Hi everyone!

If you're at all curious what motivates my stories, I'll explain below. If not, no worries.

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TM

My fanfiction posted here.

The Eternal Fleet: Where to start? I've loved the rich storytelling of anime since I got addicted in college (many, many moons ago), and the game Kantai Collection is a curiosity. I have no interest in the gameplay as such, but the developers' detail into the rich history of WWII warships from the IJN perspective is endlessly fascinating. I'm a naval history buff (if you couldn't tell from my profile photo of the Foremast of the USS Massachusetts from my visit there), and as soon as I saw that the tragic tale of the Shigure and her ill fated compatriots from the disastrous Nishimura fleet in the WWII battle of Leyte gulf was encased in the storyline, I was hooked! I noticed that the poor Fusou sisters were badly neglected in the fandom, and I felt that the heart of my story would be about Fusou, Yamashiro, and Shigure's redemption in the Abyssal wars. I could only find one other story about a romance between the pretty but self-doubting Fusou battleship and the Admiral, so I felt comfortable carving out my own tale. I love ensemble shows (Star Trek at its best was excellent at that style), and there are nearly limitless casting choices. I am pleased that my story has evolved organically in part to some great suggestions from its fans. I've had a lot of fun with this story.

The Cobalt Mirror: I have to say it; Ramiel is the most badass angel ever! (Apologies to Kaworu and his fans.) I've loved the original Neon Genesis Evangelion at first sight, and its intricate and dense plot had me mesmerized. It was deeply unsettling in a way I hadn't seen in other shows (anime or otherwise). I'm not as enamored of End of Evengelion and Rebuild as both focused on over the top action at the expense of characterization (I admit it is difficult to deeply explore characters and their flaws as effectively in movies as opposed to a TV series). Despite my reservations, I thought the new version of the shapeshifting octohedron Ramiel was too cool for words. My story hook was to retell Evangelion with Shinji and company acting out initially as they did in the TV series, but then an abrupt U-turn occurs as Ramiel's defection to NERV's side changed everything. I knew I wasn't going to retell the story of Shinji getting romantically involved with either Rei or Asuka as that path has been well trod by far more talented storytellers than me. I'm happy so far with the way that the story of Ikari and his half-angel admirer has developed.

Yin and Yang: I've been following the development of Yandere Simulator from its crudest concept stages, and I have to say Yandere Dev is supremely talented at creating a game that has an irresistible appeal; to feature a villain protagonist who can develop into a serial killer or fight her dark fate with all her being. Its all up to the player to decide. Its such a unique concept, that I was compelled to figure out an unexpected way to tell a story in the tragic world of Akademi High School. It hit me in an instant; tell the story from the POV of an insignificant background character. Although Ayano Aishi is the star, the annoying and amusing Midori Gurin made a perfect viewpoint character and foil. I decided that the default path for Ayano to win her senpai was to employ any cruel, heartless, and deadly means available to her as taught by her own yandere mother. But how would her story trajectory skew in unexpected ways if she unintentionally recruits a humanizing and sweet ally like Midori?

The Crimson Thread: Say what you will or how much of an irredeemable jerk Makato Itou is, but School Days sure knows how to wrench maximum drama out of its storytelling. No matter what path you chart in the original VN, someone is going to end up crying in the corner (assuming someone isn't whacked first!) The more I see of its its development company Overflow in action, the less it looks like a world of teenage drama, romance, and hearkbreak, and the more it resembles a horror story! Makoto comes from a really large, totally screwed up extended family tree is so inbred that two of his love interests in the first Visual Novel are his blood relations! Also Makoto in the VN and especially the anime has a tendency to be a pretty shallow and unlikable protagonist who cheats on his girlfriends at the drop of a hat. My story came from a simple question: how to keep Makoto faithful to one person? The answer is that he had visions of all the other bad routes in his story blurring into his own life as nightmares as a warning. It came out better than I thought, but Makoto is still a jerk!

I also write original fiction cross posted on FictionPress.

The Golden Paradox: Thumbnail description-Wakahisa Hiroshi was an ordinary boy living an dreary life in a tiny town on the coast of Japan in the winter of 1944. Everything changed when an allied air raid leveled his home and destroyed his family. Now can a reborn young man lead an interstellar resistance movement against a implacable, inhuman foe 4000 years in the future?

I posted this story in the Sci-Fi section. I wrote it as the convergence of a number of my favorite Science fiction shows: Blake's 7 (a misfit crew commanders a truly astonishingly cool starship to take on an evil foe), Dr. Who/Quantum Leap (time travel wherever Hiroshi can do the most good), Andromeda (Hiroshi tries to rebuild galactic civilization in a wasteland galaxy ravaged by bitter infighting and hordes of inhuman invaders), Blade Runner (a dystopian future where clones are treated as expendable slaves), and Isaac Asimov's I Robot series (robots with an evolving sense of morality, yet still protective of humans). The Golden Paradox is a love letter to Science Fiction; my favorite genre of literature and media.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3327626/1/The-Golden-Paradox

Sidereal Storm: Thumbnail description-Yeah I know all about the cliche of being trapped in a space opera anime; I'm a hardcore anime otaku after all. I'm Seki Michio, and I'm still trying to make sense of what happened. And if you think its the coolest thing ever is being a swashbuckling playboy prince; let me clue you in...it ain't fun if you're a dateless computer nerd from Osaka making life or death decisions.

I posted this story in the Sci-Fi section as well. I am a sucker for stories where some random shlub gets forced to impersonate somebody famous and eternally cooler than they are. Imagine to his shock that anime fanatic Seki Michio finds himself trapped in the very anime that he has obsessed over for years, only to find out living out his idol's life comes with a much higher price tag than he envisioned. It sounds fun to live on a spaceship, command loyal minions, and have the attention of multiple partners, but when your whims determines the lives of an entire stellar empire, and you see your enemies as humans rather than statistics; suddenly it isn't such a blast.

My original inspiration for this character actually came from Akira Kurosawa's Kagamusha; it was a story of a fatally wounded feudal warlord picking out a nobody thief to serve as his stand in to trick his enemies into thinking he was still living. The doppelganger thief is worthless as himself, yet is revered when others think of him as the warlord.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3338516/1/Sidereal-Storm