Not a chapter but fun facts 2
With this “chapter” I am putting an official end to Enies Lobby Arc.
Let’s start with the not fun facts first.
I’m surprised this last arc went on for so long. At some moments I thought that nothing was happening in some chapters and in others too much and too fast.
Now that I take a good look. The more the story moves forward the longer are the arcs.
Alabasta was around 3 chapters, Skypiea 10 and Enies Lobby a whooping 16. I’m a bit scared of what’s to come.
I see in the comments sometimes questions like “ Why did Rick do this?” or “Why didn’t he do that?”
To answer the first : Rick is cunning but even cunning people may have brain farts. His lazing around during his ten years exile is proof of that. That was utterly stupid and he paid the price.
It was intended and not just something I made up purely to fit the story. (As you can see since his wake up call after Ener’s fight, Rick seems more powerful than ever.)
Even though I defended my decision in some Author’s notes and comments, it was to throw everyone off a bit to Rick’s future development not in terms of strength but mentality. Apparently the idea itself displeased some readers a lot and didn’t read any further without thinking that maybe there was more to it. Too bad for them. They can join their friends who left when I blocked haki for Rick.
To answer the second: Rick has been in the world of One piece for roughly 20 years now. Don’t expect him to remember everything he read or saw of One Piece. He doesn’t have an eidetic memory, he’s bound to forget things. Furthermore, we don’t know how many worlds he went on before and how many years he spent there. The simple fact that he remembers anything about Once Piece is amazing in itself considering.
Now about the system. We don’t see it much, and that’s normal. Its primary function is to give Rick a look at his progress, and buy necessary things for his mission and not to be an overly cheated ability. Which with the store kinda is, I admit. Fortunately, the things he wants to buy are generally expensive, which prevents him from going on a shopping spree for something that would not even help him.
He could buy things from other worlds, like Kryptonian or Sayian physiology but there are three reasons he doesn’t not.
1st: That would mess up his situation. He’s not sure a superman body would do any good or even be useful against a logia. Haki is something that belongs to One Piece, would a Sayaian body which comes from another universe have it? If not, how is he going to deal with logias and people having Haki?
2nd: Let’s not forget that things outside of One piece universe are bloody expensive. The chances of screwing himself over by buying non-related things to Op Universe is really high.
3rd: He spent so many years trying to save points for his needs and be low on Karma points that he kinda forgot that he could do that. Since he never had much Karma points to begin with, there was no need for him to look at things from another universe. Out of sight out of mind.
Now boring facts are over. Time for the fun ones!
- Boa Hancock was not supposed to be in the harem. It was a last minute change and I’m not quite sure how to deal with that in the future. But I went with it and I’ll find a way.
- The number of ladies in his harem is eleven. Maybe 12 but I’m not decided on this last one.
- The identity of one of the harem girls will be shocking.
- Robin is the one True Queen and the one True wife. She always was supposed to. I hinted at it since almost the very start of the story and not very subtly. The Me Me no Mi, his stay in O’hara, his passion for history. Some were obvious, some not.
- Robin was not supposed to be bi. Why did I change it? Because I liked the idea of Robin flaunting her status of Alpha Lady. Rubbing in the fact that the only reason any of Rick’s conquests can have time with him is because she allows it. Why is it related to her being bi? Well the greatest way to remind the other women that she’s the alpha is to be there when they are intimate with Rick. And since she’s there, why not participate? I like the idea that Rick and Robin are truly a team; doing everything together. (Or more like every one)
- The idea of Robin being bi came from the scene where they pay back Nami.
- Nami’s cheekiness and close friendship with Rick was planned from the beginning and will never end! But there will be severe consequences. Way worse than being tickled for 15 minutes. Originally it was just Rick bringing down those consequences but now Robin is in the mix so she will do it too.
Now the name of the chapters ~~
Chapter….
29: A song from Daft Punk’s album Discovery (best album ever)
30: A Linkin Park song
31: Michael JAckson. Anyone?
32: Quote from the movie a few good men
33: From the movie Miami Connection (Far cry blood dragon credit song)
34: From Hamlet.(You know, Shakespear)
35: An instrumental song.
36: Reference to Jules Verne’s 20 thousand feet under the sea.
37: Game of Thrones
38: A really sad song you can hear in Dony Darko iirc.
39: Metal gear solid game over
40: Do I really need to explain that one?
41: And this one?
42: most famous quote of German philosopher Nietzsche
43, 44 : Quote from people
45: Obvious because of the content of the chapter.
46: Quote from people
47: One of my best jokes ever. ( I know; my humor sucks harder than a Dyson vacuum cleaner)
48: Related to events in the chapter.
49 to 52 : Another quotes from people
53: You’all got rick rolled? You mad?
54 to 59: Another, another quote from people.
See you again for a “Not a chapter” chapter probably after the Marineford war.
Absolutely love the fanfic so far. 0 complains tbh. I hope you continue the daily updates. Looking forward to the next chapters.
I glad you love it!
I can't guarantee daily updates because sometimes I need a break. But I'll do my best until the beginning of September.
Same, I love the fanfic. The daily updates are like the bolognaise on top of my spaghettis. It illuminate my day.
But I know this story came from you so take a break when you need to and take care of yourself.
Love,
A random reader.
I mentioned this yesterday in another story, but I think it works here too so I just copied it.
My opinion? Go ahead, build your backstory, plan your plot and follow your writing with it without paying too much attention to the complaints in the comments. I've read a lot of stories that I said "this is not possible, the author destroyed it with the plot!", only to later see him throw a plot twist in my face and I get like WOW. "What a fantastic story." Likewise, I saw authors who followed the comments a lot and ended up stopping or not knowing how to go ahead. So read the comments and just follow the ones you think "I didn't think of that, but it's a good idea!" and that fits YOUR story. Because that's it, the story is yours, we just read it, if someone likes it, they'll like it, if they hate it they'll hate it anyway
I will not be influenced by some readers to make change on something already set in stone even if they are not written yet. Something I'm hesitating to do, like putting Hancock in the harem? That yes.
The problem with those people is they are giving a very low rating when they didn't even go beyond chapter ... 13? 14 ? When there is 59 chapters (at the time I'm writing this) out, it's upsetting.
I would have understood after joining Luffy & co, when the story truly begin.
I don't care much for rating itself but at the same time it's the only thing indicating me If my story and I are improving or not. I know it's not reliable and there is you people making comments but out of the 600 more readers less than 5% leave a comment, that's not really representative.
Anyway I'm trending and I got people commenting that I'm doing well so I got that for me, which is nice.
Isn't boa the girl he saved when he was with the marines?
Hol up when the hell was boa hancock in this story! Did I get confused because of the long break or something!?
She made her appearance just before Rick went to Alabasta with Aokiji.
Edit: It's chapter 24: Rock you like a hurricane. It was her first official appearance, though she was introduced in an earlier chapter but not named.
@Hrist_Waltz ahh I see thank you very much, didn’t read the early chapters for a while so I forgot about most the early parts but this reminded me to go back
The Skypia and Enies Lobby arc were good lengths for each respectively in my personal opinion. For the Skypia arc you had to go over jaya, them going about sky island, the different fights, and finally them leaving. For Enies Lobby you had the Foxy part, Aukiji sticking his nose in, having to deal with the aftermath of that, them seeing water 7, the actual enies lobby part, and then the aftermath of that. Compared to Alabasta which you dropped in at the very end of that arc you've been going through the whole arcs instead which will in turn increase the lengths then only covering a part of an arc.
Doing great so far. Keep it up please. One of my two favorite novels on this site. Don't let anyone try and change what you as the author wants to write. Its your book so keep it the way you want and if people don't want to read it they don't have to since other people will.
Please 🥺🛐 make+18 more details and Horny 🛐🥺✍️
The identity of one of the harem girls will be shocking.
that sounds like bonnie
This is why i don't read comments on stories, they think they know everything about the story that the author is telling and talk sh*t about it, they honestly don't deserve to have a good read if they're that stupid, they're the one missing out. A good rule of mind to have is to not talk bad about an occurance unless the story is finished or the author agreed with you, then you could talk something that you thought were bad about the story (respectfully ofc).Don't even bother with those dumbf*cks 14 yrolds.
Thanks for the facts! My favorite part is seeing where your mind was at when coming up with parts of the story. And as someone earlier in the comments said, take your time if you need to, you deserve a break when you think you need one, and take as long as you'd like for planning if you think you need it!
Maybe I should do a "not a chapter" after each arc to explains more in details why I did things a certain way and why I didn't some things. Like a report.
Sounds good
Too many pop culture references, I like it.
Keep em' coming i like to guess where that reference came from. Maybe you can give them every arc finised.