Whee!

[ladybug_archive]

Wowie. XD I have Just a Simple Mission finished now. And some of the chapter lengths make my jaw drop. One is around 9,010 words, and another, 8,278. And those two were written pretty much in two days, one for each day. I wish I could have that much inspiration for my doppelganger fic! In seven chapters, JASM ended up being 42,000+ words. I previously used to achieve that with 20 chapters on my YGO mysteries.

Last week I was working on the fic when Last Order hit me in the head again. That OVA is so saaad, for everybody! Seph loses his mind, Zack loses his friend, Cloud loses his, as well, since Zack dies. Tifa loses her father.... Anyway, that made me wanna do a fic post-AC where Zack is expressing his regrets to Aerith about what happened to Seph, and wondering if he should have tried harder to save him. I decided the fic idea was depressing, too, so I filed it away for a couple days in order to concentrate on JASM.

On Tuesday it came back, and it had mutated. It made me want to also do a part with Sephiroth having a monologue, struggling against his madness. And somehow that morphed into an idea where Zack receives a message from the sane Seph and realizes that there still is hope. So then he sets out to find him and help him. But Seph's dark side doesn't want to see that happen. He torments Zack with all kinds of illusions and mazes and traps. When Zack gets pasts them all, he has a long battle with Seph.

I have to say, I'm kinda looking forward to writing for the insane Seph in this context, the same way I like writing Alister gone nuts. I find them both interesting and intriguing villains (Marik, too), even though my preference is for them to be protoganists.

Anyway, chapter 1 of that just went up now. XD I have no idea if I'll even get ideas for it very fast. I kinda think not. I want to get back to T&D, too, and explore Cloud and Seph's relationship some more. But the darn plunnie wouldn't shut up! Anyone got any ideas for the kinds of obstacles Seph can throw in Zack's path?

I left JASM open, too, for a possible sequel/follow-up involving the hostage situation on the train. It would be further complicated by the fact that Seph must keep his left arm in a sling for at least a couple weeks due to the collarbone injury.

EDIT: I really hope I didn't do the wrong thing by posting the AU fic chapter. XD I quickly tacked on a note that I don't know if I will be continuing it, because of preferring my T&D universe. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I'm so confused. On the one hand, I prefer the idea of Seph getting a second chance, and getting his sanity back and whatnot through the T&D universe. I really like his interaction with Cloud in that verse. But on the other hand, Zack is dead in that verse and it doesn't seem the same to bring him and Aerith back as it does Seph and Kadaj-tachi. Sometimes I wanna bring him back to life, but in the end I don't think it would be a good idea, since he and Aerith died for specific reasons and whatnot that were important to the main storyline.

So it's either have Seph stay dead post-AC and interact with Zack that way, or have Seph restored to life and Zack stay a ghost, but still interact with both Seph and Cloud. I can't win. XD

Being so attached to a character who dies is really not a good thing.

Oh well, there's still the Kingdom Hearts verse, where the KH Zack can liiiive!

Comments

[yamsteapot.livejournal.com]

All that writing . . . **envyyyyy** I may just have to burn my research paper when I'm done with it. I was getting some interesting ideas today, but seems every time something would start to develop, it'd then crash and burn as some part of my mind started screeching, "Outline! Outline!" or "Ulysses! Read Ulysses." Love the book, but I swear it's killing me.

I wish I knew what I'd done with my copy of The Last Order OVA. I wonder if I'd just deleted it without saving it to a disk . . . **mutters** Been wondering about such for some time now.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Blurgh! **can definitely sympathize.** When I was in school, and especially towards the end, I was frantic to get it all done. XD So I didn't have much time for writing, or reading anything that wasn't for school. Anytime I wanted to read, I'd keep thinking of all the schoolwork. Though I broke my rules a few times to read manga.

Ah, a mystery. **shakes head.**

[invincible1863.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you've been able to work on your Fanfic. This art store fic has me intrigued! I'm loving it so much. Thanks to you, that bit with the burning of the building is going on and on now. Thanks a lot. XD J/k.

I think whichever way you want to do the fic it is going to be good. I'm gonna go ahead and start reading some of your AC/Pre-AC stuff. I need to get some inspiration from somewhere, and you normally do it for me! My muse! ^^

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Wish I could still update as fast as you doooooo... ;o;

[amanechan.livejournal.com]

Insane characters are totally fun to write for, in a strange way. X3

I'm definitely on like angst overload right now, because before I read the first chapter of Loneliness I watched that new scene with Axel and Roxas from FM, which was pretty heartbreaking even though I didn't know what they were saying. XD Especially at the end, when Roxas fades away and Axel's just like sitting there and buhhh. ANYWAY.

"Being so attached to a character who dies is really not a good thing."

XD See, that is why FF7 drives me nuts sometimes - THE BEST CHARACTERS ARE DEAD.

I do rather like what you're doing now - that is, Seph is restored and Zack stays a ghost. Though I think it would be an interesting experiment to bring Zack and Aerith back - like, just write a little blurb about it, and you wouldn't even have to post it in your LJ, just see what you think of it. I mean, there are reasons for bringing them back and reasons for keeping them dead, like you said.

Hope you can figure out what to do!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Awww! Poor Axel! ;___; **must watch the scene too!**

XD I'm seriously tempted that, if I continue Loneliness, to end it with all of them being restored.

[wngdngl.livejournal.com]

Much as reviving everyone in Loneliness would be nice, it would also be a bit...awkward? Plus, you'd think they'd be happier in the Lifestream/ Promised Land/ wherever they are. There'd have to be a /really/ good reason for them to come back - maybe the world's in danger (yet again)?

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was just a random musing I threw out there. XD I don't know what I'm going to do with that fic in the end. But for that matter, I could have it be that there's a new danger and the fic ends with them getting sent back to help. **imagines the last lines being Cloud going down the street, they suddenly appear, he gawks, and Zack waves and says, "Yo!" or something equally amusing.** XD