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HELP I AM BEING OVERWHELMED!
Aug. 3rd, 2014 01:45 amSo as if I don't have enough on my mind with Chris characters real and imaginary (thanks, dream), and all the other people I post pictures of at Tumblr, now I'm being bombarded by that old crush on Kunzite. He was in the first episodes of Sailor Moon I chose to see many years ago and I was instantly intrigued by him. Then I also became intrigued by Nephrite when I saw his episodes, especially the ones with Naru. Jadeite and Zoisite were never favorites, although I wished someone would have got Jadeite out of the ice! That would have been interesting.
I wish I could find my document of the prologue and first two chapters of my Sailor Moon fic. I can't find where I put it and I had to just open a new document to write up that new chapter I posted this week. But I did re-read the other chapters online first, to make sure everything would flow. I need to find the other chapters, however, so I can make those adjustments I realized I needed to.
Also, Naru is awesome. I had so much fun writing for her in the chapter. So she's a magnet for supernatural beings. She can still be really epic when she's allowed the chance. She's spunky and won't just lay down and roll over when there's trouble, especially when we get to the episodes with Nephrite. I really want to bring out that spunkiness and determination in the fic and show how Naru can be awesome just being a regular girl without special senshi powers.
Then I feel guilty for wanting her with Nephrite because she and Umino are definitely cute, and Umino tries so hard. But I can't help it, I want her with Nephrite because they intrigued me so much and I loved how Naru's love was changing Nephrite for the better (and I have this insistence on wanting doomed romances to have a chance to succeed).
Also, I found that when I was writing the chapter, I kept picturing her talking in a Brooklyn accent. I use Japanese names in the fic, and in some cases I prefer them, but I guess Naru will always be Molly in my heart.
EDIT: Oh, I found the document, finally. I made the tweaks and now I should probably replace the chapter on FF.net.
I also decided, out of utter curiosity, to look at my original version of the fic, the one I took down six years ago when I decided it needed an overhaul and only a complete rewrite would do. I saved the original version, since it was so different.
And how. It was based on the dub version and was very ... dubby. And not as deep and insightful and knowledgeable of the characters. I can certainly tell how my writing style has improved, as well as my familiarity with the characters and my ability to get into their minds. I'd still like to be assured I'm doing alright with the characters in the current version, but I can definitely see a positive difference between the two versions. The current version feels a lot more like Japanese Sailor Moon and is darker and deeper.
I am somewhat amused by how Dr. Portman plays an even larger part in the first version. She keeps experimenting on Kunzite and has a tracking device implanted in him. Gah. It certainly feels like one of my fics, but it doesn't exactly feel like Sailor Moon. Portman will be important to the current version too, more than she is right now, I mean, but she hasn't been doing any experimenting with tracking devices and pain devices since Kunzite broke free. I'm not sure I'll even still go that route; Kunzite will have enough on his mind with getting back his memories of the Silver Millennium and with other things I have planned to go on.
Nephrite visits Naru in ghost form. I'm not sure what I was planning to do with him in the first version, although I must have been planning to eventually bring him back to life.
Kunzite releases Jadeite from the ice on purpose. And they get along a lot worse than in the current version.
Kunzite is more bitter in general. Perhaps that would actually be more accurate to write him that way, but since in the current version he's getting back bits and pieces of memories, I thought it would be more realistic to have him finally see that he was brainwashed and finally be outraged at Queen Beryl. His bitterness is currently being directed at her and he is extremely determined to find out about the lives he and the others led before she brainwashed them.
I wish I could find my document of the prologue and first two chapters of my Sailor Moon fic. I can't find where I put it and I had to just open a new document to write up that new chapter I posted this week. But I did re-read the other chapters online first, to make sure everything would flow. I need to find the other chapters, however, so I can make those adjustments I realized I needed to.
Also, Naru is awesome. I had so much fun writing for her in the chapter. So she's a magnet for supernatural beings. She can still be really epic when she's allowed the chance. She's spunky and won't just lay down and roll over when there's trouble, especially when we get to the episodes with Nephrite. I really want to bring out that spunkiness and determination in the fic and show how Naru can be awesome just being a regular girl without special senshi powers.
Then I feel guilty for wanting her with Nephrite because she and Umino are definitely cute, and Umino tries so hard. But I can't help it, I want her with Nephrite because they intrigued me so much and I loved how Naru's love was changing Nephrite for the better (and I have this insistence on wanting doomed romances to have a chance to succeed).
Also, I found that when I was writing the chapter, I kept picturing her talking in a Brooklyn accent. I use Japanese names in the fic, and in some cases I prefer them, but I guess Naru will always be Molly in my heart.
EDIT: Oh, I found the document, finally. I made the tweaks and now I should probably replace the chapter on FF.net.
I also decided, out of utter curiosity, to look at my original version of the fic, the one I took down six years ago when I decided it needed an overhaul and only a complete rewrite would do. I saved the original version, since it was so different.
And how. It was based on the dub version and was very ... dubby. And not as deep and insightful and knowledgeable of the characters. I can certainly tell how my writing style has improved, as well as my familiarity with the characters and my ability to get into their minds. I'd still like to be assured I'm doing alright with the characters in the current version, but I can definitely see a positive difference between the two versions. The current version feels a lot more like Japanese Sailor Moon and is darker and deeper.
I am somewhat amused by how Dr. Portman plays an even larger part in the first version. She keeps experimenting on Kunzite and has a tracking device implanted in him. Gah. It certainly feels like one of my fics, but it doesn't exactly feel like Sailor Moon. Portman will be important to the current version too, more than she is right now, I mean, but she hasn't been doing any experimenting with tracking devices and pain devices since Kunzite broke free. I'm not sure I'll even still go that route; Kunzite will have enough on his mind with getting back his memories of the Silver Millennium and with other things I have planned to go on.
Nephrite visits Naru in ghost form. I'm not sure what I was planning to do with him in the first version, although I must have been planning to eventually bring him back to life.
Kunzite releases Jadeite from the ice on purpose. And they get along a lot worse than in the current version.
Kunzite is more bitter in general. Perhaps that would actually be more accurate to write him that way, but since in the current version he's getting back bits and pieces of memories, I thought it would be more realistic to have him finally see that he was brainwashed and finally be outraged at Queen Beryl. His bitterness is currently being directed at her and he is extremely determined to find out about the lives he and the others led before she brainwashed them.
