My Passion Projects In Writing

So since posting my thoughts on Instagram about Encantadia being my inspiration to write in fantasy genre and about @animefics569's Shining Star being her passion project, I recalled the stories I've written since college that I would consider my passion project. But I only recalled three—all of which remained unfinished since real life interfered.

⚜️RAINBOW KNIGHTS was actually formed when I was watching Pretear, Magic Knights Rayearth, Wedding Peach, Sailor Moon (heavily inspired to this), Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Cosmopolitan Prayers, & Cardcaptor Sakura. Yes, all magical girl/mahou shoujo themed animes that I've watched since I was a child. Oh, right. I should also add the comics I've read titled W.I.T.C.H. I haven't actually mentioned even on my blog but this story was actually one of the basis of my MMORPG conceptualization which was my project in college. I was able to write this story until the third Rainbow Knight was awakened. But I lost the handwritten copy of the story, so I wasn't able to continue writing this.

⚜️A LOVE WORTH AN ETERNITY was the longer (& possibly more romantic) version of two Filipino romance stories I wrote when I was in college titled "Till Beyond Eternity" and "I'll Hold On To You". And yes, the story was something I ended up writing as I was thinking of my unrequited first love when I was in high school. So this story was one of those I really consider to be the closest to my heart.

⚜️FLOWER HEARTS CHRONICLES wasn't really the title of this story largely inspired by my favorite TV "fantaserye" (fantasy series) titled "Encantadia". Now that I recalled it, it doesn't even have a proper title—just the story & the plot. In fact, I recalled that I wrote this story in narrative form—just narration, no dialogues at all. For real. I decided to revive this story after watching episodes of Encantadia (both the 2005 & the 2016 versions) on Youtube. This time, the characters finally have visual inspirations. The big difference of this story from the original version, however, is that the names of the characters & the places will be East Asian-inspired, mainly Japanese & slightly Korean & Chinese.