(07-12-2018, 11:06 AM)classicdrogn Wrote: That sounds great, BA. Not just tying up Garrick's own plot threads, but addressing what they can of the wider and longer-tern issues in the Macross setting as well, and the Vajra working to reunite Garrick with the friends he's made and then been torn away from ties in very well with their own development here from massmind to "separate but never alone," helping to ease the loneliness and reduce the separation between the members of his swarm to distances they can bridge themselves when desired.
Indeed. Really, there's not a whole lot left to really figure out. Hopefully I will soon and having a buffer won't really matter much for this one.
It would be nice if I can wrap this sucker up before the fall 2018 term.
And then after this?
Heh-heh-heh... I'll admit, it was tempting to make this next one be Darling in the Franxx now that it's ended its production run and we have the whole story. But the turn things take towards the end demands a... support network that Garrick would not quite have yet. (Seriously. For that? Nothing less than his full entourage and with Katherine seated at the core of SDF-2 nee-Megaroad-1. Tentative Name? SDF-2 Dani California - because she's trouble wherever she goes!)
Instead, I'll be going with the originally planned step of VanDread, where Garrick is going to have PLENTY of targets to vent his rage upon. Oh man, it's gonna be interesting to see the Earth boy react when Garrick completely shrugs off his gravity manipulation as he puts his enhanced strength to a real test for the first time since Equestria.
"Hey kid. You wanna turn it up a notch? I might actually break a sweat then."
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"YOUR FUCKING ENDING, YOU JAILBATE FOR NAUGHTY PRIESTS!"
And this is to say nothing of the cat that it's gonna set amongst the canaries when Garrick can completely upend their culture. Something that's going to be a thing is the simple fact that you can't force everyone into a sexual orientation that they don't fit in. So there's going to be more than a few girls who are known as "Those Kinds of Girls" (that is, girls that while they seem to have a libido otherwise seem to have no interest in actual sex) who suddenly twig to this apparently little known fact amongst the Meijerians. At least, once Garrick reveals it and buys himself a boatload of trouble.
I might also pick up again on Being You is Convalescence since, as far as I can tell, things with MLP:FiM have settled down a bit more.
(The thing I HATE about working with a media franchise that is still developing its lore is that it can oh-so-easily reveal a new development that would retroactively invalidate something you do at an earlier timeframe in your fic. And I feel you can only play the 'Discontinuity' card so far before it starts having an adverse effect. Though granted, Macross is still ostensibly 'developing', but it's a foregone conclusion that we have ample wiggle room, and regardless the lore is already pretty well established.)
Regarding the Humanoid Vajra....
*Cackles evilly*
Seriously, I am THIS CLOSE to calling them 'Invid-class' Vajra, just to fuck with the Robotech-purists' heads.
But really, when you stop and think about it, there's a whole helluva a lot of commonality between Invid and Vajra. Just sayin'.
I'm still working on what direction they would take specifically. In general, it's pretty much what it looks like on the tin - the Vajra have just been awakened to a whole other world. And they are VERY curious to learn more about it. Even if it means jumping into the deep end. They already know the risks - the pain and anguish of the parting of Minmei and Garrick made that abundantly clear. They've decided it's worth it.