[ SECRET POST #061 ]

[grayout.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #061 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Posting for Liz and totally not just slacking off from starting both of the take-home midterms I have due tomorrow. Okay, maybe slacking a little.

Remember, if you're here because someone referred you here for the contest, tell us who here!

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #009.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, March 8th 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Just as a note,

:D

And I totally know who 3 is *dies*

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[downburst.livejournal.com]

... okay then!

[cakemix.livejournal.com]

8! ♥

[x-of-greene-x.livejournal.com]

3. T_T Archerboy reminds me of Fenrir. Except that's a different server and he's a sniper now.

5. >_> Um, at least I'll get some Axel/Zexion. Hopefully. I was kind of hoping the fandom didn't ship it because no one half of them didn't know who Zexion was.

[superheroine]

5. It's already like that, imho. Zexion wasn't a trendy emo boy until KH2 hit and the Organization was suddenly big, for example. I never saw uber-feminine!Marluxia until after KH2.

(icon directed at those people, naturally)

And it's not a matter of being a fan of them longer - it's a matter of having played COM and getting their characterizations RIGHT.

Re: 7

[queenie-z.livejournal.com]

Seconded. WHAT YOU TALKIN 'BOUT D:

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I never saw uber-feminine!Marluxia until after KH2.

-- I did! It is/used to be all over Japanese fanart sites, Marluxia being all weepy and blushy and uke to like, Axel or something. It was pretty awful. >>"

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I wondered the same thing, actually. The way she dresses could kinda be taken that way I guess but nothing in the game said she was like a raging whore. *dies* She was actually pretty professional at Gongaga... ifIrememberright

[x-of-greene-x.livejournal.com]

Really? I saw a LOT of girly!Mar-- not even just in Japanese sites, either, Case.

I also saw a lot of emo!Zex, for um, what I saw of Zex-- which wasn't much.

[superheroine]

I didn't start hitting up the Japanese fanart sites until after KH2, but I've seen it too - the big AkuMaru thing? I agree. Crap, crap, crap. Either way, I was more referring to the side of fandom we end up seeing more - the North American side - but I won't disagree with you.

Then again, the vast majority of doujinshi are Japanese-made, and to this day I have found few that are entirely IC :P Besides, in all honesty, you see very little Japanese fanart that's IC, for KH, really.

I don't like the fandom's mentality that the Japanese's OOC is okay, though. It's kind of weird.

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[aestivalis]

Exactly! I saw Kvar, thought 'aha, a ToS secret, I can have an opinion here!' and... well, I have no idea what this person is trying to say. Not at all.

Can anyone shed light, please? D:

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[boooon.livejournal.com]

I SEE THE LIGHT.

...... well, rather, the white. The font's white.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I don't like the fandom's mentality that the Japanese's OOC is okay, though.

-- totally agreed. I can't even look at some doujin 'cause like... even if the art is beautiful it's like why are they acting like that whyyyyy, it's like other people in my favorite characters' bodies, what's wrong with this comic??? *diiies*

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Personally I see the semi-slutty appearance as like a power thing for her... if people want her, she's in control. And stuff. :D Doesn't mean she's actually gonna go around sleeping with people or anything and *dies* aghkdtgaht oh man, now I wanna write Scarlet.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Makes you wonder if Square got pissed and gave Marluxia that really deep voice to compensate for it. *dies*

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[aestivalis]

I at least understand the part about some people liking sub-characters. Amen to that much. Sebastian~, Dirk~, Mylene~ ♥

I wish I had a Sebastian icon. And a Dirk one, for that matter >:

[shahrizai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but sex wasn't really ever explicitly mentioned in the game, which means you have to pick up on what Square put in (quite like Duane and Katarin in FF6). Scarlet is the stereotypical vamp in a red dress with too much lipstick. Hell, she had a bitchfight minigame.

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[boooon.livejournal.com]

I like Botta and Sebastian, I suppose...? And Rodyle is THE MOST CUNNING OF THE GRAND CARDINALS! >8D His sunglasses were cool.

Well, you have Mylene, so that works.

[rekkablaze.livejournal.com]

[08] GO MANGO-TWIN! HER STYLE IS AWESOME! ♥

[some-kat.livejournal.com]

8. *____________________* ♥♥♥

10. Yeah, that's something that's always bothered me in other fandoms. "Edo" rather than the intended "Ed" for FullMetal Alchemist, Seras VS Selas VS Celes (which I STILL cannot figure out how they got those other two o_o), and a lot of others. It's always been an issue with me: if the setting is psuedo-European (or actually in an English speaking country), then it's meant to be spoken with the English name DX I dunno, I think I'm just being nitpicky.

[(Anonymous)]

YOU DO NOT I'M A NINJA.

[kurachu.livejournal.com]

8. FRUUSUKE IS SO LUCKY, SHE'S GONNA BE FAMOUS. *_*

[shahni.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if they did. But concerning the fanart, it's a lot easier to get more views for humor than it is to get for like UBERSERIOUS pics, right? I mean, at least fanartists can get away with it by playing on the character's predominant traits, it's when they go LOL THAT'S WHAT THE CHARACTER -IS- LIKE when you worry.

Fanfiction writers now.. I want to say they have no excuse for butchering characterisation, but I feel like I'd be contradicting myself somewhere. >>"

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[kurachu.livejournal.com]

Same here, I don't understand what message the creator is trying to get across. Seems to jump around a bit...

[grayout.livejournal.com]

JYNNAN SEMES TONNYX AND YOU KNOW IT