Hang's 10 links

1_ Love Potion - Ragnarok Online:
Ragnarok Online is an Online Games named after the great war Ragnarok in Northen Myth. It has been one of the best online games ever since it came out in 2002.
Love Potion is a nice little story that could make you laugh. It was a pity that the writer abandoned it half way through. I still decide to put it here because it has such a lovely idea and it has been fun so far. The story is about an Alchemist who was forced to make Love Potion for her sister. By accident, she used it on an injured Assassin Cross, thinking it was a healing potion. This accident turned the Assassin Cross into a completely different person and fun things started to come..

The way the author tells the story work quite well with the idea. Words come out very natural and enhance the loveliness of the idea.

2_50 things to do with your boyfriend - Pokemon:
"Pokemon, Gotta Catch 'Em All" This game is not just famous, it is one of the legendary games that is still developed for over 10 years now. Pokemon is one of the very few games that have ever been made into Cartoon and Comics series instead of the other way round. The Cartoon and comic is still going on at the moment.
"50 things to do with your boyfriend" based on the Cartoon characters. It is a shounen-ai, a love story between 2 male characters of the Cartoon, Ash and Gary. The story is written in a strange way but is still quite effective as a fan fiction. It makes a list of 50 things you do with your boyfriend and the story goes on as each things is pointed out. Although it is very rare to see a short story like this, the story still comes very smoothly.

3_The Reason for Shadow - Electronic Persona:
Electronic Persona is a communication group on Artist Website http://deviantart.com. The idea of the group is each member creates a number of characters based on their electric devices such as laptop, mobile phone, game console, etc... After personalizing their electric appliances, member can use those characters to start up a Role-play chat. This is just pure entertainment, creating art and stories out of the chat is not composary however a lot of members love creating stuffs out of those characters that they interact with. Hence, a number of fa art and fan fiction was created from this group.
The Reason for Shadow is a nice short story about 3 characters that the author create for the Group. This might not fully be a fan fiction, however it was create for the Group so let's call it one. The reason for Shadow is the memory of a man about how he rescued 2 girls that are now living with him as sisters. The girls was trapped in a weird experiment lab since they were born and have gone through terrible experience there until the man accidentally got into the lab and help them to escape. The story started with the man remembering goes on soft and smooth like it came out right from his memory.

4_Eriu's murder flashback - Apocalypse Project:
Apocalypse Project is a role-play fiction project created by http://nithak.deviantart.com/ Based on the world that created by the founder, member of the project created their own characters and join the role play. Unlike Electronic Persona, the chat is story telling type itself, each chatter write a part of the story, not just chatting using characters.
Eriu's murder flashback is a role play chat log that tell the story of the past of one of the character. It might be called original story, not quite a fanfic, depend on how you define a fanfic. Eriu is one of the good Deity of the Apocalypse World. The story starts when Eriu knew that he was going to be killed by three other Deities, who desired to take over the power and control the world. Eriu was protected by one of his servant, Orka, the dragon king. However their power alone cannot defeat the 3 Deities so even Orka couldn't avoid the Death. Orka died but his soul cannot rest in peace so it wandered about in the world, looking for the day to revenge.

The Round Robin works great in this story as the story comes very natural eventhough it was written by 2 people. However due to the nature of role playing, the story sometimes looks more like a play than a complete story.

5_Your husband is Cheating on us! - Nana:
Nana is a manga about the relationship and life of Japanese punk rockers in the eyes of 2 girls share the same name Nana.
"Your husband is cheating on us!" tells the story of woman's jealousy and also reflect the decay life of a rocker. Reira loved Takumi unrequiredly for a long time but Takumi only considered her as a little sister. She accepted to become one in a number of lovers that Takumi had in order to have him by her side. Takumi's wife, Nana (also be called Hachi) knew that Takumi is unfaithful but still innocently trust him and his so-called love. The story starts when Reira's jealousy became unbearable and she decided to also destroy Takumi and his family by revealing to Nana that Takumi was cheating on Nana.
The story sticks quite well with characters' personality however it is still a little bit of exaggerating about Nana's reaction but it's still acceptable.


6_Portrait of an Illusionist - Inception:
Inception is the movie about people who use dreams to manipulate other's mind. The team consist of Cobb, the Extractor; Arthur, the Point Man; Ariadne, the Architect; Eames, the Forger; Yusuf, the Chemist.
Portrait of an Illusionist brings in the idea about Arthur's feeling upon Ariadne. He watched over Ariadne in dream and in real life. It was really sad that Ariadne died in one of the mission's dream and was sent to Limbo, leaving Arthur with his own illusion about her and uncertainty about her death. The author decided to end the story here because she was tired of writing; however I think it would have been not as good if she continue writing. The language that she used in the story is really beautiful. It drag the reader into a world of dream and reality in lover's eyes.

7_Dancing - Harry Porter:
Harry Porter is the story about an orphan wizard boy whose famoly died in the hand of the Wizard Dark Lord Voldemort. The boy somehow survived the Dark Lord's attack and mysteriously defeat the Dark Lord to become the heroes of the wizard world until the Dark Lord revived.
Dancing tells the memory of Remus Lupin about Lily and James. Harry's parents. It is the story about the feeling of an unrequired love. The story is soft, filled with a nostalgic theme and it brings th reader to the world of feeling of the character.

8_Stupidity - Honey and Clover:
Honey and Clover is an Anime series about a group of Art Students struggling to find their own way in life. Some of them were searching for real love, some were searching for a bright future or some just simply search for a goal in their life.
Stupidity tells the story of Yamada's long time unrequired feeling toward Mayama but in the perception of Morita. It was a very short story but it was enough to tell that Yamada likes Mayama unrequiredly. It was unclear in a 600 words story that the narrator, Morita is only the teller of the story about Yamada's feeling. However the author did a good job on telling Yamada's unrequired love through other person's perception and his thought. The image of Yamada as a bird with broken wings and Morita as the truck driver who drive through the bird is a powerful image as it also tell the personality of the characters: A Yamada who is blinded and hurted by her own feeling, and a Morita who understand Yamada's feeling but still "puts salt over her scar" on purpose.

9_Samurai Mango Curry - Samurai Champloo
Samurai Champloo is an Anime series about a girl names Fuu who, on the to find her father, groups up with 2 samurai names Mugen and Jin. The anime represent Japanese culture and justice in the late 18th century, when Japan was going through its hard time open up the country to the Western world, economy crisis and religion clash.
Samurai Mango Curry takes place in the middle of Fuu, Mugen and Jin' journey. They had to stop  to make some money for the journey so they came in a restaurant and was requested to make Mango Curry. After all the fight over how to make the food, they finally manage to make it but then find out that the mango curry wasn't to be eaten but to be shot into the owner's enemy's house. The idea was good for such short story. It was quite successful bringing in character's personality and habit.

10_The Timeline Alternative - Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory is a TV show about 4 nerdy scientists Sheldon and Leonard, who live in the same apartment, Howard and Rajesh and a totally normal girl Penny, who lives across the hall from Sheldon and Leonard's apartment.
The timeline alternative brings up an idea where Sheldon finally has to get married. His love for his fiancee is a bit out of character but the idea is pretty excellent. Sheldon and his fiancee got a fight and he wished he had never met her. When he woke up, everything changed, his fiancee disappeared, instead he found out that he now got a wife (a scary one) and a son. He also found out from the illusion of his idol, Leonard Nimoy, that his wish not only changed his life, it also lead to all the bad sequence upon his friends. The only way to fix this was to find his fiancee, who was going to get married on that day, and kissed her on the lips. The story was really relaxing and fun even though there are some part really hard to understand what the author wants to write due to grammar mistake and some sentences don't even make sence.