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It isn't like the coma thing is new... Sure, lots of fics that use the idea tend to suck but there are a few that are very good.
I can remember fics that incorporated some of it as early as the late 90s. Hell, I am still unsuccessfully searching for a one shot fic that used the coma theory as a starting point in combination with inspiration from one of Lance Armstrong's early autobiographies from that time period.
It isn't like the coma thing is new... Sure, lots of fics that use the idea tend to suck but there are a few that are very good.
I can remember fics that incorporated some of it as early as the late 90s. Hell, I am still unsuccessfully searching for a one shot fic that used the coma theory as a starting point in combination with inspiration from one of Lance Armstrong's early autobiographies from that time period.
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Wabi Sabi by gabriel blessing.
The tender love between a boy and a girl, and all it implies: stolen kisses, gentle touches, broken bones, ball gags, fights to the death, the end of the world, cannibalism... Wait, what? A love story that goes where it really shouldn't have gone, and yet still ends up happy.
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9046629/1/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9046629/1/</a>
It's an Air Gear/Sankarea crossover.
Wabi Sabi by gabriel blessing.
The tender love between a boy and a girl, and all it implies: stolen kisses, gentle touches, broken bones, ball gags, fights to the death, the end of the world, cannibalism... Wait, what? A love story that goes where it really shouldn't have gone, and yet still ends up happy.
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9046629/1/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9046629/1/</a>
It's an Air Gear/Sankarea crossover.
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He has a style he writes, and he writes it well.
Its not necessarily true to canon, but he's consistent in his interpretations of characters.
I mean, my favorite fic of his will probably always be Destiny, which is the perfect example of his "Not quite canon" interpretations of how characters act, while still being recognizable and enjoyable.
He has a style he writes, and he writes it well.
Its not necessarily true to canon, but he's consistent in his interpretations of characters.
I mean, my favorite fic of his will probably always be Destiny, which is the perfect example of his "Not quite canon" interpretations of how characters act, while still being recognizable and enjoyable.
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I'll agree with that.
Shrugs... like I said, I've liked a number of the stories made by that author...
'The Hill of Swords', 'Blessing', 'Honor Thy Masters', 'Finishing what you start'. I liked them all... a couple others were merely ok, and a few I've either not read, or disliked.
But even of the ones I've read and disliked, I cannot really find too much fault with the writing itself...
Another thing going for that author. Much like the one story title, he tends to finish what he starts... for a fanfiction author, that is important, as many many good stories will likely never be finished because an author takes it so far then drops them.
I'll agree with that.
Shrugs... like I said, I've liked a number of the stories made by that author...
'The Hill of Swords', 'Blessing', 'Honor Thy Masters', 'Finishing what you start'. I liked them all... a couple others were merely ok, and a few I've either not read, or disliked.
But even of the ones I've read and disliked, I cannot really find too much fault with the writing itself...
Another thing going for that author. Much like the one story title, he tends to finish what he starts... for a fanfiction author, that is important, as many many good stories will likely never be finished because an author takes it so far then drops them.
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I guess fandom preconceptions have been a limitation because the ones I liked best were 'Destiny', 'Finishing What You Start', 'Wild Times', & 'Finding Home' - aka his Sailor Moon/Ranma 1/2 era. The only recent story of his I could stand was 'Debt of a Sword' of the Fate/Stay Night era.
Though, PCHeintz72, I don't recognize 'Blessing'. Do you mind providing information on it?
I guess fandom preconceptions have been a limitation because the ones I liked best were 'Destiny', 'Finishing What You Start', 'Wild Times', & 'Finding Home' - aka his Sailor Moon/Ranma 1/2 era. The only recent story of his I could stand was 'Debt of a Sword' of the Fate/Stay Night era.
Though, PCHeintz72, I don't recognize 'Blessing'. Do you mind providing information on it?
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Oops... meant 'Destiny'
For fan fiction fandoms... for me the big 4 I've tracked the most over the years are Ranma, Neon Genesis, Love Hina, and Tenchi... not remotely the only ones though. Ranma by far the largest.
To me...
'Wild Times' was ok, but a bit too confusing and did not really catch my interests.
'Finding Home' was interesting, but too OOC for my own tastes, more so than nearly any other one he wrote.
Oops... meant 'Destiny'
For fan fiction fandoms... for me the big 4 I've tracked the most over the years are Ranma, Neon Genesis, Love Hina, and Tenchi... not remotely the only ones though. Ranma by far the largest.
To me...
'Wild Times' was ok, but a bit too confusing and did not really catch my interests.
'Finding Home' was interesting, but too OOC for my own tastes, more so than nearly any other one he wrote.
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Finishing What You Start and Destiny were definitely his two best early fics, with the former probably being what he was most well known for.
It's interesting, in a way, reading his early works and then comparing them to his later works, and seeing how his writing changed after his years in the military. I'm pretty sure thats where those 5-8 years were spent, right?
Finishing What You Start and Destiny were definitely his two best early fics, with the former probably being what he was most well known for.
It's interesting, in a way, reading his early works and then comparing them to his later works, and seeing how his writing changed after his years in the military. I'm pretty sure thats where those 5-8 years were spent, right?
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I'd post this in the Bleach section but I don't double post.
Reality Ensues by Moczo.
Deep beneath the prison block, two holders of the title Kenpachi duel, and an ancient warrior falls to a mortal wound on the sword of her true successor... sorta.
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9048866/1/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9048866/1/</a>
I'd post this in the Bleach section but I don't double post.
Reality Ensues by Moczo.
Deep beneath the prison block, two holders of the title Kenpachi duel, and an ancient warrior falls to a mortal wound on the sword of her true successor... sorta.
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9048866/1/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9048866/1/</a>
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Alright, I still think the whole Unohana Kenpachi thing is stupid and if Kubo really wanted her to be it then he should have come up with a damn good reason why she didn't do anything before, but that was fun to read. Now if we could get that kind of mentality retroactively applied to Bleach canon we'd have a manga that I would be happy to read.
Alright, I still think the whole Unohana Kenpachi thing is stupid and if Kubo really wanted her to be it then he should have come up with a damn good reason why she didn't do anything before, but that was fun to read. Now if we could get that kind of mentality retroactively applied to Bleach canon we'd have a manga that I would be happy to read.
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Coming from you that is actually high praise, zb.
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Unrelatedly, someone linked me this today:
A Different Flesh
Fandom: Persona 4
Summary: Seta Souji is a Kirijo Industries robot. Not quite like Aigis, though.
Raptorous Opinon: Sexbot Souji is, unsurpringly, well-suited to the drama of highschool life and, owing to his military-grade chassis, to fighting shadows. Existence through the eyes of a cybernetic entity designed for intercourse is, oddly enough, fairly close to canon Souji.
Coming from you that is actually high praise, zb.
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Unrelatedly, someone linked me this today:
A Different Flesh
Fandom: Persona 4
Summary: Seta Souji is a Kirijo Industries robot. Not quite like Aigis, though.
Raptorous Opinon: Sexbot Souji is, unsurpringly, well-suited to the drama of highschool life and, owing to his military-grade chassis, to fighting shadows. Existence through the eyes of a cybernetic entity designed for intercourse is, oddly enough, fairly close to canon Souji.
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@the convo about gabriel blessings and crossovers
gabriel does pretty much what just about every xover writer falls into the trap of: he doesn't actually crossover. He just takes a single character from one fandom and throws them into the setting of another fandom (typically replacing the main character of that fandom).
In my mind it's not really a crossover until you actually get a major fusion of casts and some interaction or mechanical interlocking between the two settings. Otherwise it's just throwing in somebody who may or may not be highly-powered into canon plot and upsetting the regular storyline.
@the convo about gabriel blessings and crossovers
gabriel does pretty much what just about every xover writer falls into the trap of: he doesn't actually crossover. He just takes a single character from one fandom and throws them into the setting of another fandom (typically replacing the main character of that fandom).
In my mind it's not really a crossover until you actually get a major fusion of casts and some interaction or mechanical interlocking between the two settings. Otherwise it's just throwing in somebody who may or may not be highly-powered into canon plot and upsetting the regular storyline.
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I guess that is a matter of opinion... I consider that every single character brings with them their entire canon when crossed over... Even if the other series characters are not there, the events that formed them generally are, if not, they are merely an original character with the name of a series character.
now, on the other hand, doing crossovers that way means that there is no balance, so even if the focus is on the one character, it is really the other series that is the senior...
To take that into context, his Hill of Swords for example, Shiro from FSN allows us access to all the FSN knowledge we have on the character, but clearly the ZNT universe is the senior, since that is the one it takes place in. AND, since that Shiro is not just from FSN, but several years older and having even more knowledge, we can argue whether he is a author created character with the name Shiro or actually the Shiro we know....
I guess that is a matter of opinion... I consider that every single character brings with them their entire canon when crossed over... Even if the other series characters are not there, the events that formed them generally are, if not, they are merely an original character with the name of a series character.
now, on the other hand, doing crossovers that way means that there is no balance, so even if the focus is on the one character, it is really the other series that is the senior...
To take that into context, his Hill of Swords for example, Shiro from FSN allows us access to all the FSN knowledge we have on the character, but clearly the ZNT universe is the senior, since that is the one it takes place in. AND, since that Shiro is not just from FSN, but several years older and having even more knowledge, we can argue whether he is a author created character with the name Shiro or actually the Shiro we know....
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We've discussed before whether or not GB's Shirou can be remotely considered Shirou or EMIYA or any mix of the two (and my feelings are clear on that) but regardless of my opinion of GB's knowledge of the Nasuverse, I still call it a crossover. I don't think throwing one character from a series into another series is a good way to do a crossover but I still call it a crossover.
We've discussed before whether or not GB's Shirou can be remotely considered Shirou or EMIYA or any mix of the two (and my feelings are clear on that) but regardless of my opinion of GB's knowledge of the Nasuverse, I still call it a crossover. I don't think throwing one character from a series into another series is a good way to do a crossover but I still call it a crossover.
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i consider crossover to be one or more individual characters from one setting interacting with the characters of a different setting in their home environment.
i consider a fusion to be taking a world wholesale and caresfully merging it with another so that the resulting conglomerate has aspects of each recognisable, aspects of each missing and entirely new aspects that exist just to make the new world more stable consistent and work for the author's purpose.
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The second is common in good writers - they use it as inspiration for new origional works, the one that springs to mind is pokemon and roman legions history -codex alara . journey to the west and sci-fi adventure - dragon ball.
you can see it in everything.
the first is usually overdone. by that i mean the writer usually use too many characters or they mix in aspects of fix-fic and mary sue. It works when it works usually because you take a protagonist and isolate them from allies, throw them into dangerous or difficult circumstances and force them to adapt, rise to the occasion and grow or perish. which is a common (very) method - think of a book and you can probably notice this occurring frequently- the jason bourne books, dresden files, hercules, lightbringer trilogy, harry potter etc
GB does the first with aspects of SI but he does it well enough that there is always conflict, the protagonist never rests easy, everything isn't fixed (at least not perfectly and not from the characters perspective) and the story moves forward. He tends towards more character driven development which can be more long winded especially when trying to deal with as many characters as sekirei has, but i enjoy his work.
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i consider crossover to be one or more individual characters from one setting interacting with the characters of a different setting in their home environment.
i consider a fusion to be taking a world wholesale and caresfully merging it with another so that the resulting conglomerate has aspects of each recognisable, aspects of each missing and entirely new aspects that exist just to make the new world more stable consistent and work for the author's purpose.
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The second is common in good writers - they use it as inspiration for new origional works, the one that springs to mind is pokemon and roman legions history -codex alara . journey to the west and sci-fi adventure - dragon ball.
you can see it in everything.
the first is usually overdone. by that i mean the writer usually use too many characters or they mix in aspects of fix-fic and mary sue. It works when it works usually because you take a protagonist and isolate them from allies, throw them into dangerous or difficult circumstances and force them to adapt, rise to the occasion and grow or perish. which is a common (very) method - think of a book and you can probably notice this occurring frequently- the jason bourne books, dresden files, hercules, lightbringer trilogy, harry potter etc
GB does the first with aspects of SI but he does it well enough that there is always conflict, the protagonist never rests easy, everything isn't fixed (at least not perfectly and not from the characters perspective) and the story moves forward. He tends towards more character driven development which can be more long winded especially when trying to deal with as many characters as sekirei has, but i enjoy his work.
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