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Pistol-whipped by my own story…
Jenn: I just want to skip to Sunagakure!
Chapter 9: Hah! You wish loser, write me properly dammit!
Jenn: But I’m tired of traveling! I want to get to the good stuff!
Chapter 9: I DEMAND you write me, biotch! Stop slacking off!
Jenn: ~whimper~ ...jerk.
That's basically the conversation I had with the first act. But when I gave up on the idea of just skipping to Suna, things went great! I was DETERMINED for our little caravan to reach Suna by the end of this chapter, I'm tired of traveling! (I'm also tired of trying to find other ways of saying 'the caravan does *blah*') But yeah...as you can probably tell, this chapter felt like pulling teeth. I started it three times before getting something I was happy with. In other news, if I ever use the words – (adjective) orbs – to describe anyone’s eyes in this story, please just put a gun to my head and shoot me. It was a great descriptive phrase… the first HUNDRED times I read it…
Had to do some research to write this chapter too. I reread what my US Army Survival Manual had to say about desert survival again, and I watched a few documentaries on tv about the desert in general. One was Man vs Wild, where the guy got dropped into the middle of the Moab Desert in Utah, and had to find civilization. Learned a lot from that one too! (Some things I didn’t want to know either, like how peeing on your head covering to keep your head cool is a survival trick. EWWWWWW…)
Also had to research how chakra worked in the Narutoverse, and then somehow make up a way that Gaara’s would be different. Sakura, being a medical doctor, I think just has to be curious how Gaara copes without sleep, so I had to figure out a rationale of how that might be possible. The bit where Shukaku tries to devour her just came as a natural extension of that examination scene, and it occurred to me that it’d be really cool if it killed the medic when they tried to heal him. It isolates him from others, and makes another level where he never gets help from anyone, and has to rely only on himself. He doesn’t get hurt easily, but when he does it’s almost certainly by an extremely powerful foe, making the injuries worse. (And then Sakura can sweep in and save the day with her ‘leet medical skillz! Oh swoon! … all that crap about it being a useful technique takes second place to the FLUFF!! ;D)
I’ll probably go into it more later, but Sakura’s wondering if Gaara’s cells are being forced into accelerated division because that’s the downside of Tsunade’s technique – it shortens your life. If it is accelerated division then Gaara’s lifespan will be shorter, but if not, perhaps his lifespan will be extended because of the continuous renewal of his cells through an outside influence (if having a demon sealed inside you can be called “outside”.) We’ll see in later chapters :D
Finally, in a not really related way... No one should ever rave about the smell of cherry blossom (sakura) trees – I can tell you firsthand, the either don’t smell that much at all, or the REEK like something rancid. The ones planted around my workplace are the second type – walking to get lunch is almost a moot point. By the time you get to the place to eat, you’re not hungry anymore… The non-smelling ones are the type around my apartment complex. They look beautiful, but don’t smell like anything at all. I might go down to the Tidal Basin this weekend for the National Capital Cherry Blossom Festival, but it’s always amazingly crowded, which isn’t fun… If I find any cherry blossom tress that smell like something nice, I’ll be sure to amend my statement at top (but I doubt that will be the case.)
Current Location: bed, writing on laptop...
Current Mood:  tired
Tags: amoc, desert survival, research
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