#Lazarus doesn't have bad blood and Karl doesn't do Magnets because they aren't infected with Mold | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

monster-noises · 2 years ago

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I know I've made like.. this exact post like four other times but it's gunna keep coming back up until I Figure It Out so.. I have been on and off thinking about the actually solid Idea I had for remaking FaHI as an Original text (along side or after FaHI Proper is written) And I think where I've ended up with it is pretty good! It captures a lot of the same themes and the bones of the thing and I like it! And Yet........ I don't think it is possible to 1 to 1 translate FaHI, it will always Loose Things, very very important things that will always make it a Completely Different Story. The same heart around the same ideas, in the broadest sense, but as soon as you take it out of exactly Where and What It Is it becomes something completely different.. Like you can't hit Any of the same story beats in the same way.. The structure of the environment is different so the way everyone interacts changes and thus shifts every important interpersonal moment.. the situation with the mold and the magic changes and changes the characters themselves in inherent ways that change how they interact with the world and each other but I have to change these things else it will be Very Obvious What This Was.. not a revolutionary concept by any means but I'm not entirely sure what to do with it.... FaHI; the fanwork is a story I Very much love and want to share as the fanwork that it is but there's a lot about FaHI that I love and Wish dearly I could share in a professional or personal context and I simply can't as much because of it's limitations as a fanwork... and I want to split the difference but ooo it always feels like I'm loosing so much.. GRAH!!

#monster noises #Also I can't figure out what to name Karl that isn't Karl cause it feels wrong for him not to be called Karl ;^;#I guess this is why most original fiction that stems from fanworks is usually something that's already been abstracted to an AU #you're already far enough removed from the source material that the necessary changes are aesthetic at best #you're not jumping straight from Canon to something Brand New #I think one of the things I'm struggling with the Most the most #is how to let Lazarus and such keep their like.. abilities #or some variation of it #without it becoming just So so obvious what the source material is #cause right now in the Original version that exists in my head #there Is some form of science/magic/Frankenstein nonsense happening #that allows Heis and Laz to Do the thing they Do #but not to the degree they do them in Village/FaHI Proper #like there's not Wornwolves.. no Auger.. Soldats kinda but not really in the same way that they are in game..#Lazarus doesn't have bad blood and Karl doesn't do Magnets because they aren't infected with Mold #and I feel like That #that lack of transformative stuff happening To them that manifests this physical sense of 'are these men or are these monsters'#makes FaHI really really Loose something that's Super important to it feeling like FaHI #like the question of 'How human are you anymore?' looses its strength when you are still.... very much 100% human #at least to me #but for real how do i keep that and not make Karl like Super obvious lmao #everyone else I can fuck around with like my Alci equivalent is not 9 foot #but Karl's gotta be Karl y'know but also he can't be Karl he's gotta be someone else dfgjsksdha #it's all very complicated I shall simply have to continue to ponder

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