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| - The first episode of Legacies was about King Cold's rise to power. He was always a favorite character of mine, and severely misused by Toriyama in the Future Trunks' battle. I felt like his origins would be highly interesting, and perhaps ironic if his life was once similar to King Vegeta's. The ultimate message of this story was that to save oneself, one must destroy oneself. Cold essentially trades places with Specter, whom he found to be so unfair and oppressive. Yet, given the old dictator's armies, he does the exact same thing. Regardless, there are some redeeming characteristics in Cold. He loved his family, and did not abandon them even after getting power, which is consistent with his personality shown in the manga. He just didn't care for the rest of his race.
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| - The first episode of Legacies was about King Cold's rise to power. He was always a favorite character of mine, and severely misused by Toriyama in the Future Trunks' battle. I felt like his origins would be highly interesting, and perhaps ironic if his life was once similar to King Vegeta's. The ultimate message of this story was that to save oneself, one must destroy oneself. Cold essentially trades places with Specter, whom he found to be so unfair and oppressive. Yet, given the old dictator's armies, he does the exact same thing. Regardless, there are some redeeming characteristics in Cold. He loved his family, and did not abandon them even after getting power, which is consistent with his personality shown in the manga. He just didn't care for the rest of his race. When writing this story, it followed the same pattern as my other two legacies episodes. I simply wrote it while watching nick at nite with my brother. At first, it was a single episode. But as I wrote it, it became too long for a single episode, and I found a good spot to split it, so I quickly created two parts before posting it. I believe this was the only multipart episode to be posted on the same page. The writing process was extremely fast, more so than with Were It So Easy. This could be seen by the numerous spelling and grammatical errors I had with the story. This story was a big motivator for me to slow down, because I knew I could craft things better when taking more time (such as with In Requiem). It's also good to look back on to see how much I have improved since then. If I were to do this one again, I would have likely made it longer, as two parts and 4000 words was simply not enough space to tell this story.
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