I'm All Plot And No Prose, Here
Jun. 30th, 2008 12:25 amHave I ever mentioned Kuusho Rasa on here? I don't think so...well, it's a project a few friends and I came up with last year, and started recruiting people for - a non-existent anime that we tried to convince people really existed on a veriety of fronts, mostly ff.net and some anime/manga forums. We drew up backgrounds and descriptives of the main characters, sketched out a general timeline and even wrote a few episode recaps. I've been out of the loop for awhile so I'm not sure where the project is now, or if anyone's still writing. But, um, I kind of want to write it now. As, like, a real novel or manga. It has everything - amnesia! Princes in disguise! A Super Sekrit Training School that turns out soldiers! Angsty pasts by the bucket! Subtextual and contextual boylove! But mostly, it had a villain that I really really want to write, because we came up with a facinating backstory for him - Terazi escaped the destruction of his country as refugee, and ended up at the school that trains the military of the country that destroyed his homeland. He rises through the ranks fast, being an excellent soldier and whatnot, and becomes the head of the military. He has, obviously, managed to fake convincingly an overwhelming loyalty to the country, but secretly, he plans to use the military he controls to engineer a conflict with a neighboring country that will destroy both of them. So yeah, want to write soooo muuuuch.
In my Madric Thorn story, I just realized that the leader of the rebels is a girl. Go figure. But she totally is. And![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
telyanofcelore's been wonderfully helpful in helping me flesh out Soldier Boy a little - his motivations and personality are frustratingly difficult to pin down, it's driving me crazy. At this point, I think he's a very black and white type of person, very sure he knows what is right and wrong, and he joins the military because it is the Right Thing To Do. But then Madric comes along, and he's supposed to kill him, but this is clearly wrong that it yanks his whole foundation out from under him. A lot of the Madric and Soldier Boy On The Run part of the story is, I think, going to be him trying to get his feet back under him - first by imprinting on Madric, and then, when that is unworkable because of Madric being, well, Madric, by actually starting to think for himself for once. This could be fun? If I ever start writing it. And if he ever gets a NAME. The Soldier Boy thing is going to end up being a joke in the story though!
In my Madric Thorn story, I just realized that the leader of the rebels is a girl. Go figure. But she totally is. And
telyanofcelore's been wonderfully helpful in helping me flesh out Soldier Boy a little - his motivations and personality are frustratingly difficult to pin down, it's driving me crazy. At this point, I think he's a very black and white type of person, very sure he knows what is right and wrong, and he joins the military because it is the Right Thing To Do. But then Madric comes along, and he's supposed to kill him, but this is clearly wrong that it yanks his whole foundation out from under him. A lot of the Madric and Soldier Boy On The Run part of the story is, I think, going to be him trying to get his feet back under him - first by imprinting on Madric, and then, when that is unworkable because of Madric being, well, Madric, by actually starting to think for himself for once. This could be fun? If I ever start writing it. And if he ever gets a NAME. The Soldier Boy thing is going to end up being a joke in the story though!