Rock for sure. I really don't like most country songs. I can name only a handful of artists, most from the past like Kenny Rodgers or Johnny Cash, that I actually enjoy their music. Rock 'n' Roll just moves me so it's where it's at.
The pics are great. Thanks for posting them. Aqua and Riku do look great. Speaking of that...Riku and Aqua also look good together. Maybe he'll finally get a gf.
OOC: I love the way Demyx reacted to the portal thing. Very well done. Also Axel's revision was very on the spot too. kudos for playing it out so well because I know this is a different scenario here and it can be unique what I ask of you guys. You're awesome. (TWTNW) Xigbar shrugged and walked with Saix and Xaldin towards the meeting room. "I would suppose our best deal is to get us all to the meeting room and which we are headed to any way. If the force did let Demyx go to bring Sora and his cohorts here, maybe it's a trap for them too. Though will they act...?" He tapped his finger against his chin and nodded. "Yeah, of course they will. It's in Sora's nature." Xigbar gestured to some Sniper Nobodies. "You guys go tell the others to come to the meeting room. Things are getting really serious now and we all need to have a sit down. Got it dudes?" The Sniper Nobodies nodded and flew off and would go to each Organization member and relay the message of it was urgent meeting time. "This is royally starting to suck majorly." <Destiny Islands> Riku watched as Demyx went to leave. "Uh wait.." he responded as he realized Demyx was taking off with the letter through Darkness to somewhere. He then a moment later watched Demyx as he skedaddled out of the portal and fell to his knees in a state of terror. Riku went over to offer Demyx a hand up and glanced at the portal. "I don't think you should try that again, Demyx. Are you okay?" Sora rowed up in a row boat to the docks and climbed out. He had finally woken up from his nap after helping his mom earlier with chores. He was fashionably late for practice with Riku but he was sure Riku would understand. He hopped out of the boat after securing it and waded up to the sandy beach. To his surprise, Riku and Kairi were there but so was a mysterious woman and ...Demyx? This was a definitely a strange sight. Sora jogged up to the others and looked around. "Hey Riku...Kairi...what's going on? Is he okay?" He studied Demyx who looked shaken up. For a bit it didn't cross his mind that Demyx should technically not be around but then it hit him. "How..are you back, Demyx?" DiZ watched as Namine's expressions changed. She was taking everything in well, which he was grateful for. The boy behind them was listening but also sight-seeing and checking out every little thing that seemed to move or twitch. This wasn't so surprising to Ansem, who knew of the Replica and the fact this was really his first time outside of Castle Oblivion and he was exposed to life beyond its walls. "If a Soul is taken for energy, the Nobody will indeed cease to exist utterly. The self is eliminated and so yes, for a Nobody this is absolutely fatal. For anyone, it could be, though I believe if a being had a Heart and a Body still intact, something else would transpire and change them. For a Nobody, there is only the Soul left to take as the Body then will return to Darkness and the Heart...it will vanish permanently within the Heartless or return to Kingdom Hearts...going back to the pattern utterly for there is nothing to make it remain at all." "As for why you, Roxas, me, Riku Replica...why we are back, this I am not certain of. We may have been brought back as a sort of side thing that happened because this entity or group of entities behind this had to do so in order to bring back all of the Nobodies...or we are back because of some alternate possibly secret ally. I cannot ascertain that as of yet." He truly there wished he had a better answer. Not knowing why he or the other three were back was disconcerting. "You and Roxas were merged with Sora and Kairi and though you are Nobodies, you are unique. You also both ended up here in Twilight Town instead of Castle Naught. I was also returned to here for some reason as was Repliku. When Roxas is done with his visit to his friends, we will need to figure out just what we should do from here. We could possibly get to the Organization, or go to Destiny Islands and seek out Sora and his allies to attempt to gain more assistance an design a strategy."
There are a few reasons why homicide done by a drive by shooting vs terrorist bombing attack vs serial killer murder are leveled as different. Drive by shootings and other gang activity generally happen in areas where there has been a lot of gang warfare and violence in the past. Commonly, the murders that transpire are 'just another number' to those who are not from these areas because it is assumed this is the way of life for the people within the confines. To those who live with gangs and such around them and have seen deaths, it is not just another day. They are living the life others say that they could avoid simply by moving or doing something about it like dealing with the cops. Outsiders believe people -want- to live like this because of the way the media, rap music, etc plays it all up. Some people even travel down to go live some excitement for a while knowing they can go back to their cushy houses and they don't have to worry so much. This is basically disassociation. The same happens when we think about how Palestinians and Israelites live with some groups being stupid on either side and doing excessive violence that makes the regular people suffer. People outside assume it's a problem that is there by choice because it's gone on so long and if they don't want it to be that way, these people could solve their problems. Many people don't get what truly is going on in an environment they are not accustomed to. If we hear about terrorist activities in regions like the Middle East, India, etc, who cares? They deal with it all the time. When it hits the European areas and the U.S. however, there's something seriously wrong... Because we aren't used to that. We live more peaceful lives in certain ways and wars that we may be in are on other people's turfs so that we don't have to have the agony at our homelands. So when 9/11 happened or the train catastrophe in the UK, let's face it...we weren't desensitized to it because it's in our neck of the woods. We just aren't used to our 'terrorists' doing so bad and it's always been small scale for us unless some terrorists steal planes with passengers from our countries. Oh then we are up in arms. If they hijack people in the Middle East though...that's their life way. We can say 'damn that sucks' but really we aren't going to be so horrified because it always happens. Conflicts with Israel vs Palestinians, Pakistan vs India etc are old news and we've adjusted to it. People were much more horrified when we realized how bad Rwanda was with 1000s of dead being dumped in the water, mass murders etc because it was so grand and well, not many people think that somewhere in Africa would be so bad. What's more irritating to know is that the Rwanda people accuse the French government of involvement and conspiracies. It makes us pay attention, for those of us who do at any rate. Spree killers also get a lot of attention because they hit areas where it's 'inappropriate' to hit. No one would probably cry out so much if a spree killer showed up in a gangland area and popped off 5 gang members in vengeance, wounding 10 others. It's part of their lifeway. However, a spree killer hitting a college campus or high school or hospital...oh yeah. Why? Because these areas aren't supposed to promote or have violence like that. These people would be considered 'innocent' of the lifeway that merits a dangerous possible confrontation. We want our kids to feel safe and well, us to feel safe in certain atmospheres. We like to feel that these areas are comfort zones and well, sometimes they just may not be and people need a dose of reality. Really, spree killers in a lot of ways can be likened to terrorists and quite a few are terrorists but also some are just darn well depressed people that want to leave their mark on the world and be famous one way because they can't another. Serial killers though bring out the demented. There's liking to shoot up stuff and then there's a thrill to murder'. Some serial killers even work in gangs and the mafia etc because they get assignments to kill and it makes it nice and easy. Their macabre natures not only are about killing but also about how to torment people, manipulate people to killing themselves or others, twisting people's minds, making them pathetic, listening to them scream in agony as if listening to their favorite song, and do a ton of stuff I cannot describe on this forum. People complain and say waterboarding is torture...they know nothing. Serial killers are, though intelligence varies, thinkers in the darkest way and often set up lairs to do what they want to do to people. They also love to at times show off their works and toy with people's emotions because they don't feel them the same. Some make 'art' like what happened with Black Dahlia as mentioned above by someone. Most keep trophies of some sort. They not only mutilate a body while it's living but also often times when it's dead. . I could go on and on and get very morbid but I think we get the clue. They have no fear of the law. They have very little if any conscience at all. They can listen to people scream etc and not care one iota. Some even 'get off' on it. This is what creeps people out. A gang shooting, spree killer, terrorist..the person still probably has a conscience and has a family he/she loves or wishes they had those things. A serial killer is using his family and exposed life as a cover. Terrorists and spree killers forsake their consciences to do some heinous deeds that will usually take their lives after in a grand finale. Serial killers wait to get caught and even play with cops over it. A serial killer can calmly tell you how he eviscerated some victims and did horrible things just as relaxed as you can talk about your favorite video game and why you love it. If that isn't enough to tell the difference between murders etc, I don't know what is.
The problem with offshore drilling is this...by the time they build special stations for it...because -every- single oil rig and platform must be unique to the area it is in, it will be 10 years from now till we actually see any benefit. Why should we continue to vest things in oil when it takes so long to see any merits when by the time we explore other resources we could have the same success and yet not be dependent on oil companies anymore for every little thing? People seem to think offshore drilling is going to be an immediate solution but sadly it will not so it gets brought up all the time. Oil corps are some of our biggest lobbyists and they are deceiving everyone when they say it's an immediate cure. In the end, I think offshore drilling should be considered though -much- less than what the oil corps want. I believe instead we should be researching other ways which are already in progress because oil as it is will not last forever and offshore drilling won't mean squat when oil reserves are wiped out. Oil companies are totally willing to let us be dependent and get into circumstances like the very one we are in. Future generations won't have that oil around forever, even if offshore drilling eases some of the pain for a while. We don't really have to run a resource straight into the ground, or out of it in this case, just because some fat pigs want our money. I really don't want to know we could have saved our future generations and instead played around just to keep something we have all been nurtured on because it's convenient and we are lazy. Too much of this mistake has been done in the past by our former generations.
Wow, I totally zoned. Okay... Xemnas did disappear and the only way he could really go back to 'Xehanort' would be if Riku's ordeal didn't destroy the Heart of Xehanort after he dealt with the corruption and all. In KH2 he literally had no worries about it and just had the power and body of Xehanort. However, he was also 'cleansed' by the Kingdom Hearts exploding thing so maybe Xehanort's Heart was also purified and reanimated. Who knows.
