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Well, this was highly unexpected....
Jul. 3rd, 2010 10:59 am... I am so nervous suddenly and I don't know why. Though actually, I feel like I *do* know why, but it's on the tip of my tongue. -.- So much worse than knowing the reason why.
And no, it isn't because of what I'm about to discuss. It feels more like I'm anxious for something to happen.
Yesterday when I was half-asleep, I wrote a blurb that ended up turning into Autor/Ahiru. LOL. After looking it over when I was awake again, I decided it was cute and that maybe if I removed the overtly pairing part, I might feel okay to post it here, at least. But then I started thinking....
The scenario depicts a "dead" Kinkan, courtesy of a cruel Story. There are no people around; it's like a ghost town. Fakir was its first casualty some time back, and since this is a different timeline post-series, Ahiru is still a duck. Autor took her in despite his allergies, but when the Story rose up against the entire town and communication to everywhere else was cut off, the two of them had no choice but to try to stop it themselves. Ahiru was wounded and Autor was apparently killed, but they did stop the Story. Ahiru found Autor's body later and tried and tried to wake him without success.
Originally, I was going to stop the blurb there. The image of a little duck perched on Autor's shoulder, mourning him, wouldn't go away despite how horribly tragic it was, especially since Ahiru was the last one left in Kinkan (except maybe some other animals). But then my mind started tinkering with other possibilities and the main draw of the blurb became a way both for Ahiru to turn human again and for Autor to revive. They conversed and eventually wondered if they might have romantic feelings for each other after all the time they had spent together following Fakir's death. It ends with them still unsure; they might be on the rebound, still smarting from being unable to have their first loves.
Ahiru thinks towards the end that they will try to restore Kinkan, so apparently at least the majority of the townspeople must have not been eliminated in a thoroughly permanent way. And here's where I really started pondering a few hours ago.
Maybe this thing could actually be a posted fic, even with the pairing part. I'd already decided that they would mutually decide that they did not really feel that way about each other. And then I wondered if, when Autor restores the town with his music, Fakir might be back brought as well.
The only slight problem I have is, since this is supposed to be a different timeline, how and when did Autor discover his powers? Did he lose his mind and Fall From Grace played out mostly the same, but with Ahiru as a duck?
Or ... should it be the same timeline and sometime after Think Back on Yesterday, Ahiru found herself a duck again (due to the new vengeful Story)?
I kind of didn't want the latter option, though, the main reason being, Ahiru and Autor are much more sure of their feelings in the main timeline and part of the point of this fic/timeline is their unsurety for a while. Also, I thought it would be interesting to explore them forming a friendship in a much different way, here with Ahiru as a duck (though I think that would be mostly shown in flashbacks; the fic would open with the devastation of Kinkan).
Though I guess there's one other possibility, if I really badly want it to be the main timeline: the new cruel Story could have made them forget almost everything that happened to them post-series and then turned Ahiru into a duck again. This idea sounds better even as I type, but I'm a bit hesitant with it too, since I've already been writing something kind of similar for a different fandom and badly stalled on it.
In the end, though, I bet I'll do it. Anyone who knows me knows I adore my timelines, and that if I have a good thing going I don't like dropping it and making a new timeline. It's only been recently that I've made some new timelines for YGO, and I don't really feel like doing it for Tutu. Though I do have one short fic that seems to be separate from the main timeline, this one would be a lot more epic, and that's when I don't like giving a fic a new timeline, since I've so lovingly and intently developed the characters beyond canon and want those "versions" of the characters to experience the epic stuff, if that makes sense.
(With YGO, BTW, it's different because my old versions of those characters were not as canon-accurate as the new versions I've written. So with YGO, it's some of the old stuff that likely never happened and the new stuff that's the official main timeline. I still like to think of my mysteries as being in the main timeline somehow, though, with some tweaking. But there are a few fics in the new line that really are a separate timeline, particularly the Alone Again ones, and I honestly still want to continue that because it's an alternate possibility that intrigues me. I think it's the same verse as the three Seto/Tea fics I did for the 100 Chances comm, but I'm not sure. It could be a different version of that verse.
With Tutu, I think my current versions are just fine canonically and I wouldn't write them different in a new timeline. So I'm perfectly happy continuing to develop my current timeline. It's also possibly because I've written for YGO so long that's made me mellow out on having separate timelines for it. But Tutu writing is still so new to me that I prefer to stick with one timeline for it.)
Yesterday when I was half-asleep, I wrote a blurb that ended up turning into Autor/Ahiru. LOL. After looking it over when I was awake again, I decided it was cute and that maybe if I removed the overtly pairing part, I might feel okay to post it here, at least. But then I started thinking....
The scenario depicts a "dead" Kinkan, courtesy of a cruel Story. There are no people around; it's like a ghost town. Fakir was its first casualty some time back, and since this is a different timeline post-series, Ahiru is still a duck. Autor took her in despite his allergies, but when the Story rose up against the entire town and communication to everywhere else was cut off, the two of them had no choice but to try to stop it themselves. Ahiru was wounded and Autor was apparently killed, but they did stop the Story. Ahiru found Autor's body later and tried and tried to wake him without success.
Originally, I was going to stop the blurb there. The image of a little duck perched on Autor's shoulder, mourning him, wouldn't go away despite how horribly tragic it was, especially since Ahiru was the last one left in Kinkan (except maybe some other animals). But then my mind started tinkering with other possibilities and the main draw of the blurb became a way both for Ahiru to turn human again and for Autor to revive. They conversed and eventually wondered if they might have romantic feelings for each other after all the time they had spent together following Fakir's death. It ends with them still unsure; they might be on the rebound, still smarting from being unable to have their first loves.
Ahiru thinks towards the end that they will try to restore Kinkan, so apparently at least the majority of the townspeople must have not been eliminated in a thoroughly permanent way. And here's where I really started pondering a few hours ago.
Maybe this thing could actually be a posted fic, even with the pairing part. I'd already decided that they would mutually decide that they did not really feel that way about each other. And then I wondered if, when Autor restores the town with his music, Fakir might be back brought as well.
The only slight problem I have is, since this is supposed to be a different timeline, how and when did Autor discover his powers? Did he lose his mind and Fall From Grace played out mostly the same, but with Ahiru as a duck?
Or ... should it be the same timeline and sometime after Think Back on Yesterday, Ahiru found herself a duck again (due to the new vengeful Story)?
I kind of didn't want the latter option, though, the main reason being, Ahiru and Autor are much more sure of their feelings in the main timeline and part of the point of this fic/timeline is their unsurety for a while. Also, I thought it would be interesting to explore them forming a friendship in a much different way, here with Ahiru as a duck (though I think that would be mostly shown in flashbacks; the fic would open with the devastation of Kinkan).
Though I guess there's one other possibility, if I really badly want it to be the main timeline: the new cruel Story could have made them forget almost everything that happened to them post-series and then turned Ahiru into a duck again. This idea sounds better even as I type, but I'm a bit hesitant with it too, since I've already been writing something kind of similar for a different fandom and badly stalled on it.
In the end, though, I bet I'll do it. Anyone who knows me knows I adore my timelines, and that if I have a good thing going I don't like dropping it and making a new timeline. It's only been recently that I've made some new timelines for YGO, and I don't really feel like doing it for Tutu. Though I do have one short fic that seems to be separate from the main timeline, this one would be a lot more epic, and that's when I don't like giving a fic a new timeline, since I've so lovingly and intently developed the characters beyond canon and want those "versions" of the characters to experience the epic stuff, if that makes sense.
(With YGO, BTW, it's different because my old versions of those characters were not as canon-accurate as the new versions I've written. So with YGO, it's some of the old stuff that likely never happened and the new stuff that's the official main timeline. I still like to think of my mysteries as being in the main timeline somehow, though, with some tweaking. But there are a few fics in the new line that really are a separate timeline, particularly the Alone Again ones, and I honestly still want to continue that because it's an alternate possibility that intrigues me. I think it's the same verse as the three Seto/Tea fics I did for the 100 Chances comm, but I'm not sure. It could be a different version of that verse.
With Tutu, I think my current versions are just fine canonically and I wouldn't write them different in a new timeline. So I'm perfectly happy continuing to develop my current timeline. It's also possibly because I've written for YGO so long that's made me mellow out on having separate timelines for it. But Tutu writing is still so new to me that I prefer to stick with one timeline for it.)
