Why yes. Yes it is.
This is the epic crossover you've all been waiting for? (Well, one of them at least. I think ya'll were pretty excited to see Sora and Sora, too. But Riku and Riku was always going to happen first.)
Rar and I have had this planned since... oh... Probably since AtP, about when rar was finishing up FtP and moving into Dead Inside. We even had it written.
Except, reading through it, we realized that we had to rewrite it. Basically entirely.
Things that stayed the same:
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Riku landing face-first in the sand
Namine being the first one to see him
The cast of characters
General chit-chat about recent happenings
Things that changed:
Everything else.
See, originally, before Dead Inside turned into the huge thing that it turned into, Sora and Kairi's plotlines were significantly less... erm... expansive. (This is the short version.) From my understanding, Sora had some trouble with the darkness, but nothing on the level of Shad, because Shad didn't exist yet, and Dead Inside actually took place in a lot shorter of a timespan, which meant that Kairi never actually left the Islands. This made the Riku Replica super confused when he saw Sora and Kairi BOTH on the Islands. (I may post the original scene when we're clear of spoilers.)
Repliku was also cockier and the meltdowns were still a relatively new thing. As in, Vexen didn't even know they existed. And Repliku was having a conniption about them because no progress had been made (which of course had to change because of the recent experiments.) I think we were also having trouble with Namine continuing to offer to help and he kept saying no. There was also a whole thing where they got on a tangent about Replicas being their own people (we were on a Days kick) and we were having feels about Repliku being worried that his Namine would be worried that she was a Replica and not a "real" person. That got cut because people's focuses changed.
Plus, we had to change some of the conversation, because things we projected would happen and things that actually happen do end up being two different things. And, some things had to get cut because at the time we first wrote the crossover, we hadn't planned on Joseph and Axel being frequenters of the other universes. And, since Can't Escape became a huge thing, we didn't have to cover a lot of the mechanics. The people in my universe know about where Sora and Kairi in rar's universe are, because they keep running into each other. Plus, Axel ran into Repliku recently.
Yeah, it was a whole big thing.
And, about the time when we were going to rewrite it, Namine was dumping loads of feels on me of things that she wanted to say to Repliku. Which is where the first half of the chapter as it currently stands comes from. The second half being a brief sum-up of the parts of the story that my characters don't know.
And, I think that's all I'm going to say. There are more chapters on this to be posted, and I don't want to discuss everything to death just yet!
I think I'll do review responses for this whole sequence once I'm done posting :P
And... I think this is an appropriate video; Also, it's amusing:
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