Fic ideas
Muse demanded I cross-post this, and I shall not disobey the muse.
Anyhoo, I'm trying to get back to my MHX adaptation fanfic. I'd just like to bug you all with questions.
One big part that's tripping me up in my MHX fic is what happens to X and Zero after DoS. My initial idea was for them to limp back to HQ amid the smoking and chaotic city, and run into Vile on the way there on the Highway before somehow escaping to HQ.
Thing is, X can hardly have his Important Battle with Vile if he's unconscious the whole time.
One thing I have learned from an old friend was that if you're doing a game adaptation, don't try to fit every little scene into the story. Because otherwise it can ruin the narrative flow, contradict itself and make the fic very, very boring (after all, people have PLAYED it. Why sit down and read the whole thing all over again?) So, is X's great initial battle with Vile on the Highway really that important? He can easily have it somewhere else, since I plan for Vile to constantly pop up anyway.
This ties into the second idea - they limp back to HQ, get fixed, meet up with the various suvivors of the military/police/Hunters and come up with a plan. They decide to attack one of the game's various levels and meet Vile on the way there and then X has his Important Battle with Vile (which means X can't get that damaged, because he needs to be able to finish the 'level'). Vile can also wreck havoc during the level, helping the newbie X to complete his mission without getting killed.
I'm leaning towards the first idea. I want to show Abel City totally leveled and teaming with Sigma's forces, making it an absolute hell-hole. That, and having a critically injured Zero hauling an unconscious X through hostile enemy territory makes for good suspense (because, I don't care that there's cars bustling around in the Highway Stage, all hell would be breaking loose). And when they make it to HQ, the various survivors could already be there, and I can easily time-skip to where they've already arrived at a safer base.
Of course, I'd like any input. What sounds more interesting?
Next question is Zero. I actually want Zero to actually be friggin' present, not writing him off as 'finding Sigma's base' and then only appear back in the fic at the end. I want him to actually take part. So, should Zero accompany X on the various 'levels' on the fanfic? The only reason I hesitate is that it might make it too hard to write them both and make the levels too easy for X (because it's Maverick Hunter X, darnit). Or should take some levels, Zero take others? Or should X take on all the levels, with Zero taking on seperate targets (like other weapon silos, power plants, etc)? Or maybe a whole combination of these (like Zero tagging along for bigger assignments, doing his own thing for others)?
Finally .... X's Glowing Hand Of Smite. I have my own ideas of what that is. But since Capcom isn't forthcoming about it, what are your ideas of that ability? And what do you think of this idea - that I could connect it somehow to the Hadoken power-up Light gives X?
And, on top of those, what things would you LIKE to see? I'm sure plenty of you have read a MMX game adaptation - were there things you would like to have seen/explained? Or have you seen things you didn't like and shouldn't have been included (like ruthlessly following the game, right down to the power-ups)?