Butterfly Effect: Authors' Notes: Chapter 6

[bard_linn]

Bard Linn: Hello everyone! We hope you enjoyed this chapter. This one was a lot of fun to write.

Kiraya: We're finally in Midgar... and we've met a lot of people, too.

Bard Linn: I guess we should go chronologically, which would make the most sense, I suppose.

Kiraya: *nodnod*

Bard Linn: I really enjoyed writing about Cloud's entrance to Midgar. Tom, Dick and Harry were fun too. That scene is actually a little joke on the fandom. Did anyone get it?

Kiraya: ...oh, little details.

Bard Linn: And then there are Scott and Paul, whom Kiraya likes so much....

Kiraya: I do. When we were writing this chapter, they started running away with me. >..> Scottandpaul are fun, though.

Bard Linn: *snickers* I believe we've mentioned before every OC has a purpose. These two had the job of introducing how the SOLDIER program worked to Cloud. ..........But they will pop up again in the future, because they are fun. Even if Kiraya insists on saying them as one word.

Kiraya: They go together. You know, like... uhh...

Bard Linn: Like peanut butter and jelly? :3

Kiraya: Yes. I was going to say chocolate and raspberry, but some heathens disagree. Poor lost souls... anyway.

Bard Linn: Indeed. We should also mention that we share a concept with knowing_shadow's Fusion in here.

Kiraya: The "no female SOLDIERs" deal. No, wait, that’s Lunar. The body chemistry issue.

Bard Linn: Right. Anyway, it is mentioned in Fusion that Turks are pulled from SOLDIER candidates. Mind, that's not the only way they get to be members of the company, but it is an important one. Just one of those details Kiraya keeps straight or else I'd mess 'em up.

Kiraya: Mmm, details…

Bard Linn: But we do know both of these concepts appear elsewhere, just so you guys know. ^.^

Kiraya: And of course, we finally have the introduction of our most beloved Zack in this chapter.

Bard Linn: That we do! And at the same time, we manage to torment Cloud. Two for one deal.

Kiraya: As tame as this is compared to some of the other things we've done to him, I wouldn't ENTIRELY consider it torture...

Bard Linn: .....lugging a "drunken" first class around isn't torture at all. Nope. Course, compared to NEXT chapter.....I'd give you that. >D

Kiraya: ...I cannot wait for that. <3

Bard Linn: Neither can I. But before we start tormenting you guys too much, we do have an important announcement! Wayya has begun translating Butterfly Effect into French! Her translations can be found from the main archive, a link to which is at the bottom of every chapter and Author’s notes, in case you haven’t seen it. Thank you so much Wayya!

Kiraya: We really appreciate it!

Bard Linn: So, can you think of anything else for this chapter?

Kiraya: No, I'd say that about wraps it up.

Bard Linn: So, exactly how are we introducing Sephiroth? Will Cloud find out exactly who he was lugging around? And how does Shinra food taste? All that and more next time. We'll see you in two weeks!

Kiraya: We'll bring pancakes.


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Comments

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

^_^;;; You know, when the first two "NPCs" that showed up were Tom and Dick, I seriously stopped reading and skimmed a few paragraphs looking for the Harry, because it's that much of a standard-generic-name-joke. Any chance you might rename one of the two of 'em? 'Cause it just completely tossed me out of the story flow, and I'm not sure if I'd ever gotten back into it. (Almost as badly as the "Nurse Talia Alexander" did, actually, though I don't think I'd mentioned that one -- but not only were those names too identifiable, nobody would have really used her full name at that point in a conversation that way, and so that bit also really struck me as 'Exposition Hammer Strikes Again.' If you could work that type of stuff more into the background instead of the foreground, I think it'd be easier not to get pitched out of suspension-of-disbelief when reading.)

Obviously-Zack just happening to show up drunk the one time we 'see' Cloud out alone after hours also was tugging on the suspension-of-disbelief problem I'd been having after getting jolted by Tom, Dick, and AWOL-Harry. But it helped to find out that it was plotting-Zack as opposed to just-plot-device-Zack, if you see what I mean. ^_~ go-go-plotting-Zack!

Now I wonder what Vincent's up to in Nibelheim...

ChibiVincent (staring at the ceiling counting spiderwebs): ...eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight... eighty-nine... ninety... ninety-one... okay, that's at least six more than yesterday...

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

We're both rather upset it had that effect. Mind, those three were part of the jokes tied up in that section. Currently we're debating how to fix/if we are going to change it.

(Wish you had mentioned that earlier, though. I'll see if I can fix it though it's going to be harder because its already uploaded another place. Generally I post here first and do the rest in a couple of days for feedback purposes.)

We do try to keep the plot building gimmicks to minimum, though some DO happen. There's only so much we can control without getting any plot built. Though we manage to ignore that quite a bit. Plot, I mean.

He's sulking of course.