Talk:Junta Nakao/@comment-5534769-20140726211548/@comment-397235-20140728033430

That was the idea. Obviously everyone would have different names. I, for some reason, think Mei's name in America would be Holly Jordan (her Japanese given name is a kind of decorative tree, and Jordan is asexual, can be either a first or last name, and is fairly common; her twin sister's name is also Jordan for this reason).

Most of my writing revolves around using as many PoVs as humanly possible, which sometimes works very well and sometimes really doesn't (I stopped writing my big Resident Evil story a few years ago because I ended with something like 30 major PoV characters, and that was just too many people to keep track of). The crux of the story are the flashbacks, but I'm honestly not sure how to do that in an actual novel, as the episodes of the TV show would've been character centric (I even had names for several of them: Izumi's first episode is called "Countermeasures;" Yuuya/Ikuo's is "Courage to Stand," Mei's first one is "The Other," Aya's is "The Places We're Meant to Die," and Kouichi's second episode would've been "Atonement"). This doesn't work so well in a novel setting.

As for wanting to use this...Eh, I'm not sure. On the one hand, technically it's all Yukito Ayatsuji's idea. On the other, they're my interpretations of his characters and with some major reworking I think I could probably make something publishable here.

Besides, I thought you disliked Izumi?