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A new YGO Christmas fic!
Dec. 16th, 2018 04:18 amSo I started fooling around taking screengrabs and I tried making this icon. I don't know if the text is readable or not? I've been told I'm terrible at putting text on icons, that it always looks awkward, and I was finding once again that it was true on my first attempts at this. I wanted the text to stay off of Lector, and this is what came of that.
Lector plush, minus fedora, is done: http://meromeroyui.deviantart.com The coat gave me so many headaches. But now, stepping back and examining him from an outside perspective, I think it looks pretty good. And I feel like making Serenity soon. I'd like to make both her and David before Christmas. But that may or may not happen, since I need to get cracking on some gift art.
I have my multi-chapter fic finished and the angsty blurb is pretty much stalled. I'm not sure about posting it anyway, since that might be too much near-death chaos going on after the multi-chapter. I decided I wanted to work on my next multi-chapter instead, which was going to be set at Christmas. I wanted the opening to be Lector standing at a lamppost, like in the picture I wanted to draw (and finally did sketch), but I wasn't sure what would happen next. I just let the writing figure itself out, and now someone's threatening the Big Five. I think a lot of their servants are ganging up on them because they don't like that they don't have the full run of the houses now that their bosses are back. That's some poetic justice for them to deal with. I'm not sure, however, if the servants will be responsible for the worst problems or if there are two separate plots going on. I think Dr. Portman and Yami Marik will be causing trouble too. I'm toying with Nesbitt being targeted and mind-controlled, as he's seen as the weakest link since he seems the most reluctant to give up his hatred for Seto and work on building midway rides themed with penguins instead of trying to work more on weapons again. I have images of him dueling the other four and Seto, maybe. It would be interesting if they had to work together, heh. I'm picturing Nesbitt attacking Lector directly and Lector flying backwards to the ground, and maybe some or all of them trying to get through to Nesbitt by reminding him that he was willing to die to protect Lector in his right mind, and now he's hurting his friend. I probably use mind-control a lot, but then again, so did canon.
I really enjoyed the previous multi-chapter and am enjoying this one. With both, I'm trying to make them like the old mystery fics, and honestly, I think I'm succeeding for the most part. I've got Seto to where he thinks of the others as friends, so there's finally the camaraderie of the mystery fics, and I used to do fics set during Christmas and Halloween a lot, so that's back. Naturally things can't be exactly the same, since it's a different, more canon-compliant timeline, but I really prefer this timeline since it takes place after canon and hence allows for more development now that all canon is known. It's also fun writing for OCs like Mr. Thorton, Tea's boss, again. Most OCs are largely the same, but Khu had to be changed a bit, of course. And Portman prefers psychological torture over physical torture these days.
I've tried to ponder on what order I like the other Big Five members. That's a hard choice, because honestly, they're all pretty terrible people, Lector included. Lector has that fascinating justice-driven personality during the Seto duel, which is why I'm intrigued by him. But then he sinks to the level of the others after that. Gansley I like a lot because he seems to be the other voice of reason besides Lector (and I'm just fascinated by his voice in general, heh). But he's also very sadistic and cruel to Atem and Yugi. Crump is kind of endearing with his penguin obsession and worrying about the environment for their sake, but he's also very sadistic and cruel to Tea by slowly freezing her. (Plus, he's a dirty old man in the original....) Nesbitt is very violent, attacking Seto with kendo and punching Mokuba (!!!!). And he doesn't seem to be as much of a team player as the others. Those things, however, do make for fun writing experiments. I like exploring the conflicts between him and Lector, since they seem to have some trouble getting along in canon. Lector is frustrated by Nesbitt's impulsiveness and unwillingness to be a team player. Nesbitt is frustrated that Lector is frustrated, lol. And Johnson ... also very sadistic and cruel, appearing to Joey as Mai. That was really low. Plus, he's a highly crooked lawyer. I definitely like him the least. That's approximately the order I like them all in, although depending on my mood, Crump and Nesbitt can switch places.
Lector plush, minus fedora, is done: http://meromeroyui.deviantart.com The coat gave me so many headaches. But now, stepping back and examining him from an outside perspective, I think it looks pretty good. And I feel like making Serenity soon. I'd like to make both her and David before Christmas. But that may or may not happen, since I need to get cracking on some gift art.
I have my multi-chapter fic finished and the angsty blurb is pretty much stalled. I'm not sure about posting it anyway, since that might be too much near-death chaos going on after the multi-chapter. I decided I wanted to work on my next multi-chapter instead, which was going to be set at Christmas. I wanted the opening to be Lector standing at a lamppost, like in the picture I wanted to draw (and finally did sketch), but I wasn't sure what would happen next. I just let the writing figure itself out, and now someone's threatening the Big Five. I think a lot of their servants are ganging up on them because they don't like that they don't have the full run of the houses now that their bosses are back. That's some poetic justice for them to deal with. I'm not sure, however, if the servants will be responsible for the worst problems or if there are two separate plots going on. I think Dr. Portman and Yami Marik will be causing trouble too. I'm toying with Nesbitt being targeted and mind-controlled, as he's seen as the weakest link since he seems the most reluctant to give up his hatred for Seto and work on building midway rides themed with penguins instead of trying to work more on weapons again. I have images of him dueling the other four and Seto, maybe. It would be interesting if they had to work together, heh. I'm picturing Nesbitt attacking Lector directly and Lector flying backwards to the ground, and maybe some or all of them trying to get through to Nesbitt by reminding him that he was willing to die to protect Lector in his right mind, and now he's hurting his friend. I probably use mind-control a lot, but then again, so did canon.
I really enjoyed the previous multi-chapter and am enjoying this one. With both, I'm trying to make them like the old mystery fics, and honestly, I think I'm succeeding for the most part. I've got Seto to where he thinks of the others as friends, so there's finally the camaraderie of the mystery fics, and I used to do fics set during Christmas and Halloween a lot, so that's back. Naturally things can't be exactly the same, since it's a different, more canon-compliant timeline, but I really prefer this timeline since it takes place after canon and hence allows for more development now that all canon is known. It's also fun writing for OCs like Mr. Thorton, Tea's boss, again. Most OCs are largely the same, but Khu had to be changed a bit, of course. And Portman prefers psychological torture over physical torture these days.
I've tried to ponder on what order I like the other Big Five members. That's a hard choice, because honestly, they're all pretty terrible people, Lector included. Lector has that fascinating justice-driven personality during the Seto duel, which is why I'm intrigued by him. But then he sinks to the level of the others after that. Gansley I like a lot because he seems to be the other voice of reason besides Lector (and I'm just fascinated by his voice in general, heh). But he's also very sadistic and cruel to Atem and Yugi. Crump is kind of endearing with his penguin obsession and worrying about the environment for their sake, but he's also very sadistic and cruel to Tea by slowly freezing her. (Plus, he's a dirty old man in the original....) Nesbitt is very violent, attacking Seto with kendo and punching Mokuba (!!!!). And he doesn't seem to be as much of a team player as the others. Those things, however, do make for fun writing experiments. I like exploring the conflicts between him and Lector, since they seem to have some trouble getting along in canon. Lector is frustrated by Nesbitt's impulsiveness and unwillingness to be a team player. Nesbitt is frustrated that Lector is frustrated, lol. And Johnson ... also very sadistic and cruel, appearing to Joey as Mai. That was really low. Plus, he's a highly crooked lawyer. I definitely like him the least. That's approximately the order I like them all in, although depending on my mood, Crump and Nesbitt can switch places.
