yay lizz

LISTEN!  It's soooooooooooooo pretty!

Why, yes, this song is absolutely beautifully mind-blowingly amazingly gorgeous.  Yes, I d post too much lizz, but since you can never have too much lizz, well, that's that.

nanowrimo is coming!

Okay, so if you know me, you know that write about this time is when I go crazy for NaNoWriMo.  Get it?  Write?  Okay, sorry, for those of you who don't know, allow me to explain.  NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month.  I've been participating for years, and I'm very excited this year because I might get to do it with some friends.  Nevertheless, here's the summary:  You have on month--Novemeber.  That's thirty days.  You need to write fifty thousand--50000--words.  In thirty days.  If you do this, you are a winner.  The goal is pretty much, write whatever you can, get it out, enjoy it.  Even if your novel sucks or is incomplete, the point is that you did it, that you had fun, and that you went completely insane for one month.  I LOVE NANOWRIMO!  It's always a blast to get on the Young Writer's Program and meet friends, share stories, and strive to hit your word count.  I absolutely encourage anyone--and everyone--who can to do this.
If you're interesting, just sign up at the NaNoWriMo website.  We'll see if I'm up to the task this year with all my classes, and if I can bribe my friends into doing this with me...

why not? kagerou project, ayano's section

Alright, after all the fun we had explaining Seto and Marry's stories, I wanted to share the next chapter of the tale.  Beware, the explanations may include spoilers.  So, we're starting with Yuukei Yesterday (English: Sunset Yesterday) and moving to Ayano's Theory of Happiness and then closing with Tounmei Answer, AKA, Transparent Answer.  Prepare to cry.

Okay, so this one seems completely unrelated to the rest of the story, but hold out.  This song focuses on Takene Enemoto and her friend Haruka Kokonose.  Takene (the girl and narrator), is in a special class for children with illnesses.  She suffers from "sleep attacks" and is usually very grumpy from staying up late playing video games.  Haruka, however has heart problems.  This song is actually kinda sad because of what happens to them.  You remember Seto?  I might have mentioned he was adopted along with 2 others named Kido and Kano by two scientists who were studying those "eye powers" I talked about.  Well, the scientist had a daughter.  Her name was Ayano, and she saw herself as Seto, Kano, and Kido's "big sister".  Seto, Kano, and Kido all had eye powers (which is why they were adopted.  Ayano was the girl in the scarf in this video--she was Takene and Haruka's friend.  The fourth boy who appeared in this video (you might have to look to notice him, he's near the end) was Ayano's friend, Shintaro, who is VERY important to the plot.

This is Ayano's song!!!  It talks about her and how much she loves her siblings.  To help them not be ashamed of their eye powers, she decided to form a "secret brigade", as she says in the video.  The kids name their brigade "The Blindfold Gang" or the Mekakucy Dan.  About halfway through the video, however, Ayano's mother and father die while researching eye powers at a research cite.  However, because it's August 15th, her dad comes back and has eye powers but her mom is trapped in an alternate world called the "heat haze" (pretty much, if two people die on Aug 15th, one get eye powers, one get Heat Hazed).  Her father, believing her mother is dead, it taken over by the bad guy (A snake-monster that lives in the Haze), and does pretty horrible things to get his wife back.  Ayano realizes he is planning an experiment on her friends Takene and Haruka (from previous video), and reads his notes on getting eye powers--meaning, she knows you have to die on Aug 15th to get powers.  So, she sacrifices herself by jumping off a school building, but because she dies alone, she is transported to the Heat Haze WITH eye powers.  Ayano's dad, Kenjirou, kills both Haruka and Takene that same day (which was his plan), and they both get eye powers, too.  Takene is sent to the Heat Haze, but returns as a cyber-girl named Ene (meaning, she can only survive inside computers), with the "Opening Eyes" ability, who wears mostly blue.  Haruka becomes Konoha, another cyber-human but with an actual body--as well as a spacey amnesiac with the "Awakening Eyes" ability.

Because Ayano is in the Heat Haze, well, everyone thinks she'd dead.  Which, technically, she is.  This video is about her friend Shintaro, who is a super-smart genius.  He's cold and rude and mean to Ayano sometimes, because he doesn't want to feel close to her, but she hangs on and stays around, always smiling, even though her test scores are bad and she feels secretly ashamed and clumsy and awkward (as she says in the previous song).  They become friends, and the day before Ayano's sacrifice, he sees her crying but doesn't understand.  After she dies, he's pretty much full of guilt and wonders if anyone will even remember her.  He finds an origami crane on the ground on the roof from which Ayano jumps...and its a perfect test score.  HIS test score.

From here, there are two timelines (because of Marry's time-control powers)--Route X (happy ending!) in which Shintaro actually meets the Blindfold Gang and (SPLOILER) is eventually reunited with Ayano. Then there's Route XX (sad ending.) in which everyone dies and Shintaro never actually meets the Blindfold Gang.  I'm playing it as if Route XX doesn't exist, BTW, because I can't stand sad endings!