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So over ten years ago, I ended up creating a fanfiction series on the internet called Paper Chopper, based off the first three Paper Mario games. At the moment, they have the biggest word count in the Mario section, with one of them having around 1.2 million words. Unlike a regular Paper Mario game where there are eight chapters, the first story was double that (sixteen chapters), while the two sequels had twenty chapters. Personally, I do not think these stories hold up well today and are filled with many plot points, they overstay their welcome, and there's other stuff I'm not really fond of looking back. The first eight chapters of all three stories were essentially the Paper Mario games repeated, even though I meant to treat them as sequels, when I really should've just made them original Paper Mario stories in the first place (Chapters 1, 5, and 6 were exceptions though...mostly). Also, characters from the Kirby and Sonic games appeared, so there was that too.

I wouldn't exactly call these stories successful either. They all had over one hundred chapters, yet they only had around fifty reviews - which really isn't good when you compare that to other stories with that many words. I can understand why people wouldn't be interested in them - with the main character being an original character, so my story's success rate was probably my own fault. Admittedly, I have ideas of rebooting these stories into something completely new, as my writing has actually improved, but I kinda have doubts that many people would take a look. That, and I wanna focus more on art, comics, and animation, since I think that would work a lot better for me.

Yet despite my mixed feelings about the Paper Chopper trilogy, I do get nostalgic from thinking of them. There are SOME things I do kind of like looking back, such as some of the settings Chopper and Co. go to throughout their adventures. Chapter 1 of Paper Chopper: The Crystal Stars has a pretty neat concept in my opinion. It's just that - well, it could be better execution-wise...

TL;DR: These stories don't hold up today, but I still have some nostalgia for them.

So to celebrate these stories being around for around ten years, I made this. I based the characters off the TTYD color palette, while the background is based off Color Splash's look. Mario and Sonic's poses are even based off official art of them.

Who knows? I might make more of these if I ever have to drive to do so!

Description
Warning: this description is a bit wordy...

So over ten years ago, I ended up creating a fanfiction series on the internet called Paper Chopper, based off the first three Paper Mario games. At the moment, they have the biggest word count in the Mario section, with one of them having around 1.2 million words. Unlike a regular Paper Mario game where there are eight chapters, the first story was double that (sixteen chapters), while the two sequels had twenty chapters. Personally, I do not think these stories hold up well today and are filled with many plot points, they overstay their welcome, and there's other stuff I'm not really fond of looking back. The first eight chapters of all three stories were essentially the Paper Mario games repeated, even though I meant to treat them as sequels, when I really should've just made them original Paper Mario stories in the first place (Chapters 1, 5, and 6 were exceptions though...mostly). Also, characters from the Kirby and Sonic games appeared, so there was that too.

I wouldn't exactly call these stories successful either. They all had over one hundred chapters, yet they only had around fifty reviews - which really isn't good when you compare that to other stories with that many words. I can understand why people wouldn't be interested in them - with the main character being an original character, so my story's success rate was probably my own fault. Admittedly, I have ideas of rebooting these stories into something completely new, as my writing has actually improved, but I kinda have doubts that many people would take a look. That, and I wanna focus more on art, comics, and animation, since I think that would work a lot better for me.

Yet despite my mixed feelings about the Paper Chopper trilogy, I do get nostalgic from thinking of them. There are SOME things I do kind of like looking back, such as some of the settings Chopper and Co. go to throughout their adventures. Chapter 1 of Paper Chopper: The Crystal Stars has a pretty neat concept in my opinion. It's just that - well, it could be better execution-wise...

TL;DR: These stories don't hold up today, but I still have some nostalgia for them.

So to celebrate these stories being around for around ten years, I made this. I based the characters off the TTYD color palette, while the background is based off Color Splash's look. Mario and Sonic's poses are even based off official art of them.

Who knows? I might make more of these if I ever have to drive to do so!