Welcome to the first of these Special Features posts! This is where I talk about the production behind the fanfics - the references, general knowledge and random facts. Regarding the references, I know I place them at the end of every chapter I write, but here, I'll go into more detail about them if they have any significance.
In honor of Halloween and All Saints' Day, I'll be focusing on the fanfic, "Restoring the Soul: The Manor's Tales".
Enjoy!
Prologue:
References:
*None, other than the line used to open the story is taken from the Phantom Manor ride proper, voiced by the late but great Mr. Vincent Price. The the last portion of the prologue focuses on Henry and his band of outcasts.
General:
*The whole prologue is written like a fairy tale to set up the rest of the story and pay a nod to the original fairy tales that were written. And it's not the Disney versions that I'm ironically talking about, but the versions that were written by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and others. The Brothers Grimm - especially them - wrote stories woven with darker elements than what the House of Mouse would normally show, and so they will make their way into "RTS: TMS". As the fanfic progresses, more details about the fairy tale style of writing will be revealed.
*The title plays off two sources.
-The first: The Henry Stickmin Collection's penchant for its action-oriented and goal-oriented titles ("Breaking the Bank", "Escaping the Prison", "Stealing the Diamond" and so on.)
-The second: comes from The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer. In that book, all of the stories share a similar trait to the HS games: the titles all get to the point about the plots of the stories. In The Canterbury's Tales' case, the titles all refer to a person and their individual story to tell, such as "The Knight's Tale" and "The Miller's Tale", for example. I thought this would be a good way to combine both of the properties symbolically and therefore signify that this is a crossover. Probably an unusual one at that too!
Random Facts:
None.
Wanderer out!
