Scrapped - Nick Venom (books for 7th graders .TXT) 📗

one of which was the characterization. Locket moved away from the first season’s dullness and upgraded the story and its characters with the change of setting and explosion in the number of side characters. Many of the one-dimensional characters gained new traits and abilities that they didn’t have in the boring first season. The series also was written well and was injected with new life that revived the series.

 

5: Hitting the bottom of the top 5 list is Troy: The Demon Knight: Season One - Blueway (2020) {Blueway}. Blueway is a soft reboot of a 2019 attempt at the story that failed in many aspects with underdeveloped characters, really quick pacing, and a villain just thrown into the story with no real reasoning. However, this second attempt fixes a lot of these issues. Blueway reintroduces Troy Ayers and his siblings, Casper and Victoria Ayers, and develops these characters well over the thirteen-episode season and begins them on their own character arcs; the side characters suffer at the cost of the main characters being developed as less attention was put on Troy’s peers. The pacing is slowed down significantly and each plot thread is tied in a way that isn’t choppy or awkward. And the main villain is given a little more room to work with, though his introduction isn’t perfect - it’s just a bit better than the first attempt. 

 

4: In fourth place is Demon Hunter: Season Three - Chains of the Past (2021) {Demon S3}. The third season following the Demon Hunter characters is ranked fourth on this subjective list because it does a better job in characterizing the characters and telling a solid story. The plot mainly focuses on the youngest of the Demon Hunters, Ashley, and acts as a gateway to her origin story and how she met Rik and the others. It also serves as a great introduction to one of my favorite villains - Mandy Wells. Mandy is a vicious man who tormented and made Ashley’s life a living hell. His character is sprinkled into the franchise in the second season but his full potential isn’t utilized until the third season where he pops up in almost every episode. The third episode, especially, does a great job in exploring Mandy’s character and showing his dark descend into the person he’s initially introduced as. Furthermore, he’s just a very interesting and frustrating (in a good way) villain who helps in forging the Demon Hunter characters’ personalities and pushing their character arcs forward. 

 

3: Troy: The Demon Knight: Season Two - Demonic Past {2021} {Demonic Past} gets the bronze medal on this list. Demonic Past does a few things better than its predecessor, mostly in developing the side characters. Demonic Past breaks up its thirteen episodes in a way that gives the underdeveloped side characters time to explore their traits and personalities. It also begins Casper Ayers on his path of redemption and sparks multiple changes within Troy Ayers. The pacing of the series is a bit choppy, mostly as half the season are all separate stories following Troy’s peers, but it’s made up with the finale episode as it does well in terms of action and content. The villain in arrogant and power-hungry Dragon Knight Draggak is interesting, though not as much as Mandy, but it serves as a fitting contrast to the shy and reserved Troy. This season, overall, improves on many of the first season’s beats. 

 

2: Just shy of first place is The New Guard: Season One (2021) {The New Guard S1}. This series surpasses almost every series on this list purely based on its characters and the fun I had in writing this story. The main characters, Maysa, Breanna, and Kodi, are some of my favorite ones I’ve worked on. At times, these are characters that I would enjoy hanging out with and being friends with. Aside from the characters, writing this story was a blast and a lot of work was put into this season. The pacing was done well and the side characters weren’t completely devoid of personalities, though they could use more character traits. The only reason why this series isn’t first place is that it’s plagued by the same error that plagues most of my earlier series - a boring/typical villain who is at times shoehorned into the story. The villain here, Slum Ripper, is slightly interesting in the fact that he tricked Captain Sand, the person overlooking the main characters’ training, and the others into a trap to slaughter them all, but he could easily be forgotten. There’s not much to make him memorable which is what bogs down this series.

 

1: The top place on this list belongs to Humanity Versus Demonkind: Demon’s Imprisonment (2021) {Demon’s Imprisonment}. Demon’s Imprisonment serves as a good foundation for the Humanity Versus Demonkind franchise and has a lot of memorable characters and good writing. The main character, Austin Shield, and his supporting characters are fun characters that have a lot of personalities and were really fun to write. Specifically, Roosevelt Shield, Austin’s father, was a really fun character to write as well as Aizen Hell, one of the Gods of Historia that communicates with Austin. Aizen is my favorite character in this franchise and I would even go as far as to say that I prefer him over the current version of Ace from the Legend franchise. Moving away from the topic of characters, this short story’s pacing isn’t overly quick and does well in introducing many important threads for Austin and the franchise’s future. And this is one of the few series to not have a concrete villain as the main threat here are demons without a leader in charge of them. There is no one big bad for Austin to square off with aside from the demons invading his town. However, a big bad is introduced with Vice, who is utilized more in the first season.

 

And with that, this list has come to an end. This is the ranking of every Historia Universe entry up to the most current series - Humanity Versus Demonkind: Season One - Attack on the Capital. This ranking will be updated in the future as new entries are released and old ones are remastered. 

Thank you all for reading this episode. Do remember that this list is subjective and you may easily disagree with my rankings. If so, then please express it below in the comments; I can’t wait to see what people think.

Until next time, I bid you all a good day!

Episode Nineteen "The Zombie Infection - Universe Breakdown"

“Nick pressed the trigger to end the man’s life, but he heard the dead man’s click - the sound of the magazine being empty.”

 

[Quote from: The Zombie Infection: Originals S1 E6 - “God Deceived Me” (2021) {LI Production}]

Hello All!

 

Welcome to a quick universe breakdown for the longest-running universe under Jayhawk Publishing. This universe breakdown will shed some light on the multiple changes that the universe has gone through and its future plans.

Released on December 30th, 2015, The Zombie Infection: Rising From The Dead was the first installment and marks the beginning of the universe. As this was my first ever story released, there were many grammar mistakes and plot holes. The story was later remastered and suffered multiplied changes, but I digress. 

Following Rising From The Grave were two sequels, 2017’s Journey and 2019’s The Final Chapter. These sequels followed Nick, Eric, Ashley, and the other main characters as they went from their hometown to a gang’s base to a military fort. The Final Chapter served as the finale to their story and the property was left alone for half a year until the appearance of 2019’s The Zombie Infection 4: Connections. This fourth installment was made for Revival: A Collection of Shorts and served as a bridge between The Zombie Infection (TZI) universe and Different Universe (now being remastered into Alternative Universe). However, that idea quickly imploded and left two sequels unmade and all bridges burnt. 

Following the failure and disappearance of the fourth installment, 2020 and 2021 saw the first three installments remastered but now with an intention to make two more sequels. This, similarly, imploded as well as neither sequel were made after running into trouble with the remaster of The Final Chapter (which was meant to be renamed “Omega Base”). The remasters were then pulled and the series was left in the dark.

However, a smaller series had emerged during early 2020 and started as a reboot to the Original Timeline (Rising From The Grave, Journey, and Omega Base). This reboot, The Zombie Infection: The Dead Walks, began making speed in reviving my interest in the series, amidst my problems with the remasters. A sequel arrived later that year with The Zombie Infection II: Heaven & Hell and continued to revive my interest. 

By Heaven & Hell, I was onboard to connect both timelines into one universe. This came with a set of canonical problems and other issues, but I had my mind set on connecting them and establishing one timeline. 

I established that the Original Timeline was the Original Timeline and that The Dead Walks and Heaven & Hell are part of the Chronicles Saga. The Chronicles Saga is a sub-branch within the universe as the characters will have their stories mostly separated from the Original Timeline’s stories, but there would be crossovers in the future.

2021, however, then threw a curveball that disrupted the universe as I had lost interest in the remasters of the Original Timeline and chose to give up on them. With this, The Dead Walks and Heaven & Hell looked to be set in their own timeline while I figured out the laundry list of issues with the universe. Then, one day, it hit me, and instantly all of my problems were solved. Why don’t I reboot the Original Timeline and take a slower approach? 

That question alone propelled me to create The Zombie Infection: Originals. The series was meant to be a remaster of the Original Timeline and help me deal with the plot holes, grammar issues, and other problems that plagued the original stories. 

Not only did Originals allow me to solve the canonical and remastering problems, but it also allowed me to take it slow and flush these characters out. The Original Timeline suffered from bland and rushed characters, but Originals helped me deal with this issue. 

My decision to have Originals broken down into seasons allowed me to cover the same plot points of the Original Timeline but with a better approach. 

This sudden realization of rebooting the Original Timeline saved me in multiple ways. Now the universe being a real thing was possible. 

 

The Zombie Infection Universe holds three titles, at the moment, being 2020’s The Dead Walks and Heaven & Hell as well as 2021’s Originals S1. These three installments are canon within the universe while the Original Timeline isn’t. However, the Original Timeline will remain accessible as these are testaments of my growth and experience. The first installment of the Original Timeline is the first-ever story I released and I don’t want to erase it from existence. 

Fortunately, the story will live on through Originals.

 

As for future plans for this series, below is a mention of every related installment in the universe up to the