Showing posts with label Dead Inside Endgame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dead Inside Endgame. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Dead Inside Endgame?! - Namiku battle (video breakdown)

Alright.

You may or may not remember how I had a short 30 second amv to go with both the SoShad and Namiku battle for the end of Dead Inside

Well, I was rewatching the Namiku one again on a whim

And two things about it struck me

1) It was really good, and I'd chosen a lot of good moments to convey what happened in that battle

2) A lot of these good moments go by wayyyyy too fast for anyone to really see (and is potentially hard to watch because the images flash, and if it hurts my eyes when watching, it's gotta be a lot worse for other people, especially those with epilepsy)


So

I thought I'd do a play by play breakdown of what's going on in the video

((The only other option was upload a slow mo version but even then the images go by to fast, also, then it'd have to go w/o music, and, this seemed easier + gave me the chance to talk a lot about it and really tie it in with the battle))


Here's the video to watch again, if you'd like (mega epilepsy warning though)





And the breakdown of it will be below the cut!!!

Monday, October 6, 2014

Endgame Changes Post

First, have this unfairly good song


I'm

amazed

It's so good and it's unfair

Anyway

I am here to talk about the changes made to the Endgame of Dead Inside--what made it in vs my original ideas, etc.


Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Shad Changes Because of Sora/Shad loves Kairi

Ah yes there is a lot to cover here



First a Shad mix

And then I'll put the discussion under a break because that's the Professional Thing to do, plus I guess if you haven't finished Dead Inside yet this is spoilers

This goes with ASAS ch71 by the way
(and also touches on Shad being Bound to Sora, which is another scrapped idea)


Saturday, September 13, 2014

Chapter 246 Commentary: Epligue part 2

Welcome to the last chapter! Is this the last blog post? Oh no. Did you think I was gonna stop after Dead Inside? Yes? Might wanna double check the books bar on the left hand side in that case.

The short story is now that Dead Inside's done, we're moving to book 5, otherwise known as "All that Remains" (it being similar to magik's "Remnants" was completely unintentional. again)

When will book 5 start being posted? Well a week or so break is probably fair, just to give you some time to relax after Dead Inside. I can't wait too long though, I've got a sequence in it that lines up with something in magik's Remnants.

In fact, if I didn't have a sequence planned to coincide with magik, I'd probably have waited on book 5 and gone straight to the Nothing's Fair rewrite. Yes, that's still a thing.
(I'm actually going to stop in the middle of book 5 to rewrite Nothing's Fair haha sorry)





"Rar, didn't you have some Big Thing planned for the end of Dead Inside?" Yes I do! It's called The Dead Inside Package--more details will come on it in a later post. For now, you can check the Thanks/Acknowledgments chapter of Dead Inside, or my FFnet profile for the basics.

Hey, and if you want more ending-celebration stuff, check out the endgame tag on the FtPverse tumblr

Chapter Time!

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Chapter 245 Commentary: Epilogue part 1

I could post like a playlist with this but I can't think of anything that's relevant to the end of Dead Inside that I don't want posted with ch246 so

No to a playlist this time

If you're curious, I went ahead and wrote the Riku vs Maleficent scene that happened back during Falling to Pieces--you can read it here

I actually had a lot of fun with the scene. It was written as if to be a file viewed from CO/TWTNW's computers, which allowed me a lot of freedom with the format.
It allowed me not only write Riku vs Maleficent and "parallel" it to Larxene, linking the whole lightning thing, but also play with the fact that it is not just a memory, but an unstable memory, like all of those in Riku's head.

I considered putting it in Falling to Pieces itself, but the difference in writing style + special format eventually made me decide against it. At least for now anyway. Maybe at a later point I'll put it (or perhaps a modified version without the memory formatting) in Falling to Pieces anyway. I wanted to. Hmm.

ALSO I'M REALLY UPSET FFNET WON'T LET ME DO BRACKETS SO I COULDN'T FORMAT THE COMPUTER COMMANDS AS LIKE. ACTUAL COMMANDS.

y'know like
 > command here
that's what I wanted to do

anyway


"It was never too far for her."
 Here's the first (of three) Book 5 teasers. And on that note...

Chapter Time

Friday, September 5, 2014

Chapter 244 commentary + updates

Updates first, per usual

if you missed it, I updated ch87 of Dead Inside, which is the convo where Kairi and her dad talk

"Why did that need to be updated?" well for reasons I've said literally everywhere, including the chapter itself, and my commentary on it.

But, in short, continuity things concerning Destiny Islands + parents


UPDATE NUMERO DOS

Introducing the FtPverse Character Resource!

The FtPverse Character Resource, or as I'll probably call it in the future when I become more lazy, "the ftpcast blog", is a separate blog created to be a holding space for character posts so they don't have to clutter the front page of this blog

The Home page will be updated with every (important) character eventually, but for now you just have the main cast.
Full character bios/character pages will all be put up eventually, too, but as of today it's only Riku's and Shad's and Kairi's. I'll probably put up Namine's or Sora's later this afternoon

All non-character pages (like gallery and playlists) are under construction.

"Rar this is like the third time you've come up with a new format for character pages can't you stick with one already??"
WELL, the reason for this change--which will hopefully be the last--is that it doesn't require much work outside of copy+pasting for me.
The Original Character Corners were great, except, y'know, they're three years old by now. The Updated Character Corners were also great, minus two things:
1) the bio which includes a summary of their role in all the fics
2) lack of my favorite thing when it comes to character pages, namely, a relationships with other characters section

The New Character Pages fix both of these problems--actually, they fix all three.
See, the New Character Pages are basically just copy+pasted info from my character masterdoc, which I keep up-to-date already for my own personal needs. Since I have to update this info for my own uses, it only becomes one smaller extra chore to update the pages online. All I have to do is copy+paste info, like I said.
The Updated Character Corners, on the other hand, required me to go through and write summaries and... that is a lot of extra work for information that doesn't even benefit me.

"Well I liked the bios/summaries of their roles." Did you? Great. Do you want to write them yourself and include links to chapters and all that other stuff? Because, honestly, if you do, I will be more than happy to let you. PM me or place a comment below or send me an ask on tumblr and I'll hook you up with my email so you can send that stuff to me
(I'm not comfortable giving anyone the admin rights to this blog)

moving on

I suppose I could post a playlist but this is long enough as is, so.......

Chapter Time

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

chapter 243 commentary

I don't actually have a lot to say

check out yesterday's post for a SoRiKai fic that was really really really really really good

Chapter commentary and a few update-y things under the cut


Thursday, August 28, 2014

Chapter 242 commentary

So it turns out that Big Thing I had planned for the celebration of finishing Dead Inside? The one I wasn't sure about doing because it was Really Big and needed a lot of work?

I'm doing it.

I'm not quite finished but I'm very very close to being finished. Honestly, though, I probably won't say what it is until Dead Inside is finished. Big reveal or something?? Idk.



Have a Fire Emblem Awakening mix!! I really loved Lucina?? A lot. And this mix is very fitting for her, I think. It's one of my fave mixes recently, regardless.

Though if you want a legit music suggestion for this chapter, I have to suggest CHVRCHES every time, hands down.

So... Chapter time!

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Chapter 240 commentary

Okay so this post is going to start off as a variety of different fandoms

I started reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, and so far have really enjoyed it (only two books in though, and that first book was the prequel "New Spring")

I pondered a FtPverse AU set in that universe, which you can find here. The highlight of that is probably Aes Sedai!Namine with Warder!Riku. (though Larxene being Ase Sedai--specifically an Elaida I'm 90% positive Elaida's who i'm thinking of equivalent is fun to consider)

Also a separate Wheel of Time AU where fem!Sora is an Aes Sedai (Aes Sedai are only girls) and Shad is her Warder. But that stems from my desperate hunger for AUS where Sora and Shad are bonded to each other in some way (see also: the Soul Eater crossover)


Along with Wheel of Time, I got deep into Harry Potter AU thoughts last night, and put them on tumblr this morning.
I'll spare you the full breakdown, but I'm really behind the idea of Xehanort being the Voldemort equivalent, and pulling a Triwizard Tournament plot with Terra, which ends with Terra being norted, and Aqua fervently signing up for the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher position to pass on all her knowledge about Xehanort/Terra as soon as possible


This is a Fire Emblem Awakening mix because it's basically a perfect mix sighs deeply--artwork can be found here

Also, Ever After by Marianas Trench is an absolutely beautiful song.

Chapter time

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

8/13/14 (chapter 239 commentary)

Happy AkuRokuShi day folks




Have an AMV

Uhm if you want I (sorta) liveblogged the Days Movie, and general AkuRokuShi feels from today are all under the 81314 tag on my tumblr
if you want 'em

If you want a playlist, there's this one, and this one that popped up on my tumblr dash while writing this blog

Chapter time then, I guess


Saturday, August 9, 2014

Happy 4th anniversary!! (ch238 commentary)

Thhhhheerreee's no special anything going on this anniversary

I mean. I can say I've finished Dead Inside though! And we're only like.... 8 chapters from it all being posted (so like another month haha.... ha.....)

IN OTHER NEWS I wanna recommend you all a fun story called the Ballad of Edgardo

I can't describe it any better than the tumblr post does:
A story that happened to an anonymous RPer years ago.
Anyone will be able to appreciate it (and trust me, you will), but if you are kinsmen or kinswomen to me, if you ever had to experience the shittiest of RP forums and their terrible userbases, particularly that one guy that does whatever he wants and is an asshole that clearly godmods but gets away with it because the actual mods don’t give a damn, you will find the beauty behind the ballad that much brighter.
Just trust me on this one. It’s not a particularly long read, either.
I hope you enjoy The Ballad of Edgardo
Read it here. Trust me. You won't regret it.

Now, have a FtPverse 4th Anniversary Celebratory Mix




Tracklist here, and I have sources for the Namine pic (which you should remember from the Meltdown Project), and the Roxas pic--the rest of the pictures, which you should know, are either official or drawn by me. Except that SoKai pic which I still can't find a source for.

Most of the tracks in here are kinda vague and more related to Dead Inside than anything else, but after making all the soundtracks (which you can get quick links to on the soundtrack page) I didn't feel the need to include obvious songs in this mix like "Breakeven" or..... whatever I would've put in for Riku ("Rebirthing" or... maybe something Linkin Park??)

I'm also going to take a moment to promote the FtPverse's Official Tumblr. Why? Because it has a dang good tag system (as in I actually took the time to tag separate books + am not embarrassed to tag pics as characters because it's not my personal blog)

You don't have to follow it. But please, please keep it in mind if you're ever in the mood to browse FtPverse related material

Anyway, Chapter Time


Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Fire Emblem Awakening has ruined me (ch237)

I finished watching a playthrough of it and woooow it's a good game and I'd love to play it for myself (largely just because there are are so many choices based on player decisions and I'd play it differently and

however I am broke and want a Wii U a looooooooo t more so unless I see the game somewhere for $10 I ain't getting it soon

Here's the liveblog tag for it if you're interested -- oh, and a link to the playthrough I watched

ANYWAY LETS MOVE ON TO SOKAI FEELIGNS


PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM WHILE READING THE CHAPTER THANK YOU


(source) hhhghhghgg SoKai feelings s

Friday, August 1, 2014

Chapter 236 commentary

So I finally got into Blue October pretty recently.  How it took me this long is actually... kinda... a mystery... I own two of their albums haha.
But I guess I had to hear a song of theirs elsewhere (the song was Picking up the Pieces) for my brain to go "hey. hey this music is pretty nice" because the songs in my itunes library I'd already classified as music I "didn't like"
Anyway so I really like their Approaching Normal album and... really wish... I owned it *sad face*

If you're interested in more headcanons for the music tastes of the FtP cast, well, I did a post on that. I'd repost it here but it's kind of disjointed and would probably take me a full blog post

The most important thing is that Sora and Shad both like Blue October a lot but neither of them can listen to Hate Me. For like. Super obvious reasons. Sora can't get through it without crying, and while Shad's a masochist and will force himself to listen to it, it leaves him upset for the rest of the day. It eventually got deleted from their itunes library
(whether they deleted it out of mutual agreement, or Kairi stole Sora's computer and deleted it is a mystery. I wouldn't put it past Kairi though)

The soundtrack page has also been revamped, fixing the tracklist to better suit the series and stuff. I also included the 8tracks Soundtrack Mixes on the page. So that's pretty neat-o.
Have a (sad) Joseph 'n Toby mix. Tracklist here. Image source.

Chapter time!

Monday, July 28, 2014

chapter 235 commentary omg this is it

the final battles are doonnnnneeeeeeeee

(if you want to cry about SoShad you should go here)

Volume 2 of RWBY started pretty recently and wow it was good 10/10 would recommend RWBY is a good show really. promise.

the FtPverse tag on my tumblr has been pretty good lately so go check it out

OH YEAH there was also a chapter in ASAS about Vexen so that's fun you should go read it




I wasn't sure what mix to post so Dead Inside soundtrack part 1 it is
(tracklist here)

Chapter Time!


Friday, July 25, 2014

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

I kept forgetttttttting to do this poooossssstttt ugh

but




I made a totally not serious mix for SoShad. I'm not sorry in the slightest.

image credit /// post credit 

THIS PROBABLY,,, WON'T MAKE,,,, A LOT OF SENSE IF YOU HAVEN'T READ CH231 so why don't you go do that here

But we're here to go.... in depth.... about all the songs because I got a lot out on it and felt like it should go over here too (initial post from the ftpverse tumblr)

I actually tend to do this for all playlists--or 2/3 playlists and these can all be found on the ftpverse tumblr under the playlists tag


Monday, July 21, 2014

Chapter 233 Commentary

Hey. Hey psst. Hey psst hey did you see what was over in the top right sidebar? did you see it?

That's right! 13 chapters from here to the end of Dead Inside. I haven't actually finished Dead Inside at the time of writing this, but I know Dead Inside's gonna be 246 chapters (excluding the ending author's note)

I managed to do it in under 250 chapters. It's a miracle.



This mix has absolutely nothing to do with the chapter but I am super super proud of this mix I made. It's canon Namine by the way and.... I love it....

I've been working on it off and on for like two months but I didn't want to post it now because I was just like "I have five mixes to post for Dead Inside's endgame I can't I can't"
but I ended up finishing CoM for magik (she had all but the final battle done on her memory card--we weren't even sure who's game it was)
and I had. a lot. of Namine feels. So I decided to post it.

The tracklist is here

This is the original image--Namine's face gets covered by the album title, unfortunately



And the image can be found here on deviantART


Chapter Time

Friday, July 18, 2014

I said I had a Namiku AMV (ch232)





I wanna talk about the AMV for like. four seconds. And that's just real quick pointing out the bit at 0:14 which is like my fave part--though all of this is good






Namine being rewritten and 37 and L being like "frik yeah" like the sadistic meanies they are

bye

Chapter Time

Monday, July 14, 2014

Ch231/SoShad reviews

I'm going to put the reviews under a break because spoilers

but

I'm. Thank you. Thank you so so so much. Just. Thank you.  

I can't tell you how much hate I was going to get for these chapters. How much hate I was going to get over Shad's true intentions and feelings and everything. I expected so so so much of it and while I'd made peace with that ("fics are supposed to be self indulgent I can do what I want") it's still really nice to get the exact opposite of what I expected. 

Thank you.

Crying about SoShad (ch231 commentary)

Here I am to ruin everyone with SoShad feels you ready?

I am



This is the AMV I made for the SoShad battle. Don't worry. the Namiku battle gets one too

all art can be found here

except this one picture of Sora smiling

The rest are recolored manga panels colored by me personally

If you need music suggestions there's the entire mix I made for this battle, or very specifically the songs in the ch231 tag (I hate everything about you, King for a Day, and Props & Mayhem)

Or if you need songs with no lyrics
this string quartet cover of Linkin Park's Crawling (and potentially the rest of the album?)
or Tragic Dragon by TSFH

There's also this beautiful song--The Deer, by Woodkid--but after like the first minute it stops with the somber tone this chapter needs