"You live in your world, we'll live in ours."

[thistlechaser]

Just a day after I told Kirby(kirbyk) that cable net access was stable and good, mine goes out. @whee. Who knows how long it was really out for, because while checking connections and rebooting, I somehow knocked a cable out. Two hours later, while on hold with their tech support, I checked everything again.

"Hm," I said to myself, noting one of the modem's lights wasn't on. "Wonder what that one is?"

PC-modem connection.

Look down. See cable falling out of the hole-y thing. Stuck it back in, heard it click in. Went back to the computer to check the connection.

Worked.

Bah.

Uneventful night otherwise. Without net access, I played FFX for hours. Lots of leveling up, but no story-progress forward. I really want to get that last aeon before going after Sin, but it's slow going...

Gods, I love the new PS2 ads on TV. One is a little old lady sitting in a wheelchair in a nursing home. They focus in on her, and she's babbling to her daughter and grandson about needing to kill the silver dragon, but that something stole her golden key. The little kid leans in and whispers to her, "Use the magic stones." Then the announcer says, "You live in your world, we'll live in ours."

The second ad is even better. Maybe 20 really old men and women lurking about, leaning on cars, being all teenager-ish. Then they dance. Really dance, in some modern, street, gang-ish way. It's really funny, and really really scary.

Anyway, picture of the day:

Click it for the full picture. (Work safe.)

While I like Auron a lot (*swoon!* Auron!), a while ago Jecht became my favorite. It was far from a fast process, and I can't even pinpoint when it happened.

At first I hated him. He appeared to be a sucky father (something that prods at emotional buttons in me), selfish, stuck-up, shallow... but the more we learned about him, the less that seemed to be true. Except him being a sucky father. While he loved Titus, I still think he was a bad father. Maybe he couldn't help it, maybe he didn't know how to be a better father, but that didn't change the things he did and said. Calling your kid a cry-baby? That's wrong.

So why do I like him so much?

I don't know. Look-wise, he's seriously my type. Dark skined, soccer player-ish. Mmm. But is he a bad person? Good? He gave his life to become an aeon, which (strongly) implies he was good, but...

Ah well, I guess we'll see. :)

Comments

[kuruma.livejournal.com]

Isn't Jecht a little bugger like that? ^___^ I only slowly grew to like him too, after you get to see he really does have the best of intentions. He's just a blundering dork at some things. Yeah, he's an arrogant asshole on the surface, but he's got the same heart Tidus does. His whole thing about doing stuff 'cause 'it's the right thing to do'. Further on, I really think that's a big reason why Auron both resented him and grudgingly respected him. Jecht has that trait that Auron just doesn't, and Braska saw it. All in all, the three do make an awesome trio, just in personality valiety alone. ^^

I still can't say which of them is my favorite tho... I RP Auron and Braska, but Jecht is still just so damn cool ^^

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you hit the nail pretty much on the head. I did more thinking on this, and the only thing I can really come up with is that Jecht probably had a really bad father as well. That's not an /excuse/ for being a bad one himself, but it would explain how he could be both a good guy and a bad dad... I hate speculating like this though. We'll never know what the real/right answer is. I bet there is a real/right answer though. As great and detailed as this story is, the writers had to have worked up more background and detail on him... we'll just never know it! *whine,whine*