A to Z Challenge: Jenova from Final Fantasy VII

This year for the A to Z Challenge, I have decided to highlight some characters from my favorite video game franchise Final Fantasy. I apologize to those of you who were reading my nerdiness.

Today's letter is J, and even if I could think of any other J character, I would still be highlighting the harbinger of the skies, the infamous Jenova from Final Fantasy VII.

There were a lot of cool things in the original video game, but when Sephiroth said, "I'm going to see Mother," and the music dropped, MAN. The image above is the Jenova Doll covering Jenova's tank inside of the Shinra reactor in Cloud's hometown. When Sephiroth reaches this, he pulls it away to reveal Jenova...

Definitely not human, let alone an Ancient. Jenova is actually an alien who feeds off of planets and then rides their dead shells onto another planet to do the same thing. She can mutate to look like creatures or the people of the planet, and her cells can also mutate them into beasts and superhumans like Sephiroth.

This is presumed to be Jenova's true form, which makes sense. I can see the way she would attach to a dead planet to sail it across the universe. Reading about her just makes you realize how messed up the whole situation really was! It still freaks me out.

Honorable Mention for J:

I believe when Tidus gets the news that his father Jecht is the monster Sin in FFX, you start to realize this game isn't going to have a happy ending. The man was already a bad father, but he sacrificed himself to become his summoner's final aeon, and then told his fellow guardian to take care of his son, the son who would help bring down Sin for good. So he had some redeeming qualities.

Tomorrow, we will be looking at the last Final Fantasy villain on the original Playstation: Kuja from Final Fantasy IX.

A to Z Challenge: Writing Colors - Jade

Cheers to the Weekend! Welcome back to A to Z.

This year, I am providing different colors for descriptive purposes in writing using the website Color-ize to look at an alphabetical list of colors that we can use instead of using the same basic colors we know off the top of our heads. One color can come in so many shades, so why not take a look at them? :)  We are about to begin another series: Shades of Green!

Today's color is: Jade

Image-wise, this was a hard color to find! They only gave me jewels, and the further down I scrolled, I saw Jade from Victorious, so I just took this sample of paint. Jade is one of those bluish green colors I fight with in my closet, but it's so pretty. It's a nice cool color that is good for any occasion, I think. It also makes for a good fantasy eye-color (IRL, I think this color only comes in contacts, never naturally), and sci-fi skin tone if you're into that sort of thing (giggle).

Jumping in a Puddle

Today's post is brought to you by the Letter J.

Welcome back!

I don't know how many began school in the late 80s/early 90s, but when I was in the first grade, we had a lot of sing-alongs. One was about Sipping Chicken Soup With Rice. The other that I still remember was Jumping in a Puddle.

Jumping in a puddle, getting all wet
Why don't you give it a try?
Jumping in a puddle, getting all wet
Bet you're wondering why I wanna be
Jumping in a puddle, getting all wet
(something that ends in a long yyyy)
Jumping in a puddle, jumping in a puddle
When it rains in the sky

And it goes on. lol

Jumping into puddles is something I don't really do anymore (don't like that wet feet feeling), but jumping is one of the luxuries of childhood. Jumping into puddles, jumping into a pool (oh my God, I want to do that right now; this is pool weather!), jumping up and down on a trampoline. Who didn't love that scene in Big?

For writers, jump into the unknown! Put yourself out there! If writing is something you want to do for more than a hobby, you have to jump. Take that big leap of faith, and just DO IT! There's nothing worse than that "What if I had..." feeling. If you get rejected, you got rejected. Dust yourself off and jump again! Writing as adults, we can still hold onto our childhood by taking that big jump. It will be as liberating as it is scary, but you can do it. :)