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Final Thoughts on Friends Through Fire
5 years ago
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Hi. You don't have to read this, it doesn't contain anything necessary for the story, I just wanted to give my thoughts on the story and how it came to be. If you just want the story, feel free to simply proceed to the final chapter.
This story idea first started around a year or two ago, when I was just browsing youtube. A video popped up in my recommended: "PMD2 - DON'T EVER FORGET - Orchestral Remix". I don't like orchestral music nor remixes, but I was interested in Mystery Dungeon; I played PMD2 and Gates to Infinity when I was younger, so I decided to search the original version of the song.
And it hit me HARD.
The song was beautiful, and although I had forgotten the details of the game, I remembered the context of when this song played. As I listened, I came up with scenes in my head, reenacting the moment from the game. I looked up other songs, and after that, more Mystery Dungeon content; I was hooked.
That was when I stumbled upon the spark that started this story: the animated episode "Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate". The animation itself was nice, but I thought it was weird that the human in the episode simply went by Squirtle, not giving his former name. It made sense for the others to call him Squirtle, but I thought he should've told them his name and asked to be called that.
From that idea, the story started to grow; a human taken to the pokemon world meets their future partner, but the partner insists on calling them by their pokemon name. They would face trials and dangers, and the partner would grow to respect the human and call them by name, while the human would grow to accept their new body and name.
I didn't do much with the idea at first, and simply continued to obsess over Mystery Dungeon, replaying Gates to Infinity and falling in love with the tone and style of the series. Eventually, I finished the game and found myself coming back to that idea. I kept growing the story more and more, playing out scenes in my head, until I realized that it could actually be something I could write.
Finally, I finished outlining the story and plot, and I started writing. I wasn't sure I'd ever actually finish it, but when I finally wrote chapter 13, I had a feeling I'd go through with this until the end. This has been by my first big writing project, several times bigger than anything else I've made. I'm pretty amazed that I actually finished it.
I'm not completely satisfied with this story; the Wildfire was nothing more than an excuse plot to justify Mudkip and Snivy going on an adventure together, and it ended up distracting from what I actually wanted. And of course, there was Ralts. Oof. Because of all that, I might make a reboot of this story in the future, with a better main plot. But that won't be for a while.
Anyways, in all my fantasizing about scenes from the story, there was one scene that I came up with before any other, before even the Wildfire; this chapter was the end goal of this story. Anyone who's played a Mystery Dungeon game knows exactly what happens at the end of a story like this, and mine is no exception.
But one last thing end off, I want to share these Mystery Dungeon songs. You don't have to listen to them, obviously, but they're beautiful and I love them and recommend them:
Don't Ever Forget: https://youtu.be/mH_Zl2Rgl5M
Partner's Theme: https://youtu.be/xbr3x82DHhs
Run Away, Fugitives: https://youtu.be/YBXBDqaIL28
Time to Part Ways: https://youtu.be/RkgaIrPEyPk
Parting Farewell: https://youtu.be/ePK6ygkUk1Y
Now without further ado, please enjoy the finale to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Friends Through Fire.
This story idea first started around a year or two ago, when I was just browsing youtube. A video popped up in my recommended: "PMD2 - DON'T EVER FORGET - Orchestral Remix". I don't like orchestral music nor remixes, but I was interested in Mystery Dungeon; I played PMD2 and Gates to Infinity when I was younger, so I decided to search the original version of the song.
And it hit me HARD.
The song was beautiful, and although I had forgotten the details of the game, I remembered the context of when this song played. As I listened, I came up with scenes in my head, reenacting the moment from the game. I looked up other songs, and after that, more Mystery Dungeon content; I was hooked.
That was when I stumbled upon the spark that started this story: the animated episode "Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate". The animation itself was nice, but I thought it was weird that the human in the episode simply went by Squirtle, not giving his former name. It made sense for the others to call him Squirtle, but I thought he should've told them his name and asked to be called that.
From that idea, the story started to grow; a human taken to the pokemon world meets their future partner, but the partner insists on calling them by their pokemon name. They would face trials and dangers, and the partner would grow to respect the human and call them by name, while the human would grow to accept their new body and name.
I didn't do much with the idea at first, and simply continued to obsess over Mystery Dungeon, replaying Gates to Infinity and falling in love with the tone and style of the series. Eventually, I finished the game and found myself coming back to that idea. I kept growing the story more and more, playing out scenes in my head, until I realized that it could actually be something I could write.
Finally, I finished outlining the story and plot, and I started writing. I wasn't sure I'd ever actually finish it, but when I finally wrote chapter 13, I had a feeling I'd go through with this until the end. This has been by my first big writing project, several times bigger than anything else I've made. I'm pretty amazed that I actually finished it.
I'm not completely satisfied with this story; the Wildfire was nothing more than an excuse plot to justify Mudkip and Snivy going on an adventure together, and it ended up distracting from what I actually wanted. And of course, there was Ralts. Oof. Because of all that, I might make a reboot of this story in the future, with a better main plot. But that won't be for a while.
Anyways, in all my fantasizing about scenes from the story, there was one scene that I came up with before any other, before even the Wildfire; this chapter was the end goal of this story. Anyone who's played a Mystery Dungeon game knows exactly what happens at the end of a story like this, and mine is no exception.
But one last thing end off, I want to share these Mystery Dungeon songs. You don't have to listen to them, obviously, but they're beautiful and I love them and recommend them:
Don't Ever Forget: https://youtu.be/mH_Zl2Rgl5M
Partner's Theme: https://youtu.be/xbr3x82DHhs
Run Away, Fugitives: https://youtu.be/YBXBDqaIL28
Time to Part Ways: https://youtu.be/RkgaIrPEyPk
Parting Farewell: https://youtu.be/ePK6ygkUk1Y
Now without further ado, please enjoy the finale to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Friends Through Fire.
