Thursday, April 12, 2007

   Unsleepy
Not too tired, not too not tired, just sort of in between. Will be in bed by 2:30-3:00. No quizzes today.

Rin has recently posted on her myOtaku about the ending of final fantasy VIII. Concerning my "death". So I'll be kind enough to post the facts about how I'm not dead.

1) I have a myOtaku, and my knowledge of the dead tells me that were I dead, I could not operate any sort of Net terminal, much less keep up with a blog for over 3 years now.

This and the next ones come from in-game evidence.
2) When I fell, and lay there in the end, I had been overcome by the temporal difficulties of time compression. In other words, I was bouncing around time, and had nothing to really hold on to, thus I was lost in a dark world of distorted reality, not really a part of any one particular time. So the issue was not me living or dying, it was me staying in temporal sync. I was rendered comatose, but not dead, due to the time effects.

3) Rin came into that world, to find me. She thought I was dead, so when you watch the scene as she comes upon my body, she feels my face, and is overcome. Then as she starts to tear up, she holds on to me, and the light pierces the clouds, and we are taken back to our time. This solves my time predicament. The reason it happened, was because she gave me something to hold on to, a person to anchor myself to, so I could come back to my own time and sync back up. In a way, Rin saved me, I would have been lost in time without her.

4) Irvine's camera at the party doesn't show me for a good reason. I don't do parties. It's not in my character to be stuffing hot dogs into my mouth, or chatting at a party. So I left when I noticed he broke out the camera. Rin, being intuitive as she is, came out to find me, and I think she was more interested in me than in being on camera (much to the others' chagrin), but of course he got a small shot of her through the doorway in the end.

5) That shot of Irvine's of Rinoa in the end, it shows maybe half the balcony, the half I wasn't standing in. If he'd have bothered to charge the battery in his camera, he might have gone out to the balcony but luckily Selphie had other ideas, and he didn't charge his camera battery in the first place.

6) Lastly, supposing I was some sort of a ghost, how is it that I broke free of the temporal chaos I was in, and managed to find Rin? How is it that only she can see me? Why in the blazes would we smile at eachother and kiss? Outside of Patrick Swaze movies, that doesn't happen (no way I'd body snatch someone either, it's not something I'd do). More to the point, would Rin really smile for a dead me? Experience has taught me that she's very emotional, if I were dead and came back to see her, she wouldn't be quite as happy as she would be in tears. Rin has excess tears, and she's not afraid to let them out whenever, and the sight of a ghostly me would definitely trigger them to start pouring.

Hopefully this puts that inane argument to rest, I am still alive and kicking. Smiling though, is something I don't wish to do too often (though it's become a chronic thing now).
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