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Love Her and Despair is a dark AU sequel to Final Fantasy X answering the question: "What would have happened if Yuna had chosen the Final Summoning?" Main characters are Auron, Lulu, Isaaru and his brothers, with more or less substantial roles for Elma and Lucil, the Crimson Squad, Wakka and Rikku.
| Act I: Menace at Sea | Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
| Act II: Operation Mi'ihen | Chapter 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 |
| Act III: Al Bhed Homecoming | Chapter 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 |
| Act IV: Assault on Bevelle | Chapter 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 |
| Act V: Breaking the Cycle | Chapter 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 |
| Act VI: The Houses of Healing | Chapter 44 45 46 47 48 49 |
Note: On map below, itinerary of "Isaaru's Pilgrimage" has clickable links to chapters.
JUST IN CASE you remember me, I moved to Dreamwidth and Tumblr.
MORE IMPORTANTLY.
Remember LOVE HER AND DESPAIR? That AU Final Fantasy X novella with Lulu as Sin?
I've been posting a heavily revised, edited, and pruned version on Dreamwidth and AO3. The final chapters exist in rough draft form and should be posted at the end of this year (I'm reposting the whole story one chapter at a time, giving people a chance to reread or discover it for the first time.)
NOW WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ALMOST EVERY CHAPTER, including a lot of amazeballs full-color plates by the graphic artist of Guardian comic:
And some by me:
Relive the saga. Love Her and Despair.
- Current Mood:accomplished
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Yuna’s pilgrimage is a linear journey across a landscape, but the landscape isn’t static. Unknown to Yuna and friends (apart from perhaps Auron), they’re crossing a gameboard, and the boundaries are being redrawn around them.
[[SPOILERS from here on]] Above, I’ve shown the biggest shift in spheres of influence. Before and after Operation Mi’ihen, the Crusaders are nearly annihilated and lose all authority in the regions where they had been the major power.
As we can tell from piecing together various NPC comments, their downfall was engineered by Maester Kinoc. I believe Maester Seymour was not originally a party to Kinoc’s stratagem, but barged in at the last minute and partially usurped it, as I’ll explain below.
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Welcome back, viewers! Before the break, your intrepid news team braved fiends and Al Bhed to bring you a first exclusive look at the devastation wrought by Operation Mi’ihen!
Now let’s check out the buzz around Luca, the second greatest city in Spira! What lies in store for our marvelous metropolis now that its Crusader defenders have deserted their posts?
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That’s right, viewers, it’s time to step back from the big story, Lady Yuna’s pilgrimage, and find out what’s going in the rest of Spira! Your intrepid reporter won’t be talking to everybody, of course, just some key eyewitnesses who can give us some insight into current events. —Shaami
This broadcast is sponsored by YEVON!
Here’s today’s chief topics of gossip around the Djose Continent:
- Operation Mi’ihen aftermath
- With the Crusaders out of commission, who will protect us?
- Al Bhed: more trouble than they’re worth?
- What happened to Isaaru?
- And now, sport...
[Unless otherwise noted, screencaps from my camera, so apologies for quality.]
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Last time year on my FFX Liveblog, Tidus and friends slogged along the Djose Angst Road commiserating with survivors of Operation Mi’ihen. Condescending yet well-intentioned priests mingled with the walking wounded, dispensing healing and absolution, oblivious to their own Maesters’ subtle stage management of the entire fiasco.
Sorry, no room in FFX for a Floating Continent... will some floating rocks do? [X]
[Ixion mandala & glyph]
Before we flee into the Temple of SPARKY (as my father named Ixion) to escape rampaging hopper monkeys, let me backtrack and add some thinky thoughts about the Luzzu & Gatta arc...
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Cross-posted on Tumblr here.
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It’s been so long since I posted those that I’d almost forgotten some of the themes I was trying to highlight during my playthrough.
Lemme recap some of these themes. [SPOILERS!]
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This is one of those times that I may be dead wrong, and regardless, Tumblr discussion is liable to explode in STUPID WAYS even if by some miracle I'm making sense. So. Let me put this on my own blog where people I trust can set me straight or ignore me because it's not your job to educate me.
MAIN THING: When I first saw the all-male cast of Final Fantasy XV, I didn't just roll my eyes at the dudes. I saw white, white, white. And then I questioned myself, remembering that important discussion about how westerners see anime characters as white, when Japanese see them as Japanese. So I rephrased my initial reaction as, "all-same-ethnic-group" (Japanese?) Am I imposing western liberal values on a different culture? Am I failing to pick up visual cues for a more diverse cast? I am not sure, but I'm wary.
( In which I probably make asinine racist comments while struggling with representation of race in FFCollapse )
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What a PERFECT time to start a new game playthrough!
Zencribnotes on Tumblr inspired me to try Final Fantasy Dimensions again. It's an iPad/Android native Final Fantasy game that came out in 2010. When I last tackled it, I couldn't fully appreciate how much it was a homage to the early FFs. Now, by golly, I'm going to play Final Fantasy Nostalgia Bingo, because that's the main virtue of this game.
Posted on my Let's Play Final Fantasy Blog -->
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Just a FYI for Minty and others who may still be eyeing this blog from time to time.
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