86. Behind the story

Zachlor16: Hey guys welcome to our behind the scenes thing where we will give you the info on characters, why chapters went the way they did and basically all things Loud Heroes. I'm Zachlor16 and he's Smoking Wrecker we welcome you to our behind the scenes. Sorry it took a little longer than what we promised but some things got in the way. Anyways lets get into it.

Smoke: Alright, then. I bet you're wondering how this story came to be? Well zachlor16 came up with the idea but had different powers for the Louds. During the summer of 2017 we were coming up with thousands of ideas.

Zachlor16: oh yeah totally. But it actually goes into a little more detail than that. I was actually gonna right the fic myself and I had everything planned out which included powers, villains, hero names, etc. However I just couldn't figure out how to get it off the ground so I put it on the shelf and did Meeting a Loud instead. So then Smoke entered the equation and I believe you were looking for something to replace Loud Ninjas right?

Smoke: Yeah that's right. I ran out of ideas for that story and deleted until I brought it. I should really update that story. But I was able to do that story and Loud Fighters at the same time, not literally that is.

Zachlor16: So we were talking about it and as a joke I suggested that he do a fic where the Louds are superheroes and surprise surprise he actually agreed to do it.

Smoke: I always wanted to do superhero fanfic anyway. Besides, if I said no, then we wouldn't be here today.

Zachlor16: I know right.

Planning sequences

Zachlor16: So when we think of chapters we don't just go do them without the other knowing. It's a team effort.

Smoke: Yeah, I mean we both have to agree on something and put it out there. Let's just say if I came up with an idea about oh I don't know Luna switching from rock to rap without zach knowing, he wouldn't like that at all. But also for our ideas we don't come up with them at the last minute, it usually takes months or even years to make it a reality.

Zachlor16: Yeah. For example we had the Genderbent arc planned since the very beginning of Loud Heroes. We were just waiting for the right moment to do it. I mean sure we could've done it in season one but where would be the fun in that? You can't rush things.

Smoke: Yeah like the old saying, Rome wasn't built in a day. We even planned some ideas for later seasons while making the first season. We like to stay ahead of the game.

Zachlor16: But there have been times where we've been backed into a corner with no plan. For instance the biggest example was Mr. Cuddles. We had the idea, we had the plot, we had the ending. The one thing we didn't have was the name of the bear and we were running ourselves ragged so much that we ended up pushing it back to the season two premiere and I believed we replaced with the Jestor chapter. But there have also been chapters that have left a bad taste in our mouths like for me it was Hydro part one. While the chapter itself wasn't bad, the beginning was so jumbled up that I haven't read it since it's release.

Smoke: Yeah for me it was when Leni's clone tried to take over her life. It was my least favourite chapter to write.

Zachlor16: Yet we always up for it in the chapter afterwards. But if we had to pick a favorite, for me it was Mr. Cuddles. It was a unique chapter with a unique villain who eventually became an ally. So Mr. Cuddles really stands out to me.

Smoke: For me it would have to be Flight of the Honeybee. It was fun using a villain tech and for once the Honeybee didn't have a dead parent, her dad is still in a coma. But it was nice to get away from that trope.

Zachlor16: That and we got a pretty cool fight between Amplifier and Adamborg. All in all that's basically our planning sequences.

Inspiration for characters

Smoke: Now for characters. Now we can't use all of the characters for the canon of the series. So we had to make a lot of OCs for this story.

Zachlor16: And we've made a lot. And a lot of the characters were inspired by characters from different franchises such as Marvel, DC, anime, etc. Probably one of the biggest ones was Replicate who as a lot of people guessed was inspired by Hit from Dragonball Super.

Smoke: I'm surprised by that. Even those I didn't know about Hit. But I only know about him from Dragonball Fighterz. Minus the Time Skips, and ki blasts. The Berserker is inspired by the Incredible Hulk of course. Vesuvius is inspired by Lavagirl from that Sharkboy and Lavagirl movie from years ago. But more of a badass.

Zachlor16: Rubbor was actually inspired by both Majin Buu AND Janemba from Dragonball. Those were two of my favorite villains from the franchise itself. And Xander is obviously inspired by Kraven the Hunter from Marvel. Xander was actually a villain we've wanted to do for the longest time. In fact he's actually one of my favorite villains in this whole story right now.

Smoke: Yeah he is the best. He's far different from the villains in Loud Heroes, he doesn't say one liners and puts business before pleasure.

Zachlor16: Well apart from his obsession with hunting Wildgirl. Other that, all business.

Smoke; That too. But let's go down to the ringmaster behind this show. Andrew Tetherby.

Zachlor16: Yes Tetherby is a combination of Lex Luthor and Norman Osborne. Yes I imagine him being voiced by William Defoe. Now that I got that out of the way let's get to the good stuff. When choosing a main villain you gotta think about what you're looking for. Sure we could've used a person with super powers, but we were looking at the big question when it came to supervillains: what makes the best villain?

Smoke: Simple, a smart mind, power and lot of money.

Zachlor16: Tetherby was the perfect villain for this. And I know y'all our wondering when he's gonna be revealed to the L-Crew but we'll get into that later. But now we're getting into something else.

Replicate

Zachlor16: Yeah he's getting his own section in this. First some background. Replicate was originally was supposed to be a one time villain named Copycat.

Smoke: But then we thought about fleshing him out, like give him a back story, where he abandoned Sam and his family before Ashley's birth. That and a badass named, Copycat wouldn't sound awesome.

Zachlor16: We also wanted a antihero for the longest time so we made Replicate that antihero. He's someone who plays by his own rules and has his own motivation. Plus he makes the perfect rival to the L-Crew. Plus we love making the fights between the L-Crew and Replicate.

Smoke: Yep, Dragonball Z style. But then we revealed his former teammates. Each of them had a connection and grudge against Replicate. Well except for Camo.

Zachlor16: We'll be the first to admit that at first Replicate was a little OP but that was kinda the point. The L-Crew needed that obstacle to try to overcome and surpass. Replicate was that obstacle and when you look back at their first couple fights, Replicate pretty much humiliates them and shows that he is at a higher level then the L-Crew. And when we did the rematch again, it showed that the L-Crew are now at the same level.

Smoke: Yeah and we always try and top the last rematch. Which not easy I'll tell you what.

Zachlor16: Luckily for us we only got one more rematch planned surprisingly it won't be during season 3. No we got something very special planned for that. Moving on!

Crossovers

Zachlor16: Ok it's time we addressed the elephant in the room. Crossovers with other hero stories by other authors. That's more difficult than you guys realize.

Smoke: Yeah, like we said before we're pretty much flying solo here. Ben10man is doing an MCU style of story with our characters, and Miraculous team of SonicPossible00. We're doing a solo universe thing here.

Zachlor16: Here's the thing, for us to do crossovers with other fics we would need the authors to agree to do it. When Ben10man did the crossover with the L-Crew, he had to get our permission. He couldn't just go and do it. Another factor with that is Ben10man is Smoke's friend so there's that.

Smoke: Yeah we go way back. He usually give me parts for my stories, vice versa. Also I had to ask zachlor16 if it was okay with him about the crossover, because we both need to come to an agreement on some things and I couldn't just say yes and let him do it.

Zachlor16: Exactly. If he had said yes without even informing me, that wouldn't have gone over well. It would've definitely put strain on the partnership.

Smoke: Yeah, and I know that we mentioned the Omni-Team in a few of our chapters. Well that was to promote the crossover between the Omni-Team and L-Crew. We stopped doing that when the crossover was over.

Zachlor16: So to answer the question: we will not be doing crossovers unless we want to.

The L-Crew

Smoke: Much like Replicate, our heroes are getting their own spot. Now coming up with a team name and heroes' names are never easy.

Zachlor16: Exactly. I mean we went down a whole list of possible team names but all the good ones were taken believe it or not.

Smoke: Yeah we the L-Force as a joke and a reference. Plus L-Men didn't sound right. So that's why we stuck with the L-Crew.

Zachlor16: But in all seriousness, you gotta choose names that you believe fits the characters and rolls off the tongue when it's said.

Smoke: Yeah it took us days to come up with some of the names, well for Lily's hero name a guest reviewer came up with Greenthumb. But all the good ones were taken by the comic book companies and such.

Zachlor16: So I remembered that I still had my notes from when I was planning the fic for myself. So I sent it to Smoke and that sped up the process.

Smoke: And I remember that Lucy's original power was magic and Lola's original power was to shapeshift into objects. Well I decided to change Lola's power to crystal powers, because it would seem like her ideal power. As for Lucy's ice powers, we'll you can't gain magic from a lab explosion, so I had to make it ice powers. Also originally it was a asteroid that caused the Louds to get their powers, but not a lot of people were fans of that idea, so I changed it to Lisa's invention exploding. I mean come on, Lisa's one lab explosion away from getting superpowers in the actual show.

Zachlor16: One of the biggest criticisms that we've received and it wasn't from a lot of people but I want to address was that the Louds were out of character a lot. Now yes we do that a lot but we feel like the reason we do that is to add more depth to their characters that the show really doesn't show and to try and distance ourselves from certain episodes that sent the fandom into a rage.

Smoke: Excalty, we're not gonna mention those episodes. But the less said about those, the better.

Zachlor16: And when we do mention them it's for plot purposes.

QnA

Zachlor16: Ok let's get to some questions real quick. Smoke what's the first question?

Smoke: The first question is from Matthew Crispin.

Will Sam find out that her uncles are the Supervillians Johnny Speed and Squatch in season three?

Smoke: How can we tell you without spoiling.

Zachlor16: I got it. The answer is possibly.

Smoke: Yeah possibly. Next question.

Zachlor16: So this is from ZNBT. Do you have anymore crossovers planned for this FanFiction? Ok so we already technically answered this question but I'll go into more detail here. Ben10man is still including the L-Crew in his Ben and Jen 10: Alien Force fic. So technically that's a crossover. But if Smoke and I ever do a crossover ourselves, it'll be a whole separate fic. It's just easier that way. Now Heroes Central you asked a lot of questions but we will only answer one. Smoke, pick one of his questions that the answer won't give to much away.

Smoke: Ok I got one.

Will you guys be adding anything from outer space like a space villain or a space hero?

Smoke: Well something like that, but you have to wait and see.

Zachlor16: Yeah we got some stuff planned for that. Now that was actually all the questions apart from one asking us who'd we have be the stunt people for the L-Crew and to answer that, I have no idea. Now Smoke and I have a few announcements to make. Announcement one. Loud Heroes will be taking a little hiatus. The only reason is that season 2 was so long that we need to recuperate. Plus we have our own fanfics we have to do. Smoke, the second announcement if you would.

Smoke: You got it. I like to announce that we have two new stories in the works for Loud Heroes. One is a character banter fic based on the ones from Mortal Kombat X and 11. The second is a side fic where it shows Lyle and his family's life in the alternate future. Oh and that reminds me, we're also lifting the no suggestions rule again. We're placing the same rules like last time.

Rule #1 the suggestions can only be in a few sentences.

Rule 2 Only one per customer.

Rule #3 We'll be only picking one suggestion and that's it.

Rule#4 no canon character should get powers or any other ability what so ever.

Smoke: Just to give you an idea for the newcomers as well.

Zachlor16: Also we're gonna have to request that you don't put in requests in every chapter. Give us time to look them over. Hell to make things more interesting we might ask for suggestions for chapters surrounding certain characters. Anyways, Smoke you got anymore to add?

Smoke: No I don't have anything to add.

Zachlor16: Well if that's the case. He's Smoking Wrecker.

Smoke: and He's zachlor16.

Zachlor16: And thanks for tuning in. Peace!

Smoke: See you guys in season 3!