Question Summoning Sweeties

Whatever happened to the Chinese Government program to get kids into China for magical programming?

Chou didn't get caught, and her mentor took the brochure / spell back to Whateley to get something going, but I haven't seen anything further on that part of the arc.

Chou wasn't supposed to visit China until the summer, so it is in a holding pattern until summer break.

That are two reasons for that. One is that Chou's author is longer regularly writing Whateley stories. The second is that most of the action for that arc was set to happen over the summer, which hasn't happened yet.

Its altogether confusing seeing as one of Chou's stories says she is definitely not going. Another says she is going to be visiting all the Disneyland parks in the world, and a third says that she is going to china after all, even though she knows its a trap.

Hey, summer is pretty long, you can fit a lot of traveling in there.

As for "definitely not going", as I recall that was her first kneejerk reaction; but after consulting the Tao, she concluded that she really had to go, no matter how much as it creeped her out.

And another thing... I don't recall anything about visiting "all the Disneyland parks in the world." I think there was a mention of her foster parents (the Immortals) taking her to Disney World for Spring Break or something, because apparently it is "traditional". There was even a fanfic of the trip, with the Monkey King going along.

I started that fanfic and was going to have her wake up in a different Disneyland hotel every morning, but since it wasn't my character I couldn't seem to get it right to my standards and then the feces hit the fan in real life so I dropped it. What was suppose to be a mildly angsty story was going to go into nightmare fuel if I kept it going, and while I'm willing to do that with my own characters, I don't feel right about doing it to others.

this is a general problem in the Chou's stories characters seem to forget what they have previously decided quite frequently, especially between stories. Each story stands fine on its own but they have some continuity issuse when taken all together.

There is some backsliding on things, but I never really notice any outright contradictions. She will decide on one course of action, and then things happen and she's forced to do something else.
The thing with China is one such event. The smart thing to do is to avoid China completely. They want her over there for some unknown reason, and are willing to use magic to sway her decision. But the Tao is saying "You're going to China, get your ass in gear now or bad stuff."

Domoviye wrote: I started that fanfic and was going to have her wake up in a different Disneyland hotel every morning, but since it wasn't my character I couldn't seem to get it right to my standards and then the feces hit the fan in real life so I dropped it. What was suppose to be a mildly angsty story was going to go into nightmare fuel if I kept it going, and while I'm willing to do that with my own characters, I don't feel right about doing it to others.

Chou is the right character for this. Her POV stories are the most angsty (probably not a real word) and depressing just because she doesn't open up to anyone, not Tennet, not Molly, not her roommate, not her mentor. This is why the Monkey King keeps showing up. To get her to lighten up.

jmhyp wrote:

Domoviye wrote: I started that fanfic and was going to have her wake up in a different Disneyland hotel every morning, but since it wasn't my character I couldn't seem to get it right to my standards and then the feces hit the fan in real life so I dropped it. What was suppose to be a mildly angsty story was going to go into nightmare fuel if I kept it going, and while I'm willing to do that with my own characters, I don't feel right about doing it to others.

Chou is the right character for this. Her POV stories are the most angsty (probably not a real word) and depressing just because she doesn't open up to anyone, not Tennet, not Molly, not her roommate, not her mentor. This is why the Monkey King keeps showing up. To get her to lighten up.

What?!? Someone thinks that Chou is more angsty than Kayda!

Well that just cannot stand! I MUST order a couple of semi-loads of angst to put in the next story or two!

elrodw wrote: What?!? Someone thinks that Chou is more angsty than Kayda!

Well that just cannot stand! I MUST order a couple of semi-loads of angst to put in the next story or two!

NOOOOOO! You already have enough angst planned for Kayda in the future, including having her brother become a mutant and end up at Whateley. Isn't that enough with her ongoing problems and Hekate's Master taking an interest in her.

elrodw wrote:

jmhyp wrote:

Domoviye wrote: I started that fanfic and was going to have her wake up in a different Disneyland hotel every morning, but since it wasn't my character I couldn't seem to get it right to my standards and then the feces hit the fan in real life so I dropped it. What was suppose to be a mildly angsty story was going to go into nightmare fuel if I kept it going, and while I'm willing to do that with my own characters, I don't feel right about doing it to others.

Chou is the right character for this. Her POV stories are the most angsty (probably not a real word) and depressing just because she doesn't open up to anyone, not Tennet, not Molly, not her roommate, not her mentor. This is why the Monkey King keeps showing up. To get her to lighten up.

What?!? Someone thinks that Chou is more angsty than Kayda!

Well that just cannot stand! I MUST order a couple of semi-loads of angst to put in the next story or two!

Just remember if Kayda gets too angsty, I'll have to pull out the angst cannon again. None of us want to go there again. Too many bodies are left from the last time I did.
And right now I'm writing a Christmas story for Whateley, don't make me turn it to pure angst. It's already depressing.

Now look what you did.

Dom's writing a Christmas story? That ought to be interesting. Can't wait to see what he comes up with.

elrodw wrote:

jmhyp wrote:

Domoviye wrote: I started that fanfic and was going to have her wake up in a different Disneyland hotel every morning, but since it wasn't my character I couldn't seem to get it right to my standards and then the feces hit the fan in real life so I dropped it. What was suppose to be a mildly angsty story was going to go into nightmare fuel if I kept it going, and while I'm willing to do that with my own characters, I don't feel right about doing it to others.

Chou is the right character for this. Her POV stories are the most angsty (probably not a real word) and depressing just because she doesn't open up to anyone, not Tennet, not Molly, not her roommate, not her mentor. This is why the Monkey King keeps showing up. To get her to lighten up.

What?!? Someone thinks that Chou is more angsty than Kayda!

Well that just cannot stand! I MUST order a couple of semi-loads of angst to put in the next story or two!

Chou has DOUBTS about everything. Kayda seems like she'll get it together more, especially using Loophole as a role model.
Chou lost her father, lifestyle, and home. Kayda is good on this front.
Chou now has voices in her head that tell her sometimes to kill seemingly randomly. Kayda's head voices never do that.
Chou refuses to tell anyone about her problems. Kayda is tricked into revealing her dark secrets. (Chou's provides more angst, I think.)
Chou's enemy has a hostage. Kayda's enemy wants to destroy the world. (You decide who wins that one)
Chou is unharmed in exploring her sexuality. Kayda was raped by her former friends.

I can't pretend to say that a 4-1-1 win for Chou given the severity of the last one. But when reading the stories, Chou is often lucid but very unhappy. Kayda is often withdrawn and non-responsive. I think it is the lack of lucidity, wherein Kayda does not engage the reader with her internal turmoil that makes (for me) the Chou stories darker and angstier than the Kayda stories. Additionally, Kayda seems to have bottomed out. While it won't be all sunshine and roses going forward, it seems like she won't go any lower from now on. OTOH, Chou doesn't seem to have hit bottom. I think there was one more bombshell on Chou's horizon before things got better. But that's pure speculation.

Besides, it shouldn't be a competition. Especially when one of the characters has lost her writer.

Yeah... life is rough for Chou. Her Freshman year sucked massively between mourning her father and her gender, the whole Demon Lord thing, having to kill, all sorts of other stuff... yeah, angst. However, I can tell you that you will find out about the China trip soon. I have been working with Elrod and Chou does share the story of her summer adventures with Kayda. They are... special. I may even write up something on the events of China on my own... we'll see.

And on account of this post, I predict great rejoicing.

If there is it is all your fault.