The Black Dragon Prophesy - Fanfiction
Title: The Black Dragon Prophesy, CHAPTER ONE: Vicious Streak
Characters: Dilandau, Dragonslayers, Dornkirk, Folken, OC
Rating: M (Violence, implied violence, moderate use of strong language)
Summary: AU, (Divergent TV Universe & Elements of Film) - Dornkirk seeks to throw down the White Dragon and bring his Ideal Future back into focus. Equalising imbalances is the only way, and Zaibach receives a prophesied answer from the Mystic Moon of its own. Explores Zaibach as a place, its society and characters in more detail, casting Dilandau and his Dragonslayers in a key role.
Notes/Author Drivel/Nonsense:
October 9th was my birthday. I'm 25 years old today.
12 years ago in the heady days of my rampant fangasming fresh-faced and misguided youth, I wrote my first fanfiction. It was about Escaflowne, it was about Dilandau, it was about an OC, and it was very long. Around 20 chapters and 280 pages at 10pt Times New Roman all told, though blessedly most of those pages didn't make it onto the Internet. It was hideously OoC, full of nonsense, pseudo-intellectual babbling, and indicative of an anti-social sad kid's complete inability to understand human interaction.
It is also still up on the Internet. Sigh.
Recently I began rewatching the series as it had a profound influence on me growing up in many ways, including my art style. As a lonely, only kid with social disorders, stories became my best friends. Fortunately all that tragic nonsense is beyond me now but it has left its mark, and as an adult I wanted to give some kind of closure to the Great and Hideous 280 Page Sadfest that I wrote as a child. I felt if I wrote another story, had another go 13 years later, I might be able to give something back to the fans of the series I had loved so much and in a roundabout way give a little guidance to my lost kid self. Backwards through time. Or some such nonsense, I don't know. Suffice it to say the reasons behind this are dewey-eyed as well as being simple storytelling skill developing writing.
Anyways I have plans for this story. It focusses mainly on the Zaibach side of things and the different parallels within that society. I've set it in a kind of AU version of the TV show, where several details have been incorporated from the film universe. I plan to have it diverge from the show eventually, but not so far that it will be unrecognisable, I promise! There will be moderate use of strong language, and eventual exploration of sexual themes. However, this is not in any way a smut fic and will not be explicit. I have also taken the liberty of changing the time period on Earth for this fic. Canonically I believe it took place in 1998; I've shunted it forward to current times. There's few things that this affects, but it is a detail I ought to mention. There are a few nods to the ancient fic in there. The OC I have created for the story has a derivative name of the first. Little things like that. It's an entirely different beast from the "original" however.
In fact, here is a link to her character design just for giggles. Nonsexual nudity (it's a character sheet sketch.)
I sort of imagine it in the TV style, but I'm much more comfortable drawing in the film style.
I do go to the Escaflowne forums. My name is Libreia there. I'm in the process of making a cover for the fic now. :)
Thanks for reading, both this inane nonsense and my fic! Feedback is greatly, greatly appreciated!
Characters: Dilandau, Dragonslayers, Dornkirk, Folken, OC
Rating: M (Violence, implied violence, moderate use of strong language)
Summary: AU, (Divergent TV Universe & Elements of Film) - Dornkirk seeks to throw down the White Dragon and bring his Ideal Future back into focus. Equalising imbalances is the only way, and Zaibach receives a prophesied answer from the Mystic Moon of its own. Explores Zaibach as a place, its society and characters in more detail, casting Dilandau and his Dragonslayers in a key role.
Notes/Author Drivel/Nonsense:
October 9th was my birthday. I'm 25 years old today.
12 years ago in the heady days of my rampant fangasming fresh-faced and misguided youth, I wrote my first fanfiction. It was about Escaflowne, it was about Dilandau, it was about an OC, and it was very long. Around 20 chapters and 280 pages at 10pt Times New Roman all told, though blessedly most of those pages didn't make it onto the Internet. It was hideously OoC, full of nonsense, pseudo-intellectual babbling, and indicative of an anti-social sad kid's complete inability to understand human interaction.
It is also still up on the Internet. Sigh.
Recently I began rewatching the series as it had a profound influence on me growing up in many ways, including my art style. As a lonely, only kid with social disorders, stories became my best friends. Fortunately all that tragic nonsense is beyond me now but it has left its mark, and as an adult I wanted to give some kind of closure to the Great and Hideous 280 Page Sadfest that I wrote as a child. I felt if I wrote another story, had another go 13 years later, I might be able to give something back to the fans of the series I had loved so much and in a roundabout way give a little guidance to my lost kid self. Backwards through time. Or some such nonsense, I don't know. Suffice it to say the reasons behind this are dewey-eyed as well as being simple storytelling skill developing writing.
Anyways I have plans for this story. It focusses mainly on the Zaibach side of things and the different parallels within that society. I've set it in a kind of AU version of the TV show, where several details have been incorporated from the film universe. I plan to have it diverge from the show eventually, but not so far that it will be unrecognisable, I promise! There will be moderate use of strong language, and eventual exploration of sexual themes. However, this is not in any way a smut fic and will not be explicit. I have also taken the liberty of changing the time period on Earth for this fic. Canonically I believe it took place in 1998; I've shunted it forward to current times. There's few things that this affects, but it is a detail I ought to mention. There are a few nods to the ancient fic in there. The OC I have created for the story has a derivative name of the first. Little things like that. It's an entirely different beast from the "original" however.
In fact, here is a link to her character design just for giggles. Nonsexual nudity (it's a character sheet sketch.)
I sort of imagine it in the TV style, but I'm much more comfortable drawing in the film style.
I do go to the Escaflowne forums. My name is Libreia there. I'm in the process of making a cover for the fic now. :)
Thanks for reading, both this inane nonsense and my fic! Feedback is greatly, greatly appreciated!