Yep, dat Zero ending has me firing on all cylinders
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, June 25th, 2012 at 09:47 AM (3052 Views)
I'm gonna go full-steam on this Waver-Rin-Shirou dismantling the Grail thing. I've come up with enough plot points at least on the side of fighting to make it work--instead of power level issues, it'll be more of a need-to-be-in-five-places-at-once sort of clusterfuck problem.
Of course, still have to figure out what the fuck to do about OCs. I hate making them. I hate using them, especially in the context of antagonists. Yumi was fine, so to speak, because you could gain insight into her from other perspectives and because she could drive interactions with the others as well. Antagonists might drive the plot forward, but they still come across too gimmicky to me. I had that problem with Death and Justice, trying to build up to a villain that I needed to kill off anyway, so he had to walk the fine line between powerful enough to give a sense of threat but weak enough that its believable Shiki-Shirou combo could take him out.
Also, even just the protag side is kind of annoying. Waver, Rin, probably Luvia, Shirou, probably Sakura. Assuming large enough factions of the Association that want the grail, that's not a ton to work with. CMs imply that Waver has his own almost-faction of people he's "discovered" and that Rin eventually becomes a popular lecturer herself, so yeah, we could have more, but once more, OCs. Ugh. If I went that way, how to make them interesting without coming across as Sues, Munchkins, or two-dimensional. Drag in HA/Tsuki/Melty/Kara/Mahou characters instead? Caren, Ciel, Sion, Azaka, Touko? Curse you Nasu and lack of relevant male characters!
I'm probably gonna have to enlist help this time around. I think Seika said something about wanting to do a story like this...maybe she has relevant ideas...