[C&C] A Friend In Need

[Belle Hibiki]

Dragonball

Months ago, Earth was assaulted by an alien force from beyond the stars. Known only as The Construct, it sought to assimilate all of Earth's peoples into itself and, in doing so, purge them from the planet. The short but brutal battle between the creature and Earth's defenders reduced a city to ash and, although they were victorious, it left an enduring scar upon mankind's battered psyche.

Into this anxious time Belle Hibiki has been thrust. Armed with little knowledge of the world outside the forests and mountains he calls home, Belle sets out on a quest to recover the fabled Dragonballs that have been scattered to the ends of the earth. Legend has it that if ever all the balls were to be gathered in one place, their owner could have their heart's desire granted...

Characters:

Belle Hibiki

Young, brash, and with a temper that would put an angry bear to shame, Belle has spent most of his life alone in the wild. Modern life is a mystery to him, as are women (who terrify him). He frequently lets his anger get the best of him, but usually does the right thing - eventually.

He is an accomplished martial artist with great natural talent and inhuman levels of strength.

Sayana

Even younger than Belle, Sayana joined his quest with the finding of the first Dragonball. Although she is not yet a woman, she has a tendency to act aggressively, inappropriately erotic for her age. Much to Belle's dismay, she also seems to have taken a liking to him. She is very protective of those she cares about, and is willing to use extreme measures to keep them safe.

Sayana acts as Belle's compass to the Dragonballs, possessing an heirloom that allows her to divine their location.


Doctor Edward "Cog" Cognivius

The other member of the team that joined after Belle's first Dragonball, Cognivius - "Cog" to his friends - is by all appearances an aging, eccentric inventor. He loves to play with machinery, particularly anything with gears (hence his nickname). He is kind but weak willed, often unable to stop Sayana from doing whatever she wants. Although he pens his full name as "Dr. Edward Cognivius," it is not clear what exactly he is a doctor of.

He is responsible for the creation and upkeep of Hibiki's transportation: a hybrid of boat and blimp that is as eccentric as its creator.

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Recap:

Belle started his quest in the dojo of Master Long, an aging man who is the adoptive father of Sayana, who had just returned from a trip. Sayana, not trusting Belle, eventually found a way to forge evidence of him molesting her and used it to blackmail him into doing what she wanted, though this didn't stop her from helping him locate the first Dragonball at the request of her father.

Long revealed that it was he that had hidden the Dragonball after his own failure to collect them, having planned to use his wish to save his now-deceased wife from illness. He wonders if Belle, who is essentially a good person, has the resolve to shatter other people's dreams to make his come true.

A week after setting off to collect the remaining Dragonballs, Belle and Co. landed to stock up on supplies. Sayana convinced Belle to accompany her to a nearby carnival, but their visit was cut short when bandits raided the camp kidnapped the ringmaster's son. Chasing them down, Belle eventually defeated the bandit leader Jun, barely managing to avoid dying from poison in the process, and rescued the ringmaster's son in addition to other children that were being held for ransom.

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Previous Threads:
1 - A Path of Broken Dreams
2 - Soldier of Fortune
3 - Warm Hands

Current thread is here.

[Belle Hibiki]

And the first post is up. I'm thinking this will eventually branch into a job thingie.

[Belle Hibiki]

Second post is up.




WHAT DOES THE ARRIVAL OF THIS NEWCOMER PORTEND? HOW WELL DOES HE KNOW HIBIKI? WHY DO THEY STAND SO CLOSE TOGETHER? ARE THEY GAY? WHO KNOWS! TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR DRAGONBALL ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[Belle Hibiki]

Third post is (finally) up. I'm hoping to keep up more regular updates.

This post was mostly written in a notebook before being put into a word processor, so I apologize if the quality is somewhat lacking compared to others. (It's been said by a couple people that the stuff I write off-the-cuff on a PC is usually better than stuff written out longhand and then transcribed.)

[Belle Hibiki]

Next set are up.

Reference to Hajime no Ippo +1.

[Belle Hibiki]

Bip bop stuff is up

Bip boop emo tuff.

[Belle Hibiki]

This last post was hard as fuck. I didn't really like it halfway through. I should've scrapped it entirely, tbh, but I'd already delayed way too much in writing to do that.

Will be over in a post or two.

[James]

I'll be looking into reading this so I can offer up some feedback. I've read through the Soldier of Fortune so I need to go through the one before it and after before I jump into this one.

Also, those little commentaries you through in for each post like the 'done in a notebook before posting' are cool. Kind of gives me your mindset for when I'm reading the post so I get more of a feel for it.

[Belle Hibiki]

Thanks! I'll be waiting.

[Belle Hibiki]

And it's done.

Not feeling the best about it, but at least it's over. Time to wait for grading and move onto the next thread, which will also probably be a small job.

[Sigfried Hunin]

I really enjoyed it. I think it relayed emotional context to the character and helped develop a little bit of his past in an interesting way. This is the first of your threads that I've read, but I really enjoyed it. I felt that the fight scene especially held a feeling of urgency to it, and felt as though it was a real struggle, which is hard to pull off in my opinion.

Your writing style really carried that aura of a traditional anime setting, playful but dramatic and compelling. Interesting, eccentric characters and a fun story to go along with it. I felt like it would have been a 'filler episode' if it hadn't delved into Belle's psyche, but because it did, it felt well balanced.

It was fun!