So, as some of you may or may not know, I'm not going to be in this country anymore come January because I'm studying abroad in London from January to May.

It's going to be rather kickin', I think. I mean, I'll get to visit Stonehenge and Abbey Road and possibly even Paris (though I don't speak French so that MIGHT just be an issue). The only bad parts are the things I'm going to miss, which include but are not limited to:

--Avenue Q, which is going to premier in St. Louis ON MY BIRTHDAY
--Richter Abend's VA is going to be at an anime convention in this area in February
--HUMANS VS. ZOMBIES ADKSJFSA;L
--Anime STL


So yeah, pretty sad about missing all of that (though thankfully it's just Richter's VA; when my friend Seanna first told me that it was a male VA from ToS I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK, I was like "If it's Cam Clarke that's sad but okay because I already met him, BUT IF IT'S SCOTT MENVILLE OR SHILOH STRONG SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE AND IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE ME BECAUSE OMFG I CANNOT MISS THEM" but it's just Richter's VA which again is sad but okay, seriously, I can live with that), but overall I think it's going to be pretty awesome -- especially if I can meet up with ~The-real-Sheena while in Paris, because she's one of my heroes as far as art goes. Though again, I don't speak a lick of French and I talk a mile a minute, so that might be an issue! An issue in the form of a gigantic hot mess lol. I'm so sorry in advance, Sheena.

In other news, I now have club activities at school. I joined the recently formed Zombie Awareness and Survival Club, and I'm also the secretary of the Video Games Club. VGC is just amazing; at the first meeting we played 007 Goldeneye and Pokemon Stadium 2. I can't wait until the next meeting, it's going to be awesome, especially since Ian (the president) is going to help me mod my PSP so that I can download Tales of VS in Japanese so I can play it since it doesn't seem to be hitting NA shores anytime soon. Although I just looked up and APPARENTLY GUY ISN'T IN TALES OF VS., WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT, GUY IS ONE OF THE BEST CHARACTERS EVER WHY DIDN'T THEY INCLUDE HIM INSTEAD OF INCLUDING ASCH, WHO'S JUST A CARBON COPY OF LUKE IN TERMS OF FIGHTING STYLE, WHY WHY WHY SDAJFKLSAJ;FS;AJ

Also they included someone from Legend of Valkyrie wtf, that's not even a Tales game.

UGGGHHHHH this kills my soul and ruins my life. I cannot believe Guy isn't included. Seriously. I don't think you guys understand how much I love him. (POSSIBLE SPOILERS START HERE SPOILERS SPOILERS) When I learned his backstory (I don't have why he's terrified of women yet, but I deduced shortly after the last journal that I was wrong about Sync and General Cecille, Sync is apparently actually male like Ion, wtf) I just aww'd and wanted to hug him and was SO GLAD that didn't screw up the bromance between him and Luke. Seriously. Luke is his bby brother even if they aren't related by blood and even if Luke's father is a complete and utter psychotic douchebag.

BUT SERIOUSLY THE SCENE IN ARAMIS SPRING WITH LUKE AND GUY JUST MELTED ME, I WAS A GOOEY PUDDLE OF WARMTH, GUY IS NEVER REMOVING THE FRIEND FOR LIFE TITLE IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT AND SINCE IT'S MY GAME, I DO.

I also just LOVE LOVE LOVE how much Guy loves fontech, it's so adorable. He gets so happy! It's just soooooo cute.

Also, I want an Albiore, I'm just throwing that out there right now. Screw Rheairds, just give me a freakin' airship.

ALSO I've warmed up to Jade. I'm still not fangirling over him and probably never will (too busy fangirling Guy and his bromance with Luke lol), but I don't hate him and I LOL'D in the . . . something Highlands (starts with an M), because I didn't take Jade with Luke (I took Guy and Tear, lol so predictable), and so I got this skit with Jade with him saying, "*sigh* I suppose I should have kept the problem child with me . . ." It was so cute and lulzy. Lol Luke, Jade considers you to be a "problem child."

I also don't hate Natalia as much anymore either. She's still probably my least favorite, but I use her in my party (because her AI sucks as much as Tear's, so it takes both of them to equal one Raine. Fortunately Guy also has Center, which heals him a little, and he and Luke can handle the slash 'n' bash while Tear and Nat back us up with healing), but she has her moments. Omfg when I had Asch in the party it was an issue though, because she was whining and falling all over him every five seconds. I was like Jesus Christ on water skis Natalia, can you stop being a little whorebiscuit for five seconds? PLEASE?!

I also just LULZED so hard at Asch and Luke's convos when Luke was in Asch's head, because it reminded me of the ones I'd write for Mithos and Lloyd, hahahaha, except Asch and Luke did it better because Asch is fond of the word "dreck." Now all that needs to happen is a TotA version of Halloween in which Luke dresses up as Asch and Asch as Luke. IT'D BE PERFECT.

Speaking of things I've written I've already written TotA fanfic, though I'm not posting it because I haven't beaten the game yet SO WHY AM I GETTING FIC IDEAS WHY JDKSA; though it's all bromance between Guy and Luke, based on Guy waiting in Aramis Spring for Luke and thinking back to how he taught Luke to walk (because if you remember, he says in one of his little scenes with Luke that he helped teach Luke how to walk again ). And I've also got this AU epic (as in long) idea about Guy having to raise Luke in an alternate scenario, with the possible "help" of Van and the help of Jade . . . One that's influenced by my recent obsession with Supernatural. I don't even know what happened, but somewhere along the way I became obsessed with Supernatural and now I keep having dreams about it WTF.

The last dream I had for it was epic, though.

It was Sam and Dean and Lucifer, and Dean was somehow captured (I don't know where Castiel was, probably having a bitchfight with Gabriel or something), and Lucifer was trying to trick Sam into killing Dean by saying things like, "The apocalypse can only be avoided if one of you dies, Sam. It's the only way." And Sam had been under so much stress by that point that he finally just snaps and is like, "Fine. Give me the gun."

So of course Dean is freaking out (as much as Dean does) and is like, "What the hell? Sam, don't do this." And Sam just takes the gun and starts loading it and Dean's struggling with the demons that are holding him there and is like, "Sammy!"

And Sam just looks up and is like, "I'm sorry, Dean, but he's right. The only way this can end is if one of the vessels is taken out. There can't be an epic showdown without one of the two combatants."

And Dean's just like, "Don't listen to him, Sam! He'll tell you whatever the hell he has to in order to get you to do what he wants! Listen to ME, I'm your BROTHER!"

And Sam sort of laughs and it's not a happy sound, but he looks at Dean with a sort of sad little smile on his face. "I know," he says. "You're my big brother, and you've always been my big brother, and that's why I have to do this. Sorry for the chick flick moment, but I guess it's okay now that it's the end . . . I love you, Dean. And I'm sorry." And with those words spoken, Sam puts the gun to his own head, and pulls the trigger to both Lucifer's and Dean's screams.

And then the dream ended. It was EPIC and I loved it and why am I so obsessed with this show all of a sudden?

But anyway, back to Tales of the Abyss, there was this one part in a Z-Skit (or I guess it's Select-Skit, but these skits will forever be Z-Skits to me even if it's not through use of the Z button) that has been stuck in my head forever now, and I swear, Luke's line is going to be my new insult to people even though no one will get it since no one I know in person has ever played Abyss:

Anise: "Are you saying I'm not sexy?!"
Luke: "You're as sexy as Mieu!"

YES LUKE, LOL, ABSOLUTE WIN