3.1 Characterisation in the form of NATSUME.

Natsume, as the lead male character, must be invariably good-looking, handsome and incredibly nice. Of course, you needn't describe him in as much detail as Mikan. (Readers get a bit bored with too much description.)

On the 23rd of November Natsume walked down to the Special Ability classrooms. Natsume Hyuuga was the hawttest boy to have ever walked the grounds of the Earth, but I really can't be bothered to describe him ... besides don't you think Mikan is already awesome enough for one fanfic?

So I will make a short list instead because I feel like being lazy and not writing a proper fic.

Natsume: is fit, hot, handsome, black hair, Fire Alice, muscular, cool, popular, the dream guy, angsty, sexy, LucaRuka's best friend, fancies the pants off Mikan, is going out with Melonbeauty.

(Oh, I almost forgot. If you remember, at the end of "Gakuen Alice Fanfic" Mikan and Natsume were going out ... well to make it more in line with this fic, the new canon is that they broke up after a week and Natsume is back with Melonbeauty again.)

3.2 Sumire is a bitch and doesn't deserve any more personality than that. I mean, she was MEAN to Mikan! What kind of decent person does that?! And we'll handily forget about all the cute friendship making-up kinda stuff that happened with her and Mikan after the LeoReo incident.

Sumire and her boyfriend LucaRuka (soz guys!!1! Remember they were together coz LucaRuka lost his memory in the water trap in the other story I wrote?! And Hotaru's in heaven so sozzzllesss!!111!) also happened to be walking down the path. Sumire was really ugly but compared to Mikan she was even uglier. No, really.

"Ugh I hate Mikan!" she shouted. Again. "I love Natsume!" she shouted. Again. The narrator swears she hears Sumire shout that in nearly every fic she has read. Poor Sumire. Her throat must be getting sore by now.

3.3 Who cares about anyone else? Apart from maybe LucaRuka, I guess. But he doesn't really do much in a NatsuMikan fic, so ...

All the teachers and staff and LucaRuka and the whole of Tsubasa's year group and the whole of Hotaru (RIP)'s brother's year group and the whole of the Z Organisation and the whole of Mikan's village and the whole of Natsume's burnt down village went to Cyprus. Again. It turned out that they could not only get a group discount, they got a 10-per-cent-off offer for going again within ten years.

However, Narumi-sensei and Misaki-sensei (the amorous couple) weren't allowed to go. It was something to do with the legal rights of escaped prisoners and the punishment thereof. They tearfully said their goodbyes (ok, Naru teafully said his goodbyes. Misaki just said his goodbyes.) and stayed in Alice Academy while their friends left for sunbathing.

Hey, don't feel too bad for them. Sex beats sunburn any day.

(Right, we've really gone off the rails now.)

3.4 Put in an OC for extra fun. Or even better, put in a random unwanted crossover character.

The Princessessa Melonbeauty etc was also in Alice Academy with Mikan. If you haven't heard, she is a crossover character from my other bestselling GA fanfic, "Gakuen Alice Fanfic" and is really really cool. Yay!

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4. THE SETTING

Ok, now what about the setting? Where are they? I mean, Mikan (or rather, Meekan) and Natsume, not the people who've gone to Cyprus.

Do bear in mind that the name of this fandom is GAKUEN ALICE or ALICE ACADEMY, in English. I wonder what that means!

Now let's describe where they are. Ok, Mikan is a contestant in the all-new all-star all-singing dancing acting musical Academy of Fantasia. She and the rest of Elementary Class B got a transfer to Fantasia Academy, you see. Sumire is the star of Fantasia right now, but WATCH OUT! Here comes the new girl, Mikan Sakura!

Er, yes. Anyway, at the same time, they are also in the swim school Dolphinaria, where they learn to swim at 120km/h and practise the art of synchronised swimming. Sumire is the star ... etc.

You know what, they are ALSO at Pokemon Tech. This is the place where, if you graduate, you get automatic entrance into the Pokemon League! (Note: This is actually true.) Sumire is the star ... etc.

Of course, they are also simutaneously at a typical American high school (this one's called ... dun dun DAH, Alice High), with its quaint catergories and cliques of cheerleaders, jocks, geeks, mathletes, etc. Sumire is the queen bee of popularity right now ... etc.

Oh, and of COURSE the obligatory Fashion Show Week is the event of the year at Designers Academia - and it's happening right now! Can Mikan beat off the resident bitch Sumire (twice-times winner of Most Fashionable Girl Of The Year) to be the almighty Fashionista Of The Year?

4.1 Er ... right. And when is this, then? Teenage years are the in-thing right now - anything older than 18 and it's too old and boring, anything younger than 12 and it's too immature. Really.

Ah yes, Mikan, Natsume, Melonbeauty and Sumire are all 16 years old. Duh. Sixth formers, legal sex (at least in England. Sorry, dunno about Japan or America or the Philippines.), the joy of being older than a kid but not as responsible as an adult - what more could a girl (or boy, if you're Natsume) want?

4.2 And can we have the rest of the character descriptions now that we have all the settings planned out?

Mikan was new to FantasiA DolphinariA Pokemon Alice Designers Academy Tech High Academia Gakuen. (Or FADAPADATHAG for short.) She had just been told to go to the Special Ability classrooms, and was a little lost in the maze of buildings, swimming pools and Pokemon training arenas. Let us take a moment to discuss her true identity.

Meekan Natzumi4eVar 1547 Seariarastipastry Cutiepie Sakuracherrytrees. Yes, that was her true, most secret name. A name of power and wisdom and light. She was an Elemental Spirit Of Wolfihood, bound to this planet by magic alone. She was not an Alice, as people thought, but actually an ALICE - an Ancient Luminescent Iridescent Commander of Elephants. (Elephants, in this usage, refers to magic, Alices and Elemental powers, not to the big grey animals with the noses.)

Which all meant she had 86 abilities. Two had been discovered by the humans she lived with (Nullification and Stealing), but the other 84 she kept to herself alone. By simply wishing something to be so, one of her Elemental abilities would revive and make it so.

Natsume, on the other hand, was a simple hawt Fire Alice user. He is good at Pokemon and dancing, but not fashion so much.

Melonbeauty is a beautiful young Princessessa who has breasts the size of melons. And not just those small yellow honeydew ones; the really gigantic green watermelons. She is deeply in love with her hawt boyfriend, Natsume. She is an ok pupil, a little dim sometimes, but her main virtue is her beauty, though deeply inferior to Mikan's, and her friendliness. She is Mikan's best friend.

Sumire is apparently the best singing dancing acting musicals star, the fastest synchronised swimmer, the most skilled Pokemon user, the Queen Bee of Alice High, and always wears the most expensive Prada and Chanel and Vera Wang and Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan and Primark etc which she has designed herself to school.

Who cares about anyone not directly involved in the main plot?

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