Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny/Fanfic Recs: Difference between revisions

''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3819823/1/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_DESTINY Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY]'' by Shadow Cell

* Recommended by Fenrir, [[User:Nitramy]]

* ''Synopsis'': The capstone of [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3819808/1/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_Seeds_of_Shadows a] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3819813/1/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_The_Power_to_Protect very] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3894566/1/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_Pain lengthy] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3973976/1/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_Soldiers_of_Old retelling] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4146386/1/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_DESTINY_Golden_Goddess that] starts off at the very end of ''SEED'' and starts taking things in different directions, starting with Kira becoming a [[Fallen Hero]].

* ''Comments'': For those that are looking for bringing out the most [[Kill'Em All|Zeta]] aspects of ''Gundam SEED Destiny'', this is the fic for you. The story is dark and brutal as Shinn struggles with fighting for himself amidst those that would use him merely as a tool. Shadow Cell brings a lot of minor characters in for some focus, including the Phantom Pain members from Stargazer and [[Gundam SEED Astray|Lowe and Gai occasionally]] along with a few original characters. The stories also paint Shinn as someone who is not so much immature as lacking direction, and have the dubious honor of making this troper start to ''like'' Lacus.

** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] - Shadow Cell goes ''[[Up to Eleven|very]] [[Beyond the Impossible|far]]'' into the [[Kill'Em All]] territory, as well as having just about [[Crapsack World|everything]] [[It Got Worse|get worse]], apparently for no reason other than [[True Art Is Angsty]].

** Comartemis: I'm giving this one a negative recommendation. Not only does the author desperately need an ego check (this series is the result of him "proving" that he can do ''Destiny'' better), he also seems to think that the way to "fix" ''Destiny'' is to turn it into ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory Gundam: The Sequel]]''.

*** Fenrir: Yes, because every other fanfic author whose done a [[Fix Fic]] isn't doing it because they can [[Let's See You Do Better|feel they do better]] and [[Zeta Gundam|the series Destiny's a remake of]] ended with sparkles and sunshine and a happy ending through and through.

*** Comartemis: Oh ''bullshit''. People say "I think I can do better" or "I'm going to try to do better", not "this entire series sucks balls and I can make it kick ass by killing all the characters and making the setting borderline [[Grimdark]]". The author loses points right from the start for using a [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] and an ''extremely'' OOC reaction to turn Kira into one of the bad guys and it never gets better after that point. Destiny did ''not'' have a perfectly happy ending, else Stellar and Meer would've been alive at the end; the fact that {{spoiler|Stellar lives to see the end of the series}} does ''not'', in ''any way'', make up for such angst-ridden bullshit as {{spoiler|Kira murdering Cagalli}}. ''Not ever.'' I'm going to say it again: if you had any fondness for SEED and/or Destiny as they were, ''avoid this series like the bloody plague.'' If, on the other hand, you are a fan of [[Kill'Em All]] Tomino's work, knock yourself out. I'll stick to Solid Shark's 'fics, thank you.

*** SolidShark: Going to have to concur there. Leaving my own works completely out of the discussion, I'll simply say that I think the author is [[Completely Missing the Point]], both of [[Gundam]] and the problems with [[Gundam Seed Destiny]]. Point one: [[Gundam]] never shies from showing the dark side of war, that's true; but there's almost always an underlying theme of the struggle being worth it in the end, of ''something'' good coming from the heroes' efforts. Hell, even ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory Gundam]]'' gave its protagonist a happy ending, however bittersweet. Point two: it generally seems to be agreed among the parts of the fandom that dislike canon ''Destiny'' that one of the big problems was the returning characters being [[OOC]]... so ShadowCell's solution is to make at least one of them ''more'' out of character? I'm sorry, but that simply does not make sense to me. Negative recommendation here.

*** Komuro: If it means anything, his sequel story is nowhere near as dark, but is the sequel worth wading through 50 chapters of death, darkness, and destruction? That's the question you have to ask yourself. And I'm not so sure his much-improved sequel is worth struggling through his rewrite of DESTINY.

** [[User:Nitramy]]: In other news, the first chapter of the sequel [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6382337/1/ Mobile Suit Gundam SEED TWILIGHT] has now been released on ff.net.

*** ShadowCell has just finished the last part of the trilogy. ETERNITY can be found on his homepage, and it is a fitting end to the DESTINY rewrite he began.

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