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Playing XIII-2. Surprisingly more fun than XIII. Liking Serah a lot more now that she's gone beyond plot device. Before it was apathy? Just waiting to see how her story goes, so it's an interesting observance.

I also like the friendship she has with Noel. Good teamwork and banter, and I like the dialogue choices you can have with her. I like to think that all the dialogue choices are the same aspects of her personality, and that includes the "The cat is my only family!" line.

I've just finished with the Bresha Ruins and slayed the boss Atlas just for a graveyard scene and am going to move on to another time gate soon.

Probably my most epic since that giant Vincent Valentine headcanon thing

Rhinestones That Shine (5880 words) by Zen_monk
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VII
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kain Highwind/Tifa Lockhart
Characters: Kain Highwind, Tifa Lockhart
Additional Tags: Friendship, Male-Female Friendship, Flirting, Healing, Fear of Death, Fear, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Humor, Shame, Angst, Minor Violence, Survivor Guilt, Psychological Trauma, self-deprecation, Existentialism, Strangulation, Teasing
Series: Part 3 of Beyond the Rift
Summary:

Fatigue and injury settled in Kain's bones long before he found Tifa. Fatigue and injury rested in his being, which got dredged up and disturbed, given names and forms, when Tifa made him sit down for just a hot second because for Cosmos' sake Kain, you're going to fall over like a fainting goat at this rate! So let her teach the virtues of self-care and of faith, for fighting those mirrored likenesses of yourself has leeched you from all of your being, and risk making you as hollow and dull as those manikins that you so despised and feared.

So why is it that manikins look so much larger than life than the real things? Each one mirrors the face of treachery, and each one mirrors the shock of those victims when the lance has pierced them through and shattered. If she keeps stripping you of your armor to treat you, will she see the loose sand that counts as filling not so unlike a doll?

How to win at being a student

 working on essay comparing "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

Distracts mental capabilities by marathoning the anime "Monster," where Liam o'Brien gets the protagonist role. 

Feeling compelled to make a list of "The Best of Liam O'Brien." 

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I declare this week done. Soooo done. More done than roast chicken, because anything less means I get salmonella poisoning.

It's done when I realized I turned in an essay without page numbers and a works cited. and then emailed it with the completed format and the hard copy slid under a darkened door after a terse email with concern (for it was concern) asking why I didn't turn it in early, hey gurl what's up???