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And I was like WHAT ONE PAGE.
And she linked this, which both makes me happy to see and yet...
...answers nothing at all...
...thanks manga :( Go back to drawing your Ryou and your Kaoru and your Chigusa and your other main characters baw.
ENDRANCE: All the Twilight books!!
SERA: KISSING ADVICE BOOK :)
HASEO: Just a christmas card, but she hand-drew a picture of haseo on the front. ...the inside contents are all very TSUN, of course. "MERRY CHRISTMAS OR WHATEVR I couldn't think of anything to get you and besides, after trying to steal Master En from me you don't deserve any more, so this is all you're getting, Haseo!!! I should be giving you coal! Stinky socks! So you should know how restrained I am right now!! xoxox Saku"
RICOCHET: This book
TOKITOH: Christmas card.
KUHN: A plush rooster 8)
PI: Some bath supplies, new shampoo and conditioner, scented soap etc.
BO: A painting of sunflowers.
Bo
BIKKY: A new basketball
ENDRANCE: A new warm blanket :/
HASEO: A... a hand-made paper bento /)_(\
HAKUREN: A hand-made christmas card in the shape of a chim-chim with season's greetings on the inside.
EUGENIE: A badly drawn picture of a christmas tree and cookies and glass of milk with season's greetings on the inside.
ROXAS: A SOCCER BALL
RICOCHET: A hand drawn movie poster... OF RICOCHET, THE MOVIE. It's TOTALLY BADASS. Now, if only he could draw.
TOKITOH: Hand drawn christmas card with a video game theme.
KUHN: A christmas card SHAPED LIKE A SEXY WOMAN. The bikini is made of tissue paper.
PI: A christmas card shaped like a computer. All of the keys are ACTUAL BUTTONS.
SERA: A christmas card cut out to look like Varnani's face.
SAKU: A little christmas flower in a tiny pot :O
Total list:EVA
Umeda
Marluxia
Riku Replica
Heat
Lexaeus
Jinana
Collector Manikin
Sakubo
Feel free to respond; if IC lemme know and we can thread ♥
Fall more thoughtfully!! (Saku)
It's okay if you don't like me right now because liking me's too troublesome anyway :((Bo)
All work and no play makes Saku a dull girl(Saku)
You're right, Kuhn! That's not suspicious at all!(Bo)
Trigger happy Jack(Bo)
Saving Sera(Sakubo)
In the caves 1(Bo)
In the caves 2(Bo)
In the caves 3: Master En edition(Sakubo)
Sorry about that whole crazy thing, Sera (Saku)
SNOWBALLS AND HOT CHOCOLATE!!1 (Bo)
Man, you know, I say 'Sakubo' up there, but it's going to be 90% Saku, I'll say that up front, because a lot of stuff registers to her that doesn't register to Bo, hands down.
...other disclaimer: They are 11 years old irl. Obviously, this affects a certain number of things both positively and negatively, like sexual awareness etc. sdfj;. BUT YES.
...actually I should just call this the Saku Essay, but there are points of the above I do need to set up (or want to set up) first. Half out of contrast. OKAY. okaaaaaaaaaaaay. uh.
Don't expect much coherence here.
( ACTUALLY, DON'T EXPECT ANY. )
Candy (Bo)
Showin' Master En Around Camp post (Saku)
TOTALLY ANONYMOUS CONFESSIONS (Saku)
Ice Cream and Roxas goes together like...? (Bo)
Animals in the food! Don't let them get the taste of human flesh! A self-proclaimed innocent rooster LOL -- hey wait(Saku)
Sleepovertime (Saku)
The zombie won't go down, kyaaa POST (Bo)
Twilight, you say? (Saku)
Murderer and Pedophile (Saku)
Lonely, baby Shinkurou? Party time!
( Cut! )
And you know what happens when you take a stray home.
<Sakubo> o that reminds me
<Sakubo> Pi
<Pi> ...
<Sakubo> did we keep the cat?
<Pi> yes. we did.
<Pi> after we went to all that trouble to clean it up, you bet we kept it.
<Sakubo> let us name the cat before Endrance gets to camp, Pi
<Sakubo> in case he is suddenly a Mia
<Pi> ...yes.
<Sakubo> I vote for Prince Cuddles.
<Pi> Hm. He looks more like a Mr. Scruffy.
<Sakubo> how about Prince Scruffy
<Sakubo> or Mr. Cuddles.
<Sakubo> Middle ground.
<Pi> Prince Scruffy.
<Sakubo> ...this needs to be our IC background with how we came up with the name
<Pi> ...yes.
<Sakubo> Just... Bo and Pi very seriously bargaining on names
So yes. The @home now has a mangey and probably somewhat irritable flea-bitten ex-stray cat named Prince Scruffy.
( Hips... don't lie? )
Relationship meme for Sakubo. Comment here and I'll tell you how Saku and Bo feels about your character o/ Reciprocation makes me happy but isn't required.
Karaoke... With Kuhn? (Saku)
Stuck inside a computer game? I know this one! (Bo)
All over the Malice Cat post (Bo)
Getting a love charm from Kantarou (Bo)
Hay Sera is Bat a friend? (Bo)
Giving Kuhn his gift (Bo)
"Saving" Bat (Bo -> Saku)
How COULD anyone hate the world? Lemme tell you--! (Saku)
Stray cats!! (Bo [and some minor Saku])
Sera, you're dangerous~~ (Saku)
Bacon and Sausage (Saku)
The danger of crayons from a superhero perspective (Saku)
Endrance's Intro: Master En is here, this is amazing you guys hell yes!!! (Saku)
It's good to talk about your feelings (Bo)
Saku Intro
Showin' Bikky magic. (Bo)
Franz and Eugenie share desserts! (Bo)
How IS Yozak a Mazoku? (Saku)
D-do not want to get eaten by Cielo but... D:, Sera how do I save cannibal?, Kuhn why u have to go die? (Bo)
Hella WoW-style caves raid (Saku)
The Medicine Seller will tell the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world (Saku)
Mostly, in this case, it's that people are interested in Sakubo's real life in a way that you just don't get in-game aside from Haseo emailing them -- there's a lot of standard internet "don't pry until they volunteer" stuff in canon, so you hear about their lives as backstory/counterpoint when the 'plot' is in the game. As a result, I'm finding myself drawing on headcanon here and there.
And you know, I'm cool with this. I have strong headcanon thoughts, I find them fun, I want to play with them! And every time I have, it's based on something in one of the emails or fanguides or something, so I have fair confidence in it.
But since it isn't Strict Canon in a lot of cases, I figured I'd toss some of it up here in this post so that if people who knew the canon disagreed or whatever and wanted to talk to me about it, I could hear it enough in advance to change early instead of having to retcon later. ♥
( Sakubo Headcanon )
Yeah idk, I'll add more to this post as it comes up in camp and stuff o/
Also, I might as well do it here -- if anybody has any questions about why Saku or Bo do or say something, or why they're lying or not lying, or etc etc, feel free to ask. I love to essay! I WANT TO ESSAY BACK AT YOU ♥
Okay, so. These aren't technically all of their "emails", but in .hack//G.U., as part of affection raising (and very rarely lowering) measures, you can send greeting cards to the various characters. Some are rarer than others, etc. Most of the times, these either get a single reply, or set off a chain of emails.
THAT'S what's going in here.
If Haseo can reply to an email, he always has two replies. Depending on which one he picks, he'll always get a different reply for the other character's next email. HOWEVER, regardless of which of THOSE different replies he gets, his options are always the same when continuing the trend. So, don't worry about which of Haseo's possible replies goes backwards down the chain -- they're only relevant immediately.
Note that Saku and Bo have different affection meters with Haseo, so you can choose to send each card to either of 'em.
...also note I don't have the body text on all the greeting cards. :/ I'll edit it in as I find them.
( Emails go here )
Sakubo, Conflict, and Confidence
When you compare the two characters, it seems really clear and obvious which one has the most confidence. Saku is totally happy to tell you how much better she is than you, how pretty she is, how awesome she is at battle, etc etc. She knows she's a giant bitch to people, and doesn't change her behavior in the slightest. In comparison, Bo is really quiet, really apologetic, really self-deprecating, has just about nothing good to say about himself, and shuts down and gets hurt super-easily.
This outward confidence also seems to tie into their likelihood for conflict. After all, Saku comes into every conversation swinging and with the expectation she's going to win the verbal repartee -- or at least be able to insult or shout you down if she doesn't. (She does prefer to avoid actual COMBAT when possible, but won't hesitate to use violence on someone she's been bullying if it seems like a good situation for it). Bo, in comparison, is incredibly conflict avoidant -- if he thinks he might even possibly have upset someone, he backs down, apologizes, takes the blame, etc.
Of course, this has less to do with their APPARENT confidence, and more to do with their REAL confidence.
Saku -- isn't exactly a very happy person. She's perfectly aware that to most people who know her situation, she doesn't exist as a person -- she's just the manifestation of a psychological illness. She gets really angry and lashes out when upset, and knows she comes across as a total bitch. And she says she doesn't care and ACTS like she doesn't care, but when the chips are down, when pushed to talk about it in a confrontation, she burst into tears because she fully believed that nobody in the whole world would be upset if she were to vanish completely, nobody would have any reason to miss her if she were gone. It takes Haseo working on her slowly and carefully for him to convince her that even if Bo doesn't NEED her any more, he still WANTS her and would miss her, and that's the only reason she lives. (as a matter of fact, you can choose to send her back emails that go "Fine, if you're gonna vanish, get out of here already!" and, yes, she essentially kills herself. That's right. You can, in this game, make a character who's been around since volume 1 commit existential suicide because she believes nobody wants or needs her. THIS GAME.)
And that situation aside, there's the whole thing with Endrance-- it's a girlish crush, sure, but she really does hang her heart on Endrance, and Endrance... doesn't hate her, isn't even as apathetic as he is with most of the world, but certainly doesn't consider her in any sense. She's got a snowball's chance in hell of making Endrance fall in love with her. She keeps going by ... pretending otherwise, blaming people other than Endrance's own pesonality or her own failure, but everything came to a head when she followed Endrance in a plot Endrance had put together, and he never bothered to tell her it was a plot instead of something he was actually doing. Yeah, she's got that self-confidence she shows, in some senses -- she knows she's strong and she knows she's pretty. She just ultimately doesn't think that matters; she's still someone, to her mind, who's outlived her purpose and who is unloved by most of the world, and she can't seem to bring herself to act in a way to earn it. She's trying to keep a better mindset at it, but it's something she has to work at. She acts like she hates everyone because she fully expects everyone to hate her. Self-perpetuating cycle. So, her 'confidence' aside, she's so conflict-heavy because she's got basically no real confidence.
Now, Bo. Bo still really does have low self-esteem, thinks badly of himself, but he's got... hope. He believes he can still become more and more useful. He believes he can help others. When he backs down immediately in the face of conflict, this isn't just because he's a broken kid -- as he simply tells Haseo at one point, "I read somewhere that it's good to lose sometimes." It's acceptance. He knows people aren't always good -- he's been neglected, bullied, and ignored most of his life. But he still believes they too can become good. He may not be able to communicate with them because they don't want to, but he believes they've got their reasons and just tries not to trouble them. He may desperately wish his mom would take care of him when he's sick (which is often), but he knows his mom finds him a nuisance and doesn't want to trouble HER. This isn't healthy, maybe, but in its own way, it's a mark of his constantly-growing inner strength, insofar as he's learning how to act on these beliefs and reach out to others and help them see their inner good too. So, although he doesn't seem to have any traditional confidence, he avoids conflict partly because his convictions are pretty solid.
...I have no way to conclude this mini-essay, so. Yes.
- Saku's hair curls outward; Bo's hair curls inward.
- Sakubo's hat's points have a sun on the right and a moon on the left. When Saku is in control, the sun/right point is upward and the moon/left is downward. When Bo is in control, the moon/left is upward, and the sun/right is downward.
- Saku's skirt flares outwards. Bo's skirt curls inward to give the impression of "puffy pants". (...but it's still a skirt.)
- Saku's backpack is bright red, Bo's backpack is dark navy blue.
- Saku's body language is very open -- lots of arms out, leaning forward, legs braced. Bo's body language is very closed -- shoulders hunched, arms held together in front or behind the body, legs together.
Auditory:
- Bo's voice is quiet and shy, and sounds like he has a stuffy nose. Saku talks loudly and shrilly, if slightly slurred.
- Bo's diction is very polite and deferential. Saku's diction is very rude (in Japanese, she kinda speaks in thug diction.)
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