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dmxratedWell, 8th grade (1999/2000) was the year that I first became interested in Pokemon (after nearly everyone else already lost interest), and that Digimon first started airing here. During the middle of the year, I began to come up with my own version of Digimon, which would involve me and a bunch if kids I knew (mostly from summer camp, but a few not), and in which we'd also have Pokemon. (Well, yeah. The kids at the beginning of anime do start out at soccer camp, before finding themselves in the Digital World.) To start with, it all followed the same lines as in the anime, but there were some differences as well, such as the inclusion of a Gazimon and "Snowballmon" on the team, Gesomon's episode involving my uncle Robby and cousin Adam (an infant at the time) meeting the kids on a subway train, Raremon's episode involving a huge party to mark the end of summer camp before Raremon himself shows up, and the girls staying at the church with some of the younger girls in the next episode to create the Powerpuff Girls before Phantomon shows up (earlier than in canon). The second season was still consistent with that of the anime, but not as much, and more and more kids (and more Digimon than in canon) join the team as time goes on. By the end of Tamers, it ended up becoming convoluted and nothing like the anime, with all kinds of crazy stuff going on for no real reason.
https://dmxrated.dreamwidth.org/2012/09/11/
Recently, after having finished the first draft of Ryouou All-Girls Sumo Tournament, chapter 2 (still awaiting a critique), I considered playing Sonic Adventure DX for a bit (instead of Candy Crush Saga). The thought of it, however, reminded me of the few times I played the original Dreamcast version with Matthew (which is awkward, since it's a one-player game, as were many of the other games we used to play together). In particular, the day after Thanksgiving of 2000, which falls on a time period to which I wish I could pay tribute regarding where Pokemon and Digimon were at the time.
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With Pokemon, said tribute was going to be one of the purposes behind Parasitic Trio, particularly with Jamie's fic. Even if it was still working, simply playing a new game with Pokemon Silver would not have sufficed for me, especially given how utterly flawed the games in general are.
I already mentioned how unfeasible it is for me to "re-play" the games on a word processor, given how much more math is involved than I can handle. While PT was technically inspired from certain perverted fics Jake and I had discussed beforehand and part of the premise of Ultimate Girls, I then figured that, as long as I'm writing it, I might as well relive the games on my terms, breathing life into them while having everything run on my own variations of the rules. While Cyrus's goals in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum are as apocalyptic as anything could be, though, that still didn't stop GameFreak from churning out more games, and even scaling the antagonists' goals in Pokemon Black and White back to simple conquest.
I honestly thought I'd be able to work on Parasitic Trio regularly, but even without a job, too many other things got in the way ever since I wrote the first draft to Ellen's first chapter. Kanji in Context, the Earthbound marathon, Starbound, Mother: The Original Story, learning Javascript, and so on. I considered working on another May chapter last summer, as a diversion from Lucky Star, but I just didn't have the will to do so by that point.
It had taken a total of two and a half years to write and upload a measly four chapters (nothing since May 27) of that ficseries. That's four out of fourteen chapters of anything (five Starbound chapters, one Starbound spinoff, two Sumo fic chapters, the revenge fic, and the Malcolm rant) since October 2011. Besides, there are only gonna be more and more games yet to come, probably even after I die, and I just can't possibly keep up with all of them. (And to think that, originally, Gold and Silver were going to be the franchise finale...)
To be honest, a lot of the focus of Parasitic Trio was going to be on various kinds of material gain. Obtaining new Pokemon, leveling said Pokemon up, shuffling between the parties and PC boxes, getting items and prizes, as well as having things beat eachother up with all kinds of stuff. Those are what I liked about the games, but they don't make for a very good story as a focal point. I hoped that a fanfic series would be a way to breathe life into the games' worlds and characters, but Jake and Chelle have both pointed out how I neglect more than a few things that really matter to a story, such as how I focus on what I want mentioned in a conversation more than who should be saying what.
Really, I have no more faith in RPGs in general. It's not like the characters ever grow onto me. All my interest is in what goes on during the gameplay, but fun as it may be to kill things, it all seems kinda pointless when things can't happen verbatim in any other format as they do in the game in question, and when you tend to forget most of what happened, and when all the variables that take place (and especially the decisions I roll dice to make) mean about as much in the end as "How many peas were on his plate?"
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And then there's the Digimon fic. Not gonna talk today about what actual plot I came up with for it, maybe another day.
First of all, read this old entry. The ideas described here are a few of the first I hoped to utilize in the once-planned fic.
If such a site even existed back in the day, we did not know about Digidex, because we hardly even used the Internet at that time. With the Digimon ideas mentioned up top, I basically had to come up with my own mons wherever I wished to incorporate new ones. It was early in 2005 that I would discover Digidex, after randomly reading In the Shadow of Chaos for the very first time. That site is what allowed me to conceive my own fic, now that I was able to utilize official mons.
Of course, the main purpose of the fic, like with Parasitic Trio, was to have things fight eachother with various things. There were going to be 24 mains, each with three mons, though if I were working on it today, that first number would be halved. Lots of mons to fight with.
Really, though, the reason each kid throughout the Digimon anime has only one Digimon, is because the anime is mostly about friendship and bonding. Same reason why none of the main characters throughout Pokemon ever capture more than a handful of Pokemon (and also why you can only have six in your party even in the games), and ditto for Monster Rancher, etc. For anyone interested in lots of mons being used, that's where trading cards come in, which in turn is exactly the medium used in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Cardcaptor Sakura.
(Oh, yeah, there's Mon Colle Knights, in which the kid characters use trading cards to summon mons in the flesh. However, they tend to summon only one monster per episode (sometimes more, even many more).)
Now, I was hoping to utilize the trading card game as well as actual, sentient Digimon for the fic, just like in Digimon World 3 (which I bought specifically because of the planned fic), but frankly, I don't think I can do much with a card game by itself. I managed to think up all kinds of events to make happen regarding the real thing, but like I said, that's something I might cover another day.
And of course, like with Pokemon, there's the fact that it's an ongoing franchise that shows no sign of ever coming to an end. It's been years since I last visited Digidex, but I've only recently heard of "Cutemon" (via TV Tropes). If I ever actually do write a fic, there are bound to be more and more mons to come that I will never have gotten to utilize.
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In general, I got into the art of fanfiction for all the wrong reasons. Gimmicky reason that I recently described to Jake, in a convo that I would then show Chelle. Some of said reasons might very well have to do with autism, but unlike Jake and Chelle (also both autistic), I'm not exactly character-oriented, and the reasons I got into fanfiction in the first place, ironically, is exactly why. Any plot I ever came up with for anything is mainly a way to make things interesting enough that people would actually want to read my shit. And if you'd like to know, this is why I write Starbound: To break away from this "gamer" mentality, even though that one was also initially founded on several gimmicks (those being my fetish for beehive hairdos and nostalgia for Earthbound). Nothing in that fic is gonna be determined through algorithms, just raw stuff happening.
https://dmxrated.dreamwidth.org/2012/09/11/
Recently, after having finished the first draft of Ryouou All-Girls Sumo Tournament, chapter 2 (still awaiting a critique), I considered playing Sonic Adventure DX for a bit (instead of Candy Crush Saga). The thought of it, however, reminded me of the few times I played the original Dreamcast version with Matthew (which is awkward, since it's a one-player game, as were many of the other games we used to play together). In particular, the day after Thanksgiving of 2000, which falls on a time period to which I wish I could pay tribute regarding where Pokemon and Digimon were at the time.
-----
With Pokemon, said tribute was going to be one of the purposes behind Parasitic Trio, particularly with Jamie's fic. Even if it was still working, simply playing a new game with Pokemon Silver would not have sufficed for me, especially given how utterly flawed the games in general are.
I already mentioned how unfeasible it is for me to "re-play" the games on a word processor, given how much more math is involved than I can handle. While PT was technically inspired from certain perverted fics Jake and I had discussed beforehand and part of the premise of Ultimate Girls, I then figured that, as long as I'm writing it, I might as well relive the games on my terms, breathing life into them while having everything run on my own variations of the rules. While Cyrus's goals in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum are as apocalyptic as anything could be, though, that still didn't stop GameFreak from churning out more games, and even scaling the antagonists' goals in Pokemon Black and White back to simple conquest.
I honestly thought I'd be able to work on Parasitic Trio regularly, but even without a job, too many other things got in the way ever since I wrote the first draft to Ellen's first chapter. Kanji in Context, the Earthbound marathon, Starbound, Mother: The Original Story, learning Javascript, and so on. I considered working on another May chapter last summer, as a diversion from Lucky Star, but I just didn't have the will to do so by that point.
It had taken a total of two and a half years to write and upload a measly four chapters (nothing since May 27) of that ficseries. That's four out of fourteen chapters of anything (five Starbound chapters, one Starbound spinoff, two Sumo fic chapters, the revenge fic, and the Malcolm rant) since October 2011. Besides, there are only gonna be more and more games yet to come, probably even after I die, and I just can't possibly keep up with all of them. (And to think that, originally, Gold and Silver were going to be the franchise finale...)
To be honest, a lot of the focus of Parasitic Trio was going to be on various kinds of material gain. Obtaining new Pokemon, leveling said Pokemon up, shuffling between the parties and PC boxes, getting items and prizes, as well as having things beat eachother up with all kinds of stuff. Those are what I liked about the games, but they don't make for a very good story as a focal point. I hoped that a fanfic series would be a way to breathe life into the games' worlds and characters, but Jake and Chelle have both pointed out how I neglect more than a few things that really matter to a story, such as how I focus on what I want mentioned in a conversation more than who should be saying what.
Really, I have no more faith in RPGs in general. It's not like the characters ever grow onto me. All my interest is in what goes on during the gameplay, but fun as it may be to kill things, it all seems kinda pointless when things can't happen verbatim in any other format as they do in the game in question, and when you tend to forget most of what happened, and when all the variables that take place (and especially the decisions I roll dice to make) mean about as much in the end as "How many peas were on his plate?"
-----
And then there's the Digimon fic. Not gonna talk today about what actual plot I came up with for it, maybe another day.
First of all, read this old entry. The ideas described here are a few of the first I hoped to utilize in the once-planned fic.
If such a site even existed back in the day, we did not know about Digidex, because we hardly even used the Internet at that time. With the Digimon ideas mentioned up top, I basically had to come up with my own mons wherever I wished to incorporate new ones. It was early in 2005 that I would discover Digidex, after randomly reading In the Shadow of Chaos for the very first time. That site is what allowed me to conceive my own fic, now that I was able to utilize official mons.
Of course, the main purpose of the fic, like with Parasitic Trio, was to have things fight eachother with various things. There were going to be 24 mains, each with three mons, though if I were working on it today, that first number would be halved. Lots of mons to fight with.
Really, though, the reason each kid throughout the Digimon anime has only one Digimon, is because the anime is mostly about friendship and bonding. Same reason why none of the main characters throughout Pokemon ever capture more than a handful of Pokemon (and also why you can only have six in your party even in the games), and ditto for Monster Rancher, etc. For anyone interested in lots of mons being used, that's where trading cards come in, which in turn is exactly the medium used in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Cardcaptor Sakura.
(Oh, yeah, there's Mon Colle Knights, in which the kid characters use trading cards to summon mons in the flesh. However, they tend to summon only one monster per episode (sometimes more, even many more).)
Now, I was hoping to utilize the trading card game as well as actual, sentient Digimon for the fic, just like in Digimon World 3 (which I bought specifically because of the planned fic), but frankly, I don't think I can do much with a card game by itself. I managed to think up all kinds of events to make happen regarding the real thing, but like I said, that's something I might cover another day.
And of course, like with Pokemon, there's the fact that it's an ongoing franchise that shows no sign of ever coming to an end. It's been years since I last visited Digidex, but I've only recently heard of "Cutemon" (via TV Tropes). If I ever actually do write a fic, there are bound to be more and more mons to come that I will never have gotten to utilize.
-----
In general, I got into the art of fanfiction for all the wrong reasons. Gimmicky reason that I recently described to Jake, in a convo that I would then show Chelle. Some of said reasons might very well have to do with autism, but unlike Jake and Chelle (also both autistic), I'm not exactly character-oriented, and the reasons I got into fanfiction in the first place, ironically, is exactly why. Any plot I ever came up with for anything is mainly a way to make things interesting enough that people would actually want to read my shit. And if you'd like to know, this is why I write Starbound: To break away from this "gamer" mentality, even though that one was also initially founded on several gimmicks (those being my fetish for beehive hairdos and nostalgia for Earthbound). Nothing in that fic is gonna be determined through algorithms, just raw stuff happening.