...well...um...it's just one point of similarity, and Gai-girl's a lot more fleshed out as a character than this Mist-nin is. Gai-girl is a major player, the mist-fangirl is a throwaway reference in that story. I doubt we'll see her again. It's different.
'cides, like you said, you're taking it in a completely different direction. What you've already posted bears that out...
I mean, I know swiping ideas...leaves a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of people, sure. But this really ain't all that bad, methinks. It's...a little thing. Inspiration rather than Grand Theft Literature. It's sort of like how, I think...couple threads over, Nathan said he got the idea of Anko having a crush on Iruka from another fanfic, "Suiren".
(on a completely unrelated note, that fanfic title keeps doing weird things to my brain, because while Suiren is 'Water Lily' in Japanese, it means 'Water Person' in Mandarin Chinese, and I speak that, and...and...I keep getting images of Sakura getting permanently transformed into a Mizu Bunshin after a tragic accident involving Ino and a mind transfer, and...I need to lie down now. Yes. Lie down.)
-- Acyl
'cides, like you said, you're taking it in a completely different direction. What you've already posted bears that out...
I mean, I know swiping ideas...leaves a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of people, sure. But this really ain't all that bad, methinks. It's...a little thing. Inspiration rather than Grand Theft Literature. It's sort of like how, I think...couple threads over, Nathan said he got the idea of Anko having a crush on Iruka from another fanfic, "Suiren".
(on a completely unrelated note, that fanfic title keeps doing weird things to my brain, because while Suiren is 'Water Lily' in Japanese, it means 'Water Person' in Mandarin Chinese, and I speak that, and...and...I keep getting images of Sakura getting permanently transformed into a Mizu Bunshin after a tragic accident involving Ino and a mind transfer, and...I need to lie down now. Yes. Lie down.)
-- Acyl