Fun with Fi, dreams, and gundam zombies!

[askerian]

phoenix_melody: I had a dream about you writing fanfic last night! XD
askerian: o_o
askerian: hahaha XD awesome. what was I writing?
phoenix_melody: you were writing this, like, five-universe crossover
phoenix_melody: and the gundam wing people featured heavily
phoenix_melody: and there were a pair of siblings from this other universe and the lite brother had done something...I don't know, something that most of the pilots (Heero and Wufei, at least) saw as a betrayl, but Relena stood up for the kid and was all no you can't kill him and Wufei was all we have to
phoenix_melody: and there were also zombies
phoenix_melody: it was a really, really weird dream


askerian: man, I've had dreams like that, when i'm reading an AWESOME story!!! and i wake up before the end noooo
phoenix_melody: XD
phoenix_melody: I was wanting to see the showdown with Heero & Wufei v. Relena
phoenix_melody: instead we got sidetracked into zombies! which were fun
askerian: ... relena would win.
phoenix_melody: XD
phoenix_melody: would she now?
askerian: she fights dirty.
phoenix_melody: ahahaha
askerian: not with her hands, mind, but she knows where to aim her words. XD
askerian: what other universes were there?
phoenix_melody: I don't know
phoenix_melody: the gundam one was the only one I was sure about
phoenix_melody: I think Sephiroth may have pop up in the background, but he wasn't in on the epic confrontation
phoenix_melody: and it was one of those dream things where you know for sure specific things are true but it never shows up in the dream
phoenix_melody: (like the time I was dreaming and the people were speaking French and I was all I don't speak French and then suddenly there were subtitles and I knew exactly what was going on)
askerian: *cracks up*
askerian: now i want to write GW versus zombies things
askerian: man, the boys would OWN.
phoenix_melody: .......that would be awesome
phoenix_melody: that would be seriously awesome
askerian: i mean... gundam pilots... brainless shuffling hordes...
askerian: i've read a fic like this before for katekyo hitman reborn, though, i'm afraid i'd just copy it
phoenix_melody: would they be gundam pilots? or would you do it like the naruto + zombie ones you did where they weren't actually ninja, just the same characters in a different universe?
askerian: i dunno, zombies seem more of an urban horror thing, and naruto is an alternate universe with magic
askerian: zombies would last two minutes, you have to even the playing field.
askerian: but for gundam pilots a bigger par of their identities is tied into being terrorists
phoenix_melody: *nodsnods*
phoenix_melody: it'd be harder if you did it post-EW when all the mobile suits are gone
phoenix_melody: they couldn't just wander through the streets and stomp on things
askerian: yeah
askerian: but they'd still be really calm and collected
askerian: also it'd be really funny if heero after disappearing for another year or three just appears on duo's window one day and is all "relena is trapped in her mansion by a horde of the undead. pack your gun and let's go."
phoenix_melody: ...that would be amazing
askerian: duo: *blinka whut I WAS SLEEPING YOU DICK*
phoenix_melody: that'd be a fun little one-shot!
askerian: oh man
askerian: aaaa stop tempting meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
askerian: i'm writing nanothiiings ;;
phoenix_melody: you can file it away for later!
phoenix_melody: he should pick up Quatre, too, 'cuz he's got his own little private army!
phoenix_melody: unless he and Duo are all they need. XD
askerian: XD
askerian: he'd totes get quatre next. trowa's busy driving the elephant through another zombie horde
phoenix_melody: ahahahaha
askerian: all the trapeze artists are going from house to house via the roofs.
askerian: wufei: *is a preventer, bitch* *OH MAN I CAN GET MY SWORD OUT OF RETIREMENT
phoenix_melody: ahahaha
phoenix_melody: I'm sure he's excited to have a ligit use for his sword again
askerian: hilde: *flattens zombies via using the crane to drop mobile suit parts onto them*
phoenix_melody: like a game of whack-a-mole XD
askerian: also the parts could make a good barrier against zombies. they're not good at climbing!
phoenix_melody: (it'd also be awesome vignette style! like the when-they-figured-out-Heero-was-a-girl thing you wrote)
phoenix_melody: that is true!
askerian: ooh.
askerian: NO NO NO TYR FIRST AAA
askerian: ... i was thinking... how do zombies find people
askerian: do they still see? even when they don't have eyes anymore? do they hear them? ... infrared?
askerian: if it's infrared and they're attracted to warmth, oh god. it'll be done in like a half hour. just make bonfires at intersections. XD
phoenix_melody: my zombies are still technically alive, and so they see and hear
askerian: ohh :D
askerian: if i want crack the bonfire solution might work best XDD
phoenix_melody: ahahahaha
askerian: "end of zombie apocalypse: friday 13, ten thirty PM."



In NaNo news, wordcount: 13 881 words, but now I don't know what to make happen next. I should randomly add a pool and have them relax for a bit. After all today I gave Tyr a therapy session. (oh god once the first draft is done I will need a real therapist person to tell me all the ways in which OH MY GOD A GOOD THERAPIST WOULD NEVER DO THAT, because I do want the character to come across as basically competent and not actually a hack, if a bit out of her depth (they might have wanted to pair her up with an animal behaviorist, just liking animals a lot does not qualify. XD) Alas I am not, personally, a psychiatrist, and as such I am having a bit of a hard time. (also her not-very-confrontational, nice way of speaking is so BORING to write. I want snappy, snarky dialogue dammit!)

The pool scene could be a fanservice outtake. Manga does it, why not novels? >_> I could revolutionize novel-writing with that idea.

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[askerian]

\o/ ♥ so much info yay thank you!

I think I want a psychiatrist (which is funny because that's the word i used nonstop in the actual story anyway, but i didn't really know the nuance with therapist so yay for learning things ^^) since their issues are caused mostly by biological/hormonal imbalances caused by, you know, HAVING A WILD BEAST IN THE BACK OF THEIR BRAIN AND TRYING TO COME OUT MWAHAHA. >:E Issues which are controlled by happy pills, so that'd fall under her purview. Then again they also have a doctor on the team so maybe a doctor and a therapist would also work... but she might just be more about the physical aspects and not the fucked up brain chemistry aspects, anyway. Hrrrm. Ideas?

[ravelqueen.livejournal.com]

so I'm going to admit to not knowing a lot about that planned novel^^ by saying that kinda depends if the WILD BEAST is a magical/supernatural/fantastical construct that works in the world of your fic (kinda like Yami Yuugi in Yu-gi-oh), meaning it only works as a psychosis or actually is one.

Also of how you want to deal with it. Meaning is this a problem that you want Tyr to supress/have it vanish? does he need to work through it? work with his beast-type thing (wether it be a psychological issue or fantastical)? because if it's just about ignoring it then happy pills would probably work as band-aids in a crisis situation. but if it's about you know either working through or working with a combination of a doctor (who can prescribe the medication) and a behavioural/deep therapist who would propose/help find ways to live with the problems could work really well

Like take depression for instance. (Leaving aside that I think this has become a fashion trend and I don't think most people diagnosed with it are actually clinically depressed *rantrantsnarksnark*) It is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. But that is not all of it. Even if you tend to have this biological problem if your life is a charmed fairytale you will not get it. But it means you are very much predisposed to becoming depressed, which is when you should get anti-depressants. But they are not the final solution. You still need to find ways to live a normal life. Develope strategies to get you out of your funk. Like really thinking about positive reinforcent or formulating true goals to work. Get yourself a support structure inside and out. Depressed people aren't weaker or stronger than others, but if you just take a pill and everything is magically better then don't kid yourself, you were never really depressed clinically or otherwise. Most of the time it is very much a mix of biological and real psychological issues.

So tl;dr I personally think a doctor/therapist would be perfect. (though you would then still need to decide if you want to go the *deep-dark-past did it and if I just find out when my parents were mean to me I will conquer the beast!* or the step further of *knowing what caused it is nice, but what can I do today to make my own messed up psyche not interfere in my happiness by it's weird beast-conjuring strategies")