Sunday, November 23, 2014

Story Preview: Nobility Part 1


I haven't gathered all ends of my research though and made a general outline of how I want it to go. Since I am more of a specific person, I need details to go in-between and develop. Coupled with the fact I need to know how I would tell the story (I already decided Third Person Limited with the date similarly to the framing device in the Persona series) and real life, it's still in Development Hell. Still in hell...

Since I haven't written a dang thing yet, not even in Emerald which I have to changed loads of stuff mainly ridding how my original was told and presented.

The following new posts (Story Preview) are mainly to energize me to get working on these fics. While yeah this is partially for me, but it is also for my readers (mainly the Jim X Melody shippers who had yet to see my story and the HTTYD fans who read my poorly told story). My stories are really poorly put together which I freely admit.

Now, I am mainly giving some background and liberties I would take with history. It would be accurate (to an extent...) and be respectful to the cultures in the fic itself. I would repeat this information when I post my first chapter in both the beginning and the ending for the readers who read either footnotes first, some reading the beginning footnotes and skip the latter and visa versa.

Let me get this out of the way first: It's a crossover between Disney (only a select few films)...and Code Geass. Yes, Code Geass of all things.

History and Code Geass


Since I was rather hesitant how to tell a historical fiction but then there is Disney's complete lack of historical research. So in order to actually combat that while staying accurate to history, I chose Code Geass which has a really confusing back story for the grounds of Britannia and the other superpowers the EU (which I am primarily focus on) and China.

Basing on scraps on how Britannia came to be with the conflicts with Europe, it's officially an alternate history. Because of it's alternate history, societies may change, civilizations rise and fall, and cultures vary radically. The calendar for CG is radically different where it's fifty years behind our time. See this post to see how it's like in CG universe.

Let me give an example: It's 2017 in-universe which is already modern world (think our technology...but with giant robots used in military) but it's the sixties. Yes, this is an actual example from the series...and when the actual series kicked off its plot...

So in the time in my future fic was around the 1830's but the American Revolution are occurring or about to end somewhere in some time. Which is also according to Code Geass wikia article...

While strictly confined in the world of Code Geass, I would still respect the cultures I am presenting in the fic including the POC's which Jim would befriend. Yes, people of color will be in it so it will be historically accurate. Historical Domain people will be there but I hesitate for them to actually appear since I fear I wouldn't capture the spirit of them especially Napoleon and Elizabeth I.

Historically accurate but liberties will be taken with the timeline and a bit of a mishmash. I won't be Disney when they literally don't give a damn about historical accuracy. The only (princess) movie I can recall which is historically accurate is BatB and Lilo & Stitch.

No Code Geass characters will be mentioned but here's the thing this is also an alternate Code Geass universe... fine, this is part of Walk on In. I don't need to ask permission anyway since the story doesn't even have anything to do with Walk on In, just exploring the history of EU if it had happened in the original anime.

Disney


Onto the Disney portions, the films featuring in this fic are The Little Mermaid, Tangled, and Frozen. The latter would surely surprised you, knowing how much Frozen just annoys me right now. It took a lot of self-convincing on my part because I wanted to give Melody a social life among the royal court.

However, the only magic that will exist in this world would be only mermaids (too bad they would only appear in the first part of the story) and Geass (this won't appear either). No magical flower from a sun drop light and absolutely no powers for Elsa. However, I am thinking of the magical flower being in it since that magic seemed to be to me at least a kind of trial and error magical use. It seems more of a legend that seemed to be confined to Corona in general. So magical flower might be in there but remained in Tangled's kingdom.

I plan something else for Elsa and Anna...which meant I will develop in-story unlike the film which never ever went deep into these characters. Again, we never actually see their mindsets just what we were told rather than shown like just how the hell Elsa didn't maintain a confident 'who cares' after her song? Why Anna seemed to be stuck in her own little world that her personality played up for humor and quirkiness rather than for loneliness? Which means that these women won't be the same women we know from the movie, well know in the loosest sense since we don't know much of these women as they are horribly written as the rest of the characters and the movie they starred in. I would only take the deleted scenes and whatever scraps I like from the movie and expand on it. Yeah, this would only be Frozen in name-only...well with very little scraps I like from the movie and it's very little now since the movie would only spark a fit in me a la Shizuo Heiwajima.

But I digress.

Melody will be a political leader but as for influence, you just have to see.

I planned something else for Jim and Amelia during their time in this alternate Earth.

So to discuss this universe I am playing on, I will have to put a head on that Space Academy thing since one of their cadets and captains, best and dedicated (?), are stuck in one of the worlds.

I am changing a lot of stuff around, not just having no magic with the exception of Geass and Triton's powers. Upping the technology aspect of the ships for one thing to make it more Gummi Ship-like. How their military works. How the space community dealt with issues that will be coming up.

I had to account for multiple things such as how their friends would react to Jim and Amelia stranding in a place where they would have no connection to and would have difficulty trying to find a universe full of different worlds and different Earths.

Yes, this is Kingdom Hearts-esque except there is no Kingdom Hearts since this is a mirror dimension primarily so it had a CLAMP tinge. In another dimension, Jim never met Melody and visa versa...and obviously Atlantis is a totally different world from Arendelle and Corona. If Arendelle ever appeared in a Kingdom Hearts game, I will speedily get through it, completely ignoring everything that happened! If I didn't get through it, I ignore any Frozen world whenever I see a let's play or a walkthrough that went back to the world. Yes, that is how bad Frozen got to me.

See how amazing it is that Frozen is even in this fic...after many self-arguments... Given how much I want Frozen to be thrown under the rug already, the fact I am helping with the Frozen takeover led me into a huge BSOD. This is the first and last time I am ever writing Frozen.

But I digress.

So accounting for many factors that will keep my story afloat and hopefully doesn't drop any plot holes since I am avoiding that. Changing stuff up to match up the story in canon. Like with history, I will be taking liberties but unlike history, I can take full access and make up the government and military for this space and time.

I can make things up since the entirety of how the universe works in accord to Treasure Planet is different, particularly the different worlds aspect. Again taking into account loads of stuff.

Crossover

I had long since began a love hate relationship with Pixar and Disney; the former since TS3 and the latter since Frozen. I genuinely want Big Hero 6 to be better put together than Frozen. Just see my review for Frozen. Big Hero 6 better be good even though the movie still whitewashed when it had no need to. If that was the only flaw and how poorly promoted it was, Frozen should have been thrown into the shelf already and BH6 should have been the one promoted heavily today not a movie premiered a year earlier.

But I digress.

Aside from the obvious Disney crossover within, I was thinking add some other crossovers.

Since this is a mirror universe, there will be alternates that I had chose to live in the time period but they won't made any impact. They'll be mentioned in a passerby that will help in the overall tension. Because these are alternates, they grew up in different circumstances so if I were to add say add a Kyo Kara Maoh character then he with all the circumstances around him would change him but not at all change him at the same time.

Also I am quite disappointed with Haru's choice to go to pro swimming in Free! Eternal Summer. It's nice that he chose to go on his own will but like Rin, it's after one epiphany (which doesn't have the best of writing repeated again in S2) but on the other hand, it just didn't fit him. Remember Haru swim freely. Haru swims for fun, not for competition like Rin. I am all for Haru choosing to go to college and decide to be either a chef or an artist while he can swim anytime he feels like it. Sorry, just giving my criticism for the ending. The final episode wasn't exactly fulfilling for the character (who experienced realistic anxiety issues) especially when I recall that Nagisa remarked that Haru is good at something different from swimming and there was S1 with Haru's artist skills to the point the art club wanted to take him away.

Free! getting an English Dub long since the anime ended... I hope they dub the first season as well.

Here's a tentative list of potential series (within that the characters) that I might be adding. Only one or two characters or perhaps more depending if I could get it in. However, I won't add too much in one scene else it would get distracting. I don't want to depend too much on these miscellaneous characters but they will play in some hand of political power in some Hero of Another Story. However, they will come together in the end. They are after all politicians, nobles, peasants in other countries as well to unite the EU.

And that's all for the preview. Part 2 is likely to be well whatever I would decide. It might be a confirmation or some more data, playing around with some ideas I had yet to confirm or just playing and cackling. Who knows? *shrugs*

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