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Hamster Fu (Final Rose

"..." Lumina stared. "Vanille, are you teaching the hamsters kung fu?"

The redhead nodded. "Yep."

"... why?"

"Well, normally hamsters wouldn't be smart enough to learn kung fu, not to mention they'd be too weak to make any use of it. But... these guys are special. They've got the smarts to learn kung fu, and although they don't have enough Aura to really threaten a human, they do have more than the average hamster. Even if it's just a couple of strikes, they might be able to enhance their blows enough to fend off a snake or a bird. It's not much, but when you're a hamster, not much is still way better than nothing."

"Right... I guess that makes sense. But do they have to wear little kung outfits too?"

"Of course. Otherwise, what's the point?"

"..." Lumina sighed. "The fact that I can actually follow your logic here worries me."

#final rose #fanfiction #lumina #oerba dia vanille

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Does Fraise ever troll people? I can't imagine her doing so as a child, but I could see her doing so when she's an adult, in subtle ways.

She does do a bit of that. She learned a lot from Professor Radical, and her sense of humour is somewhere between his and Averia's.

As an adult, her greatest weapon is her ability to say absolutely anything with a deadpan expression and a completely flat tone of voice. It makes for some amazing quips.

Half the fun is that people often can't tell if she's trolling them or actually serious.

#final rose #fraise

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Getting Your Ass Kicked

Getting your ass kicked is important.

I mean this both figuratively and literally. I have been kicked in the head, punched in the face, and come off second best in spars that probably went a bit further than just spars. I have also found myself on the losing side in intellectual endeavours where I gave my absolute all, did nothing wrong, and still came off second best.

And I think I'm better off for having gone through those experiences.

As a people watcher, former tutor, former childcare worker, and former university lecturer, I have seen all the different ways that people respond to losing. I firmly believe that losing when you're younger is an important part of learning how to handle losing, so that you do not just crumble when you're older.

I have seen many people who are used to winning, so used to winning that by the time they get to university they don't even know what losing feels like. Almost all of them struggled bitterly when they lost or came up against a challenge they simply weren't able to meet. They simply hadn't built up the same resilience that people who've lost before have.

I firmly believe this is why so many high achievers in high school struggle in university. Compared to the challenges offered by university, high school tends to be easier and less competitive. In many cases, there is always an answer, one that you can reach if you study and work hard enough.

However, when it comes to actual research, the sort you will have to conduct as an Honours, Masters, or PhD student - to say nothing of the work you'll have to carry out as a postgraduate or in the workplace - there may not be a right answer. Indeed, in the real world, you can do everything right, make all the correct moves, and still lose. That is simply how the world is.

Learning to handle failure is particularly important in creative disciplines. Let me tell you this right now. If you're going to be a writer, you will fail.

You will fail a lot.

And that's okay.

Because failing tells you what you're doing wrong. Failing lets you know when you're on the wrong track. Failing is how you can tell that what you're doing isn't right.

It's all right to fail because each of those failures gets you that much closer to success. Believe me, I know. I've been there.

Don't ever be ashamed of failing if you gave it everything you have. There's nothing to be ashamed of. It's easy to mock those who fail, but there are so many who lack the courage to even try or who give up the minute things get hard.

It's telling, I think, that the greatest people aren't usually considered great because they never faced adversity but because they found a way to keep going despite that adversity.

Failing sucks. It hurts. But in the end, people don't remember how many times you failed. They remember how many times you managed to win. If a writer fails a thousand times but writes a single masterpiece, they will absolutely be remembered for that masterpiece, and not all the drafts that never quite made it or all the ideas that never saw the light of day.

Don't be afraid of failure. Otherwise, you will never be able to succeed.

#advice #personal #motivation

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Cereal Redux Redux

"I know you don't like juice with your cereal, and I know you usually put your cereal in first," Fang said. "So why are you doing what you're doing?"

Averia looked her straight in the eye. "Because I know it drives Diana crazy."

That was when Fang realised that Averia was actually the most evil of her children.

#final rose #fanfiction #averia yun farron #oerba yun fang

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I hope you realize you've made Averia and Lightning inflict incredible mental, emotional, and maybe even spiritual damage onto me with this lunacy.

The juice thing is based on someone I knew who developed lactose intolerance as a teen... and so decided to start substituting juice for milk in cereal.

I too died on the inside when I saw it. My heart was moved with pity for my friend.

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How many clans are there in Final Rose?

Not sure.

But, generally speaking, each of the independent city-states (e.g., Oerba) has at least one clan, usually a major clan with several smaller allied clans. Oerba is a bit unusual in that the Yun and Dia are basically equal partners and that both are considered major clans.

There are also clans (e.g., the Al Bhed) who wander or are at least partially semi-nomadic, so getting an accurate count can be difficult.

There are enough clans that the last time they united, they essentially ended the war between the Four Major Kingdoms in favour of Vale. The Yun and Dia Clans alone are sufficiently strong that Vale has never tried to assert its authority over them.

There are also groups like the Water Tribe who are not technically clans (the clans can all trace their descent in some fashion from The World Below that sort of won the war against Cocoon if you can consider ushering in the apocalypse winning...) but who are closely allied and on good terms with them.

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The Possum (Final Rose)

Diana glared at the possum on the fence. "There's only enough room on this fence for one of us."

The possum hissed.

"Yeah? Bring it on!"

X X X

"Hmm..." Lightning glanced out the window. "Fang, Diana is fighting an animal again."

"Is it one of the raccoons?"

"No. I think it's a possum."

"A possum? That's new. Is she winning?"

The possum was clinging onto Diana's head and gnawing on her skull. Diana finally managed to pull the possum off and brandished her rake at it menacingly.

"Hmm... it's pretty even."

#final rose #fanfiction #diana yun farron #lightning farron #oerba yun fang

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Cereal Redux

Diana stared at Averia.

Averia stared at Diana.

Smiling, Averia reached for the milk... only to pick up the juice instead. Maintaining eye contact the entire time, she poured the juice into her bowl, added her cereal on top of it... and then smiled.

It took both Lightning and Fang to restrain Diana.

#final rose #fanfiction #diana yun farron #averia yun farron #lightning farron #oerba yun fang

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Cereal (Final Rose)

Diana sensed a shift in the very foundations of the universe. Somewhere, out there, somebody was pouring their cereal wrong. Focusing every bit of Aura she could muster, she extended her senses out to determine where and who was committing such an atrocity.

It was Averia.

She hurried into the dining room and then leapt onto the table.

"What are you doing?" she blurted, jabbing one finger at her older sister.

Averia looked up from her bowl full of milk and then poured the cereal into it. "What?"

"Gah!" Diana dropped off the table and convulsed on the floor. Since this was hardly the first time she'd done that, Averia poked her once with her foot, ascertained that she wasn't actually having a seizure, and then used her spoon to push her cereal into the milk.

"Could you not do that here? I'm trying to eat."

Diana got back onto her feet. "How can you add milk to the bowl first? Do you have any idea how insane that is? You need to add the cereal first and then add the milk. Anything else is lunacy."

"..." Averia turned away and started to eat her cereal.

"Mom!" Diana cried as Lightning came into the dining room with a bowl. "Averia puts her milk in..."

She trailed off as Lightning took the milk, poured it into her bowl, and then added the cereal on top.

"..."

#final rose #fanfiction #averia yun farron #diana yun farron #lightning farron

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Didn't someone make fanart of Diana, Averia, and Claire years ago? It was really good from what I remember.

Yes. I think so. I can't quite remember it, though. It's been a while. If I recall correctly, it is of when they're still kids.

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Incidentally, is Diana taller than Averia in these pictures? That's a very important point. LOL. On her deathbed, she would still find it funny that she ended up taller.

Hey raz, is it okay if i commission an artist to draw averia and your ocs? It would be awesome to give averia and the others a face in art, and i'll ask the artist to tag you on tumblr if they post it too

Go for it.

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Hey raz, is it okay if i commission an artist to draw averia and your ocs? It would be awesome to give averia and the others a face in art, and i'll ask the artist to tag you on tumblr if they post it too

Go for it.

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Pour One Out For My Old Phone

After years of faithful service, I have finally retired my Samsung Galaxy S7. The old boy really gave it his all. Whether it was playing Pokemon Go, watching videos, playing music, sending emails, or surfing the web, he did everything.

Alas, recent changes in Australia's mobile networks have left him adrift, an old relic in a time of newer, shinier things. Let none say that he failed first. Nay! It was the 3G network and 4G protocols that failed him first!

Hold your head up high, my friend. Stand proud. Unbroken and unbowed, loyal to the last, a phone like no other. People will ask if you were a good phone, and I will tell them no. You were the best.

May my new Samsung A35 serve as faithfully as you.

Death before dishonour.

Loyalty without end.

A phone without compare.

May fair winds and following seas be ever at your side, old friend, a legend from your first day until your last.

P. S. I'm not trading in my old S7 or anything. He's earned a spot on the shelf.

#personal

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What is a Fang x Vanille version of Averia like?

There is no such person.

Averia is basically the 'Lightning kid'. So where Lightning goes, Averia follows

Diana is the 'Fang kid', so she generally goes where Fang does.

So you can have a Lightning x Vanille version of Averia or a Fang x Vanille version of Diana, but a Fang x Vanille kid would probably just be Diana or one of the others.

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Can Faunas understand each other's mrrps/growls/squeaks/chirps? Or can they only communicate within their own species (or with Vanilles translator)

Also, do Bird Faunas have a special way they communicate? Like how the rabbits have their ear twitches

In general, Faunus in similar groups have a better ability to understand those specific noises (e.g., a wolf and dog Faunus would probably understand those instinctively but a cat Faunus would struggle to understand them). However, it is also possible to learn.

Bird Faunus may well have their own methods, but it depends on what bird features they have. For example, someone with a feathered crest is not going to do the same thing as someone with more avian features (e.g., someone with arm feathers or even wings).

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will you end up going back to writing atla/tyzula once the live action show premieres in the next two weeks?

It depends on if it's good or not.

I remember Pacific Rim 2. I was so hyped. The movie was so bad that it actually killed any desire I had to finish my Pacific Rim crossover stuff. Just thinking about it made me angry.

If the Avatar show is that bad, I'm going to have to do my best to forget it ever existed.

And don't even get me started on what happened when I found out how the Usagi Drop manga ended.

I loved the anime. So wholesome. I no longer think about it because it's basically a cognitive hazard due to the sheer, unbridled failure, the utter travesty, the unmitigated and untrammelled crappiness of the manga ending... it's not often that I call out someone for how they ended something they created, but if the author can look into the mirror and say that didn't suck, they must be the most deluded person in the world.

Seriously, it was that bad.

I honestly am baffled by how anyone - anyone at all - could think that was good. I remember being absolutely infuriated when I found out. I just... even to this day, I have no idea how the author could do that and think it was good. It is one of the most infuriatingly, bafflingly stupid endings I have ever seen.

And, yes, this reply has devolved into bashing the ending of the Usagi Drop manga. But that's how I roll. If I ever get a chance to criticise it, I'm not passing it up. I'll be an old koala on my porch shaking my walking stick at people, and if one of the whippersnappers mentions it, off I'll go.

TLDR: Going to wait and see if the Avatar series is good first. Usagi Drop manga ending sucks harder than the black holes that power quasars.

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do you plan on watching the netflix atla live action?? or even the avatar studios stuff when we finally get it?

I will wait until it is finished and then decide.

I've been burned too many times on shows. I'm also going to hope that if it's good, it doesn't get randomly canned halfway through. That seems to happen a lot these days.