Good morning. No, I don't care what the time of day during which you are reading this actually is. I write whatever I damn well please, but I do try to come up with ideas that you haven't seen four million times.

My favorite fandom is The Lord of the Rings. I am a huge fan of both the books and the films. I have also read The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Children of Hurin, and Unfinished Tales, so I promise that my Tolkien-based stories will not majorly contradict the legendarium unless it is for an intentional plot device. That being said, it should be noted that in all of my Tolkien fanfics, Saruman and Melian are brother and sister, with Melian being the elder sibling. Many of my stories will have a focus on their brother/sister relationship in order to make Saruman's character more fleshed out.

My all-time favorite games are Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Actually, sometimes I really hate being a fan of Shadow of the Colossus because nearly every other fan of that game seems to think that the main character, Wander, is some kind of heartless, sadistic, psychopathic monster who got what he deserved for killing the Colossi. What the hell is the difference between the Colossi and the lizards that you shoot for more stamina? Why is everyone so pissed off at Wander for killing those "magnificent creatures," but no one bats an eye when he shoots a lizard full of arrows and rips its tail off? For god's sake, how many goddamn cows do you think have been slaughtered to sustain him over the course of however long he has been alive? These people think that killing these 16 creatures to resurrect his dead girlfriend is the ultimate evil or some such nonsense. They keep bringing up "one life in exchange for 16," but they don't ever think about how many animals Wander and Mono had eaten to stay alive before the events of the game. Unless you're a vegetarian, then you're a complete hypocrite if you think that Wander is evil for killing the Colossi, because God knows how many innocent creatures have been slaughtered to keep you alive. Incidentally, I'm not a vegetarian. What makes the Colossi worth more than any other animal? Is it because they're big? If so, then these people need to get their priorities straight. Is it because they're "magnificent" or "majestic?" Magnificence and majesty are dependent on subjective opinions and do not necessarily pertain to the facts of reality. What one person considers to be majestic might not have the same impact on someone else. It's an opinion. And what about Ico? Didn't Ico slaughter countless shadow creatures just before the fight with the Queen at the end? They are a thousand times more docile than any of the Colossi. They make no effort to attack whatsoever. For Christ's sake, they used to be humans! Not animals, but humans. So why is it that Ico gets a free pass while Wander is condemned as an immoral prick of the worst kind? Not that I'm saying that Ico is evil. Far from it. The way I see it, it's 16 animals in exchange for a human being capable of rational thought. Wander isn't evil, he's lonely and desparate because he wants Mono back. So desperate, in fact, that he's forced to make a deal with an ancient God of darkness and gets screwed over anyway. On that note, do we really know that Dormin was evil? He never does anything wrong during the game, and he holds up his end of the bargain. To me, the whole thing was Lord Emon's fault. If he hadn't murdered Mono to begin with, none of this ever would have happened, and I was greatly displeased to see him get away with it at the end. I really wish that Dormin had pounded that bastard's face into the dust. Or maybe Emon could have fallen to his death on the collapsing bridge. That would have been pretty damn satisfying. I love this game, but I loathe other people who love this game. Seriously, SOTC fans. Pull yourselves together. Good thing that Ico is far less polarizing. I'm so glad that we can all agree on Ico. It's such a nice game.

For the most part, I don't really have any favorite pairings, so I'm usually not one for romance. The kinds of character relationships that I relate to the most are between siblings, because I have an older sister whom I love very much. I like dark stories, tragedy, and general horribleness, but I also enjoy my fair share of fluff. That's probably why I like Ico so much. You get your happy ending, but the game makes you earn it by kicking your emotions in the balls.

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