Fan Art and Commissions #4

Well, I'm a bit behind on that big surprise I promised you guys.  If you follow me on social media you'll probably have some inkling about what that is.  If you don't follow me on social media, hey, now's as good a time to start as any.  That's also why I've been kind of radio silent and haven't been posting as much as I should have.  So, I've got a little something for you today to help hold you over. That's right, we're going to be doing another installment of the Fan Art and Commissions series.

First up we have a piece created by an artist by the name of SophiaBlackwoodArt.  It features Percy Jackson as the Red Might Morphin Power Ranger and Edward Elric as the Blue Turbo Ranger.

As you probably guess by now, this was yet another result of my never truly realized fanfic Adventures of the Silver Bullets.  The part these pic were inspired by dealt with the city of New Avalon being threatened by the Psycho Rangers.  The Silver Bullets get a visit from Tsukune Aono, who has been studying under Tommy Oliver himself.  Tsukune has a brief case full of morphers, and he's come to lend them to the Silver Bullets.  You can see what Percy and Ed got to be.  Anyway, let's move on.

Here we have another great piece from Sophia.  This time with Annabeth Chase and Kurumu Korono dressed as each other.  There maybe have been a back story here, but it escapes me at the moment.  It could even be as simple as "well, why not?"  Then again, there's not too much Percy Jackson/Rosario+Vampire crossover art, so always nice to add more.  In fact, I think I've single handedly made that a thing.  Plus it kind of fun how their outfit contrast with their personalities somewhat.

Now we return to our old friend LadyLoriel for another commission that I call Safari So Good.  Backstory here was that it was a slow day and the Bullets needed some entertainment.  So Percy took it upon himself to breakout some board games.  Unfortunately, he happened to grab the game Jumanji, and completely ignored all the of obvious warnings to not touch it.  Annabeth and Kurumu were arguing because they both really like Percy, so the game suck them in to teach them to get along.  Reyna and Mizore, who were standing close by, got dragged along for the ride.  So the four of them were transported to the jungle world of Jumanji, and they'll have to finish the game to get back home.

I didn't actually commission this one, but I would have if Bruce Monroe hadn't made it on his own.  It's a map of the world of Le Morte D'Arthur.  It's based on a series of short stories Harry Turtledove wrote that are based in the 22nd Century.  The United States and Soviet Union have fallen from power, but many other nations have risen to power.  Western Europe has become United Europe; Eastern Europe opted to become a separate nation.  Siberia has revived the Russian monarchy, Japan is kicking ass once again, Israel was crushed by a federated Arab League, and there are space colonies throughout the solar system.  It's not exactly alternate history, though it's retroactively become so, but still lot's of fun. 

Here's another fun one, even if I didn't pay for it.  It's called Progress Comes to Valhalla.  Basically, it's what the world would be if Norse Mythology was true.  Despite this, as the name suggests, there's quite a bit of technological progress.  You really should read Bruce's write-up that goes with this one.  It's fun to see the way's the Norse gods and modern technology combine to make one great scenario.  It's also interesting to see the ways the Christian and Muslim nations reached to learning that they're living in a Norse mythological world.  Fun times all around.  So, moving on to things I did commission.

So here we have another commission from Shinoharaa.  This time Holo from Spice and Wolf as Utena Tenjou from Revolutionary Girl Utena.  There isn't really too much more to add here, so let's keep moving on with the list.

For this one we have Mizore Shirayuki as Kirara from Samurai 7.  This one was especially good because she looks kind of like a character from a story I'm working on.  Good for helping me better visualize characters.  Now you're probably working about what that story is.  For now I'm keeping that under wraps, but you'll probably find out soon enough.

We'll finish out the list with Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic! as Eris from Cat Planet Cuties.  Shinoharaa has recently stopped taking commissions, though he has started a Patreon.  That means this will probably be my last batch of commissions to include something from Shinoharaa from the conceivable future.  But don't be sad, there's going to be plenty of other great commissions in the future.

Well, that's a wrap for this edition of Fan Art and Commissions.  I hope you've all had a great time.  There's going to be even more fun in the future, so I hope you'll join me next time.  Hmm...I really should add a bit more here.  Uh...hope you're days are going well?  Yeah, I wish all of you a good day.   

     

    

  

   

Fan Art and Commissions #1

I thought I'd take this post to share some of the fan art of my works and art commissions I've had made.  I've got a few, and they're ever growing, but I decided that five was a good place to start with. First up we've got some fan art based on Adventures of the Silver Bullets, the fanfiction magnum opus I never got around to completing.  These two were created by zeneria29, a very talented artist from Thailand.  She might have trouble with English, but she knows enough to get by and is a very sweet person.

That's Percy Jackson and Kurumu Kurono.  Yes, I didn't intend to ship them, but I wound up doing so anyway.  Hey, what the point of crossover if they don't eventually lead to crossover ships?  Well, there's actually a lot of other reasons I like crossover fanfiction, but crossover ships are always a bonus.  Anyway, let's move on to some more commissioned art. 

We've got Princess Celestia, Shrek, Urd, Holo, L and Elsa.  This would have been from L's days at magic school with his harem, yes, even Shrek and Princess Celestia.  If I'd gotten to that bit it would have essentially deconstructed Harry Potter and related series, and thrown some new twists onto the harem genre.  And who would L have ended up with?  Why all of the above of course!  Now then, let's move onto covers of my maps.

You may recall a map I made entitled The Saracen and The Cross, about a world where the Crusades are a success.  Despite some good ideas it did have it's flaws.  However, one of the map makers from alternatehistory.com created this map based on my map.  I love how it retains many of the ideas from my original map, but it also expands upon them and adds even more new and great ideas.  He also made this really long write up about this world, and if I find it I'll be sure to link to it.  Still, look at all the text on that map.

These next two are created by a very talented artist named Shinoharaa, real name Alan Garcia, from Brazil.  I mean would you just look at the quality!  It looks like it might as well be official artwork.  I was hoping to raise awareness of Spice and Wolf, and I figured no better way than Holo in a Sailor Senshi uniform.  It also a voice actress joke, unintentionally (for Sailor Moon Crystal anyway). 

Yet another winner from Shinoharaa.  This time with Urd as Sailor Pluto.  Yeah, you're probably detecting a pattern here.  When I commission something I usual go for something I couldn't get just anywhere.  I know what I'm a fan of, and the artist I contact know how to bring my visions to life.  That's all.

Honorable mention goes to the Flag of British Korea I collaborated with Laqueesha to make, and which can be found over at Alternate History Weekly Update, as well as over here.  Well, that's enough art for one blog post.  I'll be sure to do this again in the future.  I hope you enjoyed this tour of some of my fan art and commissions.  Until next time.   

Adventures of the Silver Bullets

So in this post we're going to talk about the other pride and joy of my fanfiction career besides Penjackson.  This post is all about Adventures of the Silver Bullets.  I conceived it as a massive crossover with the entirety of fiction at my finger tips.  Basically, the thinking I had for the series is that all fiction is true, but not all fiction is an accurate representation of what happened.  This allowed for characters being slightly off kilter and for me to thinker and juggle things around for the sake of plot.

The setting is actually a multiverse so that anything mutually contradictory could be relocated to a different universe.  Of course, travel between universes is pretty common in these worlds.  Anyway, the plot is that L, the great detective of DeathNote, has assembled a team of young heroes to fight crime in the city of New Avalon and beyond.  Said team includes Percy Jackson, Kurumu Kurono and Mizore Shiriyuki, Edward and Alphonse Elric, and Mako and Bolin.  Joining them would have been a wide selection of former heroes to serve as their mentors including Tenzin, Izumi Curtis and Major Armstrong, and Kraft Lawrence and Holo the Wise Wolf.   

As the title suggests, I originally intended it to a lighthearted Silver Age of Comic Books-esque parody of various tropes and conventions with a fairly episodic nature to it.  Before we go any further I should point out I only ever put out two posts of it, I hit a block with the third and got side tracked by various other things.  So, most of this will be about what I had planned more than what I actually got out.  Just letting you know.  

Anyway, as I planned the series out in my head I decided to keep the lighthearted and episodic tone, but I wanted to allow for character development and exploring some of the darker aspects of the various worlds and characters I used.  For example, Percy start out with a very silly, goofy, happy-go-lucky personality and a perpetually sunny disposition.  Later, however, it becomes apparent that this is a mask he wears to deal with the pain and loss he experienced fighting in the Titan War.  Mizore, meanwhile, has to deal with the whole yuki-onna are sterile by their mid-twenties thing.  That, and dodging repercussions from the yokai community, lead to her wondering about moving to America permanently.  

Then there were the things I figured would make interesting plots, but might have gotten me in trouble with various fangirls.  To start, I was planning on having Mako come out of the closet.  Given how Korra and Asami are canonically lesbian this was pretty Hilarious in Hindsight.  Other people slated to come out of the closet included Nico Di Angelo, and keep in mind that was before he canonically did as well.  However, the biggest shocking swerve was a heterosexual romance.  I was planning on pairing Percy and Kurumu together.  I had originally intended them to have a brother-sister relationship, but the more I worked it out in my head the more I liked them as a couple.             

The villains would very from affably evil punk clock evils, to down right scary.  They were to be part of an organization known as the League of Evil People Doing Evil Things in a Very Evil Way.  They were from across fiction, but lead by the mysterious Man in the Ivory Mask.  The big real was that he was in fact none other than...Harry Potter.  Yeah, in the world of the Silver Bullets the Harry Potter books didn't exactly match up with what actually went down.  That was really an end of series reveal, nothing would be the same and there would be no going back after that point.  

The biggest factor to the cosmology of the series would have been L.  One of the big revelations was to be that he was in fact an immortal almost god-level being, and I could never quite name what his kind would be called.  He would have been thousands of years old, and would have been involved in a polyandrous relationship with about four wives and one husband; said group included Urd, Princess Celestia, Kraft Lawrence and Holo the Wise Wolf.  However, his favorite was always Elsa, but she'd died many years ago, and he would have still been very much impacted by her passing.  

Another big revelation would have been that L was secretly the father of one of the Silver Bullets.  Quick, which if the Bullets looks most like L?  If you said Mizore, then ding, ding, ding, you said the magic word!  Speaking of sudden relations it was going to be a plot point that Percy and Mizore were both descendants of the royal house of Arendelle via Anna and Kristoff, and thus indirectly Elsa as well.  

Well, enough seriousness, let's talk about some of the fun I had planned.  I had so many great ideas that I never got around to realizing.  I had plans for an episode (as I call the chapters) that had Inuyasha team up with the Bullets, but he gets in trouble for destruction of public property and has to perform community service.  Said community service being to volunteer at a summer camp, and having to deal with Percy's perpetually sunny attitude.  Inuyasha initially tires to get fired, but comes to find he likes working with kids.  Also, Lovecraftian monstrosities show up and ass-kicking ensues.  

Another planned idea I had was for the Bullets to enter a racing competition, either for charity or because some villains were in the competition as well.  Ed was to be the driver with everyone else as pit crew, but he gets amnesia in a training accident.  While everyone else tries to get Ed's memory back, Al and Mizore go to train in the art of "car-ate" under the guidance of Keiichi Morisato.  Unfortunately, they don't have a car, but Ms. Frizzle loans them the Magic School Bus.  At the end of the episode the Ah! My Godess character move in with the team.  

I'd also planned for the Silver Bullets to travel to the planet Zur-En-Arrh to team up with their counter parts.  I'd also planned stories featuring alternate universe counterparts to the Silver Bullets, including one universe where they're villains rather than heroes.  Of course, since the Silver Bullets are an international organization with multiple branches, there was always the potential for exploring other teams, or teaming up with other characters.  I'd even had a big event involving Bullets from multiple teams temporarily becoming Power Rangers.  

You're probably wondering why I had them in a fictional American city if I had so many anime characters.  The reason is that I know how to fake an American city better than I can fake a Japanese city.  Also, it came with some great Fish Out of Water moments.  I also planned a series of recurring gags, like Ed not believing Percy is really a demigod, Bolin lusting after Kurumu while she lusts after Ed, Mizore and Al having weird skills they learned from late night TV, and much more.  

I could go on, but I'd be rambling.  Hey, it my blog and I can do whatever I please.  No, I should wrap it up.  Clearly, I was very excited about Adventures of the Silver Bullets.  I still think about it and get new ideas a lot.  Maybe I'll update it again some day, or maybe I'll post snippets of ideas here to the blog.  All isn't necessarily lost, however, I've recently commissioned some art based on the fanfic on Deviantart, and I've got to tell you I'm very excited and please with the results.  Expect that in a future post or two.  

Now that we've covered my FanFiction we can move on to my poems and prose I posted on Fictionpress.  That's a post for next time, and I'll see you then.