Bring Me Flowers Story and Playlist

As you may know, I am writing a new story on fanfic.net called "Bring Me Flowers." I started just as I was finishing GA. Flowers won't be nearly as long as GA, but it's a good writing voyage for me. With this story, I've combined the use of colors and flowers to portray the feel of each chapter. For instance, Chapter One is entitled "Bright Pink Roses" and the chapter I recently posted is "Black Orchids." It's fun because it's a subtle way to help the reader foresee the theme of the chapter. And I also love flowers and am learning more about them as a result of this project. This story will be more detail accurate in terms of BB storyline, unlike GA, where I took a few liberties. I'm basing the story on the episode "Hooked Up" where Terry must save Max from Spellbinder's virtual reality machine at the VR Room.
I won't give away the plot, but it is a Terry/Max story with most chapters in Terry's POV (a little different from GA). It's a romance that will touch on some delicate issues. (These songs may speak for themselves in regards to the plot.)
So here's the link to the story:

Bring Me Flowers

The BB episodes on which the story is mainly based:

Hooked Up Episode Part I
Hooked Up Episode Part II

And here is the playlist:

The End

The two words every writer hopes to someday write for each story they begin.
Guardian Angel: The Return is now complete! :)
I've spent a good few days finishing the story, so I'm a little burnt out. But it's the good kind of tired - productive tired, hehe. GA was a project in the works for years, so it will be a little different without it, I'm sure. But I created this blog so that it can always be remembered, and, of course, that's another reason why I posted it onto FanFic. Others will read it over time, and hopefully they will enjoy it and take something away from it.

While I obviously wrote GA in the beginning for myself (as I believe all writers should do - express themselves for personal fulfillment), what I'm taking way from the experience is how much I've learned to express myself for others to enjoy. That may sound pretty basic, but I've honestly enjoyed participating in online fan-fiction. Sure, good reviews boost your confidence, but when you can entertain someone else, encourage them, or cause them to think or feel something, or simply to give them a getaway from the stress of life, you really feel totally humbled and part of a bigger picture.

My favorite part of writing and finishing GA is my audience - everyone who has read it and taken something away from it.

My plans? I'll be writing more on my new fanfiction piece Bring Me Flowers as well as working on my plot idea for an original novel.

This isn't the last you'll be seeing of me! I'll keep posting on this blog with updates on my writing, media, observations about Batman Beyond and my best friend OhGodofWriting's fanfiction, etc. I'll be around. :)


~ DesertedMirage

What I (Elizabeth) have to say about Stephanie's story...

So we are about one chapter away from the finish of the complete Guardian Angel. After reading her most recent chapter, chapter 27 of The Return, this is the comment I left:

"You do not even know...what you have done...with this masterpiece. It deserves to be published. It is a great novel. I only wish more of the world could read it. You are truly a gifted, talented, and brilliant woman and writer."

She truly astounds me with what she has done with this plot, these characters, this chemistry...she has woven a masterpiece.

The Way You Do Montage

Happy Father's Day!

I've been blending lately and have a few songs I'm using in fan videos. Here's one I finished today. The song is "The Way You Do" by 98 Degrees, and the song clip at the end is "Crashed" by Daughtry (remixed by Decoy). And once again, it features Rihanna and Shane West, the celebrities I personally envision as Max and Terry in the story. There's also some fanart in there by me. :)

Do enjoy! (Sorry for the slightly poor quality. It always looks and sounds different on Blogger than in Windows Media Player.)

Terry and Chelsea

What do we see predominately on fanfic.net? Terry/Dana, Terry/Max, Terry/Melanie and Terry/Original Character or other Batman franchise villain (Catwoman, descendants of Catwoman, etc.). While those are all well and good, and I believe that anything written well and with passion can involve predictable Terry pairings and pull it off, I think one main character in particular from the show has been overlooked. I've been following BB fanfiction since the show was still on the air with new episodes. The trend seemed to be Terry/Dana making up a good amount of the original romance fanfics, and then along came some Terry/Max and Terry/"Ten" (Melanie). And this was before the site added search by characters feature, too. But that was pretty much all you got on fanfic, and it still is. I like that there are more Terry/Dana stories up now, as the Terry/Max ones were getting pretty numerous (and this is coming from a mainly Terry/Max writer lol). But my point is, I recall only a couple of Terry/Chelsea stories. And they were usually one-shots, I think.

So my best friend and I were noticing this a few months ago while discussing BB fanfiction, and she decided to write a Terry/Chelsea pairing. GA involves Chelsea pretty heavily, and she plays a bigger role than Dana, even. Why? Well, I just think Chelsea's shway. But as I was writing scenes with Terry and Chelsea in them, I was also realizing how amazingly awesome they would be together. The chemistry was undeniable, and all the two needed was a good plot to make it happen.

Enter Butterfly Wings...

So my friend (co-author to this blog) has been writing a fanfiction called Butterfly Wings: A Chelsea Story. What I love about it is the depth she's added to Chelsea's character. She also wrote a deeper and even darker Max in She Only Steals Diamonds, which involved a new Catwoman. In Butterfly Wings, she took the original storyline of Terry/Dana relationship drama and made the switch with Chelsea. Instead of it focusing as usual on Terry or Dana's take of their relationship falling apart, it focuses on Chelsea at first just trying to help her friend Dana and ending up further befriending Terry and falling for him.

Also, she gave Chelsea's character more personality than the show wrote for her, which is something I also tried to do with GA. I didn't want to leave Max as ONLY a brainy person who was actually pretty annoying in her quest to become Batman's assistant. I took what I was given and added some other personality sparks and investigated her past. In Butterfly Wings, Chelsea's not just a popular girl at school with a rich, distant father - and Dana's best friend. She's creative, a closet fashion designer, and she has her own world in her passion of which no one knows (from the beginning, at least). And I think that Butterfly Wings takes the beautiful process of blossoming and captures each stage in snapshots. Not just the blossoming of a friendship and romance, but a blossoming of the individual heart and opening of oneself - like a flower, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.

And then, of course, there's that undeniable chemistry between Terry and Chelsea... ;)

We need more of Chelsea and Terry together. We need more of this digging deeper into the characters. When you google "Terry McGinnis Chelsea Cunningham," Butterfly Wings is the 9th result - the 3rd result when you google "Terry McGinnis Chelsea." Speaks volumes, doesn't it?

You can read Butterfly Wings: A Chelsea Story here at FanFiction.net.

~ Deserted Mirage

Scooped

I was searching Batman Beyond fanart on deviantart, and behold! I found this one by the author of Guardian Angel herself! Turned out it was the only good one in my opinion, so I had to upload it here. Enjoy something she would have never shown you herself. (And we've got to get her to reveal the rest of her fanart! It's AWESOME!!!!!)

"Wild Horses" Songfic

Song: “Wild Horses” Natasha Bedingfield

Story: Guardian Angel, Part One

Characters: Maxine Gibson and Terry McGinnis

Listen to the song while reading, on playlist.com or youtube.

I feel these four walls closing in

Face up against the glass

I'm looking out, mmm

Is this my life I'm wondering

It happened so fast

How do I turn this thing around

Is this the bed I chose to make

There's greener pastures I'm thinking about, mmm

Wide open spaces far away

She wasn’t a fool, whatever everyone else thought. She knew her own feelings. She didn’t tell anyone about them, but that didn’t mean that she didn’t feel. She felt every time she looked into his icy blue eyes. But she was best friends with both of them, and though he tried to break in and free her, she chose not to let him.

All I want is the wind in my hair

To face the fear but not feel scared

Thought it was what she wanted. To be able to stop hiding the feelings she knew so well… To have them returned like she knew he was willing to. Somehow, it was harder knowing that her imprisonment was her own making.

Wild horses I wanna be like you

Throwing caution to the wind, I'll run free too

Wish I could recklessly love like I'm longing to

I wanna run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses, oh

There was more that she wanted, too. It wasn’t just Terry. It was a whole life…a whole life that was different from hers. And that life looked a lot like Terry’s, though he complained about it so much. She fantasized about the wind ruffling her short hair as she flew over the cityscape. She wouln’t be afraid of the heights, or of the danger, she knew she wouldn’t be. Nothing could be scarier than this silence.

I see the girl I wanna be

Riding bareback, carefree

Along the shore

If only that someone was me

Jumping head first, head-long

Without a thought

To act and damn the consequence

How I wish it could be that easy

But fear surrounds me like a fence

I wanna break free

Living an adventure… That would be enough for her, if she could not have him. She could always run off somewhere, oh how she wished for a change. An alternate identity. To not be known, and at the same time, to be known more than she was known now, as herself.

All I want is the wind in my hair

To face the fear, but not feel scared

Yet he DID know her now. And that was what was so scary.

Oooh, wild horses I wanna be like you

Throwing caution to the wind, I'll run free too

Wish I could recklessly love like I'm longing to

Wanna run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses, oh

She felt she was wrong with whichever choice she made. To accept him or to continue to reject him. All she could do was to push it from her mind: to ignore it.

I wanna run too

Oooh oh oh oh

Recklessly abandoning myself before you

I wanna open up my heart

Tell him how I feel

It was childish, but she could forget it when she dreamed of escape, somehow…

Oooh, wild horses I wanna be like you

Throwing caution to the wind, I'll run free too

Wish I could recklessly love like I'm longing to

I wanna run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses

Maxine gently set down her lipstick on the bathroom counter and looked at herself in the mirror for a long time.

Whoah ooohh ooh ooh ye-yeah yeah oohh

I wanna run with the wild horses, ooooh

Guardian Angel Cast Video

Okay, so I made this cast video to show who I visualize as the "Guardian Angel" characters. Now, this is ONLY for the purpose of giving a visual. I don't really expect to make a movie with these people in it, lol. You may picture someone completely different, and that's fine. This is just who I see for my interpretation of Batman Beyond.

The music is by a group called "Nuttin' But Stringz," and they are a brother duo who play violins and make hip hop/classical music. You can learn more about them and buy their music at their myspace page, myspace.com/nuttinbutstringzmusic

Enjoy the video and tell me what you think!

Welcome! A little bit about this blog...

Hey!

DISCLAIMER:

**First, let me just make it clear that I do not own Batman Beyond or the Batman franchise. None of the original Batman or Batman Beyond characters belong to me. The only ones that do are the ones I added to my fanfiction. Neither this blog nor my fanfiction is made with the intent of making any money; all I want is to share my story and writings with the public because they make me happy, and I want them to make you happy as well. :o) Whenever I do someday make money from writing, it will be off of my own original novels. **

Now that the disclaimer's been established...
I want to give some basic information about this blog. This is made by me (DesertedMirage) a Batman Beyond fanfiction writer. I created this blog for my fanfiction story, "Guardian Angel" which can be found on FanFiction.net. The purpose of this blog is to provide more info and insight into the story and to give extras, updates, behind the scenes and all of that great stuff. Guardian Angel, or "GA" in short, is a two-part fanfiction that I began writing when I was 11 or 12, and finished when I was about 15. I'm 20 now, and I decided in May of 2008 to upload it onto fanfiction.net, the website which helped inspire me to write GA in the first place. I was also encouraged by my best friend and fellow writer, Gnitsalreve (AKA "OhGodofWriting" on fanfiction.net), and she has helped greatly with editing and plotting. So after years of writing other stories and leaving GA alone and tucked away on my computer, I finally got around to refurbishing it and posting it chapter by chapter onto fanfiction.net. Since I wrote it a long time ago and my writing has matured, I had to go back and make lots of edits, keeping the same essence and overall plot, but making sure it was fit to read.

I created this blog to expand beyond just the writing in GA, to share with anyone who's interested in the story my fanart (which can be found at the top of the page and the bottom as of now) and music which inspired the writing. The playlists are on the right, and you can find music relating to the story in chronological order. GA has its own playlist, and GA: The Return (part two/the sequel) has one of its own as well. I have some fan videos of the story, including a casting video which shows the actors/musicians I picture in a movie of GA. Also, I hope to have songfics and deleted scenes posted soon.

So hopefully this can turn into a place where you can share your thoughts and comments on the story, and where you can follow its progress as I finish posting it. You can read the story here:

GA Part I

GA Interlude "Crashed"

GA Part II

Thanks for visiting! Enjoy.

~ The Deserted Mirage