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What can I say? When it comes to TD it has to go full circle. :p
Hehe it is good to be back in the loop. I had my suspicions about ‘mother’ but I don’t think I had made that final link to Touya, though hindsight does reveal a lot. :p Everything is always a puzzle, even the viewpoints of our characters, and what they remember, or in this chapter, what they don’t. Kadoyuki, so desperate and little. He really screwed himself over this time. I suppose when you are hooked on pitch for as long as Touya would have been, it screws you over, if not mentally then physically.
When I heard that Ochi’s mother was a dream reader I wondered what Ochi’s power was but reading that no psychics get the same ability in the blood line I guess I wasn’t sure what to expect, except that it would have to be immense to cause him to go to the depths he does. Kadoyuki admittedly seems like he is worse off than Ochi, but that may be because he has to deal with what goes on in the present.
I wonder, can Touya see his own demise, and is what he sees flexible, or set in stone? So he cannot see the things that happen in the past? Maybe that is why he couldn’t tell if Shouri was alive, until Kadoyuki told him. . . I am assuming Kadoyuki was lying when he said he wasn’t talking about Shouri. That does explain why he was so frustrated at hearing her die. Not because he wanted to mate with her, but because if Nick couldn’t save her, some one with a lesser dosage of Pitch in her, then he couldn’t save Touya, who had a lot more in him. With the revelation that Touya is dying and needs to be weened off Pitch to survive we see a more desperate side to him. I’m still a little confused, he can see the future, but if it is not due to his Malum trait and in fact due to a supernatural trait, then he would be suffering as much as Wipe has due to a reconfiguration of his brain. I guess his Malum trait is what is allowing him to stay ‘sane’.
Could it be that Kadoyuki and Touya are related? If what Kadoyuki said about his family was true, that they live as a psychic blood line in a compound. Then inbreeding would be part of the problem, as Daniel mentioned in prior chapters. But that aside, if Touya’s ability is supernatural then he must have come from a bloodline. Perhaps being Malum is what got him thrown out and left him open to be adopted by Zero. Unless the combination of the two was an intentional trait. Would it be more or less likely that the bastard child Kado’s mother had when they eloped was Touya, and Kadoyuki was the result of a coupling on her return? Far cry there, but just throwing out possibilities. I do wonder if the Father was any one significant. . . Still, if Touya is both Super human and Super natural then he would cop a lot from both sides. Especially as a psychic.
I wonder who it was in Kado’s past that he trusted, and that hurt him. . . How many, and of what import. . . It isn’t too late to save every one. . . Is it too late for Kadoyuki? With Wipe’s new power he seems to have ranked up in danger and usefulness. He is such a loose canon though.
Sachi: So Sachi. . . which was more intense, Ono in the labs or Ayase in the Church?
Kiyoshi: What is the thing you miss most about staying in the dorms at Fukuhashi?
Jo: How many packs do you smoke a day? Oh, and also, How many stitches did you get from that cut any way?
Ayase: Who had the funniest face when you first revealed your bugs to them?
Nick: How badly do you miss T-shirts, and doesn’t it get hot wearing long sleeves all the time?
Miki: What is the longest and most creative expletive you can give us?
Kadoyuki: On a scale of 1 to 10, how embarrassing was the moment you read Sachi’s mind the morning after the lab incident in middle school?
Gah! I was totally expecting the chapter last night, damnit time differences! Oh well. I can’t wait to see the chapter released tonight guys! The series has really ramped up some action since chapter 6 started. Holy hell fire Kadoyuki is stepping it up! Also caught up on the bonus stories from the TD website. ;)
FINALLY, Sachi you sly dog you. I loved that little interruption with how the ‘body’ can’t handle it. Haha. Ayase definitely seems to have dived off the deep end here, unintentionally getting herself more into the mood sitting beside Kiyoshi. >.< Thinking about those things was meant to help you? :p Oh but man that whole Touya situation was creepy! My sympathies in part to the fact that he probably had been hooked to pitch since he was a kid. I mean if three years of pitch did that to Wipe, then Touya would have to struggle a lot. I mean it isn’t as bad what with the lack of a significant neural mutation but still, if Kiyoshi’s ‘darkness’ is anything to indicate what it is like.
Oh man, what is going to happen to Sachi and Jo now though? I mean they are technically safe inside a prison cell right? The body guards don’t have to save them if they are already technically safe. . . But I guess Zayd could order them again like he did with Nakajima in the clinic. He did stipulate to them that he could give them direct orders so, eh, it isn’t too far a stretch of an order I suppose, especially with unit 7 appearing as a police officer. Still curious about unit 6 though. . .
Good luck with the future chapters Lianne! Oh and also congratulations on how well the site has taken off. You have a fair bit of content starting to flow in and I am sure with the coming months you will have even more stories flowing into the network. Keep up the good work writers! We love you all! You too Rebecca, your audio work is the tops! Awake is just simply amazing.
Fascinating. I have never personally structured my stories or writing like you have said above, and the initial post about the scene setting seems so obvious but I guess I have stumbled into it a lot. I only ever made a storyboard for one of my stories and I never got around to writing it or expaning on it. Even now it is growing and adapting, but all of it in my head, nothing to paper as of yet. (Thank you busy life and drama)
I have still be thinking of that fanfic I was writing but haven’t made much head way there. I started something with Adam (from TD) but it sort of petered out and sounded really dumb. I want this new story to have some independance from my previous one, still involve a TD character but not follow the whole dream sequence. It seemed too easy to write within that frame for my Kiyoshi fic but I can’t do that again. I’ve just been running through the recent updates and the adult bonus stories and they do give me some more ideas but I’m just waiting for that moment of inspiration for a perfect situation to take hold in the TD story where I can continue to write from.
Honestly with my first fanfic I had just read a section of TD (possible spoilers) involving Kiyoshi’s sleep talking and it just sparked something. The rest of the writing just seemed to fit in naturally with the actual prose story line and was a space in which Lianne and Rebecca hadn’t covered much of so I could be vague or wild enough. True that I may have made some assumptions here and there involving the effects of certain things and maybe a bit of imaginative flexibility with a character’s personal life, but most of it was in line with the actual prose.
I’m sort of just waiting for another moment like that to just click with me, and I may have just read one, but honestly that first fic was written at 3am with little sleep and for some reason that is my common writing process. I re-read that a thousand times before confirming that it wasn’t just nonsense trash.
Whenever I try to write something or start a story, even if it is just in my head, I try to imagine the role, not the character, first then the setting, then the actual character. For example,
a prostitute -> walking out a hotel room after a client into a well lit hallway overlooking a courtyard surrounded by glass and other rooms inside the tall hotel tower, the sunlight being reflected from mirrors high above the courtyard down into its centre. Other hotel visitors are walking around the garden and the lobby surrounding it as staff push cleaning trolleys along the hallway she entered. -> She is jaded, reasonably young with pointed ears and a penchant for green sparkly clothes. She is tired of her short stint in the business. It’s just another way to make money, admittedly a little bit more unseemly than her last job, but at least she wasn’t being shot at.
From there I tend to just make a story in my head that seems natural. Other times I just make an overarching world and draw a story from that. Alot of cliches, I will admit, tend to stumble into my stories and archetypal characters too. Often I drop a storyline because it has too many of them, but every now and then a jewel sparkles through the trough and there is a story untouched by outside influence that isn’t predictable and draws vividly from a reader’s imagination.
But again, that usually only happens at 3am after a lack of sleep >.<
