This is what I think too. I think Roxas had a semblance of a Heart on his own or via the Keyblade possession to his ties with Sora so he was different. As for Axel, he made the comment that he felt he had a Heart when around Roxas. I believe he was empathic and picked up the emotions from Roxas and it reminded him of his own and so therefore he could feel things and yes, even drop a tear in that scene on the tower. I think at that moment he found his Heart and so when he left that's where he went off to as Namine declares in the novel. Axel did, after all, sacrifice himself for another person, which none of the other Org members did.
OOC: Alright, fixed the color for you.
OOC: Guys, I had a tremendously busy day today so apologize. Let me try to catch up here. If the rpg moves too fast it will be hard for me to keep up since I do go to college and work and currently my best friend's parents had a flood in their basement so I've been helping with that. Sorry, guys. Please bear with me. Also, as far as Namine goes, I can see her not liking Marluxia or Larxene at all. Considering the fact that Larxene and Marluxia also betrayed the Org, I'd think the whole Org would not like them. Namine was held a prisoner by them and mistreated. I'd say the reaction is not OOC at all. And lastly...I have this crazy desire to bring in Birdman as an alternate prosecutor. does anyone object? Sora had entered the court room somewhat nervous of the great trial about to take place. He had never been to such a grand function with so many influential people before and this scenario was so enormous to him. Seeing the Org back to life was another shock, but powers had deemed it a necessity to put things to rest. He had not liked the idea, fearing they might yet again try something catastrophic but at the same time, he was hoping perhaps there would be a change, because Sora is just like that. After all, some greater power had brought them back for the purpose of justice. He had just sat down and the proceedings began. He may have looked like he zoned out but really he was just kind of in shock absorbing the whole scene. Hearing the charges of weapons were going to be dropped, he just shook his head. It should not have been in his mind because anything could be used as a weapon and they had done many things with them, whether natural parts of them or not. It seemed ridiculous but it was too late to speak against the charge being dropped ahead of time before the trial had even begun to have people really testify. This normally did not happen as far as he knew. At any rate, his brain ticking away at this did not prepare him for the sudden jolt that came his way. The lightning struck the 15 year old and though his impossible hair did not stand up more because how could it...he bolted up and then fell out of his chair as smoke would rise up from his clothes and he laid staring at the ceiling. "...ow"...was all he could mutter after for a brief stint. After a moment of shock he stood back up and dusted himself off and then made his way to the stand nervously. "Um...thanks?" His mental thoughts were now 'whose side is this guy on?' but he chuckled a little to show he was alright. Riku had wandered in, calmer than Sora which was relaxing to his best friend, but in his mind he had his own thoughts racing. How the Org was brought back was beyond him. He chose to not focus on it. At last perhaps some things could be answered that had bothered him for some time. Looking over at Sora as he was zapped, he knew Sora could take it, but at the same time frowned at Pikachu. He then glanced after at the judge and pondered saying something. He gestured to Pikachu and whispered since he was not so able to speak freely to the judge directly at the time. "Sir, the weapons charges should not have been dropped prior to the case even beginning. There is no reason it should be off considering we all have a responsibility whether we use a fist, a book, a spoon or whatever against a person. These people used weapons, and so did we, but they are the ones on trial here. It is a redundant reason that it is being dropped. Also, Sora may not account Castle Oblivion, but I do and I conversed with Namine, DiZ and King Mickey. I am rather fully aware of what transpired there." ]Repliku meandered into the court room and took a seat quietly, looking about and noticing Vexen, Marluxia and Larxene. He frowned a bit. For all he cared about the three who had ruined his life, they could die in a fire. If there were any people he truly possibly hated, it would be them. He also had no trust for Axel either. His gaze went to Riku and he frowned a bit. Somehow, Repliku had been brought back and received this summons that he -had- to be here. What for? He was not so familiar with others of the Org at all who had not been at the Castle Oblivion but knew of their affiliation easily enough by the coats they wore. If justice was to be served, he hoped this would be over quickly. He had a lot of painful memories he wished he could wash away. His eyes went to Sora as he was zapped by electricity and then frowned deeply. Sora didn't deserve that even as an example. Maybe the lawyer here was no different than the Org, tossing around powers as they pleased. Repliku, not at all familiar with court settings or even what was going on looked at the judge. "I think you are wrong to toss out the fact that they use weapons. We all have decisions to make and I know I made bad ones, but it's not fair that they are not being charged with that. The Org -are- weapons and they used themselves poorly. At least the ones I am familiar with. Also, I can testify against Larxene. I remember -everything-."
You know, Christians themselves can believe the earth is more than 6 to 12k years old because of -proof-. Give some -actual- proof to us, KHsuperfan. There's question #1. Give us real proof the earth is 12k years old. Also, You do not think outside the box. Stop saying it. Your view of Atheists is nothing new at all. We are an evil threat to you and abomination. Next, do not throw out the Christian martyr card again. You do not have the right. Christians are the dominant religion in the world. You can't be the king and the whipped slave all at one time. In other words, you are the majority. Majority...doesn't think outside the box: You are the box. I give it to you that at least you are tolerant of other religions and examine them, but your treatment of Atheists is ridiculous. I write this short so you will -actually read it- this time. Why is 2012 the beginning of a new era? The age of Aquarius isn't even until around 2060. So there's your second question to answer. Also, it's Revelations or the Book of Revelation... Not Revolation...which kind of is close to Revolution. I don't know why I find this typo funny but I do. =:/
Yeah, that's my point. I do think since nowadays it is -very hard- for kids to get a decent job to support themselves without a college education that parents really should be thinking of it and investing -some- money away for it ahead of time. I know I will be. I don't mean to say of course that they pay for it all, but I do think it is their responsibility to set up for helping their child to be successful in life. If the kid is not wanting that, well that's the kid's fault, but if the parents do nothing, they are really making a kid's life hell later on.
I hope you actually watched the 'whole' speech that Barrack Obama did on racism. It is very important to see the whole thing rather than just watching the tidbits that Fox put out. The speech really lays it on thick to show that he has lived with groups of people that are prejudiced on -both- sides of the fence. He said that he could no sooner disown Wright from being important to him even though he's biased and Obama does not share his view, than he could disown his white grandmother who would say prejudiced remarks about blacks that would make him cringe. Being a person from mixed ethnicities myself, I totally understand where Barrack was coming from. I have heard racial slurring my entire life from the Native American side, the Caucasian side and the African American side that is newly in the family. Especially much of it comes from relatives that are older and in the same category of age as Wright or Obama's grandmother might be. The 50s and 60s were hard times for people having to get over walls of ethnic imbalance. These people still harbor negative feelings towards others if they did not learn to open their minds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU - This is the whole speech given addressing racism and other problems and the parts that Fox rips out to say are just tidbits that do not make so much sense without hearing the whole thing. He did not have to address this issue as he had and could have done what every other politician has done when pointed at with the racism issue. For those people like me who are 'half breeds' I found it refreshing and very true. It's very hard to say 'I want to hate someone who is close to me for years' for racial slurs and such. You don't admire -that part- about the person, but it doesn't mean you should hate the person either. I've also changed opinions in my family on stupid race issues with my parents etc. It is something we have to face. I realize that speech is 30 mins long, but I encourage anyone to listen to it in its entirety and then make a decision. Even if you can't stand Obama, he raises points because I don't know anyone personally that doesn't hear racist remarks or comments about how Americans shouldn't be in the war etc. Wright is just an old man that has now retired and is from an era that we are trying still to move out of. His opinions aren't shared by many younger generations and that is what progress is about. As far as people cling to things like religion and guns because they are bitter...It may have been said badly but this man also does not tend to use papers to say things. He speaks out plain and clearly and he apologized that it offended people. I however, kind of agree with it. There are -many- bitter people that complain about the state of the U.S. and how we are in a recession and our jobs leave us, people are losing homes etc. How is it exactly not true? We have televangelical Christians that now count in our votes and yet these people deny proper education to kids and still believe the moon casts its -own light- because the Bible says so. There are very bitter and upset people. Gangs are caused by people who are bitter and ticked off. Shootings in schools are caused by bitter people who want to go out with a bang. As much as he may have worded it wrong, he spoke sincerely and there are surmountable problems out there. The word 'cling' was too strong but again, the man is up there with hardly any speeches formerly written. I find this better than Hillary lying out right and saying she was ducking from sniper fire in Bosnia and in danger when MSNBC was with her and showed a whole report on her being just fine and safe and also doing greetings with people that she said never happened. Her excuse? She misspoke. Why can't Obama misspeak when he actually did but she's getting away with a flat out lie or ten? This is exactly why Fox News cannot be trusted. They keep slanting things on one person while the other can make entire lies direct and clear as day but somehow they still keep glorifying her. I've seriously just learned to go and listen to speeches from any candidate on Youtube to get the entire things and also news such as Reuters and online reports seem more friendly to all 3 candidates as well as critiquing them all. Also, as I mentioned before, for some reason the Daily Show and Colbert Report are more 'honest' than other news television broadcasts and yet they are mostly for a chuckle. Fox hasn't just screwed with political agendas either. They've slanted other news too. I ran out of tolerance for them long ago.
That is a thing added to blood donation questionnaires because AIDS did initially spread rapidly by men who were gay and doing unprotected **** intercourse, figuring it was 'safe'. These people spread it to their wives who were not really knowing of their sexual relations either. **** sex, as far as I've seen any way in reports, doesn't seem more likely to spread an STD than any other sort of unprotected sex. It does seem it is against gay men because obviously women aren't getting asked if they had -any- **** sex whether it is with a straight man or not. I think they ought to just toss it all out the window because **** sex is not going to give you an STD more so than unprotected oral or other sex. I do think though it's just a residual thing left over from the AIDS scare and that is not the only thing. If you have tattoos or piercings in the last 6 months to a year I believe you also cannot donate blood because of fear that you would have used a shared needle with a recipient who has AIDS. I think it just may be time to update the questionnaires to fit modern times.
In the end it seems whoever people vote for and actually makes it into office has a lot of work to fix from the past. Over a decade of crap has rather trashed us and put us in the state we are now. We really don't want to sink into worse hardship. I suppose that is mainly what draws me to Obama in a way. I think the Clintons and Bushs have done enough wrong and someone else deserves a chance to try to fix some things. I don't mind McCain so much though he too has a controversial pastor and stands on issues differently than I do. He seems to at least be a decent man. I think Hillary is the only one I am very skeptical on as I just don't feel she's a 'good person' and am rather tired of being stuck voting for someone like her. It's not like I would hold it against people though who vote for her, of course.
I think you have your facts mixed up on who did what. Half of those you said were actually done by Hillary Clinton. It's Hillary Clinton with the issues of NAFTA. It's also her that has lied about a number of things to include saying that she was shot at and ducking sniper fire in Bosnia, which never happened and was aired by NBC news who went along with her. She also tried to say she worked on the Ireland feuds and once again had nothing to do with incidences. Her experience is pretty much a vaunted lie. Lying about war experience is a big no-no in my book. As for the Pastor Wright incident, Obama never said he had not attended the church. He said he had not heard that particular sermon from Wright and after condemned the sermon once he had. Wright's words are racial, sure, but I don't hear anyone demanding Bill Clinton apologize for saying that Obama won the Carolinas because in the past Jessie Jackson had. Hillary also has played dirty at every angle she can to include trying to play this 'Wright' card to the fullest to block the fact that she lied quite a bit about her experience and the records of her White House time proved it. She also deceived the state of Ohio that asked for the records of her 'experience' and tax spending to be up front and a few days after they voted she presented it. Many people in Ohio were mad because if they had known about her Bosnia lie and other fake experiences she's touted, they never would have voted for her. At one time I was thinking of voting Guliani too since I live in NY and would have rather had him than Hillary any day. However, he backed out because he didn't want all the scrutiny in his life that is happening to these other candidates now and would rather be where he's at instead. I totally get why he did back out even though at first I had thought he'd be a strong candidate. He just didn't have enough zazz I guess and I do think a lot of Americans are to the point where we are tired of hearing all about defense versus public freedoms we are losing.
I did not say they weren't...so there was no reason to accentuate the point. I am very against these cult polygamist groups. These girls are in need of trouble and I hope they did find the 16 year old who actually called for help.
Fox News has been just hideous to Obama. They really just love Hillary for some reason I haven't figured out yet. She flat out lied about her 'experience' she was touting right on television and yet Obama is getting slammed for what -other- people say or do. I'm just in shock really at how biased Fox is being, but then again I gave up on them for true accurate news long ago. BBC and CNN, Reuters...or direct country related news I will check out before ever taking Fox seriously. Sadly, I feel guilty that I think the Daily Show and Colbert Report have more accurate news and joke about it righteously than Fox does. Makes me wonder who is actually watching Fox News.
I think MadTV stays consistent usually with funny skits. SNL has great ones like '**** in the box' but then has a lot of boring skits in between those. So I chose MadTV for just generally to me being more funny more often.
Because it is Kairi who kicked it all off, Erkz. She is also the one who used the power of her connection to Sora and Light to turn him back from a Heartless. The bottle was a representation, she made the link to Sora once he read the note and opened his heart. It's her power that helped bring him back. I'm not saying Sora is not a part of it as well, but it seems that Kairi has power many people overlook because of the Mary Sue thing she has going on. Kairi was sent out in the first place as a Princess of Heart to find the Keyblader by Xehanort. She can do things and it has been shown. She was definitely a part of them. Basically I think she gave Sora the key in essence and Sora just had to use it to have the door appear.
Yes in old times with wealth having many women to have sex with and possibly breed with was a status sign of power. This Mormon sect though, there have been quite a few of these polygamy rings broken up in the western states. These people aren't the same and it's all about ego but they don't lead anything but those naive young girls they draw out there, desperate people, and also under educated people because no one else would fall for this. In the end, I can't say I 'absolutely' have something against 'polygamy' itself if people want to do it. I don't 'like' it but if no one is being harmed, I don't feel I have so much a say. However, when things like this happen, I stand firmly against it. These men who do this and women who let it go on are just very wrong and yet the women are tricked because they believe getting out of that life would be sinning because a religion is involved. It's a very vicious cycle.
That is just amazing. Good topic to post and wow. Derek was so intriguing to me and a couple other friends that I went and looked up more on him and found a special about him on Youtube. There's also a younger boy named Rex in it that is similar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kwjDLHX92w
Polygamy really is such a lame thing. It really shows a lack of respect to women and also young boys that are raised in that environment and booted out as teens so that they cannot have sex themselves with the girls that the older men in these communities want. It's a proclamation of male dominance where a few or one get to be kings and they will kick out their own sons to avoid competition of passing on the proverbial seed and also subject any girls to whatever they want. Also, these people raised under such things are generally under educated and have such a bad time reinserting themselves into normal society because they will be so far behind in education and just commonsense. This is an ongoing problem with this particular Mormon sect and just rotten.
I believe that Roxas actually still had some part of his Heart or the Keyblade, which works with people of good Heart, is part of the situation. Axel did ask Roxas if he felt he had a Heart and I do think that even though the Nobodies couldn't feel their own emotions (as they lacked them), they were somewhat empathic to others'. Axel did want his Heart back and did study Sora in CoM finding him interesting and obviously knew about Roxas. Xemnas even made a comment that Axel wanted his Heart back. So that combined with Roxas having some semblance of a Heart probably made them somewhat close.
Hottest girl in KH: Tifa, hands down. Larxene ...yummy but painful. Aerith was alright too but her voice bothered me and I like girls with some toughness but yet who are still girls so Tifa wins. If I was gay...Riku. Darnit.
I absolutely agree with you. It seems FF IX was the least appreciated game and so underrated. Part of the reason is that the artwork for the characters was done the way it was. I am pretty sure of it because most people I have gotten into discussions with always say they hate the chibi artwork. Coming after FF7 and FF VIII where characters were drawn more with some 'realism' the chibi cuteness of FF IX seemed a bad maneuver to do. However, I will say that after I convinced many to actually play the game and give it a chance, they came back and raved about the game. It had the usual hangups of being annoyed at the White Mage that can't cast things because she 'can't concentrate or the other that was a perv' but overall most really liked it. I thought the story, even though it reflected on former ones, was one of the fresher tales and the characters were vibrant. It was also nice to see a non-Emo main character that still cared for others. I do have to admit though, I almost didn't play the game because of the artwork concept for the characters either. It made it look so childish. Ironically, this is also what took me a year to play KH. Disney and Final Fantasy mixed...just seemed like a horrible blend. If people haven't played it because they've heard bad things, I'd say to ignore the ones who said it and give it a try. For fans of the former games, it is a great game, and well...I actually liked this game a lot more than FF X, which I thought was horribly overrated.
This cracked me up. Yes, the paragraph had little explosivey goodness in it, I suppose. =:) I like Riku because I have a belt like that. >.>
