Though, tbh, I almost wished I'd remembered this whole conversation when I wrote the chapter of Aerith's wedding day, because that first line there is beautiful! Then again, I do like it better where there's some week-before set-up, and the line wouldn't have flowed with all that leading into it.
magik: "it was in a church--Aerith's doing... Zack didn't care (would have married her on the moon for all he cared)" nice, simple... She'd probably settle for Yuffie, Tifa, and Rinoa for the bridesmaids. Zack would have Cloud, Leon, and I'd think of a third person
rar: shoot since when were there THREE flies?? sorry i just, we had two and killed one but now there's two
magik: they do this thing called breeding. I'm channeling hades, apparently.
rar: yeah but they're all big and have only been around for this afternoon??
magik: I"M NOT WRITING FOR HIM TOMORROW DARNIT< I"M WRITING CLOUD AND TIFA
rar: I'M SORRY
magik: and sephiroth
rar: THAT'S FRUSTRATING
magik: i need to get in a sephiroth mood
rar: write Hades anyway??? ??? just write it now. go back and do cloud later
magik: no, because then i either A) have to get into Mickey's head or B) have Aqua hover over his shoulder. the time for hades will come. he just needs to hush.
rar: okay, just trying to help
magik: but i need to deal heavily with mickey for that chapter
rar: riiight
FYI: This was the Hades' attack on Disney Castle sequence. Just for anyone wondering. I changed Donald/Daisy's wedding into Zerith's wedding very early on into Remnants. But I am SO SO SO happy with that change.
This here is some more plotting for the Cloud arc:
magik: hmm... do i want to throw Cloud into Agrabah?
rar: idk? you could
magik: thank you, Tifa, for that line
rar: what line?
magik: "Cloud, we are wandering around in the desert, and for what?"
rar: stick 'em in Agrabah then
magik: because like, he'd park his bike, and then just start wandering aimlessly, though Tifa knows it's not aimless
rar: how'd they get back to the bike?? he should not lose track of it. just saying, that'd be bad
magik: Tifa can get herself right to it.
rar: goooood point
magik: Cloud just doesn't ask. Tifa's "job" is to go get the bike and save Cloud's butt.
rar: ha yeah
Because that was before Tifa'd really revealed to anyone that she could form light corridors. Not that it's a huge deal, but as a point of reference.
And this upcoming bit was some plot arc that I'd intended on using for Sora. It kind of made its way in, but not entirely.
magik: spam you some feels about charrie development: because Sora... Sora's got a darkness problem. not huge, but it's there. because he no longer has so much light in his heart. yup, it's a thing. and while it's not a "problem"
rar: oh yeah, now that Ven's gone
magik: it's a problem in the fact that he has NO IDEA how he's supposed to take care of it, so he has to learn
rar: thaaaaaaaaaaaat's true
magik: and Riku and Kairi have to help him through it, once he admits he needs help. I think it's the only topic he and Kairi fight on, actually. And Kairi... Kairi's learning how to wield a Keyblade, and that's all find and dandy. but then there's Xion, and Xion's just amazing because she's a perf replica
rar: of course
magik: and kairi knows that xion and roxas technically wielded before her and it shouldn't matter, but it does. And Roxas, who just spent a year training and that's all he did. and Kairi's just like... "why can't I be that good?" and then there's Riku...
rar: (they do have like a year on her tho. both of them. I GET KAIRI'S FEELS I'M JUST SAYING)
magik: shh... it shouldn't matter but it does to her, anyway... but then there's Riku who's kinda just quietly bettering himself
rar: that's Riku for you
magik: he's over most of his demons/skeletons. he's coping. except for when he's not. he and Namine get locked in this "you need to stop being so hard on yourself" thing, because they're both struggling with it. and idk about Roxas and Xion's development at the moment, outside of them wanting to become masters. it'll come to me
but then there's Axel, who gets a double-whammy of character development. first of all, because he's finally coping with everything that involved Isa/Saix, which is huge and major. then he thinks that it's weird that he's included in Sora's friends because, sometimes, he sees himself as the enemy, still. anyway, i'm sorry, did I saw two, i think I meant three... the third one involves Kuin but not in a romantic way, in a "i need to respect you" way, because that whole thing with Xehanort and she has to come to terms with that, and apologize, and realize that she can't do it alone. And Axel can respect her for that
Wow, that was a lot of character talk. As you can see, a lot of that made it into the 115 chapter monstrosity that is Remnants. Some of that didn't.
I never really did deal with Sora's darkness problem. It came up a bit. Here and there. But not overly so. I think I'd wanted to include it because I knew that Ven was no longer in Sora's heart anymore, and Sora had less light to combat the darkness--plus, Nomura had hinted at stuff like that for KH3. Well, it didn't make it in to the extent that I'd originally thought it would. Sure, in my headcanon, he and Kairi probably do argue about it a bit. I just never wrote it because it never really seemed to flow. Sora's optimistic and happy, and he wants the best for everyone. When he worries, it's not because he has darkness problems, it's because he's trying to figure out how he's going to kill four people--all of whom he's killed before and now he has to kill them again. He's afraid of Xehanort getting one of them and it never once occurs to him that Xehanort'll come for him, too. At least, not until Xehanort does do that.
Meanwhile, Kairi's apprehensions about Roxas and Xion being amazing do show up, when it comes time for them to take their Mark exam. But even that worry was lessened because Kairi is reminded that different people are good at different things.
Riku and Namine do have this "you need to stop being so hard on yourself" for literally everything. But, honestly, the best interactions between them are when they're dealing with the aftermath of her shattering Marluxia and her throwing Xehanort from her head. Good, solid, conversations.
Roxas and Xion are quietly adorable on their way to becoming masters.
Ah yes, and Axel and Kuin. I'll talk about that now. Sometime during Betwixt/Between, I realized that trying to pair Axel with Kuin just wasn't going to work. It might have worked in someone's vague crack-fic after AtP had BB never been written. But Axel being who he is and Kuin being who she is meant that that two of them would never be a healthy relationship. And I wasn't in the mood to write an unhealthy one. So I turned them into rivals and acquaintances, who'd never pursue anything romantically. It felt better that way.
Also, it let me subtly ship Akurokushi. One of my biggest OT3s as of late. My final chapter does contain a reference to that.
I'll continue in another (and probably final) blog about wedding traditions.
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