La Tigre Blanche

To be edited as we get more Personas to take the test and write bios. ~Sephiroth Edit 1: Slightly editing some bios to be more pertinent, adding new bios and Personas, changed date to display at the top of our journal always. ~Ender

Razputin-- Age: 14  ESFP 78% 12% 75% 44%   -- MAYBE THE REASON WE ARE ALL SO CONFUSED ABOUT OUR SEXUALITY IS BECAUSE THE ONLY GIRLS IN THE SYSTEM ARE IN HIDING. Hehehe, just had to throw that out there. Sephiroth is currently grinding his metaphorical teeth in irritation. I just barely introduced myself, so I'm gonna skip that part today.

Nagi2-- Age: 17

Nagi-- Age: 17

Farfarello-- Age: 19

Farfarello2-- Age: 19     (Jei McKinnon, if you please.)

Crawford-- Age: 34

Sasha Nein-- Age: 26

Sephiroth-- Age: 23  INTJ 78% 50% 12% 89%   -- Well, what's there to say? Zack and I fought in the Wutai war together. We're still getting used to Genesis and Angeal, though we all get along very well. My synth spectrum tends toward silver, black, green, and navy blue. I was the first Persona to develop. I'm generally the one to organize things like this, because I'm about midway on the Persona spectrum.

Genesis Rhapsodos-- Age: 24

Angeal Hewley-- Age: 25  INTJ 44% 38% 50% 44%   -- I was going to make a comment about being so similar to Seph, but looking at the percentages I can see that there are some very real differences. As Seph said, what's there to say? Hmm... I'm the second newest Persona after Genesis. I do have moments where I'm not quite sure where exactly I'm coming from because Seph and Zack still have a fairly large influence over my identity, but those moments becoming fewer every day. My colors are navy blue, black, and white.

Zack Fair-- Age: 21  ESFP 89% 50% 75% 78%   -- Hey! I'm gonna keep this short, 'cause it's hard to organize a rapid p-switch like this. Anyway, Seph gave the basic intro for both of us, so yeah. Umm... Seph is a kitten in the sack. My colors are pretty diverse compared to some of the others. Navy blue, bright blue, sky blue, and purple. All very saturated. Hmmm... I think I'm pretty much the most extroverted. Well, Schuldig is an extrovert, but he's kind of an asshole, so I'm not sure if that really counts. I'm the closest outside Persona to the Fayt-Albel dangerous duo, which is weird because personality-wise we're really not that similar. I mean he's a total idealist, like me, but he's a real deep thinker. I mean, I'm more of an action guy myself. Woops. Meant to keep this short. Well, see you around!

Fayt Leingod-- Age: 19  ENFP 78% 12% 38% 11%  (Note: Geez. Some of these questions really need a "SOMETIMES" option! I mean, Do I trust reason over feelings? Well, it all comes down to the situation, doesn't it?)   -- This "get the Personas to take a personality test" thing was all Sephiroth's idea. *laughs* I know, weird that one of the least sociable would be the one to organize something like this, but he's pretty concientious of how the Persona system presents itself. Anyway, I know A lot of you aren't really familiar with who I am. I'm from Star Ocean 3, and unlike most of the Personas I'm actually intimately tied to canon. I'm from Earth, about 1,500 years in the future, I believe. Needless to say it's pretty much a utopian society. But living in paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be. Little kids have dreams, you know. And my dream was to fight dragons and rescue princesses and ride around on a dashing steed. After a big adventure involving saving our galaxy from a 4-D being known as The Creator, finding out that my parents implanted special runes in my cells, and gunning down a few spaceships with dragon-mounted cannons, I got my dream. And yes, Albel and I are a couple. My colors are bright blue, light blue, green, and purple.

Albel Nox-- Age: 24  INTP 56% 12% 62% 67%  -- The blue-haired maggot sure talks a lot. Now that you know the basics I won't have to blather on for hours on end. My colors are very bright red (like the fires of hell), crimson, purple, and a bit of black. I'm Captain of the Black Brigade and the best swordsman on the continent of Gaitt. So far Fayt has been the only fool to prove a challenge in battle. I am not from Fayt's 'Urrth'. I'm from Elicoor, a developing planet. Most of my life revolves around Fayt and the country I serve. The Kingdom of Airyglyph has three military branches; Woltar's Storm Brigade, Vox's (now Dieter's) Dragon Brigade, and my own Black Brigade. We have an uneasy truce with the 'Sacred Kingdom' Aquaria. Who knows how long that will last.

Harry-- Age: 18/38

Schuldig-- Age: 29

Ender-- Age: 11

Hachune Miku-- Age: ???

Lena Katina-- Age: 21

Okay, this is just the stuff that's on our iTunes, meaning this is about half of what we actually have available. But after spending so long compiling this we decided this was a good enough sample. We can't do actual CDs this year. We just don't have the time or the funds to spend burning disks and mailing them. In fact, we're not even doing personalized cards. However, a few people may be getting small gifts. We'll be making that decision over the next few weeks.

So, here's how it goes. You can choose from several different options.

1- A playlist of 'X' Persona's favorites. (ex. Sephiroth's favorite songs ever)

2- A fanmade soundtrack to a particular series, fic, pairing, etc... (ex. the Catch Me soundtrack) (Note: it has to be a fic or series we're familiar with!)

3- A playlist of songs in a particular genre, or with a particular theme ("Love Songs" or "Electronica" or "Best Soundtrack Pieces")

4- One favorite track from every Persona

5- A mini sampler from several different Personas (like the SOLIDER sampler, or best Schwarz tracks or something)

6- Whatever else you can think of

We WON'T upload specific albums, so don't even think about it. While we don't mind giving away a track here or there, or uploading an album that we think is worth hearing, we won't take this kind of request. So please don't say something like "I want XX album by XX band!"

We're thinking of setting a standard length of between 10 and 15 songs. However, comments are screened because certain people will be getting something extra special. ;)

( J-Rock, J-Pop )

( Pop )

( Rock )

( Electronica, Industrial, Ambient )

( Folk, New Age, Classical, etc... )

( Indie, Ska, Alt. Rock, Alt., Punk, Shoegaze, etc... )

For Sephiroth...



For Farfarello...




For Nagi...

Oh FUCK. I think I have a new Sephiroth-related kink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_worship

Now I want to nibble on his boots. D:!

Things that made me laugh today.

- Painted a little boy up as Spiderman today. As he was walking away I heard him say "I look really cool like Spiderman!" No shit?

-A little girl couldn't decide what she wanted. It was a toss-up between the Neon Tiger and the pink Kitty Cat. Mom wanted "something pretty" like the Flower Princess. Little girl completely ignores mom, turns to me and says "I can't pick. I'm gonna do Eeny Meeny Miny Moe." Then proceeds to very slowly and carefully (so she wouldn't get confused I guess) point at each picture in turn and say the ENTIRE Eeny Meeny Miny Moe rhyme. ALL of it. She settled on pink Kitty Cat.

- It was FREEZING today, and even when we got home we were still cold. Sephiroth fronts for all of ten minutes. I come back in and we've gone from wearing a t-shirt and a hoodie, to wearing two tees, the hoodie, our black trenchcoat, AND our heavy brown winter trench. WTF Seph?

EDIT: Gomen ne! I forgot the cut. ( Big fashion post. Lots of pictures! )

Well, there wasn't enough room left in the car for us after we packed last night. We're at McKinney Trade Days this weekend, but I'm spending today at the house. Lots of chores and things to do. We got a bookshelf and a tote thing for our games that'll fit under the entertainment center, but we've got to do laundry first before we try to tackle any of that.

The bookshelf needs to be put together, but that'll probably have to wait til monday.

Hmm... other news....

The other day Nagi consolidated a whole bunch of his roiworld dolls into larger file collections. I think he's planning on making a post about those pretty soon. Oh, and we now have a gym membership, but the gym hasn't opened up yet.

What else...

I've been struggling through some fairly severe depression the past few days, but the others have been helping me along. I have lots to do, though, so I need to get back to work.

We have an introduction appointment kinda thing at a local gym today. A month ago or so we one this drawing that'll give us a discount. No idea for how long or anything. The flyer didn't really specify. So we'll be heading down their in about an hour or so, I guess.

I don't know if we've ever really talked about this publicly... Well, I know we've talked about Nagi having some social anxiety issues and having Asperger's, but I don't think we've ever talked about Sephiroth.

Anyway, Sephiroth is agoraphobic as far as we can tell. He handles things very well, actually. He can function better than most, but life is just constant stress. He never knows when he'll have to deal with someone. I know he generally tries to play it off as shyness, but it's both more and less difficult to deal with than that. He can do a lot of things that a shy person can't, like speak in front of a crowd comfortably or take charge of a situation or even hold a conversation with someone he's never met. But at the same time he has difficulty calling people on the phone, or even walking across a room full of people. He can order food at a restaurant but he can't purchase things in a store.

Of course it used to be we'd just get Farfarello to deal with those situations. We don't have that option anymore. And Sephiroth is very proud. I wouldn't say arrogant, because he's not. It's more like a rejection of pity. He's also incredibly courageous. And I don't even mean the normal day-to-day struggles. I've seen him stay perfectly in control in situations that would make me wet my pants in fear. Literally. And he's a natural leader.

He's going to this gym appointment, and I can feel his terror even though he's far away. Thankfully we won't be alone. Our mother would be joining the gym, too, so she's coming along. But I know he's terrified.

*sigh* This has just been weighing on me.

Sephiroth had a major/minor breakdown this evening. Minor compared to most people's breakdowns, major considering this is SEPHIROTH who is absolutely in control 24/7.

Basically after debating with our darling father over something business related for nearly an hour he finally said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Fuck you, you're not listening to a damn thing I'm saying," and tried to end the conversation. Of course our father is a pushy fucktard and doesn't know when to leave things alone. And because Sephiroth is so fucking mild mannered even when he's absolutely pissed he tends to come across as someone you can just push around. Well, finally he snapped and said basically "No, you never fucking listen."

Which of course resulted in the same thing it always has resulted in ever since we were in the fucking first grade which is 'x parent bemoans their lot in life and tries to relate to what we're going through.' Frankly I don't give a fuck if he's 40-something and hasn't achieved his life's dream. We're not even twenty and we've already been completely derailed from ours, so he's not likely to find much sympathy here.

So Sephiroth had to sit and listen to this bullshit for damn near two fucking hours. Of course he was listening, but seeing as how it's the same shit it's been for twenty fucking years he had plenty of time to sit and feel guilty for how he hasn't been taking good enough care of the system. So the evening was spent sitting perfectly still and crying while daddy dearest ranted in our general direction.

Needless to say Sephiroth is in pretty terrible shape. Frankly I don't know how he does that weird "crying but not" thing. It's like, normal people sob and shit. He just sort of freezes and the tears leak out. Now the body's fuckin sore because he was wound so tight.

No fuckin clue why I'm out right now. Crawdad's helping with spelling and grammar and shit of course, 'cause I'm all illiterate and shit.



Anyway, have some Mindless Self Indulgence lyrics. This is from 'Issues.'

Excuse me, do you want to screw?
'cause I'm so amazing in the sack

And from 'Get It Up.'

[Jimmy:] Ah, te-ugh do something sexy
[Jimmy:] I don't care, do something sexy
[Jimmy:] Just whatever you do don't talk about your fucking boyfriend while we're having sex how about that?

( For our Reference )

Sephiroth realized a few days ago that our journal might not be very interesting to read. It's not that it's a life goal to be entertaining or anything, but who wants to be friends with the person who does nothing but bitch and moan all the time, right? And he was saying that it seems to him our journal is either nothing but angsting and ranting about our lot in life, or it's quiz results and memes.

Anyway, we decided we'd ask... What would you like to see more of? Or even what would you like to see less of?

Are there any particular Personas you'd like to here about more, or here from?

Would you like to hear more about Farf's daily struggles with his faith, or see Nagi's dolls? Would you like to see videos of Sephiroth practicing piano, or copies of his and Nagi's Japanese homework. Would you like to see Schuldig's doodles?

Would you like us to post more music?

Anyway, we'd love to hear your comments and thoughts. And if you want to gripe about us complaining too much or whatever, feel free. Plus, you can do it anonymously if you want. You're not gonna hurt our feelings or anything. Just let us know what you think!

Okay, so that big list of bands for the Christmas gifts? I think we've got it about a quarter done already. I'm already to the R's in our iTunes folder, but that's only a small portion of the music we have. Thankfully I think a good portion of our collection is multiple albums from single artists. (By that I mean we have, for example, the entire discography of Man or Astroman.)

Right now I'm just taking a break. Our tablet driver keeps crashing out on us, which means we have to unplug it and replug it in to use it. But then it's out of sync, so it's almost better to use the touchpad for some things. Bah. It's Nagi's job to fix things like this, but I think he's more concerned on getting caught up on his Japanese studies and organizing things.

I realize I haven't posted in a while. Fayt explained things earlier, about us spending more time out front. I'm still really not sure how we'll deal with our parents. Both Fayt and I are incredibly stubborn, and we can both tend toward argumentative. Crawford may be called in to deal with them. Schuldig and I certainly won't.

Hey everyone, I realized we haven't posted in a while.

Hmmm, where to begin. We've been really psyched about Obama winning the election the past few days. Maybe he's not a terribly good president in the long run, who knows, right? But I still can't help but feel this is a step in the right direction. I know a lot of you don't really know who I am, but I'm from Earth in the distant future. Compared to how things are today the society I'm from is pretty much a utopia. But we've got our problems, too. Thankfully racism and bigotry aren't part of those problems.

I dunno. I'm just glad he one. Plus, I have the feeling that the entire world is feeling much more receptive towards Americans right now, and I think that's a huge step in the right direction. Now more than ever we have to be thinking of globalization. Sure, it sounds like one of those evil things, you know, you've gotta protect your culture and all that. But with the state the environment is in, and our rapidly depleting oil reserves, I think it's definitely time for us to start reaching across the oceans and to let other countries reach out to us, too.

Maybe it's time to re-coin that phrase by Ben Franklin, "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." 'Cause this is definitely a time when we need to be working with other countries for the betterment of the world. And I don't just mean the important countries like Russia and China, I mean the little countries and the places no one thinks about, too. Kenya and Tibet and Belize.

Well I didn't mean to ramble on like that. Today I've got to do some around the house stuff. Gotta replace the cat litter and do the dishes and blanch a bunch of tomatoes for freezing. Plus I've got some of my own stuff to do. I need to do some laundry, definitely, and vacuum. We've got a LOT of stuff to work on computer-wise, too.

Let's see, what updates to people care about...
The pics for guiltyred's charity thing forever ago are still in the works. We all feel really bad that they've been neglected for so long. Actually I guess they haven't been neglected since we've worked on them, it's just we haven't had a whole lot of time to actually DO that.

We're still working on those AMVs. They're sort of on the back burner right now, though, 'cause of EVERYTHING that's been going on. (Don't you hate that? You've got nothing going on and you're like "hey, I can do whatever!" and the moment you start on whatever you get like 10 million things you've gotta get done.)

Sephiroth's been out a lot these past few weeks, but we've been talking and we think we're going to make him take a break. He's getting pretty stressed out, and he's been dealing with some depression issues, so Albel and I and the Schwarz guys are going to be taking the reins for a while. Expect to see a lot of us over the next few days. Or not, since we'll be working!

Nagi's fallen way behind on his Japanese review, mostly because of how much we've been doing lately, and he'd really like to fix that. We'll be working Bonham alone tomorrow, and we never have much of a crowd there, so we'll probably let him work through a chapter or two there.

CHRISTMAS!
We haven't forgotten about the holidays coming up, either! I'd love to say, "free sketches for everyone", but I don't think that's going to happen. Instead (hopefully sometime this week) we're going to post a list of all the music we have. You guys can request either a particular artist (and I'm warning you now a lot of stuff you may have heard of we probably don't have full albums for, but you never know so ask), a variety CD in a particular genre, a CD of favorites from a particular Persona (like, Sephiroth's Favs! or something), or whatever else you can think of. We could even do a soundtrack to a particular fic or series or whatever, assuming we're familiar with it.

Now, we'd love to do these as actual CDs, maybe with decorated jewel cases or something, but I've gotta warn you now the schedule's gonna be kinda crazy. Whatever happens we'll get the damn things arranged, but we might end up having to put them up on mediafire or something. I'd rather not, 'cause that's not as fun, of course.

Anyway, so.... We'll post that list, and you can request whatever you want (so long as we have it) sometime this week. Oh, we'll be doing holiday cards again (even though most of them apparently got lost in the mail last time :| ) so we'll need whoever wants one to email us their current address. We probably already have most everybody's, but god knows where they all've disappeared to. The email in our user info is the one we use for everything.

OBAMA-SAMA! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!

There is much cheering and crying and hugging each other going on in The Void.

Also, in case you missed our AIM and would like to be added. fl4shr0z3z

Vote for Sephiroth in the character battle!
http://www.gamefaqs.com/

-Zack (ganking one of Seph's icons)

So I'm looking for items to stock in our shop, and what do I find? Yeah....

This.
http://www.fan-store.net/servlet/the-160/Cosplay-Jacket%2C-Schuldig%27s-from/Detail

WANT. Im gonna lose weight just for this fucking jacket. If I have to front every fucking night just to fucking exercise, I will.

In fact, I don't just fuckin want this jacket. I NEEEEED this jacket. NOW.

1) Does the current presidential race interest the front runners?
Very much so.

2) If you are in an eligible body, are you going to vote?
We're eligible and registered, but unfortunately we didn't think about getting our mail-in ballot until it was already too late for it to arrive on time. So, no.

3) Do all the front runners agree about how they want to cast the body's vote?
Unanimously, though Schuldig thinks it will be hilarious if McCain wins just so he can watch the country get even more shitty.

4) Is the presidential race the one big thing on the ballot where you live or are there other interesting races/ballot initiatives on the ballot as well? What are they?
Nope. Just the race.

5) If you are not eligible to vote in the US election this Tuesday, for whom would you vote is you could?
...

Bonus Questions:

6) If you are voting this Tuesday, for whom is the body casting its ballot? Why?
Obama! -makes no bones about socialist roots -energetic and charismatic -McCain has a 1/4 chance of dying within the next few years DUE TO HIS AGE ALONE, and Palin "I can see Russia from my house" is fucking scary -Focus on diplomacy and an end to military engagements -Social liberal (pro-choice, pro gay marriage/"civil union", pro socialized health care) -Spending track records of libs versus "fiscal conservatives" over the last 30 or so years show that even though libs are supposedly fiscally irresponsible the final estimates show that while repubs are likely to drive the country deeper in to debt, a democratic whitehouse means we'll break even or even have a budget surplus at the end of term -Disgusted by current rebublicunt smear tactics "Obama's black, muslim, a terrorist, etc."

I could go on, but...

7) If you are voting this Tuesday, how are you voting in other races or for ballot initiatives? Why?
It depends on the position. Social liberals in some positions, and as hardcore of conservatives as we can find in others.

8) If the front runners don't agree on how to cast the vote, how are you deciding who gets to use the body's vote?
Thankfully we all agree, though if we didn't the vote would likely go to either the majority or whichever Farfarello and Seph like best.

Got an aim account set up. Our screen name is... FL4SHR0Z3Z

Yeah. Someone already had flashroses. Which, honestly, has me a little freaked out. :(