Well, back home again~ I had a good time, though the average maturity level of the attendees this year seems to have dropped rather severely. Why on earth do you retards feel the need to rip plants out of their planters? No, seriously. I feel bad for the con staff having to clean up dirt scattered everywhere, don't even get me started on how much trash the dreck left lying about.
Still, despite the increased weeaboo presence, there was a lot to enjoy, and even though I didn't finish my secret costume in time, I still went on quite a few photoshoots (standard!Luke with writerz_bloc as Ion on friday, Misao on saturday, and then Saya on sunday) as well as tagged along to assist with a few. Good stuff. Youmacon's also great because there's so many Canadians around. xD It was worth going if just for strengthening friendships that started at the con last year. Someday I'll get up to Canadaland and try your guys' weird food, haha. (don't expect me to go for the whole gravy on fries thing, though >_> *shudder*)
I actually finished editing my con pictures tonight, but that was made easier by the fact that in the end I only had 68 pictures after weeding out blurry/no good ones. Oh well. I'll write the con report and do a photo dump sometime soon, I'm feeling really exhausted and perhaps a wee bit nauseaus at the moment and as I have 8298503583 things to do tomorrow, I have to go to bed. >X
I'm glad I decided to go to the con, though. It was nice seeing you all~
(Also, if people could provide me with LJ names for new people I met, that'd be fantastic.)
Originally I was going to wear Misao for this, but lol braid took forever to turn into wefts the night before, so while I finished the braid after something like four hours of work, I didn't get to finishing up the loose ends on the sewing parts--so I just wore Saya instead. But hey, that worked too, since I didn't have a lot of photos of her until now.
This was at....some park like ten minutes or so away from the (OSU) stadium. I'm really bad at Columbus, yet. Amanda was nice enough to show me some places on the way though, so I had a nice little tour of High Street. (I think it was High Street, anyway)
The mosquitoes were killing us, so we went back after that. Because ironically, Saya's blood kills Chiropterans quite nicely but not so much when ingested by mosquitoes....my god were my legs a tasty buffet for them. =_=
Afterward, Amanda took me to Tensuke, an amazing Japanese grocery store + dining establishment. (I immediately loved my choice of costume, for with the removal of the large red bow, it looks almost normal.) I had a short convo with a nearby busboy in Japanese before having another short convo with him about Japanese, particularly the OSU kind. Increasingly, I think the OSU style might be quite beneficial to me, given my current strengths and weaknesses.
Also, I came home with 67.6 fluid ounces (2 liters) of Itoen green tea, which makes me all kinds of happy because I love that stuff to death.
I have nine hours at Subway today, and eight more hours tomorrow. And I work again wednesday. God help me, I'm exhausted. *working a split shift today, but doesn't have enough home time to sleep so she's updating*
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Breaking up the photo intensive segments of my con into seperate posts as usual. First off is kohchan as Saya from Blood+; we found some really awesome locations that felt like they matched the character, and I think this probably my best picture-taking effort to date. Most of these pictures I had to hold very, very still for, since I had to turn off the flash to keep the effect. My camera isn't very fancy, but I tried my best, lol. (I also think I'm starting to develop a style of photography. :D)
Although if there's wireless I might still update. I managed to get myself overextended for Otakon too, but that's okay because I can always perfect things for the next con even if I am not satisfied with the stuff I have for this con. (especially since my next convention is in, like, november.)
Otakon's going to be great; I'm out of time for Asch so I'm taking Dragonbuster instead. Let's see what other characters I get mistaken for~! I can't wait to burn everyone's retinas with my bright colors!
So this weekend we went out to Cox Arboretum to take cosplay pictures. :3 I hadn't been there since I was, like, twelve, so it was nice to see it again. Catie made a valiant attempt to Seth-ize my hair Saturday morning, but alas, my hair had grown out too much (Acen was kind of pushing it as it was). I'd brought my new Luke costume anyway, so it worked out nevertheless.
modernparadigm - Ion Fortuna (Trinity Blood) paradoxpythias - Radu Barvon (Trinity Blood) ryuuraigeki (err, me) - Luke fon Fabre who else? [dragonbuster version] (TALES OF THE ABYSS <3)
Still have to get the pictures off of Nate's school camera, which was large and really sort of awesome. The pictures here and in the next post(s) are off of my camera, and as such the pictures taken of Radu and Ion are my photography while the pictures of me are taken by a combo of I think Nate and Catie...mostly Catie (it's hard to recall who did what, at this point D:). Nate's mom came with us and photographed too, mostly with Nate's school camera, so I'm still waiting on a few shots from there. :3333
And that's it! :D Dear lord the binding was tight on this outfit. T_T I can usually manage putting it on myself, but I had to get Catie to help strap me down for this outfit since one layer of stretch knit is really not all that forgiving.
Now if only I could get the dragonbuster costume for luke IN THE GAME. I guess I just suck that much at sidescrollers. .____.; I have the costume IRL but not in the game...how sad is that...
There were a lot of awesome moments throughout our adventuring, since there were a lot of normal people at the metro parks, too. Little kids flipped out over Catie's red eyes, and one old lady stopped us and gathered all of her friends around and had her son take a picture of them with us. xD
I think the best part though was when we got to burger king and like three burger king employees and another customer unanimously identified me as Peter Pan. *snort* can Asch be Hook!? 8D
So I downloaded all of the anime scenes from Tales of the Abyss onto my computer. 8D They're in English, but I don't mind too much, since I rather like the voice acting in the English version. (except for Tear--I don't like her english voice at all...the character is supposed to be the concealing type when it comes to emotions, but the Japanese VA is much better at portraying her feelings...)
I did manage to locate the original ones on youtube, repeatedly watching the, ahah, one with the dialogue that's the title of this post. .___________.
Music spam time! Music is always, ALWAYS a key factor to my enjoyment of a video game--and Tales of the Abyss has some good tracks. ;D Give it a try! (yes, this is my attempt to trap you all into playing the game...this whole post is......nothing but a TRAP!!)
Karma The title song for the game. Don't laugh at the band name; they're actually a phenomenal group. Although I think all the going without food in high school to save for instruments might have left them a little hungry and influenced their choice in naming themselves. >_> (I might upload more BoC later...finally, a Jrock band I actually really like!) I can play this song on clarinet!
This is comparable to the hymn of the Fayth from FFX. Tear's Grand Fonic Hymn is also incorporated orchestrally into the background of quite a few of the other pieces in the game; it's really a very pretty melody. I can play this song on clarinet too!
-this plays during the death scene of a certain character. *cries* It's essentially a string quartet version of Karma...a poignant track for a tragic occurrence. :/
-Okay, this is really short, but I like it anyway, particularly the moving string part at the beginning. This is when Asch and Luke meet for the first time (or more accurately, the first time Luke gets a good look at Asch's face XP).
Ah, here's a preview of the above:
Not really too spoiler-y...Ion gets himself kidnapped like 98920580325 times throughout the game anyway. (He's as bad as the Solo twins, in that respect)
-the world map music changes after you pass certain points in the game. This is the final piece, and also my favorite of the three that they go through. Can't you feel the epicness?
I might upload more later...there's quite a few tracks that I like...(they make great sewing music, too x3)
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By poking through Japanese Tales of the Abyss fansites and/or the Japanese Tales of the Abyss manga, I am learning useful vocabulary! Just look at these:
愚図 【ぐず】 (adj-na,n) dullard; indecisive person [がらくた】 (n) (uk) junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends 屑 【くず】 (n) {comp} waste; scrap; chad 出来損ない; 出来損い 【できそこない】 (n) failure; dead loss; washout; badly done; good-for-nothing
Thanks, Asch. I'm sure I'll be using these words a lot.
Asch needs to stand in the rain more often, I honestly like his hair much better all floofing about his face instead of slicked back in that ridiculous parakeet-do. D:
I was stuck for a few hours until I caved and finally put it back to normal mode; after being used to tackling the final fight on hard and not quite making it for so long, it was a piece of cake on normal.
sorry for the LJ spam, but....my game time was at something like fourty seven hours when I got home from school thursday, it's sunday now and I'm getting really close to ninety hours. So essentially, I've been playing it every waking moment. @_@ *has abyss on the brain lik WHAOH*
...it's really weird to be done with it. I'm sort of sad. D:
I had to restrain myself from going out and buying the nearest bolt of white twill/denim after the ending
...this is the longest I've been stuck on a boss in this game yet. FIGURES IT WOULD BE RIGHT HERE. X___X
This would easier if I didn't have it on hard. BUT I WANT LUKE'S BESERKER OUTFIT. XOOOOOO
Uwaaaaaaa pincushioning x_______x *trying again*
edit: okay, swapped Guy out for Natalia and the whole thing went a lot better. guess I needed the extra healing support (and Guy not suicidally running in and getting himself nailed by all of Sync's close range attacks all the time >>). w00t, on to the next part now!
So, I'm in Eldrant, have fallen through the trap door, find Asch banging on the door with his foot, and of course, soon after find myself in a decisive battle with him.......I hit overlimit and went to use Luke's mystic arte on Asch, but then he one upped me and set off his mystic arte, Rending Saber, first.
And then midway through it my screen froze!
Asch crashed my PS2! :O
I'm just kind of sitting here, staring at it. 17 hits, 3957 damage....uhm.....I only have roughly 4000 HP total, and I wasn't at full by far when he initiated it......and the attack hasn't finished.....it's probably safe to say Luke's toasted. >_> (and considering this is a one on one battle....yeah)
My controller is still rumbling, and won't stop xD It's been like three minutes now....
(How come Asch gets the sword portion of the key of lorelei, anyway! Totally not fair! *chucks the gem at him* I can't fight with this!)
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writerz_bloc as Ion on friday, Misao on saturday, and then Saya on sunday) as well as tagged along to assist with a few. Good stuff. Youmacon's also great because there's so many Canadians around. xD It was worth going if just for strengthening friendships that started at the con last year. Someday I'll get up to Canadaland and try your guys' weird food, haha. (don't expect me to go for the whole gravy on fries thing, though >_> *shudder*)
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