Crisis apparently averted. The next time I post it’ll be back to my regularly semi-scheduled content, which at this time would be one of the following:
Under a cut for sensitive familial discussion.
For the last several days my father has been bedridden and in excruciating pain with pancreatitis or something of that nature. Note that I’ve not actually seen him in this state, only heard his moaning and occasional harried commentary by his wife who, fortunately enough for him, is professionally trained as a nursemaid. Comments from lovers and suddenly interested relatives suggest that without the appropriate medical treatment it’s very likely that he’ll die of this affliction. I am absolutely certain that neither he nor his wife can afford any such extensive treatment; apparently he wasn’t even able to afford more than the briefest period of hospitalization. While I’m not working on a specific plan for my inheritance just yet, it’s naturally something that’s on my mind as well as on the minds of the aforementioned interested relatives including the brother with whom I’ll have to split everything – not that there’s much to be had.
Today is coincidentally the fourth anniversary of my mother’s suicide, and while I don’t believe in karma I also don’t readily accept the orthodox Catholic belief of a wholly benevolent God who would never act out of boredom or caprice. Here I read myself into His caprice, for how dramatically satisfying would it be that a small-minded abuser and rapist who never had anything to offer anyone but the remnant of a good name and even that disgraced – literally as well as figuratively in this case, as he cannot pronounce his own family name correctly – should meet some painful and ignoble end at the same time of year when one of his two greatest victims faced her own death to escape him with proper Créole dignity, cared for only by an Anglo woman who (she says) lives more in fear than in love for him and already with all the family vultures circling and waiting to descend on what little he has left.
(I usually roll my eyes at Tumblr posts that make specific requests of what readers should do or not do with regard to them, but I would appreciate not receiving any condolences or anything of that nature. If it weren’t obvious from my tone here I’m not exactly grieving, and knowing my luck and his I wouldn’t be surprised if he somehow recovered anyway.)
Utterly indifferent. There aren’t many Thracia characters I found myself getting at all invested in, and these two aren’t among them.
Because Catria came first, with even the definitely-pining-for-lord version in FE12 predating Awakening. FE archetypes usually are named in accordance with seniority even if later renditions more fully display the notable characteristics.
What on earth are you talking about? I can’t think of any context for this, real or fictional, that would be in some way worth asking for my opinion.
I’m still not entirely sure what these things are, but I own one now – easily the shiniest side effect of my recent grinding.
I must have missed this one earlier.
I’m shockingly indifferent to this pairing and to Faye in general. Her crush on Alm is weird enough to be unsettling and only occasionally funny, and it was doomed from the start. I’d call inventing a new character to take on the role Clair already held in Gaiden completely pointless, but then they found some more interesting things to do with Clair so it’s nice that someone else got to bite the Catria bullet.
So I crunched all the numbers and did some estimates (because despite all the time I spend talking about story and characters in video games online, when it comes to actually playing them my preferred medium is the spreadsheet) for my ongoing WoW grind, and it looks like I’ve got about 107,000 reputation to get for Pathfinder and all the allied races, spread very unevenly over nine factions. If I’m sufficiently diligent I may just unlock void elves in time for BFA’s release two and a half months. That…is not encouraging.
Um…er…hm…well…yay?
Seriously, I don’t have much of an opinion on them. I imagine that most of the following from them comes from their FE9 supports, which I don’t remember at all. I think Mist is one of the characters who can get Jill to defect to the Mercs in 3-7 if you have transfer data with an A support between them which is a nice storytelling touch since I have no idea how the hell you would get Mist over to that part of the map without dying (or at all if you promote her early in Easy since now she can’t go in the swamp). It’s a notable alternative if you don’t care for either of their het paired endings, I suppose.
It’s cute. Ranulf is obviously more into masc guys which is why he doesn’t seem that interested in the femme cub tiger, but for what little there is of Kyza to talk about it’s not bad. Humorously I think one of the reasons Kyza has been forgotten by the fandom is that he’s one of the most conservatively-dressed male laguz and as such has little bara potential compared to Muarim, Volug, Tibarn, Mordecai, any of the lions, Gareth, Ranulf with Ike…poor guy.
Gascon-en-exil: Gallophilic Cultural Posturing 