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Almost makes you forget he killed and ate a man! LOL

My Lunarre keychain arrived!! He looks so cute!! :D

Fandom: Final Fantasy in general?

⊱send me a fandom and i’ll tell you…⊰

am i familiar with it?

Only from playing Kingdom Hearts 2 a while back. Cloud is one character, and I vaguely recall others. I would have to look them up, but off the top of my head I draw a blank. From what I recall, Cloud was a dark/angsty character with baggage. Had a history with a guy named Sephiroth, who was a definite bad guy (???). Sephiroth had black wings (????).

[Edit: On research, the other characters included Cid, Leon, Tifa, Yuffie and Aerith. I liked Aerith’s design in particular. I seem to remember her having some sort of chemistry with Cloud. Cid was fun. Leon was cool.]

do i like the fandom itself?

Nothing other than that (apparently) the general consensus among the fandom is that Final Fantasy 2 is the worst of the games.

who’s my favorite character?

I recall liking Cloud for his anti-hero vibe (I think it was an anti-hero vibe…) when I played Kingdom Hearts 2, and wishing that he was the character I was playing instead of Sora, all due respect to Sora. 

if i had to choose, who would i roleplay?

Nobody, on account of my abysmal knowledge of the series. I would have to research like all hell before I even dared. And would have to play at least some of the games. And even then I’d probably stick out like a sore thumb among the hardcore/long-time Final Fantasy fans.

Send my muse a fear you see them having, and they will rate it from 0-10 depending on how much it frightens them.

0 being “I’m not scared of that at all” to 10 being “NOPE NOPE NOPE”

Um, sorry, I have questions. 

Lunarre tells Sorey and Mikleo that he is no longer after Alisha. Presumably he made up his mind about this sometime along the way to Ladylake while being a highly unrealistic and convenient two steps behind the human princess, because Lunarre still referred to her as his ‘main dish’ before resuming pursuit in the previous episode.

Then again, Lunarre called her this in the prologue yet refrained from killing and eating his target, so honestly the term lost its meaning a while back.

But aside from the completely unexplained change of heart - remember, we know so little about Lunarre as a person that his transformation from human to hellion, from what we were shown, boils down to ‘because he’s loopy’ - where the ultimate question: 

WHY ALISHA?

Seriously, why her? What about her and her experiences is guaranteed a more interesting ‘spectacle’ than Sorey and the gang? If anything, Lunarre has deprived himself of infinitely more interesting conflict, drama and action by restricting himself to Alisha. Thank God this is the X anime and not the games! It’s only by sheer luck, plot contrivance, and an boosted Alisha focus that Lunarre gets to see some of the things encountered by the main cast that make him following her worthwhile.

Lunarre says he likes the princess, and in the dub elaborates that it’s her spunk and feisty attitude in particular that he likes. Aside from the fact that this is the man who not too long ago wanted the princess for dinner, how are these personality traits limited to the princess alone? Lunarre could easily find the same measure if not more of these in Rose or any of the other cast, who also struggle valiantly against adversity and despair. 

Rose, you would argue, would be more delectable to Lunarre’s taste (figuratively this time) as, in the anime, she wavers, she doubts, and she struggles enormously as her way of thinking and doing things is challenged. And she changes. But instead of turning into a hellion, as Lunarre would have expected, she dusts herself off and carries on. 

Alisha, on the other hand, never changes. She never wavers. She holds tight to her values and this works for her. From their conversation by the river in season 2, it is clear Lunarre cannot understand or relate to her.

And yet later we’re supposed to assume that his following Alisha somehow spurred the desire to do good within him. Sorry, I don’t buy it. Not only was there zero time to properly develop Lunarre’s character, nor a relationship between the two, but Alisha is precisely the wrong character to bring this change of heart about.

Rose, on the other hand, is the kind of hope someone like Lunarre could - consciously or otherwise - seek out. She has done many questionable and outright bad things in the past, her hands are definitely not the cleanest, and yet in spite of having her entire worldview turned on its head, she changes, and she does not give way to darkness.

So, with all that said, a final question:

WHY THE HELL DIDN’T HE FOLLOW ROSE INSTEAD?