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(...I'm so happy.)
I really should have updated as [Dam]ian & Louie's story unfolded, but real life gets in the way.
(...So very happy.)
I promise I'll rip MMVII apart later & address the questions that the storyline failed to answer, as well as the new ones it prompted, but right now I'm too giddy to notice anything aside from the fact that
IAN IS BACK!!! I saw him before the announcement (have to sell items to make that cash-money)!
In honor of his new look, I changed my headgear. I love my sacred leaf, but I think the ginkgo on my hat works better for emulating Ian's threads.
I was so happy that I finally gave my avvie a smiling mouth!
Ian
"Hey, HavenaLooksee! It's great to see you again." And he knows my name! See me again? But I've never seen you manning the store...oh, maybe you saw me & your other supporters during the trial. Or participating in the Halloween '07 event. wink
"You like the hair? I finally stopped bleaching it." Well, yes, I do prefer brunettes, but I was more curious about your eyes. Did you stop wearing contacts too? Because before they were brown with round irises, and now they are gray with cat-like slits. Do the vampy eyes mean your "cure" wasn't complete (because you are a "born" vampire, instead of a "created" one)? Or did you chose not to take it after all? and more importantly...WHERE IS YOUR HAT?!
"Has Rufus been taking good care of the place?" Yes. heart
"I hope I can still remember how to work the register." I wouldn't sweat it. If Liam & Sascha can work the cash registers in their respective stores, then it can't be too complicated.
"Zhivago's still out there somewhere, but I can't hide forever." Atta, boy! You can take him. Even I could take him...he's a total pansy. I noticed he only goes mano-a-mano with little kids or people who are chained up and can't fight back. If he's facing an unfettered adult he skulks around the windows or uses a long range sniper rifle. That's right, I'm calling you out, Zhivago...you lame Camper!
HavenaLooksee · Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 07:47pm · 0 Comments |
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Last year, in my journal & the trial of Ian event forum, I postulated that Ian's last name might be Von Helson.
And this latest Manga page seems to confirm that his full name is actually Damian Von Helson ( eek Oh! stare I see what youdid there).
Though I'm willing to allow that he may still be a relative of the Gambinos too. Perhaps his mother was Johnny K's sister? And her death while trying to flee with Ian & Louie is what "still hurts" the elder Gambino?
Although, she doesn't have the Gambino brows. Maybe she's an old friend / ex-love of Johnny K's then?
Either scenario would explain Johnny K. resenting Ian (because Vladimir killed her for trying to escape with the children...perhaps Johnny assumes Vlad wouldn't have cared if she'd left on her own)?
Even if that's the case, is Johnny K. vindictive enough to allow the child of a friend/relative to be raised by a cat & a stranger, and then to try and destroy that family's livelihood, just to satisfy his misplaced blame?
Um...I vote yes. Yes, he is that big of a jerk (Blame Ian all you want, Johnny. The fact is the zombie outbreak was caused by G-Corps's sloppiness. And you were the one who decided Gino wasn't good enough & needed to be "improved" by dosing him with the G-Corp virus).
Is that what Ian recognized on the pill bottle? Did Gino's pills somehow match Ian's treatments?
The again, Johnny did consider Vlad a great man, so maybe he wouldn't care about her murder (presuming he knew Vlad was responsible).
Or maybe he's just cheesed that he is helping any member of the Von Helson tribe, after all they put him through by kidnapping Gino & tramautizing him enough that he became amnesiac.
Quote: Scene, underwater. Dr Zoidberg sees the smoldering husk of his conch-shell home.Dr. Zoidberg: My home! It burned down! [sobbing] How did this happen? Hermes Conrad: That's a very good question. Bender: [picking a lit cigar from the ashes] So that's where I left my cigar. Hermes Conrad: That just raises further questions!
Oh, this brings up all sorts of tantalizing possibilities! Maybe the Von Helson sisters kidnapped Gino because they assumed that he was Ian, being raised as Johnny's ward? But why did the vamp clan use the sniper to try to kill Ian (the Convergence manga implies that the sniper was working for them when he shot Ian)? Vlad did state death was the punishment for leaving, and Damian ran away. Or perhaps because Ian is working with Johnny & Edmund on a serum to somehow stop their nefarious, as yet unrevealed goals?
Do Gaian vamps have different vulnerabilities than traditional Earth archetypes? Of course, that begs the question that they are vampires at all. After all, they're not quite immortal (While Vlad is alive in Ian's dream/flashback/hallucination, it is implied in the 2nd anniversary ball that the twins killed him) or invulnerable (Marie's impressive scar after surviving the tower's collapse), and they apparently can age (Louie, per the wallpaper, is no longer a child).
And on a side note...KT & I have always noted that Liam's hair & dating habits are remarkably similar to Sascha's. Looks like their intelligence levels are too.
HavenaLooksee · Sat Sep 01, 2007 @ 01:33am · 1 Comments |
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Gaians are living life in clover |
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Wow, a bunch of stuff happened...but I didn't care about any of it. Honestly, the whole Flarn (aka Alien 09) thing just didn't capture my attention. They've apparently Zerg Zurg rushed (kekeke!!1!) off the planet now, and my only concern is if this means threads in the Zurg Mothership forum will soon be closed.
Like many of you, I was "lucky" enough to find some 4-leaf clovers around the site, so I'm sporting some shamrock items now (but those may go into storage later).
Gaian events lately have had rather poor items (Just the "Labu" necklace & bragging rights on Valentine's Day). And this 3 minute limit on tipping/zapping/probing or caroling or kissing or [insert present tense form of event-specific verb here] is getting pretty old.
Quote: I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it. ~ Mitch Hedberg
Look what Gypsy_KT donated to me the very next day after I added it to my wishlist: a brand spanking new "Anti Gambino Picket Sign"!
I was a little worried that my Ian-supporter status was obscured by my many event items, so this is perfect! Now one needn't read my unneccesarily long-winded journal entries to see my feelings for "The most powerful man in Gaia" and his milquetoast prodigy. Huh, maybe someday I'll unhide the hard shell defense packs (spiked and original flavor) from my wishlist...I was afraid that they'd overshadow my position on Johnny & Gino, but this sign leaves no doubt as to which side I'm on.
HavenaLooksee · Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 06:24am · 1 Comments |
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It's been an interesting week. In the real world we only had Halloween & Dia de los Muertos. In Gaia we had crop circles, organized cow formations, trick-or-treating, rival energy drink launches, bovine torment, Ron Bruise and the whole "War Skirmish of the Worlds" thing between aliens & humans in the forums.
Man, getting the items(Jack, Alien & Human) took quite a bit of work, huh? Most of us were probed and zapped within an inch of our lives! The perils of being a collector, I suppose.
The real victims are the cows, of course. Lured into the forums by cries of "cow" or "moo", attracted to the sweet alfalfa scent of our bump postings...only to be mercilessly beset by both sides. Unlike us, these poor creatures didn't even get an item to show for it.
I wish I could say that I rose above such petty, greedy grasping and did right by the cows. I wish I could say that I defended them, championed their rights, or at least refused to participte. Mais non, I am not innocent in this. emo I pestered those poor dumb, brute beasts relentlessly (both as an alien and a human). I must admit I was gripped by a fervid desire for virtual items. I had a fever, I tell you, and the only cure was more cowbell!
Quote: Alan Partridge: I’ve probably got more friends than you’ve got cows. Peter Baxendale Thomas: This is ridiculous. Alan: How many cows have you got? Peter: I’ve got a hundred cattle. Alan: Yeah, I’ve got a hundred and four friends.
HavenaLooksee · Sat Nov 04, 2006 @ 08:15am · 1 Comments |
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What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here? |
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I haven't been on Gaia in forever. Just checking back once a week or so to see if there's story updates. See, I'm not real big on chat rooms (I prefer IM'ing with people I know in real life), and blogging has always seemed embarrasingly self-absorbed to me (and Gaia journals are basically blogs). Yes, I know, there are useful blogs (like winternals, which broke the Sony rootrit story), but the majority seem to detail someone's mood, current musical selection, and amazon wishlist alongside their deep musings on hanging out at the mall with their friends. Pass.
I get around this blatant hypocrisy by writing these journals for Gypsy KT...because talking about the stuff in Gaia would take for-EV-er to type in an IM. Ditto for her, I believe...we type here to talk to each other and to our other Gaia friends.
So, I have a looksee today, and I see a story update.
Hmmm...everybody is standing in the exact same positions as before, but they were clearly NOT on top of the cliff when we last saw them (and if I remember correctly, much of the cliff itself was gone too). Sooo....what then? They got blasted to the bottom of the cliff, without injury; nay, without so much as dirtying their clothes or mussing their hair, and they landed in the exact same positions as before?
The Gambinos are seperated now. Will either still have the ability to throw mechs, support burning buildings or extend their limbs alá Stretch Armstrong?
Speaking of burning buildings, I thought Cindy was supposed to figure out "Who Dunit" for us. And what about Labtech X ("and scarecrow's brain" wink ?
Aliens now? "Game over, man, game over". If this plot gets any more convoluted, it will collapse into itself and form a singularity.
HavenaLooksee · Mon Sep 04, 2006 @ 05:55pm · 1 Comments |
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Angsty Cliff loves bunnies! |
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Ever played "Harvest Moon: Back to Nature"? Gypsy_Kt & I found it highly amusing that Cliff (the depressed guy in the hotel) would suddely forego all his emo-wallowing when you showed him some random fluffy animal (or bug). I wonder what he'd have made of the 11 foot tall cyborg bunny-wunny passing out baskets yesterday? I hated that once you got 1 full Easter set the baskets no longer went in numeric order...made getting additional sets that much harder. But it was a fun diversion.
Now for a storyline update, please! I must know the fates of LabtechX & Ian!
HavenaLooksee · Tue Apr 18, 2006 @ 06:26am · 1 Comments |
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Johnny K. Gambino, Father of the Year. No, seriously, he has a mug & everything.
I mean, wow, the guy was so obssessed with his legacy and making his kid more like him that he physically ABSORBED him. Granted, that part may have been unintentional; it's not clear if he was even conscious after his "body broke against the tower", or if anyone has conscious control over the mutated aspects of their bodies after being infected (did Gino deliberatly "grow" his arm, or was it a reflex? Did the zombies know biting people was wrong, and have the ability to resist their urges or were they slaves to their hunger?) but he still authorized a project to remake Gino into someone more like himself.
Poor Gino. Yeah, I know I've never had nice things to say about him in the past, but there was no malice (really!). I just didn't like him macking on another guy's girl. But...this...this was something new entirely. And completely unexpected (Yes, Gino made a psycho face at the hospital on Valentine's , but that proves nothing. After all, Ian made a similar face while toting a knife when Gino was staying at Sasha's, and nothing came of it...he just took his frustrations out on a particularily stale loaf of bread).
Apparently the cell combiner/G-virus can make you loco, but Gino completely flipped (even before the injection). Perhaps he'd already had some G-Virus in him from when he merged with his father a year earlier (that would explain how he aged rapidly & grew strong enough to throw mechs & become a load-bearing architechtural feature of the mansion), but his naturally wussy gentle demeanor was enough to keep it in check. At least until something triggered him, and made him snap like his father. Until he saw Sasha could possibly return Ian's feelings. Until he got a rival.
Then he morphs into his father.
As Gypsy_Kt pointed out, I guess you really can't help growing up & turning into your parents.
On a differnt note, it is reassuring (and touching) to know that VO's dedication did not mean his relationship with his father was like that of the Gambinos'.
HavenaLooksee · Mon Apr 03, 2006 @ 01:01am · 1 Comments |
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Hannibal loves it when a plot comes together |
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(Update: More pages have been added to the magna)
Wow. Color me impressed. This plot is actually coming together very nicely, and meshing quite well with everything that's gone on before.
Cindy, your updates are confusing me:
Quote: Fortunately, the only real damage occurred at the base of the cliff where Gino Gambino and the famed LabTech X fell yesterday.
Quote: The flash doesn't seem to have done any damage beyond the cliff itself
So then...Cindy is saying everybody's okay?
Except Gino & Labtech X.
Can't wait to see the next update, to resolve some important questions about Johnny K. Gambino's return:
Did that syringe of cell combining G-Virus Labtech X plunged into Gino contain Johnny K.'s cells, so that it's injection turned Gino into Johnny? The split knickers he's sporting certainly seem to support this (but not conclusively, as Gino & Johnny always wore similar outfits).
Or was Johnny actually Labtech X (They are both huge guys, and everyone in G-Corp but Gambino and 123 were turned into zombies), and he injected Gino to finally finish what he'd started (and the split short pants are his own, that he was wearing under the lab outfit)?
Or did they merge in some freaky Akira fashion as they fell (that mutated arm...ewwww) to form a Johnny/Gino hybrid (John-o? Ginny) creature?
(Update: More pages have been added to the magna)
Well, there was a freaky merging thing, but it didn't happen when they fell off the cliff. It happened when they fell off the tower last year. But why didn't the mutation finish until 365 days later? It didn't take that long to make zombies. Maybe it needed a catalyst (the stress of the duel? the extra G-Virus Labtech X provided)? And what happened to Labtech X? Did Johnny absorb him as they fell, the same way he'd absorbed his son a year ago?
Hmmm...so were the mysterious unknown pills designed to stop the G-Virus altogether? Probably not, Doctor 123 was trying to continue his work from before. So what then...did they stabalize him? Release the G-Virus at a slower, controlled rate? Or maintain his tranformation according to some schedule?
And what did the label say, that was so damning and yet simple enough that Ian thought Sasha would be able to comprehend it? "Product of G-Corp. Take one with food every 8 hours to prevent morphing into your father. Do not operate heavy machinery"?
STILL waiting to hear if everyone else is ok or not. Gypsy_Kt postulated that if everybody was absorbed we could call the resulting creature "Johninoan-Moirasha X".
HavenaLooksee · Sun Apr 02, 2006 @ 10:26pm · 1 Comments |
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And horses can't talk. No, no...nothing here adds up at all |
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Whew! Gaia events turn me into quite the chatterbox. Usually, I don't post or chat at all. I made three different boards for this event. And posted on many others.
From one of them:
Quote: MissMoppy Wrote: The little map Ian is gone. That doesn't bode well for it not being a dream. I mean, they didn't all go over the cliff. Then again, if it was... Why would Cindy be there? HavenaLooksee Wrote:Because, Gaia news 9 is everywhere News happens! Covering the story for you! Film at 11. She's been at a lot of the other events where Ian was...why wouldn't his subconcious stick her here too? But now that Gino finally stopped falling, it looks like it was real. Whew! So Gino was Johnny? Or just laughs like him?
I'm also a little confused about the traffic jams in Gaia.
(Update: More pages have been added to the magna)
So...everybody's dead? This is the wierdest plot ever.
Gypsy_Kt has a theory that everybody falling/being blown up, might not be so bad. She suggests they will suffer the same fate as Gino when he first fell off the tower; i.e., "they'll all show up again magically older after a few months."
HavenaLooksee · Sun Apr 02, 2006 @ 03:46am · 1 Comments |
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