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energeticTopic: Copyright-Infringementish
Yeah, no updates here for a month and ten days. Exceedingly lax of me, I suppose...
Truth be told, Shane's currently working on getting into Law School (yeah, I know...). The whole application process is daunting, to say the least. Last week I heard that I've been accepted (!) to one of my first-choice schools, at least, and while I'm not totally finished with all my applications that news is something of a relief. I'm still waiting for word on my first first-choice, though...
...and the worst part is that I probably won't hear a peep from them for another 10 weeks or so...
Anyway, with my day-job, and all, my spare time has been somewhat... uh... nonexistant. But now that some of the pressure's off me I'm in a somewhat more creative (and capricious) mood. Just yesterday I wasted 100 bucks applying to Legal Nirvana (because why not, right?) and I'm shooting high in all things.
Given that I'm still on sabbatical from TYPERS (and I am, at the moment), I'm in the process of continuing my 'Legend of Zelda' screenplay series.
...didn't you know I had a triology in mind? No?
Huh...
Well, I had so much fun with Ocarina that I'm chompin' at the bit to go a little further. Next up, you ask? (and even if you don't, I'm gonna tell you...)
Yeah: the game itself is actually called 'The Adventure of Link' but I prefer the possessive nomenclature for some reason. Also, I prefer to keep the 'The' out of the titles' names (ie: 'The Legend of Zelda: The...' seems a little redundant, to me at least).
Incidentally, I steal others' artwork all the time, but seeing as how this time I took someone's art and didn't even bother to modify it a lick (ie: that really neat-o background) I'll officially give credit to this guy, who actually made the scenery I saw fit to rip-off.
'Link's Adventure', in keeping with the tone of my 'Ocarina' screenplay, is again going to be a somewhat darker take on the Zelda franchise, but in the end I don't think it'll be quite as dark as 'Ocarina'. This is a psychologically 'different' Link we're talking about, too: the brooding, vengance-addled "Pale Rider Link" from the previous story never actually comes into being, given the timeline changes in 'Ocarina', and I plan for this story to pick-up about fifteen years from where 'Ocarina' left off (ie: the "re-child-ized" Link and Zelda are... uh... "re-grown" into young adults).
Thematically the story will deal with the consequences of one having a 'knight's' devotion to a cause or (in this case) a person, and the unpleasantness that can result from confronting, headlong, the sacrifices one makes for that devotion. I don't plan for Ganon to make any appearances in this story, in keeping with the game, except for a possible 'post-credit stinger' tacked on to the end. The most 'visible' enemy in the story is going to be, undoubtedly, The Thunderbird (as if the skull in the artwork didn't give that much away) but it is not, by any means, the primary antagonist. I plan for Thunderbird to be a certain kind of... well... 'force' that someone... well, someone 'else' is using for their own purposes. And Link won't be carrying 'Dhise Slaighre' around this time, either: he needs to become a master to use the thing properly, after all. This story helps explain one of the steps he takes to becoming such.
I won't go too much further into this, but suffice it to say that my idea for the identity of Dark Link is rather original, if I do say so, myself...
...even if I'm re-using a certain deceased character from my 'Ocarina' screenplay...
...hmmm: maybe I've said too much, already...
