Shall I continue Decagram past Family Matters?

[akk]

I'm thinking about whether or not I continue the Decagram past FM. While I have quite some plot I'd like to tell, I'm not sure it would still be a fanfic.
36° was about their connection & Seishiro's past as Sakurazukamori.
Family Matters is about how they continue & the past of their clans.
Additional plots would be (in no particular order):

• Yue's story
• Setsuka's story
• Seishiro's life around the time of making the bet, between the making of the bet and its execution, until the beginning of X
• what happened with Subaru's parents
• and the continuation of Family Matters would tell how all that affects their present existence.

But I'm pretty far from the canon already and the distance would increase necessarily with the next part.
So far, 36° & FM are seen rather positively, but I wonder if I don't "overuse my stay" if I stray that far from the canon into original territory.

What do you think?

Comments

[jjblue1.insanejournal.com]

I know you're an awesome writer so I can figure whatever you'll write will be a good piece of work people will love to read... plus some of the point you mentioned seem definitely intriguing and worth reading. However I'm not sure what you mean with 'far from canon'. Do you mean you'll go into huge AU? That the chara would change so much they won't be the same we know? Or just that you've the feeling the real story ends with 'Family matter' and adding a sequel wouldn't be necessary to the plot itself?
Anyway... if you feel unsure about writing it maybe it just means your subconscious is telling you that you can plan it better than how it actually is in your mind?
I don't know what exactly you're planning so I'm afraid I can't tell you for sure which would be my reaction reading it, beyond the curiosity I feel for future works of yours now.
Sorry... I figure this isn't helpful... *hides in shame*

[akk.insanejournal.com]

:) thank you for your reply. As you can spot in FM-PMS (2) (http://akk.insanejournal.com/109660.html) of today, I already overcame the problems that made me falter. :)

"Far from canon" for me means two things:
1) the characters undergo continuous development; after all, the events in the stories happen to them and if that doesn't change them somehow, it would be just bad writing. But the longer a plot goes, the bigger the changes are. Right now, FM makes perfectly sense, but only if you know 36°. And a sequel will require FM and therefore 36°. The amount of homework for readers to recognize their beloved characters within the plot is growing and I wondered, if there's a point where it stops being a fanfic, because the characters have grown so much.
2) the amount of plot content - locations, events, characters, etc. - not included and/or based in canon. For example, Yue, Omi, Yoshi, the Sakura being a talkative, perverted piece of shrub... that sort of thing. With growing plot, also their numbers grow (not the numbers of original characters - I try to keep them and their appearances to a minimum - but the past events affecting things become more numerous. Things not within X-canon, but within fic-canon. I wondered about whether it would still be a TBX-fic. However, most of this I already solved for myself in Fm-PMS (2) (linked above). So it's no longer critical.

But your reply is helpful. These musings help me figure things out. Thank you for that. :)