Now it was time to start the sekunde part of Viggo’s plan, which was also based off something else that I made a lot of changes to. Again, it started similar to the piece that had inspired it and relied on Viggo’s main campsite in the Northern Region being destroyed and Viggo looking horribly defeated and in a state that we have never seen him in.
Robert going rogue was an idea I got from the piece that inspired this sekunde part of Viggo’s plan, except instead of it being an actual mutiny, it ends up being another massive deception kwa Viggo, hence why I called this part of the story, “His Greatest Gambit”, seeing as how a gambit is something wewe do, typically in chess, where wewe make a sacrifice in turn for a better advantage and that’s what Viggo is trying to do here. I wanted to keep Martin somewhat in the spotlight, which is why I had him break away and follow Robert, and it seemed like something he would do since it got him away from Viggo and Hammond and might help him defeat them both and get back to Humphrey and the others.
This sekunde phase of Viggo’s plan was essential to the group getting the valley back and would kick-start Viggo’s ultimate defeat. I mgawanyiko, baidisha up the group to go and watch the different places that Viggo alisema Robert would attack. I wanted to keep the audience thinking and second-guessing themselves the whole time that phase two was playing out. I had decided for a pretty decent amount of time that Viggo would be redeemed in the end (more on that when we get to it), and I wanted to plant the seeds of that earlier on so it wouldn’t seem bila mpangilio and out of the blue.
So, I had to get people to think that this mutiny, the seeming collapse of everything he worked on, and his near-death experience might’ve made him see things differently. But then when he escapes, maybe he hasn’t changed. Not to mention the fact that Viggo had attacked Robert in the chapter before made it zaidi believable that Robert really had mutinied. The insight of how they felt about each other in Rise of the Hunter is what really helps set this whole thing up because wewe know from the start that they have very different opinions of each other and can’t really stand the other when it comes to strategy.
Chapter eighteen was much zaidi tied to the chanzo material than I wanted it to be, meaning for plot purposes, there wasn’t much I could change, so I changed as much of the dialogue as I could instead. I did add one pretty big thing that was very important later which was Adam’s short conversation with Martin.
What Martin says here is what sets up the ultimate downfall and disbanding of the Crimson Pack in the climax. Pretty much all the Mbwa mwitu loups in the pack are there for the same reason Martin is and only stay there out of fear. They all think everyone around them is completely loyal to Viggo, which is why they never ask any of the Mbwa mwitu loups otherwise; they’re too afraid of being found out, so they just go along with everything. Once Hammond, the only mbwa mwitu truly loyal to Viggo is taken out of the picture, Martin would be able to help them overcome their fear and ultimately turn them against Viggo.
I also had zaidi of the “Oscar and Viggo meeting” problem that I had to back and fix in chapter seventeen, which is why I had Oscar go with Kenya to the Northern Pack so he wouldn’t be with the others when they took Viggo to the Protectors. And I had him and Mick stand guard outside Viggo’s tent at the beginning so he wouldn’t be in the tent with him.
I was excited to do part of chapter nineteen because Runt and Lydia were finally getting married, and it led into part of the deception that maybe Viggo had changed. I got to have Viggo and Humphrey have a civil, almost friendly conversation together, but then they break it off once they realize they’re actually getting along.
Toward the end of the chapter, I decided to give both the audience, and the characters zaidi reason to trust Viggo kwa having him and Humphrey fight together, like they were allies instead of enemies. Viggo has been trying his whole life to kill Humphrey and now he’s risking his life to protect him. That would surely make some people believe that maybe he really had changed.
kwa chapter twenty-one, I was back to completely original ideas, and I ended up really liking this one too, because there were some pretty fun moments to write. I don’t know why, but the detail about Viggo’s sword shaving off some strands of Humphrey’s fur, manyoya when he put it to his throat is something I had to add. As I was uandishi the part where Viggo puts the sword up to Humphrey’s throat, I imagined what that would look like and for some reason, my mind focused on the detail of the blade shaving off a couple strands of fur.
kwa this point of the story, if you’re looking closely, you’ll notice that I really only get descriptive when there’s something that I really need to emphasize. For instance, in the beginning of chapter twenty-one when Viggo is taking Humphrey, I felt a need to emphasize how Kate is feeling, knowing that Humphrey is probably going to die either way and she has to choose how it happens. I don’t know why I felt the need to put emphasis on it, I just did.
And that brings me to the choice Viggo gives her. The part where Kate says that Viggo is going to kill Humphrey no matter what was a result of me realizing that there’s really no reason why she should let him just take Humphrey like the script demanded. I needed Viggo to be able to get away with Humphrey, so naturally, I had him threaten to kill Humphrey, but then I realized, Viggo is going to kill Humphrey anyway, and Kate knows that. So that led me to also realize that it now boiled down to a matter of whether au not Kate and everyone else would be there to see Viggo kill Humphrey. I know I probably got a lot wrong with the whole grenade thing so here’s my excuse; Hollywood does it, why can’t I?
It was around this time that I decided to reintroduce my scrapped story of Newest Additions. I figured I had enough ideas to turn it into a short story rather than a full length, ten-chapter story. The same thing had happened for “The Lost Tale”. At one time, I wanted to have my stories be a three-trilogy thing. The first trilogy being about Humphrey’s past and consisting of Missing Parents, The Legend of the Peaceful Warrior, and A Hero’s Past; the sekunde trilogy being the final one with Viggo consisting of The inayofuata Generation, Rise of the Hunter, and The Final War; and the last trilogy being one of stand-alone stories, made up of Newest Additions, The Lost Tale, and The Wolfslayer: The Story of Viggo Thanatos.
The last trilogy of stand-alone stories never really got off the ground. I got ideas, but there weren’t enough. Newest Additions was going to be about Kate’s pregnancy a few months after the first movie and the formation of the Rogue Wolves. The Lost Tale ended up going through and being written and I’ve already talked enough about that. The Wolfslayer: The Story of Viggo Thanatos was an idea I got while uandishi Viggo’s origin. I thought it would be cool if I did something like what I did with The Lost Tale and wrote the whole story from Viggo’s point of view. I wrote a meza, jedwali of contents for it, and it ended up being something like forty chapters long, but then I realized that his whole story had already been told in one way au another and this would’ve just been redundant and unnecessary.
However, I had too many ideas for Newest Additions to just briefly mention it once au twice. So, I eventually decided to do what I did with The Lost Tale and just make it a short story that I would include in the bonus content. That way I wouldn’t have to go through the extra work of changing the cover of the collection au uandishi a whole other story in the short time I had left to finish everything because I wanted to get everything done and printed kwa my 18th birthday, which at this point, was only five, almost four months away. I’ll talk about Newest Additions at the end. Back to The Final War.
I thought it would be fun to have something between just Adam, Humphrey, and Steven because they all have this fun relationship that I absolutely love, and I wanted to have just the three of them to play around with it. They upendo joking and teasing around with each other and just giving each other crap. It’s another thing I drew from my own life because I have that kind of friendship with some of my Marafiki at school.
I also thought it would be fun if they found a very young pup that imprinted on Steven because I could do some stuff with that. The script called for Steven to get Stinky to help get the pup out of the tree, but then I realized with fira, viper there, she could simply slither up the tree, grab him with her tail, and bring him down, so I decided to use that little “loophole” as another sort of funny moment.
At the end of the chapter, when everyone gets back to the valley, Adam gives Steven crap kwa saying that “he’s a mommy now” and originally, Steven was just supposed to give him a dirty look, but then it went that extra step in my mind where Steven mouths some kind of insult at Adam, which is exactly what would happen because that’s the kind of friendship they have.
But when I thought about what exactly he would mouth, in my head, I’m thinking, “okay, so Steven mouths something to Adam,” but I thought about how I just worded it and realized that “something” could imply pretty much anything, and then it became too perfect, so that’s exactly what I wrote. “Steven mouthed something to Adam.” Just anything, nothing specific, although we all know exactly what he mouthed. I mean, if this was a movie, it would be PG-13 anyway, so…
Robert going rogue was an idea I got from the piece that inspired this sekunde part of Viggo’s plan, except instead of it being an actual mutiny, it ends up being another massive deception kwa Viggo, hence why I called this part of the story, “His Greatest Gambit”, seeing as how a gambit is something wewe do, typically in chess, where wewe make a sacrifice in turn for a better advantage and that’s what Viggo is trying to do here. I wanted to keep Martin somewhat in the spotlight, which is why I had him break away and follow Robert, and it seemed like something he would do since it got him away from Viggo and Hammond and might help him defeat them both and get back to Humphrey and the others.
This sekunde phase of Viggo’s plan was essential to the group getting the valley back and would kick-start Viggo’s ultimate defeat. I mgawanyiko, baidisha up the group to go and watch the different places that Viggo alisema Robert would attack. I wanted to keep the audience thinking and second-guessing themselves the whole time that phase two was playing out. I had decided for a pretty decent amount of time that Viggo would be redeemed in the end (more on that when we get to it), and I wanted to plant the seeds of that earlier on so it wouldn’t seem bila mpangilio and out of the blue.
So, I had to get people to think that this mutiny, the seeming collapse of everything he worked on, and his near-death experience might’ve made him see things differently. But then when he escapes, maybe he hasn’t changed. Not to mention the fact that Viggo had attacked Robert in the chapter before made it zaidi believable that Robert really had mutinied. The insight of how they felt about each other in Rise of the Hunter is what really helps set this whole thing up because wewe know from the start that they have very different opinions of each other and can’t really stand the other when it comes to strategy.
Chapter eighteen was much zaidi tied to the chanzo material than I wanted it to be, meaning for plot purposes, there wasn’t much I could change, so I changed as much of the dialogue as I could instead. I did add one pretty big thing that was very important later which was Adam’s short conversation with Martin.
What Martin says here is what sets up the ultimate downfall and disbanding of the Crimson Pack in the climax. Pretty much all the Mbwa mwitu loups in the pack are there for the same reason Martin is and only stay there out of fear. They all think everyone around them is completely loyal to Viggo, which is why they never ask any of the Mbwa mwitu loups otherwise; they’re too afraid of being found out, so they just go along with everything. Once Hammond, the only mbwa mwitu truly loyal to Viggo is taken out of the picture, Martin would be able to help them overcome their fear and ultimately turn them against Viggo.
I also had zaidi of the “Oscar and Viggo meeting” problem that I had to back and fix in chapter seventeen, which is why I had Oscar go with Kenya to the Northern Pack so he wouldn’t be with the others when they took Viggo to the Protectors. And I had him and Mick stand guard outside Viggo’s tent at the beginning so he wouldn’t be in the tent with him.
I was excited to do part of chapter nineteen because Runt and Lydia were finally getting married, and it led into part of the deception that maybe Viggo had changed. I got to have Viggo and Humphrey have a civil, almost friendly conversation together, but then they break it off once they realize they’re actually getting along.
Toward the end of the chapter, I decided to give both the audience, and the characters zaidi reason to trust Viggo kwa having him and Humphrey fight together, like they were allies instead of enemies. Viggo has been trying his whole life to kill Humphrey and now he’s risking his life to protect him. That would surely make some people believe that maybe he really had changed.
kwa chapter twenty-one, I was back to completely original ideas, and I ended up really liking this one too, because there were some pretty fun moments to write. I don’t know why, but the detail about Viggo’s sword shaving off some strands of Humphrey’s fur, manyoya when he put it to his throat is something I had to add. As I was uandishi the part where Viggo puts the sword up to Humphrey’s throat, I imagined what that would look like and for some reason, my mind focused on the detail of the blade shaving off a couple strands of fur.
kwa this point of the story, if you’re looking closely, you’ll notice that I really only get descriptive when there’s something that I really need to emphasize. For instance, in the beginning of chapter twenty-one when Viggo is taking Humphrey, I felt a need to emphasize how Kate is feeling, knowing that Humphrey is probably going to die either way and she has to choose how it happens. I don’t know why I felt the need to put emphasis on it, I just did.
And that brings me to the choice Viggo gives her. The part where Kate says that Viggo is going to kill Humphrey no matter what was a result of me realizing that there’s really no reason why she should let him just take Humphrey like the script demanded. I needed Viggo to be able to get away with Humphrey, so naturally, I had him threaten to kill Humphrey, but then I realized, Viggo is going to kill Humphrey anyway, and Kate knows that. So that led me to also realize that it now boiled down to a matter of whether au not Kate and everyone else would be there to see Viggo kill Humphrey. I know I probably got a lot wrong with the whole grenade thing so here’s my excuse; Hollywood does it, why can’t I?
It was around this time that I decided to reintroduce my scrapped story of Newest Additions. I figured I had enough ideas to turn it into a short story rather than a full length, ten-chapter story. The same thing had happened for “The Lost Tale”. At one time, I wanted to have my stories be a three-trilogy thing. The first trilogy being about Humphrey’s past and consisting of Missing Parents, The Legend of the Peaceful Warrior, and A Hero’s Past; the sekunde trilogy being the final one with Viggo consisting of The inayofuata Generation, Rise of the Hunter, and The Final War; and the last trilogy being one of stand-alone stories, made up of Newest Additions, The Lost Tale, and The Wolfslayer: The Story of Viggo Thanatos.
The last trilogy of stand-alone stories never really got off the ground. I got ideas, but there weren’t enough. Newest Additions was going to be about Kate’s pregnancy a few months after the first movie and the formation of the Rogue Wolves. The Lost Tale ended up going through and being written and I’ve already talked enough about that. The Wolfslayer: The Story of Viggo Thanatos was an idea I got while uandishi Viggo’s origin. I thought it would be cool if I did something like what I did with The Lost Tale and wrote the whole story from Viggo’s point of view. I wrote a meza, jedwali of contents for it, and it ended up being something like forty chapters long, but then I realized that his whole story had already been told in one way au another and this would’ve just been redundant and unnecessary.
However, I had too many ideas for Newest Additions to just briefly mention it once au twice. So, I eventually decided to do what I did with The Lost Tale and just make it a short story that I would include in the bonus content. That way I wouldn’t have to go through the extra work of changing the cover of the collection au uandishi a whole other story in the short time I had left to finish everything because I wanted to get everything done and printed kwa my 18th birthday, which at this point, was only five, almost four months away. I’ll talk about Newest Additions at the end. Back to The Final War.
I thought it would be fun to have something between just Adam, Humphrey, and Steven because they all have this fun relationship that I absolutely love, and I wanted to have just the three of them to play around with it. They upendo joking and teasing around with each other and just giving each other crap. It’s another thing I drew from my own life because I have that kind of friendship with some of my Marafiki at school.
I also thought it would be fun if they found a very young pup that imprinted on Steven because I could do some stuff with that. The script called for Steven to get Stinky to help get the pup out of the tree, but then I realized with fira, viper there, she could simply slither up the tree, grab him with her tail, and bring him down, so I decided to use that little “loophole” as another sort of funny moment.
At the end of the chapter, when everyone gets back to the valley, Adam gives Steven crap kwa saying that “he’s a mommy now” and originally, Steven was just supposed to give him a dirty look, but then it went that extra step in my mind where Steven mouths some kind of insult at Adam, which is exactly what would happen because that’s the kind of friendship they have.
But when I thought about what exactly he would mouth, in my head, I’m thinking, “okay, so Steven mouths something to Adam,” but I thought about how I just worded it and realized that “something” could imply pretty much anything, and then it became too perfect, so that’s exactly what I wrote. “Steven mouthed something to Adam.” Just anything, nothing specific, although we all know exactly what he mouthed. I mean, if this was a movie, it would be PG-13 anyway, so…