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I have decided that every couple of days I'm going to take an icon of mine and talk about the inspiration behind it, why I made it with the colours I did, the song lyrics behind it and how I apply meaning from song to said character.
-- Icon 1# (Default); Laguna Loire
I really do not like Final Fantasy 8 as a whole however you wouldn't think it from the massive ammounts of Laguna (and Kiros..*cough cough*) doujinshi that I have in my possession. But I fell in love with Laguna almost straight away. It was his attitude toward life, the way that he held himself and the fact that despite all the bullshit that he faced, he kept that positive attitude. He didn't let himself get weighted down by everything.
Life takes us in bizarre directions and you can either complain bitterly about it, or you can enjoy the ride, get a little bit lost and tack it up to expirience gained.
I made this icon when I first saw the conceptualizations for Dissidia 12 and that really thrilled me because if there was anyone who was a perfect foil for Squall, it was Laguna so they probably thought that he was the natural choice, but seriously the art for Disidia in general is absolutely gorgeous and I would want arts for ALL of them in all seriousness. the blue line background was perhaps because Laguna had a lot going on with his machine gun and I didn't want to detract from it (because let me tell you, I love me Laguna's machine gun)
-Song Choice for Icon Keywords-
"We became the parade on the streets that we once cleaned;
Expendable soldiers smiling at anything." - "Eight Letters" by Take That
This is a very nostalgic song for the band, it's about the roads in life that was taken and how sometimes really bad things happen but you eventually will come full circle and when creating this icon, the song clicked almost immediately into the icon, locked and loaded like well.. Laguna's machine gun. But the first line into the song is the one most apt and it sort of shows the idealism that Laguna has when he is younger, the thing is that Laguna never really loses it, he is still the dreamer of dreams and the perpetual smiler and that makes him definitely in the top 10 of my favorite Final Fantasy characters, because of that resolve and ability to just smile. I tend to be very attracted to characters like that.
-- Icon 1# (Default); Laguna Loire
I really do not like Final Fantasy 8 as a whole however you wouldn't think it from the massive ammounts of Laguna (and Kiros..*cough cough*) doujinshi that I have in my possession. But I fell in love with Laguna almost straight away. It was his attitude toward life, the way that he held himself and the fact that despite all the bullshit that he faced, he kept that positive attitude. He didn't let himself get weighted down by everything.
Life takes us in bizarre directions and you can either complain bitterly about it, or you can enjoy the ride, get a little bit lost and tack it up to expirience gained.
I made this icon when I first saw the conceptualizations for Dissidia 12 and that really thrilled me because if there was anyone who was a perfect foil for Squall, it was Laguna so they probably thought that he was the natural choice, but seriously the art for Disidia in general is absolutely gorgeous and I would want arts for ALL of them in all seriousness. the blue line background was perhaps because Laguna had a lot going on with his machine gun and I didn't want to detract from it (because let me tell you, I love me Laguna's machine gun)
-Song Choice for Icon Keywords-
"We became the parade on the streets that we once cleaned;
Expendable soldiers smiling at anything." - "Eight Letters" by Take That
This is a very nostalgic song for the band, it's about the roads in life that was taken and how sometimes really bad things happen but you eventually will come full circle and when creating this icon, the song clicked almost immediately into the icon, locked and loaded like well.. Laguna's machine gun. But the first line into the song is the one most apt and it sort of shows the idealism that Laguna has when he is younger, the thing is that Laguna never really loses it, he is still the dreamer of dreams and the perpetual smiler and that makes him definitely in the top 10 of my favorite Final Fantasy characters, because of that resolve and ability to just smile. I tend to be very attracted to characters like that.