Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20141110045753

The whole point of "Lion's Roar" is, I guess, to show that Holly and Amy aren't that different. That, I think, is the tragedy of what happens to Yumi in the anime: she and Mei could've and probably would've been really good friends had things worked out differently. So...I took advantage of that here.

I'm trying very, very hard to avoid writing a "fix-fic" (for one thing, I don't think as an adapter that's really your prerogative), but your comment about killing Jerry made me re-examine some of my reasoning and who is going to live and who is going to die.

I'm trying to give everyone some justification:

Isabel takes her job so seriously because the vast majority of the people killed in the 2007 to 2008 Calamity were murdered by her brother.

Violet is so nervous and hyper because her big sister was one of those victims, and she nearly was too.

Alexandria is not right in the head because she was there when Violet's sister and another student were killed, but she was spared because she wasn't connected to the class. Seeing Sherry, Mr. Light, and then William die causes her to stop taking her medication. That doesn't go well.

Lincoln is a raving misogynist because his dad is an abusive, raving misogynist. Lincoln is probably the least sympathetic of the bunch, but I want people to still be able to relate to him. One of those cliched "He's been raised this way and doesn't know any better" types. Still, I want people to be able to relate to him even if he's the kind of person I'd punch in the face.

Sylvia Potts...I can't really talk about her without giving away massive spoilers, except she inherits Yumi's craziness at the Inn (for completely different reasons) and she does some things on an Izumi-level of bitchiness. She's not a very nice person to one classmate in particular, mainly because she's blaming this person for something she willfully did, and because this person's continued existence is an inconvenient reminder of her boyfriend's dead girlfriend. It's human nature, and she does have her moments...

The more I think about it, the more I think the original version fits Isabel in the second arc (so, spoiler, she doesn't die at the Inn). She eventually reaches a point where she decides she's going to help the current class because of how royally she screwed up the previous year. I think, had Izumi made it through in the anime, she'd probably have done the same thing, for the same reasons.

"Promise Me" could work for Prom as well; I could flip them, since "Play Dead" (the current Prom music) talks about paper masks and makeup and such...anyway.