I FINISHED DEAD INSIDE chapter 234 commentary

I DID IT I FINISHED IT IT IS FINISHED

I maybe have a cool thing planned as celebration but, again, it's really big. I want to be able to back out of it. I'll let you know sometime before Dead Inside has been finished posting whether or not it's gonna happen. I want it to. I have like, a month or two to put it together. But I just wanna get a little farther into making it before I say it's happening

Totally (not) serious SoShad mix from rarmaster on 8tracks Radio.

YOU PROBABLY ALREADY SAW THIS MIX MAYBE I posted it earlier this morning so it'd be it's own post.
But I also reaaaaalllyyyyyyyyy needed to upload a chapter today so. Two posts today.

Here's a link to the post on the mix which has an indepth look at all of the songs and I maybe rambled,,,, a lot,,,, about SoShad. Whoops?

Chapter 234 time

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tumblr tag -- though you'll probably find it here, right now, under the dead-inside-is-finished url (I changed urls as celebration but I DO intend on changing back within a week or so)

I'm actually laughing at the posts in this chapter's tumblr tag they are gold literally please go look at them. please.

I said “fuck yeah” to riku/kairi darkness/light combos but it took me a while to actually COME UP with one

Everything Namine’s doing right now is not okay but that’s why it’s good

Magik did a thing in her fic where Sora Kairi n Namine were fighting Larxene and to calm the lightning shocks Sora and Kairi both threw their blade to the ground to nullify it—which works because metal and stuff but?? I wonder if that works for Riku. Is his blade even metal or some?? Organic?? Dark??? Whatever??????

Hmm

Granted I never said it worked I just said he tried

(the jolt was small enough that I don’t think it would’ve affected him too bad he’s trying hard not to collapse because of it—besides Namine wanted only to silence him while she dealt with Kairi not incapacitate him entirely)

Did I mention I wrote the chapter for this brainstorm I MEAN BRAINSTORM FOR THIS CHAPTER like in the middle of an episode of soul eater it was?? Whatever in season 2 when Maka and Soul are fighting Crona under the school and I think it was like right after Maka had used the black blood but before she got Crona to stop fighting

Regardless

I wrote it after that and tbh I wrote the brainstorm for like ch232 too—not ch233 but 232, this one, and then 235 all the way through the Namiku battle

And there are comments littered all over the brainstorm about Kairi reminding me of Maka and while there weren’t any NOTES about Riku reminding me of Soul it was a very prominent worry after pounding this out. making sure Riku sounded like himself and not Soul

(if Kairi sounded like Maka I couldn’t care less and even then she didn’t—or not noticeably enough. Like you can hear it in her “I WON’T GIVE UP ON NAMINE” speech kinda but you have to purposefully think in Maka’s voice—same here when she’s telling Namine that she didn’t give up on Sora but the words are so hers that if you aren’t forcing the Maka voice you can’t even tell)

(Riku’s “namine’s attitude is really pissing me off” is soooooo Soul tho but I can’t even care)

For some reason Namine distracting Riku with a lightning bolt wasn’t in the brainstorm?? Strange. Because it’s so obvious

I actually spent a while contemplating her threatening to throw a lightning bolt at him—silently summoning one to her finger tips and sending a glance at him but otherwise not acknowledging him as she taunts Kairi—but I decided it’d just be easier if she actually hit him with one

“because the situations that have ensnared you seem too much for him to overcome” – that’s too wordy for Kairi if I’m honest never mind

I CAN’T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE TO HAVE HER SAY THO *keeps it*

I contemplated briefly giving Namine knives because she’s got Larxene data why not the knives too b UT I’d already written like two chapters of the fight and I’d have to rework it all so she had knives instead of a blade and. no thanks.

Namine’s a piece of shit I hate her I hate this I hate.

I hate her so much but wow I love it it’s perfect it’s so horrible it’s perfect

GH AND SHE’S FAKING IT TOO LIKE THE INITIAL CRY OF PAIN WAS LEGIT BUT AFTER THAT SHE WAS JUST MILKING IT BECAUSE SHE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO WORK

I’m such an ass:

It wouldn’t matter if you could tell the difference. All they’d need is five minutes to catch you off guard and then shove a blade through your gut, I believe the conclusion was on the fic’s charries' blog about exact duplicates made to kill other

And look, Namine didn’t even need five. That took maybe three

Gosh okay so I went back and read the end of this chapter and wow wow wow I love my wording I love how that played out like. I don’t mean to gloat or anything but wow I’m proud of how that fell together