[FFML] Farewell Old Friend...

[Robert Geiger]

  Nuke Em till they Glow. That is the one with the Arby Fish?
    On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 03:51:46 PM EDT, Benjamin A. Oliver <benjamin.a.oliver at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 From: "Weiss Schnee" <weissschnee333 at gmail.com>

>Are you ever going to continue "Heart of Sugar"? Because I really like that
> one!^_^ It was what inspired to write all my SIs.

That was a gloriously fun one to write.  Unfortunately, it required a
lot of time and idea bouncing with an online friend (Jason) who has
his own RL to live.  I assume he's still alive.  Hope so.  Probably
is.  Hopefully not stuck in the pizza industry forever.  And I was
going through an existential crisis at the time, oh, more than a
decade ago?  Wow, it has been a while.  Then I got married.  Twice.
Had a kid.  Then the universe exploded.  Then the continuity reset and
we had a reboot as--I don't know, where was I again?

Best I could do is do an idea dump of all the storylines I left
pending such a long time ago.  I could probably manage that if there's
interest.  Problem is, the actual story as it would have been written
is way, way different than what actually ends up happening.  All
writers know that you don't write the story so much as the story
writes you.  It wouldn't be an accurate view of what might have been.

Still fun to think about.  Sure, why not; let's do that.

Heart of Sugar?  Ben finally figures out the cheat codes that
manifests as a black pegasus that says "Cheat Enabled!" whenever a
code gets activated.  Ben, Jason and Chibiusa use it to snag the Holy
Grail... until it turns out that the cheat plugin was unregistered
early-version beta shareware and stops working at a critical time
because Ben was too cheap to pay the registration fee, leading to a
lot of blame getting shouted back and forth while the villain at the
time takes advantage of the situation.

Nuke 'Em Till They Glow?  I've got a giant incomplete chapter sitting
on my hard drive somewhere.  The Ranma / Setsuna subplot is unwritten
because I had NO idea where to go from there.  Crosses over with
Nanoha as Terra's Galactic Destroyer soul is ripped out by the leader
of the Horrid Chaos Dimension From Whence There Is No Return.  So of
course, we blow up the Horrid Chaos Dimension From Whence There Is No
Return and use a *several-pages-long onomatopoeia* to describe the
noise.  Terra finally gains a real personality once her soul gets
ripped out.  The last survivor of the Horrid Chaos Dimension From
Whence There Is No Return uses her soul to start conquering the main
universe, which leads to the climactic final battle in which the Dark
Kingdom surrenders and everyone lives happily ever after.  Or
something.

Going At It Like Rabbits!!!  Ranma's childhood friend Minh shows up.
After some weird fighting, it turns out that Minh's full name is
actually Minako, who in this universe either replaces Ukyou or
Ryouga--I hadn't decided.  I have NO idea what to do with Genma by the
time the story's done.

Codename: Project Sailor Stylin?  Stylin' gradually megamans up enough
powers to be more useful, or an equal to Sailor V.  Stylin's dad
eventually confronts her... but it's actually a monster in disguise.
They have a fight like Homura vs. Mami in the Madoka: Rebellion movie.
Hadn't thought much past that.  The British Motor Boat Police
eventually helps secure England against the youma hordes.  Stylin'
either dies dramatically or reunites with her estranged
energy-construct daddy.  Hadn't decided.

Terra in Tokyo, that NETTG reboot that was an experimental piece?
There's a full original copy of the draft where it just kind of ends
with the main character dead after the climax.  Then there's the
rewritten version that never got a full ending and in my mind is
supposed to have a better version where Queen Metallia (the merged
band!!) is deliberately made an abomination-made-human like Terra.
There's some timeline-busting weirdness since Terra is actually a
5-dimensional eldritch abomination that can change her own past to
suit a better future in order to survive.

Did I miss anything?

Anyway, it all felt like a lot of fun in my head.  In all likelihood,
none of these stories will ever be completed.  Seriously, it's been
like a decade since I put any serious work into any of them.  I'm just
not in that place in the world anymore.  Or in my head.  Or with
enough spare time to do much else.  But in the interest of closure and
completion, I'll answer anyone's questions that posts such a question
to the list.  I promise a straight answer.  Or a crooked one.  Or
something like that.

After all, the FFML is going to end.  Why not go out with a bang?  If
you somehow, after all this time, have kept the faith and still
somehow like the stuff I wrote, and have unanswered questions about
it, you deserve at least that much.


-- 
Benjamin A Oliver
benjamin.a.oliver at gmail.com

Technical Writer / Translator
M3 Engineering & Technology

Master of Science in Management Information Systems
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona



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