Fics and Songs

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http://www.crisiscore.com is up and running, for those who don't know! But still no English trailer. ;__;

Hooray for Welcome to the Black Parade and Crisis Core! X3 It sounds so much like a CC theme song, as Lisa discovered. Her wallpaper inspired me, and I just had to make this icon. Closest I'll get to making AMVs.

And oooh, After Forever's Intrinsic. http://www.metrolyrics.com/intrinsic-lyrics-after-forever.html It could mean so many things, and yet I always come back to some mad scientist pondering things out. Now I'm getting the desire to write some short ficlits/random scenes to piece together later involving KH Seph being tortured by Hojo. ;__;

I think I have the first draft of chapter 6 of the wing fic almost done. I'm debating whether the scene where Kala-Ansa goes to talk to the mayor should be in six or if that should be in seven. Six seems to be moving nicely and maybe it should be a calm chapter, without the villains showing up. It also may be the shortest chapter so far. XD;

I am amused at how it's totally turning into a KH version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney version only). XD; That was not my intention to begin with, but I'm actually not sure how I planned for the fic to go originally, since for some time I'd been aiming for a goal of a long oneshot. @___@; Trying to picture all of what's happened being condensed like that is ... wow.

Kala-Ansa, is, of course, Frollo. Sephiroth and Cloud and the clones are equivalent to the gypsies, with Seph in the lead role as the Esmeralda counterpart. Zack would be Phoebus, I guess, who in the Disney version was actually pretty cool, unlike the wretch he was in the book. That would leave Sun to be Quasimodo, in some odd way. XD; Though unlike Quasimodo, the outcasts in this fic do not really want to be part of the outside world; they want to be accepted as they are, or even just tolerated, and left alone. If I remember right, that is what the gypsies wanted.

For my own amusement, I tweaked the lyrics of Hellfire around the time the idea for Kala-Ansa first sparked from the song. If anyone is interested, they're below. Kala-Ansa is so off her rocker.


Priests:
Confiteor Deo Omnipotenti (I confess to God almighty)
Beatae Mariae semper Virgini (To blessed Mary ever Virgin)
Beato Michaeli archangelo (To the blessed archangel Michael)
Sanctis apostolis omnibus sanctis (To the holy apostles, to all the saints)

Kala-Ansa:
Beata Maria
You know I'm such a righteous woman
Of my virtue I am justly proud

Priests:
Et tibit Pater (And to you, Father)

Kala-Ansa:
Beata Maria
You know I'm so much purer than
The common, vulgar, weak, licentious crowd

Priests:
Quia peccavi nimis (That I have sinned)

Kala-Ansa:
Then tell me, Maria
Why I see him flying there
Why his ice-cold eyes still scorch my soul

Priests:
Cogitatione (In thought)

Kala-Ansa:
I feel him, I see him
The light caught in his sapphire wings
Is blazing in me out of all control

Priests:
Verbo et opere (In word and deed)

Kala-Ansa:
Like fire
Hellfire
This fire in my skin
This burning
Desire
Is turning me to sin!

It's not my fault

Priests:
Mea culpa (Through my fault)

Kala-Ansa:
I'm not to blame

Priests:
Mea culpa (Through my fault)

Kala-Ansa:
It is the winged man,
The demon who sent this flame!

Priests:
Mea maxima culpa (Through my most grievous fault)

Kala-Ansa:
It's not my fault

Priests:
Mea culpa (Through my fault)

Kala-Ansa:
If in God's plan

Priests:
Mea culpa (Through my fault)

Kala-Ansa:
He made the devil so much
Stronger than a woman!

Priests:
Mea maxima culpa (Through my most grievous fault)

Kala-Ansa:
Protect me, Maria
Don't let this warlock cast his spell
Don't let his fire sear my flesh and bone
Destroy Sephiroth
And let him taste the fires of hell
Or else let him be mine and mine alone

Guard:
Ms. Kala-Ansa, the winged men have escaped.

Kala-Ansa:
What?

Guard:
No longer in the cathedral. They're gone.

Kala-Ansa:
But how? Never mind. Get out, you idiot!
I'll find them. I'll find them if I have to burn down all of Hollow Bastion!

Hellfire
Dark fire
Now, Sephiroth, it's your turn
Choose me or
Your pyre
Be mine or you will burn

Priests:
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Kala-Ansa:
God have mercy on him

Priests:
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Kala-Ansa:
God have mercy on me

Priests:
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Kala-Ansa:
But he will be mine
Or he will burn!


And yes, there will really be a cathedral scene. It will be very different from the one in Hunchback, though. XD And I am dying to get to it, which may be why I'm having such trouble getting through chapter 6.

The idea of Sun came because of Heaven's Light, which is meant to be part of the same track as Hellfire. So I thought of two people with vastly differing opinions on Sephiroth. And since the last thing I want is any freakin' Mary Sue, Sun is a child who idolizes Seph, but isn't clingy. XD And she never seeks Seph out; they meet by accident. And she probably won't appear after this fic.

Of course Kala-Ansa has to die. XD She isn't the kind of villain you can really bring back for more. I already have a death scene in mind, and some surprise twists involving the Master Clone at the end. X3

candy__chan's interest in 31_days has sparked some of my own, as seems to happen with her comms. XD I have found several that I'm nuts about because of her fics, mainly 30_friends. Anyway, the past week I've written three or four ficlits based on prompts from 31 Days. The prompts are daily, and they're so fascinating. A lot of them sound like Genesis, so it results in ficlits involving him. I decided to save the whole list, since it will be gone next month, and I might still want it for inspiration then. XD

Sometime I wanna do some stuff with Angeal and Genesis, as they seem to be the best friends that Seph and Zack also are. X3 The squee! Seph and Genesis are terribly fun to explore, but in the end I prefer Seph and Zack and Seph and Cloud. Angeal and Genesis would be neat, too.

I'm gonna let chapter 6 sit a while longer, but it should go up tonight. ^^

Comments

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

XD Well, you can do the AMVs then, and I can do the icons. X3

Wow, that is an interesting interpretation! That really could work, too.

**nodnod.** Yeah, I was thinking I'll probably leave it calm. ^^

Phoebus is Esmeralda's love interest, a captain in the army. ^^ In the movie he likes her and flirts with her a bit, and he's a good guy who won't go along with Frollo's atrocities against the gypsies. In the book Esmeralda liked him solely because of his good looks, and he didn't care a thing about her, but they jumped in bed. Then Frollo stabbed him and Esmeralda went on trial for his murder. He wasn't dead, but he refused to come forward and clear Esmeralda's name. Disney sure changed the story, but Disney's version is so much more hopeful. XD;;

Of course the part about Phoebus as a love interest is totally abolished in the wing fic, LOL. But him being an upright captain (and a bit of a flirt) fit in nicely with Zack's personality. ^^

Yay sapphire wings! X3

Buwahaha. It's definitely going to be a different twist.

Angeal and Zack are so cute! I might write a fic or two about them as a team, though I'm guessing I'd find it hard to do a multi-chapter mission fic with them and no Seph. XD

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me!^^

Jeez. The characters in that book are just awful! Sounds like no one wants to help anyone else out. I mean, why wouldn't Phoebus at least want the real guy who hurt him to be punished? It makes no sense! The movie definitely sounds so much better.^^

Yeah, it definitely seems that he fit pretty well with Zack.^^

XD. Leaving Seph out of things for such a long fic would definitely be strange! Would there ever have been a time when they could all go on a mission together?

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's so depressing-sounding! XD; I heard that Victor Hugo got the idea because he found the word "Fate" carved in one of the walls of Notre Dame, and he wondered how it got there. I am enjoying his book Les Miserables, but I don't know if I'd like Notre Dame de Paris (his title for the Hunchback story) at all. XD; Les Miserables is pretty sad in parts too, but at least not everyone's just out for themselves! One of the big plot points is how the main character changes his life around, and how a kind priest helped set him on that path.

I don't think there would have been a time in canon, unfortunately, since Zack had never met Seph before when the game started. XD;

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's interesting about the word "Fate." ...How did it get carved there in the story?

Les Miserables sounds pretty good, at least!^^ Does it have a good ending?

Nuts. That's too bad that they never went on a mission together!

Oh! **is hit by a random story idea.** Did you read those Jedi Apprentice books that were split between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan and Anakin, but dealt with similar or related missions? I just had a thought that maybe it would be possible to do a story like that, only split between Angeal and Zack, and Seph and Zack.^^

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Good question. XD; I'm not quite sure if it was described in the story, or if it was just the springboard for inspiration. Maybe Quasimodo carved it there? Hmm.

Les Miserables has a bittersweet ending, I think. XD; I still need to finish it. There's a huge cast of characters and it's largely a study of human nature. So's Notre Dame de Paris, I imagine, but an even darker study. XD;

Oh wow! That's an amazing idea! X3 A mission that follows them through time. I love that! Now if I can just think of a good plot for one.

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

I'd totally have shown how it got there if that was my inspiration! XD. It seems like Quasimodo could have carved it there, though.

Sounds like it would be a really fascinating read! I think I might end up getting mixed up by all the characters, though, if I didn't read it continuously. XD

^^ Glad you like it! I wonder if the different times would alternate by chapter, or if the chapters in each time would be grouped together? And as for the plot... Hmmm... **starts pondering.**

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my guess is that he did show it. XD I'm curious now. Maybe sometime I'll have a look at the book, just to see what it's like in person.

I've been reading Les Miserables for two years, and I still haven't got very far. LOL. I have spurts where I suddenly read a bunch of pages, and then set it down again and don't pick it up for months.

I was thinking that the chapters for each time would be grouped together. ^^ And that the plot would leave off at the end of the first half, like with the villain getting away, and then it would pick up in the present with him appearing again. Or maybe even he was thought dead in the first part, and suddenly, poof! He's baack. XD

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

LOL. I think I've got at least one book like that. Though it's usually homework and stuff that keeps me busy, and if I'm not busy with that, then there's always something else I'd rather do. XD

XD. That sounds good! Or maybe there could also be some mystery in the first part, that remained unsolved. And something happens later when they're investigating a similar thing, and clues from the first mission end up helping to solve the current one... And the first one ends up being solved, too (or might even be the same one).

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

XD

I need to make time to read again. Mostly I write.

Yeah! X3 All of that could combine together with the problem of the villain.