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| - I remember remarkably little of writing this story, and even less of how I came up with the plot. I don't remember where the idea for this story came from, but it was always the #2 story in the collection, as far as I can remember. While I struggled with coming up with a final list (mostly being not sure what stories 4-6 should be), this story was basically confirmed to be part of The Heels of the Unknown on August 15, 2015. Anyways, that's all I can think to say for this story, so onto the endnotes! I remember so little of this one, that it'll almost be like reading a new story.
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| - I remember remarkably little of writing this story, and even less of how I came up with the plot. I don't remember where the idea for this story came from, but it was always the #2 story in the collection, as far as I can remember. While I struggled with coming up with a final list (mostly being not sure what stories 4-6 should be), this story was basically confirmed to be part of The Heels of the Unknown on August 15, 2015. When I was writing out the first few stories of this collection, I didn't really realize that one of the overarching themes of the one-shots was this idea that I was tying various aspects of my universe together. All of the other seven one-shots do just that (A Shadow on the Wind serving as the epilogue to Dragon Ball Z: In Requiem, Down the Well-Worn Road serving as the epilogue to Spindlerun: The Tale of Yajirobe, etc). Starfall and Black Dawn are more generally expansive instead of being specifically expansive like the other five, but still. I'm a Candy Man is really the only self-contained story in this collection. The only thing that I think ties it to my other stories and my universe is the fact that Kuriza is shown to be inept and not much of a warrior/fighter/leader like his father. His personality being like that has major implications in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization. But this is also seen in Monster and the PTO books. So anyways, in terms of what this story is about, I improvised almost all of it. As seen on the anthology page for A Shadow on the Wind, my description for this story, written on August 15, 2016 reads, "2. Cui - Cui gets into an argument with Guldo about some candybars that leads to a dance-off and other crazy shenanigans between the two and other Ginyu Force members and members of Frieza's empire." That description is mostly accurate, though Cui never actually gets in an argument with Guldo that starts the dance off now, and there are no other crazy shenanigans outside of the dance off, for the other characters (of course Cui has a strange journey through Peenjus' room too). I do remember that when I went to write this story, I wanted to be a lot more subtle with the harmony theme than I was in A Shadow on the Wind. Other than that, to bring out the theme of spring, of rebirth and lightheartedness, the remainder of the plot was rather silly. This is a comedy story, but it's also the most tame and lighthearted one. All of the other three feature dark sections (stories #4 and #6 feature a lot of death and despair, despite being comedies). There's a certain charm to this one simply in its energy. It's not all happy-go-lucky and innocent, though, since many of the jokes are sexual, with lots of homosexual overtones. That's mainly because the Ginyu Force acts gay as fuck, and Zarbon is of course is easy pickings to that end. All of this stuff, plus Cui getting with Zarbon, was about as far as I could stretch things before going into non-canon territory. But this story is a good example of outlandish comedic stuff that is considered canon to my universe; it's like the stories from Baby You're a Rich Man to an extent, though a good deal tamer and less ridiculous. This was my attempt to write a more serious comedic story, as oxymoronic as that sounds. I wanted a nice comedic story that would be canon to my universe. I got drunk before writing this story. I wrote the whole thing in one go on April 13, 2016. That means I started this story about three and a half days after completing and posting A Shadow on the Wind to this site. The fact that I got drunk to write it and the fact that it's a comedic story allowed me to write it rather quickly. As such, my memory of what this story is actually about is mostly a blur. I wrote much of the first scene from 4:08 pm to 4:56 pm before taking a break. I resumed writing from 7:18 pm to 8:37 pm. I finished the first draft at that time. I then edited from 9:29 pm to 10:19 pm. I posted it four minutes later on the wiki, and that was that. Because I was drunk while writing this story, I have few memories of writing it. I remember specifically that I didn't want to get too jokey for fear of this story turning out hacky. So I tried to incorporate jokes in subtle or clever ways, and I'm not sure how that turned out since I remember very little of this story. It'll be interesting to see how the thematic stuff turned out, particularly the stuff on harmony and other themes related to A Shadow on the Wind. The original theme song for this story was going to be Rocket Man by Elton John. Once I started writing it, I knew that that song wasn't all that relevant to this story, so I switched it. Its current theme, La Bamba by Playing for Change, is a song I was introduced to by my music teacher from spring 2016. I really liked the song, and its playful, carefree tonality and lyrics greatly aid this story, as well as its danceability. Anyways, that's all I can think to say for this story, so onto the endnotes! I remember so little of this one, that it'll almost be like reading a new story.
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