Life and (Fan)Fiction

Draft 4: THE GERITA SCEEEEENE (more like chapter actually, it’s 9 pages)

Should have been: SHIPPING SHIPPING SHIPPY SHIP SHIPPIIIIING. And the letters from Final Loop, because heartbreak </3

Preceeded by: That other scene I posted, with the angsting in Grandpa’s ruins and the printer ink and the no eye-contact. (which Feli has kept btw).

Followed by: Feli going home to tell Romano the same thing he tells Germany here.

Problems: I spent the entire 17th chapter in Draft 5 emphasizing how much the Itabros trust and rely on each other, but Draft 4 had Romano’s smothering actually smother his brother. Moving through Drafts 1 all the way to 5, this story became progressively more about family and a WHOLE LOT LESS about Romantic or Platonic loves. Romano, Seborga, and Vatican gobbled up chapters and scenes previously reserved for the other 10 mansion nations, and Feli’s just walked away from most of the interactions I tried throwing his way. ‘Tis so.

But I loved this chapter weeeeeeeh ; A;

From Draft 4, because I’ve scrapped almost every single character/plot point

Should have been: the second-to-last plot change in Recovery. Draft 4 was only going to be about 25 chapters so no Seborga or heavy Mafia plots. This was supposed to be the very FIRST time in Recovery where Feli’s Point-of-View was used after waking up.

Preceeded by: In this version Feli’s “shock” was finding out about the Swiss-Italian “war” from the end of Final Loop. He was at his first world-meeting in Rome when it came out and then stormed off in outrage over Romano’s secret-keeping.

Followed by: I’ll post that in a few minutes hang on.

Problems: In this version of the story Feli didn’t hide from the other nations, but when he tried meeting Germany he had a break-down and panicked, stalling their relationship for most of the story. Feli’s conflicts and reasons for not speaking here fell flat in the 5th draft where I started picking at different issues, but I really loved this meeting and if I can I’ll try to re-work elements of it into the published version.

Most of this was written to “Hallelujah” from the Shrek OST.

Take some family Shenanigans because I can’t with this anymore

Should have been: A good chunk of chapter 32.

Preceeded by: Alfred-Drama

Followed by: France-Drama.

Problems: I got my seasons mixed up, March in Rome is quite warm, not borderline freezing like in my country. I also don’t like the timing aspect of Alfred’s plot and France is broken too. These two things mean it must ALL be re-written, so even if I salvage part of it, it won’t be as good as the below.

Reaaaaaad it! [Already clipped for spoilers]

craaaap

I now have 3 chapters and some spare scenes from Recovery that I can’t use, but they’re all from several chapters ahead of where the posted chapters are.

I think, if my progress stays this slow and I’m unable to update 23 on time, I’ll post them up here as an apology.

~~But if you can’t tell I really wanna post them now because I can’t use them but they were fucking beautiful~~

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Spare content! Final Loop’s Original Chapter 3

Figure I should put this back on the internet since I took it down. I actually forgot about this chapter’s existence until something reminded me that I’d tried my hand at an Israel + assorted Middle Eastern OCs in Final Loop before scrapping the chapter.

Why did I write it? MIDDLE EAST REPRESENT! Actually, this was just me trying to figure out who America would gravitate to during the healing part of Final Loop before I decided he should be the flaming douche-monkey of Recovery. I like Isolated!Alfred a lot more than the one here, so in between the last two chapters of Final Loop, I took this one down.

Now that I’ve re-read it, I realize this is where the idea of Italy’s arm healing actually came from. The Key chapter kinda relied on the headcanon developed here…

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS YAAAAYY!

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Spare Content! Final Loop, Finale!

I know I said I was gonna go take a nap, but then I remembered I had some spare stuff I wanted to post.

Not Recovery this time, but a couple snatches of stuff that got cut from Final Loop Chapter 19 (or, for anyone coming along after I deleted the old chapter 3, Final Loop 18).

It’s rough and broken, but here’s some Poland, some Prussia, and some Switzerland for you. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Recovery: Spain and France from Chapter 1

Since I haven’t actually been posting the extra scenes I promised. Here’s one from Draft 4, Chapter 3.

In the Final Draft this was supposed to go on the end of Chapter 1 (in the hospital?), but the chapter was more than long enough by the time I was done with it. This is where Francy-pants went after leaving the Ameribros alone. It was nice to have Spain, but ultimately I didn’t need him.

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ INAPPROPRIATELY HAPPY PAGE BREAK.

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ RIGHT I FORGOT TO MENTION THIS

Right, so, that Alternative Chapter I posted a few minutes ago is an alternate story-line, and it’s one that I scrapped. However, there were lots of little gems in it that I wasn’t willing to part with.

Several paragraphs and descriptions will show up in other chapters of Recovery, especially when Seborga re-appears and interacts with others. Of course, they’re going to appear in a slightly different context (Like, I’m pretty sure some of the stuff about hair and scars was in the published version of Chapter 2) but the general wording will be the same. Call it lazy if you want, but I haven’t been sarcastic when mentioning ripping apart and stitching different drafts back together to produce the final project.

So yes if you read my scraps and drabbles here on Tumblr you’re probably gonna get hit with some deja-vu when reading the “official” chapters over on FF. Fair warning, you has it.

Alternative Chapter 2 (Also known as Recovery Draft 4) o 3o

This thiiiiing, I said I’d post it so here you go.

Reason I wrote it: I really, really, really like how this chapter came together, it was a different way to explore some of the stuff going on “elsewhere” without resorting to the humans like I did in the published version of chapter 2. It also had Seborga, who I simply adore beyond words, so why use an OC when you can have a Canon? (Spoiler: Vatican comes back in Recovery even though he’s an OC) This version is much easier on the emotions too, since it doesn’t end with Romano screaming in a dark room freaking out over his brother o 3o

Reason why I changed it: I love this chapter but it’s so slooooow, and it messed up a bunch of things in the next few chapters so people started making really silly decisions and going off in random directions. It also doesn’t end with Romano screaming in a dark room freaking out over his brother, which was something I really liked.

Timeline issues were also part of it, because the timeline throughout this story has been giving me rage fits.

But here you go! Have fun.