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honou_no_izumi) wrote2012-06-26 04:55 pm
honou_no_izumi) wrote2012-06-26 04:55 pm
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Regarding Rippled Dimensions
/sigh...
Guess you can't please everyone. I thought when I last wrote Rippled Dimensions the plot was fine enough. And even when I haven't specifically mentioned it, I did set it that every chapter will focus on different Riders; regardless of the worlds or time period. The order of chapters corresponds to the RIDER in focus, not the worlds! Or time period. Thus the order of the chaptering (except for the last three chapters) follows the order of appearance of the first nine Heisei series backwards. (Decade > Kiva > Den-O > Kabuto > Hibiki > Blade > 555 > Ryuki > Agito > Kuuga)
And I also mentioned in several of my notes that events on RD's chapters do not necessarily happen right after (or before) each other, even if it happened on the general same year relatively. Except... for Kuuga-Agito chapter. Because the events on Agito chapter, aka Wataru meeting Shouichi could not happen before he meet Godai. But oh yes, I could always put a 'Prior to this chapter's timeline bit, but I find all that a bit too much of a work.
You could argue that I could do the same with the Kiva-DenO chapters, but as I often stressed, even in these two chapters... the sequence of events don't necessary happen right after each other. It could happen before (aka the Mole imagin attacks happened prior to Wataru meeting Otoya's spirit) or it could happen at the same time... or yes, it could happen after Kiva's chapter. I left that very open to interpretation, and I guess even without realising... in the same concept that the producers have made Decade's stories be. Open-ended and up to whatever interpretations fans wanted it to be. And I always believed that Decade is an experiment on trying to find a different way to tell a KR story same as Hibiki's concept had been experimental. (I mean... pure sounds to fight monsters?) Or with Ryuki's multiple versions of endings.
In this sense, it's up to the writers to determine how they wanna write the scenes. It goes the same way for the actual series as well as in fanfiction. And usually when people wanted to keep a story to be open to interpretation, they tend to leave out some vague descriptions so you can fill in yourself.
TLDR, you're reading someone else's writing. Perhaps some plot device are there for a reason. Unless there's obvious grammatical or spelling mistake, don't demand that the author change the fic to suit your preference. Because yes, the way you said it... and seeing that I used to write in that 24 kinda story-telling aka telling different stories in one continuous timeflow, I could combine the two chapters but I'll assure you, the chapters would end up terribly VERY confusing. In the similar way you would grow bonkers trying to see the events of Doctor Who on one linear flow of time especially when different Doctors are involved. I prefer to do away with that.
And unless it's to fix minor grammar/typos I usually do not want to change any of my fics drastically unless they were seriously out of character because half the time, I'd probably won't finish the changes. Especially for COMPLETED stories.
And I don't see other people getting worked out about this part before.
A/N: Because someone in FF said that I should change the Den-O/Kiva chapter into ONE chapter just because Kiva-Den-O world are set in the same universe. -__-;;
Guess you can't please everyone. I thought when I last wrote Rippled Dimensions the plot was fine enough. And even when I haven't specifically mentioned it, I did set it that every chapter will focus on different Riders; regardless of the worlds or time period. The order of chapters corresponds to the RIDER in focus, not the worlds! Or time period. Thus the order of the chaptering (except for the last three chapters) follows the order of appearance of the first nine Heisei series backwards. (Decade > Kiva > Den-O > Kabuto > Hibiki > Blade > 555 > Ryuki > Agito > Kuuga)
And I also mentioned in several of my notes that events on RD's chapters do not necessarily happen right after (or before) each other, even if it happened on the general same year relatively. Except... for Kuuga-Agito chapter. Because the events on Agito chapter, aka Wataru meeting Shouichi could not happen before he meet Godai. But oh yes, I could always put a 'Prior to this chapter's timeline bit, but I find all that a bit too much of a work.
You could argue that I could do the same with the Kiva-DenO chapters, but as I often stressed, even in these two chapters... the sequence of events don't necessary happen right after each other. It could happen before (aka the Mole imagin attacks happened prior to Wataru meeting Otoya's spirit) or it could happen at the same time... or yes, it could happen after Kiva's chapter. I left that very open to interpretation, and I guess even without realising... in the same concept that the producers have made Decade's stories be. Open-ended and up to whatever interpretations fans wanted it to be. And I always believed that Decade is an experiment on trying to find a different way to tell a KR story same as Hibiki's concept had been experimental. (I mean... pure sounds to fight monsters?) Or with Ryuki's multiple versions of endings.
In this sense, it's up to the writers to determine how they wanna write the scenes. It goes the same way for the actual series as well as in fanfiction. And usually when people wanted to keep a story to be open to interpretation, they tend to leave out some vague descriptions so you can fill in yourself.
TLDR, you're reading someone else's writing. Perhaps some plot device are there for a reason. Unless there's obvious grammatical or spelling mistake, don't demand that the author change the fic to suit your preference. Because yes, the way you said it... and seeing that I used to write in that 24 kinda story-telling aka telling different stories in one continuous timeflow, I could combine the two chapters but I'll assure you, the chapters would end up terribly VERY confusing. In the similar way you would grow bonkers trying to see the events of Doctor Who on one linear flow of time especially when different Doctors are involved. I prefer to do away with that.
And unless it's to fix minor grammar/typos I usually do not want to change any of my fics drastically unless they were seriously out of character because half the time, I'd probably won't finish the changes. Especially for COMPLETED stories.
And I don't see other people getting worked out about this part before.
A/N: Because someone in FF said that I should change the Den-O/Kiva chapter into ONE chapter just because Kiva-Den-O world are set in the same universe. -__-;;