After taking part in what is starting to become this massive steal chain, I came up with a Zoid concept that is both original and somewhat official. Surprisingly enough, the idea received a lot of props, despite the idea being a mere side note. In my previous journal, which can be found here: [link] the subject was on Zoids (duh), and covering some of one's preferences and history.

Anyway, when I had to figure out what Zoid I would pilot, I had a hard time choosing (and not just choosing between one or two). As you all know, Mugen Liger's an immediate "hell yes" (look at my avatar and be awed by its awesomeness, newcomers!), but when it comes to practicality, Mugen's not exactly a good choice, as its sole weapons are all close range or melee.

Practically, I would probably be using an Energy Liger (the Hasbro/Guylos Black), and that on its own has more than enough firepower (with only two weapons, mind you!) to take down a small squad of foes by itself. With max speed of 412.8 mph (yes, I did the conversions, damnit), nuclear generators, and a wide range of customization and hard points available, I <3<3<3<3 it. However, since I'm not using the Fuzors version of it, E-Liger has a HUGE flaw. I don't know if it's common knowledge or not, but the Energy Liger has an operation time of exactly 5 minutes. Not exactly my idea of my personal mount. Also, the Imperial Liger also lacks (to an extent) melee capability, as most of its weapons or that type are realistically hard to use.

Now, I was just thinking on a tangent here, but what if I could throw Mugen Liger and Energy Liger together? It isn't that unrealistic, as I made 7 different E-Liger variants (a few of them required multiple Energy Ligers. Though I didn't take pictures of them, these are the configurations.

HAS, (Heavy Artillery System, featuring Death Stinger's CPC and tail weapons, Fire Phoenix's leg cannons among others, for long-range, devastation bombardments);
GBX, (GunblasterX, featuring, multiple E-Liger weapons, some of Gunblaster's Rolling Cannon armaments, among others, for long-range, suppressive fire/precision attacks);
KWX, (Konig WolfX, featuring E-Liger stripped of all armor, replaced with some of KW's armor and jump boosters, for max speed);
CU, (Commander Unit, basically a slightly heavier armored E-Liger without the horn and with Elephander's chest guns on);
CPX, (Chimera PhoenixX, featuring a fusion between E-Liger and virtually every BLOX component I had, for firefights);
RF, (Retro-Fitted, customizing the wing/stabilizers, armor, and mounting Flyscissor's X-Breakers on it, more like a personal unit);
Omega, (The only E-Liger variant never finished, featured Berserk Fuhrer's Buster Claws, HAS, GBX, RF, and CU units).

So I thought, if I could do that, why couldn't there be a mixture between Mugen and Energy Liger? At first, I merely thought of adding some of Mugen's armor and its katanas to E-Liger, but now that I read the comments from my previous journal, I feel like actually attempting a full merge between the two. Of course, I have to use either DoGA or Metasequoia, but I actually want to try to attempt this. This will be the first time since I have joined DA that I have tried working with pre-made, "official" designs, even though I'm fusing two of them. Well, wish me luck!

I stole this idea from , who stole it from , hope neither of them mind. Since I've left the realm of Zoids alone for a long, long, time, I felt that it was only right to give them the attention they deserve.

First Zoid:
My first Zoid, if I remember correctly, was a Hasbro Zaber Fang, which somehow disappeared, except for one or two of its parts. After that, I started getting more Zoids (both BLOX and regular, usually the Liger/Tiger/Fury sized ones).

Favorite Zoid:
Ah, crap, here we go. Well, favorites from all of the Zoids that I've seen, Mugen Liger, hands down (come on, look at my avatar), followed by Berserk Fuhrer, Konig Wolf, Liger Zero, Blade Liger, Pteramander, and I'm going off topic, but they're all a close second. Model wise, Energy Liger (also one of my favorites.

Favorite release/line:
Honestly, I don't really care as any Zoid from any line is better than none.

Holy Grail:
Again, ah crap. If I absolutely had to choose... I hate my life, I can't choose. All Zoids would be my Holy Grail (especially if I wound up customizing them). Hell, all mecha are my Holy Grail (with some exceptions).

Zoid(s) I'd pilot:
Besides the Zoids I design? Well, odds are, they're going to be heavily customized... Off the top of my head, Mugen Liger, Energy Liger (merge them together and hell yes, I have my main unit), Konig Wolf, Berserk Fuhrer, Pteramander, Buster Eagle, (I'm not going to go any farther into BLOX, as every single one I got was fused with all the others). Basically speed with a mix of both close and long range, usually with strong weapons.

Favorite series:
All of them, minus Fuzors, as I never got to finish it.

Stuff I'd like to see in the newest lines:
Remakes of EVERYTHING from beginning to end (although I have heard rumors that the Zoids line has been ended permanently).

Misc:
I wish I could have all of my old Zoids back and some of the ones that I have never obtained. Odds are, I would still be tinkering and customizing them to no end. And as I have seen awesome paintjobs and customs on here, I would be attempting to do the same.

uber cybernetic cookie to whoever knows where the title came from

Yeah, I'm sick (as much as I hate to admit it), and despite all of my protesting, I'm now stuck in my bed with only Gin-Chan connecting me to the outside world. Normally, students try to feign sickness to skip school. I try to fight my sickness to continue going to school. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Especially when the person saying this is the only person (or one of very few people) that normally wear outfits made famous by the people that fight the system (trenchcoat, tripp pants, chains, all of them black obviously, the works).

So my symptoms started showing up on Tuesday, the day when my fashion teacher called in sick (for the same reason apparently), and it took the staff all the way to Thursday morning to convince me to go home. At that point, it got really bad (the sickness). My symptoms are currently:

-Massive Headache
-Really Painful Cough (both dry and producing)
-Runny Nose
-Mucus in the Lungs
-General Pain All Over My Body (from sleeping)

In the case of the last one, from Tuesday to now, I've slept for about 60 hours in a more or less uninterrupted phase. It's probably a lot more, but I don't remember that much. Anyway, I'm confined here with my sick self, and virtually nothing to do today (more like forbidden to do anything that requires me to get out of bed). I hate my life...

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very important announcement to make. As you all know, my beloved Shelia (my laptop) broke a few months back, her screen faltering and going dark. After being passed around from person to person, she is now finally resting in peace (and in pieces). She was a good laptop, though she did have her problems (namely running Vista with 512 MB of RAM among others), and I can truly say that I loved her in a sense.

However, she is now forever gone, disappearing without a single farewell. I will admit I had no immediate plans on fixing her, and instead buying another laptop, but alas, even that didn't work out as planned. Since I had only raised around two hundred dollars, and the Acer Inspire One that I was looking at (which I had already decided on calling "Chibi") escalated to $350, there was no physical way that I could gather the sufficient funds to purchase the mini-laptop in a reasonable time span.

When I came home though, Shelia was gone. In her place was another laptop, not Chibi, but a silver Toshiba. Though not as new and as fast as the Inspire One, a laptop is a laptop nevertheless, and I don't plan on complaining or looking the gift horse in the mouth.

So, to make things short, I got a new (used) Toshiba brand laptop (Toshiba because my mom heard that they were the most durable), hereby named "Gin-Chan" (Japanese for 'silver' plus the honorific ending for a girl). I can't name her Chibi because she isn't that small. The Acer can literally fit on my wrist if I made Velcro straps for it. Gin-Chan's a bit thinner than Shelia, but a bit longer as well. I don't know the exact specs of this laptop (though she did tell me that she has about 40 GB of memory), but I just hope that it can keep up with me, as I am currently downloading and reinstalling the programs I used to have.

I have died and gone to the high school equivilant of otaku heaven. I don't know if it was pure concidence, or if the time that I have spent alone from the rest of the social world was all leading to this moment, but one thing is certain. As the last words of the final episode of 00 Gundam's second season read, my "childhood" (in many senses) has come to an end.

There's two ways to say this. For those of you who just want the blunt version, I've joined an anime club. However, that barely scratches the surface of the true beauty of this fact. Normally, I wouldn't read into anything this much, but the way that all of this happened is just too weird to ignore.

Ironically, I went to school this morning wearing my Shinigami kimono and hakama (the haori was too much), not because I knew of any anime club, but because 1): I haven't worn the things in a while, and 2): my traditional look (tripp pants and trench coat) needed to be left at Fashion so I could begin the activities that the class had in store for them. Since they (my Death God garb) were the first thing I saw, I thought "why the hell not?"

To make things even more significant, when I arrived at my high school (I go to a vocational school in the morning and go to high school around 10-ish), I noticed a flyer on the stairwell wall about this anime club. I never saw any of these flyers beforehand, and if I did, I never looked at them twice. However, today was different.

The flyer said the place and time, and *gasp* the first meeting was today, approximatly two hours from when I'm typing at this very moment. Normally, I would have just said "this is impossible, I didn't make any arrangements," and all that happy stuff. But today, it didn't matter what the hell it said, it was the equivilant of the "letter" that Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion received from his father, telling him to come to Tokyo-3 (OMG I'm making anime references like I'm some sort of otaku...wait a minute).

Thankfully, my friend Zack saw this and said that he would come too. At first, I thought that it wasn't nessercary, but it was due to him that I was actually able to attend. If he didn't, I wouldn't have had a ride home from his kind mother, and since my parents work into the night and I don't know my brother's phone number, I would have been sunk any other way. Oddly enough, he actually enjoyed it. I never figured him to be the anime type.

Anyway, I arrive at where the club meeting is being held, and lo and behold, people started flowing in. I never thought that there were so many people into anime in my school (hence why I never advertised my obsession/passion for it). I was expecting maybe four or five people. We had over triple that amount. Hell, if we had any more people arrive, we would have needed a bigger classroom. Apparently, if you announce it, they WILL come.

And my mind was blown away from the boy/girl ratio. There were three guys (me and my friend included) there. Everyone else was a girl, and most of them were of the fangirl variety. I always assumed that the majority of anime fans were male. I'm not trying to be sexist, since I'm thrilled that so many girls in my age group enjoy the same things I do, but I simply wasn't expecting it.

The surprises didn't stop there. We had a sheet passed around to write down our names, and choose an "anime name" to use as a nickname in the club. By now, I'm pretty certain that you all (or at least my long-term friends here on DA) know what I use as my alias. For those who don't, it's the first half of my username on here (I only use the full version because it's normally already taken on many of the websites or forums that I frequent). Yeah, it's not Japanese, but I like the ring of it. They're lucky I didn't use Leon, because that OC's full name is wicked long, especially when converted into romanji. Hell, Leon's actually a shortened version of his first name.

After everyone "settled down" (meaning that it was only moderatly chaotic), we began to introduce ourselves, usually with the following setup:

Recive Urahara Kiskue plushie (that's how we decided turns)
Name:
Nickname:
Favorite Five Animes:
Hobbies:
Favorite Color: (why I don't know)
Experience in Anime: (I think I beat all of them in this, since I have no life whatsoever)

However, my intro was a bit longer. Keep in mind I'm wearing (most of, no haori and no Zanpakutou) my hand-made Shinigami clothes and this is my first time in an anime club. Needless to say, most of them loved it. It's kind of redundant to say this, but they actually knew what it was based off of (they were the first to know what it was without me telling them, excluding DA). I actually had to convince them by showing the crappy excess fabric in the hems of the hakama that I actually made it myself.

Once they accepted that, a good amount of them asked if I could make some for them, and when I answered "Yeah, I just need measurements and fabric", I think I impressed a lot of people, as I was glomped. Oddly enough, I don't like hugs, but I don't mind being glomped. (BTW, I made some people laugh when I handed chibi Urahara to another person as I was treating it like a holy relic).

Anyway, it was fun, considering it was my first actual club experience. I don't consider my earlier afterschool endeavors as Chibi Mobius participating in clubs because they were orgainzed and run strictly by adults. The one staff member (I don't use "adult" because I'm technically one as well, and there's probably a few seniors there as well) there more or less took a backseat and let the chaos that can only be found in anime clubs or conventions ensue. The reason I found it fun was that I could truly act like myself right off the bat, and that everyone there was more or less as eccentric as I am. I have found my people after nineteen years of wandering and seclusion. My only regret-I didn't find this club earlier in my life. I just hope that I can attend it for a long time to come.