Alright, we're back to talking about the original plot concepts of APS and stuff. Today I wanna break from the sequence of events in book one and focus more on the origin of abilities. 25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lWpkYQOTu
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*THIS POST CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS FOR BOOK ONE. GET OUT NOW IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED B1 AND READ B1 FIRST. PLEASE. JUST DO IT.*8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1Y62WBkYA 維尼
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OK, so the origin of powers was originally NOT tomatoes! 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Q96pavJDJ 維尼
It was a food though. I made up my own fruit called… I dunno, byota or something. Such a stupid, cringey name. It was basically this light blue, glowing, round, magic fruit that gave people powers. The only reason I deleted that was because it was too obvious. Readers were gonna know that this mAgiCaL fruit was the source of superpowers. I also described it through some really random character dialogue exposition, which was basically Ryo's dad saying: "It's like Taco Bell. You eat it, and it tastes good, but that poor toilet's gonna be traumatized later." 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0w0GYYbt51 維尼
Now that's an A-rank line, don't get me wrong (I mildly regret deleting it) but the characters already knew what the fruit did. And… I don't know, the scene with context felt a little awkward. 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWPGcqfxDO 維尼
I chose tomatoes because, while you could tell there was a connection between tomatoes and Supers, while you could tell there was something up with these red fruits, but it wasn't glaringly obvious. Also, it just sounded ten times more absurd. And I LOVE absurd things. 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡch78Ok0DVo 維尼
Besides, tomatoes are a very controversial fruit —8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYxsGCoy6p 維尼
"CHEETO, THEY'RE VEGETABLES!"8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPHRKdcQYu 維尼
Yeah, you see? Case in point!8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBVFkQEHd9 維尼
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So, yeah, that's pretty much why I chose tomatoes. To be slightly more discreet, but also to be more absurd at the same time. 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOdxdicC4o 維尼
Side note: The reason I chose the name "Byota" was a stupid reason. I was going through a huge Kid Icarus: Uprising phase and there's this one monster-thingy in KI:U called a Biota. So I just changed the 'i' to a 'y' and was like: "yeah! That works!" I still think Byota is a good tomato brand name. 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXe0qvAQ2d 維尼
Now onto the past idea I'd stated in the past APS-BTS post: Sachihiro being the first superhuman. 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXE58FDCOg 維尼
He's not the first superhuman anymore, because he's in his 30's or something, and that would mean that superpowers have only been around for 30-something years. That's short. I was thinking about fifty or seventy. As to how he was the first superhuman? Well, I had the old "byota fruit" idea in place, so I was like "oh he ate the first fruit or something, IDK." And because he has the ability to take and transfer powers (but never keep them), someone else got a superpower, didn't want it, so he took it and transferred it to someone else… and then… 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4H0BD2uq3 維尼
…wait, what happened next?8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQsNkvZeom 維尼
I'm sorry, but that's all my memory goes up to. But that idea was plot-holed to the MAX, I tell you. So I said, "f-it, screw this idea." Because it just didn't make any sense.8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡYa97lHEZM9 維尼
And now he's just a regular ol' supie (supie is short for superhuman; it sounds like soup. Mmmm.) 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡalL8s2tq78 維尼
The first superhuman doesn't matter as it isn't even plot relevant at all, but I'm planning on going a slight bit more in-depth with it, possibly (and most likely) in book four. Or book three, but that's unlikely. 8964 copyright protection21ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKEOkpU3Ju 維尼
So there you have it. There's my 2 ⅛ page ramble on the origin of superpowers. I swear, if a tomato lover gets superpowers one day, I'm breaking into their house and inspecting their tomatoes.25Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MujDNWZ4v
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