It's all good, sometimes VMs can get buried >.<
Haha, yeah. It really seems out of place when a person who is actually familiar with the series reads it *grumbles about the forums*. I'm not exactly the most outspoken person, even online. I wrote most of what I already have almost a year ago and I'm barely posting it as my first public work.
I suppose in this sense I'm mostly just hijacking the character's names and physical features than their personality for the most part. Somehow I feel like if I only used what was outlined in the actual manga, I'd be following the series to a T, but with a different main character.