A nerd like any other...

With a party raised to fight Demiurge, Zelenin was too easy.

Up next: Law path. And then I can stop SJ binging for a little bit once Demi's ready to play.

Before all that, though. I need a nap. x_x

EDIT: wtf why was this posted twice?

So, on the Neutral path, after the fight with Zelenin...

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In the meantime, have a username meme that came from atrypical. Geez, look at all the angels.

bathhouse_boss: Satake is a mob boss who hangs out in the bathhouse.

fightsinheels: Hiroko...fights in heels. Seriously, go look.

livesbytheword: Izumi, uh. Yeah. Messian preacher.

savior_of_souls: What Takumi calls himself. ("souls" meaning "ghosts" or "earthbound spirits")

dreamrocksynth: Shinichi wears red dreamrock armor and aspires to synthesis.

crackingvoice: Metatron is the Voice of God and he's...well, he was slowly losing his grip on his sanity due to his AU. But the Mall has provided ample time to recover.

regainedvirtue: He's a Virtue and is ex-Yosuga, and he's well...regained virtuous qualities after deciding that, I don't know, killing innocent people is wrong.

chairhaswings: A Devil Children-style Principality, whose...chair has wings.

human_enough: He's a demi-fiend, but he's apparently human enough to produce some magatsuhi (which he uses to feed his demon party).

metafiend: Kenta is a demi-fiend who's noticed all the video game tropes his world is suddenly running on.

onlysaneseraph: Gabriel, in SMT2, is pretty much just that - Uriel, Raphael, and Michael are nuts.

first_halfdemon: Just what it sounds like, Chaos Hero was the first half-demon in the franchise. (I think)

untrueblue: A play on "true blue" - since the color of Law in SJ is blue - and Rio's reluctance to follow the Law endgame.

middle_route: Neutral tends to fall in the middle when listing the alignments. Also when depicting the alignments on a scale, Neutral is by definition in the middle.

adarkerangel: Mastema both has a darker personality and purpose (he's the guy sent to kill people) than most angels, as well as being the only angel aside from Lailah who has black wings.

pacifistbrat: Charles doesn't like to battle and he is a brat.

So this is old news to a couple of you, but I apparently missed a pretty damn funny line in SJ twice.

Spoiler-free, the basic situation is you've encountered Mastema again and Zelenin asks him if he'd be willing to listen to her and give her advice.

She opens with, "I wanted to talk about us... as in the investigative team." I can just imagine her thought processes there. (Oh wait, that sounds like... QUICK, CLARIFY!)

I had to put the DS down to laugh. And I spent a good ten minutes in a cycle of calming down, picking up the DS, seeing the screen again, and breaking into more laughter.

I'm so pathetic.

Anyway, 30-Day Video Game Meme Day 21: Game With The Best Story

Well, I can't choose, but chances are if it's Megaten, it's up there.

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So after getting ready for class, I had about 20 minutes to kill. I made the incredibly stupid decision of reading a book I had put down to kill time.

Reading a book is the only diversion that causes me to lose track of time completely. When doing anything else, I always remember to glance at the clock. Cue me running, late, to my mom's workplace so she can drive me, only to find her immature coworkers were taking the "closed for inventory" sign on the front door very seriously for shits and giggles. I could have been reasonable and walked in through the warehouse, but I was in a panic and didn't think to do that, instead repeating, "But I need to speak to my mom!" like an idiot. And then when I get there, not even late by some miracle, I find class was canceled anyway because the instructor's baby got sick.

Sheesh. Anyway, I got distracted yesterday, so you get two entries on the 30-Day Video Game Meme.

Day 16: Game With The Best Cutscenes.

...I don't even judge games by cutscenes. At all. I mean, I can call bullshit when they're bad, but... I dunno, I can't name one game with all the best cutscenes.

Day 17: Favorite Antagonist

Oh geez, do you know how hard this is to answer when you love things like classic Megaten? One person's antagonist is another's supporting character!

Okay, um...find a constant...

Oh, I know! YHWH is hilariously incompetent, yet still legitimately threatening. It's really hard to pull something like that off. (The incompetence may have been unintended, but still.)

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30-Day Video Game Meme Day 14: Current (or most recent) Gaming Wallpaper.

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This thing here, made by miss_teddie. It's stretched a bit to fit my screen, but it's not terribly distorted.

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I'm thinking of quitting Nano. The idea just isn't panning out the way I'd hoped.

30-Day Video Game Meme Day 9: Saddest Game Scene

DSRK1. Episode 11. That is all.

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Mastema-muse is flailing at recent RP events.

Anyway. 30-day video game meme Day 3: A game that is underrated

DSRK1, hands down. I've seen people say it's the worst Megaten game out there, no joke. What, because it's not turn-based? What, because it doesn't have your precious social links? What, because it lacks ending choices?

I'm on my third play of it and I love it to pieces. And now people only want it because of its sequel. And then they'll bitch about the battle system. x_x

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Taken from hpdigipokefan

I picked just plain old SJ for this, and randomized the names in random.org so I wouldn't wind up influenced by the questions.

Here we go:

1. Zoe
2. Protagonist
3. Anthony
4. Dent
5. Williams
6. Bugaboo
7. Mastema
8. Zelenin
9. Jimenez
10. Lucifer
11. Irving
12. Gore




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First, the meme:

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And now the fic:

Title: Mementos
Rating: G
Category: Gen
Source: Imagine/smtdressingroom
Characters: Izumi
Warnings: Rambling stream of consciousness, angst.

( When dealing with matters of Izumi's family, angst is unavoidable. )