All Purpose Negima Fanfiction Thread

You people enjoy the death flu plague, then...

And, frankly, every girl in Negima is a Ms. Fanservice. Even Mama Bear.

No mere death virus can survive the searing heat of my HEART!!!

Ayaka is indeed MSA!Kotaro's first pactio partner, but he will have others. There is a good chance that Yue will be one of them. I've already designed the resulting artifact, but whether or not it becomes canon depends.

Also, I must agree with Immi that this Batman!Negi doesn't feel like Negi.

In other news, my family and I are currently trying to decide whether or not my current job is glorified slave labour based on the fact that I barely make more than my deductions and travel expenses (I litterly earn less profit per day than the price of two cups of tea at the moment). As such, unless my sales improve dramatically this week, I'm quitting.

C'est la vie, Sereg. Sorry about that, man.

edited 3rd Sep '12 11:05:07 AM by NoLimit

URAE, Continuation.

edited 3rd Sep '12 11:30:19 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

Had an idea I posted on the FSN fanfic thread the other night, and I think who the 16 Servants are will get an... interesting reaction....

I was going to point out that post was off-topic and then talk about how I just beat New Super Mario Bros 2, but I decided to check out what you posted.

...Creator Worship does not begin to describe you.

Well, it's his own fault, really. And besides, there's only a 1/13 chance of winning. And I say 1/13 instead of 1/16 because I've already decided on three of the losers, therefore increasing the odds for everyone else.

<Beat>

I just figured out a potential fourth, for maximum delicious irony. SCM gets taken out... by a Green Lantern.

Anyhow, notice that asterisk at the end of Creator and Summoner? Those two Servants are subject to change in the event that I come up with a better idea.

edited 3rd Sep '12 12:05:50 PM by EvaUnit01

edited 3rd Sep '12 11:35:07 PM by WorldTurtle

I've already figured out how the Magic World arc is resolved in Caped Crusader. In fact, I had it figured out almost immediately after the Joker discussion.

@Sereg: Sucks, buddy.

edited 3rd Sep '12 1:24:16 PM by rikalous

No Limit: As of now, it gets even better if you check out the list of Masters....

Oooh, Amy Pond...

She kind of pissed me off in the season premiere. XD

Hey gang, question.

(I'm putting this in Eo A, so there's a method ot my madness)

Which has a more coherent magic structure, Lord of the Rings or Ml P?

Lord Of The Rings doesn't really have a magic structure in the sense that spell X has effect Y. Magic is relatively subtle and has vague rules and limitations. It can do what is appropriate to the narrative.

NL: At that point, I was basically just trying to find sixteen names from (preferably) different fandoms, and that was what I wound up with.

@Eva Unit 01: If you really are going without a Joker, Caped Crusader needs a Bane, a Deathstroke, and/or a Raz Al Gul. The Joker is one of Batman's most threatening rogues, and without him, you're going to need bigger threats. And honestly, nobody really has the complete disregard for human life that the Joker has.

@Hyp3r The Joker only does mass murder at random. Ra's has ONLY mass murder. He wants to kill off about 90% of humanity leaving behind the best of humanity IIRC.

Joker is crazy. Ra's is psychotic. Not a small difference.

To be fair, a really good Joker should be unpredictable. Too many Joker stories fall into the easy pitfall of a large shock value bodycount, when it's the twistedness of his actions that really matters; otherwise he becomes an one note cliched serial killer with a clwon motif.

The Killing Joke, arguably the best Joker story ever, features only one actual murder, it gets no real major focus, and it's done in quite an understated way that only makes it more chilling, and actually to count.

edited 3rd Sep '12 6:49:20 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

I always felt that the Joker required a more...personal touch. What is it that would horrify you, the author, the most? What sick and twisted fantasies lurked in the back of your head, just waiting to emerge and shout, "Surprise."

One thing I want to have clear before writing anything for the Batnegi story, because as I laid story layouts out, I realized I couldn't go on without having this clear.

You are mixing original Western characters (like Mr. Freeze, Killer Moth, Croc or Bane) with Japanese characters. All of them seem based on the same city. Now, major Japanese cities don't tend to have that many American foreigners in them, much less to fill half of a Rogues Gallery (unless you take the Unfortunate Implications route of saying the environment drives foreigners to crime, or those foreigners were already prone to crime).

That tells me you need to retool the Mahora urban setting. So far, all your listed 'good guys' are from Negima, while your bad guys are half-natives, half foreigners, and the natives tend to lean towards the sympathetic side while the foreigners are mostly big nasty brutes. That is kinda troubling as well, not only because of the race unintended implications, but because of the Beauty Equals Goodness always annoying pitfall.

While writing Clown Princesses, I try to make a point the girls, while sympathetic victims of their circumstances, are, for the most part, horrible people despite of how beautiful they are. That is more difficult to show in your setting, because there, they have to be kept students at Mahora, despite the fact a group of unstable criminally inclined students should be kept far apart from the common students. Rehabilitation doesn't work that way. Negima canon's Eva case was an extreme exception, brought in no small part because Nagi was an idiot who probably didn't stop to consider Eva could seriously inconvenience the innocents around her (which granted, she didn't do for the most part, but still, it was quite an irresponsible gamble from his part). This system is difficult to rationalize, because it's consciously mixing people who should be in rehab (like Makie) or in psychiatric treatment and supervision (like Nodoka) with average sane students (or as sane as you can get in Negima anyway). This wouldn't be such an issue in a gag setting, but if you want to play it straight, it becomes a difficult obstacle to explain without it sounding forced.

But I digress. I think you need to equalize the odds by also having canon DC allies or good guys, and explain why the setting has become basically a mixture of Japan and America.

edited 3rd Sep '12 7:23:26 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Is it sad that my always-in-motion brain thought up an explanation just after I read that?

Occupied Japan.

One of the nukes failed to go off. In that scenario, it was predicted by Allied experts that Japan would keep fighting to the bitter end, with heavy casualties on both sides if the atomic bombs did not work as promised.

World War II dragged on much longer than planned. When the fighting was done, perhaps both America and Russia kept troops in Japan longer.

It isn't pretty. But it does fit.

...And this is why I don't do realistic works.

Or any other kind?

(Trollface).

You try balancing school, work, friends, reviews, novel writing, D&D, and casual fanfic writing.