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| - Speedball was the third Brady Patrick story I created. When I first conceived of Brady Patrick, he was merely going to write Sixth and Slaved. Later, he was going to write Bitterly Bothered Brother and A Mother's Love, but I decided to eventually write both of those on KidVegeta's account. Thereafter, about 16 months after completing Slaved, I created ten ideas for short stories because I wanted to. It was similar to how Legacies worked, with stories fleshing out characters with small roles. However, I didn't want to do anything more with Legacies, and instead thought that they would work (because of how short they would be) with Brady Patrick.
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| - Speedball was the third Brady Patrick story I created. When I first conceived of Brady Patrick, he was merely going to write Sixth and Slaved. Later, he was going to write Bitterly Bothered Brother and A Mother's Love, but I decided to eventually write both of those on KidVegeta's account. Thereafter, about 16 months after completing Slaved, I created ten ideas for short stories because I wanted to. It was similar to how Legacies worked, with stories fleshing out characters with small roles. However, I didn't want to do anything more with Legacies, and instead thought that they would work (because of how short they would be) with Brady Patrick. It was originally unintentional that the only two Brady Patrick stories started with the letter S. Then, when I started creating the names for the ten plots I had, and after I had decided to make them Brady Patrick stories, I decided to also make them all begin with S. Speedball was actually #10 out of 10 on the list, though it was written first. This was simply because I had an immediate idea for how to write it, even after creating the list. So within a few days of creating the list, I posted the page for Speedball without the story, which, when looking back was rather unusual and not something I would do again. Also, I used a song by Gary Jules called Barstool to open the story. I felt the quote I used aptly described what was happening in the story. And when I was writing Speedball - which happened in a few hours on the afternoon of September 1, 2012 - I listened to Barstool the entire time. The plot came from the fact that people tend to not show their real selves when in public. I felt that the tournament announcer's public personality was so over the top that he had to have some destructive personal habits. I likened him to how, often, comedians are depressed drug users. Originally I had planned on using Roshi as the person to confront the announcer in that bar, but ultimately, when looking at my other ten stories, and realizing that Roshi would be the main character of one, I wanted to get someone less featured. I toyed with the idea of Launch for a small while, but her personality wouldn't really fit, and I had already successfully used her in Spindlerun. So, I found that Nam was going to that tournament and decided to use him. Much like the good doctor in Derelict who is perhaps never used in fanon, my use of Nam in this story is the only instance that I know of him in fanon; though, he may exist elsewhere in fanon, I just haven't read of him being in any. The story ultimately took me one afternoon, as I was highly inspired by the Jules' song, and was in an mental state similar to the tournament announcer.
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