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| - I wrote Bluestreaker on April 6, 2014, starting a few hours after I finished watching the first episode of Game of Thrones season 4. I enjoyed the episode quite a bit, so I was inspired to write something. At the time, Destructivedisk was writing Five, and I considered also writing about Nail. However, soon into my brainstorming, I realized that Nail is a boring character and I didn't care about him at all. However, I stayed with the theme of Namek and looked to other characters I could feature. I didn't want to do Frieza, Zarbon, Dodoria, Vegeta, Krillin, or Gohan, so that left me with very little to work with. I soon remembered the Ginyu Force and then started looking over each character's histories to decide on one of them to use. All five of the Ginyu Force members had been given short
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| - I wrote Bluestreaker on April 6, 2014, starting a few hours after I finished watching the first episode of Game of Thrones season 4. I enjoyed the episode quite a bit, so I was inspired to write something. At the time, Destructivedisk was writing Five, and I considered also writing about Nail. However, soon into my brainstorming, I realized that Nail is a boring character and I didn't care about him at all. However, I stayed with the theme of Namek and looked to other characters I could feature. I didn't want to do Frieza, Zarbon, Dodoria, Vegeta, Krillin, or Gohan, so that left me with very little to work with. I soon remembered the Ginyu Force and then started looking over each character's histories to decide on one of them to use. All five of the Ginyu Force members had been given short backstories in an old 1992 DB video game strategy guide. Looking over each backstory, I chose Burter. I simply found his backstory to be the most interesting of the lot. Burter was also my favorite Ginyu Force member in general, so I was happy to finally be writing a story about him. The storywriting process went somewhat quickly. I improv'd on most of the stuff, just letting the writing take me wherever it should go. I did talk with Hyper Zergling over skype about Burter's brother's name. We went over a few different puns before ultimately settling on Gheer. At the same time, I revealed that I was writing a new one-shot to Destructivedisk, and he started guessing who it starred. I gave him hints until he finally guessed Burter. Other than that, I just sat down and wrote this thing. I did have to do a bit of research looking up some of the references I wanted to make, such as the Ratchet & Clank one, but the writing itself went quickly. Bluestreaker's name was the hardest part of this story for me to come up with. Usually the name of the story comes to me before I start it or as I'm writing it. With this one, I wrote the entire story before coming up with a name. Bluestreaker was a reference to Burter being blue and being very fast, and to the old Sonic SatAM theme song. It took me a long time to come up with Bluestreaker, however. I think I finished the story a good hour before posting it simply because I didn't have a name for it. I can't recall another story of mine where I had such trouble coming up with its name. When I created Bluestreaker, I did not expect it to be part of any collection. It was a simple one-shot, like Derelict. However, after I finished writing other one-shots, namely Lionheart, Tyrant, and Brave, I decided to create a collection for all of them, and so Bluestreaker was placed into The Black and White Collection. Bluestreaker is the first story in that collection simply because I think it's one of the more light-hearted stories out of the group and is a good entry into the more serious plots explored in later stories.
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