Yay! X3

Mar. 31st, 2007 09:58 pm
ladybug_archive: (axel)
My Cloud figure came. Wow! I wish there hadn't been so many delays. Once they actually shipped, he got here in two days. The consolation poster they allowed me to get because of the long shipping delays hasn't made it here, yet. Probably Monday or Tuesday.

It looks to me like they're trying a new mold style with him, judging by his size and the way his arms and hands were sculpted. Wow, he only comes up to Seph's chest. XD He's really only supposed to be about six inches shorter than Seph. If he was really the size the figure is, compared to Seph, they both would have most likely collapsed in the cave when Cloud was trying to half-drag, half-carry Seph out. Though the mental image amuses me more than it should.

I've started on chapter 3. I borrowed another idea from the Jedi Apprentice series and opened it with Zack having a vague dream that initially spooks him. But then he tries to brush it off, since he doesn't really believe in that sort of thing. Of course, the dream foreshadows future events.

Then comes the Nancy Drew influence as he and Seph start investigating the house and end up in a secret passageway that closes on them. XD Still gotta figure out how they get out.

I'm particularly amused by an exchange that takes place between them right before they start the search. Zack comments on if Seph ever sleeps, and then Sephiroth says that Zack should know; once he sleepwalked into Seph's quarters, fell on him, and woke him up. I love writing their interaction so much. X3

I decided that the warden will not be the one who fights Seph. He just doesn't seem like a fighter, more of a schemer. So the head prison guard will be the one. He'll be a sadistic creep and will fight with Zack, too, during the hours when Zack is held prisoner.

Also, I'm pondering slightly on how to work things near the end. Ponderings )

I've also worked more on T&D. I did a scene where Cloud comes back to get ready for the dinner with Tifa, and Sephiroth is trying to respond to what he says as if all is normal, while Sephiroth actually has about 75% of his memory back. Things haven't fully hit him yet, and he's feeling rather numb at this point. But he hates the current charade with Cloud, and knows that Cloud is going to feel betrayed when he gets his memories back. So I'm thinking Seph probably ends up leaving the house, maybe going back to the company, and that's when the rest comes back and it suddenly hits him full force.

I ended up depressing myself with the scene. XD; It's *sad*! And T&D will only get more angsty as it goes on!

And ah, today's date is March 31st. Always makes me think of the first time JP came out here. The 31st was a Sunday that year, 2002. Good times, good times. I always get a bit melancholy right around this time of year. It was always fun when he came to visit.

W00t!

Mar. 30th, 2007 08:19 am
ladybug_archive: (sephiroth_KH2)
Got chapter 2 up. X3 I'll have the house search in chapter 3, and probably the tour of the prison.

I suddenly realized last night what I'm going for with this fic, with its mystery and its action-adventure. I want to write something reminiscent of the Jedi Apprentice series! Love, *love* those books. So much intrigue, mystery, hurt/comfort, and friendship/mentor & student stuff! The idea about Zack being accused of the crime sounds very much like something from the series, as well the whole desert setting and the possible uprising.

I ended up reading the first two books of the series last night. I'll probably re-read them all. I already have another idea for a pre-Nibelheim fic about a hostage situation on a train. XD **loves that scenario in fics/movies.**

Question: Should Seph and Zack ever end up with a reason to investigate the golden plate? **has had that idea floating around for a bit, but isn't sure if she could get it to fit.**

Musings

Mar. 29th, 2007 06:07 pm
ladybug_archive: (Default)
FF.net is being idiotic again! I dropped in to my page, and not only are my two recent fics not in existence according to them at the moment, Just a Simple Mission has 0 reviews and my other pre-Nibelheim thing has 2. I hope they fix that soon. -.-; If all else fails, I did post both fics directly on the [livejournal.com profile] mako_reactor comm, as that's one of their rules.

Just a Simple Mission, I've been musing, is a mystery fic. But it's an experiment in seeing how far I've come since my YGO mysteries. JASM moves fairly slowly (at least now), like T&D does, and yet there are plot advancements in each chapter. T&D still uses the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys influence of ending most chapters with something surprising. JASM has chapters end with everything seemingly normal, though as it goes on, there will definitely be a shocker or two for chapter ends.

I think JASM may be, in part, more of a psychological thriller, as a lot of the plot advancement involves character studying and conversations, and strange twists that won't always especially involve action. I used to dislike that style, thinking it wasn't exciting. Hence, I didn't appreciate either Vertigo or Spellbound. But I've since come to realize that those films are masterpieces and evidence of Hitchcock's genius. X3 I don't claim to think I could ever write something comparable to his movies, but I'm definitely wanting to dabble in the style of the above-named films.

I've been considering having an actual murder later in the fic, one of the villagers, and Zack is accused. Either that, or else they really are fighting and he has to kill the person in self-defense, but he's charged with murder. And since they're out in the desert, and communication has been cut off, Sephiroth can't call to the Shinra Company for help. So then Zack is taken and thrown in the Dismal prison.

Of course, he wouldn't be there long. XD By this point, Dismal has revealed what they think of the "Shinra dogs" and the warden probably says to Sephiroth that he'll still release Zack, if either Sephiroth stays in his place as a hostage to barter with Shinra, or else if both of them are used that way. And if Shinra won't give in to their demands, both Sephiroth and Zack will be killed to show that Dismal won't stand for interference from Shinra any longer. Sephiroth doesn't agree to the demands, of course, and has to figure out what to do on his own.

Meanwhile, Zack is trying to get out of the prison, and learns that most of the prisoners there have weapons and are ready to go to battle against Midgar and Shinra. They hate him, and would kill him right then, if it wasn't that the warden wants to use him as a bargaining chip.

Thoughts? **is trying to figure out exactly what Sephiroth might try to do.** He wouldn't be able to talk to Zack, so they'd have to do things separately and independent of each other. Maybe he would try to turn the tables and take the warden hostage instead? And meanwhile, Zack's attempting a prison break....
ladybug_archive: (yamiM_artichoke)
Finally finished the Yazoo fic. I also got hit in the head with a random Zack h/c plunnie. XD So both of those are up now.

Is Zack's Japanese voice in AC the same voice as in Crisis Core? For some reason, I didn't think his AC voice suited him so much, and yet I like his voice in the Crisis Core trailers. If it is the same guy, maybe he was still settling into the role during AC and that's why it didn't quite grow on me there....

I watched that amusing AMV again where Axel and Demyx sing You Can't Keep a Good Dog Down. XD And I still wonder if they would get along well.

I think chapter 2 of Just a Simple Mission is almost done. X3 Maryn has been introduced, the warden's house is toured, and there's a dinner conversation. Sephiroth wants to investigate a couple of things in the house later, when the guy's asleep. Should that go into chapter 3? I'm thinking Yes. It might make chapter 2 seem too cluttered/stretched, if I try to put it there.

And I finally got the shipping notification! X3

Yay!

Mar. 25th, 2007 04:32 am
ladybug_archive: (cigarette)
A really quick entry/notice that chapter 1 of the pre-Nibelheim fic has gone up! Corel has become Dismal, because for now I think that seems best. XD **really wanted the angle of the disaster having already taken place, and the people being bitter/suspicious because of it.**

I also suddenly got an idea for a Yazoo h/c oneshot for my Kadaj-tachi fanfic claim. X3
ladybug_archive: (zack_sephiroth)
I think I hit a snag! Wouldn't the problem with Corel have had to have happened within four years before the game's events? Barret's friend Dyne apparently talked about his daughter Marlene when it happened (since he knows all about her when Barret returns with Cloud-tachi), and after Barret thought Dyne had died, he went to get Marlene to raise as his own daughter. Marlene is four during the game, to my knowledge.

I'm now so in love with the idea of the setting, with the desert prison and all, that I'm tempted to keep it all and just change the name, if I can't use Corel. XD

I'm also planning that the prison warden will have a charge, whom he treats poorly. She'll be between 5 and 7, I think. And she'll adore both visitors, but probably especially Zack. ^^ I can just see him being so cute with kids. Sephiroth will probably feel awkward whenever she'll try to talk to him. XD She's hoping that they'll take her away from there when they leave, and that they can help her find someone kind to be her family. Though she'll probably come to wish that she could stay with Zack.

And Sephiroth now has reading glasses, too. I was writing the opening scene, of him and Zack on the train discussing the possible problems that might crop up when they arrive, and I randomly decided he would look cool with reading glasses. After he sets them down, Zack playfully takes them at one point and tries to look through them. XD He says they don't do anything for him.

Also, I'm not sure how long this fic will be, but I don't imagine too long. Should I divide it into short chapters, like my KH fic, or should it be one long oneshot? **leaning towards chapters, but isn't sure.** Even though the chapters wouldn't be long, I think it would bowl people over if I left it as a oneshot. XD Though I've done 40+ page oneshots before.
ladybug_archive: (uhoh)
Altered the title of the humor fic as per Aubrie's amusing suggestion. XD

Tossed some ideas at Stacey for the serious fic. We pondered over what type of injuries might result, judging by the placement of the scar, and what type of injuries I would be willing to do. Then I brought up my musings for the plot, which she liked. ^^ I decided that maybe Sephiroth and Zack were sent to investigate reports of an uprising (probably in a made-up area, unless anyone has a good idea for a canon area). They get there and are warmly welcomed, but things seem too perfect. Eventually they're held hostage by the place's leaders/secret army in order for the people to barter with Shinra for what they want. And that's as far as I've gotten. I'm getting rather excited about it now. Political intrigue, mixed with hopefully character studies of both Seph and Zack, and definitely some stuff about their friendship. I figure Seph gets wounded during a battle, but I haven't determined the details yet.

I haven't tried to write much yet about Sephiroth as he was before he flipped. Stacey and I have pondered over that too, and I'm anxious to get some of our ideas down on paper/word processor/whatever. I find it interesting that he reportedly had some problems with being prideful about his strength, mixed with an apparently kind and warm side. We mused over that he was probably also quite blunt, and that if other SOLDIERs came to talk to him about problems, he would probably tell it exactly as he saw it, as well as what could be done about it. In my own mind I picture him as someone who would always make time when he could to hear about other's problems, but would never talk about his own, except possibly now and then to Zack. But even then, I doubt he'd ever say much.

And he goes through a lot of different stages in T&D and S&M, as I fully realized when I wrote it out earlier as a personal study for me. X3 He and Cloud develop the most in the fics, though I'm also hoping to do something with Reno though what and how, I'm not sure.

For personal reference, here's what I wrote, though some things may alter or change as time goes on. The first two sections are what's known and/or assumed from canon, while the rest is me taking that information and experimenting with it:


Chart Thing )


I tried writing an argument between him and Cloud at the beginning of S&M, after he returns from parts unknown, but it came out wrong. XD Whoops. **will have to try again.**

Stuff

Mar. 22nd, 2007 07:59 am
ladybug_archive: (axel)
I'm still hoping to gather up plot points for that angsty h/c pre-Nibelheim fic, but meanwhile, a general/humor fic insisted on being written. XD Concept is ... well, look at my icon. I'm terribly amused by how it came out. I tried to figure out one of the seven deadly sins I could file it under to meet the weekly challenge, and the only one I could think of was "Sloth", and that was stretching it. Sephiroth comments that the other SOLDIERs have too much time on their hands if they're sitting around gossiping falsely about him and Zack. But one other entry was more vague on the sin, elaborating it as "Giving Into Temptation", so I added in my post that the main sin was Gossip.

It wasn't as sad/melancholy writing pre-Nibelheim as I thought it'd be. But maybe that's because I know that in my timeline, there's still hope for their friendship following Dirge of Cerberus. **pets Twilight and Dawn.**

I have an official name for the sequel now. I want to call it Sunrise and Midnight, continuing the time of day theme. Those are also both titles of volumes of first season Magic Knight Rayearth DVDs/videos, too. "Midnight" is because of Cloud's struggles with his inner darkness, which begin in T&D and get more intense in S&M. "Sunrise" is because he eventually, finally gets some relief from those feelings.

I finally changed the "Character 1" thing at FF.net to "Cloud" for T&D. He and Seph are really the main characters, I'm finding. (Previously, I'd listed Reno as Character 1.)

Chapter 5 had lots of things happen and lots of people meet. XD I'm still trying to determine the events of chapter 6. I know I want Cloud coming home to prepare for the dinner, and Sephiroth wondering what to say to him, as at this point, he has maybe 35% to 50% of his memory back, and Cloud still remembers nothing. And then I want to show the dinner, too. I need to figure out what Reno and Yuffie do, and how and when Reeve and Cait Sith show up, and whatnot. I also want to show a flashback or two of Cloud and Sephiroth conversing at the company, and perhaps when Sephiroth first decided to take Cloud as his assistant. But I really wanna try to keep things balanced between all the characters.

I decided that since Sephiroth has such a time of it in S&M, I should probably leave out the part in T&D where Jenova leaves him comatose for a while. Aside from the fact that too much Sephiroth h/c in the series might be unbelieveable/overkill, I want there to be much more of a shocked feeling when Jenova freezes him in stone. For it to be more intense, he probably should not have been seriously injured before by Jenova. I am going to keep her temporarily getting control of him and wrecking havoc somewhere, though, perhaps following her at least causing him to pass out for a short time, as Aubrie suggested.

And per Stacey's suggestion, I decided that Rude will not remember until S&M. Any ideas on how he finally does remember? XD; Should I go for the cheesy, yet angst-filled scenario of Reno being hurt? **imagines him grinning weakly up at Rude and saying something Reno-ish.**

I started writing the Kadaj-tachi fic, which will probably use the scenario of Yazoo being mistaken for Kadaj and hurt when it was Kadaj the person wanted. It's moving very slowly right now. XD It opens with a Yazoo monologue, and then Loz comes and talks to him for a bit, and then the thief is supposed to attack.

And I've been debating over posting this short blurb, but I think I will. It's mostly an exercise, an attempt at exploring Cloud and Sephiroth having a civil conversation during S&M. I also have another blurb that I'm not quite done with yet, which takes place on the night that Cloud frees Sephiroth and brings him back. Hopefully I'll get it posted later today.


Sparring Aftermath )

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