All the Pieces

The cover I put together for AtP by ripping the image from Blank Points and then editing the dimensions so it would work for fanfic.  Then I went and added 'pieces' to the cover, to make it both colorful and symbolic.  

Anyway, All the Pieces Lie Where they Fell, All the Pieces for short and AtP when I'm lazy.

Backstory/Plotting:

All the Pieces started by me thinking to myself that I didn't want Axel to be dead.  I'm dead serious, so I worked it out how he could be alive.  This was before any news of 3D.  It was around Christmas 2010, I think, not too long after.  All I knew is that Xehanort was going to come back because of what had been hinted at the end of BBS.  Therefore, I figured that if Xehanort could come back, why couldn't everybody else?

At the time, my sister, rarmaster, was writing her fanfic "Falling to Pieces."  I remember thinking about what I wanted to happen post-KH2.  What would the Mark of Mastery Exam look like? What would the next adventure be? What about that whole thing where I don't want Axel to be dead? What's Xehanort up to?

So after I figured Axel was going to come back, Namine started talking.  Namine wanted to save EVERYBODY ELSE.  (Best part was, Namine was talking THROUGH Kairi to give me my first scene.  See, Namine does it to me just as much as she does it to everyone else!)  I was taking a break from my novel for various reasons as the time and I decided, "oh what the hey, why don't I just write what I think will happen."  I wrote the scene with Kairi deciding that she wasn't going to be left behind this time and Namine drawing that image of Xion because she's important.  My very next chapter I presented the fact that Axel wasn't actually dead.  And, well, all of a sudden, the story started snowballing into something rather massive.  In no time, I had the first five or six chapters and started sending them to rar for review.  It wasn't long before I was posting them on dA.  Then I decided to get a larger reader-base, I created a fanfic account and started posting there. 

I never would have expected it to turn into the 90+ chapter thing it is on fanfiction.  (50+ on dA because I separated the chapters differently.)  By the time I was done, it was the longest thing I had ever singlehandedly written.  And I've written three novels, mind you.

So yeah, now here we are...

Favorite Quote:

The problem with this, is that I have a lot of favorite quotes... However, I'm going to go with "But that was then, when I thought we were going to die..." which is said by Sora when he's spluttering to Riku about how much he actually likes Kairi.

It's just adorable.

Least Favorite Moment:

Ugh... um... Lexaeus' death.  I knew that SOMEBODY had to die... and Lexaeus drew the short end of the stick... but it was just so poorly done that... ew...

Scene that could have been written better:

There are a few, firstly, the scenes with Zexion and Lexaeus.  I could have developed those characters better sooner.  Zexion especially, since he's still alive come Betwixt and Between and if I had developed him more clearly then, I wouldn't have to develop so much now.

Kairi's Dive.  I wrote it the first time in CO, and it was cool and all... but, I followed the game too much and didn't put in enough originality, so it's bland in my opinion.  When I wrote it again with the AU scene in the Keyblade Graveyard, I actually liked it better... and I hardly even focused on the Dive at all, but what happened to Namine during the Dive. 

Xehanort's Death.  I rushed it.  I got excited and I rushed it.  It could have been so much better.  Saix's death was written better than Xehanort's...

"I could strangle someone!"

Xehanort and Saix. 

No explanation needed, really.

Oh, and all of the Xehanort replicas... except that one in Neverland that was just crazy... he didn't need to be strangled, just killed.

"I want to hug you!":

At first, I was going to say Namine, because she kept my butt moving on this.  But then I realized that I don't want to hug her for that very same reason.

So, instead I will say Xion.  Because she's adorable.

"Stop being an idiot!":

Riku.  And all of his darkness problems.  Not even problems really, just him moping about his darkness...

"I wrote that?":

Ugh, Xehanort's death again.  Not happy with that scene AT ALL.

And, there were a lot of scenes with minor characters that I included that just... weren't all that great because I was trying to include too many things so they were rushed and glossed over.  The Tron scene! That's just bad! I'm going to go revisit that in Betwixt and Between, actually, because I'm so not cool with how I handled that.

If I could change one thing:

I would make more interactions between Axel and Saix.  I would make more levels to their relationship, so that intentions were clear and whatnot.  There's more that could have gone on there.