Bloopers, Deleted Scenes & Backstories

So...How Did I Come Up With QOTV Anyways?

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Elsa.

When I actually first wrote this idea down, I had just seen Frozen 2 with my family. We're all big Disney people, and I have a younger cousin who was OBSESSED with it, and I ended up really liking the soundtrack to the sequel. So, yeah, I had Frozen 2 on the brain when I wrote this.

It actually was Frozen 2 that made me switch this story from your average Alien OC x Krel Tarron over to Queen of The Ventils. Before I went to see it, I had basically had my dreams of an alien OC crushed by Season 2 of 3 Below (I actually ended up legit crying at the ending, but we don't talk about that). Anyways, I still wanted to write a fanfiction (back before I knew what fanfiction was, it was just me adding on to stuff in my head without writing it down) about Tales of Arcadia, but I had no idea what I was going to do.

I had started tossing around a few ideas, and I had the idea of creating some weird, new beings to add to the ToA universe already floating around in my head, but they just weren't going anywhere. Basically, I was in a rut. Then, I hit the theater. Instantly after hearing Into The Unknown, I had the image of a brown-haired animal girl, with wolf ears and wings, flying through the night following a voice inside her head. And so, Lunalis was born. All throughout the movie...well, I kept watching the movie, and didn't think very much of my revelation. But, the moment I got the time, I immediately sat down and started to think like there was no tomorrow.

At first, Eclipse wasn't even thought of. Instead, the eldest sister, queen of the Earth Ventils, who then was named Mystica (heads up, we're dealing with a name master here, people), was basically the overprotective sister and didn't have Cephas. Also, Aquarius and Zephyr were named Purity and Chaos.

(The names made sense in my head, but after a while, I ended up ditching the names in favor of ones that corresponded better with the physical attributes of their characters. I mean, Aquarius is like the "pure" one in the family, and Zephyr is excitable and a bit crazy, but Purity and Chaos just weren't selling it in the ways I wanted them to).

Anyways, then, I realized after some thinking that I had made a grave error in my thinking process. Who decides that Earth is the most powerful element anyways? Why is that? And aren't Ventils just Furries with a different name? All these plot holes then lead me to create Eclipse, the (not really) lovable goddess of the universe.

But, of course, more controversy popped up. Isn't goddess of the universe too OP for one character? Shouldn't we take it down a notch? And what the heck are we going to do with this Earth sister?! I went back and forth about this for MONTHS, all while writing the beginnings of my chapters (most of which were scrapped, put on a document to save them for later and have never seen the light of day until this book was published). Eventually, I finally settled on Eclipse being the main goddess, and I decided to FINALLY change the names to Zephyr, Aquarius and Ela.

Of course, that little voice in the back of my head is still saying, "Shouldn't we have coordinated the names to sound similar? Why did you have to pick something so elegant for one sister, but obvious for the next?", but I learned to ignore it over time.

Proditorus were thrown in as something I didn't think I'd give so much attention to in the beginning. I wrote it down in Chapter 15 and basically forgot about them. Then, as I wove them deeper into the history of other characters and mixing them in so they coordinated with the other points in the universe's (fanon) history, they ended up being my personal highlight of the book. I just loved the idea of combining these strange and exotic animals with humans, and seeing how far I could tip the balance before they became completely beasts.