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May. 26th, 2012 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedBrian brought my laptop to Apple to get looked at. From what he told us, the person diagnosing it told him that only the display is broken, but it would cost $280 to repair that. We decided it wasn't worth it, because he currently has two laptops, one of which he bought to work on, and the other one he kept because it still works, and we instead negotiated to have Mom buy Brian's first one for me to use from now on.
(During dinner, he told us that the person there hooked it up to a PC to get the contents to show, and soon as my current wallpaper was visible, he was like "Oh, Lucky Star!" after Brian told him it was my Mac.)
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From now on, what I've been referring to as Monster Collection Chronicles this whole time is just Cult. I've already shown Chelle the summaries for each fic, and we've concluded that while part I already has a solid frame and part III could also work, parts II and IV are just broken beyond salvation.
As a whole, all four fics would have been interesting to write, what with their own kinds of enemies for the Knights to fight, as well as with the non-combat-related stuff in each part. However, I am against bending logic or character just because the plot demands it. In the past, I did consider the plot of part II to have fit nicely together as it did, which is why I continued to hold onto it, but at some point, I realized that logically, it just wouldn't work.
While Chelle did say that part III would work in its own right, its main purpose was to show the dystopian future that roots all the way down to Osama bin Laden, the one who founded Al Qaida and, fictionally, Nickelodeon. It was also going to be the events that lead Kasumi to use the Time Sword to alter history, so that bin Laden and Takeshi Okimichi wouldn't be such a huge deal, and so that Pfizgiy could be reincarnated while the Knights were still alive to take care of her.
Until now, half the point of the ficseries was going to be that existence or non-existence of Nickelodeon would be the one core factor to decide how much of a future the worlds would have. However, the other half of it was the twelve-member fighting force, which would have specifically included core MCK characters Mondo Ohya and Rokuna Hiragi. So, given everything else I'd like to do in life, I think I'll just focus on the one fic and let the story rest after it's finished.
I should also mention that, since the main part of part II was going to take place when the Knights are around 17 years of age, I'm wondering whether or not to extend the period of time between the prologue and the main part of part I. On the one hand, it would make it much more believable that the Knights would be skilled enough with their respective weapons to use them in active combat. On the other hand, there is also this pic, which still depicts them as kids, and would barely stay relevant if they were already teens when the main story begins (especially since Davis wasn't among them during the prologue). Not to mention that two of Anneth's most important moe features (those being her braces and her ribbon) wouldn't look as appropriate on her when she's fifteen as when she's eleven.
(During dinner, he told us that the person there hooked it up to a PC to get the contents to show, and soon as my current wallpaper was visible, he was like "Oh, Lucky Star!" after Brian told him it was my Mac.)
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From now on, what I've been referring to as Monster Collection Chronicles this whole time is just Cult. I've already shown Chelle the summaries for each fic, and we've concluded that while part I already has a solid frame and part III could also work, parts II and IV are just broken beyond salvation.
As a whole, all four fics would have been interesting to write, what with their own kinds of enemies for the Knights to fight, as well as with the non-combat-related stuff in each part. However, I am against bending logic or character just because the plot demands it. In the past, I did consider the plot of part II to have fit nicely together as it did, which is why I continued to hold onto it, but at some point, I realized that logically, it just wouldn't work.
While Chelle did say that part III would work in its own right, its main purpose was to show the dystopian future that roots all the way down to Osama bin Laden, the one who founded Al Qaida and, fictionally, Nickelodeon. It was also going to be the events that lead Kasumi to use the Time Sword to alter history, so that bin Laden and Takeshi Okimichi wouldn't be such a huge deal, and so that Pfizgiy could be reincarnated while the Knights were still alive to take care of her.
Until now, half the point of the ficseries was going to be that existence or non-existence of Nickelodeon would be the one core factor to decide how much of a future the worlds would have. However, the other half of it was the twelve-member fighting force, which would have specifically included core MCK characters Mondo Ohya and Rokuna Hiragi. So, given everything else I'd like to do in life, I think I'll just focus on the one fic and let the story rest after it's finished.
I should also mention that, since the main part of part II was going to take place when the Knights are around 17 years of age, I'm wondering whether or not to extend the period of time between the prologue and the main part of part I. On the one hand, it would make it much more believable that the Knights would be skilled enough with their respective weapons to use them in active combat. On the other hand, there is also this pic, which still depicts them as kids, and would barely stay relevant if they were already teens when the main story begins (especially since Davis wasn't among them during the prologue). Not to mention that two of Anneth's most important moe features (those being her braces and her ribbon) wouldn't look as appropriate on her when she's fifteen as when she's eleven.
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Date: 2019-07-16 07:43 am (UTC)Keeping them young would be more interesting in that they'd still have to learn how to use their weapons, creating a sort of coming of age theme. This could also help to justify the Sorting Algorithm of Evil that's in the story; if they're still learning they'll evolve along with the increasing threat of the enemy, plus the reader won't always know how a battle ends up cause a character may just screw up.