When was the point where it stopped being fun?
Are you still waiting for your life to start?
Once upon a time in the far-away land on Eng, there lived a girl named Jenn who loved a girl named Kelly. Jenn needed a way for Kelly to notice her, so she donned her mullet wig and Organization XIII coat to start a web show. This is the story of the hugely popular Demyx Time YouTube series. What started as a crush spawned into a now widely-known internet sensation that's grown by over 40,000 subscribers, sprouted from one girl in with a camera to an entire cast and was born from a love story that's now touched hundreds of people's hearts.
However, all good things must come to an end.
After about four years, it was announced that the fifteenth and final episode of Demyx Time had been filmed, and the show would soon be ending. However, the end seemed to have a larger effect on Kelly and Jenn, the internet stars.
Trying to break away from their Kingdom Hearts roots, Parle Productions began releasing their newest series The Marauders, based off of Harry Potter. After various announcements about a Left 4 Dead music video to be filmed at the next convention they were attending, the two uploaded a video of them cosplaying Nick and Ellis from L4D2.
The newest video spawned countless comments somehow relating back to Demyx Time and The Sora Show. Yesterday, Kelly officially announced it on her journal:
Parle Productions is quitting Kingdom Hearts cosplay permanently.
Time has passed, and simply put, they're tired of Axel and Demyx. They've essentially exhausted Demyx Time, but Kelly mentioned that she doesn't enjoy playing Sora any longer either. Therefore: After the final episode of Demyx Time is released, Kingdom Hearts will end for Parle.
Today, Jenn put her final cosplay picture of Demyx on DeviantArt, and Kelly wrote an update detailing that they're looking for a house.
I'm sad to see it go: truly, I am.
If it weren't for web shows like theirs and The Misadventures of MarVex I'd have never enjoyed the fandom as much as I have. Also: Jenn and Kelly have helped me with some personal problems as well.
Parle isn't dead.
The Marauders will continue, and I'm hoping The Shinra Files will as well.
I hope Jenn and Kelly the best: whatever they choose to do, there's no point in doing it if they don't enjoy it as much as the people watching.
Parle, here's to you.
Have a good future.
- Much luvz, Hideki.
