Why is it in fanfiction when 'outsiders' from other worlds/times/etc. wind up in modern day Earth so much interesting character development is glossed over in favor of pop culture or music references? There was a short scene at the beginning of Obsessed Nuker's <a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5691064/1/Green_Struggle' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Green Struggle</a> where Nanoha has to explain to Fate why she's so familiar with what a nuclear wasteland should look like, but are there any similar scenes in other fics? Has anyone else written such a scene themselves?
Fishes Out of Water
- Thread starter Dark Knight Gafgar
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So in episode 1 of StrikerS, there's that humongous spaceport fire in Crannagan, capital of mid-Childa and seat of the TSAB. It's where dimensional wizards dock their magical spaceboats.
But, the fire fighters wandering around in the background, are dressed exactly like domestic Japanese firemen.
Stuff like that... when Nanoha is the fish out of water, the lone earthling on Planet Wizard, even the source material doesn't bother to be creative with the details.
But, the fire fighters wandering around in the background, are dressed exactly like domestic Japanese firemen.
Stuff like that... when Nanoha is the fish out of water, the lone earthling on Planet Wizard, even the source material doesn't bother to be creative with the details.
For those who (thankfully) missed my rambling page-long oratory in the opening post before I edited it, one of the examples I named was an Inuyasha fic I read about six years ago where the main cast gets to come to modern Japan, and rather than any interesting character development occurring the author just had Kagome take Sango clothes shopping and called it a day. He even complained when I asked in a review if he was planning on doing something more dramatic in a future chapter.
This all falls under the concept of most authors wanting to jump to 'the fun part'. They want to tell their story of their changes, not how the changes came to be.
Using the example in previous posts, showing them at a mall with no build up or explanation, no matter the facts of how it came to be they were even *at* a mall, etc...
The problem is the scenes written might in fact be good ones, and everything well written (would not know, even reada story like that and you did not mention a name)... but they still would most likely make terrible stories without a proper set up to get the characters to the point that they are at... Beliavability and interest will suffer.
Using the Sango at mall... to expand to a story one way it could be set up is so in past Kogome causes damage to Sangos clothes, and convinces her to go to the future with her to not only get it replaced, but to help her get supplies and bring them back to the past.
A little set up and some practical misunderstandings and oddity of it being her first such mall visit could be quite entertaining... the whole getting her to the mall in and of itself could be entertaining.
Using the example in previous posts, showing them at a mall with no build up or explanation, no matter the facts of how it came to be they were even *at* a mall, etc...
The problem is the scenes written might in fact be good ones, and everything well written (would not know, even reada story like that and you did not mention a name)... but they still would most likely make terrible stories without a proper set up to get the characters to the point that they are at... Beliavability and interest will suffer.
Using the Sango at mall... to expand to a story one way it could be set up is so in past Kogome causes damage to Sangos clothes, and convinces her to go to the future with her to not only get it replaced, but to help her get supplies and bring them back to the past.
A little set up and some practical misunderstandings and oddity of it being her first such mall visit could be quite entertaining... the whole getting her to the mall in and of itself could be entertaining.