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I couldn't resist.
Jan. 20th, 2018 03:17 amI no longer regret not getting to Build-a-Bear. I bought the Darren figure that was slightly cheaper on eBay. I watched a video of a deboxing and observed how good the sculpt is and how much it looks like Darren and I knew I had to have it. There were ten people Watching it and I was afraid it might get bought out from under me if I didn't act quickly. There aren't a lot of my darlings that get figures made of them and I like to get whatever ones I can find. I was thinking I'd have to resort to one of those super-deformed Funko POPs if I wanted a Darren figure. I was ecstatic to discover a real figure! Squeeee. And I'm relieved the price wasn't more! When I first saw it at Toys R Us, I was afraid it might cost $50!
Then I watched the third Pokemon movie yet again to get rid of the bad taste those books left and I pondered on how that movie has a definite YGO feel to it. And how some of the track during Molly and Misty's battle sounds YGO-ish. I also pondered on the possibility of doing a YGO version of the story.
After running through several thoughts, I determined that the most logical thing would be for Mokuba to fill Molly's place in the plot. That would mean Seto would have to vanish. Don't know how or why (no, I won't set it in the most recent movie verse). Also not sure if I'm using the Unown or coming up with something else. I've already attempted to set the shows in the same verse before and thought it went okay, so I'm not adverse to the idea. Plus I generally like all my shows in the same verse, with only an occasional exception like Sailor Moon (mainly because I don't like the idea of Crystal Tokyo as a definite world future in either manga or anime verse). Maybe a crew of Seto's went looking for some powerful artifact and comes back with some Unown letters, which Seto scoffs at until he accidentally activates them and ends up falling into their world.
One thing I know is that since Mokuba's older than Molly, he wouldn't be likely to make-believe a creature is Seto, so the illusion would have to actually look like Seto. Maybe he'd also have something like Blue Eyes White Dragon guards or something. I also wonder if, unlike Molly, Mokuba really ends up under some kind of a spell, as I'm not sure if he'd end up creating something so isolating as a crystal fortress in his right mind. He would have had to have really flipped, maybe by thinking he and the fake Seto or the company was in danger. That might not be so far-fetched. But I don't want to have threats from without, just the threat from within as Mokuba is swallowed up in his dream world, so having him fall under a spell would probably work best. I definitely want to do some kind of wacked-out crystalizing of things, either the mansion or the KaibaCorp building. Probably some odd rooms in the place too, like the underwater one or maybe one in mid-air. And of course, Yugi-tachi has to get in there and find out what the heck's happening.
Yugi-tachi would include Ryou Bakura and Duke Devlin. Not sure if Serenity or Marik is there. If Marik is currently in Domino City, he would totally be there, as I still love the idea of a friendship between him and Mokuba. Hmm, maybe Marik should be there when Mokuba accidentally unleashes the spell and ends up thrown out by the spell like the servants and Skylar in the movie, so he's the one who runs for help. Also debating on the inclusion of either Yami Bakura or David Tanaka. That could be interesting. David hasn't really been on adventures with the whole group. Not sure how they, or rather, Joey and Tristan especially, would react to him. If Yami Bakura is there, that means it's The Pendulum Swings verse, but that's pretty much what I decided happened after the end of the series anyway, so it's my default verse now that my old, old mystery verse has long been defunct. I've tried to write stories that align better with canon since the series ended. Anyway, so Yami Bakura's presence would add some tension, for sure.
(I've also debated a bit on, if I decide it is the Unown, to have Team Rocket wander into the plot in a supporting role. They would certainly be horrified to have fallen into another dream world! LOL.)
Also, I awesomely found what seems to be the entire score for the third movie, like, every bit of music throughout the whole thing. I was hoping to find something like that for movie 2, instead of just select tracks. Maybe one exists for movie 2 as well. In any case, this is fun to listen to while planning a possible YGO fic.
I also wrote a blurb for that Pokemon fic I was musing on where everybody gets invited to a mysterious mansion by a mad scientist. Pikachu and James both end up vanishing and the others find them in the laboratory, where the scientist is provoking Pikachu into using electricity of higher and higher voltage that's blasting James and slowly wearing him down into a badly hurt state. It ended up pretty dark, but then again, that sort of plot can't really not get dark, even by Pokemon standards. And naturally when I'm writing it, getting dark if it's a possibility anyway becomes a sure thing. But since real-world health and physics seem to have little bearing in the Pokemon world, I can pretty much do what I want regarding James' injuries and recovery, which is nice. I hate being bound by reality. And Pikachu ends up feeling very bad and guilty when he realizes that he's been shocking James and seriously hurting him, instead of just shocking the things the scientist has been using to provoke him.
Then I watched the third Pokemon movie yet again to get rid of the bad taste those books left and I pondered on how that movie has a definite YGO feel to it. And how some of the track during Molly and Misty's battle sounds YGO-ish. I also pondered on the possibility of doing a YGO version of the story.
After running through several thoughts, I determined that the most logical thing would be for Mokuba to fill Molly's place in the plot. That would mean Seto would have to vanish. Don't know how or why (no, I won't set it in the most recent movie verse). Also not sure if I'm using the Unown or coming up with something else. I've already attempted to set the shows in the same verse before and thought it went okay, so I'm not adverse to the idea. Plus I generally like all my shows in the same verse, with only an occasional exception like Sailor Moon (mainly because I don't like the idea of Crystal Tokyo as a definite world future in either manga or anime verse). Maybe a crew of Seto's went looking for some powerful artifact and comes back with some Unown letters, which Seto scoffs at until he accidentally activates them and ends up falling into their world.
One thing I know is that since Mokuba's older than Molly, he wouldn't be likely to make-believe a creature is Seto, so the illusion would have to actually look like Seto. Maybe he'd also have something like Blue Eyes White Dragon guards or something. I also wonder if, unlike Molly, Mokuba really ends up under some kind of a spell, as I'm not sure if he'd end up creating something so isolating as a crystal fortress in his right mind. He would have had to have really flipped, maybe by thinking he and the fake Seto or the company was in danger. That might not be so far-fetched. But I don't want to have threats from without, just the threat from within as Mokuba is swallowed up in his dream world, so having him fall under a spell would probably work best. I definitely want to do some kind of wacked-out crystalizing of things, either the mansion or the KaibaCorp building. Probably some odd rooms in the place too, like the underwater one or maybe one in mid-air. And of course, Yugi-tachi has to get in there and find out what the heck's happening.
Yugi-tachi would include Ryou Bakura and Duke Devlin. Not sure if Serenity or Marik is there. If Marik is currently in Domino City, he would totally be there, as I still love the idea of a friendship between him and Mokuba. Hmm, maybe Marik should be there when Mokuba accidentally unleashes the spell and ends up thrown out by the spell like the servants and Skylar in the movie, so he's the one who runs for help. Also debating on the inclusion of either Yami Bakura or David Tanaka. That could be interesting. David hasn't really been on adventures with the whole group. Not sure how they, or rather, Joey and Tristan especially, would react to him. If Yami Bakura is there, that means it's The Pendulum Swings verse, but that's pretty much what I decided happened after the end of the series anyway, so it's my default verse now that my old, old mystery verse has long been defunct. I've tried to write stories that align better with canon since the series ended. Anyway, so Yami Bakura's presence would add some tension, for sure.
(I've also debated a bit on, if I decide it is the Unown, to have Team Rocket wander into the plot in a supporting role. They would certainly be horrified to have fallen into another dream world! LOL.)
Also, I awesomely found what seems to be the entire score for the third movie, like, every bit of music throughout the whole thing. I was hoping to find something like that for movie 2, instead of just select tracks. Maybe one exists for movie 2 as well. In any case, this is fun to listen to while planning a possible YGO fic.
I also wrote a blurb for that Pokemon fic I was musing on where everybody gets invited to a mysterious mansion by a mad scientist. Pikachu and James both end up vanishing and the others find them in the laboratory, where the scientist is provoking Pikachu into using electricity of higher and higher voltage that's blasting James and slowly wearing him down into a badly hurt state. It ended up pretty dark, but then again, that sort of plot can't really not get dark, even by Pokemon standards. And naturally when I'm writing it, getting dark if it's a possibility anyway becomes a sure thing. But since real-world health and physics seem to have little bearing in the Pokemon world, I can pretty much do what I want regarding James' injuries and recovery, which is nice. I hate being bound by reality. And Pikachu ends up feeling very bad and guilty when he realizes that he's been shocking James and seriously hurting him, instead of just shocking the things the scientist has been using to provoke him.
