Things that annoy you in fanfiction discussion

[ItsaRandomUsername]

Shirou couldn't be an alchemist, they don't have circuits.

Correction:
Alchemy does not require circuits to be used.

I guess it's similar to formalcraft?

[Inugami]

Wait, Surt's sword has a name? I've never seen it named. Where can I read about this?

It's not even really his sword. Not originally, anyway. Loki is the one who made it, and Surt stole it.

Or so I read in one source I can't quite find.

http://www.manaraefan.co.uk/index_files/Page8502.htm (check entries on the sword at the top, and Surt below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lævateinn

Surt's wife has something to do with the sword, too. Did Loki give it to her for safe keeping, or does he intend to convince her to steal it for him?

[Dark Descent]

Starting up a story just because you thought it would be awesome and then giving up after the first chapter. Hell, not finishing a story in general is annoying to me, although it can be unavoidable

I guess you must not like me then. :[

The most annoying thing about a lot of FSN Fanfiction? Authors basing everything off of GB's works.

[Spinach]

It's not even really his sword. Not originally, anyway. Loki is the one who made it, and Surt stole it.

http://www.manaraefan.co.uk/index_files/Page8502.htm

Cool, and thanks for the link. I always feel like no matter how much I read out of Norse mythology there's something I don't know.

The most annoying thing about a lot of FSN Fanfiction? Authors basing everything off of GB's works.

.. People do that?

[eddyak]

I guess you must not like me then. :[

The most annoying thing about a lot of FSN Fanfiction? Authors basing everything off of GB's works.

Tbh, GB is probably the most prominent and most accessible FSN author of the last couple years. It's not really anything to be surprised about- he actually explains things for people who haven't read the series, and brings together relatively well known series.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

And he wrote a ton within a short amount of time.

[Alulim]

Correction:
Alchemy does not require circuits to be used.

Indeed, any magus can (technically) be an alchemist but any alchemist cannot be a magus~



But magi generally look down on Alchemists IIRC.

[Inugami]

Cool, and thanks for the link.

I posted another link. And a qualifier, because I can't find sources that confirm my claim.

[Heroslayer]

I think Persona says that that is surts' sword.

[Dark Descent]

Tbh, GB is probably the most prominent and most accessible FSN author of the last couple years. It's not really anything to be surprised about- he actually explains things for people who haven't read the series, and brings together relatively well known series.

His stories would better without him derailing some of the characters, most prominently being Shirou. Also, there are a few glaring errors from canon that never seem to get fixed. Reading each chapter of his also presents an almost guaranteed grammatical error, somewhere in the story. Those homonyms...

And he wrote a ton within a short amount of time.

I agree that he's one of the rare authors that actually got a huge amount of writing done in a ridiculously short time. He could have at least gone back and edited the old chapters, or ave gotten a beta though. He even notes his errors in his author's notes, but never bothers to go back and fix them.

[eddyak]

His stories would better without him derailing some of the characters, most prominently being Shirou. Also, there are a few glaring errors from canon that never seem to get fixed. Reading each chapter of his also presents an almost guaranteed grammatical error, somewhere in the story. Those homonyms...

That's not called derailing, that's called character development. He had Shirou on the way to being Archer, he has Kiritsugu Shirou now...

[Heroslayer]

Shrugs, I do the same thing when writing myself. My attention is one writing the next chapter more than editing some things in the last one.

[Sherrinford]

Ok, I fear I'll DERP after asking this but... who is 'GB'?

[Alulim]

That's not called derailing, that's called character development. He had Shirou on the way to being Archer, he has Kiritsugu Shirou now...

Indeed, while I may not be a fan of his most recent story I see where he is going with the character and am fine with it.


^^Also Al is perfectionist so I will focus more on making current chapter perfect before I move on.

[Spinach]

I posted another link. And a qualifier, because I can't find sources that confirm my claim.

And now I feel bad, because I've read the Poetic Edda and don't remember half of the contents related to that sword. I've got half a mind to go reread the whole thing, just for the hell of it.

Ok, I fear I'll DERP after asking this but... who is 'GB'?

Gabriel Blessing. In Flight, Hill of Swords.

[Inugami]

http://www.cleandungeon.com/article.php?anum=486
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Laevatain

Looks like we may have some Sword in the Stone, Sword of the Lake confusion going on here.

[Dark Descent]

Ok, I fear I'll DERP after asking this but... who is 'GB'?

Gabriel Blessing, popular FSN fiction writer. His two big works are Hill of Swords and In Flight. Here's the author's page if you're interested. http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1263379/gabriel_blessing

That's not called derailing, that's called character development. He had Shirou on the way to being Archer, he has Kiritsugu Shirou now...

Character Development occurs a period of time AFTER the story has started. His Shirou hardly acted like Shirou would have, regardless of him slowly becoming Archer. IIRC, Archer only became disillusioned after he became a Counter Guardian.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

That's not called derailing, that's called character development. He had Shirou on the way to being Archer, he has Kiritsugu Shirou now...

I'd sort of say though that HoS Shirou really isn't him on the way to being Archer though, because Archer ended up with the chip on his shoulders after becoming a CG. He died his normal life still very Shirou-y and didn't even regret it when the people he saved turned on him.

...And sniped.

[Alulim]

Archer only became disillusioned after he became a Counter Guardian.

We are never shown the process so we cannot be completely sure that becoming a CG was the only thing that disillusioned him.



But this does not reflect Al's opinion at all.

[eddyak]

Character Development occurs a period of time AFTER the story has started. His Shirou hardly acted like Shirou would have, regardless of him slowly becoming Archer. IIRC, Archer only became disillusioned after he became a Counter Guardian.

We don't know anything about Archer's life, but we do know GB's Shirou still acted like Shirou would have- he went back to get Tabitha, even at a point when Archer probably would've given her up. You can't really have a Shirou who's lasted at least few years between the end of FSN and the story, and have him stay exactly the same, even if he's just been hanging around at the magic association.

Granted, his Shirou does skew toward what I can only assume is his own attitude, but I've read works by fully published authors who've put more of their own idiotic opinions into their works than he has.