10th anniversary Fic

by **Cat 2** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:51 pm

So errm, my brain had the idea of doing 10 fics this year to celebrate 10 years of this wonderful site, but I thankfully managed to talk her out of that.

The idea now is one fic, but 10 parts each working as a stand alone fic. I've nearly finished three parts of it, and I have a fourth planned, but I'm a bit stuck after that, so I'm hoping people will offer prompts and I will see if I can coax my muse into writing them.

The fic focuses on where people are and what they're doing on the day the Terrorism War is declared. It's New Captain Scarlet, and I currently have bits written/planned for Rhapsody Angel, Captain Orchre, Melody Angel and Scarlet (I know my brain is weird).

The only person I won't write is Destiny. Sorry, I don't like her. I really want to do something with Blue, but can't come up with the right situation, so suggestions on that really welcome. Aside from that, Prompt away people.

by **Marion** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:18 am

Not an NCS expert (I'm not even sure how old the characters were when this war was declared) - but wasn't Blue-Lite in the army? Or, if he wasn't, his father was.
Either way, there is a potential scenario around concerns about the safety of family members?
Failing that, as I seem to remember Blue-Lite was called 'gung-ho' maybe excitement at the prospect of action?

by **Cat 2** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:36 am

Yeah and that was my original idea. Trouble was, can't get Blue to work with at the mom, so hoping he might like something someone else suggests better.

by **Marion** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:34 pm

Be stern, that's my advice. These characters have to learn who's boss... :wink:

by **Cat 2** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:36 pm

It's pointless, they're spoilt.
If I'm stern with them, they run away and hide.

by **Skybase Girl** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:41 pm

Cat2, just to clarify - when you say the "Terrorism Wars", I take it you mean pre-Mysteron? Even pre-Spectrum?

Because everything I've seen re NCS doesn't date the world terrorist wars - indeed, if you tnink that's what the world is engaged in at present, it would certainly give them a longevityy of a hundred plus years.

If that's the case, the Spectrum characters wouldn't have been born at the start of it. Of course, if you see it differently ( as a kind of World War 3 scenario), then it could have started later and escalated quickly. I suppose the characters could be whatever age you choose, depending on the timeline you pick.

Sounds like an interesting idea for a series of stories, though. I'm disappointed you don't want to tackle Dismal D -

but if you only need ten points of view, you have lots of other characters to choose from!

by **Marion** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:08 am

One of the interesting things to do is write about characters you don't much care for - it makes writing about those you do like more fun. I generally include Captain Scarlet in my stories - I think he adds balance to my Captain Blue adventures.. :wink:

by **Cat 2** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:51 am

Skybase Girl wrote:Cat2, just to clarify - when you say the "Terrorism Wars", I take it you mean pre-Mysteron? Even pre-Spectrum?

Because everything I've seen re NCS doesn't date the world terrorist wars - indeed, if you tnink that's what the world is engaged in at present, it would certainly give them a longevityy of a hundred plus years.

If that's the case, the Spectrum characters wouldn't have been born at the start of it. Of course, if you see it differently ( as a kind of World War 3 scenario), then it could have started later and escalated quickly. I suppose the characters could be whatever age you choose, depending on the timeline you pick.

Sounds like an interesting idea for a series of stories, though. I'm disappointed you don't want to tackle Dismal D - but if you only need ten points of view, you have lots of other characters to choose from!

My main idea is that things countinue as they are for what is effectively our generation (Scarlet's parent generation (which is a little scary in it's self)). The war's going on, but it's distant from day to day living, kinda a phoney war.

Then suddenly something happens to change all that (I'm currently thinking Berklin breaks away from Russia). For various reasons the governments can't allow this to happen, so they declare war on Berklin, knowning that the Berklin have made alliances with most of the major terror organisations to attack thier countries at home if they do so. Things kinda then errupt to a multi-fronted war, unlike anything that's ever being fought before.

the bit's I've written so far only give one character a definate age (Captain Orchre is 22), but I see them all in thier early twenties, so the age range most likely to die in war.

So kinda of World War 3, but after a long period of cold war.

I may end up writing Destiny (my muse seems to want to do all the other angels), but I don't want one that focuses on her. As this is pre Spectrum, many of the characters haven't met so...

by **Marion** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:07 pm

Is Berklin your own invention? In OCs they have a state called Bereznik as the 'baddies'. Its seems to equate to what was Eastern Europe - in one comic story the border runs beside (west) Germany.

by **Cat 2** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:42 am

Yes, though it's based off Bereznik. I used them in this years Halloween story (Nightstairs), as having created a gas simlar to the gas found in the Vulcan mine to disable the Desnicks. As baddies, I thought they would be quite fun.

by **Cat 2** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:27 pm

For anyone interested, I've finally got Blue to cooperate. Just five more to figure out.

by **Skybase Girl** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:51 pm

Glad you have co-operation, Cat2!

I generally find that despite my best efforts to marshal my characters down a particular path, they are very adept at showing me this is entirely the wrong path for them and so, the story ends up rather differently to what I intended it to be. Sometimes characters write themselves and I suppose the only way to justify it is to say they must have been borne from subconscious, if not conscious thought. So maybe we, as writers, are responsible after all, although I don't always like to acknowledge my digressions!

All this can make it damn difficult in the plotting stakes, though, when you find yourself with an unplanned, although particularly pleasing scene that will utterly destroy what you had already worked out for the next bit....

by **Cat 2** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:11 am

Tell me about it.
Co operation was possibly a strong word. I had a nightmare and blue decided he liked that as an idea. It's definately not what I had in mind, but it works so...

by **Cat 2** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:31 pm

For anyone interested, this fic is now finished and will (hopefully) soon be with the beta readers.
It is in 10 parts, covering the whole terrorism war (my muse decided intial idea was too complicated) and I did end up writing one with Destiny. :oops:

As sporned two side stories, so I apologise to who ever from the beta reader panel gets it. This year has been good for Captain Scarlet fic for some reason.

by **doc gold** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:53 pm

Wow!!! That sounds really interesting!! Well done! x