isana: (men)
and it travels from heart to limb to pen ([personal profile] isana) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge 2012-07-19 03:29 am (UTC)

Oooh, you hit the answer jackpot on this one. XD

There is an RPG called "Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan" (仙劍奇俠傳)(Legend of Sword and Fairy) that's a hit in China and Taiwan; it's wuxia (kung fu) blended with a healthy dose of fantasy. It is, in fact, such a big hit that not one, but two of the games got their own live-action drama series, and it is the first one that was responsible for Tenth Sage/Iron Plum Blossom. The drama was my gateway drug of sorts into wuxia in general, which is a terrific genre (kung-fu! special effects! costume porn! girls who kick ass!).

I think, though, that the story I've been writing was more of a response to Xian Jian in that while the female protagonists were in the majority, it was the guy that was the hero. So I thought, "hey, what if it was a girl being Joe Hero instead, and she had friendships with girls? what would that be like?"

And wouldn't you know, I had some original characters lying around from RPs or fanfiction or whatnot, and after some tinkering, that's where they wound up.

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