Chapter 8 and now on dA

It's almost Monday here, so I figured I'd go ahead and do this week's blog update. ^_^

First of all, you can now find Follow Me on deviantArt. ^__^ I'll be updating simultaneously on there and FF.net once I get dA completely caught up to FF.net.

Secondly, some backtracking to discuss Chapter 8.

Several people made comment about how harsh Lugia was in that chapter. Here are my thoughts:

Silver and Soul kind of invaded his sanctuary, where he'd been peacefully resting/enjoying his days. You could say that maybe they woke him up, and he was grouchy, I guess. XD

An artist by the name of MangoRamune did a piece called "Below the Whirl Islands" (which you can view here) that describes pretty much how I envisioned Lugia to be. I can't imagine he'd be too pleased to see you, having been rudely disturbed from his slumber.

I think the second movie of the anime (and most of the movies in general) perpetuate this image that Lugia/legendaries are fluffy nice guys who work together with humans and don't mind being shoved into balls to do your bidding. I don't agree with this mantra. I guess you could say I modeled Lugia after Mewtwo in movie 1 a bit; he knows he's more powerful and cannot be controlled by men and does not enjoy taking orders from them. Silver kind of miffed Lugia by being so demanding, and as such, he and Soul were punished by being banished, which really, is a form of leniency on Lugia's part, as had he really wanted to, he could have just killed them instead. So maybe he's not so evil after all.

That's it for this week, as always, thanks for reading, and if there's a certain subject you'd like to hear about, drop me a comment. Laters.