Talk:Like A Sickness/@comment-7706473-20130618073534/@comment-4332975-20130618104222

Thank you much for the praise (with faint damning). That perception was definitely something I had very much in mind as I was writing. Perhaps that was a bit manipulative of me, since I set the reader up for the most sickening of presuppositions. However, I have long said that with this style of writing, you have to set up an expectation to be defied...and I think that the stronger that supposition, the greater the impact when the reader takes the next step, only to find the floor not where they expected it.

Believe it or not, the idea behind this actually started as something much different. I had initially thought to do a theory in the same vein as my Heartbreak Hotel story, highlighting some of the darker elements in Pokemon. The tone felt a dit too dry in my head, though, and I felt it would jump about too much between different points. However, I remembered a theory I once heard about Parasect, and in turn a related theory I had once posed about Beedrill. That tipped me off to the idea of focusing on just one out of place element, and eventually I hit on the above, which I actually hadn't even considered putting on the list when I first had my inspiration.