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Well, I got another idea. You know how they sometimes use CGI to create characters in movies? It would be like that. They create some big baddy, but he goes all evil AI and breaks free, and they have to stop him, blah, blah. You get the idea.

Alto Clarinet EDIT: Yay, 100 posts!

Dang it, freaking Patriots. I didn't want the to win!

Tenor Sax

The Emperor reveals himself, second is mainly about Ian hunting him down and ends with him killing him, and the third is Ian finding how to revive his sister and then becoming immortal.

Yeah, I see what you mean. But the thing is, Ian never considered the Emperor's vision evil. He thought the way he was doing it was evil. Ian, after realizing what the Emperor was doing, figured that it was a reasonable goal to make death nonexistent. But yes, Ian is betrayed by his former mentor, and is rightfully angry that he was being used. When he finally defeats him, Ian is both heartbroken and glad. He doesn't know what to do until a strange figure tells him of the dark force, and Ian hunts it down. Ian becomes a more benovlent leader after his failed attempt of reviving his sister. He does not kill except to make sure he gets what he believes needs to be done done. A lot of this is fueled by the anger he has over his sister's death, so he (almost valiantly, if you could put a good light on it) tries to save everyone from death. He believes those who oppose him want there to be death because they benefit from it, so he kills them for the betterment of his cause. He sends them so far down in the Spirit Realm, they never return. This leads to another story idea I have...one set centuries after Ian's takeover.

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I really like that idea...but I had a really different idea. The mentor figure and the Emperor are one and the same. Albeit, Ian doesn't know this at first, but he eventually finds out after the Emperor fakes his own death. The entire time, the Emperor has been leading Ian on a wild goose chase. The enemies he tells Ian about are actually the good guys (which would be hinted at throughout the book(s)). When Ian realizes this, and he finds out the Emperor has tricked him, he hunts him down and eventually kills him. Ian then discovers a dark force that can restore damaged spirits to life. He tracks it down, slowly going crazier and doing evil things to reach his goal. By the end, he's become ruthless, intent only on finding the dark force. When he finally finds it and locates his sister's Spirit, the dark force fails him. All it does is summon a mindless, zombie-like version of her. He puts the abomination out of its misery. In a fit of rage, he kills one of his Ghost lackeys, and discovers the secret to the Emperor's immortality. The final book ends there, as he leaves the Real World to go to the Spirit Realm. This isn't supposed to be a "normal boy becomes a superhero and saves the day" story. This is about the rise of a dictator of the Spirit Realm and the Real World.

Cowboys

Yeah, I was thinking about maybe specifying which emperor he was...or maybe it'd be cool if I just alluded to whichever one I choose. But I was thinking along the lines of Nero. Maybe Caesar, but his death was probably too brutal for his Spirit not to get damaged. I don't know very much about the ancient Chinese emperors, save for a few. Ian is a poor guy who got sucked into this war that's been going on for ages. I have what I think is a really cool idea for an ending, but it's a big spoiler, if I ever finish this book. Besides that...I'm not quite sure how to get him there. I have. A few ideas, and the main one is that he searches for a way to bring back his sister.

Frank Ticheli. He's amazing. If you haven't heard his Earth Song piece before...please look it up and listen to it. What's your favortite cartoon? (They don't even have to be running anymore)

Lemon Chicken

I'm an Awakened Object now. I really need to start reading The Cosmere....

So I had a really crazy dream last night. It was really complicated and made no sense, but I remember some cool details. We were fighting...I don't even know, but my friends and I were fighting something, and we had cool powers. Near the end of the dream, I stole some powerful diamond-thing from the enemy by using my super speed and teleportation powers to sneak and get it. Then this girl (I think it was a girl) started chasing me with her superspeed, and I would teleport around, but she would always catch up to me because her super speed was faster then mine. Right when she was about to capture me, I jumped off the mountain that we were running on (which was like, on a different planet than the fight was on), turned towards her, winked, then teleported away. I think that I was just distracting her while my friends did whatever they were trying to do. Anyway, after that, we exited out of this facility, and I said that she did a good job, and I liked her acting. Then I talked to my band director, who was the director of the movie (heh, get it?). That dream gave me an idea. What if movies were made in these facilities where they simulated these worlds they make up, and it makes the actors become the characters they're playing. Everything in that facility actually happens to this actors, until the facility is turned off, and any deaths that happened (if any) are reversed. So, as one of the characters, you subconsciously know that anything that happens to you won't effect you, but you don't consciously know that. If you die, you really feel like you died until the facility turns off. My question is this: What if something goes wrong?

For Emperor Ghost (I like that title, by the way), it's a matter of afterlife or death, as it is with every Ghost or Spirit. He wants power because he is used to it from before he died, but with power comes the ability to achieve immortality, at the expense of other Spirits/Ghosts. In the Spirit Realm, while he may not be able to lose his powers because of the Guardians, there are other ways he can be punished (see next paragraph). In the Real World, he has a physical body, which allows him to interact with the Real World; however, while this body is a lot stronger than any normal human, it is not invincible. If anyone was able to kill him in the Real World, he would truly die. He would become a Spirit, and his fading would be inevitable, no matter how many Spirits he kills, an Aura fades no matter what for a Spirit. The Spirit Realm is like Earth, but there is no night or day-the sky is eternally gray, as is everything else in the world. Areas where the connection between the worlds is stronger have almost their own aura, and attract Spirits. Yes, while Spirits do not need anything really, they want life. At least, some do. Most Spirits do not see the Spirit Realm this way. They view it as whatever they imagined the afterlife would be like. But those who had no idea of an afterlife, and Ghosts, view the Spirit Realm for how it really is. These Spirits are the ones most likely to want life again, since they are constantly reminded of their death. Now, you might be wondering, "Where the heck do all the Spirits go if it's just the size of Earth?" The Spirit Realm I described to you is the outermost layer. A Ghost has the ability to open portals to the lower layers. These layers are all exactly the same as the outermost, but the connections to the Real World are far weaker the deeper the layer is, and the inevitable fading happens far quicker-even to Ghosts. There are an infinite amount of layers, but the lowest a Ghost will open a portal to is around the hundredth layer, where they send the worst of the Spirits they capture. A Ghost can enter these portals, too. However, going back through the layers is far more difficult; a Ghost can only open a portal to the layer directly above the one they are currently in. The Ghosts who control the Spirit World do so because they believe it is their duty to keep the realms separate. They believe that if Spirits were allowed to enter freely between the worlds, it would cause total chaos in the Real World (imagine the world being swarmed with mindless zombies), or maybe even the total destruction of both. Emperor Ghost, along with several others, do not believe this theory, and wish to strengthen the connection between the worlds, so that it would be possible that everyone could live forever. While this seems like the better deal, it really isn't. There's a reason the realms are separate-if they were connected, it would cause a merging of the two realms. The Earth would become lifeless, controlled only by those with the strongest auras. Ghosts would overuse their power by sending anyone they didn't like to a later where they would never return from. The fading would happen at an even more accelerated rate, and not even Ghosts would be safe. Living people wouldn't be safe, either. I spent the past 45 minutes thinking about and writiting this post. Some of this is stuff I came up with just now, and most of is stuff I'd thought about and just expanded on.

I don't really like ice cream bars. But my favorite ice cream is cookies and cream. What's your favorite band?

Imagine Dragons

Dat boi

I watched Star Wars in Spanish in Spanish. But in the second day, we just finished it off in English.

T-shirts, I guess. That's what's mostly in my closet. What's your favorite gem (as in birthstones)?

I don't play many video games that are story-oriented. Or at all really. But I do remember that Drill-X from the second Skylanders game was awesome. Even though he only appeared as the boss of a level. What's your favorite instrument?

Honey Bunches of Oats

So, I just got home from our Mid-Winter concert about an hour ago. I'm not even sure why we do a Mid-Winter concert though; we've barely had any time to learn the music. Anyway, it went pretty well. I really like the first and sixth movements of the second piece we played. The second is pretty, we didn't play the third of fifth, and the fourth is okay. But at the start of the fourth movement, something really weird happened. It starts with some clarinet pick-ups, and then the girl that sits next to me, we both play bass clarinet (her name will be Katy for this story), and I come in on the third beat of the first measure. We started off in time, but then everyone got really out of time and it was weird. I just kept playing, and tried to get back in time, but Katy stopped playing (or maybe she didn't, I couldn't really tell). I noticed my band director giving me a weird look over my music stand, and then Katy elbowed me slightly. I was already kind of freaking out becaus of the chaos, so I thought she was telling me to stop playing. We came back in after some rests later, and the rest of the movement was fine. Anyway, Katy told me after the concert that she wasn't telling me to stop playing, she just thought I wasn't seeing my band director's look. Now I have to get my solo going....