and a half. “Can you just drop the girl and be on your way? I’m not trying to start anything.” It really didn’t look very good to Steve. Billy looked like a real creep trying to take a passed out girl home. Right now, Billy kind of wished you would wake up to tell everyone to back off. Billy stepped forward to get to his car, but Steve moved with him and kept the path blocked. “Look, come on, put her down. She’s out of it.” Always the hero, or trying to be, Steve lowered his voice and tried to avoid any of the nosy eyes around them from hearing. “If I wanted an easy fuck, I’d just go upstairs with your girl.” Billy growled back and tried to hip chuck Steve out of his way. It was the truth. Billy had no problem getting laid. Girls wanted to be with him. Misunderstood and from out of state, he was a hot commodity - earring and all. Billy leaned as he saw Steve’s own temper engage, not taking well to a crude comment made about Nancy, and pressed Steve up against the side of his car. “So, fucking move or I’ll throw you over my shoulder.” He kicked his foot between Steve’s sneakers and knocked him down by the ankle. From gym class, Billy had learned and memorized Steve’s weak points. While laughing at the kid on the ground, Billy unlocked his car door and sat you down, forgetting to watch your head and accidentally knocking it on the ceiling. He slammed the door once you were putting in the passenger seat and then watched Steve as he stood up with Nancy’s offered hand. “I’m not this bad guy.” He taunted them while walking around the front of his car to the driver’s side. “Why do you always make me be him?” Billy sarcastically asked before hopping into his car. He started the engine first and then reached over your waist to strap on your seat belt. Through the window, Nancy watched, upset and disgusted. It still didn’t look good from an outsider’s perspective. Billy was still boiling as he drove. He was drumming on the wheel to silence, taking long draws of nicotine, but his frustration felt fresh. Something about Steve could break him down faster than anything else. It was jealousy, ego, or some sort of inferiority complex. “It smells like rain.” Sleepily, you snuggled closer to the window, laying the side of your face against it. It took Billy’s attention off the vendetta he was planning on his head. He had half a mind to drop you off and then go back to the party to attack Steve or even just bug him nonstop. Your comment made no sense to him, but he glanced out his window and watched the rich navy sky swirl slowly. Maybe, you were right. “Not the car.” You murmured again, hugging yourself in an effort to keep warm. If you were of clearer mind, you would have wished you had a jacket. “It smells like Billy Hargrove.” You giggled to yourself. “What the fuck does that mean?” Softly, he asked with his mind reeling. He didn’t know if he should be upset yet or not. As an answer, you brought your hand to your lips and pantomimed smoking and letting out a large puff. It made you smile before you dozed off again. He couldn’t argue with the impression. Cigarette smoke was embedded in the seats. His car was his favorite place to smoke, but he was happy to light up anywhere. He knew it bugged you when you two made out in his car and grabbed at one another’s bodies ardently. You would pull away and tell him he needed a mint without any hesitation. He started coming more prepared with a stick of gum already being chewed into a ball between his teeth. “I am Billy Hargrove.” He grumbled after a few beats. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw your eyes open and study him for just a moment. “Explains the big muscles.” Nodding to yourself, you mentioned and shut your eyes again. Billy liked that you associated strength with him. He worked hard on his body, but he was glad to hear you didn’t just think he was a shit-for-brains jerk. Once in front of your house, Billy realized he couldn’t just barge in. Sure, he was pretty sure he knew where your parents stashed their hide-a-key, but if they were home, he couldn’t help himself through the front door. You were beginning to him gently in your sleep so you were useless to him. He sighed and turned off his car completely. He couldn’t just shove you out and drive away. Billy climbed out and tossed his cigarette on the driveway before walking over to your side. He felt a few chilly drops of water smack down on his shoulders as he opened up the door. You were right. It was about to rain. Billy heaved an exasperated sigh and bent at the knees to pull you out. At first, he tried holding you up on your feet, but you shook your head and kept your eyes closed before leaning into his body. He stood still for a moment and awkwardly tried to rest his hands somewhere on your back. He decided this was stupid. He should have left you sleeping on the couch. If you couldn’t handle your liquor, that wasn’t his problem. He sighed again, your body falling deeper into his chest as it pulled in, and he picked you up over his shoulder again as the rain began to pitter-patter over his head. Billy decided to turn on the charm. He was ready reluctantly if your parents answered after he rang the doorbell. He listened to the chime sing throughout the house and fixed himself to stand as straight as he could while keeping you from slipping down his back. He relaxed completely when your older sister answered in a bath robe, nostrils bright red from a whole day of blowing her nose. “Hello?” She was confused and didn’t recognize your legs as your own over his shoulder. Billy was just some boy with long hair holding a person that looked like they might be dead from her angle. “Can I help you?” “Your sister passed out.” He told her and turned to the side to show off the rest of you, head hanging in your face and hands dangling like a double grandfather clock. “Of course, she did.” Your sister knew all about your penchant for being a sleepy drunk. You had to keep drinking til you were nuts or else, you were ready for bed. It was as cute as it was inconvenient. “Come in.” She stepped out of the way and held the door open for him. Billy didn’t wait another moment. “Her room is the only one on the left upstairs.” She said before going to pour you a glass of water and find an Tylenol to lay on your nightstand just in case. Billy nodded in place of actually saying ‘thank you’. He put you down to see if you would take yourself up the stairs, but you lean your back into his chest and moaned. It was enough to pick you up in his arms and carry you up the stairs as if he was some kind of dirtbag Prince Charming. He turned on your light and found himself amused by your powder pink room. Of course, there were pictures of John Stamos above your desk. He nearly tripped over a pair of your jeans on the ground. Billy stopped snooping and put you down in your messy bed, stretching out his arms and then pulling the comforter over you. He wasn’t going to undress you or stuff you into pyjamas. It felt like too much and he had done enough he figured. As he was walking out of the room, hand on the wall to turn off your light, you yawned loudly in your bed and brought his head over his shoulder to check. He wished he hadn’t. He felt like an idiot for looking. Internally, he told himself he was stupid. “Miss you already.” Smiling as you sunk into slumber, you told him. Like a pad of butter on the center of a fluffy pancake stack, he softened. Billy leaned against the wall and his back accidentally hit the switch and shut off the light, leaving you both in the dark. He couldn’t adore you with his eyes like he wanted to, but you were home safely and that was thanks to him. That was comforting enough. “I miss you too.” Sincerely he said back without thinking. Billy stood still for a few minutes, just standing in your dark room while you slept in your clothes. It wasn’t until your sister barged in with water and a pill that he pushed off the wall and returned to reality. “I’ll take it from here. Thanks.” She sat down at the edge of your bed and told Billy, reaching forward to put down her hangover prep. “Okay.” He figured he would just let himself out the way he came in. He wasn’t sure yet if he would return to the party or not. “Oh, hey…” Your sister’s voice caught his attention just as if he was standing in the doorway, lit up from the hallway sconces. “Who should I tell her dropped her off?” To her, it was a kind thing to do. She liked that someone had took it upon themselves to bring you home safely when you were unable to function anymore on your own. Billy wanted the glory. He wanted you to run into his arms around school with a hundred thank you kisses, but instead he looked down at the beige carpet between his dirty shoes and said, “No one.” He tapped the frame of your door just once and left to smoke in his car and grumble at himself.

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#billy hargrove x reader #billy hargrove au #billy hargrove meme #billy hargrove imagine #billy hargrove #stranger things oneshot #stranger things imagine #billy hargrove one shot #dacre montgomery

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zak-helling · 6 years

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My Homophobic Mother and Stardew Valley

My family and I have been obsessed with the video game Stardew Valley.

For those of you who don’t know, Stardew Valley is a farming simulator, originally made to be a Harvest Moon clone but eventually grew into its own thing. You can be a farmer, or a monster slayer/miner, or just go around being a dick to the townspeople. It’s great. A lot of people thinks that, while it does the same things Harvest Moon has done, it also improves upon them. One of the things it improves upon most is the characters.

The characters in Stardew Valley are, in my opinion, a lot more interesting and complex than they are in Harvest Moon. There’s a family dealing with the father’s PTSD from being in war, there’s a blended family with obvious friction between the half-siblings and step-father, there are characters battling addiction and mental illness, there’s a secret affair between two characters, there’s an artist struggling to live out her passion while getting harassed by her jealous ex, there’s just a lot of interesting characters you don’t see in Harvest Moon.

Best of all, you can marry any of the bachelors or bachelorettes, regardless of your character’s gender. More or less, all of the available villagers are bisexual. And this isn’t a glitch or anything, like it would have been had it appeared in a Harvest Moon game, this was intentional, done to make the game more realistic. And I love it. I love that I can make a character to match my own identity or appearance and marry whoever I want. I don’t have to make a female character if I want to marry a male character.

So I was working on befriending Sebastian, because I want to be a friendly villager everyone likes, and my mom asks if I want to marry him. I say maybe. I made a male character named Oscar with blue hair and a bushy beard. Then my mom says, “I don’t like that.”

I ask what she means, because sometimes she’s a little vague. Turns out she was referring to the fact that you can marry any character you want. Already I was getting uncomfortable but I decided to push further. I asked why she didn’t like it and she said it was unrealistic.

Keep in mind this is a game where you can fight slime monsters and your barn animals may just spontaneously give birth if they love you enough. The fact that you could marry anyone wasn’t “realistic” enough for her.

For those of you who don’t know, my mom is homophobic, and uses words like “unrealistic” to mask her homophobia with a guise of science and realism. “I’m not homophobic, I just don’t think be realistic!” I’m, of course, using the term as an umbrella term for anything and everything covered by the LGBTQIA+ acronym. And of course, like many homophobic people, she doesn’t like to admit to her homophobia because the term is “too harsh”.

So I decided to press further. I asked her to please elaborate on what she meant. She said she didn’t like that every character could be gay because it wasn’t realistic. So I corrected her and said that every character is bi, seeing as they each have crushes - some obvious and some less obvious - on someone of the opposite sex at the beginning of the game. She said that was even less realistic (she doesn’t believe in bisexuality). She used Alex as the example. At the start of the game, Alex appears to have a crush on Haley. My mom thinks it’s unrealistic that he would “suddenly” be gay for your character. Going by that logic, why would he develop a crush on another girl if he already had feelings for Haley? Now, of course I didn’t say that, because I can’t think of a good response until way later. But she started getting passionate, started raising her voice and getting upset.

Now, we have been playing Harvest Moon for years, and other than the original Japanese version of Harvest Moon DS Cute, there has not been - at least not to my knowledge - a Harvest Moon Game where you can marry anyone regardless of your character’s gender. I heard it was that way for a Rune Factory, but only available in some parts of the world. She never once complained about the lack of variety in those games, even though it’s just as unrealistic to have NO gay characters in a franchise with hundreds of characters spanning twenty years as it would be to have a cast of only gay characters.

She went on to defend herself by saying that one or two would be fine, but others “shouldn’t swing that way”, again, like Alex. That it would be more realistic for a character to reject you because they aren’t sexually attracted to you. And while I guess it would be a fair point, it would also be realistic for a character to just not be attracted to you even if they are attracted to your sex. You hear Straight White Boys (TM) complaining all the time about getting “““““““friendzoned”““““““““ so wouldn’t it be realistic if your character experienced the same thing? And again, I didn’t think of this argument until way later, because of course I didn’t.

And I guess the main reason I got so upset was because - aside from the fact that I am bisexual and it, once again, felt like she was rejecting me because of it, and aside from the fact that it was just another case of the homophobic atheist trying to use “science” and “reason” to justify their homophobia - was the fact that the game wasn’t made to be realistic. I know that’s a weird point to make, but the game was made to be fun and not make people upset. Rejection is a real and sucky part of real life, a part that the developer chose to leave out. Video games are an escape for a lot of people, and some people use that escape to live out who they wish they could be. And nothing is more devastating than when even your escape won’t accept who you are.

#homophobia #biphobia #stardew valley #homophobic parent

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mrslittletall · 6 years

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Tagged by: @spearofdivinity Rules: Name your top 10 favorite characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 different people. Oh geez, from 10 different fandoms? Let’s see who are my real favourite characters are and not just my teen crushes. I won’t put them in any order cause I like all of them dearly. Luigi - Super Mario Brothers As the little sibling with a Nintendo console, Luigi was normally put into my hands to get through the Mario Games. And to this day, I absolutely love this guy. Cause I could relate so good. He is the little sibling like myself and always stands in the shadow of his bigger sibling like myself. So now I normally main Luigi in Mario Party and Mario Kart and I gladly be the player two just to play as him. Dark Souls - Dragon Slayer Ornstein Yeah, I fell in love with a character just because he looked super cool while he killed me. Then I pieced together the lore, then I made up a story for him and now I write fanfictions about this guy and he is very dear to my heart. I also love all the different interpretations the fandom is having for him. Bravely Default - Edea Edea shows perfectly what Bravely Default is about. She very much sees the world as black and white as first and you as the player are obliged to go with her view as first, but then you enter Eternia, her home town and not only Edea but also you as the player are getting this impression that the world isn’t as black and white as you thought. Edea is also a badass woman and was my best fighter in the team and she is just overall an adorable character. The Binding of Isaac - Eve I just really like playing as The Whore of Babylon. Having yourself at maximum risk to get power is such a fun playstyle and you can have so many cool combinations with her. Also, the Whore of Babylon demon form looks rad. Pokémon - Team Skull Boss Guzma Team Skull is the best villain them out there and who are they? A bunch of failed teenagers and young adults who couldn’t do the island challenge. Guzma, who failed to become a captain, takes them under his wings and they are basically just salty. And it is great. Guzma is a villain cause he’s salty about the system and the best thing, he is a bug trainer and a freaking strong one! No one can say to me they beat his after E4 battle with ease, that was BRUTAL! He also managed to kill three of my Pokémon in my Sun Nuzlocke, soooo... I love Team Skull so much that I downloaded a Team Skull Theme for my 3DS and it plays Guzma’s Battle Theme! Yes! The Legend of Zelda - Link Yeah, I love our silent hero and protagonist in all of his different interpretations. It is just a joy to play as him every single time and it is exciting to see which Link is getting handed into your control this time. But I have a very soft spot for Wind Waker Link, that is by far my favourite so far. Final Fantasy - Zidane Tribal Final Fantasy 9 is one of my favourite of the bunchs and Zidane is a good reason why. He is just such an optimistic ball of sunshine, it’s adorable. I also love his design and that he makes some great character development in the game. And that ending scene with him and Kuja was the best! Harvest Moon - Elli Elli appears in different games, but I love her BTN/FoMT interpretation the most. She is the local nurse and the sweetest girl in town. Despite having dead parents and being in charge of raising her little brothers and taking care of her sick grandma. In fact, she decided to become a nurse so that she could study medicine and heal the sick legs of her grandma. I fell in love with Elli at first sight and it is a good thing she is one of the bachelorettes in that game. It’s so nice to see her appear in other games too, but BTN Elli will forever be best girl. Okami - Oki Oh man, Oki is just such a good character! He is an Ainu Warrior, who not only can give you an ass beating with a sword but is able to turn into a dog and does it another time! And his character development is soooo good. The whole battle on top of the Wawku shrine is one of my favourite things in the game. And then in the end. “I want to stay with Shiranui.” Awwww! Metroid - Samus Aran In a world where a lot of video game heroes were male, Samus Aran came as a real surprise. Cause under that suit of armour is a woman. And what a badass woman she is. I love that despite Samus being a very pretty girl you normally see her in her iconic power suit and you want her to be like this. And even though Samus is a total badass, she has her soft side too and also is having PTSD cause of some horrible things that happened in her early childhood. That Samus despite all of that is able to go on like this is very impressive and I will gladly accompany her to each mission. And I completely forget to add Papyrus from Undertale, oh well... Sorry my handsome skeleton boy. You know how much I love you already. Tagging: @modounbubble @anaurael @thesoulzofhades @unlimitedisme @talesofmetalandmagic and uh, sorry, I can’t think of any more. Anyone who wants to do it, feel free to do it.

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tumblunni · 7 years

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Miscellaneous rambling Game Thoughts that I am Thinking about Game Today’s Think: Spice up the calendar stat raising gameplay a bit with ~festivals!~

LONG RAMBLE INCOMING

* Festivals that aren’t just markings on the calendar like in persona, but minigames like animal crossing and harvest moon! Also Oreshika but I only know one other person who plays that, lol. I really grew to like their tournements tho, even if its just a boring samey rpg battle repeated every damn year for centuries. It became oddly more useful in the postgame because everyone’s levels are so high and the amount of Devotion (job class selection points, basically) doesn’t increase as the enemies get buffed. So the twice yearly contests are the only reliable way to get a huge amount of devotion all at once, which is great if you’re grinding out new characters en masse and trying to get a rare inheritance trait! (srsly tho i have got TOTALLY sick of the ‘everyone lives and dies and then you play as their descendants’ thing by now, it just makes me feel extra guilty for grinding. I had to kill like 300 dads!) ...MAN I’M GOING OFFTOPIC LOL Anyway what I mean is that there’s a way bigger incentive to look forward to festivals/contests if the reward from them is something super useful that you can’t get anywhere else! Princess Maker 2 had a similar sort of thing, because money was really hard to make and the prize from a single tournement could fund like four months of combat classes! So whatever these rewards are gonna be, they should be like that and be a big boost that can help power-level your charries. Maybe even a x2 multiplier on experience for a particular stat, until january next year? or maybe this is how training gyms level up, instead of having exp? your fame rises in the tourney and you’re able to buy better equipment! Oh, and maybe the non-combat festivals could give a reward of a big relationship boost with certain characters? Gotta impress all the potential dates with your pie-baking skills! (pie may also contain dates)

* Also there totally needs to be a beauty pageant or fashion show or something. I know in real life there’s barely any of those for men, but this is a fantasy world so we can just say this town’s mayor is Damn Cool! And also it goes without saying that we’re gonna indulge the fantasy of having an unbiased set of judges that aren’t racist or homophobic or pedophiliac or anorexia obsessed or.. well, real life has a LOT of problems that games don’t have to emulate, lol. So yeah! This lil town in jrpgland has a big ol fancy fashion contest and it’s a fun event for everyone! Enjoy making mr grizzled warrior protagonist look cute as hell! * Basically this but What If It Wasn’t A Joke Seriously I hate seeing stuff like that on memes about being progressive, when it was clear within the context of the show that kids were meant to laugh at that male character wearing dresses. Man I was SO damn happy when Steven Universe subverted that trope and had an end of episode twist be Steven crossdressing and loving it and everyone is like ‘wow classic steven’ and cheering for him. Also they didn’t force the socially anxious girl to sing on stage! Generally a great episode for breaking tropes! So yeah more like Basically This But Basically This Man I forgot how much that ending makes me grin, holy shit! It probably doesn’t have the same factor out of context, but just it makes me so happy to have a flash forward and we see Sadie still singing the song, just offstage. So we get to know that even if this whole experience was ruined for her, she hasn’t given up on her dreams, and she’s way more confident with singing in front of other people even if she isn’t ready for singing with strangers. I love her and Steven’s friendship so much, seriously! its such a good big sister sort of thing, and this episode was great for showing steven stepping up to protect her but like.. not in any sort of cliche macho way. By winning back the crowd with a fab dress! * So yeah anyway Where Was I Before I Got Offtopic Lol It won’t be a crossdressing-only pageant or anything, but it’ll be a unisex fashion show and I’m not gonna include any form of homophobic nonsense from real world fashion industry. And I wanna give loads of options so the player can pick whatever they prefer, and I’m writing this character as the sort of dude who would love all of them! Dark antihero trenchcoats are cool but what about also PASTEL LOLITA TOP HATS * Maybe could have gameplay similar to the gen 4 version of Pokemon Contests? With the multiple judges! In those games the judges were all identical and it was just ‘don’t pick the same judge twice’, here it could be more like the three judges have different tastes and you have to coordinate your style and performance to get as many points as you can. Do you gamble it all on super-impressing one judge, or make an unconventional combo outfit that can bank medium level points with everyone? And like maybe the cooking contest could have the same sort of gameplay, cos that’s another festival where you could say the judges could have different tastes. Also maybe friend characters have a random chance of appearing as a judge! You wouldn’t get any bonus points tho, cos they’d get kicked off if they cheated on your behalf. But maybe you can get a relationship points boost if you appeal to them? So it could be like a temptation to risk losing the contest but unlock a new romance scene with your sweetheart. THE POWER OF PIE!

* Other various festivals I have really liked in various cute town time games: * Stardew Valley’s easter egg hunt! * Rune Factory’s weird snowball fight but with turnips instead! * Parents giving you money on new years was also a thing in rune factory, and I’m pretty sure that’s based on a real thing in some country? Was it china? Your culture rules, dudes! * Also its in a lot of games cos its celebrated in japan, but I wish we celebrated it here too! The two day valentines! Seriously I way prefer the idea of having one day where one half of the couple gives a gift and then a later day where the other person gives one back in return. And its less commercialized, they even still make homemade chocolates in that country! Damn i’d love to try doing that someday! (not necessarily for a valentines thing, just in general it seems fun) Maybe could have a fun fantasy variant where people give something different instead of chocolates? or if the conditions for the two different days were different? like instead of the girl valentine and the boy valentine its.. I dunno... a day celebrating some famous social class busting couple so its meant to be for rich people hitting on commoners and vice versa? A bit of a halloween aspect where you’re allowed to do stuff that’s normally frowned upon, free of judgment. (It was like that in puritan times when people were all ‘burn the witch!’ and all) Also I like that japanese valentines has ‘honmei and giri’- chocolates for actual crushes, but you can also give them to friends and family! More holidays need to be an excuse for friend gifts! (also those are really catchy names for such a thing)

* Speaking of which, maybe I could throw in some festivals from my home country? Mostly britain has similar holidays to america with a few missing, but there’s a few ones unique to the different regions which are pretty fun. I don’t know a lot about all of them but here’s some of the ones we have in my are, Wales! * Guy Fawkes’s Day. Official day for hella fireworks! Tho people also do them at christmas and halloween, and this holiday is right in the middle so DEAR GOD I’ve been dealing with my noisy neighbours constantly exploding stuff for three months. Give it a break, guys! The story behind this holiday is actually kinda interesting though, we set off fireworks to celebrate some villainous guy who tried to bomb a castle once and everyone tied him to a tree and set him on fire. There’s even a kids’s song about this weird morbid old thing! “remember remember the fifth of november, the gunpowder treason and plot, i see no reason the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot” Also its my american friend’s birthday, which is funny cos apparantly my birthday is an american holiday too! O+O * Eisteddfod, which is like.. literally a stat testing festival in real life?? Like yknow how you have sports festivals in school, well this is that but for like.. brain. Brain sprints. In mythology the Welsh were basically the Bard class of britain, we have loads of folk heros who are like.. literally able to poetry and then your brain explodes. So poems, songs, and novels are valued a lot here, and this is the biggest day of the school schedule because of it! Everyone gets to dress in ye olden style fancy dress costumes and enter best poem/short story/painting/whatever contests, and it is SURPRISINGLY AWESOME!!! like.. everything is done with MAXIMUM HAM. M A X I M U MMMM There is no amount of hyperbole when I say that the school carves their own wooden throne and there’s a public crowning ceremony for the kids who win. This is a literal actual thing that happens once annually in every school forever. Its called the Chairing Of The Bard! And I won it once when I was 11 or so and it was both the best and worst thing ever, like holy shit i was SO terrified having to stand up in front of 300 people and put on an even more silly costume on silly costumes day... Oh and another strange thing that is actually real! School houses! like in harry potter! Its generally for younger kids tho, its like 100% of all primary schools (grade schools) and then like 1/3rd of high schools? Also the names of the houses are up to the school to decide, but for some reason they almost always seem to be red, yellow, blue and green. In my primary school they were just named for cities in wales, and I always found it really annoying that I didn’t get in Caerdydd house when the school was literally IN Caerdydd! * Also unrelated but I looked up my old high school on google and I’m surprised that so many of the same teachers are still working there seven years later! I’m so happy that some of them got promoted!

* And other miscellaneous festival ideas!!!

* You know what i fuckin love? That nonsense fantasy trope of having to fight thru a giant dungeon and get like the rare crystal feather of the fuckface bird or else you can’t marry the king’s daughter. Its even more weird and weirdly endearing when its just like.. AN EVERYONE. Eveyr marriage. Everywhere. How the fuck do these people actually survive if they have to do this five times a year?? So yeah, I think that’d be a really cool wedding festival to have as like.. a sign of this town being badass, lol But also make it less of a law, cos its not as fun if people are being forced to die on mount terror, yknow? its just a tradition that developed cos of some great adventurer in ye olden times, and goofy bastards dare each other to attempt it as the equivelant of a batchelor’s party. You don’t have to, plenty of people just make faux feather ornaments to propose to their loved one. But it’s considered a powerful good luck blessing to pull off the legendary adventure! Like only one couple every decade manages to do it, and you get a big town festival to make your special day even better! And people won’t be mad if you fail, it’s still a fun bit of entertainment for the townsfolk and a good excuse for Secondary Tradition: We All Get Drunk Instead So yeah, gameplay wise this would mean you have an option to do this festival or not. But it’s gonna be the hardest minigame of all, so don’t come unprepared! Alternatively you can either buy or make your own proposal ornament, and do things the less adventurey way. * Probably different batchelor/ettes would like different things? like Blair is an adventurer herself so of course she’ll go nuts for the traditional feather hunt. And she’d really hate the expensive ornament, cos she’s a down to earth gal who works hard to scrape together enough income in the inn to look after her lil sister. She’d get pissed off at you wasting so much on her, like wtf if you’d bought me a nice sturdy set of furniture that’d be way more useful! (Tho she’s a bit of an outlier and generally most people will at least be flattered by the fancy stuff, even if its not their favourite.) * Oh, and maybe you could actually do the feather festival together?? I actually didn’t think of that, I was just going 100% with the cliche of dude having to do some crazy quest to marry a girl. But it would be a way better test of your luck as a couple if you did it as a couple! That could be SO cool, just the two of you climbing a badass mountain and beating up monsters all lovey dovey~! And it could make the minigame entirely unique on each route, cos each character would have different roles in battle. Most of them aren’t adventurers by trade like Blair, so you could be fighting alongside a mage or a support character. Maybe one of them is actually a weakass that you need to protect? Tho I mean it would be bad to categorize one character as the least enjoyable version of the minigame. So maybe its like one character becomes that in one particular situation, and that’s the sign that you’re getting their Normal Ending instead of the Golden Ending? Someone who has some sort of doubts or a secret they’re keeping, which limits their ability here. Possibly Mortimer? Cos in his case it would be exceptionally hard not to reveal his secret in battle! And I dunno, maybe he tells the protagonist the secret before they get married, and the writing is just framed so that the player never knows but the protagonist does. Now go do his golden ending if you wanna learn more! * I like morty a lot. He’s ended up the most developed even though he’s the most recent character I added, lol!

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Best Bachelor from Each of My 10 Favorite BokuMono Games

(10 Favorite BokuMono Games list is here)

I couldn’t really think of anything to review today. I was thinking of a really overly-excited review of the most recent episode of 18if (it’s great and you should watch it), but... nah. I’ll just talk about that episode at length when I write a review of the whole series at the end of the season.

So, what the hell. I like talking about BokuMono games. Let’s do another list of BokuMono games.

Please note that I have a type, so there might be a bit of redundancy in this list.

1. Animal Parade: Wizard

He’s a popular favorite, and there’s a reason for that: he likes coffee.

coffee is good

He’s also really quiet, smart, is interested in astrology, and’ll just sit at his empty table like a loser until you get him his crystal ball back. Plus he has heterochromia and I like heterochromia.

If there’s anything negative to say about his guy, it’s that you have to wait for him to stop talking about the plot (even long after the plot is finished) before you can get to the bits of his dialogue anyone actually cares about.

But aside from that, he’s just an overall cool dude, and the sort of character I could see myself being friends with in real life.

2. Sunshine Islands: Will

I don’t typically like blonds, either in real life or in video games, nor do I have any particular feeling one way or the other about the prince type, but Will’s introduction made me laugh, and when a marriage candidate makes me laugh I always marry them.

3. Island of Happiness: Shea

Did you know that Shea is a Good Boy? Because Shea is a Good Boy. I like that he looks like he’s gonna be the kuudere or tsundere type, when he’s actually pretty friendly right from the start (just like pretty much everyone else except Vaughn). He also has tattoos (at least, I assume they’re tattoos). That’s pretty cool.

4. Hero of Leaf Valley: Louis

This game doesn’t actually have bachelors since there’s no girl version, but Louis is an attractive dude and if I could’ve gone for him I probably would’ve.

5. Harvest Moon DS Cute: Skye

As I already mentioned, this guy is my favorite bachelor in the series. He’s a dork. He thinks he’s all suave, but I heard the plans he was mumbling under his breath. Nerd.

6. Back to Nature: Kai

This one does has a girl version, even though it ends if you get married. I actually married Cliff in that one because my sister liked him, and that was a mistake. I’m sorry if you like Cliff, but I hate Cliff. I wanted to go with Kai, but I didn’t and it’s her fault, and even though he’s one of my favorites I’ve never married him in any of the games he’s in. I need to get around to that.

7. Harvest Moon 64: Jeff

This is another game without a girl version, but if there was, Jeff would be my first, last, and only choice. He’s great. I hate what they did to him in Back to Nature and Friends of Mineral Town.

8. More Friends of Mineral Town: Gray

Gray is often mistakenly placed in the same category as Vaughn, but while that might be true for HM64, it’s definitely not true here. Gray may not be your instant bestie, but he’s still never rude or dismissive of you the way Vaughn is. I like that most of his events involve him refusing to give up meeting the high expectations his grandfather has for him. It’s very shonen hero-y.

9. Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns: Ludus

He’s the ridiculously handsome guy. That’s really it. His personality is fine, and though Yuzuki is actually more interesting, Ludus’ ridiculous handsomeness overpowers any other good traits the other bachelors may or may not have.

10. Rune Factory: Raguna

“But he’s the main character!” Yeah, I know, but I don’t even really know who in town would even be a bachelor? I guess Tori’s brother, and that dude who has a crush on Melody, and I don’t even care enough about them to remember their names. I like Cecilia’s dad, but they’d never let us date a single parent. Rags is a Good Boy. He needs a haircut, though.

So that’s pretty much it for bachelors. I'll do the bachelorettes next week.

And finally, because no BokuMono review would be complete without my using this gif:

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A Farmer’s Recollection ~ Harvest Moon 20th Anniversary Celebration :: Part 3 [2000]

If you’d like to read the previous two parts, you can find them below: Part 1 | Part 2

Man it has been a trip writing up these recollections thus far. Digging up a bunch of memories that I hadn’t thought about in years. Good times, and the best hasn’t even come. The year of 2000 for me was probably my favorite year of all time as I have so many memories looking back at it and so many great things happened.

It was also the year that my all-time favorite Harvest Moon game was released.

Spring 2000

Life was great. I was 12-years old, full of energy and living life by the second. I had a brand new camcorder, a copy of Harvest Moon 64 and I... was sharing a room with my 3 siblings. Granted it was the largest room in the house by far and we kept it divided up between the boys and girls but I was still lacking my own space.

What little I could call my own was atop the brand new set of bunkbeds that our parents bought for us with their tax refund. They were made of metal and were pipe-based; The posts that made up the head and foot boards were capped off by little plastic caps that you could remove, granting you access to the inside which was wide enough to stick your arm down, so naturally I used this as a place to store things. Cramming an old shirt halfway down to create shelf of sorts, I began storing candy and other junk down there. I ended up stuff

At one point, there was travel ban between the four of us. We were restricting each other from venturing onto our beds. This came after I tried building a bridge between two ofthe beds. Obviously not my best idea.

My adventures in Harvest Moon 64 continued on. I was now at that point where I was done with the story and just hammering away at making a really nice looking farm and collecting recipes. But even though I had only owned Harvest Moon 64 for just a month, I was already beginning to feel the hype for an upcoming release that recently had made its presence known.

We were getting Harvest Moon on Playstation!!!

Though news was scarce and only a few screenshots were available at the time, I still remember how excited I was over this. I loved my Nintendo 64 sure, but my console of choice for that generation was the Playstation as it was where all the RPGs were.

The two earliest screenshots released for the game were these below (Courtesy of HMFarm.com)

The boat screenshot in particular filled my mind with wonders and excitement; Were we going to be able to travel to the city at long last? Could we take it out and fish for deep sea fish? WHAT COULD IT MEAN???

I discussed the game and what new features it could bring to the table extensively with my sister. I say extensively, but she wasn’t nearly as interested in the games as I was. One such subject I brought up - and I have this on tape even - was my hope for a butcher system where you could send your livestock off to have them turned into meat products that you could cook with. An idea that I just up until last year thought I’d get with Stardew Valley, but that’s not important right now.

Aboard the hype train, but considerably way more sane in how I was going about it. Partly in thanks to having just bought Harvest Moon 64 fairly recently. That, couple with everything else that was going to be coming out that year really helped.

Summer 2000

More and more info trickled out about the game over the coming months. Things like how it used the same characters from Harvest Moon 64, but changed their personalities around/who they were related to/what they did. The legendary fish, asking Harvest Sprites for help. All of it just sounded so cool, but nothing as cool as the new cooking system that was being implemented. No longer were the recipes that you earned from villagers just collectables. You could cook now, using various ingredients and utensils. I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

It’s a huge shame that the cooking system would get progressively worse as the series went on, like many of the elements that made the series great. It has been slowly approaching dating sim levels with tacked on watered down farming systems.

I had such a blast through the summer of 2000. I would spend my days either hammering away with Harvest Moon 64, even going back to Harvest Moon GB for another playthrough.

The music on the radio at the time was phenomenal and still something I listen to this very day, in my very own “Greatest Hits” collection called Definitive 2000, which currently boasts over 150+ songs; ranging to everything from NSync and Beastie Boys to Creedence Clearwater Revival and Saliva. It took years to build, but it fills me with incredible nostalgia every time I listen to it. Now I bet you’re wondering though why the likes of CCR would be a thing on the radio in 2000, well I’ll tell you: I wasn’t overly picky about what I’d listen to and I developed an ear for golden oldies thanks to my father, so I enjoyed listening to the older stuff as much as I did the modern hits. And yes, there’s a video game music folder too.

Pokemon was its peak, with the first movie hitting VHS earlier that year and the second movie featuring brand new Gen 2 Pokemon set to hit theaters that summer and the new installments in the games - Pokemon Gold and Silver Versions - later that year.

Pokemon wasn’t the only ‘Mon on the street that year. Digimon had aired the previous August on Fox Kids, and it had gained enough steam to warrant a whole slew of toys, clothing items and cards. There was even a video game at the time: Digimon World on the Playstation. And in October of 2000, it was receiving its first movie, which was super cool. I enjoyed the Digimon anime far more than I ever did Pokemon’s, and with Digimon 02 starting that August - nearly a year after the series initially aired in the US - it was a good time to be a fan of little collectible monsters.

RIP Monster Rancher.

Another great event that happened that year was that we got an actual Japanese Godzilla movie in theaters, nationwide! It was the first time I had ever seen Godzilla on the big screen(not counting GODZILLA from 1998, which wasn’t the REAL Godzilla). I had been a Godzilla fan all my life, so that was some wild stuff seeing him on a huge theater screen after so long. I was mesmerized from start to finish. That night, after we got home from the theater we did some night swimming in our pool and recreated scenes from the movie with my nephew and sister.

Holiday Season 2000

Unlike with the previous release, I was more versed and knowledgeable on the gaming industry and was keeping up on release dates and whatnot. I guess in a way, this was also the year that gaming really became something for me that would amount to more than just a simple pass time.

The month of November that year was pretty hype. Final Fantasy IX was launching early in the month and I already had that on my Christmas list to Santa, in addition to Resident Evil 2 and 3. I had in my possession $60 from my grandmother which she gave use each year to pick something out for Christmas, which would then go under the tree - wrapped up - and not be touched until Christmas Eve.

Each trip out to Wal-Mart and K-Mart ended much in the same way as the trips for Harvest Moon 64. Finally, after a few failed attempts and locating it in stores, my father finally caved in and we made our first online purchase ever in the two years since we obtained a PC and the internet, and it was for Harvest Moon: Back to Nature. I mean, there could have been worse things that could have had as first purchases, am I right?

And so the great wait began once more. The game was in my possession in a way, but I had no patience in waiting for it to be delivered. Every day was grueling. I’d sit by and wait for the mail to come, watching the mail man or lady reach their hand out to the mailbox to place mail inside and hoping that within their grasp would be a small box or envelope.

Weekends devolved into me sitting in my room, on my bed, complaining and listening to music. I could only assume that it was the holiday season that was holding up the delivery as mail was quite frantic that time of the year and delays happened, but knowing that did not help me. I was impatient and wanted my game NOW, knowing that I couldn’t actually HAVE it once it did arrive because it had to be wrapped up and placed under the Christmas tree.

On a following trip to Wal-Mart one night, we walked back to the video games once again and guess what? It was there. Wal-Mart had actually stocked Harvest Moon: Back to Nature. But that wasn’t all they had, oh no! They also had Harvest Moon GBC2 as well. To say that I felt disappointed would be an understatement. I was crushed, knowing they had actually stocked it while I was waiting for MY copy to come in the mail, now a week and a half out since placing the order. The rest of that night was miserable.

It wasn’t until the first week of December. Nearly three weeks since placing the order, that my beautiful baby arrived in the mail. I was playing a rental copy of Majora’s Mask at the time (and failing miserably at it). It was the most beautiful thing, in its pristine jewel case beneath the cellophane wrapping. The beautiful booklet slash cover art screamed “Intense farming action” to the now 13 year old me as of the previous September. I begged and begged if I could just demo it slightly for that night and that night alone before wrapping it. I wanted to see what it played like, what the music was like and how the cooking system worked.

And do you know what I did after my mother caved and let me try it? I fired up my Gameshark with an unlimited money code and I CHEATED. It was the only way I was going to be able to experience what I wanted to experience within the short amount of time I was alloted. I achieved it too, upgrading my house and nabbing a few utensils in order to do some cooking. It was amazing two hours, and I almost missed dinner over it, but I eventually caved and wrapped the game up and placed it under the tree, which sat in the corner of the den beside the big TV.

The remainder of the month was delightful. I discovered Green Day as a new musical interest with the premiere of their ‘Minority’ music video. Outlaw Star began airing on Cartoon Network towards the end of the month, a show that would go on to become my all-time favorite. Towards Christmas we even got some snow, which was cool. That didn’t and still does not happen very often.

December 24th arrived and I spent the morning preparing for my oldest sister and my nephew to visit. Planning to roleplay some Dragon Ball Z and whatnot and show him the newest Harvest Moon game.

Christmas day finally came and I was treated to a bunch of nice gifts. Including some more blank VHS tapes for my camcorder, Resident Evil 2 and 3. Some more Dragon Ball Z stuff, and of course, Final Fantasy IX. Even got the new Green Day album and a portable CD player! Sadly the fun and excitement of Christmas morning was cut short, as during the opening segment of Final Fantasy IX, I developed a killer migraine that put me out of commission for much of the day.

Once I recovered, I was up to my neck in RPG and farming goodness. An awesome year was topped off by an awesome Christmas. Final Fantasy IX, Harvest Moon, Outlaw Star, good music. Not to mention the awesome roast beef Christmas dinner my mother made that night.

And so concludes part 3 of my little trip into the past. Expect two more parts throughout the year, in slightly less detail. After Back to Nature, things started getting spotty with what I bought and played, even going for several years without picking up a single game.

Thanks for reading!

#harvest moon #natsume #story of seasons #xseed #marvelous #harvestmoon20th #recollection #nostalgia #gaming #playstation #nintendo #article

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