Ever think of a story you want to see based on part of another
Very odd question, but it's something that's happened to me many times. I'd watch a show and find myself curious about how things would go if things were different, or speculating on how a character might take certain knowledge and what sort of stories can be made from them, or just imagining what stories could be built taking some side/arc idea and turning it into the core. Any ideas, no matter how far-fetched, stupid, vague or convoluted, I'm just curious if anyone's else has done this.
Here's a few oddities I'd come up with.
Spoiler for Kaguya-sama:
Loosely based on my thoughts on how Kyouko might take the whole truth:
A boy goes out of his way to protect a girl, to save her from a bad situation, but for one reason or another this gets twisted around so that it looks like he'd done something to the girl. As a result, the girl not only rejects the boy but goes on to persecute him and seek to wreck his life. She is fairly successful, causing no end of troubles for him, then one day she learns the truth. She's shocked naturally, and filled with shame at how she'd been so easily duped, and how cruelly she'd treated someone who'd to that day only tried to protect her. She falls asleep wishing that she'd done things differently, and when she wakes up, she notices that her bed and room seem a lot bigger. She's somehow gone back into the past, from as recent as the day she denounced the boy to even the day she met him, and she determines to do things different this time; this time she's going to be the one to protect him.
I've seen plenty of time travel stories, where the hero wants to live a better life, get something he'd failed to get before, stop something from happening, but I don't think I've seen one where the purpose was undoing one's own personal crime, and I think it'd be real interesting.
Spoiler for Hatsukoi Limited:
At the end you have one odd relationship with a girl, who had a crush on a senpai that'd recently moved, who told the boy that she just learned liked her "let's both do our best!", leaving him extremely bewildered. I'd thought for a while just what it would be like to have a romance story where the heroine actively encourages the hero to pursue her even while committed to pursuing someone else. While a distant adaptation, I thought up something like this:
The heroine, who loves competition, has a crush on a real cool boy, but she's afraid to approach him. She goes to her best friend, who she learned has a crush on someone too, and offered to help him get together with his crush if he'd help her with hers. He adamantly rejects her, insists that she couldn't possibly help him with this, and she gets mad. Being prone to declaring competitions, she declares that they'd make it a "race", each giving it their all to win their love and see who succeeds first. She continues to egg him on whenever she thinks he isn't taking it seriously, but it takes her some time before she learns that the reason she'd have been no help to him is because she herself is his crush. Even after this, for one reason or another, the competition continues, with him trying to win her heart while she tries to win the heart of another boy.
Spoiler for Boukensha License Hakudatsu...:
Long title, cut short. Centered on a middle-aged man who saved a little girl after losing his adventurer's license and is now trying to overcome all the mysterious happenings around them and begin a simple, slow life with his new "daughter". The part concerned here is an early arc, where he tries to turn the girl over to a fancy orphanage in hopes she'd get a good home, only to discover that the kids aren't adopted, they're sold to brothels. He manages to expose them, but by this time it's been running for years. He later meets a fifteen-year-old prostitute who'd been forced into the work six years ago and just a month ago received an official notice that she was free from any "debt" that kept her there. Unfortunately, she felt like this was all she had left and that no one would ever see her as anything but a whore, so she came straight back to make her living the only way she could imagine. The hero managed to give her some confidence and hope for the future, but it's left unclear where things will go from there. I figured that in and of itself would make a great story. For instance:
A young man grows up near a beautiful and prosperous orphanage, and often sneaks in to play with the kids there. He meets and grows close to a girl, and as he matures his feelings start to blossom into love. Then, one day she's "adopted" and taken away. A few years pass before he stumbles on a few things, and discovers that the kids are "adopted" by brothels and perverts looking for toys, or by businesses looking for cheap labor. He tries to destroy the enterprise, but failing that he takes off after gaining knowledge about the locations of the "clients", determined to rescue all his old friends one by one, and hoping one day to reunite with the girl he still loves even now. There are no illusions here, he knows that they'd all been through years of abuse, that even the girl he loves has been forced to engage in all manner of acts since the day she left, but this doesn't matter. Nothing she'd been through will change his feelings.
A big point here lies in the fact that indeed, no girl who enters the "harem" or becomes a traveling companion is a virgin. At least not in the strictest sense. This is to a fair degree a sort of response to all the shows where the author comes up with some "reason" that no heroine has ever had that "precious" membrane broken.
Sorry that these are all long, I'm not good at summarizing.
Not necessarily. The stories I described made it far enough from the original that they don't really have a connection anymore. Sure, the first would work as fanfiction with Kyouko doing an Erased bit. But the other two are really just an idea seen in the show taken all on its own. In particular, the one "based" on Hatsukoi Limited has pretty much nothing to do with the actual characters. I'd love to see a fanfiction showing Sogabe and Nao's future relationship; the author herself said she doesn't know whether it would work. But there's a pretty big difference in my opinion between that and a group of original characters caught up in a "competition". And that's what I'm interested in, whether anyone's just seen one scene or scenario and found themselves coming up with something completely different built around just that without any of the actual content. Fanfiction level is also fine, of course. I was just curious.
2021-12-05, 23:48
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