Collide Gamer

Chapter 44 – Arc 1 – Author’s Note

HELLO!

That is a little teaser for the next Arc which will start on the 17.07.2017. After the initial one, Chapters will come out every four days. Why every four days? Because I will now decrease this to ‘Side-Project’ status to get back to some other work I have been neglecting for way too long. That means that instead of the 1-2 Chapters you got for the each of the past days we will now be doing one chapter every 3-4 days.

Now for what I will do instead (Shameless advertising incoming): First I will head over to Chronicles of Atlarcton and finally write a complete Arc for that story. That should take 1-3 weeks I think, but I can’t be completely sure. After that I will finally get back to work on what my actual main project is: The Uklag branch of To Prove Superiority.

This is probably great news to some and bad news for most of you, seeing as this is by far my most popular work at the moment, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I hope you enjoyed the First full story Arc ‘Rave Grind’ and will return to see Arc 2 ‘As above so below’.

Here is a little extra.

Focus Character of the Arc: Rave - Extended Insight.

Jane ‘Rave’ Hollmey. What a girl, eh? She is way more popular than I had actually anticipated. She also has a way more dominant role in the story than I originally planned but I liked her character so kept using her for pretty much everything, which resulted in the love plot. Yep, the love plot was actually an accident. Funny thing really.

Doesn’t matter much though. So how did Rave spawn in the meanderings of my brain? The usual way actually: With a song. This might confuse some of you but most of the stuff I write about is inspired by music. The piece Rave is based on is the Arty Remix of Worlds Collide by Nicki Taylor. I wanted to reveal this in story but never got a good opportunity so I am dropping this off here. The song was also the naming inspiration for Collide the organization, which I built after her to have her be affiliated with something.

The decision to make her father be part of the Abyss Auction came as I wanted a ticket into that part of the world. It was more of a necessity in all due honesty but it worked out. It also gave me the opportunity to introduce some speech quirks because of her constant travelling in her early life. These speech quirks, as many of you have probably observed, are inconsistent. For once I can say that that is on purpose.

Decision to her parents divorced was one of logic as well. I didn’t want to introduce even more characters when I was already having trouble giving the ones I had (cough Jimmie cough) screen time. Instead I used it to give Rave a bit more depth. Will Nariko Hollmey ever enter the story? Yes. When? I don’t know yet but not within the next three arcs in all probability.

Why Light powers? Well, it was a toss-up between light and sound powers. Light won in the end because I didn’t think I could make sound interesting in the long run, while I do have some more ideas for light. Sound Power is pretty likely to appear at one point or another though. Doubt it will be prominent though.

Lastly I will leave you with a picture. This picture was the base for Rave’s looks. I generally dislike sharing pictures for characters because I feel it takes away from the imagination of reading (Except for pictures drawn specifically for a story, best by the author himself) but in this case I have to concede that I was inspired by this picture A LOT, so it would be unfair not to share it here.

That was the Extended Insight for Jane ‘Rave’ Hollmey. If you have any more questions or criticism regarding the character I will be happy to read and answer.

Funatic OUT!