Another big one I managed to get on dA, Blackout!
I never actually planned to write it...it just sort of...happened. Though really it was very hard to write since all the characters are androids on a metal planet, and I didn't want to go all exposition-heavy and say that, just imply it...blah.
It was better than Reflection anyway. And I actually "finished" the story--in my head. Blackout is a rare story of mine in that it's actually a complete timeline and I know everything that happens.
Admittedly there were only going to be ten chapters, making it a novella at best, but it was still complete.
It was an attempt at satire; Rod was the conformist paranoid about losing his job, society was preprogrammed and formulaic, and Hack was the ripple that turned into a wave, the rebel who turned everything around. It really wasn't a sci-fi story in that way. Just societal criticism disguised as robots.
However, a rare thing Blackout did manage to do was splinter off into an rp universe at the same time the main story was going on, effectively giving it two canons. The satire left in favor of action, and the rp verse had many, many more characters. Each canon had their pros and cons.
Needless to say the rp went on much longer and was more fun, haha.
Though in my mind, both of them are "done"...I don't think Blackout's going to come back. It had a very interesting concept and its characters were fun to create (they're all based off a single machine, and all had name puns), but it's just hard to work around.
The rp verse isn't going to come back due to hard feelings with how it ended, and the main canon is hard to touch due to its rules. So all in all it's one of those ones that was "fun while it lasted."
However, its fallout is upon pretty much all my other stories today. It gave many characters new life (Arc is the main one), and created many more that are now incarnated regularly today (RR has quite a few, Emery being perhaps the greatest one, and Scope was loved in DtF).
Maybe it's dead, maybe it's not...but as for the characters, they live on everywhere.
I never actually planned to write it...it just sort of...happened. Though really it was very hard to write since all the characters are androids on a metal planet, and I didn't want to go all exposition-heavy and say that, just imply it...blah.
It was better than Reflection anyway. And I actually "finished" the story--in my head. Blackout is a rare story of mine in that it's actually a complete timeline and I know everything that happens.
Admittedly there were only going to be ten chapters, making it a novella at best, but it was still complete.
It was an attempt at satire; Rod was the conformist paranoid about losing his job, society was preprogrammed and formulaic, and Hack was the ripple that turned into a wave, the rebel who turned everything around. It really wasn't a sci-fi story in that way. Just societal criticism disguised as robots.
However, a rare thing Blackout did manage to do was splinter off into an rp universe at the same time the main story was going on, effectively giving it two canons. The satire left in favor of action, and the rp verse had many, many more characters. Each canon had their pros and cons.
Needless to say the rp went on much longer and was more fun, haha.
Though in my mind, both of them are "done"...I don't think Blackout's going to come back. It had a very interesting concept and its characters were fun to create (they're all based off a single machine, and all had name puns), but it's just hard to work around.
The rp verse isn't going to come back due to hard feelings with how it ended, and the main canon is hard to touch due to its rules. So all in all it's one of those ones that was "fun while it lasted."
However, its fallout is upon pretty much all my other stories today. It gave many characters new life (Arc is the main one), and created many more that are now incarnated regularly today (RR has quite a few, Emery being perhaps the greatest one, and Scope was loved in DtF).
Maybe it's dead, maybe it's not...but as for the characters, they live on everywhere.
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