This is random, I’ll admit (light/dark discussion thing)

but maybe it's not random, considering I just read "Contrast" (which Flightfoot was so kind to post a link to the translation on the previous post, I'll give you a link on this in case you missed it)

I laughed at Terra's dislike of sweets

and then Van and Ven--

I found my soft spot for Van. The novels really portray him in a different light (a light that makes me want to strangle Xehanort *fingers twitch around hilt of Master Sword* even though Master Swords and strangling have nothing in common)

Anyway

it made me think of this video

which I think parallels the relationship between Van and Ven, and then Roxas and Sora quite nicely

(and though the song sounds way too happy to fit a sort of video, go read the translation)

http://www.animelyrics.com/doujin/vocaloid/damiidamii.htm

The song describes very well the relationship between Van and Ven, especially the: "But the more I tried to look for the answer, the stronger the urge I'd feel to kill the self of me who's laughing with someone"

Which, btw, is what Miku's singing when it shows the picture of Terra, Aqua, and Ven laughing and Van's watching them

Obviously

The lyrics, I'll admit, get more obscure after that, but maybe that's because I'm not looking them in a light that fits Roxas and Sora. But whatev.

It's not entirely my fault I can't get my my brain to stop thinking Ven/Van. I really do love their relationship. Not saying I ship them or anything (I find it sad that I have to clarify this...). I love their relationship as it is: light and darkness, two halves of the same whole, all that. I've always loved things like that (there's a recurring theme of twins who one wields light and one weilds darkness in the novels I try to write) and have only just now figured out how to portray a relationship between those kinds of characters.

Because it's not just dark and light

there's their relationship, too -- or the relationship as I've come to love it; being two sides of the same coin, whether you like it or not.

Anyway

I'm going to move on now. I lost whatever point I had originally for this, and I need to finish the stupid question answering thing, because there's too much going on in the next chapter of Dead Inside itself, and it'll require like three seperate blog posts. I'd like to wait until I'm done with anniversary stuff to worry about that.

btw, here's the link to Contrast, in case you missed it

http://remember-kingdom-hearts.tumblr.com/post/28870649241/bonus-translation-...

and if you haven't read Dark Memory yet, read it here (at first I posted the wrong link, but it's fixed now)

http://remember-kingdom-hearts.tumblr.com/post/28798364782/bonus-translation-of-the-novel-chapter-dark-memory