a blessed blade

A year past the battle for the Blue Planet, peace returns to the humans' land, while still Lunarians rest, their sleep eternal, in the lunar depths. Crystals emanate their light, now secured from Baron's covetous grasp. The kingdom still lacks a monarch, but Cecil rejected the title: what does future have in store for the noble knight? Independent AU roleplay blog for Cecil Harvey from Final Fantasy IV compilation. Check guidelines and about page before interacting. M!A: - #guidanceofthemoon

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[ Announcement: hiatus ]

[ outofcharacter. ] Some of you might have already understood this was about to happen, since it has been something like a month since I last posted on this blog, but still I wanted to officialise the whole thing.

Yes, you already figured it out. This blog will be on hiatus, from now on. I don't know if I'll ever return on the Tumblr world as a roleplayer, but I want to say something about these two years (sort of) I spent here.

Tumblr changed me. Here I learned the meaning of words like 'tolerance', 'respect', 'self-discovery', and I met lots of wonderful people. Yes I was an asshole before Tumblr. I also learned to think more about myself to love myself, and to take any decision pondering on every little possibility, even the stupidest one. Yes I was also brainless before Tumblr. Tumblr also helped me going through my depression, and to overcome it: acting the part of someone else, I managed to escape for a while from everyday life and problems, and gave me the opportunity to think and react in a better way than before, being successful. And, last but not the least, my English vocabulary and ability significantly improved. You know, I'm Italian, and I'm not that good, but I do my best.

And now, I leave Tumblr with no regrets. I enjoyed every single instant I spent here, and I'd be glad to continue roleplaying as Cecil, but I feel I don't belong to this place anymore. Now I am an universitary student, I spend half of my time studying, I have found friends who believe in me, and on which I believe too (this looks a lot like a film catchphrase, huh? Welp sorry, that's the reality here :P), and my sentimental situation is on a roll. I hope this wave of good events doesn't stop now. 'I don't belong to this place anymore', true, but I'll always carry the memories of these two years in my heart. It was a very important phase of my life, really.

Huh... I don't know what else to say. I won't queue this post, I don't want to bother anyone... I already did it too many times [just to say one, the post about my Skype/Kik contacts (If you want them, send me an ask. I will pop up here when I'll have some free time and see if I received some questions)].

So... Farewell, Tumblr.

And thank you, for everything.

                                                                                              guidanceofthemoon.

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[out.] so many people to interact with

so many things to study

so little time

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out. Today’s class was quite… Inspiring.

Have a DS Cecil with a Teathrythm face. Sort of.

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"If you’re not a titan shifter, if you enter a titan’s mouth you’re dead. I said they don’t need to eat, but they have a stomach with digestive juices, so.. It’s not a good death. I suggest to you to stay away from their head. Get close only to kill them." Mikasa eyed the young knight, to see if he had any weapons with him and if so, which ones. "Can you fly? Without agility is almost impossible to kill them." Mikasa pointed at her 3D maneuver gear, to make him understand what she meant. 

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"So, like humans, these giants do have their own digestive tract?" Those giants seemed to be way too humanoid for his tastes. But, like all humans, the giant should have been vulnerable to magic. "I don't need to fly: look", he said as he unsheated the Mythgraven Blade; then, he cleft the space between them, and the sword released a small wave of light.

"Stay behind" was his warning, as the wave began to emanate heat. After some seconds, it dissolved itself after a mental order of the Paladin. "That's why I don't need to fly: I can hit my enemies from the distance; I can also slow down or speed up someone's movements." He thanked the white mages who taught these high-level spells right after his return from the Moon. "Care to give it a try?", he inquiried, reading his spell.

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"Well, it’s good to know that you do keep an eye on them." She smiled. Suicune, huh? She has met one before but she could safely assume that this isn’t the same Suicune. "If I remember correctly, Suicune is the type to do what it wants at most times. Do you have a vast, open space available for it to roam about?"

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"I, uh..." That question embarassed him. Vast, open space? In Baron there was no place like that, excluding the open fields, of course. But there was a chance of encountering dangerous monsters such as goblins or floating eyes. Cecil put a hand on his neck, and assumed an embarassed expression.

"To tell the truth... Suicune stays in the stable. With... Horses." Even if Suicune definitely wasn't a horse.

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out. Tonight I was trying to level up my "?????'s Love" augment by covering party members so, putting on the auto-battle, I set everyone to "defend" and Cecil to use that augment because I wanted to see how the damage increased with every covering. The animation is just meh (the character in his attack stance + a regular attack) but that gave me the occasion to see the shape of that sword ("Spada onirica" in Italian, "Sleep Blade" in English I suppose). That's a hook. A f-ing hook. And it's just terrifying. If Cecil slowly hit someone in a rising arc they would suffer in a terrible way. Just imagine that.

I could decide to write something about him slicing people with that

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out. Okay… I don’t know if someone here understands Italian, but still…

I updated the game, and I found out there was the Italian language available. Also, a friend of mine passed me a complete save file (don’t ask me how, I don’t know how to do these things) so I could enjoy a “New Game Plus” without spending lots of time grinding. I know, that kills half of the fun, but, again, I don’t want to spend time to grind. I just want to enjoy the story and see how they changed it from the PSP version. Because it’s still a phone game, DUH.

Well, the screenshots above tell us that “every knight that wants to enter the Red Wings has to pass a test that requires to retrieve the Knight’s Emblem from the Adamant isle and blah blah”. Apparently even Cecil has gone through this (the final screenshot says that “a man with the same eyes as you did the same test” -non the literal translation but still-).

But, if we look at the bubble thought by Cecil (when we open the menu) in FFIV DS/iOS/Android, he says that he never heard of an island called Adamant (I don’t have a screenshot, I’m still at the Mt. Hobs). So wtf squeenix. 

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Mikasa looked at the young man after her. He seemed like he knew something about them. "We call them Titans. They like to eat humans, but don’t need to feed themselves or anything. They can stay hundreds years without eating." Mikasa shrugged. "It’s dangerous. Will you help me?" 

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At the thought of what expected them, the knight backed off some, unsure on what to do. "... Of course. I don't know if that could be useful, but... I destroyed a giant, some time ago, with the help of my friends. Though, this was a mechanical one: we entered from the mouth and destroyed its core. I don't think that strategy would be useful against someone who eats humans..."

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Restarting Again { AU -- Rosa / Cecil }

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       Moving her hands behind her back and swinging back and forth on the spot, the young woman patiently waited for the bus to come, not minding the sudden silence that fell on both of them. For a few seconds, she began to hum a song, typical behavior of who didn’t know how to open a conversation or just didn’t know what to say, although she knew Cecil in so long. The two met in High School. Since the very first day of school, all the students in their class spoke about him, about his behavior and his lonely side. No one dared to approach him, not even to say hi. It was as if everyone was afraid of him and sometimes, she heard them making fun of him with a low tone of voice. She made enough bonds in that school: her character and her caring traits have been loved at once, but almost half of her friends abandoned her as she approached Cecil, starting to call her crazy, while the other half appreciated her support, but never approached him. A lonely soul, that was what she saw through those blue orbs. From that day, he became her best friend.

       The fact that the two were about to make another huge step forward together excited the young woman, but it scared her from a side: what if the two end up in different rooms? She didn’t mind to have another roommate, but she got used to his presence and it would be uncomfortable to share her things with another person.  "Yes, we do have the same class." She spoke. It was possible to sense her anxiety through her vocal cords, making her words tremble for stress and fear. "And I would appreciate if we have the same room too. If not, this college will be a mess for me." Not going to lie, there was a period when she fell for Cecil, but she never got engaged to him and she was so glad that the two weren’t lovers. But the thought of Cecil meeting another girl and falling for her, it scared her a little bit because she was sure that that girl would replace her and that Cecil would spend more time with her than with herself. That was one of the reasons why she wanted him as her roommate.

       Now peering at the horizon, it was possible to eye the bus coming. The young woman let out a sigh of relief and made some steps forward as to be the first to enter in. "Finally! I was about to reach the college with my own feet!"  Holding her bag tight, she turned to Cecil and made a nod with the head as to tell him to get in the bus. Meanwhile, curious eyes were assisting through the glass of the vehicle.

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"Being in the same room as you would be great," he replied, "as long as you don't snore!" Cecil laughed some, not fearing a possible reaction from his best friend. After five years of high school together, they were like brothers. They knew everything about each other, and once she told him that a familiar tragedy struck his life too... But that happened when she was nothing more than a little girl. He didn't want to know, but she told everything no matter what; afterall it was a private topic and... Who better than him could have been able to understand that? She was free to tell everything she wanted to.

The possibilities they had to get the same room were scarce, since their sex was different; the situation would have been clearly an ambiguous one, but still they only had to do a simple request. He didn't care about what the others could have thought about them: on the contrary, being in the same room with Rosa allowes him to protect her. She was very beautiful, and always targeted by some guy... He was really jealous of his friend, he didn't want to lose her just because she got engaged with someone. 

Just after Cecil made that unhappy joke, the bus showed itself up. The young man sighed a little: he never liked that mean of transport, that's why he was, at the moment, studying in order to obtain his driving license. With a car, he could have been able to avoid the daily stress he felt in the years of the high school, when he went to his classes by bus. And bus meant noise, crowding and headache. Not the best, for the half-misanthrope he was.

He let Rosa be the first to get in the bus — what an insane desire it was — and then he took position behind her. "Okay. I'll ask that again." He felt a strange pression upon his mind. A whole new world was about to be discovered by the two fresmen. "Are you ready?" he gave voice to this rhetorical question, while climbing the stairs that led to the second floor of the multi-storey bus. His hands were constantly put over the bag he wore on his shoulder, for he was scared to lose something. Dear God, what's happening to me? He rolled his eyes upwards, after having stared at the crowd in the bus. "Let me get off. Please", he said, talking to himself. Then, he spotted two seats, one next to each other. 

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Alex sighed when Cecil thought that his world wasn’t that bad. “Well, the Earth is an unfair world, even if aristocracy has lost most of it’s relevance. Humans always find a way of creating power gaps, therefore there are economical and political elites that control the different countries that exist there, while other people live in miserable social positions, and sadly there’s no real way of fixing that, as inequality is deeply rooted in human nature. Power and greed are two powerful driving forces after all.” He mentioned before changing the topic to something less depressing.

"Yeah, I’ve been near her town, as I’ve met her while she went to hunt or to wander around the outskirts of Mist. We’ve talked about different topics, but the most interesting part has been to contrast our cultural differences. Besides, I’ve noticed that she’s curious, therefore I’ve explained some concepts to her, as she didn’t have any chance to learn about them before." He implied that he knew Rydia rather well, to the point that she also complained about Edge’s stalkerish behaviour.

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Was society in other worlds really that bad? "In the Blue Planet the population iss fairly wealthy, there is no discrimination, nor power gaps; life iss peaceful, and everyone helps each other. Recently, three kingdoms have stabilized their power, and they are all bound to an alliance. There is also another one that ordered to his subjects to disarm their tanks, convinced of the fact there will be no more war." He really loved to talk about his world: was it because he explored it almost entirely? Or maybe because he really cared for it? Maybe both... But he preferred to drop the discussion, since the other seemed to prefer another speech.

The Paladin chuckled some. "Yeah, Rydia is made like that: a young woman with the mind of a child... Altough in some circumstances she proved to be more mature than most adult men. However... I'd like to know something about your world's culture as well. That should be interesting, I believe." 

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"Awaken, Beast!" [ Evil!Cecil vs. Alex ]

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"Good grief. I’ve heard that same pile of bullshit so many times, that I would become rich if I got one cent for every time that someone flaunted their skills." Alex stated bluntly while his enemy’s sword was pointing at him, as Cecil was being just like those medieval knights that loved honor and were too prideful for their own good.

"Anyway, I’m not a swordsman, therefore don’t expect that I will use this piece of scrap against a blade that is probably as strong as a Noble Phantasm. Bad thing that I left Balmung in the Dark Area, as I never thought that I would need to use it." The iron sand sword vanished, becoming dust again. He was aware that a cheap blade was no match against that dark weapon, so it was pointless to pick a sword duel."However, I still have my Ability. I don’t know if you have any clue about physics, but you should know that metal can be magnetized." He smirked, as that was a real advantage against a knight like the corrupted Paladin. In the meantime, he adjusted his own field for repelling that sword if it came too close to him. Who needs to wear armor in that circumstance.

"Indeed, your blade is damn good at conducting electricity!" He yelled, firing a Lighting Spear attack against Cecil. It didn’t matter if he would try to dodge it, as that attack was extremely fast, and would  be drawn to anything metallic, reaching either the knight’s blade or his armor.

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Alex's words made Cecil's boldness waver: was the enemy trying to confuse him? Why did he 'put away' his own sword? He surely had an ace up his sleeve; otherwise, it would have been a reckless move. Inexplicable. 

"Who do you think you're talking to?", he asked, trying to disguise his doubtful expression. "Of course I know! That law is among the bases of that area of the physics which studies electricity and magnetic fields, including that of the Earth." Once again, he was trying to impress the opponent, trying to gain the upper hand, trying to flaunt his culture; it seemed this new Cecil had a strong arrogance. 

But Alex already threw his spear: that of 'Lightning' was surely a well fitting name for that attack, that flashed at high speed through the room, apparently directed towards his sword. With a rotation of the arm he managed to dodge the attack, but the spear was still on track of the blade. 

Shit! 

The spear somehow managed to magnetize the sword, so that it was attracted to it. But that wasn't the only metallic piece of equipment Cecil wore: indeed, his whole armor was metallic, and it seemed the spear was attracted to it as well. After several minutes of continuous retreating and dodging, the energies of the paladin started to leave his body; in the end, the spear struck him in the chest.

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Another visitor? Serenity peeked from behind the pillar 

"Excuse me…who are you?" The Princess asked

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"The name's Cecil Harvey, miss. I'm a humble knight from the land of Baron." He made a small bow, in respect. "May I know where I find myself?"

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Wait I sent that to the wrong person. I wanted to send "Come on, I've seen children fight better than that!"

“You mean Palom and Porom, right? No, because they were among us when you died for the first time. I can understand that, magic can be more powerful than brute force sometimes.”

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These are some of my favorite figures, wish there were more FFIV figures out there. I can live with these though. :] Rydia, Edge, Cecil, Rosa, Kain Final Fantasy IV DS Trading Arts Mini Figures Square Enix

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O F F L I N E.

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"Awaken, Beast!" [ Evil!Cecil vs. Alex ]

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Send me "Awaken, Beast" and my muse will show yours their dark side

Suddenly, a strong pulsing came to life inside Cecil’s head. His heartbeat noticeably increased, and the veins slightly emerged over the knight’s pale forehead. He fell on his knees and removed the hairband that adorned his head; the pain was growing stronger and stronger. 

As Cecil arched his back in a spasm, pale lips parted and a bloodurdling scream left his mouth, as if to ask for help to the whole world. Then, silence. 

Seconds passed before Cecil found the strenght to stably stand up again; he felt a presence in the room: someone he recently knew, the one who paid a visit in Mist and then in Baron.

How unlucky of you to find you there. 

The Paladin turned himself towards the visitor: Alex was right there, standing before the knight, whose eyes were now imbued of folly and wickedness. He put a hand on the hilt of the sword, hanging from the belt of his armor.

“You! What have you done?”

His consciousness was still there, somewhere: but it wasn’t able to prevail; his dark side has risen once again.

Well, this was interesting and strange at the same time, as Alex didn’t expect to see that Cecil would have a darker side hidden within him.

"What the hell? I just came here and find this bullshit.” He frowned when he noticed that the paladin looked now like a madman.

"If you want to pick a fight with me, then be my guest." Sparks flew from his long hair, while he glared at the crazy half-Lunarian. "I warn you that I have no mercy while dealing with nutcases like you." He stated bluntly while he started to gather particles for creating an iron sand sword. The blade materialized some seconds after he used his magnetism for that purpose.

Even though the transformation was complete, Cecil's headache continued to be as strong as ever: while advancing towards his... Enemy, he continued to tremble, a hand over the right side of the forehead, shaken by convulsions. In a matter of seconds, the pain subsided and an unreal and charged with tension calm descended in the room.

What was about to happen was the complete antithesis of that calm. The Paladin began to unsheathe his sword... That sword that was supposed to emanate holy light, as it was light-elemental. But, as the blade emerged, a flux of dark waves showed itself, descending to the ground like a kind of dark mist, forming some curls.

Cecil completely unsheathed his weapon, and pointed it directly towards Alex, that meanwhile summoned his own. "Are you trying to impress me?" was his question, asked with a slight smirk that curled upwards his blue lips. "Everyone loves to be the tough guy, but I don't think you'll have any chance to demonstrate that you are one, today. En garde!", he shouted, showing - or flaunting? - his militar training, and assumed his fighting stance: sword raised, to reach his head's height, hilt held firmly by both of his hands, the tip of the blade turned against the Electromaster.