((So lately I've been craving some GOOD ARM fics. You know, the kinds that don't have Mary Sues or sugary plots of "Ickis admits his feelings to ___!". Hell, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want something darker... edgier... Something that will provide nightmare fuel and fridge horror and paranoia.
I did try for something darker and edgier in my main account's
Tower of Sunz. Before you click that link, be warned that there's implied Zim/Ickis in the fic, so do NOT read if you dislike yaoi.
Sadly, I don't think it's dark enough. True, Ickis goes through the emotional trauma of seeing his friends dissected alive in front of him, but that's somewhat minor in my opinion. A darker and edgier fic should just be one uncomfortable and/or terrifying scene after another.
And supposedly, ARM was going to take a darker and edgier tone with its movie. Those of you who are as huge of ARM fans as me should know about this movie and why production of it was cancelled. According to The Internet Movie Database:
After the success of The Rugrats Movie, Nick and Klasky Csupo had plans to make a movie out of this TV series. However, production of the movie was shut down due to the story being "too dark" for children. Info on what the movie was going to be about hasn't been revealed.This leaves quite a lot to the imagination. What defies "too dark"? What could have made it so dark that Nick shut down the movie and said no? According to TV Tropes, The Rugrats Movie which inspired the ARM movie was pretty damn dark itself: "Not too many fans (want to) remember the show containing murderous animals, child endangerment, and tension between the babies thick enough that it can be cut by katana."
If that isn't "too dark" for the children, than what is?
My fic idea is a What If?, a sort of telling of the downfall of monsters. It starts with the Gromble dying in a horrible fashion and just gets worse as Simon, finding out the monster who's like a leader to the dump was killed, starts attacking more often and not holding back. And it continues to get worse.
Most of my inspiration comes from George Orville's Animal Farm. If you haven't read it, it's a very good book. However, be warned that it is not a child's story. Animal Farm is a retelling of how Soviet Russia came to be, simply telling of historical events by using cute little farm animals that quickly lose their cuteness.
In short, my wish is to twist ARM from a child's show to a darker and edgier story that makes readers suffer alongside their favorite characters as they struggle to live on after everything hits the fan.
Would any of my beautiful watchers read such a fic if I got off my ass and wrote it?
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