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BEWARE OF DOG (Blue Archive)

BEWARE OF DOG (Blue Archive)
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"Nn? What's so questionable about questing here?"

There was a time where she felt like there was no reason for her to continue to exist. Now, the entirety of Kivotos is counting on her continued existence and support.

That being said, it would help if she had a little more of an idea of what exactly she was doing.

Sunaokami Shiroko becoming Sensei may have either been the best or the worst mistake ever to grace Kivotos.
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Nnotes - Nnot again!
...This feels oddly familiar at this point.

Welcome back, again, again, to BEWARE OF DOG! I don't really have much to say about this other than I can't help but feel like this is a Skyrim situation where I'm porting this to literally everywhere.

Over the next few days, I'll port over the other chapters of this story bit by bit.

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Nnotes - Nnames and Naming Schemes
The codenames used during the bank heist are all names of various Sensei from other fics:

Hinata Zero - Hinata Ao (A Father's Love - UCCMaster, Zodai)
Yume One - Yume Kuchinashi (Aqua Dream Archive - hunter10bt)
Birkin Two - Joshua Birkin (Story of Joshua Sensei - TRUExtremeSamxX)
Trailblazer Three - Stelle 'The Galactic Educator/Baseballer' McNoLastName (Trails in the Stars - RabuRibu)
Nelson Four - HMS Nelson (From Sea To Sky - Number-75 (Numbers75))
Faust - Faust (??? - Sensei)
Courier Six - Courier Six (A Courier For Kivotos - UnknownSixth)

It's from reading longer fics like these that inspired me to start writing BA stories in the first place, so I really wanted to shout them out. Other elements were borrowed and used in BEWARE OF DOG as well; for example, the GSC President's name being implied to be 'Ao Haru' is taken from 'A Father's Love'.

Adding onto this, each one was actually picked to act somewhat reflective of the FTF member they were given to:

Ayane (Hinata Zero) - Is somewhat of the tactician of the group, much like how Ao is a combat instructor.

Hoshino (Yume One) - Doesn't really need much explanation. Yume and Hoshino are close, of course.

Shiroko (Birkin Two) - Kuroko and Shiroko have something of a rivalry. Therefore, it would make sense the former would nickname the latter after a somewhat... scuffed Sensei.

Nonomi (Trailblazer Three) - In Trails In The Stars, Nonomi ends up leaving the FTF early because Stelle missed their letter for a far longer period of time than in canon. This is also why she has a bad feeling about the name in this story.

Serika (Nelson Four) - ...okay I'll be honest I just really like From Sea To Sky. I can't come up with any other feasible explanation for this one, sorry. Maybe if you squint it's an ironic name since Nelson's a ship and cats historically aren't fans of water?

Faust (Faust) - She was born to wear that name. The legend of Faust must live on.

Kuroko (Courier Six) - I realized it would not only make sense as a codename since she's the sixth one in the Masked Swimsuit Gang, but it would also allow me to just straight up use the name wholesale.

Another thing I would like to point out is the theme naming of the chapters and, indeed, the story itself. For each chapter in this story, I decided to name them after various signage one might encounter in day to day life while still being thematically accurate.

This naming scheme also extends to the story's title; hence why the logo for this series is based on an actual 'BEWARE OF DOG' sign. In future chapters, this lead to me having to look up signage and stuff to name them, which ended up proving somewhat difficult.

Suggestions of potentially obscure signs and labels you see in your daily life I could use for future chapters is very welcome.


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Nnotes - Nn, wait, right, I had this too. New
you ever just forget you were porting your fanfic to a different site and just not do it for several months straight?

because i did

"Nn. Hopefully, I've done enough to prepare for the future."

Originally, this story was planned to merely open up in Volume 2, as I enjoyed that far more than V1. That, and I didn't want to fall into the same trap as other BA stories where I just barely claw my way out of Abydos, only to promptly die out.

But upon some reflection, I realized that, on the very basis of my premise, if I didn't do Abydos in SOME form, I would be squandering my premise; Kuroko comes from Abydos. She HAS to be in Abydos at some point in order to reflect on the events from her timeline.

So I made her speedrun it.

She doesn't want to stick around Abydos; not after what happened last time, where she, much like those other fics that all died out, she never made it out of that desert and perished there. As a result, the story only focuses on several brief snippets of events in the Abydos arc rather than making a full on, incredibly deep and featured adaptation.

Some might call this lazy or taking a shortcut. Yes, yes it is.

In reality, I feel like I simply wouldn't be able to do justice to the true scope of the emotions that would come to Kuroko having been given this second chance. She essentially watched all her closest friends die. She could have been said to have died there herself too.

I feel like whatever I could write for that simply wouldn't be on par with whatever one might imagine.

That being said, you're welcome to try writing that scene as an Omake too. I feel like I simply wouldn't do it justice myself.

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Nnotes - Nnow, let's see what lies beyond the burning sand! New
Nnotes:

"In my next life, I want to be reborn as a bird. What about you, Sensei?"

I went through several versions of the song that would play during the ending of the Abydos arc, eventually settling on Vigilante Ver0.5+@ from Gundam Narrative. The lyrics felt like they reflected Kuroko's status in this story quite well. Perhaps these lyrics could be seen as her calling out to her past Sensei and asking what to do in this new timeline? Perhaps it relates to her role as Death and her fearing that her appearance here marks the death of a timeline?

Or maybe it's just a very cool song. You know, both could be true!

Initial plans were to use Archive of Youth from Blue Archive The Animation, coinciding with this being the ending of the Abydos arc of the story. Part of this development actually still remains in the final text; during the start of the final chorus that plays in this chapter, the fight choreography is taken from near the ending of the opening animation.

Other tracks considered were Day After Day from Armored Core: Verdict Day and Senkou (English Ver.) from Hathaway's Flash.

The latter has lyrics that yet even more accurately reflect Kuroko's situation in this story; being someone torn from a world that had fallen apart who doesn't want to see the same happen once more in this new world.

It fit so well that I couldn't just drop something that incredible as the theme for the ending of the first arc, so I'm saving it for later.

I'm also unreasonably proud of the theme naming of the Scales of Anubis system that makes its debut in this chapter. It's up next to Kuroko's continued quest for a motorbike named 'Pale Rider' in terms of minor details with ominous names.

The rumor about Sensei doing anything for 500 Yen is a nod to the Blue Archive 500 Yen series of oneshots by biggestheavyrainfan (Festahntb). They all operate off that exact premise, and are all short stories 500 words long. Take a look at them if you have time!

This chapter also now has a newly made for Spacebattles title card! I decided to try making some for each major arc in this story, so they'll be appearing every now and again.

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Number of times 'Shiroko' is written in this chapter: 46
 
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