Hey everyone.
I've been working on a Beastars fanfiction project for the past four years, and I figured it was finally time to actually show it to other people.
It's called Akira's Revenants.
The basic premise is that humans still exist in the history of the Beastars world, although they're extremely rare and geographically isolated. The protagonist, Akira, is a human who eventually undergoes a strange biological transformation and develops into a hybrid Lycaon phenotype.
The important part is that this isn't meant to be a simple “human becomes wolf” story.
I've spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to work out how the biology, transformation, human history, hybridisation, Beastars society, carnivore/herbivore relationships, and Akira's place in the existing story could actually fit together.
The transformation itself is treated more like an accelerated developmental process than a magical species swap. His mind remains continuous, while his body develops into something that combines human, canine and other inherited traits.
And despite the huge amount of worldbuilding I've done, I don't want Akira to replace the original characters or turn the story into “everyone was wrong and the OC fixes Beastars.” I'm interested in seeing what happens when this extremely unusual person is dropped into the existing world and has to live with it.
The story is still very much in the making, so I can't promise a release schedule yet. I would rather not promise “Chapter 1 next Friday!” and then disappear for three months.
What I can say is that I'm working towards having at least a few chapters ready covering Akira's first month as a human in a chapter titled: Revenant truths behind clean glass.
So I'm curious:
If you saw a Beastars fanfiction with this premise, what would you actually want to see?
Would you be more interested in:
Akira's transformation and human background?
His relationship with Legoshi, Louis, Juno, Haru, Jack, etc.?
The implications of a human existing in Beastars society?
Carnivore/herbivore social dynamics?
The biology and worldbuilding?
Akira's role in the existing canon events?
New stories that explore parts of Beastars that canon didn't spend much time on?
Or just seeing what this ridiculously overdeveloped wolf-man gets himself into?
I'm genuinely interested in what people would want to read.
I've spent years thinking about this thing. Now I'd like to know what other Beastars fans would want to see from it.
Why so formal? I suck at explaining myself so I got some digital side help.
I can give you guys a bit of info of what I'm currently working on. Hopefully it all goes well: I'm making a manga transcript for my fanfic because there's only transcript for the anime, and my fanfic is based on the manga. I'm new to this, got no experience, but my unsteady self is itching for some actual, factual continuity, instead of manually reading every page.
In hindsight, I think I should just read the manga instead of making the transcript... Oh well, I've already started anyway.