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What you are about to read, as the title for this installment suggests, are ideas that got started but never found a place in the tangents already posted. If you don't feel like going through snippets of unpolished work and multiple author's notes, please go ahead to the last tangent. To those who want to take a look, feedback is always appreciated.
1 - Origins of a Neat Freak
This was the first outtake ever planned, but I could never be satisfied with it. This is one of at least three versions. I just couldn't make it funny enough for some reason.
"I will do everything in my power to make that day come to pass." She blushed again, and Lelouch wondered if women did this often.
"And I, my lord, shall wait for that day."
Thus their pact was sealed.
He was about to rise when lightning struck dangerously close to their location. The flash blinded him, making him release her hand to cover his eyes. When he opened them again, however, he was alone.
"Kallen?"
He stood, blinking, and not quite believing his new friend would just vanish into thin air.
"Kallen?"
A little louder this time. He strained his ears, trying to listen to any sound that wasn't the rain or thunder.
"Kallen!"
He leapt out of his hiding place, and saw that the door was partly open. Heart pounding loudly in his chest, he ran in that direction. She couldn't have gone fa-
Pain.
Once he gathered his senses, he quickly identified its cause: His legs got tangled in the cape he discarded earlier, and he fell to the floor.
"Ow," he let out as he freed his legs from the piece of clothing and rubbed at his head. With a melancholy sigh, he stood up, and went on to pick up the rest of the clothes he discarded. His mother was right, he really shouldn't leave things lying around.
Nope, can't make it funny at all T_T
2 - Kallen's Date: The Screening
Including this scene would result in a double-flashback, which, I thought, might end up confusing a reader. That's why I decided on scrapping this part off the Prom Night tangent.
"Rivalz Cardemonde," said Lelouch as he clicked on a file to be shown to Ohgi and the other remnants of their old Resistance group. Once the file was opened, he continued.
"He is in the same year as Kallen and I, and is the only other male senior in the Student Council. He and I have been going all around Shinjuku since before the Black Rebellion. He also owns a vehicle, so there should be no problems regarding the availability of public transportation."
(**Lulu thoughts of Kallen getting looks while in a bus/train**)
"A BMC RR-1200, eh," offered Tamaki. "The kid's got taste!"
"But," cut in Ohgi, "Did it have to be a motorbike?"
(** collective groan here **)
(** villetta walks in, intervenes **)
(** Kallen mouths a thank-you **)
The bike's model number is taken from Turn 04, when Lelouch was presenting a lost vehicle report.
3 - Congratulations, it's a boy!
This one was scrapped because it made Kallen's thoughts more difficult to insert. Writing the 'morning after' scene was also more effective when entirely in Kallen's POV.
"Ashford Academy Clubhouse."
"Lelouch?"
"Yes?"
"What are you-? Never mind. Is Kallen there?"
It was Ohgi. "Yes, she's here."
"Good. I'd like to talk to her about something."
From here, the conversation with Kallen happens as it did, and the story progresses as it was posted.
4 - Congratulations, it's a boy! Part Deux
I only thought of this scene one or two days after Past, Present, and Future was posted.
Meanwhile, at the hospital,
"Oh, did I wake you?"
"No, I just woke up," replied Villetta, patting the side of the bed to let her husband sit on it. "Who were you talking to?"
"Kallen. She says she doesn't mind if we named our son after her brother."
"So she made it home safely last night? I could hear the winds even in the delivery room."
"No. I called her house first, but she wasn't there. Her mother said she spent the night in..."
Villetta snatched the phone from her husband's hands as his eyes slowly widened in realization.
5 - Prom Night Pre-Aftermath
This one was discarded because Milly was harder to write than I thought +_+
"Come on out, Milly,"
"Ruin my fun, why don'tcha?"
"Really, President, don't you ever get tired of these games?"
"Don't -you- ever get tired of running away from your heart?"
"Actually, that goes for both of you," Milly continued when it was clear that Lelouch would not be answering, "And don't you dare deny it. I can tell that the kiss you did earlier wasn't for show, yet you two push each other away at any other time. If it's about feeling guilty about Shirley, don't you think she'd be happy if she became the cause for two of her friends to become unhappy?"
...and I got stuck trying to think up what happens next.
6 - What leads from a shot
Referring to the tangent featuring Suzaku, I got the flashback part until the clubhouse part typed down, when I thought that any of the three (Kallen, Lelouch, and Suzaku) could get shot and still get my desired ending. To the posters and lurkers in the BKBQ forums: this was what you voted for.
6a - Lelouch gets shot (if '1' won)
Here, Lelouch sees the gun and pushes Suzaku to the ground
"Look out!"
"Murderer!"
*BANG!*
"Lelouch!"
Kallen leapt after Lelouch as soon as she saw he was about to fall over the railing. It didn't matter if she would be able to pull him back up. All that mattered was that she would reach him.
Her timing was lucky. More than half of her body was already past the railing when her hand finally grasped his; had she been a tiny bit faster, her other hand would not have been able to grab the railing.
She cried out in pain when her right arm felt their combined weight, and closed her eyes tightly. It was a four-storey drop before they hit the first curve of the crater, and it was a full kilometer before a manageable slope can be reached -- if the drop didn't manage to break your legs, that is.
"Let go, Kallen!"
What happens next: Kallen refuses to let go, her hand in the railing slips, Suzaku grabs her in the nick of time, pulls them both up. Lelouch isn't hurt (a-la Turn 01 :p), Kallen's arm is fine. Story ends with Suzaku leaving the lovebirds alone in the nurse's office. Lelouch flashes his mischievous smirk again.
"So it was pink."
I haven't thought as far as inserting the ring thing in this one.
6b - Suzaku gets shot (if '3' won)
AN IMPOSSIBILITY!!! I confess I haven't thought much on the how it would happen. Admittedly, it's especially difficult, with the Geass that Lelouch cast on him and Suzaku's ability to use it to his advantage. If it did win, I was very much willing to challenge myself to write it down.
After a couple of tie-breakers, Kallen getting shot (choice '2') won (aren't I glad it did XD), and was easily the most realistic of the three.
7 - Some other stuff
Here is a list of things originally planned for certain tangents that changed as the writing progressed
7a - In Prince on a White Horse, Gino or Suzaku was set as the original rescuer, but Nina wanted some screen time.
7b - In Truth and Consequence, Diethard was the original Black Knight for the defense, but his absence in canon, as well as his role in The Show Must Go On, made me reconsider that choice.
7c - In An Ending and a Beginning, the 'walk' part was supposed to have been written in detail, but decided to focus on the trial and the interrogation/interview instead. Also, that tangent was inspired by Madder Sky.
7d - In The Power of One, Lelouch was supposed to cry; but writing it down suddenly made it seem so absurd, it was changed to Kallen keeping tabs.
7e - First Contact is a near-ripoff of Kallen's brief encounter with Lelouch in the summer of 2010 as narrated in the light novel Red Tracks. Kallen was outside the train station waiting for Naoto, and they were on their way to move to their new home in Tokyo. The original was in Kallen's POV, so I wrote it in Lelouch's POV to make it a better fit to Full Circle.
~ THAT'S ALL, FOLKS! =D ~