Update: May 29, 2011 - 2:30AM
Hey guys, it's been a bit, hasn't it? Well plainly, I don't have a good excuse this time. I'll think of one though – but then I'll probably forget to post it.
Anyway, you've just caught me after moving. Moving files onto a new account on the computer, that is. So yeah, it's nearly as much trouble as moving – especially what I went through. About four days ago, the computer started acting really funny, that is to say, more funny than normal. A day later, I turned it off entirely, power and all, then I told my mom not to turn it on and guess what she did – she turned the damn thing on. Damn woman.
Well, I checked my account, maybe turning it off for a bit had settled it down. But then I checked my documents. Everything was gone. Everything. My stories, my Photoshop brushes I downloaded, the fonts, the special songs that I kept there, everything in My Documents was gone. I began to panic, I even went as far as to cry. I wasn't really upset about the rest of it, but the stories... The stories disappearing was like losing a friend whom I've known for half my life. All the hard work, the motivation, the writer's blocks...when the files disappeared, all of that went with it.
My dad said I was being stupid, mom agreed. I wanted to explain what I felt to them, but I knew they wouldn't understand, so I just kept it to myself. I logged off.
The next day, I checked My Docs again, to see if maybe they had come back. They hadn't. But I knew they were there somewhere, I didn't delete them, and my mom's such a computer retard, she wouldn't even know how to delete files.
So I checked my pictures, to see if they were still there too. They were, until I refreshed the page – then they were gone. Same to all my videos. Everything was now officially gone. So I did the only thing I could do – I went to the interwebz and onto Yahoo! Answers.
One answer was all I got, but it was all I needed; my computer had a virus that was playing hide and seek with me, hiding all my shit from me because the damn thing thought it was funny. (I don't know if the virus thought hiding my stuff from me was funny, but I imagine) The person (bless his soul forever, I would kiss the guy if I could) told me that I could use WinRAR to view everything that's been hidden and gave me a download link. I was about to when I realized I already had a few months ago to extract .zip files. I opened WinRAR and began my search.
Everything really was still there! And he was right, there was some-shit virus hiding my crap from me. But everything was still there! You would not believe the relief I felt when I found it all – it was almost as if my sister had died of cancer, but then she came back to life in perfect health. Almost.
Thus, I began my newly self-assigned task – collect all my files on CD. I've never wished so much in my life that I had a flashdrive, something I asked my dad for for Christmas, but got Epic Mickey instead, which I don't mind. But anyway. After cramming eight gigabytes of stuff onto one gajillion different CDs, formating the damn things and what not, everything was saved. And this was all last night too. I went to the lead account on the computer and deleted "Saxima" which was my account, and then made a new one under my actual name.
After going through hell to reinstate all my files and learning how to use Command Prompt a bit, everything was back to normal. And here we are now.
ON TO THE UPDATE
Well, after the hide-and-seek scare, here's what we've got -
-Completed chapters One – Nine of The Land Over the Sea, Surrounded by Sky, Under the Sun
-Completed chapters One – Five of Maximum Rush (previously Fly Like Phoenix)
-Completed chapters One – Four of Project G.E.H. XII (title subject to change) including Observation of the twelve characters, a started chapter five and six, crossover of Maximum Ride, Naruto, Kingdom Hearts, and BioShock.
-Half-finished chapter Twelve of Mission to Another World (don't shoot me)
-Kingdom Hearts II and 358/2 Days story, both just only begun (and by that, I mean KHII [40 pages] and 358/2 [15 pages] told from the third person view point of Taiyō and Nikkōné.)
-Begun Naruto x Legend of Zelda crossover
-Begun Assassin's Creed x Naruto/high school AU crossover (on chapter II)
-1/3 finished oneshot titled To Be Young - sidestory that takes place before Kingdom Hearts, based on the RS circle's doujinshi Innocent
-About 1/8 finished story titled (subject to change) We Love - numerous parings, all homosexual (not all male parings), told from a million different viewpoints, inspired by WarningExplicitContent's story Choice.
-A Super Smash Brothers story that will probably be canceled due to Naruto OC plot confusion
-Begun Kingdom Hearts story about angels and demons titled (not subject to change) Anjels & Dimons - Chapters One & Two completed, Three and Five started. (don't ask what happened to four)
-Begun, completed chapter One of Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus new Original Character named Aden
So this is all we've got so far. It's a crap load of stuff. They're all really, extremely, you-have-no-idea hard to write because for the Project G.E.H. XII story, I have to use the BioShock Wiki for research on nearly everything, locations, enemies, objects, because Rapture is the setting of the story, and then I have to go to KH-Vids and watch Kingdom Hearts II and 358/2 Days cut scenes so that I know I'm getting everything accurate and not trailing off too much.
The Land Over the Sea, Surrounded by the Sky, Under the Sun is getting a bit harder because I'm losing momentum, and we all know about Mission to Another World, am I rite?
One of the easier stories to keep up with is Maximum Rush, which I decided to change the name because the other sounded terrible and I didn't want to make my Original Character, Melanie, more of a Mary-Sue than she probably already is. This story's easier because I actually write this one before I type it up. Which I should probably do with all my stories... I have Kingdom Hearts written down, told from the side of Taiyō.
Making well-rounded characters is really very hard. Have you noticed that nearly all main characters are Mary-Sues? Not that it's a bad thing, but I'm just saiyan. (see wat I did thar?)
I have a few more handwritten stories:
-On chapter Two of a Kingdom Hearts x Twilight crossover
-A Kingdom Hearts vampire story, inspired by The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, titled (s.t.c) "Elongated Fangs"
-A hardly begun untitled crossover of Mirror's Edge x Naruto x Kingdom Hearts
-A Kingdom Hearts story based on the song and music video This is My Idea from the movie The Swan Princess, the story is under the same title of the song.
Let's get down to parings, shall we?
-The Land Over the Sea, Surrounded by the Sky, Under the Sun
~Riku x Sora = RiSo
~Terra x Ven = TerVen, Tertus? XD
~Vanitas x Taiyō = VanTai, Vanyō? XDD
~Axel x Roxas = AkuRoku, duh
~Vanitas x Ignis (mentioned/implied) = VanIg, Vannis? (actually, I like that)
~Uh...?
Familial relations
~Ventus, Roxas, Sora = brothers
~Terra, Riku = brothers
~Aqua, Kairi, Naminé, Vanitas = cousins
~Vanitas, Naminé = brother and sister
~Ignis, Taiyō = adopted sisters
~Axel, Lea = brothers
~Master Xehanort, Master Eraqus = brothers (? not sure if I want to)
Pairings – Maximum Rush
~Max x Fang = Fax, Mang
~Max x Dylan = Dax, Mylan (teehee)
~I'm not sure of Fang x Melanie... Maybe not. Her name's not Melanie. It is but, it's not. She's got a real name.
Pairings – Project G.E.H. XII
~None
Pairings – Naruto x Legend of Zelda crossover
~Link x Midna?
Pairings – Assassin's Creed x Naruto crossover
~Sasuke x Naruto
~Sai x Asami
Parings – To Be Young, all implied
~Riku X Sora
~Kairi x Sora
~Taiyō x Sora (haven't gotten far, during brainstorm of the entire story, I didn't plan this, but I'm not sure)
~Sora x Chocobo (not in the way you might think, perve, they're just kids!)
Pairings – We Love
~Riku x Sora
~Axel x Roxas
~Taiyō x Kairi
~Nikkōné x Naminé
~Terra x Ventus
~Ignis x Aqua (could go either way)
~I'm sure there are others...
Pairings – Super Smash Brothers (the one that may be canceled)
~Ike x Asami
~Link x Zelda
~Others?
Pairings – Anjels & Dimons
~Sora x Riku
~Riku x Taiyō
~Others?
Uh, I think that's it. In the next update, I'm going to put up notes off the stories I'm working on. After that, I intend to explain more about some of my Original Characters. I want people to like them, this is selfish, and I also want them to kind of blend in to the cannon worlds.
Until then, feel free to ask questions.
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Later bro,
Saxima