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Today fanart goes to Star Charter (Bibliograph) for her amazing fanfic Lucky Child. I wasn't ever a fan of Yu Yu Hakusho but this story is a gemლ(^o^ლ).Not-Quite-Keiko is unlike any SI-OC I ever read. Totally a recommend!(☆▽☆)
Ps. bcs I feel to lazy to sketch Hiroku, I just coloured the shirt pink to put connection to him╮(╯_╰)╭
“Oh man. Little Miss Thinker, undone by her big brain. Never thought I’d see the day! Ha!” ~Lucky Child, Chapter 20, by @luckystarchild
In which Jet wakes in an unfamiliar place and sees a familiar face. And also a familiar gun.
I feel like I’ve been updating this a lot. It helps that these chapters have all been pretty short so far (longest was 4k) and I’ve comprehensively outlined the first 10 of them. So far I’ve updated this thing weekly, first two chapters dropping at the same time. It’s nice to have something fun to work on on the side, and it’s sort of fun it only has two consistent readers so the pressure is pretty low.
I got to really introduce my OC, Reina, this chapter, and I love her so much.
"C'mon in, Eeyore; the ice is fine!" ~Lucky Child, Chapter 80, by @luckystarchild You deserve something happy!
SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 78 OF LUCKY CHILD!!
"Fine." I rolled my eyes again. "I swear to Christ you were a knight in your past life." ~Lucky Child, Chapter 78, by @luckystarchild
In honor of Fanfic Writer’s Appreciation Day!
SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 73 OF LUCKY CHILD!!
"And may that be a lesson to never underestimate the phrase 'hit like a girl.' Because make no mistake, everyone." I cinched my belt tight. "It's a goddamn compliment." ~ Lucky Child, Chapter 73, by @luckystarchild
Lucky Child Musings #1
I expect this to become and ongoing series, hence the number in the title.
I posted chapter 25 yesterday. It involved Keiko, Kaito, and Kurama primarily. Kuwabara was mentioned. Next chapter we’ll encounter Kagome. Eventually we’ll meet Koenma.
…WHAT THE SHIT IS UP WITH ALL THE NAMES THAT START WITH “K” IN THIS DAMN SERIES?!
There’s a trope called the “One Steve Limit” in fiction. This trope posits that authors should avoid giving characters the same, or even similar-sounding, names to avoid confusing the audience. I adhere to this in my writing when I can.
In fanfic, however, I can’t change character names. I’m stuck with them. And in this fandom I’m stuck with an overabundance of names that start with K.
DRIVES ME UP THE WALL.
I know that in Japanese these names start with different consonant/vowel pairing sounds (Ku, Ka, Kei, Ko, Kai), and the hiragana characters look totally different, so they aren’t as visually confusing in that alphabet as they are in phonetic English letters. But for silly monolingual Americans like myself, the K names get SO CONFUSING.
I worked around this in chapter 25 by capitalizing on Kurama’s human name, Minamino. In the story the narrator delineates between Minamino, the regular human boy, and Kurama, the wily fox demon living in a human body.
When Kurama/Minamino acts normal around Kaito and Keiko, the narrator refers to him as Minamino, reflecting that he’s behaving like a (somewhat) normal human boy.
But when Kaito leaves the room, Minamino changes his demeanor—he gets serious and lets his schoolboy act drop, becoming the manipulative and clever Kurama. Keiko’s narrative reflects this by switching to his demon name instead of his human one.
By making note of Kurama’s two personas, and capitalizing on his two-faced tendencies, I was able to avoid K-name-confusion. It’s neat the way that making a characterization choice helped solve one of the story’s mundane, practical problems.
…and, yeah. That’s all I wanted to talk about. Till next time!
mmmmm cell cultures.... (literally)
