Some essays that I've written..

[bofoddity]

Considering that I keep a reasonably good track of my fic, I should be same with my essays. Here are the manifestos that I've written for ship_manifesto, idol_reflection and reflections_2, complete with pretentious titles.

Scratching Inside The Head: A character manifesto for Cloud Strife. Deals with the original game.

Becoming Of The Hero: Second character manifesto for Cloud Strife. Deals with On The Way To A Smile and Advent Children.

Mend This Wavering Heartbeat : A ship manifesto for Cloud/Tifa. Deals with the original game.

The Force Within: A character manifesto for Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. Deals with the movies.

I saw Casino Royale a while ago, and a review is coming up either today or in a couple of days.

Comments

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Yes, I think he would be. I could see the cocky Cloud in the earlier parts of the game getting really smug about it.

Although I think that Cloud was never completely un-Cloud during the game, you couldn't be more right about post-game Cloud/Aeris-angst! I loathe this idea among the C/A-fans that having Cloud grieve her memory forever is somehow a sign of true and everlasting love, while that sort of behavior is just unhealthy. Not to mention Cloud's eventual suicide over her that tends to happen in fic. Because that's what he would do. Totally. >_<

Do you mean this (http://kazura-uyurin.livejournal.com/47984.html) story with its previous chapters? Because it makes me want to cry. So. Much.

[kimouski.livejournal.com]

It's pathetic, it really is. And yes, very unhealthy. I can see that the poor man might be tormented over not preventing her and Zack's dying, but... just, no, Cleris fans. No.

YES! That's the fic. Bad, bad, bad. Cloud and Tifa should both be punched. Moral of the story? Too much stargazing is bad for the plot.

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

It's even worse when it's suggested that Aeris (or Zack) would somehow support that kind of behavior. Makes me wonder just what kind of bizarro world some people live in.

You know what's worst about that story? That it's set after freaking Advent Children and has Cloud deeply in love with Sephiroth. It just doesn't compute.