I Am There
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, April 18th, 2012 at 04:29 AM (2972 Views)
There's an inverse point to I Am Not There that I've been kind of doing the writing equivalent to "doodling" on. Whereas IANT is about the people Shirou affected in his pursuit of ideal-land and told from their perspective, I keep wanting to make something that is the inverse, of Shirou's perspective as he goes about attempting to save lives in a post-Fate setting. Part of the reason I haven't attacked it head-on is that some of it goes to the darker spaces and I always feel like I have to prepare myself mentally for that.
Here be spoilers as I just kind of ramble-outline, but I don't feel like tagging it.
Pinnacle of Night, Horizon of Dreams
Escaping Fate Prologue Redux
-I alluded to it briefly in IANT, the "letter writer" having a similar story to Yumi from Escaping Fate. I've rewritten the opening scene to be from Shirou's perspective, the first moment he has in a Fate scenario where he actually saves someone (since Saber is gone and Illya has since died, I guess he doesn't count those).
Snake
-Shirou trashes the organization that created Kuzuki. I might combine it with another bit...
Gutter Trash
-A dying (prostitute? drug addict?) is found in an alley. Shirou stays with her in her last moments. He then hunts down the killer?
Sharpshooter
-Shirou deals with having to make his first preemptive strike against a target that is, without a doubt, going to cause the deaths of others if he is not shot down.
Cold War
-Dead Apostle fight in Russia. Action-y to show his progress toward EMIYA-level abilities.
Mongrels
-Shirou saves a boy abused by his (parents? step parents? unrelated?), kept in a dog kennel. In the process, Shirou kills two guard dogs to do so and laments over their "sacrifice" and the boy's living conditions.
Rice Grains in Somalia
-Shirou smuggles rice into Mogadishu. He ends up killing a local warlord who has been completely abusing his power (as opposed to forming something of a symbiotic relationship like many actually do).
Home Sweet Home
-While resting in Fuyuki, Taiga mentions a student at school who has fallen in with a bad crowd. Shirou looks into it and finds the kid has joined a street gang. Shirou roughs the kids up when they end up attacking a drunkard and giving the kid a warning. Might allow for some levity, because Taiga.
Natalia
-Shirou saves a teenage girl from rape gangs during the 2008 South Ossentia War, not unlike how Kiritsugu saves Maiya. Her name is, ironically, Natalia. He also fights off Russian and Georgian soldiers alike? Hint at reincarnated Maiya? (but damn, that implies origin of suck, "reincarnate to just be a female victim"...)
Bred For War
-Something of a plot-bunny that hasn't left me alone since FMP!:TSR came out, and possibly combined or mirroring Snake: the idea of Shirou coming across a figure like Kuzuki or the twins raised by Gauron in FMP! that only know killing. Unlike the Natalia bit above, or Yumi's story in Escaping Fate, they would not be "just" victims, but active in their own destruction and antagonistic toward Shirou. I guess it stems from my mind going, "What would happen if someone like Shirou had come across the Xia sisters and, unlike his fight with Kuzuki in UBW, actually had the capacity to survive in battle with them, thus presenting him with options other than keep self alive?"
Probably others as they come. I just doubt this sort of thing will let go, but I also don't have any particular motivation to get any of this posted in a timely manner.