If you know me and have read my stories then you are probably familiar with my second most successful story called "ripper's journey"
If you haven't heard of it let me give you a quick summary
Ripper the indoraptor survives his fight with blue and is now wanting revenge on his creator dr. Henry wu and as ripper goes on his mission to get revenge he also wants to find his own purpose in life rather than be a mindless killing machine
I really enjoyed myself while making this story cause i really wanted to tell a story that shows a different side of ripper a side that is caring and calm and not the vicious beast that rampaged in the lockwood manor
But i did have some old ideas for the story that i didn't use and here are some of them
The title
Now the title not only refers to ripper's journey to defeat wu but it also relates to ripper himself as he goes on a journey to find his own purpose in life but originally i had a different title for it
Originally it was going to be called "The Adventures Of Ripper And Blue" and this version of the story would have been way more light hearted than the story we have now
Wu in this version acted like an evil scientist who sent hybrid after hybrid just to take down ripper and blue and in this version ripper was way more light hearted than he is now back then he would have been a one-liner machine
That meant he had a bunch of cool lines to say when fighting the villains
Now i really wanted to tell a darker story so i scrapped this and later on changed the title to "Ripper's Adventure" and noticed that blue's name isn't in the title anymore?
And thats because originally this was just ripper and blue was nowhere to be seen sure sometimes i would cut to show whats been going on with her but she never interacted with ripper in fact she didn't even know ripper survived until the final chapter
The best way to describe ripper in this version is basically he was an edge lord and that meant that he wasn't as nice as he is in the actual story he wouldn't have cared for anybody the only thing he cared about was getting revenge on wu and he would stop anybody who stood in his way
I really didn't like this version of ripper and it mostly comes from the fact that he's basically emotionless the only emotion thats displayed on him is anger and hate he felt more like a villain than a hero in the original and he didn't even care how much he had to go through as long as he got his revenge that was all that mattered to him
In fact i originally wanted ripper to fight a male indominus rex in the end and he would have won and he would have gotten his revenge on wu but after that he died because the male indominus left a lot of injuries on him during their fight and he would have died on a cliff as he stared into the sunrise and for the first time in his life ripper actually smiled and it was not the same sinister grin he had when he killed ken in the lockwood manor here he was actually happy and after that he let out one last roar before passing away
A few weeks later while blue was scavenging she was shocked to find ripper on the cliff dead and she wondered how he got there
To be honest i had a lot of problems with the original version the biggest problem being ripper
He felt so empty and devoid of anything that would make him an interesting character he just felt like an emotionless tool the only thing in his mind was to get his revenge he never planned out what he would do afterwards
Now after i scrapped this version of ripper i wanted to make a better version of him with more emotion and one of the problems was in the original version ripper had nobody to care about but himself
So i decided that i would put blue back into the main storyline cause i really wanted ripper to care about somebody and to forgive blue after what she had done during their fight
The ripper we have now is no longer an angry and emotionless hybrid who's only wish is to have revenge
Ripper is now calmer and a lot more relatable unlike the original version where he only had one thing on his mind and that was get revenge
The ripper we have now is a lot more emotional than the original version and he even helps blue overcome her sadness about thinking about the death of her siblings
I really wanted to show ripper in a different light and bringing blue back was a good decision cause without her ripper would not be as developed as he is right now
Right now he has more personality and he feels sympathy for others like when he fought the styracosaurus father and afterwards returned his son and apologized for killing him and ripper is a lot more positive here cause you can tell especially in later chapters that ripper does in fact have a very adventurous side and a jokey side to him as well
I really wanted to flesh out ripper just like how i developed buddy tyrannosaurus in dinosaur train evolution and i think it worked out great especially since the original was so lifeless
And a little side note here
Fun fact: ripper's name originally wasn't even supposed to be ripper his name was supposed to be "quill" but i preferred the name ripper so i decided to use that cause its so common and i really liked the name
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