Whether you're here for my FFCC queue, my pixel art, or my webdev junk, mind the occasionally deranged rambling. These episodes typically don't last, come with no warning, and are intense. You also do not have to follow me back I promise I think you are cool and interesting already we don't need to be moots.
I'm sorry if you get pocket meme'd I keep some memes in my drafts on the rare chance I'll actually use them. They're usually so old because they just sit there lol.
With that disclaimer out of the way: blog organization:
#reblog -- things i wanna show people right meow
#lav px -- pixel art tag
|__#f2u -- free to use
|__#dnu -- do not use
|__#??w??h -- the size of the pixels
#crystal queue -- anything FFCC related
|__#ffcc/#ffccre -- the original and the remake
|__#ffccrof -- ffcc ring of fates
|__#ffcceot -- ffcc echoes of time
|__#ffccmlaak -- ffcc my life as a king
|__#ffccmlaadl -- ffcc my life as a dark lord
|__#ffcccb -- ffcc the crystal bearers
All Ship Tags:
|__#laykei -- layle / keiss
|__#laykeibelle -- layle / keiss / belle
|__#laybelle -- layle / belle
|__#laythea -- layle / althea
|__#amidalayle -- amidatelion / layle
|__#cidgali -- cid &/ vaigali
Joke/Crack Ship Tags:
|__#bellion -- belle/amidatelion
|__#laygali -- layle/vaigali
.....|__/ a ship from when I was ten have mercy merci
All Lav Tags:
|__#lav chat -- wild text posts
.....|__#lav notes -- wild text posts with purpose
.....|__#ffcc:tcb -- ffcc the crystal bearers yapping
I made and chilled barley tea for today knowing it would be a whole day. I have so many tedious little plans and I'm so tired I just want to lay under the coffee table for a couple hours. It keeps hitting me that I am 27 and people expect me to act like my life is over. Toss your childish passions, become respectable, only do middle of the road things. Once our expenses go down (and oh man they will go down), I want to set up a proper website outside of the NeoNeko bubble.
Okay, I had some fun in FFCC with free camera in emulator. I went to Rebena Te Ra’s dungeon ‘cause it’s a place from the past and it can be interesting lore wise.
It was a big city were all four tribes lived together before the fall of the Great Crystal and before miasma existed. I had this vague memory that you could find the symbols of each tribe in the dungeon, but didn’t know where exactly, so I went to look by myself.
The Selkie symbol is an easy one, I remembered it. Still had to find where the others were.
This is tricky but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be Clavat symbols on the wall here.
It’s broken but that’s the Yuke symbol here.
And then after a while I finally found the Lilty’s symbol on the ground. It’s damaged but it’s clearly their crown thing.
Now if we look at Rebena Te Ra’s map, here’s where I found them:
Using the same format, I'm putting together a page for my FFCCre Crystal Caravan. This lets me test experiential features I might not otherwise get to play with.
Also, for those confused by the family table: Tatay is father, nanay is mother, kuya is older brother, ate is older sister, but toto and nene are terms of endearment I use for the younger siblings. "Older Brother" is just so much longer than "Kuya", yeah?
One of the things I will absolutely shell out for is Kingdom Hearts man. I'm so overstimulated right now because I'm dual drifting FFCCre exploration and these KH4 announcements. The OoT announcement isn't as exciting because to be frank I don't want another OoT reskin. If it's an actual remake that builds on the game, sure, that's actually really cool, but I feel like it's the FF7 of the Zelda franchise. Minish Cap would be rad. I'd also kill for Four Swords Adventures.
I got jury duty today and it's like 20 minutes out minimum without accounting for the fact this is one big damn tourist trap and tourists are a nightmare to deal with. It's like they can't fathom the idea everyone isn't there for vacation or they view the locals as an extension of their hotel. "BuT tOuRiSm BriNgS mOnEy!" Yeah money the locals won't see more than a dime of spent on them. These fuckers casts lines into the ocean where children play and say dumb shit like "there are no rules against fishing here". Fucking choke on sand. Get baked baby back bitch. Hate them. I can respect visitors who know how to behave like people.
All this whining and I'm so happy I got 35 bucks out of it. Humans really are such greedy and self serving little creatures, huh? Nothing happened but I'm 'on call' for a week. I debated playing either more FFCC or FFX while waiting in the courthouse, but I think I'm not in the mood for being The Only Guy Button Mashing. And then I'm just definitely not in the mood for more FFVII. I feel like Sqen is always throwing it in my face so Cloud has lost a lot of charm for now. I could take a crack at FFVIII but then I'd have three whole Final Fantasy games in progress and that's just too much. I guess I could have played Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon since there's not really any button mashing but they messed up the remake so bad that I'm having a hard time forgiving them for it. They cut out entire sections of the story in a story-driven infinite dungeon crawler! I really recommend not really playing CMD unless you like mindless turn based dungeon crawling.
This has been in my WIPs for so long, and it was almost finished; finally found some strength to pick it back.
In Chapter 10 of Year 3, there's a mention of Neryssa, a Selkie from Leuda that studied the unknown element in the past. I wanted to make up some design for her (not a canon NPC!)
Better view over her face below; also the paintings on her arm are symbols for all four elements (wind, fire, earth, water) plus the unknown element flowing in between them. :3
At the time of this chapter she would be about 10 years older than that, but yeah. I wanted to draw some cool Selkie girl.
I got jury duty today and it's like 20 minutes out minimum without accounting for the fact this is one big damn tourist trap and tourists are a nightmare to deal with. It's like they can't fathom the idea everyone isn't there for vacation or they view the locals as an extension of their hotel. "BuT tOuRiSm BriNgS mOnEy!" Yeah money the locals won't see more than a dime of spent on them. These fuckers casts lines into the ocean where children play and say dumb shit like "there are no rules against fishing here". Fucking choke on sand. Get baked baby back bitch. Hate them. I can respect visitors who know how to behave like people.
Cool awesome fun fact time for the acoote because this hellish aircraft is the reason I got pulled 6 feet under into The Crystal Bearers:
You see how the minigun is mounted towards the ass of the aircraft? It has forwards facing guns, but the only time we see them in action is when Layle is running away with Amidatelion and they rain bullets down towards the ground. That makes the upper half of the front side completely defenseless, explaining why Keiss' only course of action for the zu being there was 'oh shit'. Layle pretty much had to rip the minigun off because he can't 1.) see anything beneath the acoote pretty much at all and 2.) That's the crystal reactor and engine right in front of him preventing him from firing too close to it, too. When Keiss said they had to pull back he meant it from his own limited perspective of 'if we do not, we will die because the enemy can and will out maneuver us'.
Also a neat detail are the wings. When flying in formation, the kingdom emblem is complete, but Keiss is a lone bird and his goal is to disrupt the kingdom's political power structure.
More bonus because I'm on a roll: The crystal reactor isn't the part that is golden towards the body of the acoote, it's the glowing stick way out there letting off all that light. You can see another crystal reactor in Park Fountain Avenue and it has that exact same feature meaning it's not specifically used to propel the acoote forward.
And finally, the part that has driven me absolutely nuts until now: The acoote has landing gear. Those wheels aren't meant to really hit the ground but I'll suspend my disbelief about the magic crystal aircraft fueled by the collective soul of a whole tribe banished to the shadow realm.
