Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter! I have to admit, I was a bit nervous, trying to knit together all these disparate parts of the canon. The show changed so much between the pilot episode and the first season (and then again with adding the scenes with the Kid to the rereleased pilot ep) that it was a lot to wrap my mind around, LOL. Like I said in my notes post, I needed to construct a pre-canon story that made some damn sense :P
First off - we saw so little of the original members in "The Beginning" that it's really hard to pinpoint character traits, but I think that you've done it perfectly. Danny always somehow struck me as obnoxious (perhaps even more so than Mick when it came to the band) and I love the idea that the Malt Shop and the P*lace are different places.
I'll admit, I watched these eps that I focused on over and over and over while I was writing the scenes. Chris and Danny both struck me as obnoxious, especially in their resistence to adding ~a girl~ to their band.
We saw so much of the Malt Shop in the pilot that I can't believe it was supposed to be the same place as the P*lace, you know? And if Mike was the soda jerk, why would the owner need to advertise for help in the first episode? (Well...not that Mike was the greatest with the customer service, LOL.) Mickey and Chris actually break into the old Coco Club and explore it, even though all that stuff Mickey said about it was later transferred to the history of the P*lace.
The scene where Mickey punches the brick is arguably one of the best things I've read in KI fanfiction. It shows Mickey exactly how I've always pictured him.
Whoa, thanks! =) That's wonderful! I totally re-read your fics, too, to get a feel for how you saw these characters, so I'm glad I got it right, LOL!
Bridging the gap between pilot!Mickey and series!Mickey (where he's a bit goofier) was interesting, to say the least. I wrote this with the idea that he & Gloria were around 14 years old, even though it's never specifically mentioned.
The names you've given unnamed characters are brilliant (I'm absolute rubbish at inventing names...name generators are just no help sometimes).
IDK, they just come to me? I know that doesn't help, LOL. I only named the erstwhile owner of the P*lace; TJ was a process of elimination from the credits of the pilot ep. I was kinda surprised that he wasn't given a name, considering he did have a speaking part. Hmm...
I love fic that shows a what we saw in canon from a different perspective.
Yay! This fic is definitely very firmly set in the canon universe =)
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First off - we saw so little of the original members in "The Beginning" that it's really hard to pinpoint character traits, but I think that you've done it perfectly. Danny always somehow struck me as obnoxious (perhaps even more so than Mick when it came to the band) and I love the idea that the Malt Shop and the P*lace are different places.
I'll admit, I watched these eps that I focused on over and over and over while I was writing the scenes. Chris and Danny both struck me as obnoxious, especially in their resistence to adding ~a girl~ to their band.
We saw so much of the Malt Shop in the pilot that I can't believe it was supposed to be the same place as the P*lace, you know? And if Mike was the soda jerk, why would the owner need to advertise for help in the first episode? (Well...not that Mike was the greatest with the customer service, LOL.) Mickey and Chris actually break into the old Coco Club and explore it, even though all that stuff Mickey said about it was later transferred to the history of the P*lace.
The scene where Mickey punches the brick is arguably one of the best things I've read in KI fanfiction. It shows Mickey exactly how I've always pictured him.
Whoa, thanks! =) That's wonderful! I totally re-read your fics, too, to get a feel for how you saw these characters, so I'm glad I got it right, LOL!
Bridging the gap between pilot!Mickey and series!Mickey (where he's a bit goofier) was interesting, to say the least. I wrote this with the idea that he & Gloria were around 14 years old, even though it's never specifically mentioned.
The names you've given unnamed characters are brilliant (I'm absolute rubbish at inventing names...name generators are just no help sometimes).
IDK, they just come to me? I know that doesn't help, LOL. I only named the erstwhile owner of the P*lace; TJ was a process of elimination from the credits of the pilot ep. I was kinda surprised that he wasn't given a name, considering he did have a speaking part. Hmm...
I love fic that shows a what we saw in canon from a different perspective.
Yay! This fic is definitely very firmly set in the canon universe =)