![]() Author has written 8 stories for Xenoblade Chronicles X, Campione!/カンピオーネ!, High School DxD/ハイスクールD×D, Warhammer, Pokémon, Fate/stay night, and Anime X-overs. Hmm...What to write...Meh, we'll go with standard details then. Hello there! My name is Classic Mecraphone! Not my real name, unfortunately. Although Olaf Roboheart also has a nice ring to it...I digress. Badly. So anyway, I'm a college student studying to be a Civil Engineer (considering how bad I am at math, this might be an awful life choice) that writes mainly for fun. Other hobbies include reading (duh), exercising, hanging out with friends, video games, anime, playing with animals and making sarcastic remarks. When writing I only follow one rule. Don't write the story you want to write, write the story you wish someone else would write Things I look for when reading a fic : At the risk of stating the obvious, basic grammar. I don't need perfect spelling and flowery adjectives to be entertained, also misspelling stuff like 'is', 'what' and mixing up 'they're' and 'there' aren't deal-breakers for me. EVERYONE makes those kinds of boo-boo's, myself most definitely included. : Lots of conversations between characters. A lot of fics that have interesting ideas or storylines but explain everything through 3rd person omniscience and not the characters mouths really hurts my enjoyment. : Stuff that heavily diverges from canon. Not necessarily abandoning everything and completely re-writing the whole mythos, but more like using it as the occasional crutch or jumping off point. Use the universe and characters, don't just follow it verbatim. : A good romance, harem or otherwise. A rather obvious thing really, but this really is a point of contention for me. I've got nothing against 2 characters seeing each other for the first time and immediately porking each other's brains out, but just that act alone does not a relationship make, something I've noticed a decent amount of fics do. They buildup interaction but once sex has been achieved, the whole deal just kinda stops developing. : A bit of sarcastic humor. This is totally my own preference, and one I bet a decent number of people would disagree with, but a few snarky assholes go a long way in making me like the story. Nothing makes me less inclined to like a character if they only act as 'unceasingly kind and loving gary/mary-stue' and nothing else. ...I take that back, I would even love an 'unceasingly kind and loving gary/mary-stue who's also kind of a schmuck about it all'. : OC's. Sure, alot of people hate them if the popularity of most OC centered fics is any indicator, and I've definitely seen some bizarrely awful originals that made me drop a fic in just a few sentences, but if there's one thing that draws my immediate attention, it's a completely original character. Things that make me drop a fic faster than a hot potato covered in spiders (usually) : A story that is based around the canon pairing. It's like, dude...it's been done already. In all seriousness though I don't immediately discount a story just because of this one factor (I'd miss out on way too much good stuff) but I read fan fics because it's an opportunity to do something different. : Extreme OOC (out of character) stories that completely change everything about a character whether it be appearance, backstory, personality, powers...and refuse to call them OC's. It's a petty gripe of mine, I know, but c'mon. Just man up and admit you made your own new character XD : Really long fight scenes. Ok this is kind of a weird one, but accurately bringing to life the intensity of a battle in writing is difficult, and the longer said fight drags on, the more apparent this becomes. A fight should either be short and sweet, or have several layers to it due to different powers conflicting so that the 'phases' can remain 'separate' from each other, not blending together in one blob of sound effects and descriptors of how you can punch someone. Since I just did an awful job of explaining that, let me use an example. Take the DBZ Goku vs Frieza fight. You can argue whether you like it or not, think it's boring or not, but you can't deny that the act of seeing and hearing the actual combat is what makes the thing tick (It sure ain't the dialogue, which mostly consists of GGGGGHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA). Now, take that entire fight, all the episodes and everything, and try to translate it into words. Good luck with that. Ideas that I'll probably never get to do because time is limited and we'll all die at some point in the future wow that's depressing Evangelion: Steel and Skin: So the beginning of this particular plot bunny came about after I realized that guns were, on the whole, largely ineffective throughout the entirety of the show. And then the thought of, 'hey, what if the military wasn't mostly useless?' as well as, 'what if all seven EVA units actually got to work together?' Thus, Steel and Skin was born. The plot is the same, the characters are the same...the story and the way it plays out isn't. Because this time the Angels brought back up. The Seraphims: the Angels we're all familiar with (Ramiel, Zeruel, etc). The Cherubims: Angels slightly less powerful than Seraphims but still capable of engaging an EVA on somewhat equal terms The Thrones: Just as powerful as Cherubims but have a far more chaotic AT field, making them susceptible to more conventional barrages of physical weaponry. The Dominions: More along the line of Grunts or basic foot soldiers, they often attack in groups as they don't have either an AT field or physical makeup powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with EVAs. The Principalities: Odd, Human sized Angels that are rare sights but seem to perform odd tasks beyond, 'kill all Humans'. They have been seen capturing the occasional Human or stealing odd bits of modern civilization, behaviors both NERV and the world at large are unable to explain. So yeah. Seraphims are the boss monsters while the rest keep Humanity on it's toes, the Evas and military often working in conjunction to take down groups of Angels. Ideally, the story starts off after Angel attacks around the globe stop, instead focusing all their efforts on NERV headquarters and Tokyo-3, prompting a mass transportation of Evas and their accompanying battle groups to that location. Cue drama and action all in one glorious mess! |
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