Man, it's been dead in here lately... Why is everyone so quiet?! Maybe it has to do with it being near the end of the school year for many; I'm done with classes now and just have three exams next week and that's all. Yay for summer! Plenty of time to both play video games
and write, well, so long as I don't get a job. <_<
If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?
Nothing major. As with Valentine, I pretty much write as if TFC and TRINITY are actually animes. Specifically, I aim for TFC to be your standard televised episodic anime, with it even having typical elements of anime such as the whole saving the world plot... TRINITY is designed to be more of a miniseries or movie (a long one), with the same sort of style of Ghost in the Shell.
The things I'd change would probably be minor details, mostly in the settings and how things look. One example that stands out are the
instant runes in TFC that are formed when magic (Source energy) is used. I had to design them so that I can easily describe them in writing and so their complexity can't be anywhere near the level of, say, the one shown on that TV Tropes page. In a visual medium, they'd probably be redesigned again (I've already redesigned them between the rewrite and the new version as they were just TOO simplistic before) to be more complex, fancier, and overall cooler.
*Is a proud proponent of the rule of cool*
Somewhat related to this, I'm listening to this awesome song that I found from an EVE Online trailer video (the song's called Beauty Never Fades by Junkie XL, from the not-so-smartly named trailer EVE Never Fades) that I think just goes perfectly with TRINITY. I can just see the images in my head as if it were the anime or whatever I wish it was, introducing all the main characters—Tashima, Havoc, Zeta, Zack, Jet, and the other people who I still haven't thought up names for since they're not explicitly main characters—with lots of action and guns blazing and Vespers/Valkyrie fighters flying overhead to combat Cypher's Fighter Drones while on the streets of Helios the resistance movement is fighting against Scout, Assault, and Hunter Drones...
God, I've got my vision for TRINITY so fleshed out now that I even finally have a feel for what the city, Helios, looks like. I've got all the different classes of drones, Cypher's shock troopers, down (Scout, heavy scout, assault, heavy assault, hunter, fighter, heavy fighter, advanced fighter, and operator) as well as their manned counterparts used by the good guys (The Vesper T-83, which I've changed from what was seen in Waves; Vesper T-91; and the experimental pair of Valkyries). I've got the specifics of the titular TRINITY and it's cousin CELL down, including why they're so important. Almost every minor details as well as most of the major ones have been fleshed out; I've even gone so far to reconsider the inclusion of one element, ARMS (basically mecha), that while cool I just couldn't figure out how to incorporate well (I want the focus to largely be on the individual people and introducing these war machines, even if they are cool, would draw a lot of that focus away. Also, I would need some way to counter them which would just lead to something bigger and even less personal. Either that or magic.)
Yet despite this, I've been largely focusing on TFC lately... It's seriously been almost five months since I last updated TRINITY, in part due to me pushing out THREE chapters of the TFC rewrite in that time, as well as heavily devoting time to the fourth. I wanted to finish part 1 of the TFC rewrite before switching back to TRINITY for perhaps a two chapter block, but...this is just taking so long. Chapter 4 is almost done but I just feel like I'm neglecting a story which, while it still needs time to come into its own as I figure out what my strong suits are, has the potential to be as glorious as I see it in my head. Unfortunately, I know no one else will ever be able to see my exact vision of TRINITY...