On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Nicholas Leifker wrote:

A general warning for anyone here: If you don't like spoilers (even
small ones), delete and wait until you get a copy of Escaflowne. This
is based completely off of the anime, BTW.

I dunno...I wouldn't class this as a small spoiler. It's actually quite
big (I know Andrew already said that, but hey I have to chip in too...:).
But Kudos to you for chipping in spoiler space here, which is a very nice
thing to do for people that want to see more Escaflowne.

Sigh, and I remember the day I spoiled myself on the end of the first
Rayearth manga series...:P

Still here?  Cool.

Leifker presents...

Second Nature

A work of anime fanfiction by Nicholas Leifker

I'm not sure who created Escaflowne, or who owns it.  I beg pardon to
whoever they are.  I ask that you not publish or use any part of this
work without the author's permission.

Shouji Kawamori (SP on the first name?) created the orginal Escaflowne
idea which was turned into the rather lackluster Shonen comic that
predates the anime series. Kawamori then revisted the idea after the Eva
TVs eries ended and Bandai was more than happy to finacne Escaflowne in
the hopes of topping Eva (which Esca more than did IMSO). After which came
out the much more intresting Shoujo comic from Asuka....:)

Anyway, great story that provided a nice add on to the end of the series,
which sorta of brushed past the final part of the Dilandu/Serena (or is it
Selena..argh...:) sub plot. Also this story goes to show yet another
point, that good character devlopment does need to happen in a lot of
text. It can also come in a well written short fic...

I like the story quite a lot - there's a lot of further development that
could be done within the Escaflowne universe after the series' end. As far
as names go, I'd reccomend Serena, if for no other reason than symbolism.
(You have to know these sorts of things when you're a
lazy-ass^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H English major ;)

One point that could be developed into a very interesting story would be
the after-effects of leaving the pendant on Gaea. Depending on one's
interpretation of the pendant, it's powers, and how right (or wrong)
Dornkirk was - note that name symbolism again - it could be an amazingly
bad plan to leave it there. Or perhaps no better or worse than anywhere
else. I finished watching the series almost a month ago, and I still
haven't entirely figured everything out. Then again, until Dilandu tore his
shirt off, we couldn't figure out his gender, despite having already
figured out his relationship with Serena and Allen, so maybe I'm just being
dense.

One one last note, one that'll be sure to draw Tybalt here like something
that Tybalt's attracted to, did anyone else notice Escaflowne's almost
constant parallels with Star Wars?



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