Honestly, my energy level has sucked the last two months or so and it's one of the things my doc was having me do all the blood tests for so hopefully we'll find the cause soon.

In the meantime, my usual way of clearing out the inbox in one big swoop is just not happening because I don't have the energy to do it.

I'm going to start doing smaller chunks at a time and kinda keeping things rolling in and out instead of doing it all at once.

Most people probably won't notice much, but if you are doing several threads with me at a time, it'll probably be clearer so I wanted to just put a note up.

If anyone wants me to get to something ASAP for whatever reason, just let me know so I can prioritize as much as possible. /thumbs up

And now, after taking a small chunk out of the inbox, it's bed time.

If it’s less stress on you I suddenly don’t feel so bad about being slow.

HIKIKOMORTIS: Seriously never feel bad about being slow! I backtag almost into forever. I just had a realization last night that I was on my second week of being extremely slow after being kinda slow before and expecting myself to do ALL my tags at once was a huge reason WHY

but really it's been silly of me to think I needed to feel up to clearing my whole inbox each time I sit down to do tags. I don't know why I didn't realize how silly sooner

Is your Iggy gay or bi?

you ask me the hard questions when I am hardly awake.

but no, I've always figured he was gay if he's even taken the time to figure it out WHAT he is with how focused on his duty he is

I know a lot of people tend to go with the idea of him being real experienced and not showing it, but I've kind RPed him so far having actually not 'wasted' time on the romantic aspects of life. If Noctis needed help with that kind of thing, he figured he would pass him to Gladio or Regis. That's his one missing area of expertise.

(plus I LOVE having him get flustered too much when it comes to that kind of thing. Just like the big DORK he is)

Well at least Soma is just as inexperienced. Unless you count his past life memories.

shh...we don't talk about the past lives. They can be dorks learning together

Well the past lives will be useful for one thing at least: not hurting whoever bottoms.

LOL! point. Though gods, Iggy is so far away from thinking about romance right now. Everyone needs to get to work on making this guy relax and getting his head straightened out!

Doesn’t have to start as romance. It can always start as desperation, loneliness, the after effects of foolish accidental bloodletting, raging hormones.... XD

LOL! OMG that is so true all things considered... Having a vampire around both makes things easier AND more complicated.

And that doesn't take into account Ardyn throwing a wrench into things if he is going to be trying to lure Soma to the dark side

Poor Ignis going “what the bloody hell did I do??” And trying to sort out Complicated New Feelings.

and suddenly he understands why Ardyn gets so pissed when he is forced to feel 'THE FEELINGS' (tm)

Though would he be less pissed and more disoriented?

yeah, most definitely!

And Soma just goes “oh god I bit him he’s gonna hate me forever I told him I’m a monster!”

Soma just chill! he's best buds with a guy who was suppose to be a daemonic killing machine. it's okay

Supposed to be but isn’t an actual monster.

tell Prom that. I'm pretty sure the little guy still thinks he's a monster. sobs

The scene at the coded door in Zeg Keep helped, I imagine.

point. too bad in game Prom is from before then. He's right off the end of Epi Prom. So all the bad and none of the good. They did have an equivalent of that chat though, not long ago so hopefully that's helping some.

Oh geez....

we are terrible people, pulling our boys from the most terrible spots in canon

As much as I’d love to give Soma some of his Dawn Souls, one in particular, I always take him from Aria true end route because it is utterly soul crushing for him.

I figure, when I put a character in a game I want room for them to grow from canon so that is part of the reason I pick the canon points I do. Where do they have the most room for growth? Well, Altissia is like THE turning point for Iggy so there we go!

(I have reasons! I'm not just mean! LOL)

it's the same reason that I usually pulled Diarmuid from Epi 16 in Zero. He just was totally broken down and had nowhere to go but up from there. Really the only place where he would be piecing himself back together enough to see beyond the flaws that were limiting him and trapping him in the same cycle of fate \

I have reasons too. But I’m also mean. XD

LOL! Just ask Nao. I'm pretty mean too. I just have justification sometimes.

(it's a trick. get an axe. etc)

Well we both agree Ignis needs to get laid?

LOL so much. He really needs to learn that he can live for himself and still put Noct first if that makes sense. He needs nice things and nice relationships of his own. GIVE THEM TO HIM

“Iggy? Is that a hickey?”

what? No! It's obviously a bug bite or some such. gotta love being able to give him a hickey and he might not EVEN realize because hahah can't see it!

“Iggy, there’s fang marks in it!”

Of course! I did say it was a bite, did I not? Iggy....

“That’s no mosquito! Dude, you hooked up with that pale guy?!”

No worries here

You know I've been puttering a bit, too

HIKIKOMORTIS: LOL! I think they would need to specify WHICH pale guy.

Maraich: that's the nice thing about LA right? it's so relaxed that we can putter and not feel so bad about it.

Yeah

go get 'em iggy