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 BIG 20

Wow!! I'm 20 years old now!!! Time really flies.. I just turned 19 a year ago.. but that's how time works... lol. This is going to be a shorter blog post but I wanted to celebrate hitting 20 because it's a nice big number!!!!!

I celebrated my 20th birthday yesterday and I had a really good time! I celebrated with my family and we had some nice dinner (my mum ordered a lot of filipino food for us all... maybe a little too much). I got a lot of birthday wishes so thank you once again.. I'm thankful for everyone in my life and I'm happy if I can be part of theirs too.

Special boyfriend shout out section but seriously Kee is the best.. I've been not doing too stellar because my house kinda has a bed bug problem >_>) ......... Nightmare. I do not wish bed bugs upon anyone... it sucks... I think it's improving, but I'll have to see... Sniffle.. But yea Kee has been keeping me stable despite the troubles and I'm so thankful. I love him so much. He is awesome and the best partner ever.

(Pictured: Roid and Moonflower! Me and Kee's WOLs. AKA mfroid. Moonflower =/= motherfucker.)

 

(Pictured: Kee's favourite thing to do is instigate when we play frontlines. He decided to copy a tweet we saw recently and lie about having a newborn. It seriously made me cry laugh because someone believed him. XIV's playerbase on average is like 30 years old so it's frankly kinda normal to see something like this in chat... I've had people mention their kids countless times in dungeons.)

(I'm.... a father...?!)

 Next and last section: Danganronpa Another...?! ~Another Despair Academy~ ?! Is the year 2018?! Just kidding.. I just used to be way more into Danganronpa and I even did roleplays on Discord in 2018-19.

Anyway, yeah.. If you follow me on Twitter(I'm Sorry) then you definitely know that I've been playing a Danganronpa fangame with my 2 friends and frankly it's so much better than I anticipated and I'm seriously loving it. I highly recommend the game even if the fan translations can be lacking in places- they're manageable enough that you can still definitely understand the story. I'm very grateful that it's even translated in the first place. (Though.. most free time events are untranslated.. It's easy to get through them if you use machine translation, though. Actually, we got softlocked during a trial last night because the hangman's gambit is still in Korean... We ended up watching a playthrough and then skipped to the start of Chapter 5... lol)

Danganronpa Another is a Korean DR fangame that started releasing in 2013, so it's over a decade old...! And honestly? It holds up really great. Despite being made in RPGMaker, it actually works well and the trial sections are well made replications of Danganronpa's mechanics. The characters are surprisingly very fun and I really love most of them. 

Holy shit.. the 4th trial destroyed me... Oomf told me it was peak but you know what? I stayed up last night thinking about them... I can't even take a peek at fanart or fics or dev commentary because there's gonna be 5 million spoilers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn it all!!!!!!!!! I would draw so much fanart of this damn game if I wasn't busy!!!!! That's why I will work hard to finish my remaining art trades... I'm a piggy chasing the DRA carrot. 

(Also... We assigned characters between the 3 of us to voice while we play. Do you want to know how many characters I've lost? I've lost 6 of my characters. Actually, of the original 5 I was assigned, I only have 1 character left. I got traded more characters in later chapters to compensate for the uneven numbers... I got traded 2 characters that die in the chapters I received them. A little cruel.)

My favourites? I have a lot of favourites now... It's actually a little embarassing how many of them I love... but I think my top favourite has to be Rei Mekaru, the Ultimate Professor. She's a cool beauty with a harsh tongue... and a megane to boot! Made just for me!!

(Pictured: Rei Mekaru! She's a cool lady. Something I enjoy about the characters' designs are how bright and striking they are.. I would never dare design a character that is bright orange with a bright blue suit and red shoes, but it honestly looks great. It's simplistic enough that it doesn't overwhelm me. I like her swirly hairs too.)

Don't you think Mekaru kind of resembles Nina...? I think they do... It's actually kind of scary how similar they are... Bespectacled geniuses who seem to have only criticism for their peers but secretly have a softer side?! What the hell?! 

I'm assuming Mekaru is about 16 or 17(?? give or take), while Nina is 30 years old. Mekaru is 2cm taller than Nina. That would really piss her off.. If they ever met, it would be a catastrophic diva catfight... I think they're both too arrogant to get along... maybe only after a lot of fighting.

(Pictured: something like this... You might ask who's smarter and I'd say that's a hard question. Mekaru probably has stronger general knowledge, while Nina's expertise lies in engineering. Nina isn't an ultimate though and DR ultimates have skills that are cartoonishly impressive so I'd say Mekaru wins trivia night...) 

That's all I've got for today! Wishing you well if you managed to read to down here! (Also that Kai Mutsumi post is still rotting in my drafts.)