I figure that, since I've covered all the characters I've wanted to talk about for this series, I can start off with some random past scenes, chapters, or concepts I wrote into APS. I'm gonna start off by making a list of what APS was like in the beginning. So basically I'll talk about any previous plot concepts and then discuss the original version of whatever happened in chapters 1-8, or something like that.8964 copyright protection31ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9ta6jrO8c 維尼
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- APS was originally just supposed to be some evil scientist thingy. Scientists wanted to capture and experiment on superhumans. But…. I wanted to write a superhero story too. I can't say too much about this one without spoiling, but let's just say I haven't completely given up on the idea. The only reason I didn't fully go with the "only evil scientist" thing is that the scientists also wanted to… you know, LEARN about how superhumans used their powers. Their motive was to take advantage of the characters in any way possible. Therefore, learning how strong characters are (maybe to make them into weapons) was an option, and a goal. So if my characters used their ability on the scientists in order to fight back, the scientists would be like "OOOOOO WE CAN S T U D Y T H I S" and then they would have someone who would stand by and record all their fights just to gain at least some knowledge of the superhuman MCs' potential. That would backfire and then the characters would have to not use their power at all. But then what's the point of them having powers if I wanna SHOWCASE THEM? (Also, I didn't think the concept could be long enough for an entire series.)
I'm still keeping the basic "evil scientist" idea of it in my back pocket, though, in case if I ever wanna use it. 8964 copyright protection31ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKRSwfUTSd 維尼
... Most likely, I will.8964 copyright protection31ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dSdGO30ib 維尼
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- Now, let's start with the inciting incident of APS. The bullies were never supposed to be named. There were supposed to be about five of them that actually were gonna shove Shizuka into the fire, but… I toned that down to two people with really crazy backstories you don't know about. I don't know why I never named the bullies in the first place. It was weird of me not to.
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- There was one scene where — I said this in a post about Kaori — Kaori puked. Just because he knew he was gonna get interviewed. And Hina, who used to be such a witch-with-the-capital-B, just yelled at him to get over it. And then that scene segued into some sort of argument that Ryo had with Hina. I forgot what that argument was even about. I think it was about interviews, but it wasn't talking about Kaori puking or anything. I don't know. But the argument was dumb, most likely.
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- Before that scene, there was this part where…. where Ryo's parents fought? Like, they argued back and forth right in front of him. Just because they were really scared about…. something. It was… I don't even know. But I wanted to make them look like decent parents. And, to everyone out there: one thing decent parents don't do, under most circumstances, is argue in front of their kid(s). And Ryo's mom and dad (Cara and Aoi are their names) looked pretty immature in that scene. Well, Aoi was keeping his cool, but Cara was going off. And I wanted them to both be a little more mature than that. Ryo was already stressed out at that time; his parents fighting didn't need to add onto that. Also, that scene contributed practically nothing to the plot. Nothing at all.
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- Mr. Aiko was supposed to be in the story at the very beginning. But I took him out and made him go somewhere else (you know, he works abroad) because I figured that he didn't really contribute anything to the story. He was just… there, in the Aiko household, not doing much other than just… saying some lines in certain scenes and then…. and then…. and then I don't know.
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- You know what, screw the chapter order I'm supposed to be going in. Did you know that Shizuka's mom was originally supposed to be alive? I scrapped the idea because, well, I needed a reason for her dad to be mean. And I figured I could also expand on the struggles of being an N-born (natural born) superhuman at the same time. So, I just thought, "hey, maybe the Mom died because Shizuka's a natural-born and N-Borns's mothers die at birth so then the Dad gets depressed and hates Shizuka! YEAH!" And then I went with that. (And I also had to change Shizuka's "mute" concept because of the backstory change.)
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- Katsumi was also supposed to never exist, because, again, Shizuka's backstory went through multiple revisions.
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- OH! OH! OH! There's this one scene I DEFINITELY wanna talk about! OK, so, Hina's friends were bothering her in front of the whole school, so Ryo got pissed and — because they were outside and there was a statue outside — he had some murderous thoughts and HIS TELEKINESIS ACTIVATED ON THE WHOLE DANG STATUE. So that statue swung at the bullies… but then it missed? How'd it miss? That would've killed at least five people — maybe more — for sure. And then Ryo's parents got charged for that, and he got in trouble (but he didn't black out?? Like, he should've blacked out because of ability overuse!) That was one heck of a scene. And I deleted it because… it just… it just didn't make sense. And I honestly don't know what the hell it did for the plot at all.
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I'm gonna stop it at here, but I definitely have much more to talk about in the future. There's probably gonna be a lot of parts to this, oh boy.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssJrjOXIM1
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