1-10 Thoughts (For real this time)
This is a blog post talking about 1-10, if you haven’t read it yet, do so here. If you want to give criticisms for this section of the story, you will be able to post in the comments here!
Alright, now that I’ve uploaded 1-11-1, I can properly discuss how I went about writing 1-10. The first thing you might have noticed is that it’s sort of strange that Messa is the one fighting Elizabeth, rather than Isaac. After all, I gave them a little bit of a previous relationship before, wouldn’t it be more dramatic to make those two fight?
Well, kinda? Isaac does get attached to people very quickly, mostly because he has no other option, since he doesn’t know were his friends/family is. But, the two only spent like, an hour together, at most. I poked fun at this with one of Messa’s lines. I’d also like to take a second and say that if you thought this was going to spring into a romantic subplot, sorry, but I’m not particularly interested in that. Most because Isaac has the mentality of a 15 year old right now, thus creating a pretty concerning age gap. But it’s also because arc 1 is basically the introduction arc to this world, and I want it to be as simple as possible.
In fact, I’ve tempted myself to merge this arc and the prologue arc several times, but I decided against it. Mostly because I feel like most people don’t want to read a 13 chapter prologue arc. But enough about the prologue!
I wanted this battle to be with Messa because I wanted him to properly show off how experienced he is in battle, without the fight literally lasting a single chapter part. Messa needed another good fight, since Isaac just got one. I considered Isaac getting both of these fights, since Messa already got the really good fight against Lina, but since I know I wanted this fight to end early, I figured I’d give Messa a little more time to shine.
With that being said, this next paragraph has spoilers for 1-11-1 and 1-11-2, so if you haven’t read that next, I’d recommend either reading those now, or just skipping this paragraph. Basically, the ability that forced Messa and Isaac into Body’s Mind was the leader’s ability, and it only activated if someone was stressed inside the hotel, something that was forced upon Isaac and Messa due to Nash’s ability. Although I want to note that Messa was on the outer radius of Nash’s ability, meaning that he didn’t get hit with the same traumatic memories that Nash has, although he was affected by it enough for him to be stressed out to the point where it would activate the main villain’s ability.
I wanted to show off that Elizabeth wasn’t very experienced in fighting, showing that in how she had very clear habits that were derived from her very specific strategy. Normally having a plan isn’t bad, but when such a plan has been proven not to work, I wanted to show off that Elizabeth doesn’t have the improvisational skills needed in a more messy fight.
As per usual, be sure to post any comments here talking about the chapter, and sorry for taking so long for me to upload this post, turns out I have way more to say about this chapter than usual!
