*Sigh*

Mixed feelings about today.

I guess I'll do bad news first to get it out of the way. My mom is in the hospital right now. She went to the ER earlier today because she thought she had a kidney stone (she's had one before, so she probably knows what one feels like). So she went and found out that they couldn't actually find any kidney stones...So then they took tests (CAT scan and all that) and they ruled out any major concerns they had that it might be...So now we have no idea what's going on because she's in A LOT of pain, but we don't know why. I'm a little worried...She still in the hospital (staying overnight)...So, Kat and Rachel, I may not be able to do lunch tomorrow :(

Anyway, enough bad stuff. Now for good news stuff!
It was our first half-day (of three) today! 2 more half-days and we're done!!! w00t!!!
I had my English and Anatomy finals today. Ugh. They were hard, but I studied for about 3-4 hours yesterday, so I think I actually did okay. Those were my two hardest finals. Tomorrow is Calculus and Chemistry, which won't be too bad. In Calc we can work with partners and use notes and everything, so its not gonna be hard. In Chemisty, Mr. S is letting us use a cheat sheet, which can be one full size sheet of paper front and back, full of whatever we want to put on it. I can fit a lot on a sheet of paper, so I think I'll be OK X3.

Hmmm...In otaku-related stuff:
I drew some more pictures, but didn't feel like scanning them in, so I'll put them up in my next post.
Kat-chan, I have decided that you may have Sephiroth. You fangirl over him a lot more than I do. My fangirling is more like, 'I want him on my team because whoever he's against dies...' So you may have full claim over Sephy X3
And I am officially adding to my list:
Neku (emo psychic person who I've decided is Darth Vader...he does the whole force choke thing and all)



Joshua (total creeper, especially when he says things like "Good job, Neku..." *creepy laugh* -- you can't understand the full essence of joshua's creepiness without hearing him say it...X3)



Sho Minamimoto (math nerd. says things like "You factoring son of a digit!!" -- and yes, he is cursing you out in math-speak...)



They are all from The World Ends With You -- the DS game that I started talking about in my last post. Here is the official trailer to give a little preview of its awesomeness:



Its a really awesome game!! I'll have to lend to at least one person in my group of friends...maybe Courgy-chan because I'll be lending Rachel Kingdom Hearts II. Or maybe Kat-chan if you want to play it?? (I'd lend you my DS, too, if you need it X3)

Anyway, I also completed an AMV a couple days ago and just posted it on YouTube today:



It was a very random idea I had a while back and never got to finishing the AMV until now. I am not trying to promote any pairings or anything. I just used whatever clips worked--which turned out mostly to be Xion...Though the Roxas at the beginning was accidental -- originally, I had planned to do a bunch of hot characters in the video, so Roxas' clip ended up there and it looked like he was lip-synching the words and it was funny, so I kept it X3-- I added something at the end for Kat-chan as well XD

I'm working on another AMV that is doing pretty well so far for only working on it for about 30 minutes last night! I'm not going to say what it is, its a surprise!! Dundundun - suspense!!! >w<

Hmmm....I think I wanted to say something else but can't remember what it was....I added some TWEWY (The World Ends With You) songs to my playlist. Because they're awesome. They're not really my normal taste but they're cool nonetheless!
That's not really what I forgot to say...but I still can't remember what it actually was that I had to say, so I guess....
Yeah...
That's all!
I got to finish actually making the cheat-sheet thing for Chem...
Squid!

~otaku-chan~

Kingdom Hearts =D

(Kingdom Hearts II ~mandi-chan on deviantart.com)

I just added a bunch of Kingdom Hearts songs to my playlist!! XD

I didn't add every single one - just my favorite ones and ones that don't give me bad memories from the game...like the Wonderland ones...*cringes*
I got stuck in Wonderland for the longest time in Kingdom Hearts I. I was so confused!!! And that stupid music was just playing over and over again and it still makes me cringe every time I hear it!!!


I'm such a nerd that I can pretty much tell you exactly what's going on in the game when I only hear the song. Its sad. But I'm not the only one!! The comments on the songs on youtube are all about what happens in the game and how the boss was hard, or the boss was awesome, or what people were saying when the song was playing!!

That just goes to show how awesome the Kingdom Hearts soundtrack is. That people actually remember the songs from different parts of the game!!

Probably, my favorite songs are:

1. 13th Struggle (Axel's Battle theme!!!!)

2. Roxas (Roxas' Theme when he gets turned back into/absorbed into Sora -- "It looks like my summer vacation is...over." Its so sad!!!)



3. Shrouding Dark Cloud (When you fight Guard Armor -- don't know why, but that's one of my all-time favorite bosses...and the music is epic and that boss is what made me love Kingdom Hearts first!!)



And I love all the rest of them as well, except the wonderland stuff...

It seems that Kingdom Hearts songs have three categories (1) Battle -- makes you feel like picking up your keyblade and killing off a bunch of Heartless (2) Sad -- makes you feel like crying and hugging your friends (3) Bouncy/Happy -- that you just kind of have to bouncily dance to...

Funny story: I was on the way out of school one day last week and was listening to Simple and Clean (opening version) on my iPod on the bus. It was kinda dark and looked like it was about to storm. It was very much the same atmosphere as the beginning of Kingdom Hearts when those clouds of darkness come and swallow Destiny Island and heartless are crawling around everywhere!! I seriously felt like that creepy voice was going to start talking to me and saying "Do not be afraid." and then I'd have a keyblade in my hand and then Riku would show up and try to drag me into the darkness with him -- like this:



It was epic! (And I would have gone with Riku X3)

On another note, what is it with Kingdom Hearts putting the freakish scary bosses at the beginning?! I mean:





...Those are with, no training in the first one and then with only the little training you might have built up with the nobodies right before the second one...*shrug*...maybe that's what makes these games so awesome!! They're not easy right from the beginning!!

Very sad thing -- I tried to replay Kingdom Hearts II a couple weeks ago. I couldn't get past the Twilight Thorn (the giant nobody). I was in hard mode, but I still thought 'Wow...I'm out of practice...' It made me sad...:(

Sooo...I feel like putting up a bunch of KH Battle videos, so here are what I thought were the hardest bosses in each game:

Kingdom Hearts I:



(And that's how Roxas was born!! -- for Rachel: Sora became a heartless, and when someone becomes a heartless, a nobody is born, ergo Roxas.
Me whenever I play this battle: "Go Riku!! Use the POWER OF OBLIVION!!!!" ...I like this battle...XP)



(now that I think about it...I still haven't beaten Sephiroth...)

Kingdom Hearts II:



(The hardest boss in the series, in my opinion. He actually made me stop playing Kingdom Hearts II for like, a year, when I just couldn't beat him!!!)

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days:



(Mission #66; Day #256. Good luck Rachel XP!! Yeah, usually the heartless aren't hard to beat, but this one was freaking scary-looking and difficult!!)

Now for some awesome battles:



(Xigbar's battle was actually quite hard -- some say the 2nd hardest in KHII. I think he was just annoying. But its interesting to watch him walking around upside-down as he shoots at you...)



(My personal favorite battle. I mean: 2 keyblades, Roxas, Axel, FIRE!! What more could you want?! "Burn, baby!!")



(Dance, water, dance!! And you can skip the first 1:40 min because its just extra stuff that I couldn't find a video without...In watching this, I realized that Demyx has very sudden mood swings)



(Glomps Riku in the middle of battle?? Zexion does just want to be loved!! XD)



(OMZ! Light-sabers!!)



(Snowflakes of doom!!
And at first when Riku took the flying thingy, I thought he was just going to say, "Screw you, Sora! I'm outta here -- dragons are scary!!"
Yeah, this one was pretty hard, too...I'm not good with the ones you actually have a strategy to use and you can't just hit random buttons...I lost to this 10 times!! And I had to watch the cutscenes over and over and over and over again!!!!)

And to go along with this Kingdom-Hearts-themed post, I drew a couple things this week and last week:
They are both pictures/attempts at Lea (aka Axel's somebody) from Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. I didn't have reference pictures for these, so I just drew what I could remember of his outfit from the few times I saw pictures of him X3
The picture above has a smiley-face. That was Kat-chan's doing -- I was drawing this during Envirothon =) And he is holding matches because at first I had him with fire, but Katherine pointed out that since he's not Axel yet, he doesn't have fire, so she suggested matches and I figured, 'Sure, why not?'

In this one, I wanted to draw Axel and his former self together. I like this one better than the other one, mostly because of their faces. I almost NEVER get Axel's face right, but I did pretty well this time, so I'm happy X3. They're holding sea-salt ice-cream because I couldn't think of anything else to have them hold. I think it looks cute though! ^__^
And I realized that I like drawing sneakers. They can be difficult sometimes, but they always make a picture look much more detailed when you draw the shoes detailed!!

Wow, really really long post X3.
If you made it this far, congratulations!!!! You win a virtual cookie!! *hands cookie to you*

I apologize for the many videos. I realize they may be boring for some...
Rachel, if you actually got through all this, I hope you see why I love the other Kingdom Hearts games so much!!

So ends the long post dedicated to my first love: Kingdom Hearts!! (well, actually, my first love was the Backstreet Boys...I was in preschool. I didn't know any better...)

~otaku-chan