The title Be Careful What You Wish Forwas not the original title. I didn't have one. The whole story was an idea revolved around the saying "Be Careful What You Wish For". But at the time of me writing this, I didn't have any title I liked So I just used it as a place holder name. After a while, I found that I actually really liked the title and kept it.
There was supposed to be a song placed in here because it fit my original story line so well(so well it's scary) and I was gonna have it as a prophecy, but I changed it because of how Natsu had little to no real emotions. (also, Hearing it now, it was just kinda dumb. Seriously, what was I thinking? XD) The song was Hero of Our Time by NateWantsToBattle(yes it is a Legend of Zelda Song, but I didn't know that when I had first heard the song because I heard it from Amazon Music before it was taken off). I decided against it and went a different path. I had my story idea for a while and when I found this, I found that this song was scaring close to how my original plot was suppose to go. Here, I'll put the song here: watch?v=AbtZoTr0eMc
Another thing I cut was that Natsu was suppose to play the violin. This one made more sense if I kept the song in the plot. XD Basically, Natsu got the violin from Taku or some wandering travelers and because he lived in the woods alone, he had plenty of time to practice. I know that at the time of me writing that plot idea, it was because I was low on plot points. This was just an idea I had saved and didn't use. (Why did I think that was a good idea? I don't know)
I was supposed to have another original character. She was a Siren. She would have lived in the Lake were Natsu lived. Again, I took her out because she had no real purpose in this story but to be an added friend to Natsu who was not human.
Agama was supposed to be female and Kashi wasn't an actual character. I added her for some extra drama.
Clover was an added character. I didn't plan for her to be in here, but I needed a reason for them to go to the monster Village and I wanted someone there to be nice. I don't regret adding her. I also added her because I took out the Siren girl.
Carys was supposed to be able to shapeshift to a human(Reason she can talk to them). Her original Back story was that she was a human that was cursed. That's why people could understand her. I changed that where she was an elemental Phoenix where anyone can understand a phoenix if they could do magic and had that element. However, she can do all kinds of magic, so anyone can understand her.
I didn't originally plan to do a backstory where Gray had that dream. At the time of writing that I had minor Writers block and was still trying to figure out how the story would go along so I made a four part filler chapter. I wanted to update once a month at that time so I started to work on a filler and that added to my stories lore. Even with it not originally planned, I still like how that past turned out. And I hope you guys were able to figure out who was in Gray's past. I had to put Zeref in here as a cameo and if any of you saw that, You are awesome. I love him so much and had to have him in here. (plus, who's to say he wasn't there to look after his younger brother.)
I wasn't planning for Gray to hear voices. That just went in when I had motivation to write that chapter and I liked it to the point that that I kept it.
I decided to leave Natsu with just the darker emotions a human has. Originally he had more emotion and understanding of emotions. He was overly happy and hid away any sadness he carried from being isolated from others for so long. Now, he has less emotions, more anger and little to no understanding of human emotions. Did I take a more darker route with that? Maybe? Do I regret it? Not really? Do I miss my original plot character? No. Why not? He was shown in Out of the Woods. That personality and energy that was pretty much a complete 180, was the original personality.
How he died pretty much stayed the same, however, I relied more on Gray's magic than a magic agility I was gonna have Natsu have that he Learned from Carys. I may use it in a different story if it comes around, but otherwise... It just didn't work for my story anymore once I had changed a plot point. Basically, Natsu's magic is Dragon Slayer magic right? And he learned that magic from a dragon. So, if he continued to learn from a phoenix, he would gave different abilities. One of these was called Dragon Soul(Carys can teach any kind of magic). This was a really powerful and dangerous spell. Much like Gray's Ice Shell, where it channels the user's body into the form of ice, destroying their body in the process(he would still be alive but in the form of ice.) Natsu would take a similar stance to the Ice Shell, however, he would take his arms from the "X" position and bring them to his body, still keeping them crossed. In my original idea, he wasn't connected like he was to her. All that happened was that he was turned to a demon and trapped there. He originally needed to kill her, and that part stays the same, however, he physically connected them together through that spell. He couldn't use his magic much outside of the territory because his life force was connected to his magic. He and the others were being tracked down by Akumu and were later attacked. Natsu uses the Dragon Soul spell and connects his spirit with Akumu. Now, whatever happens to her, happens to him and vise versa. Because of him being drained from that spell, he falls. While he is laying there on the ground, Lucy and Happy go by his side to make sure he is okay, while Gray and Erza do what they can to keep Akumu at a distance. Natsu looks at the others and gives a smile to them. He looks at Lucy and tells her Thank you. He then proceeds to take his own life which in doing so, killed Akumu. Lucy, Gray, Erza and Happy get sent back to their world and the last chapter was pretty much the same.
Posted: 11/18/2020