Greeting GATE fans, thank you for checking out my story but before reading chapter 1, you should take some time on my author notes first because my story is a little bit different compared to other GATE fanifcs in many perspectives
about me :
The first and most important thing, I'm not a native English speaker and I'm trying to write a fanfiction in English. Although I can read, listen, speak and write in english fairly good (at least in the standard for high school level) but there is still a huge difference beteween writing an english essay at school and writing a fanfic. Therefore, you will see some weird errors, using strange words and weird ways of writting (I will explain this later), spelling mistakes and other funny miskates that a native English speaker will not never make when you read my story. I hope you will sympathize with this defect of me and I promise to use every possible means (translation software, asking help from people who is execllent at writting english, read more books) to improve my writting skill through each chapter
About my story:
First you need to know that this is a translated story
Pax Americana on is not a original story because Pax Americana at the first was written in my mother tongue. So it mean if you read Pax Americana on Fafiction, you are reading the translated version which was also done by me. The original version have already had 15 chapters so i still have a long way to go and many effort to be made because I have to keep on writing new chapters and translating older chapters into English at the same time
And here is the reason why I said you would find some sentences and the way of writing a little bit weird. Something that make sense when it was written in my mother tongue are completely nonsense when written in english, plus my english writing skills is not good enough to translate a sentences, or a pharagrah into english while guarantee that the meaning remain intact. Although I promise I would try my best to limit these annoying things but you should expect something cringey while reading it.
Why do I do this?
I know it gonna be a lot of work to do and a lot of effort to be made but I don't think I am just wasting my time like my friend said when I told them what I was going to do. First of all, I love the manga GATE (Not the Anime, it is just terrible for my taste), I like GATE fanfics and had been reading them since they were still 2 or 3 stories. I told myself that one day I would write a good story then share it with everyone and I have already done that in some kind of way but I still feel not enough. Secondly, I want to improve my English and this seem to be a great opportunity. I was taught by my teacher that in the order to learn a new language, you must use it and I keen to take her advice to the heart.
Why America?
At this moment, you must be asking that question yourself. Why does a person who doesn't have any real connection to the U.S (Execpt my english teacher come from Boston) bother writing a story about America or American? Of course, it would be natural for Americans to l write something about their country entering the Gate, so does Mexican, French, Chilean, Malaysian. Then why don't I do the same? Well, There are many reason behind my decision
- The American intervene in Special Region is most likely due to the fact that America have enough political power and other means to make Japan give in. If any superpower have acess to the Gate after Japan then it should be U.S. Even in the case that US couldn't send a expeditionary force to the Special Region, they still can find a way to have a handful of men on the other side of the Gate legally or illegally.
- the prospect of U.S involvement in Special Region is the best way to connect my story to what had already happend in the Manga/Anime as well as ensure every ogrinal characters in the manga have significant roles to play and not just "be there".
- The America is diverse but I'm not talking about skin color. Diversity of thoughts, economic backgrounds, ways of life is greatest writing material ever
- American foreign policies, the CIA, U.S Army, and involvement in recent conflicts make it became a gold mine especially when you intend to write something about war or politic. It is just too many things to talk about when it come to the U.S and one perspective is never enough.
- I find the idea of the Gate appearing in somewhere else outside Japan is predictable, boring and hard to connect to incidents in the Manga.
What are the differences?
Beside the cringey way of writing and misuse of words (which should be expected), there are still a few things you need to know
- No big battles for a while. Because when my story began, the war between Sadera Empire and Japanese was officially over so you wont see battles with tanks, artillery, aircraft like battle of Italica or Alnus Hill any time soon. Beside, I am not really a big fan of large scale battles and the story was told in 3rd person POVs so if there were big battles, you would only saw a part of it through character's eyes.
- Not a military hardcore kind of guy. I like military equipments and cutting - egde technology and modern war machines etc but I take a larger interest in people when it come to writing. Therefore, I would not focus heavily on weaponry like many authors.
- The political view. This is a important matter that need to be mentioned. The character's views on nations and wars, right and wrong belong to the characters themselves not me. For example, a character who is patriotic would think, react, behave in the way you expected a partriot to think and behave. The same go to those holding cynical view on his nation or suspicious of the cause that they are fighting for. When a character hate something while love other things and hold certain point of views, it doesn't mean that I do hate and love the same things and hold the same views too although I am the one who create them.
- More forcus on Special Region cultures, races, history. Most of them was self- invented because the manga and even light novel didnt provide much when it came to this matter.
- For plot development and character development, there are some fictional units, incidents that were inspired by real things that happened in our world.
