Q&A Time
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Hey everyone. I know a lot of you have read and loved my Sonic-Zootopia story, LITO (or called by its full name, Love In The Open). I figured it's about time to share with you guys the things I've been up to as plotting in this story and future work. As I've said before, I'm shocked that despite the massive amount of views that I've had on this story and I really appreciate everyone who has read this story, I feel somewhat disappointed that I've only had a handful of reviews for this story. I was originally planning on answering some review questions from the last chapter, but since I'm gonna be busy the next few days, I figured that if you want to put reviews on for this chapter to go into a Q&A that I'm doing right after Love In The Open is completed, that would be really great because it gives me great input for future chapters and gives me great ideas.
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Ok, here we go. This first question is a review from a guest who really enjoyed my story.
"so I am guessing sonic is only wearing his shoes and from judy's reaction to the nudist club shows it is not common to walk around naked just saying like the story so far though" Ok, so remember, the Mobians would be considered "aliens" if you will, visiting Zootopia, and as I'm going to explain in later chapters, Judy initially thinks it's strange, but Nick reminds her that it's part of their custom. By the way, Tails was actually with them during the first Zootopia in my story, and I'm going to make that evidently clear within the next 3-4 chapters.
Ok, next question. This time coming from a really cool Fanficer who has been really helpful to me over the process of LITO and that is Chimichanger. Chimichanger has also written a really cool Sonic-Zootopia story called "Broken Glass" and I really think it's worth checking it out. In fact, do me a favor right now and go follow/favorite this guy because he has just been so AWESOME in helping me come up with great ideas. Ok here we go.
"It seems that Sonic already has mentioned in Chapter 10 that he knows what his purpose is. To do the right thing. How is that a struggle for him?" I kinda had to paraphrase this one because the actual question was kind of lengthy. I actually kinda explained the answer in my previous chapter. When Justin is advising Gazelle to break her promise to Sonic so that she can have her mind at ease, he says "Sometimes we do the wrong things for the right reasons." and if you think about it for a second, the opposite is also true. We can sometimes do the right things for the wrong reasons. Imagine that for a second that a new guy came to your school and he seemed pretty lonely, so you would want to befriend him so that he can feel welcome. (Right thing for the right reason.) but when you find out that his family is rich, your motives kind of start to change. Now you're motive is like "Hey, now that i know this guy, I can start trying to buy his trust and maybe, just maybe, he could also let me in on some of his wealth." That is obviously a selfish and greedy reason so you go from doing the right thing for the right reason to doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Hope this answers your question Chimi.
Ok, since I didn't really have too too many reviews, I'll just answer questions that some of you have been wondering in general, but haven't had the time to send it in.
Are you planning on doing a sequel? Well, the short answer. Yes, yes I am. I'm actually planning on making this a trilogy of stories. (At least a trilogy, it'll also depend on how popular it gets.) The sequel will be definitely more Mobius centered than the last one (as the main world in LITO is Zootopia) and it's basically going to be me messing around with the idea from Project Sonic. (Project Sonic is owned by SEGA, not me.) So if none of you have seen the trailer or heard about it yet, Project Sonic is the latest Sonic game announced that is coming out around winter of 2017. The trailer itself explains the story pretty well as Sonic is trying to destroy Eggman's robots that have taken over the world and it is now in this apocalyptic setting. After the trailer, the phrase "Join the Resistance" shows. I would highly recommend you watching the trailer for Project Sonic on Youtube to get a better grasp of it. After watching the trailer, I was like "Hey, this is great. I could totally do something with this. It will be exciting, there's amazing potential for this game. I can't wait to do it!" As for the title, I'm kind of debating between "The Resistance," "The Project," and "When Everything Falls Apart." I'm leaning more towards The Project, but you guys send in a review telling me what you think.
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What do you have in store for LITO? Well, it's almost impossible to answer that without spoiling it too much, but I will say that my next three chapters are going to be focusing on Judy and Silver as they try to tackle down the Sucrose company. This will be an exciting chapter because it will be exciting for fans to see how Judy approaches her love for Silver. We all know what Silver thinks about the relationship, but I haven't discussed what Judy's feeling about this yet. I also can tell you that the next chapter will take place in Bunnyborrow (Judy's hometown) and big changes will be coming to the town because of Judy's success. The rest, you're going to have to wait for yourself.
Why isn't this a JuNick story? Alright, alright, don't throw the pitchforks yet. I was initially going to have this story be Judy and Nick gaining a stronger friendship, but what got me going on shipping Judy with a Mobian is when I started Chapter 6 when Tails calls the meeting with Sonic's friends. What was going through my mind was, "Wait, Sonic's already with Gazelle and there are far too many JuNick stories (despite how good they are) so it'd be cool to ship Judy with a Mobian for fun." I thought about it come more and when I realized that Silver is being sorely underused in both Sonic games and fanfics, I realized that shipping Silver with Judy might be a great idea. Both are really empathetic, they are both really passionate about making sure the right thing is done, and also (unlike Nick) Silver is pretty honest and open about most things. Sometimes he says things in ways that would make people take him the wrong way, but he does his best to be honest without offending anyone. (Observe, Part 1 of my Flipside Chapters when Silver responds to Judy asking him about his feelings for her. He knows Judy wants an answer, but he doesn't really want to say anything yet so he just says it plain and simple.) He's a real champ in my book, but don't worry HoppsWilde people, Judy and Nick will still maintain their friendship.
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So, why is Gazelle not as honest and open about her feelings towards Sonic?
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To show what real LITO (Love In The Open) is all about. The reason why I'm having Judy and Silver's stories antelope (it's interlope, but come on, the pun was pretty good) with Sonic and Gazelle's story is to set up a stark contrast about their relationships. For example, Sonic and Gazelle know they have feelings for each other, but each one has kept the feelings to themselves afraid of the fact about how the circumstances are going to work; Judy and Silver on the other hand are pretty honest and open about how their relationship is going to work and Judy does the right thing by first, apologizing to Silver about the way she treated him, two, explaining to Nick how she's feeling about Silver, and third, asking Silver about his love life without being too abrupt. Also, (this might be heading into spoiler territory) Gazelle breaks her promise to Sonic with the intention of trying to ease her guilty mind but feels even more terrible; but as we'll see with Silver, he tells Judy about what happened between him and Blaze he actually notices the hurt in his mind decrease as Judy "heals" him if you will. Judy and Silver are Love In The Open, they are the personification of what it takes to truly make not just a relationship, but even a true friendship work. In case you're wondering both relationships in this story will end well. Sonic and Gazelle will have an even stronger relationship in The Project (Yes, I'm now confirming that's what it will be called.) not exactly like Judy and Silver's but it will becomes really solid.
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Ok, final question
What are your opinions on a Zootopia sequel (the movie, not the fanfic) Oh YES PLEASE! I really loved the first Zootopia and I can't wait to see where Judy and Nick are going with all of this. Should they be shipped or should they remain friends? Either one would be cool. I really do think Gazelle deserves a larger role in the story especially after how well Shakira just aced the character. I really came to love both Gazelle and Shakira after Zootopia (despite that the latter has recently released two new songs I can't understand because they are in Spanish.) She definitely deserves credit for her work with the UN and what she represents when it comes to trying to give children better education and how she stands against human trafficking and also her work with UNICEF. Enough of that rambling, Gazelle's lack of involvement in Zootopia is what inspired me to give her a bigger role in #LITO. I figured that since not everybody sees Sonic and Gazelle as the perfect match, I decided to debunk them by having them together because Gazelle would be that type (in my eyes) that would help someone in need and also would want to get to know them better and also like I said in LITO over and over, the two are pretty similar when you take a close look.
Well, that's it for this Q&A Chapter. I really look forward to seeing your reviews for the next Q&A chapters.
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Special shoutouts to my followers: Chimichangar, Andrea and Naturberd, DarkUmbreon15, Nintendo-Marvel64, Readerfever, SONAZEFAN15, beautiful ashlynn ketchum, commander64 and wise70.
Also, the songs that I used in this Fanfic and the Q&A section are NOT mine, they belong to their respected owners. Any unowned content is used for entertainment and educational use only. If you want to search any of the songs I used in this Fanfiction story on Youtube for a good listen, that is a great idea. Zootopia belongs to Disney, Sonic characters belong to SEGA. This story and my ideas are mine though, so please private message me if you want to use my ideas first. Or in general, if you have any ideas for my story, private message or send a review.
That's it for this. Next chapter coming soon. Bye.