CLAMP Continuity
I've been kind of disenchanted with the Tsubasa Chronicle series lately. I don't know what it is, exactly, but I think it has to do with the way the CLAMP world works. It's way too random and often seems like they just make up physics and rules of the universe as they go along. I mean, I realize that it's kind of hard to make up solid rules in a world where anything is possible--but that's the problem. Some things should just not be possible.
( MAJOR Tsubasa manga spoilers up through chaptire 151 )I suppose I want to be able to at least take a wild guess at the next plot point, but with CLAMP, even my wildest, completely untethered
fantasies don't even come close to what actually happens. Continuity? Cause and effect? Nah. CLAMP's above all that.
Needless to say, I'm also feeling disenchanted with my TCxFMA fanfiction--only because the TRC series has gotten so off-the-wall insane crazy. I mean, to be honest, I don't even know what's going on with that manga anymore and I thought I could follow
anything after Haibane Renmei (which is a great series, by the way). Maybe this is the danger of writing fanfictions for series that haven't ended yet.
I
want to keep going with
Hagaren Country, but to do so would require me to revert to a simpler time in TRC before the craziness and then
remake later plot points to satisfy my own plot line. And I don't know how I feel about that. It kind of feels like blasphemy. I mean, isn't there some sort of by-law about not messing with specific plot points in the Fanfiction Writer's Handbook? Sure, I played with plot lines of CCS for
Never Mind Me, but that was an A/U so I had an excuse. This is not supposed to be an A/U, so I wonder if I have the luxury.
Well, in any event, I think I'm going to go ahead with what I have planned. If everyone ends up hating me, so be it. At least I'll amuse myself with the fact that something
could've made sense with CLAMP--even if only a little.
Here's to hoping for a new chapter of
Hagaren Country soon!
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