So now there’s this. · 11:37am Sep 25th, 2015
It would seem I'm nearing 666 likes for this story. I'm practically there, I just don't feel like upvoting my own story. Anyway. The symbolism wouldn't be so bad, if I didn't also have 69 dislikes at the same time.
I considered doing a gag in this journal. Joking about how I’m 69-ing SahtÃaaan, which might’ve either been a massive, burly, hairy satyr-esque creature that showed me the world on a magic carpet ride, then we'd do Eagles together; or a busty, tentacle-y futa chick that showed me unimaginable heights of torturous ecstasy because why the fuck not it's my joke.
Instead, I decided that I didn't feel like engaging in such nonsense. Instead I would rather just say a few things and open a Q&A. I'll say a few things, then you can do the Qs while I do the As.
There are a lot of awesome people that follow and apparently like my work, and I'd like to thank those guys. There were a lot of readers criticizing (either for better or for worse), and I'd like to show my appreciation to the helpful and well-meant ones. As for the either mean-spirited, or just confused and uneducated ranters, well, there's not much to do about those. This is the internet, which means that free speech is a thing. Again, for better or for worse. People offer advice, and spew garbage all at the same rate. Nothing to do about that. I'm just happy I received positive input at all. Regarding the negative trolling, I'll need to avoid giving them the attention they're actually after, but at the same time I'll need to check and see if they're actually trying to offer genuine advice (it's a freaking lose-lose). I'll avoid starting flame wars like an idiot instead of working on the next chapter, but I'm not going to roll over, smile and ask for another helping of bullshit either
. (Looking at you, wlam)
Still. Again, it's nothing to be helped. It's the internet. There are going to be idiots on it, it's unavoidable. But there are also going to be people who would take time out of their schedule to construct their comments into a line of dialogue with me, in order to make me understand what I'm doing wrong. For that, I can never be thankful enough.
One thing which I learned actually hit me like a truck. I’m sorry for not noticing in advance the ethical boundary that I overstepped when I set to writing this story. I had no right to pull someone else’s work out of the grave, tear it apart, then put it back together according to my own personal preference and purposes. Sure, the story's dead, and I'm just making a remake, something which was done so many times already on this site up till now, but what I did was still simply unethical. My intention was to take the pieces and put them together, not because I just wanted the recognition. Honestly, I had no idea you guys would explode the way you did when the story was first submitted. I didn't even know if it would pass regulations! (que troll saying "well, you don't always get what you want")
What I actually wanted, was when I saw the corpse of the original, I failed to consider I might've been doing something unethical by trying to scavenge the pieces I found nice and shiny, and use them with whatever ideas I might've had, according to whatever theme I had as my own style. I wanted to make something awesome, but I failed to consider that, although it had a horrible ending chapter, someone still did put an effort into making this story. It wasn't perfect, but it was still something which someone cared about.
I’m not apologizing to the fans of the original who were hoping for the story to continue, because honestly, who cares about them. They're just a few critic steps away from holding me hostage because of my initiative. No, what I’m sorry about is the moral line which I failed to take into consideration from the beginning.
And also the fact that the beginning chapter was so gore-and-action filled when most of the story is just going to be a slice-of-life sort of deal. I did pick the "Slice of life" colored story tag, but I only figured out later that my choice might've been a tad on the misleading side. There probably are more mistakes which I failed to notice by now, but what can you do. You live, you learn. There will be fighting, and some dismemberment in the future, but not for a while.
But you want to know the real reason why I'm not sorry to the fans of the original? That would be because what they want isn't for me to try my hand at doing something better in my own way, but instead to make a complete replica, flaws and all. I cannot stress enough on two things that I've mentioned so far. Mistakes happen, and I have my own style. I figured out my mistake. Can you look past your impression of how perfect you think the original is, and maybe judge my work impartially?
I can't reconstruct the original, and there's something you need to understand. You shouldn't force me to. I have my own artistic sense, my own writing style, my own ideas and my own standards. I heard there's someone trying to continue the original from the point it left off. If you really loved Kytranis's version so much, read that. I had deliberate reasons to make the decisions I did. Beside actually having some funny misadventures planned out for further down the line and some real drama to happen between Luna and the Necromancer, I did think my decisions through.
Someone in constant danger of death would need to adapt and change in various intrinsic ways. A surgeon needs to first get used to the sight of a dead body before he can open up his own patient, and that involves various views and priority changes. Not only would freezing all of those complex components of the brain do little in the way of aiding someone in the Necromancer's position, instead, such a decision would be hindering his logical, intuition, survival and fear centers. It would’ve also been extremely difficult for a necromancer who barely started on discovering his necromantic affinities to affect such a complex body part as the freaking brain safely. (unless you just want to throw it all into the "magic can do that" bandwagon)
Especially when he was crashed into his new life, and needed to start digging through his family’s corpses. He barely discovered his powers at that point in time. The monks into who’s cares he was dumped were focusing exclusively on educating him to suppress his orientation, not understand it.
In conclusion, when he did go through that extremely traumatic experience, then was immediately forced to decide between either staying catatonic and finishing his family's graves, or defending himself against the mercenaries which killed his family and were still there, waiting for him, he went nuts in order to survive. Paranoid, bitter, hateful, he then lived on his own. Somehow, through some combination of luck, competence and determination to not let king Richard have the last laugh, he survived. After two months of doing that, he was found by that tribe of nomads which died because of him.
I’m giving this main character more depth. I’m making him learn life lessons, and share them. I’m giving him an entire personality and life’s knowledge to conflict with what Luna’s trying to teach him.
I changed the main character, but for good reasons. Maybe the origins of his insanity might not be to your liking, because of the convenience of magic, but my goals for the conflict I’m trying to achieve (spoilers undisclosed) are the primary reason why I started on this story to begin with. I understand it might still be a bit of a letdown, but I do want to improve on the original in my own way.
hmm, it's at 666 now, i get the distinct impression noone is gonna ever upvote it again to preserve that.
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Damm good stuff, sir...
Hm... I like the original 'Foal Necromancer', but I'm not so narrow minded that I cant see that you made/making a worthy "remake". Using the original as a base for this one...and It works well in my opinion.
And yea... your story kinda explains more of the character, and give him a more fleshed-out personality and story.
So again, as a fan of the 'original'. You are doing a good job on this
You keep on writing you glorious bastard.
You know I've never read the original so I honestly don't care. Still fleshing out a character isn't a bad thing. He's lived for over a few thousand years of course he'd have conflicting issues and morals. The Necromancer's entire life is one of tradgey and it's something Luna will have a hard time at undoing.
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YES! Satan's 69 has been completed! Bravo!
Eh, I had more issue with your attitude; instead of saying it was just a reboot/reimagining, he gave off the impression of over confidence and being better than the original in every way.
3418697 Guilty.
I like the first one, the reactions of the ponies when he talked about his sex life after finding that transformation crystal. I like yours as well keep with it fucker. 8===>
I've read both your rendition and the original and i cant wait to see were your is heading.
That second thing sounds kinda hot, lol*. I also don't recall him being sent to monks in either story!
*jk, or not to jk. That is the question!
3444951 after he killed that frog, didn't his parents send him somewhere?
3444997 To the village elder.
In my lifetime, when I'm disgraced by jealousy and lies I laugh aloud, 'cause my life has gotten inside someone else's mind.
Don't speak his name. They say he can hear you.
I know I got a 666th like on something, but I can't recall if it was this.