Yozora: Chapter 13 Notes
Let’s be real, you wanted to know how Hei had escaped, right? From the beginning (and by beginning, I mean when I was writing chapter five - Storming the Bastille) I thought about including that concept, but I felt like it would detract from things already going on. And honestly too, I had half a mind then (and solidified that idea this time around) to grant Hei some advance knowledge on the drug, which also would have given away details that I couldn’t be sure I wanted you all to have yet. So I put that idea out of my head and forgot about it, and in the planning for the chapter fourteen, I “remembered” and decided that a flashback would aid the story. Hence chapter thirteen became fourteen, and this chapter took its place.
I never like to be the person who stops in the middle of a paragraph or action sequence to methodically explain something that’s going on. I try to explain it appropriately with the context, but I also prefer people use a couple brainwaves and draw their own conclusions. I like to expand upon details, but in a way that doesn’t interrupt the flow. SO, here is a much more appropriate place to talk about Hei’s ability to alter matter on the quantum level. We don’t talk a lot about that power, I feel. Personally, it’s a tricky thing to know what to do with. It’s not like his simply electrocuting people in combat. Hei hardly uses it in the series, and when he did it was with a very concentrated purpose in mind. And I can’t even be sure that what I came up with was even logical, but I’m sticking with it on the grounds that hardly anything in DTB regarding Contractor powers is exactly “logical”.
I did a little research just to cover myself. “Quantum” refers to the smallest or minimum amount/value. So as I’ve come to understand Hei’s ability, he can alter even the smallest, simplest form of matter, which thinking it through sounds pretty cool. In this chapter, this ability just faintly comes through as the drugs’ effects are wearing off, and Hei’s using the power on himself furthers the process along so that he can switch to the usage of his more popular power sooner. This should, if you’ll all recall, mark the time that the Public Security Division reports activity from his star. I wanted to shy away from something this complex on the grounds that Hei is not so experienced with this sort of fanciful science and could kill himself, but I talked myself out of the doubt because Hei has shocked his own heart as with a defibrillator in episode 14 of season one.
So with the molecules in the blood altered, the effects are reversed enough for Hei to use his alternate powers to short the electricity. Simple. Sort of, haha.
A little extra information for your pleasure, this regarding the man slamming his face against the glass. I had been watching The Dark Knight earlier that afternoon, and I always jump at the scene where the district attorney, Harvey Dent, and the mayor of Gotham are talking in the mayor’s office, and the corpse of a wannabe Batman hanging from a noose (victim of the Joker) slams into the window while the mayor is standing in front of it. He stumbles back in shock, and even though I’ve seen the movie multiple times now and anticipate this, it never stops my heart from skipping a few beats. That was on my brain, and it inspired that little portion. I tried to find the clip for your benefit, but all the scenes on youtube of the conversation between the DA and mayor specifically cut off before the corpse hits the window which defeats the purpose of everything as far as I’m concerned.
With that plan came the idea for that same man to be electrocuted as Hei shorted the machine’s power, but I had a sneaking suspicion that concept would violate proven scientific laws. And I was right. Here’s a physics lesson for you all: Glass in solid form is actually an insulator, not a conductor. Perhaps I’m the only dummy who didn’t know this for certain, but there you have it. That idea would have been a major fail as a physical impossibility. I’m not that disappointed, I’m just glad I checked myself, you know?
Anyway, this ended up being longer than I expected, so this should be a good place to close. The story’s remains are already outlined pretty distinctly, not in written form but in my head. I have the final three chapter’s already generally planned. I don’t personally enjoy outlines. I force myself to use them now and again for practice, but my writing process is more comfortable going straight for the drafting, and making several edits later. To each one his own. So yes, there will be three more chapters to follow this one and the story will wrap itself up rather nicely, I hope.
Love from CK.
I never like to be the person who stops in the middle of a paragraph or action sequence to methodically explain something that’s going on. I try to explain it appropriately with the context, but I also prefer people use a couple brainwaves and draw their own conclusions. I like to expand upon details, but in a way that doesn’t interrupt the flow. SO, here is a much more appropriate place to talk about Hei’s ability to alter matter on the quantum level. We don’t talk a lot about that power, I feel. Personally, it’s a tricky thing to know what to do with. It’s not like his simply electrocuting people in combat. Hei hardly uses it in the series, and when he did it was with a very concentrated purpose in mind. And I can’t even be sure that what I came up with was even logical, but I’m sticking with it on the grounds that hardly anything in DTB regarding Contractor powers is exactly “logical”.
I did a little research just to cover myself. “Quantum” refers to the smallest or minimum amount/value. So as I’ve come to understand Hei’s ability, he can alter even the smallest, simplest form of matter, which thinking it through sounds pretty cool. In this chapter, this ability just faintly comes through as the drugs’ effects are wearing off, and Hei’s using the power on himself furthers the process along so that he can switch to the usage of his more popular power sooner. This should, if you’ll all recall, mark the time that the Public Security Division reports activity from his star. I wanted to shy away from something this complex on the grounds that Hei is not so experienced with this sort of fanciful science and could kill himself, but I talked myself out of the doubt because Hei has shocked his own heart as with a defibrillator in episode 14 of season one.
So with the molecules in the blood altered, the effects are reversed enough for Hei to use his alternate powers to short the electricity. Simple. Sort of, haha.
A little extra information for your pleasure, this regarding the man slamming his face against the glass. I had been watching The Dark Knight earlier that afternoon, and I always jump at the scene where the district attorney, Harvey Dent, and the mayor of Gotham are talking in the mayor’s office, and the corpse of a wannabe Batman hanging from a noose (victim of the Joker) slams into the window while the mayor is standing in front of it. He stumbles back in shock, and even though I’ve seen the movie multiple times now and anticipate this, it never stops my heart from skipping a few beats. That was on my brain, and it inspired that little portion. I tried to find the clip for your benefit, but all the scenes on youtube of the conversation between the DA and mayor specifically cut off before the corpse hits the window which defeats the purpose of everything as far as I’m concerned.
With that plan came the idea for that same man to be electrocuted as Hei shorted the machine’s power, but I had a sneaking suspicion that concept would violate proven scientific laws. And I was right. Here’s a physics lesson for you all: Glass in solid form is actually an insulator, not a conductor. Perhaps I’m the only dummy who didn’t know this for certain, but there you have it. That idea would have been a major fail as a physical impossibility. I’m not that disappointed, I’m just glad I checked myself, you know?
Anyway, this ended up being longer than I expected, so this should be a good place to close. The story’s remains are already outlined pretty distinctly, not in written form but in my head. I have the final three chapter’s already generally planned. I don’t personally enjoy outlines. I force myself to use them now and again for practice, but my writing process is more comfortable going straight for the drafting, and making several edits later. To each one his own. So yes, there will be three more chapters to follow this one and the story will wrap itself up rather nicely, I hope.
Love from CK.