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Did someone say 1.5 thread?

First, the dedication!

If you& #39;ve read it you know how I make Yagoo act like Emiya Shirou at times, and like Emiya Kiritsugu in others. This dedication is reference to the Last Stardust scene in UBW!

Since this is a story that leads up to Yagoo& #39;s death,
isn& #39;t Jackie just a very appropriate movie to take the quote from?

"-People like to believe in fairy tales.

-And you? I believe that the characters we read about in the page end up being more real, than the men who stand beside us." https://youtu.be/g9pW3B8Ycc4 ">https://youtu.be/g9pW3B8Yc...

I& #39;m really proud of this name.

It& #39;s a reference to "The Beast that shouted Love at the Heart of the World". It& #39;s a name that both Yuno and Evangelion& #39;s last episode reference: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo - Sekai no chūshin de "ai" o sakenda kemono".

There& #39;s an amazing, amazing, amazing Kizuna Ai video,
that does an amazing, amazing, amazing worldplay too:

Sekai no Chuushin de Ai ga Sakenda mono

By changing just "o" to "ga" and taking out the "ke",
it changes the whole meaning of the phrase. ">https://youtu.be/SJEueFgMI...

"What Ai said at the heart of the world"

"I hate myself, but I may come to like me."

This may be the best V-tuber video ever made.

To use such a nice message for a plug...

(I also personally believe the multiple Ais project idea was born here.)

But getting back on track.
I think this is such a good use of the original base.

"Vampire" replaces "girl" and "beast."
(What is Mel?)
3 & 9, (/san-kyu/, "thank you") replaces "love".
(Being gratitude an expression of it).

Heart and world remain, but the prepositions change.

(At first, I played around with the idea of naming the story,
"Do vampires dream of blood donations?",
as a reference to this.)

("Vampires never die" was also a title I considered,
as a reference to "Heroes never die" from Overwatch)

You may think the opening words are somewhat weird.
The reason is they are actually a direct translation of Mel& #39;s first words on her return stream. Most of what Mel says to her viewers in this story is a translation of things she said in that occasion:

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The certain minister is Martin Luther King Jr.,
on his "Three Dimensions of a Complete Life" speech.

The segment lasts 7 minutes, I totally recommend it.

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"Traditions have a reason, they pass down knowledge"
is an idea present in "How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom".

The whole scene of Yagoo meeting Mel,
and her not wanting to attack him despite desiring it,
is inspired in Kaneki not wanting to eat in the alley.

"Being more innocent than she has the right to be",
was the guiding pillar for Mel in this story.

"It was in her nature."

This brief segment really makes me think of the frog and the scorpion fable. Personally, the first time I heard it was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from Leonardo.

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"I believe that when you offer most people the opportunity to be the best they can be, they take it."

Leonardo

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To slit your wrist and stoically shed your blood for others...

This is something that the greatest have done.

The first time I saw this was Shiryu, in Saint Seiya,
when he restores the Dragon and the Pegasus cloths.

The second is, of course, Joseph Joestar, for Wham.

And the third is the first mold for Yagoo himself: Shirou Emiya.

"-Even, even though so much blood is coming out,
it, it doesn& #39;t hurt you?"

"-It hurts. It hurts so much."

These two pages are the ones that clash with the new guidelines, as it pertains to "(Refrain from) content that includes matters pertaining to any particular religion."

I& #39;m so proud of them.

The parallel is so good and natural, not forced.
It& #39;s done tactfully. I explain a commonly used term,
share a nice parable, and resignify a design element.

Following the "element inclusion is not promotion" principle, I don& #39;t think someone could have handled it better. This is why I& #39;m sad to see it go: had I not written it 9 months ago, I would not be allowed to write this great story today.

And, even though it& #39;s written,
I can no longer promote it or share it.

This has to be one the cruelest fates known to a story.

I& #39;d cry about it hours, days, years,
bling ages, stellar centuries.

I could say this every page, but I& #39;m truly proud of this story.

Not only do I say some nice things in it, I give an explanation for her no longer using the choker too.

So this design element she moves past from
(and that is still present/used sometimes),
I say, "it was there", and "it no longer is, due to this."

The reason the first choker was replaced by a normal star probably is precisely because they wanted to move away from a symbol loaded with meaning.

This is why giving it that meaning in the story is so genius I think, it subtly explains the change without saying it directly.

I mean, maybe the story can’t be accused of being subtle haha, but by giving out the meaning of the first symbol she used, a reader should be able to connect the dots and say “oh, so this is why the symbol was changed”, even though I don’t say that.

Everything I write tends to have many objectives behind it. This story explains that design change. It also reintroduces Mel making use of her real return, introduces Yagoo, is Mel& #39;s origin story, and builds the lore of the demon world.

That’s why I’m, once more, proud of it.

Once more, this is a direct translation of things she says on her return stream. The internet going down and her kicking loose the power cable is a reference to how the stream got banned two times in real life.

Why">https://youtu.be/C0KQZUyfZ... use parts of real streams for the story?
It& #39;s related to the quote that goes at the start.

I wanted to lose track, too.
Of what happened for real and what didn& #39;t.
Of who these V-tubers are
and who they are in my story.

That& #39;s the proposal of part 1.

https://youtu.be/C0KQZUyfZ... use parts of real streams for the story?It& #39;s related to the quote that goes at the start.I wanted to lose track, too.Of what happened for real and what didn& #39;t.Of who these V-tubers areand who they are in my story.That& #39;s the proposal of part 1.

This part is meant to reflect my feelings towards this series.

I do worry, but I still want to have fun with it!

I like Vs man. I really do. I want to write a lot about them.
About a lot of things.
Everything possible may not be appropriate,
but I& #39;ll do a lot of things for sure. Keep an eye out.

I& #39;ve always wanted to say this, but you know why Soran Bushi?
It& #39;s due to the waves. It& #39;s about being like the waves.
Coming and going, like them, with them.

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I& #39;ll">https://youtu.be/KnrGMHhnq... keep coming.

I uploaded Mel singing the song with my translation to YouTube. On the description I explain the pun, not only of the song but of the title. I said it before on this thread, but it& #39;s because it sounds like "Thank you", that she says...

3&9 https://youtu.be/d89B15bNmaI ">https://youtu.be/d89B15bNm...

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