Author's notes
Hello! This is Lil' Dilly here with a midbreak! The next chapter to HIFC will be out within the next week, I promise! But first, a few notes and explanations of HIFC, including the family lineups.
First off, I tried to make the children more realistic and appealing. It seems that in all the Next Generation gundam wing fics, the children are all are wild, rambunctious, and getting into trouble. While I haven't gone much into alot of the children's personalities, I tried to deviate from that particular brand of illustration. Matt, for example, is one whom you'd expect to be calm, quiet, and nice, considering his father. I added an ironic twist by modeling him after Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes - A wild, off-the-wall little boy who looks at the means, and never the end. And by doing that I successfully subdued little Duo's personality by making him a bit more calmer than one would have guessed from Duo and Hilde's son. Zack is a calm, quiet little boy as well.
Aki Yuy and her family are the main part of Hell Is For Children and they will continue to be when HIFC develops into my AC 217 arc, in which the pilot's children are all grown up. We haven't explored Aki's personality much and because of her father's death she is an enraged and saddened little girl. As the story continues we will get a glimpse of her personality before her father's death, as well as more exploration into why the family is falling apart. Kotaro, Aki's older brother, has a bit more of Relena's personality in him - A good speaker and a rational thinker. Ryosuke is mostly like Heero, having lived with his father's influence for so long - He's calm, quiet, and an observer who's not much for words.
Daniel, whom you've only got a glimpse of but as you will come to see in future chapters, is the mixed-message boy. The one who will be in the back of the group when you're about to sneak out of the house at 11 PM and whisper, 'Guys! We can't go out now! It's 11 at night!...We better wait 'til 12, so that way everyone's DEAD asleep.' He's a very sweet little boy who enjoys being around his friends.
Yin Mei Chang, at 9, is the oldest child and 'Xiailin' (female inheritor, traditionally married off to the leader of another clan) of the Dragon Clan and was named after Mei Lan. She's got a matured personality and is very dedicated to her studies and to her martial arts. Her seriousness counteracts her younger sister Mu Lan's ditziness and careless, cheerful disposition. And in turn Mu Lan's ditziness in turn counters her twin brother Leun's calm placidness, which attributes to their fighting skills with each other.
Arianna Peacecraft is a bit of a brat, with a very gung-ho attitude. You say black, she will say white. She has a very sharp tounge and clever wit like her mother, but her looks are attributed to her father's side. And in turn Dominic Peacecraft is a bit more calmer, not quite placid but not outgoing either. He attributes most of his looks to his mother.
Every fic I also looked at has had all of the children with strictly American - And common - names: Kate, Justin, Mark, Stephen, etc. I wanted to bring out the children's cultural background by giving them names that were appropriate to their heritage - Heero and Relena's children were given Japanese names, and Wufei and Sally's children were given Chinese names. Zack is a name that is German in origin, and Arianna is an Italian name. Quatre's son is named Daniel because we opened a book and found the first name that fit him.
I also varied the ages, considering how all of the children in the other fics are all one age. Mulan is five, and Daniel has just turned six, and Matt is six as well, along with Duo. Zack is two years old. Aki is four and her brother Kotaro is seven, and Ryosuke is 10. Yin Mei is 9, as are Arianna and Dominic. By making the children's ages close but not that close, it allowed them to have bonds with each other and yet at the same time be different in some way from each other. And using the children as a medium alot of different discussions can come upon themselves as well, such as religion and ways of life, which will become a big issue as the Yuy children's views of 'normal' will have to change, because of the country they are moving to. What is normal for their cousins are frightening and scary to them, and I hope that I am able to write well enough to show the conflicting emotions on both sides of the move, as well as from the other children and parents after seeing the children of two people who disappeared ten years ago.
On that subject, it's very cliche for Heero and Relena to just run off together, and I'm trying to divert from that by making it different than most others. Future chapters will show what they went through to get to where the children are now, and that they weren't always so friendly towards the idea about a family so early in life. But for now, enjoy the new chapter, coming soon.
^_^ I hope this cleared up a few things, like what I'm trying to accomplish through this story. Ja ne!
-Little Dylan
Hello! This is Lil' Dilly here with a midbreak! The next chapter to HIFC will be out within the next week, I promise! But first, a few notes and explanations of HIFC, including the family lineups.
First off, I tried to make the children more realistic and appealing. It seems that in all the Next Generation gundam wing fics, the children are all are wild, rambunctious, and getting into trouble. While I haven't gone much into alot of the children's personalities, I tried to deviate from that particular brand of illustration. Matt, for example, is one whom you'd expect to be calm, quiet, and nice, considering his father. I added an ironic twist by modeling him after Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes - A wild, off-the-wall little boy who looks at the means, and never the end. And by doing that I successfully subdued little Duo's personality by making him a bit more calmer than one would have guessed from Duo and Hilde's son. Zack is a calm, quiet little boy as well.
Aki Yuy and her family are the main part of Hell Is For Children and they will continue to be when HIFC develops into my AC 217 arc, in which the pilot's children are all grown up. We haven't explored Aki's personality much and because of her father's death she is an enraged and saddened little girl. As the story continues we will get a glimpse of her personality before her father's death, as well as more exploration into why the family is falling apart. Kotaro, Aki's older brother, has a bit more of Relena's personality in him - A good speaker and a rational thinker. Ryosuke is mostly like Heero, having lived with his father's influence for so long - He's calm, quiet, and an observer who's not much for words.
Daniel, whom you've only got a glimpse of but as you will come to see in future chapters, is the mixed-message boy. The one who will be in the back of the group when you're about to sneak out of the house at 11 PM and whisper, 'Guys! We can't go out now! It's 11 at night!...We better wait 'til 12, so that way everyone's DEAD asleep.' He's a very sweet little boy who enjoys being around his friends.
Yin Mei Chang, at 9, is the oldest child and 'Xiailin' (female inheritor, traditionally married off to the leader of another clan) of the Dragon Clan and was named after Mei Lan. She's got a matured personality and is very dedicated to her studies and to her martial arts. Her seriousness counteracts her younger sister Mu Lan's ditziness and careless, cheerful disposition. And in turn Mu Lan's ditziness in turn counters her twin brother Leun's calm placidness, which attributes to their fighting skills with each other.
Arianna Peacecraft is a bit of a brat, with a very gung-ho attitude. You say black, she will say white. She has a very sharp tounge and clever wit like her mother, but her looks are attributed to her father's side. And in turn Dominic Peacecraft is a bit more calmer, not quite placid but not outgoing either. He attributes most of his looks to his mother.
Every fic I also looked at has had all of the children with strictly American - And common - names: Kate, Justin, Mark, Stephen, etc. I wanted to bring out the children's cultural background by giving them names that were appropriate to their heritage - Heero and Relena's children were given Japanese names, and Wufei and Sally's children were given Chinese names. Zack is a name that is German in origin, and Arianna is an Italian name. Quatre's son is named Daniel because we opened a book and found the first name that fit him.
I also varied the ages, considering how all of the children in the other fics are all one age. Mulan is five, and Daniel has just turned six, and Matt is six as well, along with Duo. Zack is two years old. Aki is four and her brother Kotaro is seven, and Ryosuke is 10. Yin Mei is 9, as are Arianna and Dominic. By making the children's ages close but not that close, it allowed them to have bonds with each other and yet at the same time be different in some way from each other. And using the children as a medium alot of different discussions can come upon themselves as well, such as religion and ways of life, which will become a big issue as the Yuy children's views of 'normal' will have to change, because of the country they are moving to. What is normal for their cousins are frightening and scary to them, and I hope that I am able to write well enough to show the conflicting emotions on both sides of the move, as well as from the other children and parents after seeing the children of two people who disappeared ten years ago.
On that subject, it's very cliche for Heero and Relena to just run off together, and I'm trying to divert from that by making it different than most others. Future chapters will show what they went through to get to where the children are now, and that they weren't always so friendly towards the idea about a family so early in life. But for now, enjoy the new chapter, coming soon.
^_^ I hope this cleared up a few things, like what I'm trying to accomplish through this story. Ja ne!
-Little Dylan