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Five-Headed Dragon
Dec. 23rd, 2018 10:02 pmIt never fails to amaze me how popular my Pokemon stories are. I just got another Favorite notice. It makes me wish I had more ideas for Pokemon stories. I never expected to have many, and then I definitely didn't once I got back into YGO. I had a dream the other day that was interesting and odd.... We were at the old house, in the room I designated a play room (something I wish I had here, instead of cramming everything into one room!), and there were thieves coming in. Cliche type thieves, in black, the works. For some reason, I cornered them and was poking fun at them and got them locked in the closet. LOL. Then Team Rocket showed up for some unknown reason, and Meowth in his human form from that fun Double Trouble fan video came in. Apparently he had been lost from the others for a while and James got very emotional seeing him. They embraced and James was crying. It was cute. It made me want to get out those blurbs of human Meowth and look at them.
Then I've been pondering which Big Five member controls which dragon head. What I ended up with was that Gansley definitely seemed to be the Earth/Rock dragon, judging from part 3 of Legendary Heroes. Of course, Crump is Water. After a little pondering, I decided Johnson is Wind because he blows hot air in court. LOL. Nesbitt and Lector I puzzled over. Either way could work for them. Lector could certainly be Fire, especially in the dub, and Nesbitt could certainly be Darkness, with his violent tendencies. But I suppose it's probably the opposite, especially when you consider the way the Big Five stands when they're all together at the beginning of season 3 and how that would correspond with the dragon's heads. Gansley is in the middle, flanked on his right by Crump and then Nesbitt, and on his left by Johnson and then Lector. That would make Nesbitt representative of Fire, which certainly works with his impulsiveness and temper. But it also makes Lector Darkness, which I don't much like. He does control Dark monsters, though, like Jinzo and Berserk Dragon. And he could be considered the darkest member of the Big Five, since he is on the one hand outraged by Seto's cruelty yet seems to fail to notice his own hypocrisy in being so upset about the betrayal to Gozaburo.
I'm still kind of adoring how well the Big Five work together, and that makes me really like the Five-Headed Dragon monster, as the monster clearly represents their close bond and ability to work together despite their differences. I can't think of it without thinking of them, and I wish they had been referenced when Yugi-tachi had to fight that monster in the Capsule Monsters arc. I think that was the only time the monster featured in the series without the Big Five being responsible.
I also ended up with one of my creepy-sad plunnies exploring the grief process. With Gansley being the oldest, I can't help wondering how the others would deal if he died. But of course, I also don't want that to happen. Portman thus entered the plunnie and abducted Gansley, leaving a ringer in his place to convince the others that he died suddenly of a heart attack. The real Gansley is probably making life miserable for his captors while trying to escape. LOL. I might tinker with it, but it might make me too sad trying to write a lot of long scenes of the others trying to cope with the apparent death.
I'm having a bit of a struggle focusing my Christmas fic on all the characters. I know it's slanting towards the Big Five, with them having the majority of the screentime and important scenes so far. When I started this arc, I didn't know them well enough to delve much into their personalities, although some things started to come out, such as Johnson's cruelty in toying with people's emotions, Nesbitt trying to get at Seto through Mokuba, and various hints that Lector might not be as sold on the plans as the others were. By this point I understand them all a lot more and it's so much fun writing them interacting, it's hard to stop and show the other characters. It makes for a dilemma, since I doubt hardly anyone is interested in reading about the Big Five. I always end up writing about characters most people don't care about. Although occasionally it ends up snowballing; I think I was one of the first to really write a lot about the bikers and then more started following suit. That probably wouldn't happen this time, though. Especially so long after the show has ended, and so long past the time when I was a fairly popular YGO writer. I get Favorites on my Pokemon fics all the time, but not many at all on the YGO fics.
Sigh....
(And part of me can't help thinking that if the Big Five were younger, they would probably have a lot of fan interest. Heh. Kind of sad for that to be a criteria for interest. I get interested in characters for various aspects of their personalities, no matter what they look like or how old or young they are, etc. At the moment, I am totally in love with the Big Five's interactions with each other, even though individually I'm not that crazy about all of the members and all of them have done things I certainly object to. I find myself pretty much at squee/fangirl levels of excitement over their interactions with each other. So much love for how they genuinely seem to want each other to succeed and escape, instead of only thinking about getting out themselves.)
I can't help wondering what those people I met years ago who liked Lector would think of my current arc and what I'm doing with him and the others....
Then I've been pondering which Big Five member controls which dragon head. What I ended up with was that Gansley definitely seemed to be the Earth/Rock dragon, judging from part 3 of Legendary Heroes. Of course, Crump is Water. After a little pondering, I decided Johnson is Wind because he blows hot air in court. LOL. Nesbitt and Lector I puzzled over. Either way could work for them. Lector could certainly be Fire, especially in the dub, and Nesbitt could certainly be Darkness, with his violent tendencies. But I suppose it's probably the opposite, especially when you consider the way the Big Five stands when they're all together at the beginning of season 3 and how that would correspond with the dragon's heads. Gansley is in the middle, flanked on his right by Crump and then Nesbitt, and on his left by Johnson and then Lector. That would make Nesbitt representative of Fire, which certainly works with his impulsiveness and temper. But it also makes Lector Darkness, which I don't much like. He does control Dark monsters, though, like Jinzo and Berserk Dragon. And he could be considered the darkest member of the Big Five, since he is on the one hand outraged by Seto's cruelty yet seems to fail to notice his own hypocrisy in being so upset about the betrayal to Gozaburo.
I'm still kind of adoring how well the Big Five work together, and that makes me really like the Five-Headed Dragon monster, as the monster clearly represents their close bond and ability to work together despite their differences. I can't think of it without thinking of them, and I wish they had been referenced when Yugi-tachi had to fight that monster in the Capsule Monsters arc. I think that was the only time the monster featured in the series without the Big Five being responsible.
I also ended up with one of my creepy-sad plunnies exploring the grief process. With Gansley being the oldest, I can't help wondering how the others would deal if he died. But of course, I also don't want that to happen. Portman thus entered the plunnie and abducted Gansley, leaving a ringer in his place to convince the others that he died suddenly of a heart attack. The real Gansley is probably making life miserable for his captors while trying to escape. LOL. I might tinker with it, but it might make me too sad trying to write a lot of long scenes of the others trying to cope with the apparent death.
I'm having a bit of a struggle focusing my Christmas fic on all the characters. I know it's slanting towards the Big Five, with them having the majority of the screentime and important scenes so far. When I started this arc, I didn't know them well enough to delve much into their personalities, although some things started to come out, such as Johnson's cruelty in toying with people's emotions, Nesbitt trying to get at Seto through Mokuba, and various hints that Lector might not be as sold on the plans as the others were. By this point I understand them all a lot more and it's so much fun writing them interacting, it's hard to stop and show the other characters. It makes for a dilemma, since I doubt hardly anyone is interested in reading about the Big Five. I always end up writing about characters most people don't care about. Although occasionally it ends up snowballing; I think I was one of the first to really write a lot about the bikers and then more started following suit. That probably wouldn't happen this time, though. Especially so long after the show has ended, and so long past the time when I was a fairly popular YGO writer. I get Favorites on my Pokemon fics all the time, but not many at all on the YGO fics.
Sigh....
(And part of me can't help thinking that if the Big Five were younger, they would probably have a lot of fan interest. Heh. Kind of sad for that to be a criteria for interest. I get interested in characters for various aspects of their personalities, no matter what they look like or how old or young they are, etc. At the moment, I am totally in love with the Big Five's interactions with each other, even though individually I'm not that crazy about all of the members and all of them have done things I certainly object to. I find myself pretty much at squee/fangirl levels of excitement over their interactions with each other. So much love for how they genuinely seem to want each other to succeed and escape, instead of only thinking about getting out themselves.)
I can't help wondering what those people I met years ago who liked Lector would think of my current arc and what I'm doing with him and the others....
