I have posted a new RE fic at FF.net.

Yesh. I should totally be in bed right now. Since I, y'know, have to work at 6:45 am.

...nah.

I just started thinking about this.

With Witch Hunter Robin, the relatively young age of all of the characters can kind of be dismissed because the STN-J is a somewhat fantastical organization, and it seems kind of implicit that the characters were recruited or something because of their talents. Also, the STN is affiliated with SOLOMON, which is affiliated with the Church, and while there seems to be formal training that people go through, it seems like they start them pretty young. So yeah, it seems odd at times that the characters are all so young, but not really too much.

With the Resident Evil series, some of the characters' ages aren't an issue. Barry Burton is relatively well cast at 36 years of age (or is it 38?), Claire Redfield at her initial age of 19 makes sense--she's a college student, so yeah.

But then it starts getting a little wacky.

Leon is listed as being 21 at the time of Resident Evil 2. Yeah, okay, I guess it would be possible for a really determined kid to bust ass through college and then a police academy program, but it's HIGHLY fucking unlikely. You do not meet very many 21-year-old police officers. Usually, at youngest, they're in their mid-twenties (23, 24, etc.).

Chris Redfield is listed as 25 years of age. This seems relatively unlikely for a man who is an EX AIR FORCE PILOT. This makes even less sense when one considers the fact that he was kicked out of the Air Force, drifted for a while, and then eventually joined up with STARS. This means he was maybe, what, 23 or 24 when he got kicked out? That's just not enough time to complete a pilot training program.

Jill Valentine is listed as 23 years of age. She's also listed as being an experienced Army Delta Force member. WTF. NOT POSSIBLE. Number one, that's Special Forces, a mostly combat-driven group. It's highly unlikely a woman would be a member of it, not to mention that it is once again something that takes years of military training. I highly doubt she popped out of her four-year run with the military at 22 or so already an elite Army Delta Force member.

Do not even get me started on Rebecca Chambers. NOT. EFFING. POSSIBLE.

Anyways. The point of all this?

When I write for WHR, the ages fit (especially in terms of the tension between Robin and Amon, wherein most of the tension lies in their age). The ages show how SOLOMON and the STN-J can take young people and turn them into Hunters capable of neutralizing witches through some Church-based training. When I write for Resident Evil, I automatically just assume everyone is older in the cases where their age seems implausible--I write Leon like he's 23 or 24 at the time of RE2, Chris and Jill like they're perhaps in their later twenties by the time of the first RE. (Chris and Jill I see as way more likely to be around 27, 28 or so.) This is completely not in line with canon, as characters reappear (and Leon is clearly stated to be 27 in 2004 at the time of RE4), but...damnit, it's just completely fucking implausible.

So. Keep in mind, if you read my Resident Evil stuff--especially the post-RE4 stuff, that I'm picturing that most of the characters (with the exceptions of Claire and Sherry, who had legitimate reasons to be young) are over 30 and in some cases, even over 40.

Japan has an obsession with young and vitality (I'm not kidding; look back at their history, especially the propaganda history from WWII). But in some cases, I think they're just being plain goofy with some shit.

I should be finishing a midterm. But I can't, because my retarded college's website is down YET AGAIN. So now I have time to waste dicking around on this thing! Yay!

I have fandoms I'm WAY into (as some of you may have noticed), and then I have fandoms I'm mildly into. The manga Hot Gimmick is one of those fandoms I'm kind of into; it's mostly just because I'm a weird pervert who loves to imagine Ryouki and Hatsumi as the perfect dominant/submissive couple. (grins) hexes_jala has a community (hg_challenge100) that is nowhere near as active as it used to be (which I guess could be partly my fault, since I haven't written anything for Hot Gimmick in ages) but is still made of awesome.

And so, just because not a lot of people knew I even wrote for the series, here are the links to the few things I posted there:

Prompt: infomercials.
Prompt: friend.
Prompt: you think too much.
Prompt: bloodstains.
Prompt: you don't belong here.
Prompt: not perfect.
Prompt: lust.
Prompt: glow.

Wow! I guess I'd written more than I remember. o_O;;;;

Happy Ash Wednesday to my Catholic pups. Those being Robin, Leon, and Amon.

That ranges from the most Catholic to the kind-of-semi-practicing-I-don't-know-what's-happening-Catholic.

...(thinks) Expect an Ash Wednesday WHR/RE bit. ...since that's my new crack thing. And hell, it's not like I haven't written WHR into Ash Wednesday before. Day Of Ashes, anyone? ^^

Ha. I kind of forgot I even had this thing.

My hard drive is littered with pieces of fic that number into the hundreds. Some of them are little more than a paragraph, and some of them are sprawling 70-page monsters. Why aren't any of them posted? Not really sure. Some of them I lost motivation on. Some of them were meant as writing exercises, or clarification of backstory meant for my own purposes. Some of them I'm just not happy with.

I was browsing through all the bullshit the other day and found what appears to be an unfinished writing exercise. (Don't ask me how I know it's one of my own writing exercises; probably just because the writing looks a little stiffer than my usual stuff.) Those of you who've read The Disappearing Life and some of my other WHR shit will recall that in my bastardized-after-WHR timeline, Amon and Robin did actually drive in no apparent pattern across the US in their flight from SOLOMON.

At the beginning of the fic the words "some rain must fall" are written, and I don't know why. It's the name of a book of short stories, I know that much, but I don't remember what significance it had to me at the time. o_O And with all of that out of the way, ( here is the woefully short piece about driving in a desert. )

I guess I should probably, y'know, add it to my user info or something on this bitch, but I'm currently a member over at 30_kisses under intervigilum, and I'm writing for...le sigh, Resident Evil, the Fandom That Ate My Brain. If you go into the memories there, you can see the four or five things I've written for the community--one of them even involves a blowjob, hey! THAT'S ALWAYS FUN FOR THE FAMILY! (The most recent post I've made there is here, and involves pondering a bond forged on violence.)

Also: still confused about this whole backdating thing. darkenedsakura explained memories to me, so now I know how that works. I want to get all my shit from the other community and put it here, and I was thinking about just posting it all in the normal body of the journal here...but I don't want to flood people's FLists (I have a good fifteen or so lengthy pieces over at the community).

...so, backdating. Does that mean I just manually change the date on the post and then somehow it doesn't show up on people's FLists, or what?

...or do you guys care if I flood the lists? o_O;;;; I won't make, like, fifteen separate posts, I'll try to lump some of them together...but, yeah. I don't want to be a dick, here.

I need to go back to the leon_x_claire community and copy all the stuff I've written there to this journal, but what I want to know is if there's a way to do it without making all of that show up on people's friends-lists nine million times. (There's a lot of stuff there, and I don't want to flood people's flists.)

So I have a question--how do LJ memories work? (This is pathetic. I've had a LJ for five years now or something.) If I add those entries to my memories, will they be saved separately or something? Or if the community suddenly disappears, will the memories disappear too? (That's what makes me the most nervous--what happens if the mods suddenly delete the community? I'll have lost all my writing.)

So...help? I'm just looking for the easiest way to do this, because I want to do it soon. ^^

ADDENDUM, 8:55 PM: How irritating. Apparently I can't get more user pics--not even purchase them--unless I upgrade to the paid account, which has teh suck. I already pay for one account; I'm not really eager to pay for another. And I don't want to go to the plus account version, because then there are ads everywhere.

I think I mentioned this to terrible_t--I had a FF.net profile that I'd forgotten about, but after some deep soul searching, I remembered the user name. Don't ask my why I had two, I just did. I think I just wanted another one. I'm kind of weird like that; I have about eleventy billion email addresses, a handful of usernames for instant messaging programs.

But anyways, I remembered the profile. Here it is, and all that's there are two FFX fics. Yes, I wrote FFX fic. Only two of them. I was, for whatever reason, a horribly obsessive Lulu/Auron 'shipper. Yes, I know Lulu and Wakka totally have a baby in FFX-2, but WHATEVER. FUCK THAT NOISE. I still think Lulu and Auron would have been better, even though he was dead and went away and blah blah blah whatever.

So I guess that's my first post with actual writing to my writing journal. Heh heh heh.

Well, more time has passed, and I still haven't gotten off my ass and done anything with this thing. Le sigh. I'm about ready to debut it to the public, though.

I suppose I should get crackin' at some point and go copy all of my shit from the leon_x_claire community and cross post it here, then start accumulating all of the WHR stuff I have floating around and put it up here. Oh, my Hot Gimmick shit, too. That needs to go here.

But it's all just so much WORK, AND SO DAUNTING. And I am a lazy slut.

...yep. Anyways. :DDDDD

Wow, my first post in this thing.

I guess I just wanted to christen it, or something.

Now I need to go about actually getting my writing in here, heh.

...and right now, I should totally be in bed. Story of my life.