Shirou Emiya, Vampire Slayer
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, August 3rd, 2014 at 03:50 PM (5223 Views)
I'm constantly conceiving and discarding story seeds, which has been the subject of many a blog post. But I (like to) think I'm finally zeroing in on a few concrete ideas that, at first blush, weren't related at all. Then I began to think more and more about them and saw how easily they could be sewn together as episodes in a much greater narrative.
The common theme? Shirou winds up fighting vampires in most of them.
But let's start at the beginning.
I've always enjoyed the cryptic comments that a work of fiction makes to past battles and heroic things going on just offscreen, so of course I salivate at the thought of things like the Autobot-Decepticon war before it reached Earth, the five-year gap between the seasons of Young Justice or the gratuitous hints that Nasu drops of unseen adventures.
Like what the demon hunter organization might have been like if it had survived to the present day
Like that time Shirou and Luvia are investigating Van Fem's Casa three years post-Grail War, as mentioned in Hollow (which means it's probably just a joke, but there's potential there)
Like that Grail War-scale conflict ten years after HGW #5 to dismantle the Grail once and for all
Arashi is kicking ass and taking names with that third one over on Hearts of the Suffering, and I'm sure any stab of mine I took at the concept would turn into Sixth Grail War Fanfic #12340879134.
So I got to thinking about what could possibly put Shirou and Luvia on a Dead Apostle's yacht. Well, shit, Imperial, where's the likeliest place for them to have met? And what route ends with Shirou at the Clock Tower? Unlimited Blade Works
Then I got to thinking what a waste it would be to dump the reader right into Shirou and Luvia being old friends dancing around the elephant in the room of their sexual tension. It's a fun story worth telling, but there's got to be more than that.
And then the ball was rolling.
For ease of reading, I'm going to spit out the titles and the blurbs in roughly chronological order, even though I came up with them in a very nonlinear way.
Shirou vs. vampires, the series
The Tower of Power
Witch Hunt
Untitled heist fic
La Casa de los Muertos (or something else in Spanish because I'm feeling pretensious)
Magnificence
And now for something completely different