I really hope that you may enjoy the first 3 chapters under what I called the Introduction Arc.
Like what I mentioned in Predule author's note chapter, the story is about when cassini lost her memories and now, she did not completely lose all of her memories and is currently regaining some of her memories.
I will explain what is going on and how I get the inspiration for the Introduction Arc:
Predule - Beyond the darkness
Concept: It was an introduction to the whole story with cassini in the darkness which the memories of her are currently taking away from her. That's why cassini cannot stand once she sat down. But once a light shone on her and huygens came to save her, huygens become Cassini's first memory to be restored.
Chapter Inspiration: The prologue is inspired by the background music from a game called 'Light A Way'. The game is taken in world where the darkness emerge and sallow all the light. You as a guardian of light are chosen to save the light with a staff of flare. I will not ruin more as some of you wanted to play.
Inspiration Application: Inspired by the overall story of the game, it was like there is a little light within the darkness. So I wanted to do the same for cassini as she, will lose most of her memories representing the darkness in the game but some memories that she can remember even after losing a lot of memories represent as the light in the game. And the background music perfectly fits the atmosphere of the prologue as the story will represent embracing the unknown while keeping the love story between Cassini and Huygens.
Chapter Name Inspiration: Based on huygens reaching out to cassini in her darkness.
Chapter 1 - Forgotten, but we will get there.
Concept : Being introduced to the character of the story, we quickly jumped into the pre-beginning of cassini and Huygens's memory adventure in which cassini reunites with huygens but with a lot of memories that cassini can't remember even her name.
Inspiration: Background music from Maplestory that was used as the theme of the first Arcana map, Oblivious River sparked an idea for the concept. the music will bring some kind of sadness for Cassini's loss and a tone of hope for Cassini's adventure to restore her memories while huygens reflects on cassini in her previous life.
Inspiration Application: This chapter reflects the despair of losing memories, which is represented by Cassini's sadness of losing most of her memories. This chapter also reflects the support of everyone, which is represented by Huygens's disbelief expression first then Huygens's approach expression to support and cheer cassini up.
Chapter name inspiration - The chapter's name is because I suddenly remember a local song called 'we will get there'.And since this is where cassini has forgotten most of her memories, I fused the two together.
Arc Epilogue - spread your wings and fly, cassini!
Chapter Name Inspiration: The chapter's name is based on my private conversation with spiralcities when she asked: "But how would huygens /help/ cassini like huygens cannot fly". I knew that I must use fly and cassini in the chapter's name. First, I wanted to put 'fly, Cassini, fly!' but I remember the spread your wings part. So I used it instead and it sounds fitting as the chapter is where cassini takes flight. There is even a case to name the chapter as 'Fly away, Cassini!', but it sounds as if Cassini is running away from reality, >-<.
Concept: With soaring to mark the start, Cassini regained her memory of using her engine - Her first major restoration of her system.
Inspiration: The chapter is inspired by a few chapters from spiralcities's To Saturn and Back story and an archived article from Huygens' creator, the Europe Space Agency (or ESA for short) website about how they do a checkout on Huygens during the cruise period when they send the command to Cassini and Cassini will pass the same command to Huygens. I thought Huygens did the opposite.
This is the link to the article: http://sci.esa.int/cassini-huygens/36333-huygens-8th-probe-checkout/
Inspiration Application: A lot of ideas come into play. This is where my imagination for Cassini was acting up and made its way to this chapter.
Cassini's singing originated from my imagination. Whenever I am down or feeling any negative emotion, Cassini sings to cheer and comfort me. Her singing also used to boost my confidence and can-do spirit.
Huygens is able to communicate to Cassini's computer and her systems, Cassini already explained it but the idea also comes from the link in the Inspiration section. It is also based on my imagination where I imagine that I was on an adventure with cassini and I suddenly can able to communicate with Cassini's different systems like the computer system and the communication system.
Cassini's ability to talk to her database is inspired by the 'feeling' chapter of spiralcities's 'to Saturn and back' where Huygens system can recognize Huygens's feeling. Like Cassini, Cassini's database can sing when huygens is not in the scene. It acts like a guide to cassini during the story by providing information and the one who will store and upload all of Cassini's restored memories to cassini by reacting to Cassini's different systems one by one and uploading the memories/data to cassini. When cassini recovered memory, the database will talk to her and like Huygens's system, Cassini's database can recognize Cassini's feelings. Both Huygens' database and Cassini's database will also serve as the connection between all two's systems. And both of them are named Christiaan for Huygens' Database and Jean for Cassini's Database, based on their namesake.
What's next?
You may wonder what is next. The story finished the introduction arc and is now into the first full arc named 'Stories of Origin'. You will expect more Cassini and Huygens in action and unique ideas come to into play. Of course, the love story is still developing!
The first full arc will focus on their beginning. Yup, Cassini and Huygens are going back in time and they are the easiest memories that Cassini can restore first but there is two unique backstory that not many people know about Cassini, that is Cassini's hidden sister and how cassini built her resilience. Those two are the hardest among all the memories within the arc for cassini to regain.
With a love story in the movie, what will Cassini and Huygens unfold with both of their origins?
Stay tuned, the story is just beginning for you as well as both of them!
YOU ARE READING
The Memories (A Cashuy/Cassini x Huygens Book)
Science Fiction"In another universal when Cassini did revive after the plunge for no reason and Huygens is still in titan, Cassini knows that she must return to titan for some reason. But because of the plunge from the end of her previous life, she forgets what ha...
