This is a semi-large change to the plot, so I may as well make a note of it here. Due to the magic of rewrites. Shanala's former commanding officer is now Marrow, and Ifrit has been eliminated from continuity altogether. Well, more accurately, Ifrit's characterization has been folded into Marrow's. There are several reasons. While trying to work out an outline for Marrow's bonus story, I simply couldn't consolidate his role in the jailbreak with how he was originally presented during the Battle of Cinnabar. The truth is that Ifrit has no reason to exist. In order to complete Shanala's isolation, she had to leave everyone from Storage behind. So Ifrit was created to replace Firaga. And looking back, Ifrit is as cardboard of a character I've ever made. I've always wanted to develop Marrow a little more anyway. Now, instead of having two half-developed characters, I now have one fully-developed character. Ifrit had virtually no role in Operation Retrieval, only a few cameo appearances.
Marrow is not exactly the same as Ifrit, of course; his characterization is a combination of his old role with Ifrit's. Where Ifrit dissented against Heatran from the beginning, Marrow did suport Heatran initially, but later saw this as a mistake. I'm still working out the details for a Marrow bonus story, but the current idea is that he changed sides after visiting Sinnoh on Heatran's behalf. There's quite a bit to tinker around with on here. Something seems to have happened to the CSS and the formatting looks all weird. Also, I had an option implemented so that I could switch the banner around more easily, but that seems to have broken, leaving me with no banner at all.
Once the style is repapired, I need to figure out which stories I'm actually going to put on this site. Though Weebly is far superior to Webs, Webs did have the ability to make a table of contents, and that was quite nice. I have the feeling that, if I ever bring LotE back here, it'll have to be one page per chapter. :1 I've been considering not keeping my stories on here anymore, actually. Just a fuckload of links to everything. Then this site can focus on the character/timeline/multiverse pages and whatnot. Or maybe even repurposing this site for my original fiction... no, I may be lazy, but even I have limits! //shot This will be a slow process, of course, as various deadlines are coming up; finals are approaching. And then after that comes jury duty. And then comes job hunting. Oh joy. |
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April 2021
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