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Of Moogles.
While updating the Shrine, I found myself smiling again at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
muggy_mountain's "?!?". It's so CUTE.
Which brings me back to the thing that threw me off Lulu most back when I started, besides her name, which made me think of a French poodle.
I am not much for cute. The irony of a death-and-brimstone strong female character with a cute squishy doll doesn't escape me, but I am suspicious of cute anime sidekicks anyway (unless in Vampire Princess Miyu, where it's a parody with bloodshot eyes and teensy little fangs), and I am especially suspicious of strong female characters being "defanged". It would be like putting little smiley faces on Auron's sword.
I became somewhat more reconciled to the Moogles when someone pointed out to me that they are like Shinto nature spirits. Totoro and such.
Nevertheless, I gloss over Lulu's Moogles as though they don't exist, when I write. I like the idea that it's her magic, her power, her skill.
A lot of other writers do as well. Yet a few have included Moogles (not leastsaharasnow, who is an artist when it comes to dolls) to good effect.
I wonder what other folks' thoughts are about the Lu Moogle.
muggy_mountain's "?!?". It's so CUTE.Which brings me back to the thing that threw me off Lulu most back when I started, besides her name, which made me think of a French poodle.
I am not much for cute. The irony of a death-and-brimstone strong female character with a cute squishy doll doesn't escape me, but I am suspicious of cute anime sidekicks anyway (unless in Vampire Princess Miyu, where it's a parody with bloodshot eyes and teensy little fangs), and I am especially suspicious of strong female characters being "defanged". It would be like putting little smiley faces on Auron's sword.
I became somewhat more reconciled to the Moogles when someone pointed out to me that they are like Shinto nature spirits. Totoro and such.
Nevertheless, I gloss over Lulu's Moogles as though they don't exist, when I write. I like the idea that it's her magic, her power, her skill.
A lot of other writers do as well. Yet a few have included Moogles (not least
saharasnow, who is an artist when it comes to dolls) to good effect.I wonder what other folks' thoughts are about the Lu Moogle.
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"Rikku! Put that paint down right this instant!"
"You never let me have any fun!"
"I'm only doing this for your own good, you know. And by 'for your own good' I mean 'because I really don't want you to die horribly until you finish teaching Tidus how to steal things'."
"Gee, thanks."
"Where'd you get half a gallon of red paint, anyway? Do I want to know?"
"I picked it up in Guadosalam. No one seemed to be using it."
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Heh.
Thanks for the funny! :)
Rikku, Rikku. She's really not that much of a mischief-maker in FFX, and yet we still see her as this imp on two legs.