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writerawakened

STUFF (part deux)

Dec 20, 2009 16:34

1. (Minor spoilers and ranting/raving for Star Ocean ahead!)

Of course, after a set of three PAs in Star Ocean: First Departure, despite all my attempts to hook up Roddick (generic blue-haired JRPG hero) with Ilia (cute blonde martial arts spacecraft lieutenant), she seems almost a stone-cold lock to end up with her obvious Designated Love ( Read more... )

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myaru December 20 2009, 22:22:29 UTC

2. That isn't morbid at all, is it? Sain would make an excellent Don Quixote, though. XD

4. El Jay fucks up all the time, but it tries. It loves you! It just doesn't know how to show it!

writerawakened December 21 2009, 01:37:51 UTC

EllJay and I had at first a torrid relationship, then it turned the cold shoulder, then my shoulders got cold (and I got a cold), now we have an on-again-off-again relationship, and I'm wondering if I should propose. I think it genuinely has feelings for me.

...what?

mark_asphodel December 20 2009, 22:49:27 UTC

starring Sain as a sort of solitary Don Quixote traveling the world as a mercenary (Kent was going to be Sancho Panza, but he said fuck it and stayed in Caelin XD)

LOL

I mean, it sounds like a very TWAGIC plotline, but it can't be any more depressing than any other portrayal of Sain pre-FE6, can it? Poor guy never gets a break.

writerawakened December 21 2009, 01:34:44 UTC

I haven't seen too many Sain-after-FE7 stories. Two or three, maybe. In my Dorothy/Saul fic I implied that Sain was still around in the year 1000 A.S., teaching the art of love to impressionable priests well into his 40s. XDD

But this is basically the problem with everything I do: I can figure out how the story begins and how the story ends, and maybe even the important events here and there in the middle, but it's connecting all these events in a way that makes for a coherent plot progression that proves the most difficult for me. HALP ( ... )

mark_asphodel December 21 2009, 03:15:25 UTC

Do people like to read tragedy? Or do they just like angst with a happy ending?

Fanbrats want one of two things:

1) Angst with a pasted-on happy ending
2) "Tragedy" that consists of their favorite fictional boytoy being crushed, torn, mutilated, mauled, maimed, et cetera so they can have a good cry over nothing.

And in that case, what does the reader take away from a tragic story? I mean, when I write, I'm trying to make a difference in one of my readers' lives. Does anything with a serious downer ending make a positive lasting impact on a reader?I hope so. I know that I try to impart, when writing, a sense that "there are consequences to fucking up"-- consequences that can't be waved away with a magic happy wand. This is something far too many people don't appear to get in real life, much less fanfiction. There are also, far too often, negative unintended consequences to doing the "right" thing, and I try to communicate that one, too ( ... )

writerawakened December 21 2009, 06:36:20 UTC

I wish I had a "magic happy wand" ;_; But that would be the "easy way out", wouldn't it? Sigh...

Heh...I'd settle for being Homer and spinning an entertaining story. ;) (Actually, that's setting my sights pretty high too XDD)

socraticwaffles December 21 2009, 01:58:07 UTC

BAAAAHAHA. Sain as Don Quixote is SUCH an epic idea. Of course, that's one of my very favourite books/concepts/characters (Don Q, not Sain, although Sain is also pretty ballin'...).

That's a very sad ending, though ;_;. Don Quixote had a pretty pathetic ending, with lots of sadness throughout, but it was satirical and often ironic, so it was STILL FUNNY SOMEHOW xD. Sain's fate does not seem to be at the same twistedly cheerful level as the imagination of a strange, imprisoned Spaniard. :P

writerawakened December 21 2009, 02:21:48 UTC

:D

Well, full disclosure: I'm no Cervantes...yet XDD It's a rare work that can make you laugh and cry at the same time.

Also, I never actually finished reading it. Maybe this break I should go pick it up again...

socraticwaffles December 23 2009, 04:20:29 UTC

Yes you SHOULD! It's one of my favourite books ever. I mean...to be honest, most of it is really boring, but the parts that weren't boring were so golden that it made up for everything. You just have to plow through it, and then when you're done you can feel all accomplished and enlightened and intelligent and stuff :P.