fixing the fridging???
(what happened who got fridged whats going on-)
i'm so glad you asked, because that means i was right! the fridging was so bad no one even noticed it happened :( including myself, at first. basically, during eics, meiko mentions a summoner who died. who he was too late to save. and he doesn't tell viper about him, because that's not the point of him bringing it up, but what this does is just reduce that character to a plot point, and not a character. so i wanted to fix that :D
the story begins here.
Lightning splits the sky open with an earthshaking clap of thunder to accompany it, and for a brief moment, the wastelands before JoJo are fully illuminated, and he can see the horrors of just what he’s gotten himself into. Oh, gods.
(before you ask, no, it's not jojopyun. that jojo is very much not dead in ppau. no one gets to die unless they retire…and this jojo has been retired since 2016. so it's all fair game)
jojo is, like many edg midlaners, an idiot, unfortunately, which is somewhat implied when meiko explains it, but that's not really the full story. i wanted to explore just how he would have reacted in his final moments, his thought process, etc. meiko couldn't say that even if he had wanted to because…he wasn't there. and so, while it's accurate to not have him describe it in eics, i figured it would only be fair to describe it…somewhere.
also, since ppau is canon compliant, we don't get to really write many death scenes, so i thought i might as well take the opportunity to describe that sheer desperation, praying to any god who will listen before the finality sets in…
anyway the part of fridging other than just getting an unsatisfying death or one off-screen is the lack of any impact. a character dies, but then everyone else just…moves on. safe to say that won't be happening here! (which hopefully you could tell from eics) the people who were there were very much affected and we shall get to see that!
that is, if i ever finish it
heh