Date: January 10 2016 12:48 AM Title: Epilogue
I'm glad Kelly kind of got that up close and personal look to the carnage she caused, it's the least punishment she could get, really she deserved far worse than that. Kinda sucks that Lisa and her family get shafted like this while Casey is still free. Like seriously, is nobody petitioning for her and her family to be released?
She's a hero and I'm sure more than a few people know it! Ah well, just like in real life sometimes bad things happen to good people. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little disappointed, this ending was not only a bit depressing for me but also it kind of left alot of things open ended. I usually like stories to tidy things up and leave no holes unchecked. Anyway, I wish you luck in your future endeavors, overall this was an amazing series!
Author's Response:
I had guessed you would not like too much what happened to Lisa. The public does not even know. The FSD was not going to leave any lose ends after the mistakes they did after the first incident and that led to the carnage of Volumes 2 and 3. Their intention was to neutralize the three women and also Stella. Joe saw it and that's the reason Stella is still at large and unaware of what she is or who her parents were. The other lose end, Casey, was also on purpose. I had no epic way of finishing her in Volume 3 (all the attention was focused on Kelly), so Casey worked best as a lose end that could be used if I ever have to come back to the Side Effects world. So, by the end of the story the world comes back to a "giantess-free" scenario, but there is still some threat looming there for the long term.
I know that the story evolved in a different direction that what you typically like. I'm glad that you still enjoyed it and I wanted to thank you once more for all the feedback and encouragement over the last months. Thank you!
Cheers!
[Report This]Date: January 05 2016 6:20 PM Title: Epilogue
Loved it, this will be one of my favorite story!
Do you plan to also add an illustration for this 3rd volume later?
Author's Response:
Thank you! I'm glad that you enjoyed it! Did you like Volume 3 better than Volume 2?
I have no idea on what will happen in terms of illustrations. I'm still commissioning renders to SorenZer0 for Volume 2. Once I finish illustrating the Vol. 2 chapters I would like to illustrate, I will need to think what I do. I love the renders, but the cost is not precisely low...
Anyway, thank you very much for the feedback. Getting this type of input is what drives me to keep working on new story ideas for the future!
Cheers!
Date: January 03 2016 12:25 PM Title: Epilogue
Awe bro you can't tell me you don't got a continuation in mind for this!
The fact that of the 3 girls, the entire most vicious one is still at large, just scream for more
You are such a tease lol
Author's Response:
Very honestly: when I finished writing it (some time ago, already), I left some possibilities open but I did not have anything speciifc planned, just some vague ideas. As I've got to the end of posting the story (and re-reading and editing it), some of those vague ideas were discarded and some others started gaining some momentum. There is one I'm quite fond of, right now. I need to put some thought to it to see if it can turn into a viable story idea. It would not be a continuation per se... the original story arc is done.
Also... the girl I left at large was the most vicious one precisely because it was the only one it made sense to leave at large. Kelly, as great a character as she has been (hey, at leat to me ;)), is done with. Her evolution has done its journey and right now I cannot think of anything else she could bring to any story. The case of Lisa is even clearer. The only one that, left at large, could have a motivation to bring back some giantess action would be Casey. Having said this... I think Casey works well enough as a villain when she is not the main villain. I don't think that she can bring enough complexity to hold an entire plot on her back. But as I think on the ideas I may find out that I'm wrong... ;P
Is there any idea that you had in mind? My mind is not made up, as you can see, so I'm eager for feedback!
BTW, I wanted to thank you for commenting. It's always good to hear from someone new that has been reading the series. I hope that you have enjoyed it!
Cheers!
Date: January 02 2016 6:03 PM Title: Epilogue
I give you an A minus review for your story.
This was a rather well-thought-out plot without too many scenes of masturbation or worshipping. It did have however, a considerable overdose of violence and waton destruction of cities. Total massacre, with the army not strategizing enough. The girls' motives were all reasonable, though I felt that Lisa's overall role was somewhat diminished, and not as explored with as much as with the other two.
As for Casey, well her role in this volume started with promise of a major smackdown between herself and Kelly and I was somewhat dissapointed when that didn't happen. Kelly's only real adversary was the FSD, though it makes sense that they were the ones to bring her down.
Kelly turned out to be my favourite character to read because she was the only one with major character developments. Her perceptions of herself in contrast with the rest of humanity became warped and to see it happen was beautiful. Losing touch with her own humanity, K found it easier and easier to trample humans until she felt no feelings for them at all. She even enjoyed it. And when she was finally defeated, all her ideals and beliefs of her godesshood shattered and she broke down, dramatically.
Her death also made sense... no one gets spared for committing the murder of over 1-10 million people or more.
(She IS dead right? It would be stupid if she wasn't.)
One last minor complaint was of course, not wrapping the story up. But if you think you can build upon this trilogy, then by all means... go for it.
P.S.
My story is somewhat behind, due to a brief trip to Saint-Sauveur, where I celebrated the last days of 2015. I am also resuming classes so I now have no idea when I'll be finished.
P.S.S.
Happy New Year!
Author's Response:
Happy new year!
Well, I'm happy to get your review for the story and to see that in the end you are looking at it in a quite positive light! Thank you!
As I mentioned some times during our discussions, one of my objectives with Side Effects was to have a plot that had certain consistency. I'm happy to see that you thought it was well though-out. Of course, this is intended to be a giantess story, which implies having plenty of giantess action. I did not want the sexual part (masturbation mostly, due to the women's size) to be the main argument driving the plot though. Sure, we are talking about young women enjoying a power that in some cases turns them on, but this only meant that I had to address how they overcame this need, not that I had to focus the story on that (it would have become very boring pretty soon). I'm glad to see that I achieved the right balance. As for worshipping, this is not what I wanted the story to be. Kelly, who is the one with the God-complex, is not actually interested on being worshipped. She is more "practical" (if I may use this word). To her, her goddesshood does not have a religious implication; in the end, she sees herself more as the ultimate absolute ruler than the ultimate goddess.
I know that we have not agreed about the amount of violence on the story. It's a matter of tastes, I believe. Casey's character required it, and the evolution of Kelly's character required it as well. We can always discuss about the dose, of course.
I know we have typically disagreed on the approach from the army. In the end, my starting point was simple: they were not ready for that, the chain of command was broken pretty soon and they did not have too long to strategize. When they did, they organized a pretty effective attack (the navy and the nuclear bomb); they could not have known that it would be ineffective due to the nature of the women.
The girls' motives where the main element driving the plot, so I'm glad to see you thought they were reasonable. I also agree that Lisa's role was diminished. The fact that she has not had enough attention (and probably the same could be said about Ron) is probably one of the main shortcomings of the story (of course, there are others), and it's something I would need to address if I ever re-wrote it.
As for Casey, I set-up the possibility for the smackdown with Kelly on purpose, knowing that I would not use it. It's one of the elements I used to keep the story unpredictable. Hopefully I achieved that in an elegant way. To me, even if the story used plenty of common places in the giantess genre, it was important to keep it interesting enough to read because what would happen could not be taken for granted.
As you mention, I set things up so that just the FSD (i.e. the regular humans) could fix the mess they had created when making Kelly big. It felt better. During a lot of the story many readers (including you) felt frustrated that Kelly was so utterly powerful that she could not be stopped. This was the way to show that it did not require another giant to stop her. People could do that, even if the cost was dire.
Of course, the story was set up in a way that Kelly was the most interesting character. Seeing the amoung of "hate" you professed for her during part of the story, I'm surprised that she ended being your favorite one, though :P Of course, Kelly is the one whose character has the biggest evolution, and the brief moment where she realizes what she has done and, with megalomania now gone, feels the weight of her actions on her, was intended to close this loop. I hope that it was effective enough. If you may, I used Kelly to explore a potential "path" of evolution for someone as the rest of the world starts appearing smaller, weaker and less consequential to that person. There are, of course, other possibilities and I may explore them in future stories.
The story does not clarify if Lisa and Kelly are actually dead. I agree with you that it would be quite fitting. I don't plan on re-using them right now, though. I think they're done as characters. I left the open ends with Stella and Casey on purpose, in case I decided to return to this world in the future. Who know?
Anyway, I've enjoyed reading your reviews and commenting the story with you. I Hope that you will continue letting me know what you think if I write new stories in the future.
Cheers!
P.S. I'll wait to see when your story is done :)
[Report This]Date: January 02 2016 9:43 AM Title: Epilogue
Damn.....
Author's Response:
Damn... I was not expecting it?
Damn... I did not like it at all?
There can be many "Damns"... ;)
Cheers!