Anniversary video post

Finally finished the anniversary video!

whoo!!

Erm...

That's pretty much-- oh wait. Here's the point where I post something sappy about how long I've been working on this.

2 years is kind of big for me. I have never put THAT much time into ANYTHING. Trust me, I haven't. I mean, there was all this random plotting I did for "stories" I wanted to write in 5th and 6th grade, but those-- eh, I never actually WROTE more than like, five pages of any of those.

2 years.

4 stories.

Over 400 pages for Dead Inside.

THIS IS HUGE!

I have never gotten this far in ANYTHING. NEVER.

Just saying.

That was it. There was some rant about "I am perfectly capable of walking away from this story if I wanted, but I COULDN'T because I've fallen in love with all my characters and it would kill me to leave them where they are." That was it though.

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Erm, the "charries answer questions" thing will be done soon. I was putting it off so I could finish the video, and since I spent all of my morning finishing the video instead of doing school (benefit #3 of doing school online) I have school to catch up on. Well, not really, I finished everything that was assigned today, but I was going to try and work ahead so that I had Friday relatively free. don't listen to this you all know it's already up

But the video's finished, and so the next time I have free time (so, tomorrow) I'll be working on the scene.

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Oh, random, but I own KH3D now. Just... not a 3DS to play it on (plus, magik dibbed playing the game first...)

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Also, if you were following me on my external hardrive issues, my old hardrive's fried. I lost all the data. However, I DID get a larger replacement harddrive and it cost me NOTHING. Whoo!!

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(waiting for a page to load so I can continue with this post)

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THERE we go!

So, forever ago, at the VERY BEGINNING of Dead Inside, I said that "It's Not my Time" by 3 Doors Down was the theme song for the fic.

Heheh...

Scrapped that idea shortly after I began to hate the song due to trying to edit an AMV for my fic to it (probably the trailer).

So, Dead Inside has been without a theme song for... a while...

Then, well, Safetysuit

And

"Life Left to Go" is now the fic's theme song.

Why?

Because "Life Left to Go" heavily emphasizes the Hurt/Comfort theme that's become overly present in the fic. This fic has gone to "SHORT ADVENTURE THAT FINISHES EVERYTHING UP" to "Really long drawn out story that centers around everyone looking out for each other and helping each other overcome their problems" (which, actually, I'm going to go start Dead Inside's page and talk about that when I'm done here)

(And yes, I AM aware that "Life Left to Go" is a song about suicide, so don't bother bringing that up)

Anyway

I'm going to talk about the video now

In depth

walk away if you wish

So, the first 18 seconds is kind of "Truth Hurts in a nutshell!" and is only there because I had no idea how to start the vid.

Actually

It was because I was planning on doing an overview of the fics, but- well- the song required I do otherwise (and I like the otherwise) 

The next 4 seconds briefly covers-- eh, I'll say "alludes" to Sora's fall into darkness (since it's only four seconds)

The next segment is RokuXi for no apparent reason

I think there was a point to the segment after that being Namiku

Probably because the next segment is Zerith

And then... the first line that means something!

"The mask you put on is like words in a song but there's more to be seen"

The meaning behind that should be obvious (especially think of what characters are paired with the line)

the next line

"And the failures you see don't seem failures to me"

This was actually the line that made me realize I was going to edit to this song. Why? Because I saw Roxas saying "don't seem failures to me" with the clip I used-

and it DOES fit Roxas and Xion (perhaps more in canon than in my universe, but... whatev)

The first part of this chorus, with Roxas and Xion, is Xion's death and Roxas begging her not to just give up

I considered trying to recreate Roxas's death, but that never happened

The BBS segment of this chorus... well... it was basically "idk what to put here, so... BBS!!" (which is what happened with a lot of BBS stuff, actually)

the next segment (1:55) with Kairi-- well, I had a lot of ideas for what to put here, but somehow Kairi got it. Not entirely sure why (probably because all the other ideas I had required clips that don't exist)

The next segment with Terra was just... random. It's what I thought of immediately while listening to the line, so I went with it

The next segment "Fear comes alive like you'll never be free" I actually had pegged to Sora in my original breakdown of the song (which, since this is a breakdown of the video, I'll post a breakdown of the song... later.) The reason why I used it in the vid? Because I had an idea for the "never be free" portion

"And there's no pain you feel that I know love can't heal"

This is spoilers. But there's a reason why I put which two characters on this line. I can't specifically state what, but there is

There is

Now, the first part of this chorus is BBS. Mainly because the Zerith clips I require don't exist. But, that line DOES fit with Ven being all like "hey, if I become a powerful keyblade, kill me!" and Terra and Aqua being like "WHATHTT!?!?"

(which that part of the game bothers me a freaking ton, because Terra and Aqua are arguing, practically yelling at each other, and then Ven shows up and they're both like "oh, it's okay Ven, nothing's wrong! Ignore the fact that we were yelling at each other two seconds ago, we'll be friends forever and nothing will seperate us! xD")

The last part of this chorus is CREATIVE ZERITH EDITING!! Whoo!! (and I don't think that needs to be explained...)

"There's nothing to run from!!"

I love that he practically yells that line.

Anyway, it's very obviously Sora and Kairi. It just is. I mean-- I actually think I pegged this to something else when I first did a breakdown of the song, now that I think of it. Oh well.

It's very obviously Sora and Kairi, especially with this whole Agrabah sequence (which I know I haven't finished posting yet, but once I do you'll REALLY understand why this line fits)

"There's nothing but fear inside you"

Well, I used Riku and his past for this. Not any particular reason why...

"Just hope I can find you"

I was really grasping for ideas here, so that's why what's in the video is in the video

Though, then there's that quick three clips of "memories" with Sora and Kairi that you're probably all like "huh?" about (though they go by fast) But... it's alluding to when they played hide and seek when they were kids. I know it doesn't seem like there's anything special about that, but there is. Okay? There is.

then *cough* ch123 *coughcoughcouch*

"And tell you that I know you'll smile again"

Could've actually been pegged to a lot of characters, but Sora and Kairi were the easiest to edit (plus, it fit with the previous line)

and that's it

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That's really it

I'll probably post my original breakdown of the song soon. Ish.

Terra battle fandub!!

I know there are posts that referred to this earlier and I said I'd go back and link them to this post but maybe I won't because I'm lazy

Another post?

REally?

I know, I know. I should be writing. I was planning on writing. Then I was listening to a song, and it reminded me of the AMV that was made to that song, so I had to go find the AMV, which was BBS related, and then I was like "I'm gonna go watch the KH2 Final Mix Secret ending" and then it was either after the first KH2FM secret ending, but it was probably the second one (which had better quality) that I stumbled upon a video that had the Lingering Sentiment/Terra battle from KH2FM

I watched it for the heck of it

then in the video responses, there was this

I expected it to be a fandub.

I figured "what the hey, let's watch it."

It wasn't a fandub.

It's a million times better.

and as soon as you watch it, you will understand WHY.

OKay?

Now, unless you REALLY WANT to watch Sora and Terra beat the crap of out of each other (which is... interesting. It's like watching someone fight a combination of Ansem from KH1 with some Xemnas battle elements and then quite a few attacks from the Terranort battle all with a noticeably Terra twist.) here are the parts you need to watch:

The beginning, which stops about when the battle starts

this part in the middle, about 8 minutes in. Surprised the crud out of me, this did. Sat there for a good three minutes afterward unable to do anything more than stare with my mouth open. Again, you can stop watching as soon as the fighting starts again

then the end, which starts at aproximately 18 minutes. Probably a few seconds after, but what's it gonna kill you to watch 10 seconds of battle?

Trust me, you will NOT regret watching this

What? Not another headache… (commentary on ch122)

erg... I guess it wasn't my glasses that was causing them...

oh well

FIRST OFF! A FEW UPDATES!!

The likeliness of me doing absolutely anything anniversary related on the anniversary itself has gone from "unlikely" to "most likely not going to happen" because my grandma decided she was going to come over and make me and my little sister dinner since my mom's going to help magik move back from Florida. That, on top of school, means that me sitting and just blogging all day (like I'd planned to do) impossible.

So, don't expect to be seeing anything anniversary related 'til the weekend.

Speaking ov anniversary related things, YOU CAN KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS!! in fact *goes to put this in the update on fanfic* This'll be your last chance, though, because come Friday (at latest) I'll start answering them. 

Now

For once, I think the video actually fits the theme of the chapter! Don't expect to have it happen again! were there AMVS with older posts? whoopppsss (I don't remember any because I apparenty didn't write it down idk)

I found this video ages ago, and I still love every single thing about it.

What's really weird, is one Russian gymnist used part of this song in her routine... it was really weird...

anyway

wonderful video

ONTO THE CHAPTER!

Having this chapter written from the shopkeeper's POV was something I consdiered shortly after consecutively writing the scenes between him and Sora and then him and Kairi. I figured, "why bother doing Sora's POV and then Kairi's, when I can just put it in the shopkeeper's and solve my frequently swapping POVs problem?"

actually, jk, for the life of me I honestly can't remember WHY I decided to write it from his POV. I think it was some stray idea, and I fell in love with it after developing the shopkeeper's character a bit more

I really love this shopkeeper, btw.

I'll have to post the original drafts of this scene-- Sora's POV and Kairi's POV, and then that one snippet of conversation between the shopkeeper and Sora that just didn't make it in... later...

Sora just did what I normally do when shopping in KH or a similar game. I just buy ALL THAT I POSSIBLY CAN THAT I THINK I'D NEED in rapid succession. 

Yes, that is Terra's wayfinder. Originally, it was just goign to be some charm that was said to be lucky and- I don't quite know where I was going with originally. But as soon as I thought that it could be Terra's wayfinder, all this stuff just clicked into place.

And you'll have to wait 'til book 5 to know exactly WHAT clicked

Sora's pocket's must be huge... I don't understand how heroes LITERALLY carry around all their equipment. Because, y'know, everyone from Link to Cloud does it. Normally, I wouldn't have even cared, but I'm starting to write my fanfic in a slightly more literal light...

Btw, the 500 munny is basically what he would've paid (added to what he already paid, of course) had he bought those elixirs at full-price

the extra 100 (that made the 600) would be for the full price of the hi-potions and ethers. Roughly. Give or take about 10 munny

I know it's not clear, but Sora hears Kairi coming. It's one of the things I lost when swapping from his POV to the shopkeeper's. Actually, I think it's the only thing I lost... and considering what I gained from the shopkeeper, it was definitely a good idea to swap POVs.

Oh, wait, I lost Kairi hearing Sora, too. Oh well. I'll post the original drafts of this scene... eventually....

That's all I can think of to say...

I'm gonna go start planning crud for the anniversary now...