I mean, some dude walked into an iHop here in Ohio and blew up a bunch of people. THAT kind of shit traumatizes people. Nobody sees it coming. It just happens. You get a call one day that your military son was out with his friends for breakfast and he was shot by a random ass guy and killed. No rhyme. No reason. He just DID IT. That's pretty traumatizing. (IMO.) Now imagine almost everyone you've ever known your entire life dying in one day. I mean, that's what Lyn went through.
There is ABSOLUTELY no real world equivalent to this. Or to the Demon King, or Ashnard, or even the beginning of Marth's journey.
I mean, there are real world equivalents to tragedy-- the Holocaust, for example-- but then you run into all sorts of other problems by writing, idk, Marth and his family as a prominent Jewish family on the run at the height of the Holocaust.
^I mean, an interesting concept to be sure, but I doubt it'd be very well-received.
And of course, as something modern-day-2011? Yeah, even less likely we'll find some real-world equivalent if we want our characters to be somewhat normal, to not be dabbling in all sorts of drugs (though drug-addicted Lyon is kinda interesting haha) or living on the bad side of town.
And of course, monarchs/leaders of powerful countries/etc have no real-world equivalent that even makes sense. A powerful CEO is about the closest you can come. A millionaire who designs clothes or a pop star-- and THOSE things are even LESS relateable to the average reader than, idk, average-normal Ike and his buddy Soren whose parents were drug addicted alcoholics and left him in the care of random ass crazy people.
The latter isn't very ACCURATE, no, but neither is average-working-class Ike BECOMES A WORLD CLASS HERO. Or L'Arachel is a pop star making millions and her slave...I mean...assistant lugging all the equipment is Dozla. (And maybe Rennac.)
There are a lot of fun ideas, but none of them are going to be canon. And they're AU. So why should we WANT them to be a carbon copy of the canon material? We've played that game before, you know? Heard that tune. Etc.
Of course, sweet perky happy Lyon with his bffs Eirika and Ephraim might ring untrue, so it's better to at least give him some reasons for being, well, different. Because even if he's not some happysugarfest to read about, he shouldn't be the same EXACT person he was in the canon, because he didn't go through the same things.
(And similar =/= same, nor does it yield the exact same results.)
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Date: 2011-09-29 11:55 pm (UTC)There is ABSOLUTELY no real world equivalent to this. Or to the Demon King, or Ashnard, or even the beginning of Marth's journey.
I mean, there are real world equivalents to tragedy-- the Holocaust, for example-- but then you run into all sorts of other problems by writing, idk, Marth and his family as a prominent Jewish family on the run at the height of the Holocaust.
^I mean, an interesting concept to be sure, but I doubt it'd be very well-received.
And of course, as something modern-day-2011? Yeah, even less likely we'll find some real-world equivalent if we want our characters to be somewhat normal, to not be dabbling in all sorts of drugs (though drug-addicted Lyon is kinda interesting haha) or living on the bad side of town.
And of course, monarchs/leaders of powerful countries/etc have no real-world equivalent that even makes sense. A powerful CEO is about the closest you can come. A millionaire who designs clothes or a pop star-- and THOSE things are even LESS relateable to the average reader than, idk, average-normal Ike and his buddy Soren whose parents were drug addicted alcoholics and left him in the care of random ass crazy people.
The latter isn't very ACCURATE, no, but neither is average-working-class Ike BECOMES A WORLD CLASS HERO. Or L'Arachel is a pop star making millions and her slave...I mean...assistant lugging all the equipment is Dozla. (And maybe Rennac.)
There are a lot of fun ideas, but none of them are going to be canon. And they're AU. So why should we WANT them to be a carbon copy of the canon material? We've played that game before, you know? Heard that tune. Etc.
Of course, sweet perky happy Lyon with his bffs Eirika and Ephraim might ring untrue, so it's better to at least give him some reasons for being, well, different. Because even if he's not some happysugarfest to read about, he shouldn't be the same EXACT person he was in the canon, because he didn't go through the same things.
(And similar =/= same, nor does it yield the exact same results.)