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splinteredstar) wrote2008-06-25 10:35 am
splinteredstar) wrote2008-06-25 10:35 am
Random DN annoyance
I'd never realized how annoying it is to work around the timing in DN before these past few days.
You see, in most series there is no sense of time. In FMA I could have Ed and Al try to ressurect their mother on Al's birthday, or the Ishvari rebellion start on New Year's, or something like that, because there is no timeline given. We don't know when anything happens so I can just make it up.
In DN I can't do that. Because in DN, events have DATES attached to them. I can't make Light's birthday or Christmas fall during the Yotsuba arc, because it doesn't and the canon dates say so. (Light and L meet in April, and the Youtsuba arc is over by the end of October) When you're trying to write a Holiday fic, this gets really, really annoying.
So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back and keep rereading the second arc to see when in the story Light's 25th birthday falls.
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You see, in most series there is no sense of time. In FMA I could have Ed and Al try to ressurect their mother on Al's birthday, or the Ishvari rebellion start on New Year's, or something like that, because there is no timeline given. We don't know when anything happens so I can just make it up.
In DN I can't do that. Because in DN, events have DATES attached to them. I can't make Light's birthday or Christmas fall during the Yotsuba arc, because it doesn't and the canon dates say so. (Light and L meet in April, and the Youtsuba arc is over by the end of October) When you're trying to write a Holiday fic, this gets really, really annoying.
So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back and keep rereading the second arc to see when in the story Light's 25th birthday falls.
S
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In DN I can't do that. Because in DN, events have DATES attached to them.
Yeah, I hate when that happens...even if it's some piece of canon that only appears outside of the actual show (such as birthday profiles), it bugs me that I'm not the badfic writer I once was and could ignore it.
I never realized the whole thing between L and Light only took place in a matter of six months. It's been a while since I've read volumes one through seven, and getting caught up in the plot, I didn't notice all that.
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Yeah, I hadn't either until I looked at L's death date. The end of the Yotsuba arc is mentioned by Near later, but I tend to accidentally zone out whenever he's talking so I hadn't noticed. It's amazing, really.
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