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Jan 6, 2014 21:58:44 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Jan 6, 2014 21:58:44 GMT -6
Okay so a few things to mention that have recently been done.
The first is that I finally got new pics for the banner and background of the site. Orginally I was going to make it all just Will themed since her birthday is on the 19th and this was something I was going to do with each of the girls until I remember that Irma and Taranee have a birthday in the same month. Maybe at some point I'll eventually do a month solely of one of the girls, but probably not for a while. The banner pic is one of the more iconic pics in the series I think. While the background pic is one I only learned of a short while ago and I really enjoy it.
A new category and boards have been added and its something I've really been aiming to do since I created the site, it just took a while to actually create them. I was going to make each of the boards actually be sub-boards, but things kinda just ended up the way they are. Not really to big of an issue for now though since its just 6 boards.
Each of the boards has two threads at the moment. One is for pictures from the comics, while the other is pictures from the cartoon series. For each of the girls separately the goal is just for things of them by their self, no other character. Random unimportant background characters is one thing, but other important to some degree characters needn't be in the pics. Its the same situation for the W.I.T.C.H board, only it doesn't have to be all 5 members, it could be any combination of the 5 so long as there is at least 2 of them it goes in the W.I.T.C.H section.
I'd also like to note that even if the picture is from the comics or the cartoon series if it has some change done to it no matter how small, I consider it art and so it doesn't go in either of the sections. Eventually I do plan to add an Art section for each of the boards and at some point I'll likely start to have things for other things as well. Although it will likely be a rather slower process only add in someone ever so little often.
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Jan 12, 2014 16:34:23 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Jan 12, 2014 16:34:23 GMT -6
So I've decided to go and delete my War of the Guardians Board and all of its threads.
The reason being is while I liked the basic plot of the story and generally liked the way I had done things, at the same time things didn't go the way I originally planned. I had a ton different things in mind, that for one reason or another never ended up being done.
It had been a while since the story was updated and I actually knew what I wanted to do for the next three chapters in the story. But for various reasons I could never bring myself to actually work on the story. I don't think it was anything like writers block or even inspiration as much as it was the point that while I liked it, I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.
All of this doesn't mean that the story is gone forever though. I have each of the chapters saved on my flash-drive and I may at some point get back to it and change it to be a little more to what I originally planned for it to be. However whatever my final decision on the story may eventually be, for the time being I'm not dealing with the story as I'm focusing on certain other things and other stories that I enjoy a great deal more.
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Jan 31, 2014 1:31:01 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Jan 31, 2014 1:31:01 GMT -6
So lately not much has really been done here. Did have something going on here a short while back, but certain issues caused things to go away.
I'm going to try and be here a lot more often, a lot like I was earlier giving different updates on things no matter how minor they were. Really been working on some different things for stories. The main one being my W.I.T.C.H Cartoon Rewrite which is a story I've always referred to as one of my big three. [W.I.T.C.H Comic Rewrite and my W.I.T.C.H Next Gen.]
My big three are stories that I've been wanting to write for quite a few years. I've slowly worked on different things for them over the years, but I could never get to the point that I felt I had enough things for them and was ready for them. I am slowly getting closer to that point with the Cartoon Rewrite, which I'm rather excited about, finally getting to that point of being able to work on it.
I can't say for certain if it will be the next story I post here or even when I will post it here, let alone when I'll start working on it. I've taking it step-by-step up to this point, so no need for me to rush it now. I'm still working on other things for other stories, but the Cartoon Rewrite is my main focus, so hopefully I can have a better idea of what I'm wanting and what I'm going to do within the coming weeks.
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Feb 2, 2014 13:06:55 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 2, 2014 13:06:55 GMT -6
Back on Christmas I received a Legend of Zelda themed 3DS XL with the game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds as a free download. I only recently on Friday got the chance to play it and I'm just about to finish it. I love this game! I haven't been able to put it down! It has a very nostalgic feeling to it playing similar to the game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, helped by the fact that they take place in the same world, but A Link Between Worlds has its own unique differences that really set it apart.
I enjoy the characters, the story, the art and the ability to become a painting on a wall is a nice and fun concept. I'd highly recommend this game to everyone!
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Feb 2, 2014 14:17:29 GMT -6
Post by Yangi on Feb 2, 2014 14:17:29 GMT -6
Sounds pretty fun I only played wind waker (new Version; about... 1 hour of playing or so) and... that one other... -,-' the one where you can fly on These birdy-things? Well it's pretty fun, too. I just happen to be in a fire land. For some reason I really hate fire Levels with Lava and that Kind of stuff. I HATE them!!!! Seriousely! Why does every game has to have one of those fire-themed Levels! T,T I die all the time there!
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Feb 2, 2014 16:26:06 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 2, 2014 16:26:06 GMT -6
It is!
That's probably about the same amount of time that I played Wind Waker for back on the Gambecube. The one with the birdy-things, I think that one is Skyward Sword, not entirely sure as I've never played that game before, just basing the assumption of things like screenshots and art.
Yeah, fire levels are pretty common in a lot of games, they seem like a common addition for any game that needs something to do with something. Although the water levels in the LOZ series is far, far worse!
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Post by Yangi on Feb 3, 2014 3:06:46 GMT -6
Oh really? Up until now I never had big Troubles with under water stuff. I just hate it when the end Boss is a kraken Why does it always have to be a gigantic kraken, huh? Couldn't it be ... some sharks or... a see snake... posaidon! ANYTHING! Just not a kraken! But noooo, as soon as there's something with pirates OR underwater stuff it's a kraken.
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Post by Cole on Feb 3, 2014 3:21:50 GMT -6
Have you ever tried the Water Temple in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? Or the Great Bay Temple in Majora's Mask? Both are rather highly annoying and frustrating.
That is a good question. I guess they just want some really big water creature and the Kraken is one of the more well known ones. I'd prefer to challenge something like a sea snake. Some of my favorite bosses to battle in games are dragons. The design of the dragon and the style of battling them are always rather fun, so I'd assume a water variation would be fun as well.
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Post by Yangi on Feb 3, 2014 6:14:49 GMT -6
No never played those but I believe you anyways.
Uh Dragons! Yeah, why not a water Dragon! That would be cool! *vote*
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Feb 3, 2014 12:54:50 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 3, 2014 12:54:50 GMT -6
Yeah it would! Everyone seems to try to be more creative with dragons for some reason, so it would be really fun to challenge a water dragon and see what people could do with it.
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Feb 3, 2014 13:08:55 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 3, 2014 13:08:55 GMT -6
New look for the site for the next so long. Both are things that Yangi drew. The background is her W.I.T.C.H Sweet Like Honey pic, while the banner is one of two intro pics for her new gen group JROCK.
I chose this specific one as while the other one is a later version with all 7 of the main characters, the background characters Josephine and Olivia are only partly show, never showing their faces. I could lower the banner some to make them completely seeable, but then space is taking from the background, so its kinda give and take things, but I digress.
This particular version just shows the 5 Guardians and I like Yangi's signature there in the middle. I think it fits well where it is and in its own way adds something to the pic.
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Feb 3, 2014 13:32:33 GMT -6
Post by Yangi on Feb 3, 2014 13:32:33 GMT -6
I Looooooooooooooooove it! OMG OMG OMG!!!! Never thought you would take my next gens for the banner! OoO!!! Soooo awesome! And the Colors match perfectly with the Sweet Like Honey pic in the Background! ThankYouThankYouThankYou! *bow like head banging*
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Feb 3, 2014 13:36:22 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 3, 2014 13:36:22 GMT -6
Well since you had those three JROCK Ultimate pics you were going to be posting, I thought if it as something of a surprise and kinda just deemed this JROCK month.
I probably would have added one for the background as well, but since you Sweet Like Honey was the one you mentioned to me on your site, it was the one I used there.
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Post by Yangi on Feb 4, 2014 3:32:07 GMT -6
Totally overwhelmed every time I open this site *gleaming eyes* -O.O- And it totally fits with the old WITCH's in the Background! After all they DO Play a role in the JROCK adventures. So cool! I'll have to make a screenshot of this OoO! A whole moth of JROCK >,< Kyaaaaa!!! So awesome!!! Uh! If I get that Picture of the CHAOS Boys you could make a CHAOS month as well With that epic pic (hopefully as epic, as I think of it now) I'll draw of their uniforms and some others you might have of them? I think that could be fun Maybe Niky wants to join in that?? *excitedly hop up and down*
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Feb 4, 2014 14:55:33 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 4, 2014 14:55:33 GMT -6
Yeah, that sounds like a nice idea!
Only thing would be when to do it. Maybe next month, but then again I plan to do something similar for Irma and Taranee that I was doing for Will as I had just things of Will starting form the 19 of January since it was her birthday, so each of the girls is likely to get something similar to that for them.
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Feb 7, 2014 13:56:05 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 7, 2014 13:56:05 GMT -6
After all this time I do from time to time still slightly regret having deleted the document that had all of my old story ideas on it. However on the flip side only focusing on a handful of stories and ideas really benefits each of them more.
Instead of having different ideas spread out for different stories; I can have a few stories that have a great deal more things for them. There are a few old ideas that some I kept, others I restarted writing things for that previously no matter how much time I tried putting into them, I never really got anything with them. But now I have so many different options with those same ideas putting them in a far better place then they ever were before.
So while I may regret losing certain old ideas, in the long run I prefer having fewer ideas that I can give a lot more focus and attention too.
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Feb 9, 2014 15:42:40 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 9, 2014 15:42:40 GMT -6
So far up to this point the W.I.T.C.H section hasn't really had much of anything done to it. I'm going to ask that everyone bare with me for a while on that though. The thing is there is really only two ways to get pictures on the site.
One is to add them as attachments, which is nice, but they take MB from the site and after so long, no more pics would be able to be posted here, so generally I'm kinda against posting them as attachments unless its pretty much the only way to do it.
The second option is to take the picture from somewhere else by direct link. What this means is that the picture would stay here on the site so long as the pictures stays where the link came from, if it gets moved or taken done, then it automatically gets taken down here. This is my preferred option.
My plan is to at some point make an account somewhere, maybe a place like Imageshack or something like that. A place just for the sole purpose of posting pictures so I can get the link to post them here. I've been planning to do this for a while, but it keeps getting shoved to the back as I have quite a few other things going on that I feel are a little more important.
When it does happen though, I have a few good pics from the comics, so we are good on that point. I don't really have much of anything for the cartoon, so there is a bit of a minor issue there, but that shouldn't be too difficult to remedy.
Again though, I ask people to just bare with me and be patient on the matter. As I slowly start getting some other things on my list done then I can start moving on to this and adding some pictures to the W.I.T.C.H section.
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Feb 12, 2014 0:42:18 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 12, 2014 0:42:18 GMT -6
Recently something rather interesting to me accord when someone contacted me to discuss my old WITCH Hearts series a little.
At this point I don't really think of feel that effects anything. I still don't really have any initial interest to re-start the series. Plus I have a few other things in the works that I am far more interested in.
I will say this though. The interest has risen at least a tiny bit in comparison to what it was. I still doubt anything will come of it, but its still something interesting to think about and consider especially since someone has shown some intrigue in the series well after it was deleted.
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Feb 17, 2014 14:41:26 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 17, 2014 14:41:26 GMT -6
I've rather like the way I've been going about my stories recently. Part of that is coming up with different ideas and seeing how they play out a little, but then steeping away from the idea or even the story itself for a little while and then coming back to it later. This really gives me some time to really let the idea sink in and see if its something I'd still like a certain time later and would like to use or if it was just an idea I liked at the time and no longer care for.
Another part of this is trial chapters, just writing in certain chapters or events for the story and allowing them to play out to see how they go. This also allows me to go back to old stories or old ideas and see if maybe I can get something new going for them or if they are better off just being thrown away.
Now moving on to something else.
Recently on here I mentioned playing and beating Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and how much I really enjoyed the game, beating it not too long after that on Hero Mode.
I was excited about the game, excited in a way I haven't been with video games for quite some time. Yeah sure, I've played some games in the recent past that I thought were okay, nice fun games, but never really go too excited in them except for at certain points and the end of the game as I've always enjoyed watching everything you've been working for finally coming together. But with A Link Between Worlds, I was excited every single time, even on Hero Mode where I knew everything was virtually exactly the same just with the enemies being tougher and a slightly different ending. The story has some nice things to it and the gameplay was generally simple, but highly addictive.
Its really got me excited about some of the new games coming out this year [Or at the very least assumed to come out] in no particular order.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.
The Final Fantasy XIII trilogy hasn't been very well liked from what I've seen, but I've generally liked it. Of course it did have its problems, especially in the first game how you weren't really able to interact with NPCs or really explore the world until way late in the game, and then you only got to explore Pulse and both of these things went against more traditional RPG things, which was a bad thing. When it comes to RPGs some of the best things is being able to explore the world you are on and see what it has to offer, talking with NPCs helps you get engrossed more into the world as they often tell you things about the world that you didn't know, so FFXIII failed on that point of allowing us to explore the world and the people in it, doing a slightly better job in FFXIII-2. But by far the worst part of it all was the specified amount that you were only allowed to get to before being force to move on without any more progress and the Crystarium! The issues with that would deserve its own thing entirely, so I'll just leave it at how it is an abomination.
While I'm still a bit iffy on the whole time thing for the game it will be nice to watch everything unfold for Lightning and Co and all this time.
Final Fantasy XV.
Originally titled as Final Fantasy XIII Versus. FFXV is stated to be similar to Kingdom Hearts in its style of play meaning that it is live-action fighting. The KH series for the main games is really easy to get into, and simple to learn, so I'd expect something like that for FFXV. For little detail has been giving on the story of the game, only that it seems to be a bit darker then some other games in the series and seems to have some type of MOB like feel when it comes to the main characters.
My biggest concern with the game is how long it has been in development. So often history has shown that the longer it takes for something to come out, the higher people's expectations and excitement for it rises. This often puts the game in a can't win situation as those expectations for it are often to far out of its reach.
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD.
Not really a new game as much is it I just an HD version of an old game. FFX and X-2 were originally made for the PS2 and toward the end of its lifespan was the last time I played either of these games, so its been a few years. So I'm rather excited to be able to go back and re-see Tidus, Yuna and co's story and see if it is still as great as I remember, or maybe if I'd put it a little lower on my list of favorite FF games.
Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3Ds.
Hands down the best fighting games ever made. The battling system in the Super Smash Bros serious is nothing short of addicting. The games have never really been much into story, which is a tiny bit of a draw back for it, but the gameplay is so much funny the lack of a story generally tends to be pushed to the back of your mind.
As great as the game is going solo though, the best part about the series is playing it with other people. It will be pretty much guaranteed that with a few friends you will be playing this game for hours on end.
And that pretty much covers that list. As should be easy to tell I am a huge RPG fan, so normally RPGs in general are the games I most look forward to, but then there are games like the Super Smash bros series that are just too hard to not play and enjoy.
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Feb 24, 2014 23:09:47 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Feb 24, 2014 23:09:47 GMT -6
Had a bit of a troubling time a few days ago when my flash-drive was destroyed. I had a great deal of things on that flash-drive, years worth of stuff. Everything I thought was important in anyway, I put it on my flash-drive. I lucked at quite a bit when with a little bit of experimenting I was able to save some of the stuff on it before everything was completely gone.
Also had a ton of help from some friends who had kept different things I had sent them, so I got back a lot of things. I don't have every single little thing and those things are gone forever and those were more recent things that I only had on my flash-drive, but its still nice to know that I still have a great of things that I thought were gone forever.
This does put me a little behind on story progress though. Most of the things I lost completely were story related things, so I'm going to need even more time before I can actually get back on track on the pace I was before. Its not an exact restart on everything, but something rather close to that.
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Mar 1, 2014 16:36:34 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 1, 2014 16:36:34 GMT -6
A major goal that I am aiming for is to try and be able to post stories and not end up deleting them later. Its quite of a bit of an issue for me. I get these different ideas that I really like, but for different reasons things never seem to work out.
A few different things can end up happening like maybe I had some dream and that effects things or I'll look back and previous chapters and think I should have done this instead of doing what I ended up doing or the idea I originally liked they may have given me the inspiration to do the story in the first place end up not being something I like later or things just didn't play out the way I would have liked, the idea may not have been as good as originally though or I feel that I didn't do a good enough job laying the foundation for different things. So it can easily be any of those things are number of them.
And its not just stories, but characters as well that can go under similar but also different reasons. A lot of characters I create normally come from my dreams, although I do try just making characters from no specific bases or some character inspired the creation of the character. Its a lot easier to stick with characters from my dreams when I get the chance to really get the chance to see how they look as I have that visual look in my head. In other instances though its just a matter of trying to imagine the character and see how they look, sometimes it works out, other times not. Its meaningful to me when people like NIkly and Yangi take their precious time to draw my characters as its also nice to have different things of your own creations, but at the same time having those visual forms can also make me backtrack a little and make me think that maybe this doesn't look as good for them as I thought it did, maybe this would look better and so on, but it can also work the other way and help me see just how well something works for a character.
And then there is of course things like a character's personality which is something I normally try to have a specific idea in mind and stick to that specific thing for the character as I feel it is one of their more dynamic traits. I do try to do this with other aspects to my characters, but I find that never really works out to well for me and I normally prefer to just take an idea and see how it works out for that character before actually adding it to them. It gives my characters this part to them that is already well know and helps define them a great deal, but they are also capable of adapting and changing to certain degrees. Even beyond that, something as simple as a name can be something that I may initially like, but over time begin to dislike and not want to use any more.
This are traits that actually tend to bother me. I'd like to be able to find different things for stories and parts of characters that I enjoy and be able to keep them without every second guessing that decision, which is something I find to be rather difficult especially since I believe a lot of people generally tend to second guess a lot of what they do even if they enjoy it a great deal.
I've tried to find different solutions for things which is a little harder with my characters. I do have a visual means to alter colors for my characters to see how they look and have a specific other character that I have in mind, but no visual form of, so I try to take the ones I do have and experiment with those colors, but that can be rather difficult when you always have in the depth of your mind that, that character is who you expect it to be and trying to experiment with a working on characters looks for that picture doesn't really help much, mostly just coming off as the same character with different looks.
Stories I do have a bit of a better means at working with them normally in the means of writing one-shots and seeing how those events play out. Sometimes it works for a short while, but eventually I don't care for it, sometimes I find it also seems to work and other times I find that virtually nothing to it works. Often times when I work on a story, but do delete it I normally had a specific idea about it that I rather liked and I try to keep that idea and move it on to another story to see how it works.
I think one of the better examples I have is an old idea titled C.H.A.O.S and W.I.T.C.H. In this story C.H.A.O.S was meant to have more normal lives in the same sense that W.I.T.C.H has, also being Guardians along with W.I.T.C.H. One of the first issues I came across with this story was trying to give CHAOS a family. I tried different things with each one, but none of it worked for any of them. I'm not sure if it was just not really caring for the OCs that I used as their family, them being in that type of situation which was new for them being the first time I had ever done it for them having parents and siblings, maybe not using the right thing for each one or maybe even all of those issues together.
I tried different things and different ideas with them, some I had planned quite a ways into the story, but not much of it really stood out. There was the occasional specific thing that I felt was interesting for them, but those were really just different issues and interactions with villains. I did have a general idea of how I wanted the story to end or at least specific events that played out a little before the end that I thought was a little interesting, but there was so much empty space for the story from the beginning up that point and not much of anything I could think of that I felt I should or I would like to do during that time, there was the occasional thing that I felt was interesting, but the leading up to it issue still remained.
The bigger things that really intrigued me about the story was C.H.A.O.S living a more normal type of life. It was a big major factor or something I find was something I just had to do, but it was something that I did find a little interesting and thought would be nice to experiment with.
The biggest and the major factor was C.H.A.O.S being Guardians as well with their own Heart and everything, but maybe going by a different title then Guardians. That was the idea that intrigued me the most and was really the main reason I even began working on the idea of C.H.A.O.S and W.I.T.C.H. I actually spent more time working on what type of origin would go with that, something akin to the Nymphs and the Dragons and establishing a big connection with them. I found that to be the most enjoyable thing about the whole story, I find more enjoyment in that then anything else in the story and really didn't care for the story much. That was really the only driving force for C.H.A.O.S and W.I.T.C.H and that's what made me do away with that particular idea since I figured I would like be able to take that one idea of C.H.A.O.S being Guardians and adding it to another story that already has other things going for it, right now that story could end up being W.I.T.C.H Cartoon Rewrite, but that isn't a guarantee.
If I were to actually write and post every story idea I have or did have at one point, I would easily have over a 1000 stories. But I prefer to go with that big mix of desire and inspiration, but at times that can also be an issue. When I write stories under that condition the stories get posted, but its likely that at some point that desire and inspiration goes away and when I go back and look at the story the desire and inspiration doesn't come back and I find myself questioning a lot of why I did this or why I did that and other things like that, that I mentioned earlier in this post.
This type of thing cases me to go over each and every single one of my story ideas rather slowly. I take time for each one and each idea I have for it, but I also have that concern in the back of my mind that I'll end up not liking the idea or I'll lose my desire and inspiration for it or I think this idea might work better for it or this idea or that idea and this thoughts continuously repeat in my mind. I aim for a certain degree of perfection and try to put myself in a situation where I'll never doubt anything about the story and always enjoy it and everything I do for it.
This is a big reason as to why so many different story ideas that I have had have never been posted. Some aspects to it I do like as I feel that some stories really aren't ready to be posted, so constantly pushing them to the back and giving them more time I feel is the better option. However there have been some stories that have really gotten as much for a lot of them that I actually can get and this is no reason, but my own concern as to why they haven't been posted.
Sometimes its good to have so many different things, events and ideas planned out or at least have a general idea as to how things may go. But at the same time, sometimes it can be better to go in with only few little things, like the most basic of things and the occasional general idea and let things go from there. Sometimes the ideas were spent so much time working on may no loner work when we get up to that point. Its important to let the story and the characters come to life and let them help determine how the story and certain things go.
I feel that I need to be able to find that perfect balance between those, only sometimes leaning towards one or the other when it is needed, not staying on one side for the mass majority of things. My goal is to be able to find that point, to be happy with what I do have for my stories and my characters and allow them to change along with each other as the story progress and enjoy the ride along the way, changing along with the stories and the characters.
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Mar 5, 2014 16:39:28 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 5, 2014 16:39:28 GMT -6
Even when it comes to story ideas in general I think its good to go back and look at the ideas or recall ideas for it that may have added some intrigue to the story even if its for a story that isn't likely to be written and so that's something I'm going to be doing and maybe along with the that try to give a bit more of a specific idea as to what made me no longer enjoy the idea as much as I originally did.
Since I hinted with it a little before on the previous post, I think starting with C.H.A.O.S and W.I.T.C.H is a good starting point.
As I've mentioned before on previous posts about this story is that it had two different possible scenarios. One being that it was two separate universes. One where CHAOS lives and another where WITCH lives. While CHAOS' universe was full of OCs, WITCH's universe was full of canon characters this would have resulted in early parts of the story being a 2-in-1 story which really wasn't too much of an issue. However what was a bit of an issue was how CHAOS would have had far more going for them then WITCH. WITCH's story is told and known, so there was a lot of already established things there just to re-establish, CHAOS however needed to be established and so there was a lot more involved for them as well as the fact that they had more normal lives for this which was something that was intriguing to me about the story.
The other option was one universe and with this CHAOS and WITCH obviously existed in the same universe and even though with this some of WITCH's things needed to be re-established, there was quite a bit of difference as well considering added in characters who were naturally part of things. This did make things a little easier on both points of being able to add more for W.I.T.C.H's things and also given me a specific point to work on with CHAOS.
The ending of the story was something I was kinda working on. I never really liked the idea of CHAOS and WITCH just having to go back to their own universe and likely never seeing each other again. This gave me the likely idea that for the two universes they would be combined at some point, either they were always one and had been divided or they were simply being combined as doing so would release some powerful villain or release some great power. Something very similar to Final Fantasy V's story, although I honestly wasn't even thinking of that when I came up with the idea it was just wanted to avoid a sad ending that I came up with the idea, not realizing the similarities until sometime after I came up with the idea. Although I never really had much of a specific idea how to end it at that point, I still figured it was better then the more sad ending.
Specific things did still needed to be added for each member of CHAOS though and that's also were part of the issue came as there wasn't really much of anything I could think of that really jumped out at me and made me think it was the best option. Generally things were the same for CHAOS no matter the universe setting only slightly being different.
Seroth was widely popular in the school and widely none as a flirt, flirting with every girl in his grade and a little higher. This is virtually the same in WITCH's universe, only despite all of that flirting that he did, he had a real crush on Irma and lost all of his nerve and confidence anytime he tried to ask her out. This led to him and Hay Lin being good friends as Hay Lin and Irma are best friends and Hay Lin often tried to encourage Seroth to ask Irma out.
Raphael was just him being new to the city and the school and in WITCH's universe he had meet Taranee who was also a new student and new to Heatherfield. One of the only later things I had planned for Raphael was the possibility of him being adapted, but that was about it.
Hiro came from a rich family on his father's side. His mother's side of the family was middle-class at best and his father's family never liked his mother because of her class and that generally caused them to look down on Hiro because of it. The only extra added thing for Hiro being in WITCH's universe was he was in a relationship with Cornelia from the very beginning.
The only real thing I had for Kaido was actually more on his grandfather who was a previous protector and Kaido had the same elemental power he did. Things stayed generally the same in WITCH's universe only Kaido and Hay Lin were close friends since they were little as Kaido's grandfather and Yan Lin were close friends starting from their time of protecting the universe together. I did also have an idea for Kaido that once his powers were upgraded and he was getting used to them, he accidently used his powers to take away his own voice and couldn't give it back, so he'd have gone a while being mute and only be able to let the others know when he was saying something was by making different motions with his hands or writing it down.
Cole was someone who actually did have more specific things planned for him. Nothing was really different with him when it came to the universe options. Cole was new to the city, but what really differed on him form the others was his personality, which really to certain degrees was still fitting, but also went in a bit of a dark direction. Cole was isolated as per usual, but in this Cole never really cared for life constantly being in a depressed state. Having experienced magic once when he was younger, that feeling and the magic itself became all that Cole cared for, nothing else mattered as nothing else would give him that same feeling. The only extra added thing for W.I.T.C.H's universe that I can say is Will despite also being new to Heatherfield, was the first person Cole meet there and vice-versa as Cole was the first person Will meet.
This would result Cole becoming a rather ideal protector to the Council of Kandrakar. Loyal to Kandrakar for helping him actually be able to have and control his powers his goal became the same as Kandrakar in their same view. Protecting worlds and the universe as a whole other issues weren't very important and generally not dealt with. Kinda in a similar means to how the Oracle viewed things with Ari from early on, that was the same general view that Cole had to those type of issues, it doesn't effect the worlds or the universe as a whole, so it doesn't matter. About the only thing Cole did do that was against Kandrakar would be playing with his power, although his preferred isolating never made it much of a big deal, not even close to the level that Irma or Seroth's playing around would be.
Two specific characters I was working on was Kuja and Anima. Kuja being something of a major recurring villain for CHAOS in a similar means that Phobos is to WITCH. Both universes had Kuja teaming with Phobos at one point. One of the more interesting things though was with Anima who served as something similar for Kuja to what Cedric did for Phobos. There was this interesting type of relationship with Cole and Anima despite Anima being years older then Cole. Some mixture of flirting, respect, dislike, hatred, friendship, rivalry and understanding that made things rather interesting between the two. There was also plans to later on almost establish a sort of understanding and friendship with Cole and Kuja.
Something else planned for Cole actually had him joining the villains side and helping them pull of some great evil plan or in the two universe options, helping combine the two universes into one to free the evil villain or get the great power sealed between them. The reason for this was at a later time Cole was to feel that Kandrakar had betrayed him and Kuja offered him an alliance reminding Cole that even though he was a protector and would have a far longer life span then a normal human would, eventually time would be his demise, for him to have spend those years that felt like an eternity of a deep feeling of loneliness and nit belonging only to finally be free of those feelings when he became a protector and acquired his powers only to lose them at a certain time while someone like Kuja could live on forever never touched by time. A promise of making Cole be eternal like he is, plus the feeling of Kandrakar betraying him would have resulted in Kuja giving Cole the deal to join him and Cole would have accepted.
The last bits of ideas I had involved CHAOS and dealing with not only their own personal issues, but being able to understand the importance of working together and the strong friendship they have that truly binds them together. I never really had anything like this for W.I.T.C.H as I always kinda figured they would have well be at that point well before this event took place and this event wasn't supposed to happen until close to the end of the story. While it was meant to strengthen the bond of the group as a whole, it was really just Cole helping one of the group with their own issue. I felt this was important seeing as how he was the Keeper of the Heart and up to that point had mostly stayed to himself and avoided the group and even turned against them for a while.
This was actually another of the more intriguing ideas that I felt the story had, but not much of anything greatly planned. I was planning to take a specific trait for them and have them lost it and all of this would take place in some almost dream-like setting, but was also in a sense kinda real. Seroth was to lose his confidence, being too afraid to say or do much of anything. Different type of things I was trying to aim for here, but I think the best way to explain the general idea to it was for Seroth to come to learn that confidence can give a lot of bravery, but sometimes the bravest thing a person can do is to face their own fears and learn that sometimes it is okay to be scared.
For Raphael the idea was for him to have always focused on once particular aspect to himself and that was his intelligence. For him that was all he needed and really the only thing he could offer to others and the group as a whole. Raphael would have been put in a situation where he wasn't really dumb per say, but had difficult with things that normally he would have gotten without any issue. For him it was about learning that his intelligence is a great thing for him to have and it helps the others out a great deal, but its not the sole thing that defines him. Its who he is as a person that makes him who he is, being the smartest person in the world or the opposite wouldn't change how his friends and loved ones view him.
For Hiro it wasn't as much he changed as much as it was the world around him that changed. A world were no matter what he good a person does, it would never matter there would always be bad people who do bad things and eventually everyone would just do the same evil things and Hiro himself thinking that maybe that was the only option of should take. For Hiro it was of reminding him of his own personal traits. Helping him realize the goodness that he has and even if its only one person doing a good deed, there is still a person doing a good deed and it always matters even if initially it may not seem like much of anything.
Kaido was something I kinda went a little back and forth on. The mute thing I mentioned earlier was something as well as the possibility that Kaido is moving so fast that its like the world has virtually stopped or is going so slow and couldn't see or hear him. That was the main basic point I was aiming do with this one. Kaido is generally a shy person and may not talk often at first, but he does like to be heard. So the general idea being that it was no one could hear him, no one could see him, so it was like he faded to the back, like he virtually didn't exist. It was a fear of his to not be heard or seen as that to him gave off the same type of feeling of not existing. The general idea for him was to show that no matter how low or quite he is, he still gets heard.
Cole's thing was something that I figure was probably obviously, but had been building up from the very beginning, so I think that made it rather meaningful. For Cole it was about learning that even with his magic, it may help feel a little better, but it alone doesn't take away his ill feelings. The fact that despite the fact that he tried to isolate himself from others, his dark and cold attitude to them and even turning against them for a while; he may have upset them or made them angry, but they stayed by him, they looked beyond the traits that he did show to something deeper within him. For him to realize that rather he initially wanted to admit it or not, he does enjoy his friends company and being around them does take away his ill feelings.
And that's pretty much it for this story. CHAOS have a more normal type of life setting, was intriguing, but nothing about it really worked in this specific case and no better ideas came along. The great power/evil villain being release from the universes being combined was an interesting idea as was Cole's relationships with Anima and Kuja. The specific focus of Cole and specific other member of CHAOS was also an interesting idea, although the specifics for it outside of Cole's wasn't really anything special.
That's really the only good ideas I feel came from this story idea. Most of it had its importance's bit-by-bit throughout the story, but never really had much done with it until late into the story. All other parts of the story never really had anything done for them and there wasn't really much of many ideas and W.I.T.C.H never really had any specific ideas laid out for them save in the two universe idea, but that was only early on and for the most part just following already established things for them early on.
The last idea I do recall thinking of for this story shortly before I did away with it was once more going with the two universes, but they use to be one universe. They were divided long ago because of a powerful group of villains. Dividing the universe into two universes made it possible for Kandrakar to seal half of the group in one universe and the other half in the other universe. They were still rather powerful, but they weren't as powerful since all of them weren't together. So this idea would have focused a lot on the two different teams trying to reunite the universes into one to come together again. This meant that unless I had them combine it early on that a large majority of the story was going to be 2-in-1, which defeated a big aspect of the story of CHAOS and WITCH interacting. If they did combine it early, then it just became about stopping a powerful group already together from taking all the entire universe. So this idea had a little bit of intrigue to it, but nothing big.
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Mar 5, 2014 17:05:58 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 5, 2014 17:05:58 GMT -6
Continuing from a point made in the previous post we have Moms and Guardians.
This was a bit more of a calmer, relaxing, family styled type of story and I rather enjoyed that about it. There was going to be some villains and magical issues to deal with, but a majority of the story revolved around W.I.T.C.H and their every day lives with their husbands, children and jobs.
These type of stories have always appealed to me and I've never been entirely certain as to why that is. I think its just because of getting a chance to really experience a character me. You get to seem them in a more natural setting and how they live their lives and interact with others. It establishes a deeper connection with the character and I've always enjoyed that. Even on things like Anime inspired from certain Mangas. I enjoy the filler episodes because they are things like this and they try different things with the characters enabling us to seem them in different situations and see how they would react. It helps establish a deeper connection with them and I think that is what I like the most about these type of things.
Now there is the aspect of Guardian to this as well where WITCH becomes Guardians again after so many years. However even early on this still falls under the earlier category as WITCH has to get used to being Guardians again and dealing with their powers once more and trying to make sure they can get home in time to do things they normally do, like spending time with their loves ones.
Although WITCH is the main focus, other characters are involved quite a bit as well. Seeing certain things the kids do and things with CHAOS likely having to take over certain tasks that WITCH normally do since their Guardian duty has a lot of their time consumed and this could lead to some funny moments.
The story isn't without its major story points though and has some that I did rather enjoy. Such as some great evil destroying Angelon putting it in ruins and making it like a living/dead type of state where those who were there when it happened are just like a group of souls roaming around who can't really do anything, not alive, but not dead either, like being in limbo. Black rose, numerous thorns cover the world while lightning seems to constantly fall from the sky. CHAOS and WITCH having left during the early stages before everything actually happened. This does give the extra added importance of WITCH trying to find a way to restore Angelon while they are doing their other tasks as Guardians.
The other interesting idea was of Phobos who despite having been following from Kandrakar for so long, found a way to save himself as falling from Kandrakar allowed him to gain a great deal of insight of things that lay at the depths of Kandrakar and through it gain a great deal of power. Disguising himself as someone else he goes to Meridian to act as a helper to Elyon all the while slowly setting of a chain reaction of different events as he builds his own powerful army that consists of old enemies of W.I.T.C.H such as Nerissa. All with the intent of absorbing W.I.T.C.H and likely C.H.A.O.S' power and revealing that he was the one who caused Angelon to take the form it has now.
One major idea that was connected and it was one I enjoyed quite a bit. And its an idea that I think can actually carry a whole story. Phobos has been patient all this time and he can continue to be patient as he does different things that slowly build up to his reveal.
I think the major issue here though was the general setting of the story as a whole. I think all great stories have a nice mix of everything. Fighting, humor, drama, emotion, what ever little specific thing in that general area, all real great stories have all of that to me and at times it can favor one or the other, just so long as their is a decent mix of the other things involved with it. This story focuses a lot more on the humor aspect of things, mixed in with some other things that you can expect to see with families, but for this particular instance something like magical fighting against some evil villain seems out of place for this, two of the kids having a magical battle that the parents have to stop, is fitting for something like this.
And this are things that I generally just write in one-shots. The one-shots will likely never be posted, but they are still things I just enjoy writing and have fun doing, sometimes taking a specific idea, other times just taking a random idea and seeing where it takes me. The fact that I do that so often and actually do a lot of things around the general feeling of this story, makes the story itself not stand out as much and the idea I had I really like for it really doesn't seem fitting for it. The only real difference between this and my one-shots is that his one would have a story of events laid out while the one-shots can take specific random moments that generally may not fit for various reasons, but I can still do anyway, because they are one-shots that have their own specific setting.
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Mar 5, 2014 18:03:12 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 5, 2014 18:03:12 GMT -6
War of the Guardians was the most recent story that I had posted... and then deleted. I originally was aiming for it to be the first of a series of stories that I was certain that no matter what, I would keep posted and finish, but it didn't turn out that way.
War of the Guardians is easy to simplify by saying it takes a basic point from S2 of W.I.T.C.H of each world having its own Heart and expanding on it by saying that each of those worlds also has its own team of Guardians. Although that wasn't the idea that inspired it, that is just an easy way to explain it. The thing that gave me the idea was far more random when I was just thinking of different names and got to Luna, I repeated it a few times and thought Luna means moon, wonder if anything happens on the moon, if the Guardians have to protect it to, Luna, moon, Lunar Guardians! And just like that the idea was born, and in fact the Lunar Guardians were actually meant to be the main villains of the story since they were what inspired the idea.
That was actually one of the more original story ideas I had for War of the Guardians. It was meant to be rather OC heavy and feature a lot of made up worlds that the OC Guardians protected. If not the Lunar Guardians then the villains would have been some made up old team of Guardians who were sealed away a long time ago when they tried to take over all of the worlds in a similar means that the Lunar Guardians were trying to do, only the old team wanted to do if because they were evil, while the at times that was an option for the Lunar Guardians when the idea came about to have a old evil team be the main villains, the Lunar Guardians were meant to do it with the intent of saving their world in the same means that Elyon's team did in the posted version.
The Lunar Guardians weren't meant to be a random team either, they were meant to have had different connections to CHAOS and WITCH. I never really got very far into that though before I decided to go with canon characters instead and made Elyon's team as the assumed main villains only for Phobos and Nerissa to come in as the main villains with their teams. Originally Elyon's team was going to have a partner team and Elyon's team was going to be an all girl team with the same powers as CHAOS, while Elyon's partner team was an all boy group that had WITCH' powers. For no real reason though I ended up giving Elyon's team three girls and two guys and divided the powers a bit. This was originally meant to lead to a 2-on-1 battle with CHAOS and WITCH against Elyon's team after they absorbed all of the other Hearts. Cole and Will VS Elyon, Seroth and Irma VS Alchemy, Raphael and Taranee VS Raythor, Hiro and Cornelia VS Caleb and Kaido and Hay Lin VS Orube.
I actually wasn't sure about Phobos and Nerissa's team are who would go against who. Cole VS Phobos and Will VS Nerissa seemed like the most likely choices, but the others I was unsure of especially since I didn't have their teams. Phobos was rather likely to have Cedric and Ludmoore. Frost was possible, but not a guarantee. Caleb and or Raythor despite being on Elyon's team was also possible options and depending on who was part of the team would have determined who went against who. Cedric I think would have likely went for Seroth, Ludmoore against Raphael, Caleb if he was part of the team against Hiro, if not then Raythor was possible, but he also could have went against Frost, although Raythor was the more likely one. And Kaido would have gone against Raythor if Caleb was involved or likely Frost of if wasn't. Phobos' team was meant to have the same powers as CHAOS.
Nerissa's team was far more unknown, only know that they had WITCH's powers. I had considered the other members of CHYKN, save for maybe Miranda taking over Yan Lin's spot. Yua and Dark Mother were possible options as was Alchemy betraying Elyon's team and many other different options, so I was never really sure with them.
Another idea was that teams from other worlds could have different powers that fit their race. Like one team was meant to be a team of werewolves who had elemental powers as well as their werewolf powers making certain teams more difficult to defeat then others. But all of that changed when I went with canon characters and worlds.
I kinda new going in that this story would be more fighting focused then anything else, but I think the main issue was that it was too much of a focus. Outside of the first couple of chapters, there really wasn't much going on in this story. Fighting is nice, but can become rather repetitive and even boring and that's what I found this story became. It was rather hard to try and make each one unique and stand out on its own a large reason as to why the later fights were so short. Only the final fights against Elyon's team and Phobos and Nerissa's team were meant to be longer.
Mixed that in with the fact that CHAOS and WITCH really had no story going for them, they were more of side-characters doing certain things instead of main characters like Elyon's team come off as. Those mix of things is really want made me go against this idea. The general point to the story was okay, but as time went on nothing about it really stood out like it used to.
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Post by Cole on Mar 6, 2014 1:45:31 GMT -6
WITCH Hearts despite being a series that had quite a few different stories in it that were actually finished, each one had different things that I was planning, but never did for various reasons and there was other stories in the series that were in the works, one of which though never posted online went a few chapters in before I did away with the entire series.
WITCH Hearts was originally going to be longer then what it was and Seroth and Kaido [still spelled Kido at the time] were originally going to appear in it as it was the only story I ever had that they were never in. In fact Seroth was originally meant to be one of the three keyblade wielders along with Cole and Will, but at that point Seroth and Kaido were sorta a packaged deal, one was almost always with the other and they had some big connection and really kind needed each other since a lot of how they were wasn't what they became. I ended up going with Phobos as the third keyblade wielder while Seroth and Kaido never appeared in the story as I could never find the right place for them especially since I ended up making the story shorter then originally intended as I began trying to set up events for a sequel. There was actually a small possibility for this idea of Phobos having become and stayed evil and an idea where Miranda would have stayed with him and Cedric after Nerissa revealed herself, staying with the heroes instead of joining the villains, but in the end not much was really put into those ideas, so they never happened. Caleb was originally supposed to appear in this story going back and forth from a seemingly important character to a world specific character, but never appeared. Originally all of WITCH was going to be the Seven Princess of Hearts along with Elyon and Orube as the other two members, but instead amongst the seven only Will, Elyon and Orube stayed that way.
WITCH Hearts Chain of Memories actually went partly the way I planned it, different special attacks was some of the more main things I ended up not using. I was going to give each area a bit of a longer time then what they got, but couldn't really think of anything to add and instead just kept each of the worlds rather short. I did partly plan for Cole to do a 1-on-2 battle against Seroth and Kaido's Heartless, but instead dropped it down to one-on-one. The battles Cole had with them was some of my personal favorites in the whole series. What I did do for this story though which was probably easy to miss was I began a possible experiment of an idea and it partly began in this by making mention of how Seroth and Kaido may have had some past connection with Cole and how Ansem Seeker of Darkness despite mostly dealing with Phobos also seemed to have a connection with Cole, this was important because of ideas that actually were planned to happen in a later story, but never did. This was also the story where despite in the previous story Cole and Ludmoore were rivals this story started things of Phobos and Ludmoore being rivals when it was revealed that Ludmoore was part of the reason that Phobos was sent from Meridian to Destiny Island. This was also the last mention I did of the white hooded person who only made on appearance in WITCH Hearts as the person that instructed Will to go to the Island where she was later consumed by the darkness and ended up on Traverse Town. I was originally wanted to focus a great deal more on specific memories for the characters for this, not much went into that though as I really didn't have many specifics for them.
WITCH Hearts 358/2 Days is mostly noticeable for how it was the first introduction of my new characters Raphael and Hiro who at this time were villains. This story followed Rogue who was Will's Nobody and partly followed Laura a girl created by Will's memories from Castle Oblivion. There was a few different things planned for this such as the fact that the group Forsaken was actually supposed to be even bigger then what it was and none of the members were supposed to be destroyed into WITCH Hearts II although nearly half of them were defeated in this one by their own teammates. A detailed past and introduction was also planned to be given to nearly each member of the group. Save for Genesis [Seroth's Nobody] Kain [Kaido's Nobody] and Raphael and Hiro. It was also supposed to be shown that Raphael was the one who created Laura and how this was were Genesis had Raphael start experiments to create the Knights of Destruction who's sole purpose was to kill Cole. Lilith and Julian [Nerissa and Ludmoore's Nobodies] where also planned to actually survive this story and more on to the next story, but never did.
WITCH Hearts II the final story I ended up doing in the series before I tried making a remake, which I'll likely mention a little of on this post. Although I really didn't have much specific worlds in mind, for this story I did consider adding a great deal more world for it even more then the first one did and I was planning to actually use TV series based worlds as well not just ones based on Disney movies. Cole was originally meant to kill all of the members of the Knights of Destruction [Which also included Napoleon] but he only ended up defeating 2 as Siegfried defeated the rest of them and there was also a time where he was meant to deal with all five of them at one time. At some point Cole was originally meant to travel with WITCH for a while despite his messed up state, but in the end I decided to leave him as he was generally just staying with Siegfried and Dawn in the mansion in Twilight Town only leaving it for a few moments. I originally wanted the Winnie the Pooh world to be visited by WITCH, but instead used Cole who despite not really fitting in to well in that setting, really needed something more done with him.
I originally wanted Cole to fight Raphael and Hiro, though at separate times as WITCH was fighting and defeating the other members of the Forsaken, but instead Cole ended up fighting Raphael and later Kain and Genesis while WITCH fought Hiro and the other members of the Forsaken save for Cecil who Phobos and Cedric defeated. Although it wasn't certain what I would do for most of the worlds, I did want to do more for them then what was done as mostly the worlds in WITCH Hearts II focused as battle arenas for WITCH fighting the Forsaken. One of the worlds I did have something planned for was Beast's Castle in which Belle would have been cursed by someone to take a female form of the creature the Beast was, only Belle's would be easier to cure by destroying the being that cast the spell. Originally I was going to have Phobos and Cedric have some grand welcome home party when they returned to Meridian at the end of the story and do the same thing with WITCH when they returned to Kandrakar, but instead it was just Weira and Elyon for Phobos and Cedric and The Oracle and WITCH's moms for WITCH. Cole was originally going to meet someone in the Dark Area he ended up at after the defeat of Genesis, but in the end he was alone.
A specific idea I had worked on, on and off since before WITCH Hearts ended and something I considered for each of the next stories after was a dark-being and a light-being having been created from Cole during the time he was in Kingdom Hearts. They actually weren't meant to be Heartless or Nobodies or any other creature like them, they were meant to be a being created from the darkness in Cole's heart and a being created from the light in Cole's heart. Although both were actually meant to be evil and really just focused on one specific thing, the darkness or the light and would do anything to make everything their specific path instead of balance between the two like Cole desire. I did go back and forth on the idea of just one of them and that one being a being made from the darkness, either way the being was meant to be the main villain of the final story, but would do different things throughout each story up to that point, but never appeared.
WITCH Hearts Birth By Sleep was a story I had a few chapters for, but never posted them online as the story never finished as this is where it ended, halfway through this story. This series was a series that became more about fighting then anything else after the first story and became to similar to the game and was no longer a decent mix between the game and my ideas like the first one which is why the series came to an end. Each chapter felt more like a chore then anything else and following the game, meant there was a lot of the same exact story points mentioned over and over again to the point that it became rather boring, which is also why I kinda got of the gaming series as well. I haven't gotten completely out of it, but waiting so long for an actual new come in the series only for most of them to nearly repeat the same story from the first game, made it rather bored with all of it.
But to get back on point here. Birth By Sleep actually had quite few ideas that were being worked into it that was going to change the series quite a bit. Master Xehanort was going to start of a chain reaction of events partly because of his love of the darkness and partly because of Cole who despite this story taking place 10 years before WITCH Hearts was an adult, making him older in this then in the first story done for the series. What made Xehanort begin to do things was because of the fact that Cole was even older then he was and that was something that Xehanort wanted, that type of eternal youth that Cole seemed to have. Siegfried even at this point was still a Nobody and his Heartless form was meant to be destroyed in this story. Another big thing was the fact that Phobos was an adult in this as well as was actually evil.
Now for that point I think I should mention that at this time I had decided to make Seroth, Raphael, Hiro and Kaido part of my main cast of characters and make them all heroes, this story was to help incorporate them into the series as heroes and explain why they weren't earlier. For this Weira and Elyon weren't even royalty, Phobos invited them to live in the castle during his absence and even gave Weira control of Meridian in such cases, it was really nothing more then setting things up for Phobos encase things went wrong. Phobos also worked alongside Xehanort and Nerissa who during this time would become a Heartless as she consumed Kandrakar in darkness and Phobos was meant to have a specific set of plans laid out for his trusted servants encase his plans didn't succeed.
In this story WITCH and HAOS were just children with WITCH being from the same world of Kandrakar just randomly being sent off to random worlds while HAOS was from the same world that I hadn't decided on yet. They were also each meant to be meet by Cole while Nerissa already knew WITCH and Phobos was to meet HAOS. It was Phobos who wanted to be a keyblade master and came to learn that Seroth had the heart to be one and because of that Phobos stole Seroth's heart as well as the rest of HAOS, that is what resulted in them becoming Heartless and Nobodies and Raphael and Hiro's Heartless were meant t be destroyed in this story. During the time of an epic battle a spell was to be cast that turned Cole, Phobos, Cedric and Miranda younger and gave each of them a type of amnesia. While originally Phobos, Cedric and Miranda were at Meridian by Nerissa's intervening along with Ludmoore of keeping part of Phobos' plan, Phobos was placed on Destiny Islands where Will a keyblade wielder and Princess of Heart where while Cedric and Miranda were placed with Maleficent who was a pawn of Xehanort's. Cole was also placed on Destiny Islands but by Siegfried so he could keep a watchful eye on Cole, Will and Phobos with the intent to make sure Phobos' true evil heart doesn't overpower the good heart of Seroth until Seroth could someday and somehow get his heart back.
I was a little unsure has to how I planned to actually lay out this whole story in a more current thing. I had the idea of Cole just slowly gaining his memories back since they were slowly coming back since the event of Chain of Memories where he lost most of them. I figured a similar thing would happen with Phobos and Cedric as since HAOS Heartless and Nobody forms were defeated it would be they would return to normal and Phobos would lose their hearts and chose to go back to his evil ways. For WITCH I had the idea of the Oracle or Yan Lin telling them the story having recalled the time they meet Cole.
The next story WITCH Hearts Coded was another similar story to WITCH Hearts and Chain of Memories as well as 358/2 Days. The first one in sense of generally just telling a story that was already told, just adding in a few extra things here and there, the later two more so in the means of quick, not really important battles. For this Will was meant to be trapped in a computer and the rest of ITCH would have created computer versions of themselves to help her. HAOS would have arrived as an importance to help establish them more now on the heroes side and help WITCH out. I never really had to much planned out for Cole, just an occasional appearance in the dark realm with no real importance until the end where he somehow went into a dream-like state that he couldn't get out of.
WITCH Hearts HAOS VS the Organization was a somewhat planned story that may or may not have happened. It was mostly just meant as a means to help establish HAOS now being on the Heroes side and going against Organization XIII killing all of its members save for its former leader Xemnas who was already killed by Will and Phobos in WITCH Hearts II. If the story would have been done it would have been based a little after the final events of Birth By Sleep which was based after WITCH Hearts II, meaning this story would have taken place a little before WITCH Hearts Coded.
WITCH Hearts Dream Drop Distance was a story only a little planned for as I had actually never played Dream Drop Distance at this old point and still haven't. I had very few specifics planned for this only it involving dreams while WITCH and HAOS were meant to be able to go into the dreams of the Hearts of worlds to save those worlds, Cole was meant to stay in a dream like state throughout everything and relive certain events that happened throughout the series and begin to start remembering even events that took place before Birth By Sleep.
WITCH Hearts III never really had much of anything for it since for the most part I had followed the game so much at this point and the game is nowhere near out even now I was never sure what to do with it. It could have been my final story in the series with my own things or just another piece to the story.
WITCH Hearts IV was planned to be the final story in the series if I went beyond III. It was meant to be focused on finding the Children of the Light and protecting them from a former Children of the Light member who turned to the darkness and wanted to flood the entire universe in darkness and part of being able to do that meant gathering the Children of Light who at this point were more like sprit-like begins then anything else. A time after this capture would have lead to the final battle and Kingdom Hearts being whole once again. It was planned to be revealed that WITCH and HAOS were descendants of the Children of Light and because of that each of them could wield the Keyblade which they would need to defeat the evil Child of the Light who formed his own group the Children of Darkness.
WITCH Hearts Children of the Light was meant to be my story before last in this series meaning it would have actually been done before WITCH Hearts III or WITCH Hearts IV, but it actually took place well before any of the stories took place. I would like to mention though that the old remake I was trying to do of the series was going to follow the general idea for this and what I have listed for WITCH Hearts IV.
This story was meant to take a point often mentioned in Kingdom Hearts and mentioned a little bit in WITCH Hearts about the Children of Light the children who saved everyone from darkness by dividing the one world into numerous other worlds. The one world was Kingdom Hearts and was meant to be laid out in a way that different portals would take people to different places in Kingdom Hearts like one portal would take someone to the Kingdom of Kandrakar [Which Will's ancestor was the ruler of making her so many millenniums later the princess of Kandrakar] but it was still in a sense Kingdom Hearts. Siegfried was the ruler of Kingdom Hearts and it would be revealed that Cole was his son and Kingdom Hearts prince. [In the remake of the story, Siegfried was the black hooded cloaked figure that talked to Cole early on] and Yumi was his queen, Yumi being someone who wasn't outright mentioned before, but was meant to be the white hooded cloaked figure Will meet early in WITCH Heart.
Siegfried was meant to be the person who caused darkness to appear and because of that became the first person that was consumed by it become the first ever Heartless and Nobody with his Nobody for so long after trying to make amends for what he had done. Cole was meant to be a member of the Children of Light and its leader and was one of the only named ones I had only with Wilhelmina who was Will's ancestor and Shadow the one who would later become evil. The Children of Light saved Kingdom Hearts by dividing it into different worlds. The other members would later shun Cole [Save for Wilhelmina who greatly cared for him and Shadow who partly agreed with him] because of what Siegfried had done and because Cole didn't just except the light, but the light and the darkness and so Cole was banished from the Children of Light and the Light realm to be stuck in the Twilight Realm, a realm between Light and Darkness. Later Shadow would show his disdain for the light and chose the power of darkness and concern for what that darkness would do to the worlds, the Children of Light sealed Shadow in the Dark Realm, the difference being that Cole had free roam in the Twilight Realm while Shadow was sealed away in the Dark Realm.
The remake focused on a lot of similar points with the Children of the Light, WITCH and HAOS being some of their descendants each of them being keyblade wielders [Although only Cole, Will and Seroth would be shown with that ability early on, the others didn't acquire that knowledge into close to the end of the story] even WITCH possibility being the Princess of Heart. Kandrakar [WITCH's world] and Angelon [CHAOS's world] were also meant to be worlds they were treated as separate worlds, but also treated like two different parts of the same world. In the remake Kandrakar was meant to be a world inhabited by darkness, but its keyhole was save from the Heartless, while Angelon was a world in ruin, but no consumed by the darkness as its Keyhole was still save. Part of the connection between the two worlds was severed to keep them from falling to the darkness. The only way for the Heartless to consume them was to reestablish that connection and take the Heart of both worlds as the worlds in a sense each shared half of the same Heart.
Despite still be in the same type of universe as Kingdom Hearts but having a bit of a different direction then it did meant that it was rather different from it and the previous WITCH Hearts series, but all the whole kept the same core points to it. The major reason for it ending was the fact that Kingdom Hearts as a whole to me became very stale and boring for issues I mentioned earlier. I have been playing the 1.5 HD Remix version the past few days which has half of the series on it and there is works for a 2.5 HD Remix which has the other half of the series, plus videos of KHIII have been appearing since they've been finally working on it and I also have a 3Ds, which means I'd be able to play Dream Drop Distance the only game in the series I haven't played all of that mixed together does add a little intrigue back into the series for me and I am starting to get some ideas for a possible re-re-remake.
However as of now I really don't see that becoming anything. It mostly depends on how things continue on. If I get back into the series as much as I used to or close to it, then this is a possibility otherwise I don't see me doing it.
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Post by Cole on Mar 6, 2014 2:02:08 GMT -6
I'm honestly not sure how many of this detailed ideas form old stories I'm going to. There is quite a few of them and I've never even planned to do all of them as there is way to many and a lot of them I don't remember much of.
Mostly they are meant to be stories that I put a lot more focus and attention on and tried to get a great deal of things for. Some of these besides the stories I've already done include Forsaken Hero my first story, Warriors of the Crystals my second story, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX and X [These four are still stories I've tried getting some things for, mostly only getting good things for VII and VIII]WITCH Fantasy Hearts and Chrono Trigger and those are just stories I posted, there is a few others that never got posted that I worked quite a bit of such as Breath of Fire, Naruto and Avatar the Last Airbender. Then there is also more specific original ideas that had certain plot points to them that I rather enjoyed, so there is quite a bit there. Although some of those were more on a specific at this moment type of thing that I worked on it for and once it was over, it was over and I never considered it much more after that. Others are ones that even after I stopped with the original one, I kept trying to go back and do more and different things with it.
I could possible throw in Journey of the Dreamers in that as well as it has quite a few different old ideas I had planned out, but that is more just on character specific type of things then outright story things and it would likely make the entire WITCH Hearts series one look small in comparison. And all of this is just ones that I recall at this moment. Its possible that overtime I could remember even more.
I've also considered taking some of the ideas I have for stories now and mentioning them not for much of any specific reason, just to have them out in the open I guess and see how they might fair.
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Mar 8, 2014 12:53:57 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 8, 2014 12:53:57 GMT -6
At this point I have regained virtually everything that was on my flash-drive before it got destroyed. There are some things that are impossible for me to get back as they were more later things I had, that weren't put anywhere else.
Most of the stuff missing is things from my W.I.T.C.H Cartoon Rewrite and my W.I.T.C.H Comic Rewrite. I had a great deal of things for them and was even really close to the writing point of the Cartoon version. However since I lost most of the things I had for it and I can only recall certain little things about it, it was like practically starting over from the beginning. Not a completely re-start, but pretty close to it.
And since the Cartoon Rewrite was actually my next planned story to work on, it took me back quite a ways in writing in general as well. Its hard to say how many different ideas I can gather for both Rewrites now and even harder at this point to give any general idea as to when I'll be at a writing point for the Cartoon Rewrite.
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Mar 8, 2014 14:31:59 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 8, 2014 14:31:59 GMT -6
Along with posting the occasional old idea for an old story, I've decided I'll also post some ideas for more current working on ideas or at least ideas that have been considered as a means to try and just get the ideas out there and see how they are.
My W.I.T.C.H/Final Fantasy VII story was one that I had on and off with for the past so many years. I went over so many different routes and options for each character, but I was never able to find the right set of ideas for me to actually work on the story itself, save for the initial time from the beginning, which was a story deleted a few chapters in. This story has generally remained untouched for the around about the past year or so, only getting small little things done for it like adding another character to the ever expanding list of characters.
Individually the list of characters actually sits at about 93 characters that were planned to have some level of importance and it was a list that was actually growing, so it could have easily went beyond that number, in fact I was actually working on adding a few extra characters that I have yet to add in, but those extra characters would take the current list to 100 characters.
Through it all there is the 10 major characters; CHAOS and WITCH. While certain other characters play very important roles. Generally most other characters played semi-important roles, but nowhere near the importance of other characters.
Part of the difficulty of the story is how some roles for characters don't actually fit in anymore with later planned ideas only fitting in with older ideas. Ideas that I thought were nice and intriguing, but as of yet I haven't taken the time to try and alter those roles to fit in with more current things.
Because of the large cast of characters, it should be rather easy to tell that this story was planned to be one of my longer stories and that was something I rather enjoyed about it. Because of its large cast of important characters [and that isn't even counting other characters that could be involved, but had no major importance, so they weren't added to the list] it gave the story a great deal of depth. Each of the characters had their own little stories and reasons for why they were doing certain things, the more important characters having even greater depth in such things.
In a lot of ways it felt like something of a more complete story because of its setting. From the main characters to other characters even the secondary characters and seemingly random characters each had their own thing that helped them stand on their own, but also had things that connected them to others, their world and their setting. All of that mixed together made it highly enjoyable to me and its a feeling that I've only ever gotten for a few stories. It kinda reminded me of something like some long running Anime series where you are able to be invested into each of the characters appearing, even if they are only one time characters and the degree of importance that they have in one means or another.
Because it was generally set in Final Fantasy VII's setting with the slight dark atmosphere and the numerous types of creatures and experiments happening, the story was meant to get dark at time, rather dark really. One example I can give is with the Grumper Sisters Bess and Courtney who were members of the Turks. Although generally weaker then the other members, they preferred to work together and were a formidable team. Sticking with their personalities though, they liked to gossip and even bully some people to certain degrees. One such person was Taranee who was a scientist for Shinra. Later on in the story other members of the Turks and other people in Shinra were having experiments done to them to increase their powers in some means or another. Not wanting to be left behind, Bess and Courtney asked Ludmoore to experiment on them. Bess and Courtney weren't as lucky as others though as Ludmoore took it upon himself to go with the idea of how the two preferred working together and to a certain degree made them one being. A being that has one general lower body, but has two upper body halves, one being Bess and the other being Courtney. [similar to the monster Ying-Yang found in the basement of the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim.] While one of them could have their left eye, their right eyes was covered by something and vice-versa for the other as well as other things like that for the two as the one being. Tortured from the experiment and the intense pain they were forced to feel because of it as well as being able to control themselves, the Grumpers beg Taranee to kill them as their new form forces them to fight Taranee, before she is mercifully able to kill them apologizing as she did and for what they had been through.
So yeah, the story got kinda dark like that, but that was really one of the more darker scenes planned out. Some characters were planned to be fused with Monsters, while others got fused with Summons and other things along that general area, although they were each far better off then the Grumpers. Caleb was someone I had planned to make similar to Gilgamesh and give some extra arms, shown during a final confrontation type of battle against either Cole or Hiro. While no specific reason was really planned for Hiro, with Cole it was supposed to be because of something of a friendship the two had as they joined Shinra around the same time and were both forced to be Grunts, before Caleb decided to move on from that part of Shinra and became a member of the Turks.
Cole and likely Will at some point were meant to have both Cetra and Jenova cells within them, for Cole it was meant to be something done in a similar means to how Sephiroth was born. Other characters part of a similar experiment was Seroth and Phobos, who both only had Jenova cells inserted into them. Irma was meant to have been infused with Jenova cells before the story took place as a means to save her life. Raphael because of an accident during an experiment done by Taranee was meant to become something similar to Vincent, while Taranee was also meant to become something akin to that in a means to find a cure for Raphael by experimenting on herself. Hiro was later intended to have Cetra cells infused into him, while Cornelia was a natural Cetra. Kaido had a piece of a Summon Materia inserted into him that increased his skills a great deal, but could likely lead to his eventual death which could have likely lead to some type of experiment done to him to save his life once the Materia was removed from him as with the Materia inside of him it was going to kill him, but being removed from him would also cause him to end up dying. Hay Lin was actually the only one who generally seemed to stay normal throughout everything, there was a small plan for her to go through some experiment at some point though, but only as a means to save her life.
Generally most characters either followed certain mixes of certain other characters roles, or had something more original. While Cole had something more akin to Cloud's role and Phobos had some more akin to Sephiroth's role an Hiro had something akin to Zack's role, Seroth's role was a bit more original. While he was a child from the Jenova experiment, he was planned to arrive at Nibelheim to save as many people as he could after learning that Cedric and Ludmoore had planned for Phobos to learn of his part in the Jenova experimented and expected him to act a certain way, which he did as planned. Seroth knew of his connection to the Jenova project, but wasn't to bothered by it. He did fight Cedric at Nibelheim as Cedric followed him there, but after defeating him and assuming killing him [Only to find out some time later that he didn't] Seroth set out to find as many people as he could to save. Initially only finding Will and Irma who were in injured states and likely to die, he took them back to Shinra to have Taranee infuse Jenova cells into them to save their lives. Afterwards he acquired a home for Will in the Slums as she wanted nothing to do with Shinra and helped Irma get a spot as a member of SOLDIER, before years later he set back to Nibelheim to try and find out what had happened to Hiro, one of his friends that went to Nibelheim with Phobos and the Grunt Cole to investigate the Reactor. Seroth found Hiro nearly dead, but was able to nurse him back to health. Because of his amnesia of certain events and supposedly being considered dead, Seroth helped Hiro hide out somewhere to prevent detection as if Shinra found out he was alive they would be after him. At this point, Seroth officially defected against Shinra who set out after him for leaving the company.
Things for other characters had Raphael as the leader of the Turks, despite his current form which was mentioned earlier along with Taranee's slightly similar form. Cornelia was a Cetra sent by the Goddess Xin Jing to stop Shinra and save the Planet. Kaido as mentioned earlier had a piece Summon Materia embedded into him and was a member of the Turks. While Hay Lin had become a member of the Turks before the story took place, she was a ninja from the village of Wutai who came to destroy Shinra, but after losing to Kaido in battle and being convinced by him and Raphael how things could be better for her and the village of Wutai to forget the past and join Shinra, she does. Although with the added intent of stealing as much Materia as she could from Shinra.
And that pretty much covers the main general roles of the main characters and some extra things for other characters. There is a lot of things left out at this point, that I may touch on at a later time, not entirely sure on that one, but it is something that I will consider.
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Mar 8, 2014 17:45:53 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 8, 2014 17:45:53 GMT -6
To go along a little with the previous post of more current ideas of things this next one is W.I.T.C.H/Final Fantasy VIII. This story is in a bit of an interesting situation because for the longest time I never had anything with it. I had a previous version that I tried, but I was never to happy with it and while it generally had nothing, the W.I.T.C.H/Final Fantasy VII story had a lot going for it. Now things are generally flipped between the two. VII still has generally a lot of things for it and a large cast of characters, while VIII so far has a rather small cast of characters and only the villains really have anything going for them, still though I'm currently enjoying VIII a little bit more, I guess its because VIII is moving on the right direction at this time while, VII is still pretty much stuck at the same point.
When it comes to VIII my initial idea was a Sorceresses War, a war of a great deal of Sorceresses against each other, but oddly enough despite it being the initial idea that got me working on a new version of VIII, as of now it actually isn't even involved in the plot as other things have come along.
The current idea involves the Jade Emperor who centuries ago was a tyrant of an Emperor who ruled over a mass majority of the world with his magical powers, his personal Sorceresses and his army mostly compromised of monsters. To increase is power even more the Jade Emperor caused the Lunar Cry, an incident to summon monsters from the moon to Earth destroying the Centra civilization the other people who were believed to have any chance against the Jade Emperor. The Lunar Cry enabled the Jade Emperor to absorb more power from the moon, while the monsters from the moon joined his army, the Lunar Cry also caused plants, animals and even people to be altered. Plants and animals became monsters, most of which joined the Jade Emperor, while some people that were altered and gained magical powers also joined the Jade Emperor, only a few opposed him. And because of a mix of his own powers, the Jade Emperor was an eternal, one who time could not bother, meaning that he could rule the world for all eternity, only be able to be stopped if he is actual killed.
However, eventually the Jade Emperor was defeated by a good group of Sorceresses and their Knights. Though the good Sorceresses were able to destroy the Jade Emperor's personal Sorceresses they couldn't destroy him and instead sealed him away in his own Castle a place that in modern times is just ruins and a place most people, save for the occasional adventurer enters. however the most power of the Jade Emperor's Sorceresses, Nerissa was able to cast a spell on herself before she was killed. The spell, Nerissa cast would bind her soul to the Earth and enable her soul to take over other people's bodies until she can achieve her ultimate goals of creating a new and permanent body for herself and free the Jade Emperor from his sealed imprisonment.
And that's really it for VIII. Not much, but I do really enjoy the ideas it has as I feel they can easily carry the story separately, mixed together it gives the story far more depth and far more options for what could be done with it. The only other character role I'm really considering at this point is having Phobos play the Jade Emperor's role instead, but that's about it.
I would still like to find a means to involve the Sorceresses War though as that was the initial idea that got me inspired to start trying to work on W.I.T.C.H/Final Fantasy VIII. I guess it'd be okay if I can't ever get it, but I would still like to get something going for it.
I think its also worth noting that not everyone has natural magical powers. There is a few different exceptions. Sorceresses have magic, some born with the powers, others may never even know they possess powers or that they are Sorceresses. Knights, one specific person who is a protector of a Sorceresses also generally has some general traces of magic. Certain specific people like the Jade Emperor also posses magic as well as the descendants of any humans altered during the Lunar Cry incident centuries ago. The only other means of magic and how most people generally have magic is through Chi, or using a Guardian Force as having one enables a person to use different magic, but it is rumored that using a Guardian Force causes people to slowly lose their memories.
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Mar 13, 2014 18:01:47 GMT -6
Post by Cole on Mar 13, 2014 18:01:47 GMT -6
Just a bit of recent news, for no specific reason, just because I liked the idea of mentioning certain things that have happened over the past so many days.
Seems like the plan of posting W.I.T.C.H pics in the W.I.T.C.H section has taken a bit of a hit at this moment. The new Imageshack is doing things has made me decided against my previous idea of using it as a means to direct link pics from there to here, so I need to find a new place for me to join to do that.
I had put it off for quite a while, but I did finally get into the entire list of games on Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix. And I have to say that I am glad to be done with it. Despite it being so many years since I've played the games on there, they were still so fresh in my mind since so many of the games generally play out the same story, only with the occasional difference. still always enjoyed the battle system on the original game though, although the camera for it drove me insane with how annoying it was. Re Chain of Memories was even worse as the fighting on it can get very repetitive and boring rather fast and I really couldn't wait to be done with it. As oddly enough as opposed to something like my stories, when it comes to other things like video games, I normally don't stop with them until I am done with them. I had mentioned how it might effect a possible new version of my old WITCH Hearts series and while the occasional idea was kinda there, generally it only seemed to make me not want to do it even more.
Moving on to some new game, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD comes out Tuesday, so that will be nice to have. Doubt I'd want to go into another immediate series in that same regard as soon as I got done with another one though. So I've been considering jumping into an older game that I haven't played in an even longer time, like Final Fantasy V. Haven't played it in around about eight years. And since this year will be 20 years of when I first starting playing RPGs and the Final Fantasy series, it could be nice to mix it up a little bit. Especially tossing in Final Fantasy VI at some point since this year is its twentieth birthday and it was the first RPG and Final Fantasy game I ever played and its been a long time since I've played it as well, around about seven years.
More things here for my characters. I really don't have much for them here, just the occasional picture for some of them and a single one-shot. Been considering adding in some of the other one-shots that I have writing on here to get more things for them here and I've been trying to work on the other occasional thing for them. Maybe I'll open up some type of contest or something for them here. Some type of rewards for the winner and maybe some other places as well, maybe a cash prize or something like that, not entirely sure, but its something I've considered. It may come down to if and how many people are interested in it.
I haven't really been able to have the right flow of ideas lately. For quite a while tons of different ideas that came to me all of that time, but since the destruction of my flash-drive, things have been a little out of whack. I got nearly everything back from it that I could, but there was the occasional thing I couldn't get back, but they were rather important story ideas and there was quite a few of them there too. But since then, I haven't had that same flow of ideas, so hoping to be able to do something to get that flow back and return to working on my stories.
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