Stories due today!

[alyse]

I'm sure the reminder won't be necessary but you do need to get your story into us today unless you've already negotiated an extension. At the moment we have more extensions than stories but I'm sure that I'm panicking unnecessarily and the rest will land in my inbox imminently!

However, that being said, if you are going to be a little late you need to let us know that now so that we don't end up pursuing you for it tonight with a maniacal gleam in our eyes.

::g::

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[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Gale's "most-likely-gay" comes on account of the following;

Digital Devil Saga one focuses on a world that's all in greys, greens and sepias, sort of washed out, and all the characters begin with completely neutral personalities and plain grey eyes; as the story progresses, each character starts to display fits of emotion, keeping them under tabs until one thing or another triggers them to finally snap and their eyes take on a singular colour, their personalities taking on specific and defined individual traits.

Gale stays almost completely blank until the leader of another tribe (there are five warring factions in their world) approaches him reasonably and discusses the concept of 'honour' with him, saying he can see honour in Gale's eyes, and Gale starts having flashes of emotion more and more around him until the other leader dies in Gale's arms and Gale snaps into full green eyes, swearing vengeance for the other leader's death and - well, it's all pretty epic and awesome <3.

Especially because the game has a girl with a similar storyline with another girl, and the girl character openly discusses the concept of love and thinking that's what she had with the girl who died in her arms.

I heart the games SO. HARD.

[abrokencompass.livejournal.com]

Okay. Must go enter this fandom now. Immediately. Just reading about it was epic. (Plus, the character's name is Gale, and I shamelessly admit that I will probably be interested in anyone who shares the same name as one of my favorite actors, haha.) But really, that whole thing where they start out gray and gain color through certain triggers? Whoever invented this is a genius.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Well, I know all of one Gale in terms of actors, so would that be a Mr Gale Harold of Queer as Folk US fame? :D

The fandom is small but awesome and the games can be pains to get hold of but omg, so worth it. Especially for the second game - the first starts off slow then picks up speed and by the end it's barrelling, but the second game is off like a bullet from the start and the twists are just :D. And I love the combat system, because it's intuitive but cruel if you're silly - e.g. going into a battle against a fire monster with a fire-weak party member equals painful doom ^^. Plus the monster designs are pretty gorgeous.

And I love a good twist, I grew up with the Legacy of Kain videogame series ;).

[abrokencompass.livejournal.com]

Yep, that would be the one! Haha