DOINK! Friending Meme!

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We’ve always wanted to have a friending meme for Doink, but... in an exchange where gifts are surprises, and gifters and recipients are big secrets, it never seems like the right time. So we’d like to have one now! No one has to worry about ruining the big reveal, and we all get to have fun and make some friends!

If you’d like to participate, we’ve prepared some text you can copy and fill out to tell the community a little bit about yourself, where friends can find you, and which parts of Final Fantasy fandom make you sparkle like a happy Megalixir. Feel free to fill out as much or as little as you’d like - we encourage everybody to share their fandom likes and loves, so that you can connect with like-minded fans, but it isn’t necessary.

The way to play is quite simple:

1. Copy the text, fill it out, and leave a comment! We’ll have two posts, one for LJ and one for DW - if you’re looking for new friends in both places, feel free to fill both out.
2. Scan the page and read about the Doink community! Does someone look interesting? Strike up a conversation! Make some friends! WRITE COMMENT FIC. Whatever you’d like!
3. Add folks to your various friend networks as you desire!
4. Repeat as needed.
5. Everyone wins!

Just two notes before we start:

• This is not exclusive to Chocobo Down participants, or to Doink participants. It’s open to everyone! So please spread the word.


• We hope this doesn’t really need to be said, but please stay kind, positive, and respectful of everyone’s widely different kinds of fandom love.

Enjoy!

<b>Name / Pseud</b>: <b>Journals (LJ, DW, etc) / AO3 username</b>: <b>Other places I’m looking for awesome fandom friends:</b> [other journals, Twitter, Tumblr, etc] <b>FF canons I’ve experienced</b>: [games played, movies watched, etc] <b>FF Fandoms I’m active in</b>: <b>Ways I participate in fandom</b>: [writing, reading, drawing, reccing, flailing, lurking, etc!] <b>5 characters I love and one sentence why</b> 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. <b>5 pairings I love and one sentence why</b> 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. <b> Themes, kinks, tropes that I really love to see in Final Fantasy fanworks:</b> <b> One ridiculous thought or question I have about FF and/or fandom, to start discussion with my new fandom friends:</b> <b>Anything else?</b>

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Comments

[liri]

Reeve is the BEST. If I was ever going to play all the Compilation stuff, it would be for him.

The other thing to remember is that on at least some of these worlds, they have been conquered by an almost global culture at some point, often in the near-recent past, and it could be that the language and currency are simply left-overs from that.

That definitely describes VII's Shinra conquest. I... didn't really love VIII, so would that be another under that heading?

[traxits]

If I remember right, VIII does indeed fall under that category. Sadly, the details escape me, but I think the Centra only fell some ... 80? 100 years pre-game? That is, I think, a short enough time period that there would be holdovers from that society.

Reeve is awesome, but sadly, there's really no point to play anything but the base game and Dirge of Cerberus if you're looking for Reeve stuff. Honestly, I got my Reeve fix from DC by reading the scripts and watching the cutscenes on youtube since I am terrible at FPS. He's in a few chapters of Before Crisis, but not too much. I think you're better off reading scripts for that one as well.

Just. Oh, Reeve. We need so much more Reeve love.

[liri]

Yeah, I don't like first-person anything. I always forget about finding game content on Youtube! I'll have to check that out.

[traxits]

Script: (English Game) http://www.dirgeofcerberus.net/ff7dc/information/script/en.php
Script: (English fan translation of Japanese Game) http://www.dirgeofcerberus.net/ff7dc/information/script/jp.php
Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNbf2Y1VkU

^^ Also, also! Let me just say, I love your Ono icon.

[liri]

Ooh, thank you! And thanks for the icon love :) I hadn't even realized I'd used it twice.