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I think I've figured something out now...
Sep. 25th, 2014 07:21 amTo start off, there was a two-year period when I was obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog, while still also thinking about the events of what would have been Monster Collection Chronicles. There was a period after that, during which I'd be obsessed with Makeruna! Makendou. Not only did I still continue thinking about MCC, but this would also be the time during which I'd first conceive Parasitic Trio and form attachments to certain characters from the Pokemon franchise.
This is the period during which I obsess pretty much exclusively over Lucky Star. I've lost almost all interest in what is now Cult, not least of all thanks to how (seemingly) irredeemably broken most of MCC's plot turned out to be upon discussion with Chelle, although I'm still awaiting a new outline from either her or Jake.
My former obsession with Parasitic Trio, however, had mainly to do with everything I deemed wrong with Pokemon's main line of games, and while I would still like to see that through, it's not something I think so much about anymore that I have to continually update my outline for it. That whole thing about the fic's main characters being rendered naked by Sinnoh's lake trio is little more than a sideshow, really. I used to look forward to seeing how the Pal Park and the Battle Frontier arcs in particular would play out, but in the end, while they would be still interesting to write out, all those really boil down to is having stuff kill each other. That's exactly what inspired me to conceive the Digimon fic after I had discovered Digidex, which is also my reason for having once bought Digimon World 3 (which, of course, was somewhat disappointing for me). I was also similarly intrigued recently by YouTube footage of Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, but really, the concept in general is an entire genre that goes on with things like Monster Rancher, the Danish series Chaotic, and of course, the ur example, Shin Megami Tensei.
But anyway, just how obsessed am I with Lucky Star? Well, to start off, there's my tendency to cite events from the anime or the manga. I never even did that with Mon Colle Knights, but I'll get to that in a bit.
As far as my planned fanfics go, Starbound trumps both the sumo fic and Screams of Silence (that's what I'm gonna call my version of Cries Unheard, to avoid confusion with Blood's version) as my favorite fic to think about, particularly due to the various OCs I've got planned out who, naturally, will not appear in either of the others. (Not to mention the idea of having an ethnically diverse expanded cast as the premise will call for, which is all the more fun considering how few characters in canon were of non-Japanese origin.)
Within Starbound itself, though, my current favorite scene is that in which Rokuna and Mondo show off their swimsuits to most of the canon cast. Not only because of how little they're wearing, or for how thoroughly embarrassed Mondo is, in front of a mostly female audience*, or because this is one of the few chapters that will involve anyone canon other than the main four before the journey truly begins, but because of my continuing obsession with those two characters themselves.
(*Yes, whenever someone does get embarrassed, I'd prefer that it be in front of others of the opposite sex. Even though I generally prefer when girls get embarrassed about something, it is also something a turn-on for me when it's a guy below college age suffering it in front of a girl (provided it isn't outright male-bashing or "acceptable" abuse like Love Hina), though even *that* depends on the character himself. This was a better time than any to invoke embarrassment from a teenage boy (instead of one of the girls, regardless of age) in front of a multitude of girls without him being a full-fledged butt-monkey.)
Yeah, Rokuna and Mondo themselves... First of all, I'm glad I did replace Yamazaki back with Mondo as Rokuna's boyfriend. More importantly, though, with Mon Colle Knights, I gotta say that it was mostly the main characters that I was particularly obsessed with, rather than most of the monsters or events (although those were the main reasons why I sought DVD copies after Fox Kids stopped airing the show upon becoming FoxBox). That I planned Mondo and Rokuna in particular as the core characters in the old Digimon fic goes miles to show that. If you've read the summaries I wrote on the 11th, about what I once planned for Monster Collection Chronicles' plot, you'll notice I've written very little about any actual monsters.
(On the other hand, I did consider making MCC a reboot of MCK several times before, but found myself more inclined to maintain it as a continuation of the anime instead.)
Finally, let me mention that, even after I first started buying my MCK DVDs back in 2005, while I did enjoy being able to watch the show again, I still could not help but cringe at just how excessively comical most characters' actions and facial expressions tended to get. I'm able to tolerate that sort of thing with other humorous anime, and didn't mind it so much when I was watching the show the first time around, but the more I thought about what would become MCC following its removal from TV, I tended to imagine the characters looking and acting without so too much cartoon physics and artistic exaggeration.
My point with that last paragraph? Like, that's part of the reason why, unlike with the much more reasonable Lucky Star, I can't bring myself to watch the Mon Colle Knights anime anymore, now that my obsession with that fandom is mostly gone. Of course, most episodes of that show were filler anyway, and it's mostly the events of the endgame that would have been relevant to those of Monster Collection Chronicles, putting aside all the monsters themselves that the Knights have befriended up until that point.
But anyway, I think what I've figured out was that, MCC aside, it's mostly been Mondo and Rokuna themselves that I liked about Mon Colle Knights. Part of why I don't think anymore about Cult/MCC these days might very well have to do with their presence in Starbound, which would mean that that fic has become more or less an outlet of sorts for them. And it was only a few months after most of MCC's events were scrapped that I decided to include a modified Rokuna in Starbound to start with. Just her at the time, but still, I can't say that's any kind of coincidence.
This is the period during which I obsess pretty much exclusively over Lucky Star. I've lost almost all interest in what is now Cult, not least of all thanks to how (seemingly) irredeemably broken most of MCC's plot turned out to be upon discussion with Chelle, although I'm still awaiting a new outline from either her or Jake.
My former obsession with Parasitic Trio, however, had mainly to do with everything I deemed wrong with Pokemon's main line of games, and while I would still like to see that through, it's not something I think so much about anymore that I have to continually update my outline for it. That whole thing about the fic's main characters being rendered naked by Sinnoh's lake trio is little more than a sideshow, really. I used to look forward to seeing how the Pal Park and the Battle Frontier arcs in particular would play out, but in the end, while they would be still interesting to write out, all those really boil down to is having stuff kill each other. That's exactly what inspired me to conceive the Digimon fic after I had discovered Digidex, which is also my reason for having once bought Digimon World 3 (which, of course, was somewhat disappointing for me). I was also similarly intrigued recently by YouTube footage of Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, but really, the concept in general is an entire genre that goes on with things like Monster Rancher, the Danish series Chaotic, and of course, the ur example, Shin Megami Tensei.
But anyway, just how obsessed am I with Lucky Star? Well, to start off, there's my tendency to cite events from the anime or the manga. I never even did that with Mon Colle Knights, but I'll get to that in a bit.
As far as my planned fanfics go, Starbound trumps both the sumo fic and Screams of Silence (that's what I'm gonna call my version of Cries Unheard, to avoid confusion with Blood's version) as my favorite fic to think about, particularly due to the various OCs I've got planned out who, naturally, will not appear in either of the others. (Not to mention the idea of having an ethnically diverse expanded cast as the premise will call for, which is all the more fun considering how few characters in canon were of non-Japanese origin.)
Within Starbound itself, though, my current favorite scene is that in which Rokuna and Mondo show off their swimsuits to most of the canon cast. Not only because of how little they're wearing, or for how thoroughly embarrassed Mondo is, in front of a mostly female audience*, or because this is one of the few chapters that will involve anyone canon other than the main four before the journey truly begins, but because of my continuing obsession with those two characters themselves.
(*Yes, whenever someone does get embarrassed, I'd prefer that it be in front of others of the opposite sex. Even though I generally prefer when girls get embarrassed about something, it is also something a turn-on for me when it's a guy below college age suffering it in front of a girl (provided it isn't outright male-bashing or "acceptable" abuse like Love Hina), though even *that* depends on the character himself. This was a better time than any to invoke embarrassment from a teenage boy (instead of one of the girls, regardless of age) in front of a multitude of girls without him being a full-fledged butt-monkey.)
Yeah, Rokuna and Mondo themselves... First of all, I'm glad I did replace Yamazaki back with Mondo as Rokuna's boyfriend. More importantly, though, with Mon Colle Knights, I gotta say that it was mostly the main characters that I was particularly obsessed with, rather than most of the monsters or events (although those were the main reasons why I sought DVD copies after Fox Kids stopped airing the show upon becoming FoxBox). That I planned Mondo and Rokuna in particular as the core characters in the old Digimon fic goes miles to show that. If you've read the summaries I wrote on the 11th, about what I once planned for Monster Collection Chronicles' plot, you'll notice I've written very little about any actual monsters.
(On the other hand, I did consider making MCC a reboot of MCK several times before, but found myself more inclined to maintain it as a continuation of the anime instead.)
Finally, let me mention that, even after I first started buying my MCK DVDs back in 2005, while I did enjoy being able to watch the show again, I still could not help but cringe at just how excessively comical most characters' actions and facial expressions tended to get. I'm able to tolerate that sort of thing with other humorous anime, and didn't mind it so much when I was watching the show the first time around, but the more I thought about what would become MCC following its removal from TV, I tended to imagine the characters looking and acting without so too much cartoon physics and artistic exaggeration.
My point with that last paragraph? Like, that's part of the reason why, unlike with the much more reasonable Lucky Star, I can't bring myself to watch the Mon Colle Knights anime anymore, now that my obsession with that fandom is mostly gone. Of course, most episodes of that show were filler anyway, and it's mostly the events of the endgame that would have been relevant to those of Monster Collection Chronicles, putting aside all the monsters themselves that the Knights have befriended up until that point.
But anyway, I think what I've figured out was that, MCC aside, it's mostly been Mondo and Rokuna themselves that I liked about Mon Colle Knights. Part of why I don't think anymore about Cult/MCC these days might very well have to do with their presence in Starbound, which would mean that that fic has become more or less an outlet of sorts for them. And it was only a few months after most of MCC's events were scrapped that I decided to include a modified Rokuna in Starbound to start with. Just her at the time, but still, I can't say that's any kind of coincidence.
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