...Somewhat accurate.

Character History, Part 1

mid-October, 2005
In Calvert County, Southern Maryland of the United States, 21 year old Mari Broderick was online late at night on a blogging site known as Blurty. For apparent reasons it was some of the lesser known blog sites that a SeeDs from Balamb Garden (Squall Leonhart, Zell Dincht, and Seifer Almasy) have chosen to register free accounts on. At first, she assumed they were people who role-played as these characters. Just out of curiosity, she decided to leave a message--just for fun. She assumed that the blogger was a doing a good interpretation of Squall, who she only knew as a character.

She got really into teasing who she didn't know was actually Squall, as a real person when he in return let her know he couldn't understand HALF the things she had been typing to him, and called her a weirdo.

Things started to get weird when she read an entry by Zell. He did an entry about being with Squall in a reality that wasn't theirs, and living at the Holiday Inn near the Fox Run shopping center in Prince Frederick. Squall had applied for a job at the used bookstore place she had been to hundreds of times. This had to be some kind of prank, right? Someone must had hacked into her computer and followed her to the different websites to play a prank on her. That made sense to her, not fictional video game characters being REAL.

This was really bizarre, and something worth sharing with a best friend who also loved the Final Fantasy 8 video game; Crystal Wolfven. She soon found out that Paine from Final Fantasy X-2 had arrived in our world.

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... I don’t like all this fighting going on.

Actually, I hate it. But I’m fighting to stop those drones from spreading their nano-machines to anyone else. I don’t have a choice, because not only do I feel responsible in helping my friends stop this, I can’t just do nothing. And it appears that Xargin (the one I know more) isn’t going to listen to reason. Unless I hear something from Sasha, on him just—just stopping on what he’s been doing...

I won’t back down until this war ends, and that he sees that he’s only hurting people. People here who haven’t done him any harm. They wouldn’t have. They’re not like those snobby, ignorant, and violent racists in Germany. Everyone in town doesn’t take advantage of others and do unspeakable things to them. I know, because I’ve been in this Nexus for seven years. (The Amalgam war has gone on for two years.) We’re a community, and we know we have to stay together and not let the crazy, unpredictable stuff that happens get to us.

As much as I’d want to make it up to a friend I haven’t been able to be there for, in so long, I can’t just leave my friends here. If only I could get some message out to her about this, I’m sure she would understand...

I’ve relied on these powers that were forced on me, through the nano-machines I’ve been infected with. The super-strength, and the ability to detect the drones who come. It doesn’t bother me as much now, but when I did oversleep that morning, I couldn’t detect any drones--that freaked me out a little. I think I saw Cloud freaking too, in the eyes.

I hope that doesn’t mean I’m malfunctioning, or whatever. I can’t really think much about that, without feeling scared. I know that going to sleep has been irregular enough as it is. Between the deeply unsettling dreams and restlessness that’s caused me to sometimes have insomnia at night, I just get sleep whenever I can get it.

It’s good to be able to actually sleep. There’s nothing wrong about that. But... If this happens again, I’ll probably just end up freaking out again. As long as I’m able to be very helpful to prevent those numbers from increasing any further, along with Joseph and Malek, if I can still maintain control of myself and these freaky powers...I might not want to be cured until the war ends. That’s how I feel about that. As messed up as this may be, that’s how I truly feel.

What I hope and pray to not happen. Taking part in putting a stop to this insane, overwhelmingly intense, and brutal war of the Amalgams--that's become a really big part of my life right now.

I feel and believe there should be more of this, along with other fun stuff, and much less fighting. More laughter, more good times... It's bad enough that a lot of us are completely cut off from those we love and care about in our own world. All this evil on top of it--it gets to be too much sometimes.

1. People with a good and varied sense of humor. (Some of my jokes are kind of on the dark side, fyi.)

2. Fun get-togethers like making a movie or board game night.

3. Good company

1. Scary and insane people. (I definitely don't enjoy being in company like that. They're too dangerous, and I'd only end up hurt.)

2. Pushy people. The pushier someone is, the more irritated or angry I get. I have a life, and I'm free to make my own choices, y'know? I'm independent--and if someone's trying to get me to do in a direction I don't want to go, I don't like or appreciate that.

3. Those who are so extroverted, and when don't back off, I feel very uncomfortable around them.

4. Too much craziness going on in one day. I really don't like days like that. Too overwhelming, and too stressful.

1. Zack-Attack (A.K.A. Zack Fair). My BFF who I also love like a brother. He’s always been there for me. I’ll always be there for him! He has this positive, uplifting, and goofy energy about him that helps carry me out of a bad mood, or whatever bad thing is going down.

2. Genesis Rhapsodos, even though I haven’t known him that long. I want to try and have this relationship. I’d like to make this work. Little by little, I’m sure it would. Because I feel I can trust him. He’s done me a huge favor, not very long after I first met him.

3. Tifa Lockheart. She’d be another BFF of mine, and like Zack she has been there for me a lot. She’s a sweetheart, and often fun to do stuff with; baking, shopping, and board gaming to name some a few.

4. Dean Winchester. I’ve found him to be a good friend and trustworthy person for about five years. He’s helped a lot on the monster problems. He’s been fun just to hang out, rock out to music with, and he’s a good listener, too. I want to help him recover those memories he’s lost. I hate whatever caused him to disappear and lose so many memories. I really do. His brother Sam has been there for me too—but clearly Dean is the awesomer one! :P

5. Joseph Jobson. He’s been there for me, and has helped me a lot...when I was in really bad shape, two years ago. To this day, he still matters to me. He saved me from becoming one of those drones. Encouraged me to carry on, not give up, and taught me how to be in control of the nano’s in my body. The guy’s a great big damn deal of a hero to me.

1. Going to Germany to meet up with Timo. I regret not running away from the Xargin (that I know) when I should have earlier – when I noticed something wasn’t right. I’ll always feel bad about that.

2. The time I got so pissed and snapped at Kuja Tribal, way back when. (I’ll never forget how bad that minor Ultima had felt those two days after surviving it. I couldn’t move because it hurt so freaking much. Make this another event that’s scarred me for life.)

3. If I had kicked that geometry book down the stairs in high school instead of trying to step over it, I wouldn’t have tripped and twisted my ankle. Orz, that was stupid, even though it happened a long time ago. (But I learned my lesson, and next time I see a book in front of me the middle of the steps, I’ll kick it.)

4. Waking up that morning when Cloud called me about Zack being from before I met him—but it wasn’t like I really had a choice either, because he’s one of my best friends. For life. I have to be there for him.

5. If I didn’t have to fight the Amalgams and Xargin, I would’ve been able to heal on the inside and feel better about myself.

6. One more thing? Hmn... [Trying to think.] Well...I feel a little bad and foolish of having to be on my guard around Dr. Xargin, at first. I’ve been so used to resisting and being so angry at the future version that I didn’t realize it was the Xargin who Joseph was best friends with, all those years ago.

1. …How much longer until I snap?

2. As long as I believe, and my friends believe, then we’ll survive.

3. I wish Leon was here. He’d be a BIG help with the Amalgams. Ada wouldn’t let those things win either.

4. Is this Amalgam problem ever going to be OVER? I don’t want my family to suffer anymore. I don’t want anyone else infected. Damn it, Xargin…

5. Would it be too much to ask for a few nights of decent sleep? Just once, for a change?

6. Need more laughs and good times, and much less stressful, violent, scary times.

7. Only a matter of time until Vertigo or Xel’lotath come out. They’ve stopped fighting each other for some reason…