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mark_asphodel) wrote2010-08-09 02:17 pm
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Fic Update: "Perfect World"
OK, so I managed to finish the entry for Challenge 007 before taking off for the land of No Internet.
Basically, it's all my ideas, crack and otherwise, for a certain FE12 (dis)continuity, which is still clearly a sore point with me. So, no. I didn't make up the part about the pendant, or the part about Minerva letting her pegasus loose in the woods. Those both come from Minerva's support convos as translated by the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shimizu_hitomi . As for the rest of it...
#1-- Est go bye-bye. Canon.
#2-- Catria skips off to the mainland. With Minerva abdicating any authority and Michalis being a dick, I think the peg sisters are left with a sorry set of options. Catria's loyalties in FE12 do appear to be divided to the point where she thinks it'd be an A-OK world with Marth in charge.
#3-- Michalis attacks Valencia. Because it's easier to write than future!Judgral, and because I want Alm and Cellica to kick his ass. Bows have crazy range in FE2, after all-- dracoknights would be toast.
#4-- Palla defects to Valencia. Only way to get out of that situation with any dignity or honor.
#5-- Maria. The stuff I've read about her in FE12 creeps me out and I'm still not convinced that the priestesses came through that mess unscathed. I think Julian, given that he lives with Lena, would be kind of an expert in post-traumatic priestess syndrome by that point.
#6-- Yes, that's Rody at the end. I shoehorn in my favorite characters. Because I can.
I was pretty happy... maybe relieved is a better word... with this when I finished it, but the more I read over it the more I don't like it. I feel like it came quickly because I've essentially written this story before, in bits and pieces deployed elsewhere. Even worse, I'm again getting the feeling that I've read sections of this before. Maybe in my own original 'fic, maybe in professional works, I dunno. But nothing ruins your day like looking over a paragraph and saying, "now where the hell did that actually come from?"
When I get back to the world of 'Net access, I think I'm going to attempt an essay (essay an essay, hah) about what happens when writers get too comfortable with their own versions of characters. It's been bugging me for sometime, and after working on this, it REALLY bugs me.
Basically, it's all my ideas, crack and otherwise, for a certain FE12 (dis)continuity, which is still clearly a sore point with me. So, no. I didn't make up the part about the pendant, or the part about Minerva letting her pegasus loose in the woods. Those both come from Minerva's support convos as translated by the lovely
shimizu_hitomi . As for the rest of it... #1-- Est go bye-bye. Canon.
#2-- Catria skips off to the mainland. With Minerva abdicating any authority and Michalis being a dick, I think the peg sisters are left with a sorry set of options. Catria's loyalties in FE12 do appear to be divided to the point where she thinks it'd be an A-OK world with Marth in charge.
#3-- Michalis attacks Valencia. Because it's easier to write than future!Judgral, and because I want Alm and Cellica to kick his ass. Bows have crazy range in FE2, after all-- dracoknights would be toast.
#4-- Palla defects to Valencia. Only way to get out of that situation with any dignity or honor.
#5-- Maria. The stuff I've read about her in FE12 creeps me out and I'm still not convinced that the priestesses came through that mess unscathed. I think Julian, given that he lives with Lena, would be kind of an expert in post-traumatic priestess syndrome by that point.
#6-- Yes, that's Rody at the end. I shoehorn in my favorite characters. Because I can.
I was pretty happy... maybe relieved is a better word... with this when I finished it, but the more I read over it the more I don't like it. I feel like it came quickly because I've essentially written this story before, in bits and pieces deployed elsewhere. Even worse, I'm again getting the feeling that I've read sections of this before. Maybe in my own original 'fic, maybe in professional works, I dunno. But nothing ruins your day like looking over a paragraph and saying, "now where the hell did that actually come from?"
When I get back to the world of 'Net access, I think I'm going to attempt an essay (essay an essay, hah) about what happens when writers get too comfortable with their own versions of characters. It's been bugging me for sometime, and after working on this, it REALLY bugs me.
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#3-- Michalis attacks Valencia. Because it's easier to write than future!Judgral, and because I want Alm and Cellica to kick his ass. Bows have crazy range in FE2, after all-- dracoknights would be toast.
After exploring TearRing Saga a bit, I believe there's yet another option for the "other continent" now. There's an interesting thread on that here (http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=20243), though I haven't gotten far enough into the game yet to remark on it myself. That said, Valencia is still my favorite option, because the idea of Alm and Cellica kicking Michalis's butt is just so satisfying on some level. (Loved how you incorporated gameplay elements into that, btw.)
re: Rody, for some reason I read him as Abel at first -- for me it was indicative of how far removed Minerva had become from reality that she had even forgotten Est's ex-husband... But I figured that couldn't make much sense, since Abel went bye-bye too.
I think I'm going to attempt an essay (essay an essay, hah) about what happens when writers get too comfortable with their own versions of characters
I look forward to seeing this too.
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:D
I don't know why I find Julian more compelling than Lena. Lena has a complex and fascinating backstory but she really just leaves me uninvolved.
I believe there's yet another option for the "other continent" now.
Oh, wow. Planet Kaga indeed. Though having Valencia so far to the west of Archanea that it'd be closer to approach from the east rather stretches the idea that two pegasus knights flew there on their own. Also, the old rumor/map I remember had Judgral to the northwest of Archanea, not the other way 'round... but who knows how accurate any of that was. Archanea is pretty clearly a northern-hemisphere continent, and might well be at a pretty high latitude.
Though it would be really weird for modern FE games to be referencing TRS, heh.
Loved how you incorporated gameplay elements into that, btw.
The OP bows, man. Heheheh.
re: Rody, for some reason I read him as Abel at first
Hmm. I wonder if other readers will get the same impression. Hmm.