: Alfador only likes me... :

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Thank you all for choosing numbers, it helps me with 'what to icon'. My folder is overflowing and those are the icons I 'want' to icon, not the icons that I randomly decide to icon due to some challenge or the whatnot (though sometimes I do throw icons made from that folder into challenges, just because I love the picture and I think I could do great things with it). Next up on the list is Ike from Fire Emblem. A little bit about Ike being that for the longest time I RP'd him, so I have a great emotional connection to him.. so there is never a 'wrong' time to icon him. Him and Micaiah are my favorite fire emblem characters (of course followed by Lyon, because tortured by a demon, 'nice guy'-- and also the hair, which is one of my visual fetishes, right up there with glasses.)

Speaking of white haired guys who I have a crush on.

I think that my most enduring one is Magus Zeal from Chrono Trigger. Like there are characters who've come before him and after him (Setzer Gabbiani and Citan Uzuki specifically, but Setzer was like a fling-- and Citan was someone I wanted to be like, ahahaha.. that's like telling a Sigurd personality to learn quantum physics, really). Magus Zeal though, I still like write stories in my head regarding him, and every icon I do of him fails because it doesn't encompass exactly how he is in my head, and that is how I've made him so in my head--. I remember being forever disappointed that Synn took down her fanart site of him, because those pictures were amazing. But yeah, I'm still writing stories about him in my head-- I think it's been 25 years.

Main reason why I was also so disappointed in Chrono Cross because it took his end quest to rescue his sister and turned it into a FRUITLESS WASTE OF TIME. Like, he never succeeded and to me that is just the ultimate sadness, every day-- wandering through time and with no real payoff, unless you decide that maybe Serge was the reincarnated Magus or something-- but no, just no.

Maybe I will share my stories-- or maybe I will not, they are sorta private after all. Maybe just a snippet, in time. But Magus, don't know why I love him so much--

wow what a tangent I just went on. LOL

Comments

[breyzyyin]

Lol, your Magus tangent was awesome though! I could see why Chrono Cross frustrated you then!

[glacialphoenix]

CHRONO TRIGGER.

I was always so sad for Magus over the ending of Chrono Trigger! I really wanted him to find Schala again, and I really did adore him - although I love all the characters and in true 'Mysti likes S-E paladins' style I have a great fondness for Frog. Then again I have a great fondness for all the characters. Every time they give me the option to fight/kill Magus I just... can't, because I feel terrible for Magus and I just feel like it would do Frog a huge disservice since part of his story arc is about... coping, really.

Also they both have amazing themes.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Same here, not just because I'm biased-- but because Magus had such a dysfunctional childhood-- so terribly, not exactly Flowers in the Attic levels of dysfunction, but pretty close-- and that has to shape someone, and it did. It made him so single focused, like everyone says that Magus is too intense. He is, but you try being any sort of chill with what he had to deal with the after effects of, and the thing is that he wasn't even really a participant, he got sucked to a different time (and I suppose that is a good thing, when you think of it) because he decided to check on his sister. My heart goes out to him every single time. He didn't seek to be worshiped by the Monsters, that was quite by accident.

[bladespark]

Magus is the BEST.

[law]

the black wind howls. . .

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Definitely one of my favorite Magus quotes. Though I also have a fondness for 'you got whacked cuz your weak", because in my mind there is such a dissonance between him and that phrase.

[law]

ahaha, it makes him sound like he's in the mob.
now i'm imagining him in a pinstripe suit, alfador in his lap wondering what chrono could possibly want now, on the day of his daughter's sister's wedding.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

That mental image is life....

[dorchadas]

魔王：「ひさしぶりだな、ラヴォス……。遠いあの日、俺はちかったのだ……。きさまだけは、この手でたきつぶしてやると……！たとえ、そのために何を失うことになろうとも……！！ついに、ちかいをはたす時がきた。死ねラヴォスよ！！
Magus: "We meet again, Lavos! That day long ago, I swore a vow. That I would destroy you with my own hands! Even if I would lose everything to do it! But finally, the time to fulfill that oath has come! Die, Lavos!!"
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魔王「見るがいい。すべては海の底だ……。永遠なる夢の王国ジール……。かつて私はそこにいた。もうひとりの自分としてな……。
Magus: "Look. All of it, at the bottom of the sea. ‘Zeal, the Eternal Kingdom of Dreams’... I lived there, once. But I was another person then."

I always take him along. I just wish he had more dialogue in the end-game scenarios. He's not completely mute, but other than fighting Ozzie I can't thinking of anything really memorable.