I knew this one was coming sooner or later...
Serris: To be brutally honest, I'd have to say that the initial idea for BOSE came from a dream I had. I was effectively transported into the LBT universe where I went on an adventure with Littlefoot, Cera and co. I guess that's the concept boiled down to it's simplest form. I only considered putting the idea into a fanfiction because of a poster on the network54 forum reckoned it sounded like a good plot for a story. I guess, coz of that poster that I decided to put it onto paper and then from there I was directed to FF.net (again by the same poster after he read what I had come up with to start with). I suppose, without that poster's encouragement, I never would have made BOSE...
The Chronicler: It's easy to see where I got a lot of my inspiration from, but I was careful not to rip off anything too much. Obviously, the whole "undead" bit was inspired from Resident Evil but I didn't want it to be overly incorporated. Some aspects of my inspiration are more evident than others. The "Heaven's Eternity Crystal" and the Stones of Essence are all inspired from The Legend of Zelda and the Triforce (even down to the colours used) but things like the character names were a little more subtle. Take Lieutenant Jill Fielding for example. I constructed her name using 2 names of 2 of my favourite video game protagonists. "Jill" from Jill Valentine from Resi Evil, and "Fielding" from Blaze Fielding who stars in a 90's beat 'em up called "Streets of Rage" for the Megadrive. Again, all three main members of the Red Phoenix Military squad are all named after the 3 protagonists of the first Streets of Rage game. David HUNTER, Jill FIELDING and Daniel STONE (the three SoR characters being Adam Hunter, Blaze Fielding and Axel Stone)
If you wanna a list of what I drew some inspiration from, here's a shortfall:
Legend of Zelda
Metal Gear Solid
Kingdom Hearts
Final Fantasy
Streets of Rage
Street Fighter
Ratchet & Clank
28 Days Later - film
Resident Evil
Land Before Time Movies (of course
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Soul Caliber
Alien - film
The Terminator - film
Dragonball Z - animated series
Some real life experiences
There are others but for the sake of space, I'll leave it here. It would be good to know which ones readers could identify.
Thanks for your questions guys! Appreciate it greatly!
