An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Making this as my pinned post regarding my Final Fantasy IV novelization.
I'm doing this because I love this game and I think about it a lot, especially when questions of what redemption means or what a good redemption arc is come up. Since FFIV was originally a Super Nintendo game, it sometimes feels a little basic. Sometimes that means it feels a little like a fairy tale, or feels like the outline of a much bigger story that the player is invited to make up parts of themselves.
So I did.
While I feel I'm a decent writer, I have a hard time finishing anything longform. Using the original game as an outline makes up for some of my deficiencies with decision making and plotting.
It doesn't make up for my deficiencies in actually writing regularly, however, which is something I'm working on.
I'm trying to make this work as fanfic for people who love the game, and also work as a standalone work for people who have never played it. Why not give it a try?
