This has been a sad week.

Apollo was never the healthiest cat. He nearly died on multiple occasions, and at one point needed surgery to save his life. In recent years, he's had elevated kidney levels, as a result of the previous urinary issues damaging them, and questionable thyroid results. He was only 10, but sometimes had difficulty jumping and would use his claws to climb up on many things.

My mom often "joked" that he had already used up 8 of his nine lives, as she was always surprised he was still alive.

Still, he was often active and alert. He was consistently sweet, always being next to me when I was feeling ill and usually wanting pets and cuddles above all else. He was more dog-like in some of his typical behavior, as he was warm and friendly. He would never hide when not feeling well, and even at the end stayed in the living room instead of hiding. During one of his urinary incidents, I feel like he went up to me and meowed "help me!" as he seemed to understand humans could fix it, even if he was terrified the vet.

I remember when he was a kitten and used to play tag with humans by running back and forth happily.

They said he had fluid built up in his lungs which can be caused by pneumonia. It isn't 100% certain though, as there can be other causes of that. I ran She kept on reassuring me that "cats hide it really well." I would guess that, combined with the toll the past issues took on his body, he couldn't fight it off.

I took him to the regular vet a day before, and then ran a blood test on him to determine why he wasn't eating. I got a call back the next day saying the tests had too low of a yield to be read, and they needed me to bring him in to draw more blood, but by that point he had already passed. I did run him to med vet that morning, but some point between when I picked him up and when I got there, he was gone. Considering the noise he made when I picked him up and how his legs were already stiff, I almost wonder if he took his final breaths then.

He was such a lap cat that the world feels emptier, and so many tiny things feel wrong. I'm used to him waking me up every morning to try to get food earlier. I'm used to him jumping up next to me to curl up and sleep next to my pillow every night. I'm used to him sitting on my lap or trying to grab attention when I'm at the computer by walking on the keyboard.

He would often try to join in video games, and made some interesting choices during FFXIV trials and raids for me.

I wouldn't say Abra was close to him, but they got along and would often play with each other. Abra has been meowing sadly as if looking for him, and I found him sniffing the spot on my bed where he always slept.



RIP Apollo, a sweet, beautiful cat who suffered too much in this life. Hopefully he's at peace.

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The end at last. I can't believe I managed to do all of this without ragequitting at having to resize too many screencaps!

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Annnd that's it. Almost. This version came with an interlude called "The Eternal Calm" so I'll post final thoughts + that short in another post.

Continuing our journey at last, we go across the world again and finally deal with a certain blue coatrack for the last time.

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And now the stunning conclusion of Lulu's quest for someone other than Wakka! Gameshow style! (... and very delayed)

I want to point out that this is on Lulu's wikipedia page:

In 2008, GamesRadar named Lulu and Wakka as the worst Final Fantasy couple, commenting that while their pairing appealed to the concept of "opposites attract", the pairing of a goth and a jock is the source of the "She married him??!! And they've got a kid??" reaction.[26] In 2011, Complex commented: "We’re still kinda blown that Wakka of all people got Lulu pregnant. Now what kind of magic did he have to use to do that?"

And while I was writing this, I pulled Lulu's relic in FFRK. She evidently approves of finding someone other than Wakka, regardless of who it is!

Still, I do hope no one was expecting SRS fic or anything written very well. Also written mostly in script style - something I normally wouldn't like so much - because of reasons.

Finally, a huge thank you to Toffee for the amazing pictures used in this! I still can't get over them.

( This ended up being much longer than intended. I still don't know how. )

So I sort of lied, as I found writing this to be a nice way to take my mind off stress inbetween studying.

Continuing from last time, and... wait... could it be.. IS THERE REALLY NO SEYMOUR IN THIS ENTRY?!

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We're getting close to the end. It occurs to me this game isn't as long as the PSX era games, as I'm actually past the point where this entry ends and my playtime is only 31:00. I'm not sure if they thought they made those too long or what.

Also not sure when the next one will be since after this I've got to study for two lab finals and one of them is just... insane.

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In which I get thoroughly distracted and do exactly what the game warns me against multiple times.

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... and now the game gets some significant points taken away from it. We started out so strong, and then... this! WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING HERE. This part took me longer to play through than it should've, as I kept quitting due to even more exams and general frustration.

If I put this in a word cloud, I'm guessing it would come out as "WHAT" and "IXION!"

( YOUR CUT TEXT AGAINST MINE )

A lot of these... holes, I guess, could be filled in with headcanon, but I've never really seen it done and that's not really the same to me as knowing the creators actually intended for it. Oh well, at least that's over, as I remember the next part making a great deal more sense.

In this episode of Final Fantasy X, Rikku makes funny faces and we spend a lot of time talking to people in corridors!

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In this episode, we get struck by lightning more than should be feasibly possible yet have no adverse effects to bitter cold!

( 'SEYMOUURRR!!' x 10 )