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I've been on a download kick since I don't know/think I'll be able to use limewire on campus (it being somewhat illegal and all). One of the things I downloaded was Endless Waltz - a bit silly, since I haven't seen all or even most (more like 10 episodes) of Gundam Wing, but I love it more than life itself, so I had to.
And first things first - the dub! Oh, so much awfullness it is! It's almost physically painful to listen to, except for Q-Bean and Trowa's voices. Duo's voice is just...*shudder*. I hate it. With a burning, all-consuming passion. It is FAR too deep for someone who is so obviously cute and uke-ish. He doesn't need to be a girl, but he doesn't need to sound like a 25-year-old either. And Relena - could her voice be more shrill and annoying? (Could SHE be more shrill and annoying?) I wish to petition that all memory of this horrible thing be erased from our collective unconscious. And that they make the Japanese version available. Because good gods, the dub, it sucks.
Second: my character death denial bubble. Is a big transparent porous bubble wherein are contained all the characters that writers, manga-ka, and show producers have seen fit, against all logic and mercy, to kill off, and whose deaths I refuse to acknowledge ever happened. If you try hard enough, there is ALWAYS another answer that doesn't involve terrible, tragic, OTP ending death. At the moment, my bubble contains:
FMA: Maes Hughes. His death was a major plot point, and the episode was incredibly well done, but I love him too much. I put him on a t-shirt, for god's sake. My version: to keep from being killed off or getting his family hurt by the homunculi, he faked his death and went into hiding/witness protection.
Harry Potter: Sirius Black, of course! He should never have died, and of course he didn't. The Veil is obviously JK's vision of the Gate from FMA, and Sirius is merely in an alternate dimension causing trouble and hitting on guys in pubs and gay bars until he gets back to Remus. Who is also not dead, not at all, because the 7th Book is not canon. It is the ramblings of a delusional fangirl with not enough sense or imagination.
Final Fantasy: Zack Fair. He is way too bad ass to ever get killed by some useless lame TROOPERS. Come on. Not even TURKS. That's pathetic. Besides, Cloud desperately needs him to be not an emotional wreck. In my opinion, either they can clone him (see A Long Hard Road), Gaia can bring him back (she owes Cloud big, after all), or he never really died. He just got dragged back to one of Hojo's labs for further genetic dicking about. Seph, on the other hand, can be dead, cause we all know he can come back a bazillion times. The man never fucking dies.
Kingdom Hearts: Roxas and Axel. Okay, Roxas isn't technically dead, he's just sort of all absorbed. But still. He is a real person, he is an awesome character, and there is some way to separate him from Sora without turning Sora into vegetable!Sora. There is. And Axel is not dead. For all we know, he just did that swirly black Nobody poof thing and went somewhere else. Cause a world where he and Roxas don't have everlasting squishy happy love and mansex should not even exist. Same goes for Zexion and Demyx. We don't know what happens to Nobodies when you squish them, so until further evidence is gathered, I will say they are unkillable, and just poofed somewhere else. Maybe the same dimension Sirius fell into. Maybe they are the guys Sirius hits on...and the idea of Sirius hitting on Axel and Zexion has melted my brain.
Naruto: Sasuke. Okay, he's not technically dead, but in the fandom world in my head, he does realize he is an idiot and go back to Naruto and the Leaf Village (or Naruto bashes the idea into his head and drags him back at least), as opposed to his continuing aggressive stupidity in canon.
Gundam Wing: (see, this connected in the end!) Treize Kushrenada. Didn't die in battle, because he is far too cool. And seeing as how Zechs is utterly his bitch/manwhore/devoted soldier-boy, I can't believe that he would allow Wufei to live if he had really killed Treize. He would track him down and fuck him up in sooo many ways. Besides, as pretty and poetic as the whole "letting yourself be killed in battle by your enemy/pubescent-boy-you-clearly-lust-after" thing is, it's just too sad for Wufei and Zechs to leave him dead. So, he faked his death, had an escape pod or something, and went into hiding in Zech's terrifying den of an apartment (no other Preventer agent has ever seen this apartment, for it is far too alarmingly messy and crammed with Zechs' random collections of junk - for entertaining, he hijacks Relena's mansion). Wufei comes over frequently for messy-tiny-apartment-threesome-sex.
Well, that was sufficiently pointless to distract me from the tiny sketchy hotel of doom.
And first things first - the dub! Oh, so much awfullness it is! It's almost physically painful to listen to, except for Q-Bean and Trowa's voices. Duo's voice is just...*shudder*. I hate it. With a burning, all-consuming passion. It is FAR too deep for someone who is so obviously cute and uke-ish. He doesn't need to be a girl, but he doesn't need to sound like a 25-year-old either. And Relena - could her voice be more shrill and annoying? (Could SHE be more shrill and annoying?) I wish to petition that all memory of this horrible thing be erased from our collective unconscious. And that they make the Japanese version available. Because good gods, the dub, it sucks.
Second: my character death denial bubble. Is a big transparent porous bubble wherein are contained all the characters that writers, manga-ka, and show producers have seen fit, against all logic and mercy, to kill off, and whose deaths I refuse to acknowledge ever happened. If you try hard enough, there is ALWAYS another answer that doesn't involve terrible, tragic, OTP ending death. At the moment, my bubble contains:
FMA: Maes Hughes. His death was a major plot point, and the episode was incredibly well done, but I love him too much. I put him on a t-shirt, for god's sake. My version: to keep from being killed off or getting his family hurt by the homunculi, he faked his death and went into hiding/witness protection.
Harry Potter: Sirius Black, of course! He should never have died, and of course he didn't. The Veil is obviously JK's vision of the Gate from FMA, and Sirius is merely in an alternate dimension causing trouble and hitting on guys in pubs and gay bars until he gets back to Remus. Who is also not dead, not at all, because the 7th Book is not canon. It is the ramblings of a delusional fangirl with not enough sense or imagination.
Final Fantasy: Zack Fair. He is way too bad ass to ever get killed by some useless lame TROOPERS. Come on. Not even TURKS. That's pathetic. Besides, Cloud desperately needs him to be not an emotional wreck. In my opinion, either they can clone him (see A Long Hard Road), Gaia can bring him back (she owes Cloud big, after all), or he never really died. He just got dragged back to one of Hojo's labs for further genetic dicking about. Seph, on the other hand, can be dead, cause we all know he can come back a bazillion times. The man never fucking dies.
Kingdom Hearts: Roxas and Axel. Okay, Roxas isn't technically dead, he's just sort of all absorbed. But still. He is a real person, he is an awesome character, and there is some way to separate him from Sora without turning Sora into vegetable!Sora. There is. And Axel is not dead. For all we know, he just did that swirly black Nobody poof thing and went somewhere else. Cause a world where he and Roxas don't have everlasting squishy happy love and mansex should not even exist. Same goes for Zexion and Demyx. We don't know what happens to Nobodies when you squish them, so until further evidence is gathered, I will say they are unkillable, and just poofed somewhere else. Maybe the same dimension Sirius fell into. Maybe they are the guys Sirius hits on...and the idea of Sirius hitting on Axel and Zexion has melted my brain.
Naruto: Sasuke. Okay, he's not technically dead, but in the fandom world in my head, he does realize he is an idiot and go back to Naruto and the Leaf Village (or Naruto bashes the idea into his head and drags him back at least), as opposed to his continuing aggressive stupidity in canon.
Gundam Wing: (see, this connected in the end!) Treize Kushrenada. Didn't die in battle, because he is far too cool. And seeing as how Zechs is utterly his bitch/manwhore/devoted soldier-boy, I can't believe that he would allow Wufei to live if he had really killed Treize. He would track him down and fuck him up in sooo many ways. Besides, as pretty and poetic as the whole "letting yourself be killed in battle by your enemy/pubescent-boy-you-clearly-lust-after" thing is, it's just too sad for Wufei and Zechs to leave him dead. So, he faked his death, had an escape pod or something, and went into hiding in Zech's terrifying den of an apartment (no other Preventer agent has ever seen this apartment, for it is far too alarmingly messy and crammed with Zechs' random collections of junk - for entertaining, he hijacks Relena's mansion). Wufei comes over frequently for messy-tiny-apartment-threesome-sex.
Well, that was sufficiently pointless to distract me from the tiny sketchy hotel of doom.
