And we are assuming that Axel's name is Lea or Ale or something which sound lame? It could be that she had no memory of her former life similar to Roxas. After all, if Roxas is connected to Ven...which in my mind there is no way in hell he cannot be connected...then what's to say that the same memory issue can't hold true for Aqua to Xion? Xemnas may have just given her the name to allow her to fit in with the other Org members. Could the 14th member be someone else...? Sure, but it again, is definitely not Namine. I've said it now for several months and know it just isn't. Could this girl be connected to Kairi in some way? Yes, she could. We seem to be moving into the three aspects of being with Nomura's account. DiZ even explained there are 3 components to life in the KH universe. Heart, Soul and Body. Yen Sid also went into this to some degree when explaining Nobodies. So perhaps with what Xehanort's Heartless did to her years ago, sending her out, this new character was created. Though, I still have to say I'm more strongly leaning towards Aqua and Xion being somehow connected in somewhat the same manner as Roxas and Ven. Only these two options really make sense to me unless he's just tossing in some new girl entirely which makes me ponder 'why the mystery?'.
You are frustrated and upset but as others said, hurting yourself is not the way to go. There are more pleasant things you can do to take away mental pain, such as doing something like exercising, reading a book, go for a walk, ride a bike, whatever. Even if you have to cry for a bit doing those things, they will also ease your mind. As for your mother, I'd make the suggestion that tonight when she is not working and has the company stuff going on, wait for a moment of respite and then go to talk to her. Tell her that you want to explain what happened and that she needs to talk to your little brother and not -you- about what's going on unless she wants you to duct tape his mouth because at this point your options are gone. You told him to not do a bad deed and he screamed so unless she wants you covering his mouth or knocking him unconscious, she better deal with the actual problem. Tell her that -YOU- will be quiet and have been. It is he that obviously needs more time and to be told directly to stop. I know she may try to cut you off and tell you that he might not be that way. By what you are saying he sounds like the 'baby' of the house that gets some spoiling. However, if she doesn't listen you may have to just leave it at that and say something along the lines of 'well I'm not going to stop him anymore or watch him since every time I do something he screams. I can't stop him and only you can.' She is stressing out from what is going on with her job and I'd suggest you do this when later you both have some free time to do some talking. Try to be benevolent and understand her situation is very stressed and she's flipping out because of that. Don't hurt yourself, please. Those same endorphins you get by giving yourself physical pain can also happen by doing other activities that are not that way and you do not need to be ruining your life or scarring yourself. Others make life hard at times and you certainly don't have to help make your own life worse. I hope things get better for you soon. Your brother may take time to have to deal with. The screaming thing is something she's going to have to discipline out of him. How old is your brother also? If he's old enough to go to school and all he might understand if you try talking to him nicely and explain if he screams mommy could lose her job. You might also want to try getting along with him better in some ways because when you say no, you could do it better and he'd be more responsive with positive enforcement. I.e. when you told him to not touch the bird, you can try saying it in a nicer way of "you don't want to hurt the bird, do you? Let's not do that and maybe if you want, let's try doing something else together.' This could help him stop doing it without actually sounding too domineering to him where he will scream because he's not getting his way. It works very well on young boys and girls and it might take some time to get used to but I would suggest more positive enforcement instead of negative and just saying 'stop that!' etc. They also learn values and morals from it so you'd be helping him and you and your mom in the long run. As for the other events, things happen. Maybe have you tried calling your boyfriend or another friend and just chit chatting with that person a while to feel better and find out what's going on etc? Even if you don't tell them what is going on, perhaps that would uplift your spirits some. Hang in there! I never bad rep anyone because I can rant elsewhere just fine. Look, you are right to say there are certainly far worse problems that can go on for people but the point here is that everyone, that means you too, has a nervous breakdown every now and then. Yes, her problems separated are not that big a deal but when you take a group of small things that can make you anxious and then pile them together...well anyone is bound to feel miserable. Life is not easy for everyone and that's why this area exists. It isn't meant to ridicule or demean people. I see what you are trying to do by telling her to 'get over herself' etc but seriously, that is not needed or wanted here. The people who post here want genuine assistance and perhaps they just want a stress reliever and to share some of their issues with to have a vent. There isn't a one of us alive on this world that doesn't get ticked off, annoyed, frustrated, saddened etc at some events that happen in our lives. You called her selfish but I also can say the same thing to you. It is a very selfish thing to tell someone else to get over his/her problems and then say 'your problems would make someone commit suicide' if they can't handle their own 'trivial' ones. Consider that please the next time you tell someone to suck up their problems and that their life could just not be comparable to your own. Sorry to be harsh here but I really don't know how to say it another way.
Food Shortage - no. This has always been a problem. More animals becoming Extinct - no, even without us knowing several animals have gone extinct before we were even technologically advanced. Actually nowadays a lot of people are trying to preserve animals and plants more and yet things die out or change. It's the way of life. It doesn't mean for a while there we didn't do some stupid things and don't have things to work on but we only tend to notice the 'big' things going extinct. Many things have and still do and will. Increase in Pollution - yes, obviously we've had our impact. Some things occur naturally but our population densities and concentrated effects caused by corps dumping, people being stupid and Co2 increases by needing more trees etc, also carbon monoxide emissions, well, these are all signs that we've contributed more to. Increase in Diseases - in how diseases spread, yes. Also, sometimes with how viruses mutate, strains can become worse or more docile depending. I'd say that epidemics and such happen more because we can travel easier and contagious people come into busy areas. I'm not sure diseases themselves have grown but spreading them can be easier. Increase in Violence - Yes, the closer people live together and are forced to do so and they fail at integration, the more violence is likely to happen. Increase in Law Breaking - I'm not sure. I think it's just easier nowadays to get caught and there are also a bunch of stupid laws put in place that shouldn't be there because they don't really aid anyone but the greedy or nosy. Yes, if these don't count in statistics but no, if they do.
Marluxia was obviously intelligent and a schemer before he became a Nobody. Whether Nobodies have 'emotions' or not, they all know they used to have them and they do recall what it felt like to possess them. Marluxia was acting out of his behavioral pattern. Also, for someone like Marluxia, having no emotions could be a great thing. He'd have no remorse or regrets. He'd be able to plan without emotions getting in his way. Larxene seemed to 'care' more about her emotional state or lack there of. She gripped onto the memory of it and all. I think that's partially why Marluxia could use her. She was not pleased with how things were, wanted more recognition, wanted to not have been dragged into the Org, etc. She seemed a free spirit that was bound up tight so Marluxia probably seemed like a good deal to her. He however, seemed to not really mind his state of being so much and wanted power. He was smooth enough to get Xemnas to make him charge of the Castle Oblivion after all, which was annoying to other members who were older and actually -doing- research. That's my assessment so far really in a bit more detail.
Negative Combo is good for a couple things. I really didn't use it but for these. 1. You can use it to up your damage attacks. Finishers do more damage than a couple hits of a combo and some enemies can get away before you complete your combo. So some enemies may make you want to use this ability to be able to do max damage in a shorter time. 2. It is very useful and even absolutely essential to use in certain parts of the Jiminy Journal. With it I was able to clear the Bumble Buster with Explosion and Thundaga and/or Magnega. It cuts time down a lot. Also, the Junk Sweep where you push boxes..I cleared that in a couple hits. One time for a friend I cleared it in one hit by removing all the Combo pluses and using Fenrir with a couple neg combos. You also want Fenrir and the negative combo ability to do the Phil's Training in Maniac Mode or you probably won't finish that either successfully to Jiminy Journal requirements. Those are basically the uses for it so it's not critical by any means, if you don't want to clear the Jiminy Journal but if you do, it's rather essential.
That is kind of what the message was conveying was that Darkness should not be feared but anyone could fall to Darkness, including him if the circumstances are right and the person goes the wrong path.
If they had to switch voice actors, sometimes that happens. The actors do get caught up in other projects or some behind the scenes issue transpires we don't know about so though I am not sure about the English voice actors at this time, if they do switch, it's probably likely due to conflicting schedules or failures at negotiations on contracts. This happened with Kingdom Hearts to KH2 as well. Kairi's voice and Sephiroth's, Aerith's voices changed as well as a couple others.
That's exactly why they say it. They can't believe a dye job could come out that good and not fry your hair. They are right so far.
Well jojo, that's fine. I'll take your name off the list. And Shades, I'm not so sure about you just yet. You seem to contribute to the investigation so it lowers my suspicion. Maybe next time I'll highlight those in red that I think are 'most' likely to be Kira but I'm kind of waiting and in thought on that at the moment. Repliku - well I am pretty sure I'm not it. Pyrɸ - She has not really changed her demeanor much from the first game and she wasn't the Kira then so not sure. Could be she's just very good at keeping her same composure so I can't remove her from suspicion yet. Trogdor - the chances are unlikely that ICSP would pick the same Kira again and Trogdor's attitude this time around is more helpful so I'd be willing to say almost solidly I doubt it. サキ アマミヤ - possibility though this round he's been so darn quiet. I don't think he was even on last night when the Kira was chosen though this could be a ruse. We can, after all, set ourselves invisible. I'm so far though leaning towards no. Chervalier - is very vocal and part of things but also challenging so might be possible or not. However, apparently Trogdor talked to Cherv or something and my name is 'widely' known so yeah...if Cherv was the Kira I'd probably be dead by now. So leaning more towards no. Of course, Cherv could be giving me secret threats saying that my name is so known...and covering for when I die so yeah...still a suspect. CarbuncleGem - not sure so it's a 'maybe' though I'm not seeing any signs. Mr.Despair - maybe but nothing of signs yet either but has been in the thread quite a few times and made hardly any responses. This is kind of suspicious. Could be. ヨシュア- could be since from the start he was actually interested in the role of Kira and he's been so quiet. Love - is a question since Love isn't really responding. Shades - leaning towards possibly no but unsure so far. Nate_River - unknown. Firekeyblade - unknown OblivionRoxas - unknown CreatorOftheUncreatd - unknown advent_of_apocalypse - unknown Amber - I'm pretty sure she's not it since she came in late to the game and hasn't given off any warning signs. TrueKeybladeMaster - The same reason as Amber. He's new and is contributing. Jettie asks quite a few questions and doesn't really know the rules so that's an indicator unless she's playing us. I'm going to go with I don't think so though. TheChosenOne - seems also new to the arena so I'm willing to say at this time that he's probably not the kira either.[/QUOTE] So there's the current list and 'my' thoughts on it so far. I suppose we are kind of stuck until someone dies to come up with more clues. This game is a lot of fun.
To me it was symbolic. In KH it is said that -everyone- has Darkness in their Hearts except the Princesses of Heart who are supposedly pure of negative emotions. In a way I think that's kind of campy but that's the layout Nomura has stated and the games declare. This is why when Kairi lost her Heart and it hid in Sora, it did not instead turn into a Heartless. She has no Darkness so it just doesn't work that way. For Namine to be created, DiZ stated in the Ansem Reports that it happened when Sora removed her Heart from his, which at the time he was using the Dark Keyblade to do the deed which had Darkness and also he does have Darkness in himself. Keybladers are not above having Darkness in the storyline. Riku and Sora both get upset and frustrated at times. Riku actually nearly was pwned by Darkness until he saw through it right at the end and then refused to give in. Basically the symbolism of that scene is that anyone, including a young 14 year old well natured, naive boy with a good heart normally can choose some paths that may lead him to Darkness. He didn't make the Heartless appear. The 'voice' did to show him his enemies and also that he had to not fear the Darkness but face it and understand everyone, including him has it. That is basically how I took the scene any way. I'm very certain though that Sora wasn't forming the Heartless as it came through a vortex caused when Riku opened the door of Destiny Islands to link it with other worlds. Xehanort's Heartless took advantage of that and attacked the Islands with the Heartless then. It was his goal, after all, to find the Keyblade Master and this is why he sent Kairi out years ago in the first place.
Ah, sorry jettie. As you can tell, I seem to be too lazy to make a separate tab and go find out members' genders I am not always around. I will hopefully now commit it to memory!!! jojo13 - I'm not finding any real posts by you for a few pages, so uh...I'm blind. Also what are you changing your mind about? Are you in the game or no?
The list keeps growing. lol So here's a new list I think with all the names of current players on. If you've commented in the section, I've gone ahead and included you to keep track. Names in blue and crossed out are who I think are mostly leaning to the role of detective. Some though I may change my mind on. Any other thoughts. Shade, you did a pretty good lineup there. Repliku - well I am pretty sure I'm not it. Pyrɸ - She has not really changed her demeanor much from the first game and she wasn't the Kira then so not sure. Could be she's just very good at keeping her same composure so I can't remove her from suspicion yet. Trogdor - the chances are unlikely that ICSP would pick the same Kira again and Trogdor's attitude this time around is more helpful so I'd be willing to say almost solidly I doubt it. サキ アマミヤ - possibility though this round he's been so darn quiet. I don't think he was even on last night when the Kira was chosen though this could be a ruse. We can, after all, set ourselves invisible. I'm so far though leaning towards no. Chervalier - is very vocal and part of things but also challenging so might be possible or not. However, apparently Trogdor talked to Cherv or something and my name is 'widely' known so yeah...if Cherv was the Kira I'd probably be dead by now. So leaning more towards no. Of course, Cherv could be giving me secret threats saying that my name is so known...and covering for when I die so yeah...still a suspect. CarbuncleGem - not sure so it's a 'maybe' though I'm not seeing any signs. Mr.Despair - maybe but nothing of signs yet either but has been in the thread quite a few times and made hardly any responses. This is kind of suspicious. Could be. ヨシュア- could be since from the start he was actually interested in the role of Kira and he's been so quiet. Love - is a question since Love isn't really responding. Shades - leaning towards possibly no but unsure so far. Nate_River - unknown. Firekeyblade - unknown OblivionRoxas - unknown CreatorOftheUncreatd - unknown advent_of_apocalypse - unknown jojoj13 - unknown Amber - I'm pretty sure she's not it since she came in late to the game and hasn't given off any warning signs. TrueKeybladeMaster - The same reason as Amber. He's new and is contributing. Jettie asks quite a few questions and doesn't really know the rules so that's an indicator unless she's playing us. I'm going to go with I don't think so though. TheChosenOne - seems also new to the arena so I'm willing to say at this time that he's probably not the kira either.
I've used a kettle to make hot water. Also you can make potato chips in a kettle. whee. I do have a water cooler though that does make hot water but it only does like a couple cups worth at a time so if I have people over I boil water the ol fashioned way.
Also if we wait too long, apparently a death per day will happen if we don't make guesses. So yeah, there's incentive for us to get to work.
The 14th member cannot in any way be Namine. For one thing, both appear by each other in a pic that's been posted. We've already seen they can't be the same person by that evidence alone. Also, Namine was never a member of the Organization. She appeared at Castle Oblivion and may not have even been out of there since Org members were sent there to do studies on memories. Xion goes to her there as she is with DiZ and Sora is already beginning to get helped. So the events of CoM already happened when Xion goes to meet Namine. I don't think she looks 14. She could look 14-16 easily enough. It's KH and they draw character features for girls pretty delicate so I don't think that cancels out Xion being connected in some way to Aqua. Also, Aqua and Kairi's faces to me resemble each other while her hair resembles Riku's more. It can still be debated whether Aqua is connected to the 14th member or if the 14th member is in someway connected to Kairi but it seems very clear by the evidence already there that it is definitely not Namine. She wouldn't bother talking to Xion if that were true.
Mine is black with red highlights running through it. I have it layered and in back it's down now to nearing past my shoulder blades. I'm trying to see how long I can grow it before someone yells at me to cut it. >.>
Repliku Pyrɸ Trogdor サキ アマミヤ Chervalier CarbuncleGem Mr.Despair ヨシュア Love Shades Nate_River Firekeyblade OblivionRoxas CreatorOftheUncreatd advent_of_apocalypse jojoj13 Amber TrueKeybladeMaster This is the list of all the suspects/players. I'm still pretty certain that Amber and Trogdor are not suspects. I'm inclined to also say that TrueKeybladeMaster is also a detective.
Spoiler It's about damn time! Thank you for the awesome job. Hooray spoilers. Well, this wasn't really a secret. So what did you think of that pencil trick? Hooray! The only problem I do see with it though is that the writing of 'spoiler' is barely visible but hey...we all know now it's the button we want. w00t.
Actually, I was asked if I wanted to be the Kira and I said no because it was too obvious. Sometime I wouldn't mind doing it but yeah...that's way too out front and well, people are wasting their times on accusing me instead of looking around, more than likely because I won last round. I'm actually having more fun being a detective and putting my life on the line. Of course...Trogdor brings up a point that a Kira could look up our real first names on line and if there are actually 6 of us who have said so or more, well some of us are at a serious disadvantage. *ponders going back and editing a couple posts*. >.> Very sneaky, Trogdor.
I guess I would have to ask though what is the difference between saying 'Oh crap' and 'Oh sh**'? Or 'Damnit' vs 'Darnit', or 'F*** you' or 'Screw you' etc? I'm not really catching why a number of words that we can count on both hands are considered vile and 'cuss words' when really I feel that any exclamation that even tries to imitate them at all is said with the same emphasis. They are just words to me. The only time I see 'curse words' as an issue would be the old religious connotation of what it meant in the first place which was that you are wishing upon someone else a curse or calamity by some divine entity. Most people are not really doing this when they say some exclamations in anger, frustration or excitement. Most crass words are actually more affiliated with body activities as put downs or shouts because they are considered negative. However, it's not really saying that you want great harm to happen to the person by some deities' will. Somewhere along the line some people have really mixed things up because curse words in the majority aren't even -real- curse words.
