all made up with nowhere to go

I don't actually have much to say about Raithwall's Tomb, because I played it when very tired (you might note that this is a recurring theme throughout this run. My insomnia, let me show you it). The most I have to say is that the Dawn Shard looks like a sea urchin. I know this is a fact because my mum owns a sea urchin shell, and it looks like the Dawn Shard. So. Unless I am heir to a desert kingdom, that ain't nethicite, it's a sea urchin.

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I got the Longbow from the Bazaar for the burning arrows (though I sold the bow back to Tetran). I meant to equip them for the Elder Wyrm fight, and totally forgot. Anyway, it doesn't matter now because I WON.

Because I haven't done anything with Vaan, he has 950+ LP. Ashe has ~910, maybe?

And that's about where I am now :)

<--- Bhujerba to Raithwall's Tomb | rewind a little: Raithwall's Tomb to the Ozmone Plain --->

OK IGNORE WHAT I SAID ABOUT BASCH IN THE LAST POST. I WAS WRONG, BECAUSE I FREQUENTLY AM.

OK.

Good.

(But you know, the more I look at him, the more the likeness between the two of them is apparent and man they really look like each other in that opening bit in Nalbina which I SUPPOSE is a REALLY GOOD THING because THAT'S THE POINT).

I am thinking all the things about FFXII, and it is ALL lassarina's fault. Also bad(ish) things are happening in my RL (which I'd rather not talk/think about), and I think, quite honestly, that FFXII is my hide-my-head-in-the-sand fandom, given that the last time I was THIS into it was in 2008. That was the year we found out my dad had cancer and he died. So. Yeah. I think I spent more time rolling around in Ivalice than I did on college work.

(I pick it up, and I put it down, but it's one of those things I definitely don't stop being into. Because IVALICE).

(Talking of which, and in case you haven't experienced my terrible sense of humour at work, here's a tweet I made earlier:

"I don't want to work, I want to roll around in Ivalice forever!" > *gets reincarnated as a cockatrice*

Yeah)

OH ALSO did you know Gabranth's accent is supposed to be New Zealand? He sounds like no New Zealander I've ever heard or spoken to. Also forever questioning why he sounds the way he does and Basch is American accented. If they come from the same place, surely they should sound relatively the same? (I say relatively because I'm thinking Gabranth tried to hide his accent somewhat even though I have no idea what a Landisian accent is supposed to be like (though going from Basch's, it is some variety of American, like Dalmascan. Unless he changed his accent to fit in too. Because he could have. I AM THINKING ABOUT THIS FAR TOO MUCH). (What I would like, I guess, is some consistency. Pfft).

(Talking of thinking about things too much, I vomited out a bit of meta re: FFXII, but I'll post that another time, because I think I may have other things to say later).

I did actually start playing the game last night. Vaan has just left Rabanastre for the first time. I couldn't play much more than that as I was kind of falling asleep (watching the cutscenes made my eyes hurt). I forgot how awesome Basch is on his chocobo :3 - which reminds me: I'm going to put him on bows for this playthrough, because I nearly always give him swords or hammers, and honestly like to try him on something radically different this time. I've never seen his bow animation.

I always aim to to be really snarky to the game when I play it lately (and take notes!) but the only thing I can ever manage is "So are you!" when she yells at Basch that he's supposed to be dead. And there are never any notes.

This post has not been very coherent, and I'm sorry for that. But I am not good at coherency at the best of times, less so when I am tired.

I am feeling sad, so I am looking at pictures of my Landisian boyfriend.

*sigh*

I wish I could be bothered to hook up the PS2 and actually play FFXII again. Or do some of the hunts. But eh. Pictures it is.