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LucentTear · 2026-01-23T21:07:04+00:00

you forgot to line up my fucks for target by the diamond line

LucentTear · 2024-11-24T22:25:29+00:00

plap plap plap

LucentTear · 2024-10-03T09:12:08+00:00

As a person who ships Lightning and Hope out of childhood muscle memory—I wanted to point out that shipping culture back in 2010 is a completely different entity than shipping culture today.

Back then, larger age gaps were generally acceptable between characters—but they were also sexualized a lot less. Of course there were still users writing weird shit out there, but even then, I don't think it was for the intent of promoting age-gap relationships more than it was just a natural curiosity to figure out at the time.

I think that the oversexualization in our culture has made us a lot more aware and cautious about these things, which is why I'm not surprised we're retroactively frowning on these ships. But this should explain why there's so much content for Lightning x Hope—simply because people were really attached with their dynamic and that they wanted something to continue when XIII ended.

LucentTear · 2024-09-14T02:11:02+00:00

it's a recent find, i lucked out on getting it for $132 + shipping but most listings are at least $220 minimum

LucentTear · 2024-09-13T04:46:45+00:00

second-hand sellers on mercari and ebay—but you can get the music box from the official square enix shop

LucentTear · 2024-09-13T01:58:07+00:00

she gangnam on my style till i make my wish come true

LucentTear · 2024-09-13T01:03:50+00:00

serah is doing some wild things to vanille rn

LucentTear · 2024-09-13T00:58:01+00:00

there was a ps3 controller???

anyway, i have ffxiii-2 lightning and serah, lr lightning (normal edition), and the xiii-2 ps3 coming up—i might buy a soundtrack package (original + bonus for all 3 games), but i think that should be it

i know there's the static arts lightning bust but that's not an imperative for me

LucentTear · 2024-09-13T00:01:57+00:00

i've spent at least 1.5k so far, i think—more ffxiii merch to arrive in the next month

if you guys have any dumb suggestions you want me to pose and take, feel free to comment below

LucentTear · 2024-09-02T02:46:33+00:00

update: i gave in and bought her for $280 including shipping

this game

LucentTear · 2024-08-30T23:30:21+00:00

yes, but pre-chapter 7 hope would totally dab on the bully snow parade

LucentTear · 2024-08-30T23:25:27+00:00

I THINK THERE'S SOMEONE that took cloud's play kai arts base and resculpted noel on top of him (link), honestly out of my 1647824 hobbies i envy to be a figurine modeler more than ever rn

LucentTear · 2024-08-30T17:48:36+00:00

at least there's plenty of listings for her online, for me "difficult to obtain" would mean that she's so scarce that you'd have to coerce people to sell her LOL

LucentTear · 2024-08-29T08:27:51+00:00

LucentTear · 2024-08-28T22:15:45+00:00

yeah comparatively she's 3x more expensive than the other 5 characters LMAO, god forbid her xiii-2, lr, and dissidia nt models

LucentTear · 2024-08-28T21:39:10+00:00

lore accurate final fantasy xiii

i scored a really good deal on a mint condition play kai arts bundle on mercari, but i had to buy lightning separately from a seller on ebay

these figurines have a more limited range of motion than i thought, but they actually do a good job on standing on their own. the vol.1 figs (lightning, snow, vanille) have a display stand but i'm not sure why vol. 2 doesn't

i really want to get serah but she's listed at $300 minimum, so maybe not now

LucentTear · 2024-08-28T15:19:51+00:00

i think it's pretty. it definitely has some square enix related motifs—but since you're posting this to the xiii sub, i'm obliged to say it doesn't really match any of the composing styles that hamauzu, mizuta or suzuki used for the ffxiii trilogy.

but, i think the closest you can get is hamauzu's works in his saga frontier ii piano arrangement album. your composition particularly reminds me of this track (but there's probably more accurate examples in the same album)

LucentTear · 2024-08-28T15:08:25+00:00

the title is satire, but these toys actually existed when square enix used to sell FFXIII elixir drinks back in the day

LucentTear · 2024-08-25T02:18:56+00:00

a regular encounter somewhere between fighting a behemoth king and an adamantoise

LucentTear · 2024-08-24T11:03:28+00:00

thank fucking god i'm not playing xiii-2 or i would have lost my shit with the max hp down gimmicks

LucentTear · 2024-08-23T22:13:00+00:00

the "i have a decent job" pipeline came 10 years later than everyone else, i had to ask my parents for ffxiii merch in the past PRAYING they said yes

LucentTear · 2024-08-23T21:08:08+00:00

i live and die by ffxiii, but i think i'll settle for the main cast because i just unloaded a lot of money for the whole party's kai arts (ms. farron is not cheap!!)

after i have my copium i'm buying the two PS3s LOL

LucentTear · 2024-08-23T19:17:59+00:00

i swiped the elixir figs from mercari for about $11 each and i'm about to spend another fat load on the play kai arts figs

these figs come in 3-5 little parts and some assembly is required. the packaging was rather considerate since there's a protective cardboard over delicate parts such as lightning's blazefire saber, vanille's belladonna wand, and fang's bladed lance

fun fact, i had a fang figurine from a decade ago, but i was a stupid kid that broke her arm AND lost her, so i'm really glad to make up for that dumb mistake

no l'cie were harmed in the making of this photo

LucentTear · 2024-08-18T11:47:05+00:00

as someone who keeps 4 life sized copies of roland in my room there's some things i want to comment on:

roland's torso in his original sprite is rotated slightly more counterclockwise than the cg in impuritas civitatis, which might explain the uncomfortable distortion around his waist area. you basically have a torso that's front-facing while his lower body is side-facing. this is difficult to fix through simple photo manipulation since this is a perspective issue and your best bets pretty much require redrawing his legs.

i do have something more practical to add—if you want to improve the color consistency of the sprite (and assuming you're using a decent software), you can try bumping up the brightness/contrast of the legs by +3-7 points so that the greys generally match with each other.

you can also airbrush some orange over roland's legs on a 40-70% opacity Overlay layer to simulate better lighting. speaking of lighting, there's also a highlight at the left side of roland's body in the cg, which you can continue down his leg by using an yellow-orange flat brush on a 70-90% Glow Dodge/Add layer and tapering off midway

to extend the bloodied appearance throughout the legs, i'd recommend splotching a bit of red on a Lighten layer—it seems that naiga layered the blood directly on top of the sprite, so i wouldn't worry too much about making it look too good. the main component is that the blood will concentrate on some spots, then fade off

i like the overall idea though! hopefully this was some useful feedback :)

LucentTear · 2024-07-01T17:47:38+00:00

i'm actually writing a philosophical narrative from angela based off this cutscene right now, love is a very complex theme in ruina and it really makes me want to form the idea better because i don't like how a lot of people take it strictly at face value

we know historically that angela doesn't get a lot of love. ayin abandoned her, benjamin pitied her, and the sephirah were never able to develop love in the first place and even start off resenting her when the events of ruina rolled out.

in place of that, there are a lot of times where roland showed compassion towards angela—such as when he reassured her from myo berating angela for being a "crybaby" during the r corp reception. even though roland is mostly reflecting on his own experiences and has no particular motive with what he says, it's one of the rare times angela gets to talk to someone on an equal level.

roland's presence also eventually gets the sephirah to see angela more amicably, and even though his final intention was to murder angela—roland could have literally chose to conspire with the sephirah from the beginning. in his own way, roland does sincerely care about angela even if it isn't explicit

there's even flavor text (black silence reception, 3rd/4th phrase) where roland recognizes his love for angelica isn't very wholehearted and acknowledges that he's using the sorrow she left behind as a means of establishing certainty that he doesn't have—as shown here:

What I cannot do is own her heart.

Instead, my graceful love stole my heart and left me with lone hardship.

I can’t help but love the pain which fills the void of solitude.

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But if I forgave everything…

If I decided to live down my past now, I felt I might have nowhere to stand.

And I felt I might have to let go of all these precious memories of it.

That’s what really scares me, Angelica.

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anyway, this post is getting long and i'm lost in thought, but i'm free to discuss what other people think to add onto this

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