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Let me tell you a story about a story.
Recently, deep diving back into the animes of my youth (Cowboy Bebop, et al) has unlocked a memory: That memory being Dragonball Z: Final Confrontation.
Now I've maintained in the past that I can't write fan fiction. That's because, for whatever reason, I can't play well with other people's toys. But I have before, just not in fiction. This was, unsurprisingly, when I was a kid.
I had different action figures standing in for the Z-Fighters (ex. the green BeetleBorg as Piccolo and the blue one as Vegeta) and like what was going on in the show, Goku and the gang's continual battle against alien threats. I don't know if I rendered any of the actual sagas, I can't remember in that much detail, it was way too long ago (and too much ganja consumed since then) but yes, that was one of the first times I attempted long form storytelling using my imagination.
Heck, the earliest flickers of my creative writing journey began with me attempting to write down the adventures of my toys as they battled invisible foes (many, many, many Orcs fell in the Battles of the Blade Mountains) and it was the gret-great-great-great ancestor of everything that eventually morph into Quest for the Relics.
You're going to laugh, but once upon a time, I thought "Battle of the War Bands" sounded like an amazing name. Hey, I was 12, okay? Of course it was going to be dumb. Man, I wish I could revisit those docs that I wrote way back when.
I still grin whenever I think about the high point of those stories...the epic hero Sergon Gamron versus his archnemesis, Dante Hellfire, in a rooftop swordfight atop the Royal Palace. I doubt, to this day, that I can do it justice in written form. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and the Muse will walk back into my living room and slap me in the face with newfound inspiration. Okay, I think that's all I've got, for now. I'll revisit this when I have more to talk about!
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Relish Ubiquitous
I used to write bigfoot and alien stories as a kid. My other friends were into DBZ, Magic The Gathering etc. but I never got into series or fandoms of various things as much. I was the weird kid in the library looking up bizarre and obscure things.
Nice!!!!
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Goblin Teatime
Fanfiction gets a lot of hate, but it's a great way to exercise creative muscles! A lot of the games my little brothers and I played when we were young were basically fanfictions we didn't write down. The first character I remember creating and sticking with for a long time came to be because they wanted to play games based on 'Naruto.' I didn't care for the show (and still don't, I've tried, I really have), so I created a character that would tell off everyone I found annoying there. I thought this would get the game over with, but instead they loved the character (astoundingly) and I started having fun with it.
Aw, that's awesome!
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Shadow Bliss
Cool.
I wrote fanfiction in my youth too. Once was Halloween themed in that I did a Ginger Snaps midquel (if you've never seen the series, there's a plot beat between the first two films thats utterly unexplained) and the other was a what if harmless bit of fun where I wrote a Doctor Who and Back To The Future crossover.
Nice!
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Bacon 🥓
Hahaha I use to have the BeetleBorg myself...didn't mind that show hahaha
I had green, blue, gold, and black. Do you remember WMAC Masters or Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog?
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They only showed/I only saw a very small part of the show, but over the years ive looked into it and such. I had the green one myself from memory...no memory on names/episodes/villains etc hahaha
by Bacon 🥓; ; Report
Hahahaah
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Heather Ashbury - Author
Reminds me of The Indian in the Cupboard lol
lol
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