Naked Boy Among the (Fake) Flowers.

[leene_chan]

Holy crap it is cold today! And this all happened overnight? It's a good thing Kristen has crocheted so many Homespun afghans over the years. They're nice when the chilly weather sets in.

I painted a doll last night. It was that white-skinned C body boy with the purple/blue mesh hair. His name is Endymion. And no, I didn't name him after the character in Sailor Moon. He has no right to call himself a man!

Then again, neither does this little boy. ^o^

I told you that the only way I could motivate myself to use this head again for a boy was if I did something weird to it! I rooted his hair similar to Kumi's (or Volks' Albert if you will), moving the front hairline back a quarter of an inch and rooting the bangs into the head last. It gave the hair nice lift in the crown and gives him the illusion of having a higher forehead but it was a pain to do!

He doesn't look quite human, so maybe it's okay for me to leave him nudy for a while. I have five more dolls to paint. I was in a hurry!

I've found out through various sources that the mystery characters in TOA have been identified as well as their voice actors. And here are my reactions:

Matsumoto Yasunori as Guy Cecil (blond-haired young man). Hrm hrm hrm....well, he's an legitimate seiyuu and that is good. He's been in a lot but to my discredit I've only heard him twice: as Louis Napoleon in Shin Captain Tsubasa where he was faking a French accent and was annoying as hell and as Anubis in Samurai Troopers where he was effing hilarious. I also heard him as Shuukaido in the PSME OVA but I can't remember what he sounded like. ^o^ Oh well. Not bad.

Neya Michiko as Natalia L. K. Lambardia.

......

...O_o....

Okay, so I've only heard her as Maria in SO3 (and a couple incomprehensible battle squawks as Emeralda in Xenogears. But man, her voice grated on me, I thought it was awful but what am I expecting from a video game? Uh...it's not that I haven't liked characters in spite of hating their voices before but I'm going to have to wait and see on this one. Mwah ha ha!

::screams::

And Nakata Jouji is in this game. I think he's awesome. :D

I'll have to accept that no one in a Tales game is ever going to sound as good as Klarth. Before anyone says "Shut up, of course you would say that, Klarth-lover!" I have to point out that it was his voice that made me love him! O_O