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Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

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Inspiration for my stories

This is a reupload from a really old deviantART journal from 2017 that I regularly updated with each new original story idea I completed. 

Since I’ve started sharing my original stories to Tumblr more, it only makes sense that I talk about their various inspirations from other works here too. 

This is mostly going to be copy-pasted from my old DA journal but will also include some new inspiration for my recent stories. I’ll regularly reblog this and add more of my inspirations with every new story I complete. 

Domestic Revolution: - Watership Down (an unconventional rabbit protagonist that’s not a cute fluffy stereotype) - The Secret of NIMH (animals getting enhanced intelligence due to genetic manipulation) - Felidae (the villains being abused animal test subjects who murdered their owners and went off to start an animal supremacy movement which involves murder of other innocent creatures. Their human owners [Preterius/Achmed] originally wanted to create a special substance that would cure/help animals in some way) - Avatar: the Legend of Korra (Joseph/Amon. Both are tragic villains starting a revolution to rid the world of a particular group) - Ginga Densetsu Weed (both Kaibutsu and Hougen influenced Joseph in some way. For Hougen, it involved a villain going insane and lashing out at his own followers. For Kaibutus, it was a villain who was a test subject for humans and gained a hatred for them because of it) - Mulan (the scene of Audrey discovering the forest full of human corpses is inspired by the burnt village scene)  Wild Range: - Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (a horse story that takes place in the wild. Also both include a fight scene between a horse and mountain lion) - The Land Before Time (an simple plot of characters going through a journey facing predators and forces of nature with a moral of family and teamwork) - Watership Down (more based on the rabbits’ journey to a new home in the first half of the book/movie. Also both involve a smart character with quick thinking who helps the other characters with their brains) The Heart of Karis - The Last Unicorn (Quite obviously. I’ve had a story idea for a unicorn running away to look for someone/something since I was eight) - Moana (the idea of a character stealing the “heart” of a place causing it to wither and die out, and much of the story is centered around the protagonists trying to restore it) - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Yes really. The complex magic of the unicorns and a story arc involving a queen [Celestia/Theia] banishing a royal relative over their selfish actions [Luna/Zephyrus] and the banished individual becomes corrupted and possessed by dark forces [Nightmare Moon/Teryn] and comes back for revenge but gets redeemed at the end) - Avatar: The Legend of Korra (The Fog of Lost Souls/The Cannibal Desert. Both are creepy, misty areas inhabited by dark forces that make you go crazy and forget who you are, and a character manages to lift the fog and free themselves) - The Chronicles of Narnia (a huge final battle in the climax between mythological creatures) - Steven Universe (Iris is inspired by both Blue Diamond and Pearl: both characters constantly mourn the loss of someone close to them and desperately try to preserve everything that’s left of them, plus both tend to put emotion over reason at times. Iris and Theia are pretty analogous to Pearl and Rose) - Beauty and the Beast 2017 (minor characters and characters who were imprisoned in a place and separated for a long time are revealed to be family members and happily reunited) - Kung Fu Panda 2 (Zephyrus/Teryn’s backstory is inspired by Lord Shen, a character who was banished by misusing power for evil instead of good)  War Hound - The Odyssey (Obviously. The whole story is just a futurustic animal-ized version of it) - Isle of Dogs (the main characters being a group of five dogs with differing personalities, and their leader is the mature and serious one. There's even a bird character that delivers messages) - Ginga Nagareboshi Gin (a one-eyed bear as a villain) - Watership Down (a minor villain who appears hospitable to the heroes at first, but turns out that they're only trying to lure them as bait for humans to spare their own lives) - The Secret of NIMH (a mysterious, aged bird character who gives the protagonist helpful answers [the Great Owl/the Old Raven]) - The Good Dinosaur (a character being killed in a flash flood) - RWBY (Adrian is partially inspired by Adam Taurus) Karis and the Secluded Kingdom - My Little Pony: The Movie 2017 (a ruler and her kingdom flees underwater when a big bad attacks her home, although @cartoon-and-animal-lover suggested this idea to me first drawing from the same inspiration so I can't take all the credit) - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (the underwater civilization) - Tangled (Circe and Ilias were heavily inspired by Mother Gothel and Rapunzel) - The Secret of NIMH (Circe is also inspired by Jenner, a villain who is against idealism and prefers to stay in the past) - Balto 2: Wolf Quest (Circe is also inspired by Niju for the same reasons above) - The Land Before Time (how the heroes took down the bunyip is similar to how Littlefoot and his friends killed the Sharptooth) - Avatar: The Last Airbender (the scene of Shirong and Ilias in the cave was inspired by Zuko and Jin's date) - The Road to El Dorado (a bad guy controlling a giant sentient puppet made of stone to destroy the heroes [Tzekel-Kan with the giant jaguar/Circe with the Leviathan]) - The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (though not a scene actually in the film, the infamous deleted scene of Zira committing suicide inspired Circe's suicide at the end of the story. The uniting of Kryvo and Concordia was also inspired by the joining of the Outlander and the Pridelander lions, though in my story the two sides weren't enemies like how they were in TLK) 

Magic of the Faun - A Troll in Central Park (Well, even though this story was originally written as a straight up improved remake of it, there are some very basic plot elements that stayed, including a certain type of magic being outlawed, a villainess who wants to petrify a kingdom, and the mythical protagonist being whisked away to our world and befriending a human) - Disney’s Fantasia (the home of the mythological creatures is inspired by the Pastoral Symphony segment) - Coraline (a child who feels constantly ignored by his parents but realizes that not being around him often doesn’t mean they don’t love him) - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (several magical elements, as well as Queen Chrysalis being one of the inspirations for Mortia) - Sleeping Beauty (Mortia’s character is also partially inspired by Maleficent. The fight between Caius and Mortia was also influenced by the final battle between Philip and Maleficent) - Ferngully (a villain associated with pollution and darkness who wants to destroy the protagonist’s natural resources [Hexus/Mortia]) 

Rudolf Okay so I don’t have to explain that this is obviously my own adaptation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but I took different inspiration from different versions - the 1964 Rankin Bass special (Much like Bumble, Denali is a non-talking giant monster of a villain. Vixen’s design is a direct homage to Clarice with the pale colors and the red bow. Rudolf and Aura bonding over both being outcast for their differences from other reindeer is similar to Rudolph and Hermey) - the 1998 Goodtimes Entertainment film (Blitzen being the father of Rudolf and the villain causing the storm on Christmas Eve that Rudolf eventually helps the team through) - Niko and the Way to the Stars/The Flight Before Christmas (a young reindeer trying to get to Santa’s village to meet his dad who’s part of Santa’s team)  - Klaus (a less traditional take on an iconic Christmas character, all the way down to the similar one-word character title. The rivalry between the Luminos and Avios deer is is also inspired by that of the Ellingboes and the Krums) - Balto (outcast hybrid protagonist who earns respect from others after completing a heroic deed) - How to Train Your Dragon (the iconic Test Drive scene was in my mind when Blitzen and Rudolf were having their flight session together. The battle against Denali is inspired by the fight against the Red Death, including the scene of the protagonists leading the big bad away from everyone else and causing it to crash to its death mid-flight)