Posted

Jun 1st 2008

Mood

Inspired

Music

Fate/Stay Night - Disillusion

Well, first off, if no one noticed, I deleted it all. Again. And started it over. Again. However, this time I'm keeping my word, and I won't release chapters until I'm satisfied. Satisfaction equals as soon as the little outline/ abridged version is done. At this point, I've written up to where it was again.
But yes, I decided to screw it all and write the story first BEFORE putting out a real book-form version with dialog and all that. Working out well. I can make small edits here and there in case of any changes I think would be better than the original. For instance... Mitsuki is going to be a much darker character than before.

Also during that time, I decided to make the princess, who goes by Minh now, a much, much more prominent character. If this did what Ever 17 did with two protagonists, Minh would be the second protagonist. During this time, I also decided to give her a more colder personality, somewhat. She's mostly a mix of Tsugumi from E17 and Akiha from Tsukihime, but I think Rin from Fate/Stay Night would be the best comparison. Pretty much she's an intelligent person, a bit cold but has a caring side, and loves strategy. Can't get enough of it. She even thinks of war as a giant strategy game.
Anyone that caught the renewed chapters while they were online, you can probably guess why I decided she should be elevated to near-main character level.
EDIT: Don't know, but for my own personal tastes, I think I'll probably just make it mostly Japanese culture, with some western influences, like with Minh.
EDIT: Also, ignore all references to one Galvin. He's now out of the story.

This also allowed me to think of a nice idea to do later: When I start making prequels, the first I'll probably do is something involving Setsuna, the new name for Miokodo. Starts out happily enough, but ends up going down a Kara no Kyoukai path, being a serious person hunting down some kind of rival. I kinda decided against the idea of a war for this one. The second would involve the war mentioned in the beginning of the story, detailing further events that led to the first story to be written.
EDIT: Also, I decided sometime this week to do something special for the first story of CoT, once the epilogue is released. You might find it veeery interesting.

Eh, I mostly wanted to put some thoughts on paper while I tried to plan out how the next chapter would go. Some nice character development for Minh and her brother.