Today's
interview is with Night!
Night, why is Ryu and Chun Li your favorite couple? What do you like most
about them? |
<Night> Well, ever
since I started playing Street Fighter back in, I believe... 1991...? Ryu
was immediately my favorite character (actually Guile was my first character
since he was good and easy to use in the game), and I saw Chun as a strong
minded woman, and obviously a female lead character. I wasn't considering
a coupling early on, but as I continued to play more and more, around the
days Turbo: Hyper Fighting and Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo came around,
I saw them more and more as a couple... the male and female leads. As I
learned more about their storylines, Chun-Li's father murdered by Bison,
Ryu being pretty much an orphan as well, and obviously the favorite in
beating Bison in the SF2 game storywise, I could think of some type of
interaction between them. What also makes me favor them as a couple is
because well... heh... a bit of personal interest, since I see Ryu as a
pretty nice guy, not an arrogant pretty boy like Ken or Vega, just a nice
guy with at least a bit of consideration for others as shown in the SF2
movie where he gave that Indian girl the money. And I saw Chun as an independent,
strong-willed woman, obvious from her determination to avenge her father's
death, and I like women like that heh. She seems like an aggressive woman
that doesn't always take "no" as an answer and strives to get
what she wants. I sometimes view her as a woman that many women wish they
could be like, and a woman that many men want. So with an admiral woman
like that getting together with a nice guy like Ryu, it makes them my favorite
couple. I like to see a nice guy winning for once, and especially with
a beautiful woman like Chun as well! What I like most is just how their
personalities can be adapted into my own life sorta... I adapt a part of
my own personality in my Ryu character, and Chun's character, the personality
of an ideal girl, whom is not perfect by any means, but someone I'd like
to be with heh.
I was just so disappointed at the disapproval of the
couple by many people, and perhaps even by Capcom themselves. Early on
when I believed they would make a good couple, I went to great lengths
to find people that also felt the same way. Back then though, there was
no Google or anything, so it was difficult, and I really couldn't find
any results. There were practically no fanfics out there or anything with
Ryu and Chun as a couple or anything. Perhaps it was fate, but I finally
stumbled across Add-it-yourself-fanfics, which is a long defunct place
now, where there were other writers I met that supported the idea of Ryu
and Chun. After reading a few, it finally inspired me enough to write my
own.
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Where
do you get your ideas for your fics? What inspires you to write? When can
everyone see more of your works?
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<Night> I usually get
my ideas from fics from fantasizing... yeah, I'm still just a hopeless
romantic, so I try to think up of romantic scenarios and such, and try
to apply them with Ryu and Chun in a conceivable manner. I also try to
apply personal real life experiences and thinking to everything to make
it better as well. I constantly come up with things almost every day and
think to myself "I should write about that in my story" and such...
so I've always considered going through rewrites of my original story,
even MAJOR rewrites, where I'd change the story by a BIG margin. Since
I've first written it, over the years, I guess I sorta matured a bit more,
improved my writing style and thinking, so I'd definitely apply that when
I decide to make revisions to the story, which would include fighting and
romance. What inspired me to write was just... I dunno, my extreme liking
for their coupling. It's like watching the nice guy finally get the girl,
so I really wanted to make a story of that for my own satisfaction since
I myself am one of those nice guys heh.
My works... continuing that is still on a standstill,
but not totally indefinite. It's just that I've always been swamped with
work and school. By the time I get home from the office or school, I'm
just too tired to do anything, or even use a computer that it's tough to
rouse up the brain juices to efficiently write. It's mainly school that
holds me down... the fact that I have to study and do homework just hinders
the muse. What's most unfortunate is that I changed my major so it'll take
a couple more years to FINALLY graduate. Once that's over with, I'll finally
feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, so then I'll feel more free
to finally write and write a LOT since so many ideas I've built up over
the years are just waiting to come out. But sadly, it can take a couple
of yes... years before I can fully write again.
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Do you have anything to say to all your fans?
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<Night> Wow, there's
a lot to say, but it seems like I've said a lot already. Well, I've always
believed in the coupling of Ryu and Chun, and I know that there are those
that don't support it, find it completely inconceivable, and hey, I won't
think less of them as they are entitled to their opinion, and I hope no
one tries to adamantly insist upon others that they are the best or worst
couple ever. It's just something done for fun, and writing about Ryu and
Chun is just a hobby and something to enjoy, not something to make influence
upon others. Ever since I first wrote that story, going through life and
such, there's just lots I'd like to write about through that story, so
when the time comes the Ryu and Chun-Li story will be back in full force
with lots of changes for the better. Even though I've been told my story
is great, and how the fighting and romance is very well done... well, looking
back, to me, it's not enough and I know I can do more, so I'll revise many
things... more detailed fighting, romantic bits pepped up, and even the
infamous love scene... changes to that even, making it more sensual and
erotic, tee hee! I just say all this, since all of us, writers and readers
have grown up a lot, and I feel it's time to make it even more adult and
mature than it already is.
Well, that was the final question, but I'm open to
any others, as I had fun answering them and getting lots of things off
my chest!
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That's all the questions I have for you. Thank you for participating in
the interview!
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