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Rekka no Ken: The Tactician and the Black Fang: False Friends

Chapter 3: In Search of Truth      Chapter 5: Noble Lady of Caelin

 

Wow, such a difficult chapter to write. I don’t know why. But the next chapter is looking back up, possibly because LYN’S BACK LYN’S BACK also all the Sain, plz. And Kent. And Florina. And Wil. Yay. *snuggles* And I guess we pick up the Wilrina…? Is that a good ship name? I don’t know. I’m being silly. Let’s keep writing.

Talons Alight is snuck in between these two chapters, but it seriously adds no plot besides “Eubans wuz here except not really” so it’s a bit glossed over. The important part is that Florina’s pegasus sits on Hector five days later.

 

Chapter 4: False Friends

Ceniro was passing through the halls of Santaruz Castle, on his way to the courtyard to meet the rest of his group, averting his eyes from all the strange people around him, when he heard a cough.

“Ceniro.”

He turned and looked around in confusion, but only saw a guard in Santaruz colours. He blinked at him, and then his eyes widened in realization. Continue reading

Rekka no Ken: The Tactician and the Black Fang: In Search of Truth

Chapter 2: Bird of a Feather      Chapter 4: False Friends

 

Will start the next chapter, but probably won’t finish it until tomorrow. Still, we’re trucking along, here. And I am going through way too much chocolate. XD (Oh Cadbury, you are both delicious and affordable.) Also roasted seaweed. (mmmmm.)

Despite the battle being a pain to write, I actually enjoyed large parts of this chapter. Also I cracked (in total wordcount) over 30,000 words, so we’re in great shape.

Next chapter! Ceniro’s little brother! Erk! Conspiracy! More fighting, because this is a strategy game! Erik is a dramallama! And more!

Also tomorrow I am going to go hear Les Choristes sing at lunchtime, because Jen Moir’s choirs are great. (She should totally start a website called Jen Moir’s Choirs. I think it would be a hit. 😀 ) Continue reading

Rekka no Ken: The Tactician and the Black Fang: Birds of a Feather

Chapter 1: Taking Leave         Chapter 3: In Search of Truth

 

Whoop whoop, another chapter done. Two more on their way! I’m getting all kinds of plot twists and connections that never occurred to me before. Good thing I didn’t try to write this when I was younger, lol.

Happy November 5? Or whatever? Look, have some Gullac, go party. I gotta write.

 

Chapter 2: Birds of a Feather

“Eliwood,” Ceniro said hesitantly, early in the morning on the next day. “You were saying Lord Helman, Marquess Santaruz, is a good friend of your father’s, right?”

“Yes, I’ve known him since I was a child. He’s like an uncle to me.”

“If we’re worried about Laus’s military, perhaps we could ask him to help provide us with an escort?”

“That’s a good idea,” Eliwood answered. “When my father left a month ago, he took twenty of the best knights of Pherae with him, and none returned. I left the rest at home to guard mother. I only really need Marcus and Lowen.”

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Rekka no Ken: The Tactician and the Black Fang: Taking Leave

Vol. 2: The Tactician and the Jewel: Chapter 10: The Farseer         Chapter 2: Birds of a Feather

 

Okay! It’s NaNoWriMo again, and having written about twenty thousand words on a Jarvis fic (which may or may not end up here) and about three thousand on a Clintasha fic (abandoned for the moment as I can’t get into their messed-up heads or lives, despite having read a ton of fanfic about them), I’m beginning the first big project, which is of course the finishing of the Rekka no Ken novelization. Which is Fire Emblem 7, for those of you keeping track. I’ll try to get the first ten or so chapters done, and then maybe take a break. I think Vol. 3 (this one) might be actually longer than ten chapters, considering that it takes ten chapters to go to the Dread Isle and back for the first time, and the Black Fang doesn’t really get revealed until after that; and the dragons don’t come in until closer to the end… so this might be a bit more irregular than the first two ‘books’.

I’m greatly looking forward to finishing this story, and it’s not going to follow most of the dialogue, because I find most of it stilted. I love Hector’s dialogue, however… not to mention Hector’s shirtless body

Pairings! For those of you interested in that sort of thing: Eliwood/Ninian, Ceniro(tactician)/Lyn/Hector, Florina/Wil, Fiora/Kent, Farina/Dart, Sain/Salir(OC), Rebecca/Lowen, Pent/Louise, Heath/Priscilla, Matthew/Leila, Bartre/Karla, Nino/Jaffar, Isadora/Harken, Ephidel/Limstella – pretty standard vanilla pairings for the most part, but hey, nothin’ wrong with that. : ) And not all of these might make a solid appearance. Certain things like Bartre/Karla you might just have to take on faith seeing as FE6 is the way it is if you know what I mean. (Hey, it’s 4am, who said I had to be coherent?)

So here goes. Thank you to the internet for giving me the game text, so I don’t have to actually play it and record it by hand and then not use it anyway. XD Continue reading

In the Shadows Beyond This World: Epilogue

Well. That’s that. Thanks for reading!

This story clocked in at 129,360 words, or at least that’s how many words I wrote on it since July 2, easily making it the longest thing I’ve ever written, certainly the longest thing I’ve written in one month to this date. Although this epilogue could have been longer, but I ran out of ‘feeling like doing dialogue’ halfway through, even though the dialogue at the beginning was okay. : P Maybe I’ll go rewrite that part later.

Now to do some other projects… to list them, I have:

– 6 pianos arrangements

– A collaborative writing project with Rose, Jenna, Yllamse, and Gaby

– Drawing! Especially art for the games I’m making, and learning how to draw humans in proper perspective, and fanart of whatever I feel like (ZELDAZELDAZELDA)

– Using RPG Maker to make a Fire Emblem game

– Possibly working on my two remaining Fire Emblem 7 novels

– NOT making plans to write a story about the Hero who fought the Shadow Tribe and broke the Fused Shadow at the cost of his own life… darnit…

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In the Shadows Beyond This World: Chapter 21: Triforce of Power

DONE DONE DONE-ED-Y DONE

In yo’ face, Ganondorf!

Hope you enjoyed. Still an epilogue coming up.

A side note: whenever I clicked on ‘add link’ here in the post creation screen… I giggled. I admit it.

This chapter felt… repetitive. I was so anxious to fit in all the dramatic lines that I think some points were kind of hammered in. And the Franz didn’t get the kick-butt speech that I wanted him to, because I forgot what it was about. It was something about unity, anyway.

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In the Shadows Beyond This World: Chapter 20: Storming the Castle

Omg dramaaaaaa. Drama llama!

Who else was beginning to find King Bulbin kind of cute after he revealed that he wasn’t just a mindless monster after all? : D

So I wasn’t really feeling these boss fights. I think partly because I want them to be really good, so I wasn’t sure about what to put to make it ‘really good’. After all, we’ve been waiting the whole story for these fights!

Stole some dialogue from Wind Waker. It’s good dialogue.

The music when Midna makes her move is just so heartbreaking… The track is only a few seconds long, but it is such a perfect background for the action. Also I kind of like the weird ‘tribal’ music for Gannon, heehee.

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In the Shadows Beyond This World: Chapter 19: Twilight Helm

Yeah, things are really picking up! Two more chapters to go, and an epilogue! I’ll be done by tomorrow!

Obviously, it has been spelled out that the Hero from the past is Link from LttP. He also happens to be, in this headcanon, the Link from Four Swords and Minish Cap and the Oracle games. …I haven’t played Minish Cap. But I’ve played Oracle of Ages, and I have both Oracle mangas (whooo Raven is hot whooo), and I don’t think it’s too farfetched to stitch all these together into one boy. One extra note, which I may have mentioned before… That Link married Zelda, so I totally support Zelink here, for you Zelink shippers. : )

Speaking of shipping, I have the idea that Midna and Zant are cousins, and one of the inappropriate things that he did was attempt to court her. : P

I only started using RPG Maker a week ago, and I’ve already logged 60 hours on it. o_O Of course, at least an hour or two of that was just listening to the music, but still! The next longest playtime I have on a Steam game is KotOR II with 50 hours, and that’s because KotOR II is ridiculously long. Wow.

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In the Shadows Beyond This World: Chapter 18: The Dark World

It should be abundantly clear that the Twilight Realm is heavily based on the Dark World from A Link to the Past (and it should be becoming clear that the Hero from the past is the Hero to the Past, if you know what I mean), to the point where the Twilight Princess geography barely even matters except for the Sols.

Hoping to write another couple chapters tonight, after I’ve slept and done some organ practice! Huzzah! We’re almost at the end, and things are picking up again! In fact, this chapter is super short in comparison to the monsters I’ve been writing. The next one will probably be pretty short too, but I can’t make promises about that. In any case, I don’t want to stop, but I’m a bit sleepy, so I should and recharge my batteries for the next chapter!

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In the Shadows Beyond This World: Chapter 17: The Sky’s Loft

So I have no idea what on earth came over Franz at the beginning of this chapter. If it sounds like it was written in a state of still-sleep-deprived insanity, it probably was.

Also Link’s parents just decided they should be important. Although I’m not sure when his mother is showing up. In person, I mean.

I totally support Shad/Ashei. : )

This chapter turned out to be unexpectedly long. Good thing I skipped 95% of the dungeon!

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