Vulp's (Fairly Terrible) Scrapbook
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Vulp's (Fairly Terrible) Scrapbook
Previously, this was a thread dedicated to the various fanfic I've done over the years. However, it's been a long time since I was really active in any fanfiction community, and I'm rusty at writing nowadays. Nevertheless, I wanted a place to put random bits and pieces I'm working on currently -- more because I like to talk incessantly and at length, really. Didn't want to clutter up the art showcase with a second thread that's basically "Vulp's fanfics", so I'm editing. I'll leave previous posts alone since other people replied to them, but meh.
Don't expect too much in terms of quality here. Whatever skill I had has degraded, and nowadays I write infrequently and largely without an audience. But if you enjoy something you see here, cool.
Don't expect too much in terms of quality here. Whatever skill I had has degraded, and nowadays I write infrequently and largely without an audience. But if you enjoy something you see here, cool.
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Re: Oh man, TheVulpineHero1's fanfiction stuff!
Holy geez, you are an amazing writer, dude! I read Kaleidoscope first, and wow it was really good. So I checked out Nostalgia, because I'm not really a fan of MLP or FF (and I'm not that interested in Black Cat, tbh) and also because Misty was promised, haha. It was flipping fantastic! The story was really emotional and flowing, and everyone was in-character, which hardly ever happens!
Nice work!!
Nice work!!
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Well, I try! Any skill I have is more a matter of practice than talent, though. Glad you liked it! ^^
Looking back at Nostalgia, it occurs to me that I should really do stories with that weird, dreamy tone more often. It tends to feature in a lot of my better work (I think In Morbus has the same sort of style).
Seeing as I'm bumping the thread by replying anyway, I may as well post Nostalgia here under spoilers for easy access and less link spelunking.
Looking back at Nostalgia, it occurs to me that I should really do stories with that weird, dreamy tone more often. It tends to feature in a lot of my better work (I think In Morbus has the same sort of style).
Seeing as I'm bumping the thread by replying anyway, I may as well post Nostalgia here under spoilers for easy access and less link spelunking.
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Oh hay, we got a Sonic thread in the Cartridge! Well, because of that, I'll transfer one of my Sonic collections from FF.net over here.
The main impetus of this collection in particular was messing around with Horoscopes as story prompts. It's sort've old, so standards might not be up to my current stuff, but I don't think they're too bad. Pieces are generally pretty short, and the whole thing is Tails centric.
Horoscope
Chapter 1: Aries
Author's comments: This is a very meh piece. I forget where I was actually going with it.
Chapter 2: Taurus
Author's comments: Derp. Switched from present tense to past tense halfway through without even realising it. Come on, past Me. Get your shit together.
Chapter 3: Gemini
Author's comments: Because apparently I was pretty mature when writing this, and thought the menstrual cycle was a source of potential humour. I'm such a classy lady.
Chapter 4: Cancer
Author's Comments: This isn't actually that bad. I like writing arguments between characters, although I think my Tails was slightly off here.
I take it back, these are pretty bad. I'll post the rest over tomorrow and the day after, because I'm lazy and four chapters per post is a decent ratio for a twelve chapter collection.
The main impetus of this collection in particular was messing around with Horoscopes as story prompts. It's sort've old, so standards might not be up to my current stuff, but I don't think they're too bad. Pieces are generally pretty short, and the whole thing is Tails centric.
Horoscope
Chapter 1: Aries
Chapter 2: Taurus
Chapter 3: Gemini
Chapter 4: Cancer
I take it back, these are pretty bad. I'll post the rest over tomorrow and the day after, because I'm lazy and four chapters per post is a decent ratio for a twelve chapter collection.
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Re: Oh man, TheVulpineHero1's fanfiction stuff!
As an Aries, I am insulted by this awful fanfic.TheVulpineHero1 wrote:Chapter 1: Aries
Do go on.
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Well, it's tomorrow. Time to post four more bad chapters.
Chapter 5: Leo
Author's comments: Once again, pretty meh. I don't really have anything to say about it.
Chapter 6: Virgo
Author's Comments: I don't know what possessed me to use the word 'bonce' in a literary context. I'm pretty sure it's the only time I've used it (sans airquotes) in my entire life.
Chapter 7: Libra
Author's Comments: Oh man. I think the thing I was getting at with this one is that Tails is both Mr Scientist Guy but also pretty naive and gullible. Other than that, it's a pretty bad piece.
Chapter 8: Scorpio
Author's comments: Really, this was a glorified excuse for me to talk about what TV shows I thought Sonic and Tails would enjoy. Everything else was just mindless derp.
Next time: derp, even more derp, shipping (with added derp) and a very short action sequence. Derp derp derp derp derp. Derp.
Chapter 5: Leo
Chapter 6: Virgo
Chapter 7: Libra
Chapter 8: Scorpio
Next time: derp, even more derp, shipping (with added derp) and a very short action sequence. Derp derp derp derp derp. Derp.
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It's even more tomorrow than the last time it was tomorrow; in fact, for British old me, it is the tomorrow after tomorrow since when I posted the last thing on the yesterday. Words make sense sometimes.
Chapter 9: Sagittarius (I can never spell Sagittarius right first time round)
Author's Comments: What did I promise? Derp. What did I deliver? Derp.
Chapter 10: Capricorn
Author's Comments: More silly tense switching here. I don't know why I was having so much trouble with it; generally I look after my tenses and make love to them quite gently, but this collection is apparently the exception to prove the rule.
Chapter 11: Aquarius
Author's Comments: Ah, shipping. When I was a touch younger, I was a sucker for ships I thought were cute, and toy ships like CreamxTails are pretty cute. Nowadays? Not so much. Mature and nuanced romances are more my cup of tea. Or failing that, shipping to the point of parody. As it is, this piece is really akward.
Chapter 12: Pisces
Author's comments: I needed three scene breaks for this shit? What the fuck, Me. I think the main impetus for this piece was 'welp, last piece of the collection. Let's have an action scene for no reason!' On that note, it has been a long, long time since I've done an action scene. I kinda moved out of that genre.
So, overall, a pretty clumsy little collection, and a fairly old one. I might post the five chapters that exist of the only other Sonic collection I started as a 'bonus' (cough cough). I abandoned it pretty dang quickly though, since it was originally going to be fifty-seven chapters. I forget why -- I think the interest just wasn't there at the time. Oh well.
Chapter 9: Sagittarius (I can never spell Sagittarius right first time round)
Chapter 10: Capricorn
Chapter 11: Aquarius
Chapter 12: Pisces
So, overall, a pretty clumsy little collection, and a fairly old one. I might post the five chapters that exist of the only other Sonic collection I started as a 'bonus' (cough cough). I abandoned it pretty dang quickly though, since it was originally going to be fifty-seven chapters. I forget why -- I think the interest just wasn't there at the time. Oh well.
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Okay, so time for the last of my Sonic flood. These are pieces taken from a collection I abandoned called Colours Of The Sky. (Titles were never my strong suit.) They're a little more recent than the previous collection, so maybe they're a touch better. Hopefully, anyway. Unlike the last collection, which centred on Tails, these ones are for various characters.
Chapter 1: Model Aeroplane
Author's comments: One of my personal philosophies when writing a character I don't own is to add to them. The reasons for that are a little obscure, but essentially it adds up to: time = money. Original creator needs to make money, and therefore doesn't have time to flesh out the character as absolutely as they would like to; in addition, they have to practice conservation of detail for whatever plotline they have going. I, as a fanfiction guy, have effectively infinite time since I'm not doing it for profit, and don't have to carry a plotline if I don't wish to; therefore, I have no excuse for the characters being flat, even if they were flat in the original work.
What this means is that after the first few times I write a character, they will begin to accrue hobbies, likes and dislikes that are unique to my portrayal, but which I infer from the existing details given to me. This means that a lot of my characters are OOC, to a point, but are in character for my portrayal of them. (I'm not special in this regard; it's a common thing. I'm just pointing it out.) What you see here is the beginnings of 'my' Tails, building on what what happened in the last collection. Of course, seeing as I never did any more Sonic stuff after this collection, and this was the last Tails piece, it's a beginning that will never lead anywhere, least of all to a developed and nuanced character.
Chapter 2: Looking for the Answer
Author's Comments: I'm just going to quote the original author's comments I had on the piece when I posted it, since they're pretty detailed in their own right.
"With this, I wanted to take a step back and look at an alternative character interpretation of a much older model of Sonic. In the beginning, the games held a simple if poignant environmentalist moral, shown in Eggman's perversion of nature, by zones like Chemical Plant and Oil Ocean which showed the destruction of the environment. Although that message became less obvious in later games, it still persists. With that in mind, it isn't hard to think of the legacy Sonic might leave in human imagination after his death; a sort of elemental force personified, blowing into and out of people's lives like the wind. I also like the idea of his personality being deeper than it appears because of all the things he may have experienced on his travels. While it's quite close to an AU, I still like it."
Chapter 3: Reap What You Sow
Author's Comments: This is standard "Oh noes, characters are being all mature bad future" stuff that you might see in the Sonic fandom, and it's actually very clumsy by my current standards. That said, there was a little bit of wry usage of some of the common fandom 'cool' tropes, such the longcoat description; I added those in simply to reference the fact that everybody ever does it. I ended up not playing the joke off, however.
Chapter 4: Useless
Author's comments: A little alternative interpretation on Rouge here. The question I wanted to ask was, "Okay, Rouge likes gems. Why, exactly?" If it was explained in canon, I missed it (beyond the obvious gems = money thing). It has a few interesting verbal tweaks that I ended up refining and carrying into my current style; the tone here isn't exactly what I would expect out of myself today, but it's quite familiar for semi-comedy piece.
Chapter 5: The Hands Of The Ultimate
Author's comments: Meh. I have entirely forgotten what I wanted out of this piece; I think it was mostly about the idea that Shadow as a character tends to have a bit of a guilt complex. Oh well. And that was the last piece of Sonic the Hedgehog fiction I ever wrote, which seems somewhat sad. I should've abandonded things on a better note.
Well, that's it for this random Sonic flood. I hope you folks enjoyed it, even though it was some of my older, shakier work. (I was considering doing another gradual daily post of one of my FFVII stories, but meh; I don't think too many people would be into it, even within the small subset reading this. I still might, though, just to pass the time and artificially inflate my post count.)
Chapter 1: Model Aeroplane
What this means is that after the first few times I write a character, they will begin to accrue hobbies, likes and dislikes that are unique to my portrayal, but which I infer from the existing details given to me. This means that a lot of my characters are OOC, to a point, but are in character for my portrayal of them. (I'm not special in this regard; it's a common thing. I'm just pointing it out.) What you see here is the beginnings of 'my' Tails, building on what what happened in the last collection. Of course, seeing as I never did any more Sonic stuff after this collection, and this was the last Tails piece, it's a beginning that will never lead anywhere, least of all to a developed and nuanced character.
Chapter 2: Looking for the Answer
"With this, I wanted to take a step back and look at an alternative character interpretation of a much older model of Sonic. In the beginning, the games held a simple if poignant environmentalist moral, shown in Eggman's perversion of nature, by zones like Chemical Plant and Oil Ocean which showed the destruction of the environment. Although that message became less obvious in later games, it still persists. With that in mind, it isn't hard to think of the legacy Sonic might leave in human imagination after his death; a sort of elemental force personified, blowing into and out of people's lives like the wind. I also like the idea of his personality being deeper than it appears because of all the things he may have experienced on his travels. While it's quite close to an AU, I still like it."
Chapter 3: Reap What You Sow
Chapter 4: Useless
Chapter 5: The Hands Of The Ultimate
Well, that's it for this random Sonic flood. I hope you folks enjoyed it, even though it was some of my older, shakier work. (I was considering doing another gradual daily post of one of my FFVII stories, but meh; I don't think too many people would be into it, even within the small subset reading this. I still might, though, just to pass the time and artificially inflate my post count.)
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So, increasing that there post count! I decided to post some of my FFVII stuff after all. It's actually very interesting; when I transfer these from site to site, I actually look at them more closely, and get a little bit of a retrospective on my work. It's a good thing to do.
The collection is Twenty Four Hours, one of the very oldest that I'm not ashamed of. I started it circa 2010. Looking over it, I think I had a bit of artfulness (for want of a better term) in my prose that I ended up losing over the years in favour of a less ornate style. I may actually try and get a little of it back, now that I've realised how strong it was in my older work; sometimes it's a little too much and the piece is overwrought, but it's very nice on the rare occasion I got it right. It's a Yuffentine (Yuffie x Vincent) shipping collection, with a main theme of each piece being 500 words exactly and with 24 chapters in all. Oh, and when I said shipping, I meant unapologetically, emphatically shipping.
Since I'm feeling lazy right now, I'll only post two today.
Chapter 1: Locks
Author's comments: Ah, memories. Once upon a time, one of my favourite tricks was to try and trick people into thinking I was going to write a lemon scene, then fake them out at the last second. This was pretty much an example of that policy. I still quite like it stylistically, though. (By the way: this piece was from an era where my grammar was not quite as good as it might have been, which is why those speech tags end with a full stop instead of a comma. I'm book dumb when it comes to grammar and formatting, having never learned them in great detail.)
Chapter 2: Half-life
Author's comments: Again, I actually like this, in stylistic terms. The whole soul floating like motes of dust thing is a little too purple for my tastes, but I miss writing like this, in terms of metaphors and symbolism. I really need to work on something with this style, but with some of the polish of my later stuff.
More tomorrow~
The collection is Twenty Four Hours, one of the very oldest that I'm not ashamed of. I started it circa 2010. Looking over it, I think I had a bit of artfulness (for want of a better term) in my prose that I ended up losing over the years in favour of a less ornate style. I may actually try and get a little of it back, now that I've realised how strong it was in my older work; sometimes it's a little too much and the piece is overwrought, but it's very nice on the rare occasion I got it right. It's a Yuffentine (Yuffie x Vincent) shipping collection, with a main theme of each piece being 500 words exactly and with 24 chapters in all. Oh, and when I said shipping, I meant unapologetically, emphatically shipping.
Since I'm feeling lazy right now, I'll only post two today.
Chapter 1: Locks
Chapter 2: Half-life
More tomorrow~
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Well, it's tomorrow, at least where I am. So, updates.
Chapter 3: Moon
Author's comments: Dem scene breaks! Also, this was apparently from the part of my life where I gave more than 0.375% of a crap about canon. I also used to love writing in the present tense, apparently. I still do, to be honest, although I can't say why.
Chapter 4: Diamond
Author's comment: Hand fetish much? Also, some of my early vocab choices puzzle me nowadays. Seriously, who says mayhap outside of ironic internet communication?
Chapter 5: Incalculable
Author's comments: More pseudo-sensual fiction from Past Me. I also used to have a bad habit of picking titles only tangentially related to the story, and even then they were only related in my own mind. A few slip ups here and there, as well as some awkward wordings.
Chapter 6: Wind Chime
Author's comments: One of my cats had just had kittens when I originally posted/wrote this. I think the whole thing was just an excuse to posit the theory that it was impossible to not meow after hearing a kitten do it. Man, nostalgia!
More tomorrow, since I decided to post whore.
Chapter 3: Moon
Chapter 4: Diamond
Chapter 5: Incalculable
Chapter 6: Wind Chime
More tomorrow, since I decided to post whore.
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Do you know what day it is? Tomorrow!
Chapter 7: War
Author's comments: Oh shit, we got a badass over here. Old Me was apparently trying to be edgy.
Chapter 8: Interlude
Author's Comments: One of my worst and most reccuring habits is to seasonal stories completely out of season. Every July, I end up writing a Christmas themed piece, and I never know why. I didn't actually have anything to say about this when I wrote it, and that hasn't changed in the years since.
Chapter 9: Cuisine
Author's comments: I've always loved derping around with little character building things like this. Little things like what characters have for lunch or what magazines they read seem to fascinate whatever bit of my puny ape brain does the writing. It gets worse as time goes on. One of my semi-recent MLP pieces basically amounts to 'Celestia has a beanbag, Luna thinks Cheerios are the goddamn shit' but I took three thousand words to say it.
Chapter 10: Missive
Author's comments: One of the reasons I liked using Vincent as a character was the potential for dry humour. People who are comically unfunny have always amused me. This has hints of the blunt, practical lack of humour that I ended up making fun of so many times during my stay in the fandom.
More tomorrow~
Chapter 7: War
Chapter 8: Interlude
Chapter 9: Cuisine
Chapter 10: Missive
More tomorrow~
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Tomorrow has arrived. Ain't it grand? Only two pieces today, for scheduling reasons.
Chapter 11: Rebuttal
Author's comments: Take note, Past Me: it is impossible to smile laconically. Laconic is an adjective pretty much exclusive to forms of written or verbal communication. You don't smile using few words.
Chapter 12: Needles
Author's comments: More 'oh man, characters in everyday mundane situations how amusing lolololol'. Probably the best observation here is about the magazine choice in dentist's, hairdresser's and doctor's receptions.
And with that, we're exactly halfway through the collection.
Chapter 11: Rebuttal
Chapter 12: Needles
And with that, we're exactly halfway through the collection.
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Re: Oh man, TheVulpineHero1's fanfiction stuff!
Not gonna lie, the first post was tl;dr I'm not too familiar with Final Fantasy or Pokémon, do you have any non-fanfic literature I could indulge in? Sorry if you've already posted it, but it's kind of hard to tell what's what from the bolded parts.
By the way, you should totally enter the Writing contest in the gazebo. But hurry, because I'm sure someone will find a judge really soon :P
By the way, you should totally enter the Writing contest in the gazebo. But hurry, because I'm sure someone will find a judge really soon :P
Oui oui. Je suis très jambon.
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Re: Oh man, TheVulpineHero1's fanfiction stuff!
I do write original fiction sometimes, but I don't post it anywhere. My logic is that a) people probably won't be interested and b) if a miracle happens and I get good enough to make money off the hobby, I won't be able to sell or repurpose anything I've already put up for free on the internet. Sorry about that.
Also, I did see that contest when I first signed up to the site, but I disagreed philosophically with the initial judging criteria that was posted so I never bothered entering. By which I mean, I was too lazy.
Also, I did see that contest when I first signed up to the site, but I disagreed philosophically with the initial judging criteria that was posted so I never bothered entering. By which I mean, I was too lazy.
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Re: Oh man, TheVulpineHero1's fanfiction stuff!
Alright, fair enough.
Though you probably could sell something you've already posted for free, as long as there's some new stuff as well. If there's a book with short stories or so, you could throw in a mix of published and unpublished ones.
Though you probably could sell something you've already posted for free, as long as there's some new stuff as well. If there's a book with short stories or so, you could throw in a mix of published and unpublished ones.
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Re: Oh man, TheVulpineHero1's fanfiction stuff!
I probably could, but I honestly wouldn't feel right about it. I don't have much in the way of artistic integrity, but if a guy pays for eight stories, he should get eight stories worth of value, not seven stories and one story he didn't actually need to buy if he knew where to look for it.Petzi wrote:Alright, fair enough.
Though you probably could sell something you've already posted for free, as long as there's some new stuff as well. If there's a book with short stories or so, you could throw in a mix of published and unpublished ones.
In other news, I sort've let this thread sit for a little while, since I was busy actually writing stuff (as well as starting a text-only SRW: J lp over in the Let's Play forum). So, let's get cracking.
Chapter 13: Crossfire
Chapter 14: Reality
Chapter 15: Ardent
Chapter 16: Better
More tomorrow, I suppose~
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Re: Vulp's (Fairly Terrible) Scrapbook: Touhou Drabbles EoSD Set
First new post, ho! See edited OP for a more detailed introduction.
The story behind this one: Touhou stories, 100 words plus titles (according to my occasionally borked wordcounter), one per character who appeared in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Quality forecast: low to bad. I'll talk about them afterwards; expect the notes to be longer than the actual pieces.
1: Reimu (Border of Teatime)
Notes: It's bad. First drabble I wrote in a long time. There really isn't much going on with this one, honestly. I feel like Reimu would have reacted more or less exactly the same way no matter who popped up behind her; I just have a small weakness for ReiMari. Obviously, it's less Reimu actually blaming or praying to the god, and more her fishing for treats from visitors using her intuition.
2: Marisa (Borrower)
Notes: One of my favourite elements of Marisa as a character is that underdog aspect, the second-bestness and drive to improve that serves as an underlying motivation for her. However, I also like the tunnel-blind aspect of the character -- she has things that she's legitimately great at, but they're not the ones she wants, so she ignores them as useful skills. There's a bit of repetition near the end about (see: takes without realising) which was where I more or less ran out of words to do a make a rule of three with the repeats, which would have made it sound quite a bit less goofy and unintentional. That's the nature of the beast, I guess; part of writing within a deliberately small wordcount is deciding what to keep and what to cut, and I think in retrospect that I made some poor decisions here. Still, since I'm not aiming to show off or make myself look good, I can leave it without editing and just resolve to do a technically better Marisa drabble at some point in the future.
3: Rumia (A Duel At The Yakitori Stand)
Notes: Rumia is a character I have little interest in. For me, she feels like a proto-Cirno with a variation of Mystia's skillset, but without the real identity of either. However, this drabble is actually one of my favourites from the collection from a creator standpoint. Although it's nothing special in execution, it allowed me to grasp things about my own interpretation of the characters that I wasn't actually aware of before -- for instance, that I consider Rumia's concern for her appearance to be her 'selling point', so to speak, and that she shares it with one of my favourite characters, Mokou, who (in canon) will sit there and starve halfway to death because she thinks it suits her image. Out of that came this odd little piece where two characters who can rarely ever be observed together share some threatrics (and Mokou shares an open can of implied offscreen asswhuppin' with Rumia.)
4: Cirno (Brief Encounter)
Notes: The time has come for me to speak one of the many great blasphemies of the Touhou franchise: I'm not actually a fan of Cirno. A lot of the time, I find her idiocy less endearing than just 'pure meh'. This is one of my least favourites in the set, and I don't have too much more to say about it other than to apologise for how uninspired it is.
5: Daiyousei (Drop In the Bucket)
Notes: Daiyousei is, a lot of the time, just one of a few characters who revolve around Cirno's orbit. Canonically, one of the few things we can say about her for sure is that she's probably stupider than Cirno, who is after all one of the strongest and most intelligent fairies around. But, her general image is that she's more gentle and less mischievous. Ultimately, my interpretation of all this is that it is because of, and not despite, Daiyousei's questionable intelligence that she ends up being more gentle than her contemporary. Or, in other words, she's too dense to realise humans don't want to be friends with her, and her attention span is low enough that she forgets bad interactions. Keep trying, Dai-chan. One day it'll work!
I'll cut this post here for now, and (hopefully) post the others some other time. We're halfway through, more or less, so there's that.
The story behind this one: Touhou stories, 100 words plus titles (according to my occasionally borked wordcounter), one per character who appeared in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Quality forecast: low to bad. I'll talk about them afterwards; expect the notes to be longer than the actual pieces.
1: Reimu (Border of Teatime)
2: Marisa (Borrower)
3: Rumia (A Duel At The Yakitori Stand)
4: Cirno (Brief Encounter)
5: Daiyousei (Drop In the Bucket)
I'll cut this post here for now, and (hopefully) post the others some other time. We're halfway through, more or less, so there's that.
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6: Hong Meiling (Homeland)
Notes: This was, in much the same vein as the Rumia/Mokou one earlier, a drabble where two characters who don't seem to go together do just that. Having thought about it, I actually thing Meiling and Yuyuko would get along well; a natural extension of this piece would be a slightly longer one in which Meiling stays as a chef in the underworld for a while. I digress.
7: Koakuma & Patchouli (Little Devil Lost)
Note: This one wasn't 100 words, but 500. Koa is one of my favourite touhous, to the point where if my avatar wasn't Suika it might well be her, And Patchouli is a character that I like in canon, but don't have a great grasp of. This piece was me trying to explore Patchouli as somebody who perhaps is kinder than she lets herself imagine, but also operates according to a train of logic that's confusing on first meeting and doesn't really give any time to catch up. Other parts I spent essentially fluffing out things in the world for myself. Although Koakuma appears here, I decided that Patchouli should have the spotlight since it's in-keeping with Koa's origin as a side-character of sorts.
Also, this means that when you beat her in EoSD, Koa becomes Patchy's loser parrot.
8: Sakuya (Flawless)
Note: Up until this point, all the drabbles were disconnected; with this one (and Meiling's), I started piecing together a little chain of events in my head that ran through the next few pieces. With Meiling's part, I had pictured them at a banquet in the Scarlet Devil Mansion; this little section was Remilia getting ready for said party, and also disclosing the full reasoning behind it. For whatever reason, I happen to think that Remilia is a character who would care disproportionately about birthdays and birthday parties -- something to do with her arrogance and childishness suggests that she'd keep up with the celebrations even given how many years she's lived. Because of that, I thought she'd definitely throw a party in Flandre's honour, even if she had no intention of letting her sister attend in person.
9: Remilia Scarlet: Ordained
Note: I've written a few little things about Remilia, and I'm constantly surprised by how deep the rabbit hole goes; I was originally not that endeared of her, but the experience of toying around with this collection means she's actually shot up my power rankings. There's so much to explore -- her original home, which we can assume was in the west (which provides an interesting cultural divide), how she met Patchouli, her relationships with Flandre and Sakuya, her childishness, and also the idea of her powers over fate. As you might have guessed from the last sentence there, it isn't exactly lost on me that Remilia takes one of her most recognisable techniques from a god who was constantly fighting the inevitability of Ragnarok, and who also had some level of prophetic knowledge. There's more to Remilia than I'm really capable of capturing in such short pieces, and I'd love to do some longer ones sometime.
10: Flandre (Borrowed)
Note: Cheesy as hell, and I apologise for nothing. In my mind, it was a good way to end the mini-ark I accidentally cajoled myself into.
That's it for the EoSD set. I may end up doing a PCB set soon, but I'm wanting to do some other stuff in between, which may or may not make it to this page.
7: Koakuma & Patchouli (Little Devil Lost)
Also, this means that when you beat her in EoSD, Koa becomes Patchy's loser parrot.
8: Sakuya (Flawless)
9: Remilia Scarlet: Ordained
10: Flandre (Borrowed)
That's it for the EoSD set. I may end up doing a PCB set soon, but I'm wanting to do some other stuff in between, which may or may not make it to this page.
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