The White Dino Chronicles.
"Many millennia have passed since the ending of the Speckles Project. Gareth and his Inner-Dinosaur have much to discuss..."
My origin story…not as romantic and you may think! - White Dino (A God.)
In spite of everything…I still don't consider myself a FanFiction writer! - Gareth (A Vessel.)
You know what…I might just leave the bloody planet until these two shut it! Speckles (A Tarbosaurus.)
"YOU TWERP!" Yelled Gareth. "Look, I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself." Replied White Dino. "We agreed back at the start, that I wasn't going to be this all-knowing, booming-voice kind of God. Therefore, I don't take things too seriously." "Granted." Spoke Gareth. "But on this occasion it might have helped!"
"Basically dear readers, after writing so many dinosaur stories, we thought it might actually be time to go to Dino School and, I don't know, learn some things about them! So we enrolled. And initially it went really well." "Yes." White Dino replied. "First we went up to the desk and asked to join. And they asked what was our interest in the dinosaurs? I replied…simple. I'm the Lord of all the Dinosaurs!"
"And that got us in." Said Gareth. "But then came the ENTRANCE EXAM. And the first question should have been really easy, but the White Dino is who he is."
The Question: What was the greatest existential threat facing the dinosaurs at the end to the cretaceous period?
"And what did you answer Mr. WD?" "I can't, it's too embarrassing." Spoke a very shame-faced Dino God! "Very well, I shall tell them." Gareth Replied.
The Answer: How did they open their Ketchup Packets with those silly little arms of theirs?
"And we found ourselves back out on the bloody street again!" Yelled Gareth. "So NO, we still don't know anything about dinosaurs!" "I beg to differ." Said White Dino. "We know one thing."
"Which is…?" Asked Gareth. "Don't EVER sing to them! Our writing room was a mess for weeks afterwards! But the Speckles-shaped hole was kinda cool for a while!" "Literally, our room was a damned inferno throughout July. Me and my vessel are not summer dinos!" Stated White Dino.
White Dino's Origin Story.
I know. A while back I went to great lengths to explain how White Dino came to be in Ultimate Interview. But here is the less ethereal version. When a teaser trailer for another Speckles movie started to form in my mind it simply went like this…
"Speckles explains events of first two movies…Unknown character leans over dead Blue-Eyes and whispers something…Blue-Eyes comes back to life…Screen cuts to Speckles 3- The Return of Blue-Eyes…Text changes to #WhoIsTheWhiteDino."
And that's it. The first time I ever saw my FanFiction name was part of a social media campaign to promote the movie. Had I known there was a White Dino Ranger, who knows what I would have named my alter-ego? Thank God I didn't use PEACH THE AUTHOR! Already taken!
Any Regrets?
Apart from not getting into Dino School and possessing only rudimentary typing skills (I only type with two fingers for goodness sake!). My only real regrets are the raw and messy state my stories were in at the point of uploading, and one other. How many times did I state, swear or promise I was finished only to keep coming back with new content? It seemed to be a part of the process.
"Indeed." Spoke White Dino. "If we had shown you all you were going to do back at the start you would have had an even bigger meltdown than any of the others!"
"That's the interesting thing. On August 31st 2020 I basically vowed to myself to be done with it all. No more obsessing over the Speckles movies. No more mourning for Blue-Eyes. No more thinking about another Speckles movie. DONE!" "And on September 1st 2020, you brought me into this world when you started writing "The Asteroid" chapter! And you've been writing ever since." Said White Dino.
"I'm always doing the opposite of what I say." Replied Gareth. "Part of the oddness of our relationship is we never really know what we are going to do or say next! I know it sounds a bit batty FanFiction readers, but I'm just one person doing all this."
"But your inner-voice, White Dino, is totally independent. We can argue, discuss and even bounce ideas off each other! It's the same with Time's Arbiter, Speckles, Blue-Eyes and Junior. Gareth took on this Dino God role so completely, we all live in his mind as separate personalities."
Any More Interviews?
Err, no. My ability to write the interviews fizzled out after five of them! It's actually quite hard to type in that "My turn, your turn, my turn, your turn" format. I tend to cringe now when I read "Another Final Interview" because at the time…it was honestly supposed be the end of it all!
"Yes, we poured out all our emotions in that particular interview." Said White Dino. "And we lasted about a week before posting in the review section!" "It is now over two years and two months since it began for us." Said Gareth. "And somehow it is still going. I would love to write more Speckles stories for you but it had to end."
"We love Speckles, we really do." Said White Dino. "But if you love something, eventually you have to let go of it…or you end up hating each other. And that I will not allow."
"Believe me FanFiction. The entirety of our story writing endeavors exist within The Speckles Chronicles and The Birthday Chronicles."
More Revelations To Scare The Kiddies?
Yes. This all took place on a set trajectory. Dino King released in January 2012. It remained unknown to me until we were introduced eight and a half years later during a global pandemic shutdown no less! Lockdown had led me to smoke more then I had done for years. It had to stop. But the nicotine had been suppressing my emotions for too long and they overwhelmed me.
And at the exact point I was ready to release. I just happened across this cool-looking Korean Dinosaur movie. Which I was supposed to watch once and never think of again. The rest I think you know! How could all this simply be coincidence?
I was born to write these stories and you were born to witness them. I like to think now it all comes together. The Speckles stories I wrote, Going After Junior, Blue-Eyes' Death Scene, the other Speckles FanFics, the Dino King movies, all the info you can find on the internet.
They are all pieces of a much larger story. One we are all playing a part in. There are enough building blocks for each and every one of us to form our own Speckles tales. That is why I repeat…
We are ALL Dinosaur Gods now.
Are You Sure You Don't Need Therapy?
I'm fairly certain I'm sane. There isn't a drink, drug or therapy on the planet for what I am. Those 15 or so months of lockdown were some of the clearest I have ever been. It is how I was able to dig so deep inside of myself and bring these stories out. Only when we tried to go back to normal did I start to collapse again. And of course, those monster colds started to spread. So I was happy to stay hidden a little longer, to continue the Speckles Project until it was really finished!
I'm not actually that difficult to figure out. I define myself as…
"A schizophrenic with a God Complex, Mensa-levels of OCD and Hyper-Anxiety issues."
Basically I'm just a product of the modern times - The White Dino.
Alternative Versions.
Before the asteroid, Speckles 3 had a very different direction. The Great Dino Battle still took place, but rather than all the Velociraptors versus all the other dinos, it was one great free-for-all. But in this version Junior took part in the battle…and in fact DIED by it. He was skewered by a Therazinosaurus in much the same way as Patch's child was during the events of Tarbosaurus The Mightiest Ever!
Yes, I am aware of the existence of Patch!
Afterwards, the White Dino comes to Speckles and Blue-Eyes after The Void Between. And they say "What the hell? You reunited us but we have lost our son. We have no future."
The white Dino would say "You have done well, but the sacrifice was never your son, it was always going to be me." And at that point a mist descends and White Dino walks into it and vanishes, then Junior comes walking out of it alive. There is much hugging and crying and celebrating. And then it cuts straight to The End.
There was even going to be a memorial for Fang, Kang and White Dino. But it felt a bit too human for dinosaurs to be doing! Long Walk Home also didn't include my speech about "we all live in boxes". Which led me to write Boxing Humanity and so forth.
It was very important to me that White Dino died at the end of Speckles 3. Having him ascend to heaven on a cloud and a rainbow with everyone roaring and waving goodbye just wasn't my style!
And lastly, Kang. The part I struggled the most during writing, was how to turn Speckles and Blue-Eyes so completely against each other? I had some vague notion that Blue-Eyes would seek out Speckles after twenty years, see him with Fang, go mad and kill her. Then Speckles would seek out Blue-Eyes and berate her terribly! But it wasn't enough so…
I pulled Kang out of thin air and said great. Speckles and Blue-Eyes both have partners. They are going to kill each other's partners. That was that!
Something I've wanted to say forever…Sorry Fang fans!
Anything Else Before I Bore Us Into A Coma!
I was at a crossroads on September 2020. The ultimate reason I wrote Speckles 3 was because the whole thing kept playing on a loop in my mind. I could literally feel my brain eating itself trying to remember everything. There seemed no other way forward but to type. Seriously, what would you have done...?
As always there will be more in the future.
Goodbye for now. Gareth and The White Dino.