Sometimes I remember that in the high school AU where he has loving parents, Belial, named "worthless" by his creator in the sky realm, was named "Shining prince" and I feel a kind of way about it
;v; Right? I wish we could see Oribe/Belial's parents, I wonder if he had any control over that part of the simulation? And how would he even feel about it...
Maybe he instinctively tested his parents' love at first. "What do I want for my birthday? .........Rintaro merch." And thus he clings to a silly juice mascot like it's proof of his worth, which to him it is. (He tried asking for a fancy car, but oops he's not of age yet. Turns out there are some downsides to this existence!)
Yay, an excuse to tell them, thanks! :D Ranking them backwards this time:
5. "What Just Happened?"
In the tropical region (this will be a running theme), I wondered what could be at the top-sides of the huge waterfalls. It was easy with the Gerudo armor, and once I got there I was impressed by how lush it was, how scenic, etc. There seemed to be someone very, very far in the distance, but what did that matter? I had a vista to look at.
The "distant someone" was in fact a White Lionel, who sniped me with horrifying ease from miles away. And so Link died from an arrow twice his size. XD;
More under the cut!
4. Sidon's Reassurance
I've mentioned it before, but until a few years ago the only games I played were the edutainment ones or Pokemon. So playing BOTW was a huge jump in both "what a game could look like" but also "the skills needed to play". When I first started playing BOTW, I quickly learned combat was not my strong suit. I needed the Watership Down approach: "All the world will be your enemy, Prince of A Thousand Enemies. But first they must catch you."
So when Sidon, who I liked immediately, asked if I could travel through the monster-infested stretch of mountain that led to his kingdom, I earnestly answered "I don't think so..." But Sidon was supportive, and claimed he'd be just ahead of me in the water, so I made the climb.
To this day, I still think that having Sidon pop up now and then to assure you that "You're doing great! You're almost there" was a stroke of genius on the devs' part. I liked Sidon, I didn't want to let him down. But more than once my "first they must catch you" approach couldn't cut it and I wondered if I should bother continuing. And then he'd show up with his words of encouragement right when "wondering" was about to turn into "quitting", and I learned I could make it to his kingdom after all. And maybe other places too!
(It helped that near the end, when I had literally nothing left but the glider, I took a literal leap of faith right over a big goblin's head and somehow managed to soar to Sidon's palace.)
3. "Puppies!"
This one is shorter, but funnier. I was running across the mountains near the desert, mostly taking in the view, when I saw what I thought (for some godforsaken reason) were dogs. "Aww, cute!" I thought, and started running with them.
But they weren't dogs, of course. They were wolves, and my only consolation is that I took one of them with me (still biting) when I went stupidly over the edge of a cliff. XD
2. Unlocked: Slo-Mo
There's one particular dungeon that I really, really wanted to solve, and that was the Rucco Maag Shrine or Five Flames Trial (I'm pretty sure). I kept almost having all the torches lit, but I didn't have the timing right. I kept at it for at least an hour or two every night, and every time I'd have three out of the five, or sometimes four. Mostly I had lots of arrows I needed to fish out of the surrounding water. At one point I got so frustrated I jumped on the pushing-pedestal that had launched me and my poor badly-timed Link into the air countless times before, not really caring if it worked or not.
...Before, I'd forgotten to hit the "knock arrow" button at the same time just before I fell, you see. ^^; But suddenly I was in the air knocking my fire arrow, and the slo-mo thing I'd assumed impossible for me did happen, giving me perfect clarity, and my arrow loosed and it worked and oh and I didn't care less that my Link crashed down to the floor after. I'd finally solved the puzzle!
BZZZZT
Another tropical region incident that I think encapsulates how much fun BOTW can be, even when you fail.
By the time I'd gotten there, I knew "rain was a pain", so it'd be better if I waited for it to pass. And so I waited. And waited. Clearly it wasn't going to let up anytime soon. "Huh. Well, fine," I thought, stomping around in all the shiny new gear I'd acquired. "Might as well find a shrine." I put the shrine sensor on, too, since I needed all the help I could get.
Thunder sounds rumbled overhead, which I (still relatively new to the game) dimly acknowledged as just ambience to really add to the "soaked to the bone and miserable" feelings so far. After the aforementioned Lionel-sniping, I was a lot more cautious, so I soon went from trudging to creeping, following the sensor's alarms steadily as I went up to a huge, jagged outcrop right across from the waterfall. I puzzled over this. Clearly there was no shrine here. Was the thing broken?
...And then I noticed Link's hair slowly rising like an angry cat's. And little sparks skittering along the new, shiny, metal armor and weapons I'd kitted him out with.
Get it off get it off get it off--
The lightning bolt crashed into poor Link and the shrine-less rock like a divine smiting. Laughing in horror, I watched as the "You Died" screen came up...and then laughed harder as the shrine appeared from the rubble, elegant jingle and all. XD
I knew what to do, but how to do it safely? Thinking fast, I reloaded and dumped Link's armor and weapons on top of the rock and scrambled a short distance beneath it, mentally going "👀" as I prayed I had the right idea and was out of range.
I did! And Link only got a little bruised by tumbling backward down the hill. An apple later, I climbed inside, expecting a puzzle. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised with...clothes! Rubber pants, in fact: electricity resistant, blended well with the surrounding area, and made Link like cool too. This made being smited even more worth it than before!
And that's how my Link became an adventuring fashionista. XD
Junichi Suwabe voices a character in the upcoming Rune Factory game
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Why
For context:
And it just has to be the character I found most attractive based on the trailers, too, because of course it is. And then I thought it was funny because he's voiced by Alejandro Saab in English, who's also Seofon's English voice. But I had no idea that this was why.
He would have had [oral] sex with this number of people and then brag about that somehow
The Brennan in that situation should be Sandalphon somehow. He wouldn't take it well
NO YOU UNDERSTAND MY VISION PERFECTLY. the 'that... can't be right' from Brennan kills me every time and I can absolutely see that being a Belial and Sandalphon bit
"They had parties under a supermarket in Brooklyn [pause] I guess that's the end of the sentence!" is also really good,
58. What part of the writing process do you enjoy the most? (Brainstorming, outlining, writing, editing, etc.)
Brainstorming and writing, I think? The act of seeing the scenes happen in my head as I go, basically. Oh, and that very rare moment when I'm really, truly in The Zone and I come back to myself with a whole idea written out. I wish it happened more often!
64. Something you love to see in smut.
For me, at least, the only way dialogue in a sex scene can be truly "bad" is if it's bland and boring--or if the fic's in a massive block of text, dialogue and all, from beginning to end. I'm one of those blursed people with an "inner ear" of sorts that makes it so if dialogue sounds IC enough, I'll hear it as the character would say it. (Sometimes it doesn't even need to be "in-character", you just need to really, really sell me on it.)
That is to say...it's hard to describe, because it's YMMV to the max. But what I call "sexy-cute dialogue", that razor-thin line between "this is hot because it's ridiculous" and "did I just get a cavity?" is my absolute favorite thing to write in sex scenes, because it's what I want to read and can almost never find. Not without having to keep a wary eye out for my nemesis, "baby bag", anyway. XD
2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?
I try to at least plan for an ending, but Beginning of Eternity, for example, I wrote fully by the seat of my pants, with very little planned! I had no idea where each chapter was gonna go or how long it was going to take me to get where I wanted to (the game night portion of the program)! They just fully took me on a ride.
A Killing Spree in White on the other hand, I went into each chapter with at least a rough outline of what I wanted to happen in each chapter, but still plenty of freedom.
The same is true for most of my one-shots, I try not to plan too much, no matter how tempting it is.
I'm currently fighting the urge to rigorously plot out my beloved mystery WIP!
71. When it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?
I have an excel file for a non-fanfic work of mine, tracking the days that have passed in the narrative, but for fanfiction, I usually don't put in that amount of effort, sorry.
I can keep track of the important things well enough on my own. Most of my notes are small scenes or ideas I don't want to forget.
72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?
I try to write in order from front to back, but occasionally (often, for the longer fics) fully-fledged scenes jump into my mind and I will write them down. Then I have a bunch of scenes in my WIP that I need to bring in order and figure out some connective tissue for!
I call this process jigsaw puzzling.
The final chapter of Killing Spree as well as three stories in Swords and Stars are currently in this state, with a lot of them already written (I think two of them are gonna crack 10 k words again) and me mostly needing to fill in the blanks. Unfortunately, this is not my favorite part of writing, so I end up putting it off, which is why these fics have been sitting unfinished for several months now. I like the scenes I've written, otherwise I would delete them and start fresh, I just don't love sitting down to do clean up!
There's also one scene I remember I need to rework the dialogue of, as it doesn't make a lot of sense as is. There's too much going on and I need to trim the fat. Sieten't always does this to me.
