Late Updates

I had previously set a goal to finish my last three oneshot requests and BTtS by today, Martin Luther King Day (that's an edit. I originally had President's day. -_-;), but seeing as my last update was over a week ago, it's kind of obvious I haven't done any writing lately. I originally got the requests back at the end of December, and I posted like 5 of them since then, but these current ones are harder than the first ones I made. The first few requests were all Bleach requests, and I specialize in that fandom, so it was easy. But these current ones are from Vampire Knight, Ouran High School Host Club, and D. Gray Man--not my areas of specialty. The OHSHC one should be a bit easier, but the VK request is for Kuran Kaname, and I can't stand Kaname. =\ This should be a challenge, but last time I opened requests, it took me a year to complete my last one. I'd say I'm making better progress right now, but I really hope I can finish them before the end of the month.

I do have my reasons for not writing much over the past week. I recently rediscovered my Jak and Daxter games for PS2, and I thought I'd replay them since Jak II is part of the basis for the plot to A Cruel Angel's Thesis. (ACAT) I'm basing the two races created from the curse of Kame and Izanagi off of Dark Jak and Light Jak and partly off of the Light and the Dark from "The Dark is Rising" series. Tori's dream in chapter 3 or so reflects some of my ideas on that.

It's been awhile since I've messed with ACAT, so it'll take a little to get back into working with Tori. It's a big transition from BTtS to ACAT. Sayuri falls in love, Tori's story is friendship based; ACAT is completely alternate universe, BTtS is mostly canon based; BTtS is more long-term, ACAT is a short term project; BTtS is (almost) completely thought out, ACAT isn't going anywhere specific; Sayuri is more hot-tempered, Tori is much calmer and usually more sensible; and I know Sayuri's character better than Tori's. Hopefully I can work it out before May. Tori's "birthday" is May 9th, and I want to get chapter 4 up by then. My OC's all have birthdays, but none of them are based of the day I created them. Sayuri is July 15th simply because that's when Ichigo's is. I just picked a random month and day for Tori, and Inari's birthday was set that day (September 6th) because that's my parents' anniversary. I try to make them in all different seasons.

About not finishing BTtS as of now, it doesn't mean I'm going to quit it for good. I've planned too far ahead for that. It just means that I didn't have the ending as well planned out as I had wanted to. I originally wrote 34, 35, 36, and 37 in the same day, but the resolution of the story was so lame that I had to scrap the last three or four chapters and think up a new, more difficult ending. Trust me, it's for the best, but at the rate I'm writing now (which is like 0 words a day), I might not have it finished until at least February. It's only a couple chapters, but it's still a difficult thought process. I want the ending to be how a normal Bleach resolution would be (like the bad guy goes down after a difficult fight, things are thought provoking, etc.), but seeing as Kubo himself has not finished the Hueco Mundo/Fake Karakura town arc, it's more difficult. I need a legit way to kill Aizen. Apparently it will be harder than I originally thought. As always, suggestions are much appreciated. Comment below or leave me a pm/review on FFN if you have an idea.

This journal looked a little boring with just text, so I spiced it up with a good AMV. XD