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Character Shrines
Character shrines/tributes/fansites used to be insanely popular back in the days before Myspace and Facebook took over. Everywhere you looked, there was a Yuna shrine, a Cloud shrine, a Sora shrine, etc. Nowadays, they're pretty few and far between and many are dead or incomplete, but I still love them. Shrines take a great amount of love, work, time, and devotion to create and maintain and I find them way more interesting than most sites out there at this time. There aren't a great deal of them on the network, but the few that are on here are very much the products of pure dedication.

lunar shadow

Type: Character Shrine
Subject: Yuna of Final Fantasy X/X-2
Open Since: Sometime in August 2007, if I recall correctly.
Status: Active
About: Yuna has been one of my favorite fictional characters for nearly 10 years, and I've had a shrine to her for almost as long. Lunar Shadow is the ~second coming~, I guess you could say, of a shrine I had back when I first started web design in 2003 called Aurora Rain. LS was kind of dead for a couple of years, lacking any updates whatsoever. Still, it received quite a bit of hits and many others have linked to it, which has both amazed and pleased me so much. I decided to put it on an official hiatus for a few months to put the word out that it wasn't entirely dead and that I was working on it, and here it is back in action with nearly all-new content and many more things to come in the future. I'm not letting this one go anytime soon. Even if all it does do is collect dust in my FTP for another few years, it's staying where it is because it's practically my baby and I aint lettin' go.

promise me

Type: Character Shrine / Hosted
Subject: TifaxCloud (Final Fantasy VII)
Owner: Kim
Open Since: September 2005
Status: Active
About: I've been hosting Kim's TifaxCloud shrine for just about as long as she's had it, and she's put a lot of work into it and it really shows. You can find all sorts of things regarding the pairing there, such as essays, a great media section, and etc. She hasn't updated in a long while due to being busy, though that doesn't take away from its greatness at all. If you're a fan of the pairing, then I highly recommend paying a visit!