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Mia Siegert:
so i choose to read Somebody Told Me for a class assignment for a "book report"-ish thing. one aspect of it is a creative writing part. i figured it would be really cool to write an episode of Synthetica for that part of the story. could i get some more basic information on the role play so i could better write it?
Mia Siegert
This is legitimately the COOLEST thing ever and I'm so flattered you want to give it a go! I hope you're able to post it somewhere like Archive of Our Own or something because I'd love to see a link or something when you're finished! You're going to do an awesome job with whatever you do!!!
I'd love to see your creativity with it but if it helps as a starting point, Synthetica was an RP I created with a friend that was heavily influenced by the animes Yami no Matsuei/Descendants of Darkness (op: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSPcs... ) (Jay very much was inspired by Hisoka) and Angel Sanctuary (which is so old and admittedly WTF at so many parts and it is very violent, these days it's very difficult to find online which is disappointing because the OP was really clever with things like the Coca Cola can falling). Both sources of inspiration are very, very dated and sort of have the core heart of 90s/early 2000s anime and trying to push the limits of what was acceptable at the time--it's hard to imagine now how progressive it was at the time!
If it helps, a huge part of the Synthetica premise was a typical heaven/hell apocalypse and the idea of saviors. Heaven and hell were each to present their own representative, who was meant to be predetermined. Except there was a HUGE problem on Heaven's end, which of course they didn't share with Hell, being that the representative was dead. So in some Angels being Bad News, they called upon a lot of scientists and volunteers from earth to have bionic experiments done on. Jay, being the good ragdoll cinnamon bun he is, volunteered immediately and the scientists Dr. Ian Godby and Dr. Aaron Swatson worked on him, implanting bionic wings so they could fly, and there was a bit of a love story that developed with Jay and Ian (with Aaron being the jealous best friend), and the angel of secrets Raziel who decided Jay would become the savior, and, being the angel of secrets, neglecting to tell Jay (or anyone) that he was a replacement. Lot of fighting stuff with Jay getting in danger, Ian often saving him, and then people wondering "Oh, maybe Ian should be the savior instead, hahaha" then, "Wait, maybe he really should be."
I hope that can be of any help for some launch points--you don't need to stick to anything at all! I think it's such a cool and creative idea and I hope there's some way that you can share it because I'd love to see (and also my publisher Lerner/Carolrhoda Labs would definitely love to! Fanwork is so cool).
I'd love to see your creativity with it but if it helps as a starting point, Synthetica was an RP I created with a friend that was heavily influenced by the animes Yami no Matsuei/Descendants of Darkness (op: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSPcs... ) (Jay very much was inspired by Hisoka) and Angel Sanctuary (which is so old and admittedly WTF at so many parts and it is very violent, these days it's very difficult to find online which is disappointing because the OP was really clever with things like the Coca Cola can falling). Both sources of inspiration are very, very dated and sort of have the core heart of 90s/early 2000s anime and trying to push the limits of what was acceptable at the time--it's hard to imagine now how progressive it was at the time!
If it helps, a huge part of the Synthetica premise was a typical heaven/hell apocalypse and the idea of saviors. Heaven and hell were each to present their own representative, who was meant to be predetermined. Except there was a HUGE problem on Heaven's end, which of course they didn't share with Hell, being that the representative was dead. So in some Angels being Bad News, they called upon a lot of scientists and volunteers from earth to have bionic experiments done on. Jay, being the good ragdoll cinnamon bun he is, volunteered immediately and the scientists Dr. Ian Godby and Dr. Aaron Swatson worked on him, implanting bionic wings so they could fly, and there was a bit of a love story that developed with Jay and Ian (with Aaron being the jealous best friend), and the angel of secrets Raziel who decided Jay would become the savior, and, being the angel of secrets, neglecting to tell Jay (or anyone) that he was a replacement. Lot of fighting stuff with Jay getting in danger, Ian often saving him, and then people wondering "Oh, maybe Ian should be the savior instead, hahaha" then, "Wait, maybe he really should be."
I hope that can be of any help for some launch points--you don't need to stick to anything at all! I think it's such a cool and creative idea and I hope there's some way that you can share it because I'd love to see (and also my publisher Lerner/Carolrhoda Labs would definitely love to! Fanwork is so cool).
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