Fantastic Females

Well, well, well, look what boredom has wrought! Another list (gasp!)!! This time I’m doing girls that I happen to think are pretty cool. The girls who made it on to previous lists won’t be here, but they’re implied. (Millenia, Bellenza, Harle)
Tifa Lockheart- Final Fantasy VII
I really don’t get why everybody has to give my girl the grief!! Yeah, she was a flake when she was a kid- for pity’s sake, who wasn’t? (Yeah… I know, Aegis wasn’t. But she doesn’t count.) The point is Tifa had her act pulled together even before her town went nuclear- or did no one notice that she was taking martial arts lessons from Zangan and guiding the SOLDIER contingent up the mountain? Yeah, that same mountain her father never wanted her to set foot on again after she hurt herself when she was little? She has her own life apart from Cloud, but genuinely wants to help him. She could have walked away when she found him at the train station- but she didn’t. Anyway, not what I wanted to say- I wanted to say that Tifa is an awesome fighter- not a crybaby flake.
"Of course! If you take me lightly, you're gonna pay for it!!"

Akia- Skies of Arcadia
The female pirate! Argh! Akia is literally the girl next door for Vyse- but manages to spice things up with her own personality- for instance, although she has a teddy bear in her room, if you examine her stove, Vyse comments that it has been blackened because Akia keeps throwing gunpowder into it to watch it explode. Akia has a strong personality, she’s happiest when she’s doing something with Vyse, particularly discovering new things, stealing, or other Blue Rouge behavior. Akia kind of drew the short stick in the game though- Fina comes down from the Silver Shrine and Vyse falls head over heels for her. Tough luck- but if anyone is strong enough to get over this unintentional rejection, it’s Akia.
"Some dead guy is having a big laugh at us."

Kid- Chrono Cross
Kid, Schala “Kid” Zeal, the game calls her. Forget the game, her name is Kidd. Kidd is quite frankly, one of my favorite characters of all time. A member of the Radical Dreamers, Kidd is a cunning thief with a personal grudge against a demi-human known as Lynx. Really, Kidd is the one who motivates Serge throughout the game- it’s Kidd who rescues him when he gets cornered by the game’s version of the Ghostbusters, and its Kidd who clues him in that Viper Manor might hold some of the answers he’s looking for. Every time Serge doesn’t know what to do, Kidd already has a plan. That’s why she is NOT Schala. I played Chrono Trigger. I met Schala- and she was a passive wuss. There is no way that Kidd would submit to that kind of person. Ever. Two quotes for Kidd!
“I’ll kick your arse so hard you’ll kiss the moons!”
“Ex-cuse me?! You’re just going to leave a poor defenseless girl like me to travel alone?!”

Elena- Grandia II
While Millenia takes the cake for sheer toughness, Elena is a close second to her evil doppelganger. You’d never know it to look at her, but Elena is stubborn, quite capable of sticking up for herself and sometimes downright rude. As a “Songstress of Granas” she works as the conscience for the group of misfits on their way to the Papal state- which has poor Ryudo grousing that they can’t possibly stop to rescue every kitten stuck up a tree. Despite their frequent disagreements, it’s obvious to anyone with eyes that these two love each other. All in all, Elena is one of my favorite people that I classify as “White Mage.” To me, white mages are fairly worthless. Give me a fighter, not someone to stand in the back and cast slow. If the enemy is dead, status effects aren’t needed.
Since I can’t find anything better… one of Ryudo and Elena’s arguments.
Ryudo: Whoa there, gumshoe! I don't recall 'hunting down reawakening God of Evil' as being part of my job description.
Elena: Saving those in need is the duty of those who follow Granas. I will not ignore my duty, Ryudo, and I most certainly not ignore these people. We must aid them!
Ryudo: Now you're just being stubborn. Let's try to be rational here. One: I'm not being paid. I repeat that - I AM NOT BEING PAID.

Beatrix- Final Fantasy IX
Just a quick blurb on Beatrix- she halfway irks me, and I halfway like her. She’s entirely loyal to the queen of Alexandria, which makes her your enemy for the first half of the game. During this first half, you must fight her, a battle I compare to fighting a female Sephiroth when you’re at level 7. There is no way to beat her. And then, when you get to briefly play as her- her attacks aren’t nearly that strong. Also, also! She stole one of Cloud’s attacks! Climhazard! Totally belongs to Cloud! Sadly, this limited-time offer character is pretty much the strongest female in the game. Don't get me wrong, I like Dagger and Eiko, and Freya is okay, but none of them have the presence that Beatrix has- the one that tells you up front that they are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.
"I commend your courage, but I will show you no mercy."

Yuffie Kisgard - Final Fantasy VII
The ninja-girl of FF7, ah, Yuffie… you cost me so much… my dignity, my self-respect… my gil! Getting this girl into your party is a pain in the butt, in which any wrong answer to any of her prompts will result in her stealing some gil. Your gil, to be precise. And then, if you get the urge to go exploring and find Wutai, she steals ALL OF YOUR MATERIA! And engages you in a LONG subquest to get it all back. Still, you’ve got to admire the kid- she was 14, and tagged along with everyone else out to save the world, even braving her travel sickness for the sake of people she couldn’t admit to being friends with. Somehow I see her and Red XIII getting along very well- they’re the only two teenagers out on this crazy ride after all.
Yuffie: Cloud, sign this.
Cloud: What is it?
Yuffie: It's a contract that says when the war is over, all the materia will belong to me.

Kitten Update

Teh Kitteh's

Just posting some pictures of the cats. Sorry no pictures of Midnight- on this day he wasn't coming close enough to the fence for any good shots. Fruit Bat got some though, and she'll be posting them later.

Saul sitting by the carrier














Solstice leaning against Fruit Bat- he likes to hang out behind us.














Saul eating... he's a pig!














Closeup of Solstice.

It was a good break. It was even a good Easter. What it was not, was a good drive back to the college. It was pure coincidence that said drive back occurred on Easter. I do not blame Easter for my bad experience. The long and short of it is, about halfway back to town, I noticed my engine having difficulty accelerating, and making a HORRIBLE clunking grinding noise. After my car STALLED OUT (which it has NEVER done before) at a stop light, I pulled over. A giant thank you to my sister EvilGlare, for having had a stick shift, and having stalled out her car at stop lights, so I knew how to get it running again. I still don't know what's wrong with the darn thing. I had to get Fruit Bat to come pick me up and leave my car in that town.
Fortunately my parents are getting it towed so we can see what's wrong with it.
Also, since it was Easter I got a wonderful chocolate rabbit- which did not survive the car ride back to the dorm. Heck, it died quicker than my car! I now posess a chocolate puddle, painstakingly scraped from the cardboard box and being kept in a refridgerator.
And as if this post wasn't random enough (see lack of title above)-I've just finished reading a book, and it was so... something that I'm going to go ahead and mention it. I found it at the library, where there are a great many books, as I was browsing, it caught my eye. The book is black- which is not uncommon nowadays, black with silver letters proclaiming that it is "The Black Book of Secrets," and on the cover is the image of a boy standing in front of a man (the man's head is not visible) with his finger raised to his lips as if to silence th reader. On his shoulder is a red-eyed tree frog that is magnificently green against the black- just as green are the boy's eyes. As if the title weren't intriguing enough, the edges of the pages are black. Just as some Bibles have gold or red or silver gilt on the edges of their pages. It boggles the mind to look at it. The summary almost doesn't matter- I had to check it out, if only to go on looking at it. The story is quite good too- the secrets that are told are usually not of a pleasent nature, but the characters are real, and even in their secrets you can see that they are good people. My only regret is that at the end of the book- there are still secrets left untold.

Saul and Solstice

Here are some pictures of two of the cats Vulpecula and I take care of at our college. They're sweethearts! We can now pet and sorta hold them.

Note: Dark orange cat=Saul
Cream Orange=Solstice

Fruit Bat Tis' Back!!!

Yeah, yeah I know I haven't written on here in a while. I haven't had any inspiration to do so. Why? Cuz' no one really reads this. I feel like it's a pointless blog where I go to repeat what I've already told Vul and/or to talk to myself. Anywho, I suppose I'll just post some pictures of the Spring Bash at The Grove. Enjoy Vulpecula, and me, myself, and I.

Note: In these pictures, Vulpecula, Bella, and me.

In case you can't tell by the pictures; we had fun! I was hit in the head TWICE while playing the jousting game by both Bella and Vulpecula. Bella hit me first and knocked my entire helmet off. She claims that she was trying to use the jousting thing to bounce off my chest to keep from falling. Instead she hit me in the head. LOLZ!!! It was epic!

Bella and I walked away with whiplash and the next day bruised neck muscles. Vul was fine if not a tad sore. The right side of my face felt bruised for a few days afterwards from being hit in the head.

It was SOOOOO much fun though, and I hope that The Grove does a bash again soon! :D

Happy to see us

Well, this weekend the Fruit Bat and I journeyed homeward once more- I, to answer the call for aid from my employers, and Fruit Bat, hitching a ride to go pick up her newly-repaired pick up.
Read that sentence again if you missed the play on words.
Anyway, when at length we returned to our college domicile, there were two very hungry felines waiting for us.
Dear Solstice and Saul were beside themselves with joy that their food-providers were back, while Fruit Bat went into her dorm to get the food, I sat out with the cats- because if one of us doesn't, Solstice will follow Fruit Bat back to her dorm.
Solstice was quite a bit more affectionate than is usual- though she is the more affectionate of the two, and we've been "allowed" to pet her for about a week now. She was continually rubbing at me, shoving herself under my hand to be petted, and once crawled halfway into my lap to sniff at my chin- though she decided that this last was too close, and bolted to a "safe" distance before coming back.
Saul though, I was surprised with, generally he stays on the other side of the fence when we feed them, and has shown no interest in us other than bringers-of-food. But he was right out there with Solstice, approaching me hesitantly. Three times he sniffed at my hand, and I was permitted to pet him- though he's more easily startled than his sister.
Even Midnight, who has always hidden when we are around, is now not only sitting in plain view, but has been coming a little closer while we are near. We have to be sitting down though. None of the cats like it very much when we're standing.
This morning I met with a friendly cat who lives by the academic building- I've met him several times before, and he always comes up to be stroked and admired. I felt bad this morning though- I pet him a little bit, then had to go inside for class. He looked confused, and put his paws up on the glass doors. Poor guy- I'd have let him in, if it wasn't a school building and I wasn't sure that he would find absolute torture within the halls.

cat feeding video from DA-
http://ayonakari.deviantart.com/art/don-t-feed-the-cat-18270205