Suikoden Characters: Rita

As of late I've been replaying Suikoden  IV, and I would like to post the advantages of having the character Rita in your party!

Rita is a spunky young girl, who appears in Suikoden IV, and Suikoden Tactics. She's a side character that you can recruit early on in both games. She'll join the party if you play, and beat her in one of her games. Suikoden IV involves the player playing against her in "Rita-Pon", a game like Mahjong, except with characters from the game as symbols. In Tactics, you have to get your characters element over more spaces than her, in a splatoon like fashion. Since Suikoden Tactics came out in 2005, Rita thought of Splatoon first ya'll!

In the series, she takes place of the Trickster category. Tricksters are normally young, energetic girls, who use hammers, or long range weapons (Knives and crossbows). Usually, they have a knack for engineering/building things. Rita isn't necessarily a builder type, but her creativity when it comes to making new games, can be similar to "creating".  Her outfit is very reminiscent to the other trickster characters as well. Other tricksters have striped clothing themes, and a focal point item, for Rita, it's the orbs on her outfit. (Earlier, and Later installments have Bells, and Buttons. Unironically, another trickster's name is Belle, and she has bells.)

 Rita is an early character, who has great magic stats, and a powerful weapon for a magician type of character.

Rita is actually a mix between a mage character, and a fighter character, but she's not strong enough to be a Jack of all trades type that has an equal amount of stats all around. Basically, she is weaker than the hero character when it comes to HP, and Strength, but she has better magic power than him, and she's stronger physically than other characters who are complete mage characters. Which makes her a bit of the best of both worlds. Since she's one of the first recruit-able characters in both games, it's good to have her in the party with her high magic stats. She'll gain magic faster than the other early characters, although eventually she does slow down around level 40 and everyone else catches up with her.

The really interesting thing about Rita is, although she is more of a mage character, her weapon is actually much stronger than other mage type characters, and can deal much more damage than most mage types.

Basically, Rita has good magic power, and her weapon is strong, but her "physical" strength and hp are not as good. She's basically an equal opportunity character, but just a little bit under the line of jack of all trades type.

Rita, on the Suikoden wiki

When Rita appears in Suikoden Tactics, they change her into a "Fighter" type character, which means she cannot use regular magic (Due to it being a tactics game, the mechanics are a bit different than a normal Suikoden games). This also happens to the character Wendel, which is very bizarre considering Rita and Wendel are great magic users in Suikoden IV. They literally have better magic stats in Tactics, than the rest of the magician characters! But they cannot use magic, I think the reason they did this, was because of their weapons not being "Mage type" weapons, and being more powerful, so they toned the characters down. (Wendel uses claws as her weapon) Maybe they didn't want the characters to be OP, even though there is one character you can get, that has a fighter type weapon, that can use magic. (Obviously, it's a different story, but still.)

Overall, Rita is a quirky, and unique character, who walks like Tommy Pickles from the Rugrats, and is a nice mix between a mage, and fighter character. Who may or may not be, and ancestor to the trickster Meg, from Suikoden I & II. (Considering Suikoden IV takes place 150 years before the first game, and they hint this with other characters in Suikoden V.)

Elemental Maidens of Destiny!

I've been slacking on blog posts lately, I have some ideas, but I've been extremely lazy lately!!!
I have however been playing lot's of Suikoden IV! Which also brings me to the idea I came up with a few years ago!
For those who are not familiar, Suikoden is an RPG series where you recruit 108 characters (Known as the stars of destiny) to help fight an opposing force. In the first Suikoden, there are exactly five female characters who all have throwing knives as their weapon. In Suikoden, you can give characters elemental magic that varies from Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and Lightning. These are known as runes, which are magical orbs that imbue it's magical powers onto the person. (Which can be removed, or added, by a person known as a "Rune Master")
I went and gave each character a different element, and by doing this, I realized that they became "magical girls". Magical girls, for those who don't know, is a trope seen in anime like Sailor Moon, or Saint October. Where it's a group of 5 characters, who all have different colored outfits, and usually different elemental abilities (That also match their attire). Below are the characters, and what element I gave to each character. I usually give characters elements based off of the colors they wear!

I created my own version of "runes".

Cleo

Cleo on the Suikoden wiki

 I always give fire magic to Cleo, (Which is given to her by another character in the game). Although many fans like to give her water magic.

Meg

 

Meg on the Suikoden Wiki

I mix around magic with Meg, I either give her Water, or Lightning. But once you recruit all 5 of the characters, I stick with lightning on her. Meg is the least  magical character of the girls, and giving her water, and/or lightning, is better for her than Wind, or Earth because of their spell types. (Fire would also work for her too) Early level spells for Wind and Earth include defense, and sleep spells. Using healing (water), or attack spells (lightning/fire) are more useful for a character who isn't the best (or worst) with magic, such as Meg.

Meg re-appears in the second game, where they give characters affinities to certain magic. Coincidentally, she's only good with Lightning, and Wind magic in the second.

Eileen

Eileen on the Suikoden Wiki

Eileen joins the group with Earth magic.

Sarah 

Sarah on the Suikoden wiki

Sarah, I give Water because of her blue outfit. (You also meet her, while she's washing clothes, so it's kind of fitting actually)

Tengaar

Tengaar on the Suikoden wiki

Tengaar, being the last recruit, I gave her wind. Although, in the second Suikoden, she's good with Earth, Wind and Fire (Which perfectly fits her outfit colors!). 

(Meg, and Tengaar re-appear in the second game as playable characters. Cleo, Eileen, and Sarah do not, but they all make cameo appearances in the hero of the first games home-town. )

Together they make the five ladies the Elemental Maidens of Destiny!

I almost forgot! 

Last but not least is, Glo-Rya!
The secret elemental maiden of destiny! She's so secret, she's not even in the game! In fact, she's my sassy co-worker! (I just wanted to put this in here for fun)

The one, the only, Glo-Rya!

This is just a fun little post I made.

Unfortunately, the other Suikodens don't have enough knife throwers in their games to do this! I'm still experimenting with this idea, and may come up with different ideas for the Suikoden games in the future. I may even incorporate a similar scenario in my own stories. 

I made Darkness, and Holy images too!

Check out the original post on Tapatalk.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/suikokyacross/magical-throwing-knife-maidens-of-destiny-t150.html

Why I don't like politics

I am not a fan of politics. I would actually probably not be into politics, if it wasn't for the fact that politics has taken an interest in me!

Here is a quote by Pericles.

"Just because you do not take interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

For me, politics has taken an interest in me. By trying succeeding and infringing on my rights just because I am merely homosexual. For some reason many religious people/conservatives believe that because the bible says this and that about homosexuality. (Which is up for interpretation, and written by tons of different people that "heard" the voice of god in ancient times. Also, the words gay, and homosexual do not exist in the Hebrew language.) This for some reason makes conservatives think that it's okay to attack LGBTQIA individuals, and constrict us because we're different and "Against their religion". This has lead to people to being fired, not allowed to adopt, not allowed to give blood, beaten, and even MURDERED for being LGBTQIA. All because you don't agree with someone/something, doesn't mean you need to go out of your way and butt into their lives. You're not being religious, you're just an asshole who doesn't like it when people are different from you.

• I don't like politics because I find them uninteresting and boring, but I also don't think they're cool, they cause so much chaos and fighting.
• I don't like them because it causes separation due to people having different ideals and opinions, and just causes people to hate each other for it.
• I disagree with politics, because they're out to take my human rights, just because I was born differently than others.

I have little to no interest in politics, I may be considered a democrat/liberal, but I don't care about politics. I just have views, and thoughts on certain things, but other than that I don't like or care about politics.

I feel like it would be better if everyone came together to come up with ideas, rather than everyone ripping each other apart and hating on one another. Or just separate the country into two sects!

Don't block the VENTilation

 71 lemons were murdered to make this picture...

As they say, when life gives you lemons, make beef stew! 

Or was that just from the Andy Milonakis show. ; o

 I've been recovering from having a crush on someone. Basically, I've never felt this way for anyone before, and then I found out the guy I liked was straight, of course I have to get over him. But the problem is, when I talk about him, people are just like, "You need to get over him", and I'm just like "O rly?". Because last time I checked, you were not in my head, so you have no idea what's going on with me right now.

Maybe I need someone to vent to!
(Just like the fact that any time I like a guy, I find out they're straight...)

 I feel like some people are not really grasping the subject here, I really liked this guy, and no maybe I never dated him and sure I don't know him that well, but I really genuinely liked him and I've never had someone on my mind 24/7 before. Because of him I could not focus on my creative projects, (such as my Esmeralda story), I could only think about him. He was on my mind all of the time, and when I would get to see him, I would feel comfortable, safe, just happy, and like nothing bad could ever happen when around him. When I was away from him, I would feel like something was missing, and I just could not hold the anticipation of seeing him again.
I also thought that if I could get with him, that he could actually become a muse for me and help me get inspired for my creative projects.

Don't forget about me now! Esmeralda will not stand for this incompetence over a boy! Get my story done yo!

But I feel like everyone's thinking, "oh I just thought he was hot", and that was it. Sure that's easy to get over (More than likely). But that's not what happened, in fact I didn't even think he was attractive when I first saw him! I was like, he's eh, but he has some nice arm porn going on there! (I call guys with muscular arms, arm porn.). It wasn't until he introduced himself to me, and I shook his hand, that all of a sudden I felt something. After I had met him, I had this huge flow of energy over me and all of a sudden I was addicted to him, like he was some kind of drug or something.
When he introduced himself to me, I felt like our souls connected to each other, and after that I was attracted to him. As I got to know him, I found out that we had almost everything in common! We had the same opinions, it's almost like I found myself in him. I just felt like we were In sync (Not to be confused with the band :P), like we just got each other and that it just worked. I 100% honestly thought I had met my soul mate, I just felt like he was made for me. There were many clues that I found the universe was giving me, that made me believe we were meant to be together. An image popped in my head that showed a red string attached to each other, which usually means destined to be lovers, this is a psychic experience I had..(Of course this depends on whether you believe in psychic powers or not. Check this link out if you're curious. Click this!)  that was actually one of the big reasons why I thought it was different this time. Not to mention, normal people do not have their mind on an attractive person 24/7, usually it means something else...
The interesting thing was, when I was into him, I was not attracted to anyone else anymore. Even famous actors like George Eads were un-attractive to me, which is crazy because I've always thought he was the hottest guy on the planet! ( I still think he's hot, no matter what age he is too!

Your existence, is my drug of choice!

It wasn't until almost two months later, that my friends told me he was straight, and had a girlfriend, after that I was actually depressed for 4 days and I was even nauseous for a little while. I literally felt heartbroken, like everything started to make sense in the world, and then it was all shattered, I just felt empty inside... No I never got with him, but the more I got to know him, the more I cared about him, and the more of an amazing person I found him to be!

Won't be needing this anymore.

Keep in mind, that any other time I found out a guy was straight, I was just like. Oh whatever, happens all the time, and I would move on. But because I felt like this time was different, that I connected with this guy on such a strong level, I thought it was different this time!
The more I got to know him, the more I realize he would be the perfect guy for me if he wasn't straight!

Falling for a straight guy, is a big time bummer. Especially since there aren't as many options for LGBT, since more straights in the world exist than gays..

Sure, maybe I am upset he is not bi like I thought, because I liked him and I hate being wrong. Which also makes me wonder if I even have a bi-dar at all.....
Yes, I have to get over him because he is not into guys, and yes after I realized he was straight, I did notice he was just an overly friendly person and that's why I also thought he was flirting with me.
He's just a really nice person that talks to everyone, and asks random questions about if I like sports or if I cook, and how Pyrex is a better cooking brand than Anchor...
But getting over someone takes time, and to be fair I'm probably taking it better than other people would have!
Although, on a side note, I even had a ship name for us! (For those of you who don't know, a ship name is when you pair two people together in a romantic relationship and mash their names together. So for instance, everyone likes the characters Dean and Castiel from Supernatural; everyone wants to see them get together and fall in love.. so everyone calls their ship name Destiel.)

Waiting for my ship to come in...

At one point, I was afraid that maybe I was infatuated with him. I was afraid that thinking about him 24/7 and always just wanting to be around him was something else.. It's called something similar to an attack in Chrono Cross called Luminaire.

After 10 minutes, I found it! The word is Limerence, which is an infatuated love. I was worried I had that instead, but when I checked out the symptoms, I did in fact not have it. (Or did I?)

So I really don't know what it is that I have/had, since it's not Limerence. I really can't explain it, why do/did I think about someone so much if they would never be into me? I find myself to be an open minded person, and sane enough to move on, so I know I don't have Limerence.

Luminaire, Limerence, almost the same thing! lol omg they both have 9 letters!

I'm going through the phase now where I am getting over him, and I still want to be his friend because he's still a really cool guy, and honestly I don't really have straight guys for friends, so it would be nice to have a new edition since 99.9% of my friends are all straight girls, or gay boys. (I still want a lesbian bff tho, I am taking applications ladies...)

Since I found out he was straight, I was able to get over him, but also take my feelings for him and then just lock them up. Now I don't find him attractive anymore, and I don't get all of the warm fuzzy feelings I had for him before. I still look at his nice arms because I just love me some good arm porn ok, don't judge me ho!

Like I used to have an over 9000 crush on him, but now it's like a .05%. The crush I had on him, it's almost completely gone now, as I am moving on.

Although I don't know why those things happened to me spiritually, it could mean something could change in the future, or maybe as my friend and I had both thought. Maybe I was connecting with him through someone else. Maybe he knows/knew the guy I'm supposed to end up, and that's what I felt when I met him. Maybe I just felt that he was going to become a good friend, who knows.. only the future can tell.

 (Which did not happen, he did not want to be friends on Facebook)

Now, anytime I talk about him, I seem to get shushed. Even if I just say I want to see him more so I can become friends with him and I'm like.. could you not? Like obviously you don't know how I felt about him, but not only do you need to understand I am getting over him, but also that I'm still going to talk about him regardless..... shushing me just means I can't seem to talk to you about it.. which is fine because some other friends are in the know and they don't mind if I talk about him.

But I find that when you don't understand something, there's just no use explaining because they just won't get it. No matter how many times you try, sometimes explaining something to someone is like beating a dead horse, you just won't get anywhere.

People can't seem to grasp the concept that I am moving on, but I still want to have him in my life because he's a cool person.

Not to mention, you still need to vent about things and it's important to vent. Now if I was crushing on someone and they weren't in my life anymore and I was still thinking about them 6 months from now, then I would worry about someone if that was their problem.

Meanwhile I have new standards, I'll date someone 2-3 years younger than me, mostly hairless is a plus, muscles is always a good thing!

The guy that I've been talking about is actually 2 years younger than me, and I'm shocked because I've always liked older guys, and it kind of freaks me out that he's younger than me... But I was ready to go for it anyways, and not be a superficial ho.

But he also has almost a hairless body which I love, I am not a hair person. He is also about the same height as me, so that's a good thing. I'm starting to think it's a good thing to date or want to date someone that is the same, or just about the same height as you, it just seems to work better. Not that you can't, but I feel like that's just a new preference for me.

And yes I am getting over him, because when I was into him, I wasn't into anyone else.. (Even George Eads... whaaaaat)  but my attraction to other guys is coming back, so I know that I am losing my attraction to him because I know I can't have him, even if he is legit the perfect guy for me.

At the same time, I've also learned a few things from liking him. I wanted to learn to dance, to get his attention. Although he never saw me dance, but now that I don't have someone to dance for, I like dancing, and I dance for my friends.. (Which I was also shushed for by someone when I told them that, they did mention I can dance for someone else, of course.)

It's all a process really, and if this happens to someone else as it happened to me. You just need time, that's what everyone needs to get over anything really! If someone is going to be a butt about it, just don't talk to them about it anymore because they don't understand what you're going through!

I made a follow up post So much wasted time

Follow the rest of my Crush Arc

• Don't Block The VENTilation • So Much Wasted Time • Ding Dong Doozy Of A Day! •

What is love?

I'm going to explain what I think about love, and how I see it.

What is love you ask?

 

• In my opinion, love is when you really care about someone, and will do anything for them.
• It's when you'll help them out, even if you get nothing in return.
• Love is, liking someone so much even if they're being a unsavory, or acting out, you'll still do anything for them.
• Love is when, no matter what someone does, you will always care about them regardless of the situation.
• Love is, accepting someone for who they are, even if they have their flaws, and you even love their flaws.
• Love is, accepting and understanding someone's opinion, when they do not share the same as your own.
• Love is when someone believes something that you don't believe in, but you look at them no differently than you normally would.
• Love is when you care about someone so much, nothing they could ever do would make you think differently of them.
• Love is when someone will help pick you up when you're down.
• Love is when you will go out of your way to help someone, even if they don't love you back. (There is a difference between someone that you love, but doesn't like you that way and someone that is just an evil ho and is using you, know the difference!!!)

I found this saying on Facebook, and I believe this to be true.

"My only relationship goal is to be with someone who motivates me to become a better person and show me the potential I don't see in myself."

No, I have never been in love before, but this is what I feel love is.. and I'm sure I didn't get it all, so maybe I'll make a part two some day. (Or add to this)